Player Name: Phas E-mail: geoduelist87@yahoo.com Preferred Contact:Phasma | Phasma #2422 discord Timezone: EST Current Characters in Victory Road: Olivia Octavius | Into the Spider-verse | liv_nye_the_science_pi Penny Polendina | RWBY | in4apounding
Character Name: Steven Universe Series: Steven Universe Timeline: Post “The Movie” Canon Resource Links: Steven on the Steven Universe Wiki
Personality: Steven is quite literally what happens when you take the trope of an alien life form that’s enamored with all things new and Earth-original and combine it with the natural curiosity and enthusiasm of a human child. He consistently tries to find the upside and joy in almost anything, from being stuck on a deserted island to the jerkhole teenaged cashier Steven for some reason considers a friend. Part of this is a deliberate choice to find joy and beauty everywhere, a possible effort to emulate the legacy of the mother he never knew; in an early episode an insult to his mother’s memory prompts Steven’s first angry outburst at Lars, the above-mentioned jerkhole, indicating that Steven is well aware of Lars’ less than friendly attitude towards him and chooses to ignore it and consider him a friend anyway. The other part is simple zest for life; Steven is relentlessly optimistic and upbeat and darn it he’s going to do his best to help you be happy too. Steven’s desire to help literally everyone around him begins as a need to prove himself to the other Crystal Gems - if he helps other people, and them, then he’s useful and gets to go on magic missions with them and they’ll keep spending time with him and won’t abandon him. It’s also rooted in and eventually grows into entirely an altruistic desire to help and heal those around him. Steven has a bit of an odd relationship with empathy - his powers literally help him connect with people around him on a mental and emotional level, and several more are based on his desire to help them and relieve their pain, and he just kind of generally likes helping those around him and is genuinely distressed when they’re hurting. But at the same time, he can have trouble recognizing that pain and distress in others, especially when he’s focused on his own priorities or the very enthusiasm that makes him want to help at all. Notably, after returning from being kidnapped into space (as you do) he can’t understand why his friend Connie is upset with him for turning himself over to aliens that wanted him dead; everything turned out alright, he’s fine, he’s back, so she should be fine too, right? It takes a very blatant equivalent situation hitting him in the face to realize that she’s upset with him for risking himself alone instead of working as a team as they’d constantly promised each other. Likewise, after initially winning over the hostile, long-abandoned gem Spinel, he consistently seems to ignore her or focus on other things to the point that it triggers her paranoia and fear of abandonment, setting off their conflict and her attempt to destroy the entire planet (again, as you do) fresh. And as the scale of conflicts Steven is forced to deal with grows, so does his need to help literally everybody, even if some of the things he wants to fix aren’t, or at least shouldn’t be, his responsibility. Monster threatening the town? Gotta fix that. Two of his friends temporarily break up? Gotta fix that. The alien race your mom came from is actually a galactic dictatorship that suppresses all individuality? GOTTA FIX THAT. It’s small wonder Steven’s had more than a few emotional and mental breakdowns over the course of the series.
The biggest advantage Steven has in the face of all this escalating responsibility is, as he eventually states himself, his ability to learn and change. Even if his growth isn’t perfect, every moment of difficulty and struggle leads to some kind of personal growth or revelation, however minor. Though he was always a source of emotional support for the other Crystal Gems, and often his more off-the-wall ideas proved to have merit, he was initially someone who still needed heavy protection and guidance, sitting out or being carried through dangerous situations. Over the course of the series we see this change as he grows into someone capable of taking the lead, mirrored in a growth in control over his powers. At the start of the series, Steven is sidelined during even basic crisis like a corrupted Gem attack; by the end of the series and the movie, he’s making the choice to face and try to rehabilitate the most powerful antagonists in his universe, with the other Gems following him. He also goes from having a relatively simplistic, good-vs-evil view of reality in which the Crystal Gems can do no wrong, to confronting and understanding the darker, grayer aspects of life. It’s a progression of lore that mirrors Steven’s growth; learning that the monsters they fight are corrupted Gems, then of the civil war to protect the Earth from colonization millenia ago, to finding out that his mother was forced to kill an enemy leader to save the Earth, to finding out that she secretly was the enemy leader she had supposedly killed, and having to deal with not just all of that but the reactions of everyone around him as well. Despite all of this, he never becomes jaded enough to see violence as a first resort. He's not above fighting, and knows that sometimes it's necessary, but his ultimate goal is always to minimize conflict and talk things out. Even when facing the Diamond Authority that had attempted to colonize Earth and had repeatedly tried killing him and the rest of the Crystal Gems, he was hopeful of finding common ground and talking things out. This doesn't always work to his advantage; his straightforward attempt at talking to a Gem who was sending remote droids to Earth, for example, did get him the short term answers needed but also escalated the conflict, alerted the Gem homeworld that the Crystal Gems had survived the war on Earth, and inadvertently painted a target on several close friends that weren't involved.
