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THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH 🥺🥺🥺 It means a lot to me, since I was doubtful at first because of how popular the idea is.

No disrespect to creators that keep her, of course- everyone works hard on their art and it deserves to be appreciated.

She's a kind lady- she truly is. But when I read through her dialogue, there's a persistent theme she is just not trained to take care of suicidal teenagers. She cares for Basil, but doesn't know what his problems are, or how to help him.

I'm really protective over Basil and emotional over topics of suicide. I feel very strongly about the correct ways to help suicidal people and what would and wouldn't help.

The most helpful thing for suicidal people is good support systems and people around you that are capable of helping. He needs a real psychiatrist and people around him that can look out for his signs. People that know him well enough to tell when he's fake smiling.

And she's very open about not knowing how to help! She outright says, to two teenagers, "If anyone can help him, it's you!". She expresses feeling incompetent and unsure of what to do repeatedly.

If Polly's known him for 2 years and doesn't get it now, she won't later. And she's very open about this!

I think she was mostly hired to take care of the grandmother. She probably knows how to do CPR, change catheters, bath and change the elderly, but when Basil's parents when they hired her had no idea Basil had any issues, so they didn't hire a youth specialist.

Basically... I think if he's going to survive, he needs better, and it will definitely get addressed in my comic.

Hypothetically, but he hasn't yet! But in case it's helpful, since White Space is imaginary people can do stuff like send him food and blankets. And lots of little Basils.

it's only hornyposting if it makes you a little concerned for my mental health, otherwise it's just art appreciation

Something Wrong - by anonymous (https://archiveofourown.org/works/64659151/chapters/166101562)

and

Ripples - by Jaybird314, and Mourning_gories (https://archiveofourown.org/works/23778427)

both of these fics deal with steven and his struggles to exist as some form of plural (the second one he is explicitly stated to be plural and also one of my favorite fics ive read on the topic)

I hope you give these a try (unless you've already read them, which is probably likely soooooo)

!!! I've read the first one a while ago, I always love seeing different interpretations and aus of plural Steven concepts, whether or not it's intentional that the writers know they're like, writing a plural character lol. I remember Something Wrong being a creative concept, and the author's like, little quote at the beginning that they cannot think of a name for the two halves after six freaking years is sooo real.

Okay unrelated tangent but I literally still have not decided on a solid name for Pinkven, which is really funny because you'd think he'd be easier to think of a name for because a lot more fics come up with a name for him. But that just means all the good names are taken LMAO. Like well and truly I think they would both name themselves after something, like, really insipid, because I think that in my headcanon Steven is really bad at names. The Slinker, Watermelon Steven, Cactus Steven, MC Bear Bear (if he came up with that one,) Little Homeworld, other examples I don't remember, and of course, the iconic Volleyball, all are supposed to be his idea, so I think that they'd take names from something really literal, like, Idk, I feel like Pinkven would name himself Crab or some shit like that because he met a crab that flipped upside down on the beach. Not canon because otherwise I would constantly think of crab being a swear word in In Stars And Time, which...would make sense because followers of the Change God think crabs are blasphemous because of that one quote about every creature on earth evolving from or into a crab, and I think one of Pinkven's biggest fears would be that he can't change because he's not Steven and he's a Diamond, and he'll always just be the inevitable crab...Not happening, can't bear to think of it, gazes off into the sunset, etc.