Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26507164-20150713231046/@comment-5518179-20150719051419

I feel like Steven is immortal in the sense of living forever, however like Matt said, he will die forever if killed. To the contrary though, I know in one of the episodes (episode 13, So Many Birthdays, if I remember correctly), he pretty much flucuated in age based on his state of mind.

Could this mean that if he kept up with his childishness, he could technically live forever (as a child)? Of course, as a human, this wouldn't last forever because his state of mind has to change. He'll be excited to be a Crystal Gem like he is now, all childish and naive, but soon he'll embark on the identity crisis every teenager ends up having, and that'll be when his state of mind and personality would change in order to find a comfort zone.

This comfort zone would be difficult for him, because as half human and half Gem, he can't find an equillibrium. I personally feel like he'd shift to acting more human, embracing a relationship with Connie, getting a job, manning up in a way, and feeling burdened by his caretakers (specifically Pearl) because they don't understand that he's still a human.

Eventually though, he'll change into an adult, and see his half-Gem side as a duty, a job, a responsibility that he needs to hold up, and he'll go back to trying to prove himself as the successor of Rose Quartz, and hey, maybe he'll turn back into a child, who knows.

Assuming he keeps up with being an adult, he'll have to have children, and he'll have to feed his experience to those children and another chapter to his life will unfold. He'll become middle aged, and might have a mid-life crisis. I think at this point, he'd become a lot like Greg, and I think around this time too, Greg would pass away, putting Steven into an even older state of mind, or possibly younger, but mourning is a feeling all ages can suffer, so...

But you never know, maybe he'll stay an adult or a child forever because he never changes his state of mind, the only real thing that'd glare "change" to me is testosterone/Connie, Greg passing away, and a mid-life crisis. At this point, it is all speculation since we already know the show will never reach that point.