Ultimately, Steven just wants everyone to have peace and happiness, but he's painfully aware that maintaining such a peace is constant work, however much he might wish otherwise. Or, as he bitterly phrases it in the aftermath of his conflict with Spinel: “There's no such thing as happily ever after. I’ll always have more work to do.” Even if overall Steven has managed to maintain an upbeat attitude, the constant conflict and responsibility wears on him.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Breeder Starter: Alolan Grimer
Steven Universe | Steven Universe
Name: Phas
E-mail: geoduelist87@yahoo.com
Preferred Contact:
Timezone: EST
Current Characters in Victory Road:
Olivia Octavius | Into the Spider-verse |
Penny Polendina | RWBY |
Character
Name: Steven Universe
Series: Steven Universe
Timeline: Post “The Movie”
Canon Resource Links:
Steven on the Steven Universe Wiki
Personality:
Steven is quite literally what happens when you take the trope of an alien life form that’s enamored with all things new and Earth-original and combine it with the natural curiosity and enthusiasm of a human child. He consistently tries to find the upside and joy in almost anything, from being stuck on a deserted island to the jerkhole teenaged cashier Steven for some reason considers a friend. Part of this is a deliberate choice to find joy and beauty everywhere, a possible effort to emulate the legacy of the mother he never knew; in an early episode an insult to his mother’s memory prompts Steven’s first angry outburst at Lars, the above-mentioned jerkhole, indicating that Steven is well aware of Lars’ less than friendly attitude towards him and chooses to ignore it and consider him a friend anyway. The other part is simple zest for life; Steven is relentlessly optimistic and upbeat and darn it he’s going to do his best to help you be happy too. Steven’s desire to help literally everyone around him begins as a need to prove himself to the other Crystal Gems - if he helps other people, and them, then he’s useful and gets to go on magic missions with them and they’ll keep spending time with him and won’t abandon him. It’s also rooted in and eventually grows into entirely an altruistic desire to help and heal those around him. Steven has a bit of an odd relationship with empathy - his powers literally help him connect with people around him on a mental and emotional level, and several more are based on his desire to help them and relieve their pain, and he just kind of generally likes helping those around him and is genuinely distressed when they’re hurting. But at the same time, he can have trouble recognizing that pain and distress in others, especially when he’s focused on his own priorities or the very enthusiasm that makes him want to help at all. Notably, after returning from being kidnapped into space (as you do) he can’t understand why his friend Connie is upset with him for turning himself over to aliens that wanted him dead; everything turned out alright, he’s fine, he’s back, so she should be fine too, right? It takes a very blatant equivalent situation hitting him in the face to realize that she’s upset with him for risking himself alone instead of working as a team as they’d constantly promised each other. Likewise, after initially winning over the hostile, long-abandoned gem Spinel, he consistently seems to ignore her or focus on other things to the point that it triggers her paranoia and fear of abandonment, setting off their conflict and her attempt to destroy the entire planet (again, as you do) fresh. And as the scale of conflicts Steven is forced to deal with grows, so does his need to help literally everybody, even if some of the things he wants to fix aren’t, or at least shouldn’t be, his responsibility. Monster threatening the town? Gotta fix that. Two of his friends temporarily break up? Gotta fix that. The alien race your mom came from is actually a galactic dictatorship that suppresses all individuality? GOTTA FIX THAT. It’s small wonder Steven’s had more than a few emotional and mental breakdowns over the course of the series.
The biggest advantage Steven has in the face of all this escalating responsibility is, as he eventually states himself, his ability to learn and change. Even if his growth isn’t perfect, every moment of difficulty and struggle leads to some kind of personal growth or revelation, however minor. Though he was always a source of emotional support for the other Crystal Gems, and often his more off-the-wall ideas proved to have merit, he was initially someone who still needed heavy protection and guidance, sitting out or being carried through dangerous situations. Over the course of the series we see this change as he grows into someone capable of taking the lead, mirrored in a growth in control over his powers. At the start of the series, Steven is sidelined during even basic crisis like a corrupted Gem attack; by the end of the series and the movie, he’s making the choice to face and try to rehabilitate the most powerful antagonists in his universe, with the other Gems following him. He also goes from having a relatively simplistic, good-vs-evil view of reality in which the Crystal Gems can do no wrong, to confronting and understanding the darker, grayer aspects of life. It’s a progression of lore that mirrors Steven’s growth; learning that the monsters they fight are corrupted Gems, then of the civil war to protect the Earth from colonization millenia ago, to finding out that his mother was forced to kill an enemy leader to save the Earth, to finding out that she secretly was the enemy leader she had supposedly killed, and having to deal with not just all of that but the reactions of everyone around him as well. Despite all of this, he never becomes jaded enough to see violence as a first resort. He's not above fighting, and knows that sometimes it's necessary, but his ultimate goal is always to minimize conflict and talk things out. Even when facing the Diamond Authority that had attempted to colonize Earth and had repeatedly tried killing him and the rest of the Crystal Gems, he was hopeful of finding common ground and talking things out. This doesn't always work to his advantage; his straightforward attempt at talking to a Gem who was sending remote droids to Earth, for example, did get him the short term answers needed but also escalated the conflict, alerted the Gem homeworld that the Crystal Gems had survived the war on Earth, and inadvertently painted a target on several close friends that weren't involved.
Ultimately, Steven just wants everyone to have peace and happiness, but he's painfully aware that maintaining such a peace is constant work, however much he might wish otherwise. Or, as he bitterly phrases it in the aftermath of his conflict with Spinel: “There's no such thing as happily ever after. I’ll always have more work to do.” Even if overall Steven has managed to maintain an upbeat attitude, the constant conflict and responsibility wears on him.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: Alolan Grimer
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: A Dear_Player Thread
Victory Road Sample: A TDM Thread