Famethyst For Life!

If he’s no longer into this stuff

What does he like now?

What gives him a spark of pure giddy joy now?

Did he just stop having anything that made him happy?

Like?

The crystal gems always complained that he had to take stuff more seriously.. And rewarded him with praise when he “did better”

He has so much serious responsibility..

He’s serious now. No fun.. And honestly? Part of this is the time skip? We didn’t get to see him develop slowly. We are like the gems here, we see kid Steven, then he’s grown up and serious. And these callbacks are jarring.. Good job crewniverse

The way this is done is really pursing the loss of childhood and how serious Steven has been made to grow… By the circumstances around him.

I want to see Steven get excited about something again.. Or laugh.. Cause that almost never happens now.

The gems don’t know who Steven has grown into..

Because Steven is only defining himself by what he is not.

I’m not this.. I’m not that..

Ok.. But.. Who are you?

What backpack do you use now? Does it have buttons? Patches?

What food do you cook or bake? Can you do that with the gems?

What books do you read now? Do you play videogames still? Board games?

to play bass guitar later

on lmao

The current synopsis, for reference later on:

"Steven Universe: Lars of the Stars explores the past, present and future of the universe. The sequel follows Lars Barriga, eternal teenager and space outlaw, as he and his pirate crew smuggle contraband, evade the authorities and uncover the darkest secrets of the fallen Gem Empire."

This is just a personal list of things I would be interested in seeing, even If it would (tragically) debunk my precious headcanons and OC riddled post canon universe:

I would most like this to be set post SUF, tbh. I feel like it Will be, given the line "fallen Gem Empire."

TV-14 rating like Fiona and Cake was so there's a smidge more leeway in the topics they could explore, and to what Depth they can be explored. Also I want Lars to say at least One swear, lol.

Fluorite's components would be fun to see! Perhaps they have to unfuse for a recon mission, or something.

This may finally be a good time to do the plotline with Rhodonite's components and her OG Morganite. Maybe she gets kidnapped by her original "owner" and has to be rescued?

I would love for Lars and crew to be a shining light towards all numbers of fusions and mistreated Gems who are still caught under the rule of Era 2 sympathizers who haven't yet conformed to new Era standards.

Re: the above, I just want to see more juice on what old Era 2 elites are thinking in this new Era. Which ones are begrudgingly conforming? Which ones are ready to throw a coup?

In fact, who got elected to be Homeworld's new leader? How are they doing? Are Gems listening to their authority, or are they struggling to keep the peace?

I am VERY curious to know what "smuggling contraband" means in the context of this show if it IS set post SUF, as... what kind of contraband are they stealing that would be illegal to the new Gem leadership? Perhaps they're stealing from old Homeworld elites Robin Hood style, or something. Or... perhaps the new Gem leadership itself gets hijacked by old Era 2 sympathizers and they have to push back on that.

It would be interesting if one of the crew happened to leave mid show because they found a genuine calling somewhere else, and someone new joined the gang in their place. Specifically, because I'd love to see how a new personality meshes with all the other characters.

More Padparadscha content where she isn't always the butt of the joke- the comics did a nice job at finding ways to make her ability very useful to the plot, so more of that in this show would be cool.

It would be cool to see more twinned Gems like the two Rutiles.

I kinda feel like a Steven appearance is unlikely bc I don't know if Zach Callison is down to be involved, but he COULD show up in spirit through Stevonnie. That would be cool for a midseason "event" episode.

It would also, of course, be nice to see the Crystal Gems again. If they make any appearance, I have to imagine it would be in a bombastic season finale.

Hessonite, please. Bring Hessonite to the main show.

see this is what I’m talking about. literally no one came after me for this. everyone has been agreeing with me that steven universe is good.

like. you don’t even NEED to put disclaimers before mentioning you like anything “cringey” anyway. you can just not say that part. you don’t have to apologize. cringe is dead blah blah blah I’m literally a miraculous ladybug fan.

but like. steven universe was good. not badgood or “bad but fun to watch” it was GOOD. even the height of the “su critical” era was like. obviously irrational and bad faith arguments made by people who think they know how the animation industry works.

Roundtable get in on this