If Steven Universe ever returned, what is it that you want to see? Would you like a series that explores on different characters in different episodes? Much like Adventure Time in the later seasons or maybe a prequel series that explores more of the Diamonds backstory?
I've always said this is what my idea is and this Ask was my excuse to draw it finally 😂
Steven falling for every single tourist trap on his road trip without losing even an ounce of enthusiasm for any of them seems like a very Steven thing to me.
OKAY SO I FOUND THIS OLD ESSAY I SENT TO MY GROUP CHAT BACK IN DECEMBER OF 2022 AND I THINK I WAS ONTO SOMETHING HERE -
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okay, so, Spinel mentions multiple times (a few times in Other Friends, a few times throughout the movie and the start of Change) that she is "the loser of the game" (the game being, of course, Pink telling her to wait in the garden). BUT. I JUST REALISED.
Spinel's redemption song is the beautiful and romantic duet with Steven in the garden. It's the song that turns her into a good guy, the song that makes her realise she is worth something, that she never did wrong, that she can change.
The song is called "FOUND".
I just realised something.
Spinel spends SOOO long trying to "win" the game that she lost. "I'm the loser of the game you didn't know you were playing" right?? She LOST the game. She LOST everything. She wants to WIN back everything that she LOST.
The opposite of LOST is WON, right?
Well yeah, it is.
But consider this.
There's another opposite.
The opposite of LOST is also FOUND.
* drops mic *
The Collector and Spinel both have abandonment issues and they treated everything like game until they finally had a emotional breaking point and got help from the hero who a powerful teen through kindness and empty