Talk:Steven Universe (character)/@comment-26464526-20190906030442/@comment-815612-20190906032628

Perhaps there's hints he was 12 at the start of the series. The events of "Nightmare Hospital" were explicitly stated to take place "nearly a year" after "An Indirect Kiss", when Connie stopped needing "actual glasses", and both "Steven and the Stevens" and "Sadie's Song" feature a Beach-a-Palooza, which seems to be an annual event. "Nightmare Hospital" and "Sadie's Song" take place an unspecified yet presumably short time before "Steven's Birthday". Factoring in all these details, it's entirely likely Steven's 13th birthday occured sometime offscreen during Season 1B, reasonably before "Winter Forecast", as his birthday is in the fall.