I Can Make a Change

Walking through the festival with a spiked apple cider in hand, Paz turned to the person next to her and gave an uncharacteristic compliment. “Have you been on the haunted hayride yet? It’s shockingly good this year.” Okay,  maybe it wasn’t a full compliment but they never were when it came to Pacifica. “Like it’s never that scary but I screamed a couple of times.”

“I haven’t! But I definitely need to check that out.” Steven wasn’t usually the biggest fan of scary things, but he kinda liked them. Sometimes. Depending on what the scare was. “How scary are you talking, though. Like, how big were those screams? I just... you know, for Lion’s sake,” he motioned to the cat sleeping in the basket in his arms, clearly not caring about anything going on in the outside world. “He’s kinda a scardy cat sometimes.”

Steven Universe as Dorothy Gale (feat: Lion as Toto)

Steven was rambling now, absolutely overreacting over such a minuscule thing. In spite of that, or perhaps because of that, Mai’s mouth twitched into another smile. More amused this time, but still there regardless.

“I do smile, Steven,” Mai brushed off with a roll of her eyes, that illusive smile schooled once again as she flicked her fingers, her attention drawn back on the cat batting at them. “Sometimes. I’m just not as much of an ‘emotional human being’ as some of you people.” Mai’s finger tapped the cat’s nose and the cat quickly rolled in her lap and bit playfully at her finger. “Just don’t start crying or anything.”

“I know you do, I just don’t see it often,” Steven said, glancing between Mai and the cat. “And usually not because of something being cute,” he teased. “And hey, I pride myself in being an emotional person. It’s part of my charm,” he joked. He watched the cat twist around. Steven pet the cat laying next to him. Cat Cafes really were the best invention. “And I won’t start crying. Not yet. And if I do, I’ll just blame it on allergies. That’s what my dad would do sometimes, but I always knew he was just being emotional. He probably told me that because he knew if I saw him crying then I’d start crying too.”

“i mean like, of course!” she gushed, snorting out as if it were obvious, because to her, it pretty much was. “it was already like…a no brainer that i would’ve loved whatever you decided to do but it like…surpassed my expectations and let me tell ya, they were already like…up in space somewhere, i’m not even joking!” seeing how excited he was fed into her own excitement and it his next question, mabel let out a loud gasp, the wide grin now growing even wider at the thought of all of this, eyes wide as she placed a hand over his arm as if in awe. “steven universe, are you asking me if we should totally get made up and go to karaoke together right this very second?! ‘cuz if so i absolutely accept, oh my god!! should we start with make up or outfits first? oh my god, should we do a theme, even? the possibilities are endless!”

He couldn’t help but blush a bit at all of Mabel’s gushing. She was really one of the best friends a person could ask for. Then he laughed before pretending to be a little more serious. “Mabel Pines, that is exactly what I’m asking you.” He got more excited as she did. “I was thinking about suggesting a theme!” Steven bounced a little. “Maybe outfits first, that way we can make sure the makeup matches. Or we could be wild and do the makeup first and have to find something that matches,” he laughed a bit. “What kind of theme? Like, should it be a decade thing? Like we do the eighties or something? You’re totally right, there are so many possibilities. I just know that we gotta do this because this is an excellent plan.”

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    —- “you’re a bona fide celebrity now! performing at battle of the bands? i heard it went well. i’m sorry i couldn’t make it. i. i was busy.”

“Oh, it’s alright! If you want, maybe sometime we could do a little backyard concert thing, just like, us jamming. That could be fun,” then he chuckled a bit. “I wouldn’t consider myself a celebrity though. It was just a fun experience. What were you busy with? Not that, um, you have to tell me if you don’t want to.” he added quickly, worried he was prying, when really he was just trying to make conversation. Which even he struggled with sometimes.

Steven adores Lilo. He thinks she’s so much fun to be around.

They share conspiracy theories about aliens all the time. 

They listen to a lot of music together.

He thinks she’s pretty cool and doesn’t really get why some people think she’s weird. 

Steven likes going to the beach with her because he likes watching her surf and loves being in the water and building sandcastles together. 

Steven and Lilo practice ukulele together and Steven likes to do little uke jam sessions with her. 

Steven could talk to Lilo for hours on end because he thinks everything she says is just fascinating and she really shows him a lot of different perspectives that he hadn’t considered. 

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Steven will purposely mess up making baked goods so that he can have Lars help him make a new batch because he knows it’ll be better. 

Steven knows sometimes he can be a lot so he tries not to be too pushy or try too hard around Lars, but he just thinks he’s cool, so it’s sometimes hard for him to just be normal and not super excited.

Steven constantly tries to make up new secret handshakes or special high fives with Lars like they’re best friends, but he knows Lars isn’t as into it as he is.

Steven tries to organize movie and game nights with Lars. He always sets them up to be chill and just fun, but sometimes he gets a little too excited that Lars agreed to hang out with him and tries to do too many things at once and usually overwhelms them both.

“okay, but i’m like….literally obsessed with your performance at the battle of the bands, you’re song choices and everything was just amazing, i totally cried when you finished with rainbow connection, but like, good tears of course, obviously. we should totally hit up guy’s karaoke bar some time soon ‘cuz i’m still feeling super music-y! and we can do each other’s make up and pick out each other’s outfits and everything, oh my god, wouldn’t that be great?!” @just-stcven​

“Thank you! I’m glad you liked it,” he smiled. “Yours was amazing, too! You guys absolutely crushed it.” His eyes lit up at the thought of doing karaoke with Mabel. “Um, yes we should definitely do all of that! We should like, do that right now? Is that crazy? It feels kind of crazy. But also sounds like so much fun!”

“Um... I’ve been having a lot of fun playing some older kinda ‘dad band’ songs. I’ve been playing a lot of Pearl Jam lately... I think it’s because I kinda miss my dad. Its been a few days since I video chatted with him. Should probably fix that...”

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“And that’s why you have to prove them wrong. Your voice is so powerful and strong and even just one person can make a change. I’m sorry people are being butts just because you’re younger than them. But you’re amazing and one of the most creative people I’ve ever met! Just because you know things that are different from what they know doesn’t mean you don’t know anything.” He frowns a bit. If there’s one thing he dislikes most, it’s people hurting his friends. Physically or emotionally, though the former doesn’t come up as often.

“Well, I mean... I wouldn’t say it’s an epiphany. More of just like, I guess I dream of a more loving and supportive world where everyone’s able to feel happy and safe just being themselves. I just feel like I know there’s so much good in the world and I just want people to have a chance to see that.” Steven shrugged. “I just... there’s a lot of bad things out there that we can’t control, so why waste what precious time we have spreading negativity when instead we could be spreading positivity and love.”

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“What’s that?” Lilo asked, pointing to the flyers in his hand. She liked to sign up for things, it was her thing right now. And she wanted to spread the love, do more good, and all that stuff because she knew her goodness streak was a little on the low lately. She wanted to do better, she really did. “Project Love? Is that like a free hugs kind of thing?”

Steven jumped back, eyes wide as Lars lashed and screamed. “I’m sorry!” he said quickly. He closed the cap on the bottle. “And I know, but if I said ‘hey, this is going to sting a lot’ you wouldn’t let me do it. And then it could’ve gotten infected. And then your arm would fall off. That’s an exaggeration, but still. You gotta keep these things clean.” Steven waited for Lars to settle a bit before he moved back to bandage up the cut. “What happened, anyway?”

How did the place your muse grew up in affect them?

“I wanna befriend everybody! But right now, I think it’d be fun to get to know Mai more. I don’t know, I just feel like she’s got a lot more to her than what meets the eye.”