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Kiponnie propaganda

Playlist for them:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ECmn7egReS5gnNQnWCt6T?si=0KniIh5_SrGezU3n-QXyHg

Connie: badass in a sun dress.

1) Warp Tour

Like, damn. He even says so out loud- that he believes he’s going to die. Look at his body language. His limbs are slack. When he first slipped out of the warp, he tried flailing his legs around to push himself back in, but now he’s given up. It really is such a good thing Garnet could glimpse this future and ran to go find him, otherwise he likely wouldn’t have gotten out of this one.

2) Bubbled

Oh, him falling into fetal position here breaks my heart, and same with his bubble reducing in size in his exhaustion to (I assume) reserve energy. He’s preparing for the long-haul, here. He has no way of knowing if the Gems will even be able to find him, floating in the middle of space. The pose makes me imagine he’s like… going into “hibernation,” except he has no idea if he’ll wake up at all this time.

3) I Am My Mom

This episode kinda requires a bit more context for me to return to this moment and go “this is a Steven who has accepted the possibility of his near-future death.” But after witnessing his attitude about being taken captive in the next two episodes…

Steven: [About the possibility of escaping] “I can’t. I turned myself in. I still got to go. Someone’s got to pay for what my mom did.”

Steven: “Is this the punishment? Come on! I know it’s going to be worse than this! So whatever you’re going to do… Would you just do it already?”

…I’m led to believe that this is the precise moment he juggled all his options in his mind… knew that the only chance he had to save his friends in the present was turning himself in… and knew that due to his mom’s identity, because of her crime, turning himself in was most likely to lead to his death. His acceptance of this potential fate thankfully is shaken when he realizes he’s still responsible for Lars’ safety, but at this moment I read this scene as him internally realizing “I’m likely going to die if I do this, but if it’ll save my friends then I’m okay with that.”

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