Talk:Steven Universe (character)/@comment-26677518-20180125172639/@comment-26618197-20180125175300

Again, killing doesn't make you strong or an adult, if it did many little kids would be adults.

With the insect consider the timeframe, just a couple weeks earlier Steven found out that his mom killed someone. Even if it was needed it would still be hard for him to kill something at the time. Besides, he just didn't want to kill the bug.

The bird well that's more something in the brain, when humans see something small like that bird and if the creature appears to be young 9/10 you're going to want to protect it. Connie was able to resist the urge to protect because she understood the need to kill the bird for survival. Steven was in protect mode and Connie in survival