#bugbuttonmashing

also I rewatched keep beach city weird and. I really hope we get to see more Ronaldo in Lars of the Stars. I know he's annoying in Steven Universe— of course he is! (Frankly, so is Lars, and so is Steven! They're adolescents! It's developmentally appropriate!) He's an awkward, geeky teenager whose family aren't interested in his passion, living in a tourist-trap town where all of the exciting and interesting things seem to happen to everyone except for him. That's... something that I noticed, actually, in rewatching this episode: not just the running joke of wacky stuff happening whenever Ronaldo isn't around to see it or experience it, but the way Ronaldo feels about that. He even cries out something like "it should have been me!" and in the admittedly few Ronaldo-focused episodes we have, that's a theme that continues. Ronaldo laments, and possibly even resents, the fact that exciting magical things don't happen to him, that he doesn't have some magical destiny. How unfair is it, now, that his former friend Lars, someone who rejected him at least in part because of his geekiness and the shame that Lars felt about being interested in that sort of thing, has literally become an undead space pirate, while Ronaldo, as far as we know, is still working at his family's fry shop? Hell, even Peedee, his little brother, has opened his own food truck and is doing his thing. What does Ronaldo have?