Talk:Pearl/@comment-26083964-20150208020224/@comment-25469541-20150213020436

She's not a creeper, and if she is, it's not because she watches Steven sleep. It's actually really common for parents to watch their children sleep at night. Not in a creepy way, but as a means of watching over them. Pearl is extremely motherly towards Steven, and the way she introduces herself to Connie in Bubble Buddies shows that she's genuinely a very maternal person. I thought it was kinda obviously hinted at that Pearl watches Steven sleep out of concern for his well-being. She's an alien that doesn't need to sleep, doesn't need to breathe, and also happens to be very anxious. She's likely afraid that something could happen to him when he's asleep, like he could stop breathing or something, because sleep is a foreign thing to her, and the fact that humans need to breathe or they'll die probably makes her really anxious about the fact that they just stay unconscious for hours and somehow manage to continue breathing all through the night. So yeah, it's pretty obvious that she does it to calm her nerves, and probably also out of maternal instinct.

The fact that she doesn't sleep herself also means that she has literally nothing else to do the entire night, so why not watch Steven sleep just to make sure he's okay?