Talk:Steven Universe (character)/@comment-26677518-20180125172639/@comment-35264664-20180409215814


 * spoilers if those who haven't seen the show or behind in the show*

I'll admit there are times when I think that Steven was "weak"(mostly from being indecisive and risky when he should have which make him come off more selfish than noble in his heroic style) and needs to think about the consquences but he also need to realize the fact that he needs to protect not only his friends but also himself because of this naive view Steven shows makes this all the more stressful to watch because he is making his own choices that tend to hurt those around him more than it should especially if those around him cherish him like Connie, the gems, and even his father but he still thinks that hehas to do this because it's his mother's unfinished business.You can't protect something if you are dead but worse if you take on something that you could have avoided and putting those around you in danger makes you far more of a threat. Overall Steven's views he has put this on himself when clearly he refused to listen to the gems about digging deeper into the truth about his mother because they know all to well that Rose had not only secrets but dark ones that they would have rather kept secret. Don't get me wrong if I was Steven I would want to know more about my mother if I never met her but I would also at least think deeply about it because if I was part gem there must be something more dangerous than being known if eve the gems don't want to talk about it. Steven could have lived a boring human life that Rose wished for him to enjoy but Rose might have known that Steven may find something that would make him dig into these secrets. Steven basically plays the carefree kid, well teenager with a mind of a 6 year old that knows hardly anything as a human and even less as a gem but what makes things worse is that Steven is feeling overwhelmed by this resposibility he obtained from his reckless behavior but didn't see anything wrong and even now he seems to not truly know deep despair that is yet to come. His selfishness led to him being captured which he also hurt those around him by taking on the role of guilt and being the scapegoat just to save his dad in gem territory which is from him being to trusting of gems that he knows will hurt him and others around which the gems constantly tells him but he thinks that these gems are just misunderstood but sadly he seems to take everything as a joke after he is shipped to the zoo in the beginning and even get lars killed and morphed him into a gem though we can see that all this blow up in his face when Connie avoids him from the lack of trust in his friends but also from the fact that he has no trust in his friends at that point and always think he is responsible but even so it is a little to late to regret and heshould have thought about taking help when he needed. Though being nice and not killing isn't a weakness completely if it doesn't kill you but if he can poof them back to gems is just as good but even through all this he is reluctant to poof the gems back into gems when his friend is in danger or the fact that he feels haunted by the fact which Bismuth tells him later about shattering gems and he doesn't think anyone should be shattered granted I'm not saying he should shatter gems but fight back to protect yourself instead of making your friends suffer your indecisive thoughts on fighting making him weigh down the team(which is why everyone is concerned) and having the gems save him from dying. Steven seems to self scarifice himself for others but in the end its just a selfish way to say I rather die than try to fight back even when my friends want me to. In the gist of it Steven is more of character that always seems to have thingsthat aren't to heavily weighed upon because everything hehas done hasn't really affected him enough to show that what he is up against is not something you can easily get over even with friends reasons I say this is because he only knows about his mother shattering a diamond but knows nothing of his mother to even state much of opinion(he even say that his feelings are complicated in the show) but he feels like he responsible for it since he's part of her maybe what he feels is maybe Rose's guilt and pain channeled through him maybe from his gem. Steven also has that made himself into the fallen hero trope and see himself as evil because of the way Jasper and Bismuth reacted to him when clearly he shouldn't feel that guilt of this because of his mother's actions but he does. Steven's trust is seen to be fickle to me from wanting to trust his friends to a degree but avoid trusting them with his self claimed justice to protect them, as well as trust that all gems are just like the crystal gems granted it did work for peridot and lapis but that is because those two eventually came to want to listen because they didn't know he was a gem and not fight to the bitter end like Jasper or Bismuth so instead of him claiming to be Rose he would easily have been able to possibly see a whole different side maybe or at least avoided unnecessary attention which could affect the very world so in a sense Steven is the biggest threat that could lead to the planets destruction which he caused from him meddling to much. So yes and no he's weak but strong from the fact he can get gems to see a different view but that could very well be the death of him if he ends up without his friends or wanting to fight back but killing is a huge thing that can be the worst thing to facefor anyone granted Rose may have become this diamond shatterer because she my have had a twisted view of being free from the diamonds kinda wish they would do a dream sequence or something to give Steven a clue to Rose view from the gem or something because the gem seems to react to his emotions even at times when he opened the door to Rose's room unintentially..