#character relations

Zooble was still very much on a journey, but they were willing to admit that and start taking the next steps. Even just using they/them was a step that Jax wasn't willing to do for himself.

The scenarios where Zooble was the one to abstract and where Gangle abstract are the ones that really make me think this. In the case of Zooble being gone, his joke is about not taking Zooble's relationship with gender seriously. In the scenario where Zooble is left, he reduces them to a Looney Tunes style antagonist.

As far as we know, Anya has Frankie as best uncle,

and Handler as the nice auntie, who may or may not be Anya's bio mom(a theory for another day);

but we're not talking enough about mr. Henderson as an honorary grandpa enough, he's probably some of the only ones outside of WISE and few others who cares for the Forger family this much (even if it was mostly just him being a decent educator, and righting what he felt he had done wrong to someone he respects)

Mottledtail and Runningflight were essentially high school sweethearts. Some call their union fated, others call them perfect for one another, and more still call them “sickeningly sweet”; Mottledtail soothes Runningflight’s temper, allows him to slow down, and Runningflight eases some of the burdens from Mottledtail’s shoulders, allows him to have fun.

When it was revealed that Mottledtail was expecting, everyone was overjoyed, offering their congratulations and well-wishes. Runningflight was ecstatic! And Mottledtail, meanwhile, was horrified. He felt so heavily conflicted about his pregnancy, dysphoric and terrible throughout it all, and he loathed the thought of staying in the nursery. It wasn’t a good time for him, and Runningflight was so caught up within his own image, unable to slow down, that he didn’t really notice. No one did - aside from Brindleface.

They offered to take, nurse, and care for Mottledtail’s litter the moment they were born and Mottledtail recovered enough. As a newly fledged guardian, one who was getting on in age and desperately wanted to care for more kittens, they were eager and happy, and Mottledtail practically sobbed his gratitude to her - something he had never done before in his life. The news was broken to Runningflight, who felt awful that he hadn’t noticed his partner’s internal plight and struggles, but completely supported the newly issued system. Together, the trio raised Sand (who was named in light of the Moorswept’s naming system, a nod to Runningflight’s origins), and a romance blossomed between all three - it was slow, and a bit messy at first, but it evened out as Sand aged.

Puffy still loves her duckling, but knows he’s in the wrong and she needs to protect everyone now as the hero, but she also won’t sink to his level of bringing about more violence. she sings the “hero” part, with the knight in shining armor analogies lining up with her role in the knights of eret. She lets him go anyway, knowing he is wrong, but is begging him to stop acting like he doesn’t care about anything and 

“We’re enemies! Why would you help me?” “My beef with you is entirely personal. I’ll not tolerate anyone killing you before I do!”

And then they said…

Have a character say this and build on from there. Where the conversation and the story goes is up to you!

!Spoilers for those who haven’t seen Diamond Day!

I was rewatching Steven Universe with my brother and it was the episode “Doug Out” that it got this idea: Blue Diamond was the same parental figure to Pink Diamond as Mr. Maheswaran is to Connie.

During the episode, Connie and Steven help Mr. Maheswaran stake out for someone in Funland. Steven and Connie find disgusises. They make characters for the costumes they find and Mr. Maheswaran plays along and encourages it.

It was shown in the episode “Jungle Moon” that Yellow Diamond was a very strick parental figure with Pink Diamond like Mrs. Maheswaran was to Connie at the beginning of the series. The warped version of the two characters was due to Connie and Steven being fused at the time of the vision/memory. The audience was shown the character dynamics with something we were already familiar with. It could be interpreted that Blue Diamond must have been or at least was similar to what Mr. Maheswaran is like. This is almost enforced by the interactions between Blue Diamond and Steven. Apparently, Pink Diamond tried to make everyone smile and have fun. While Yellow Diamond was consumed with work, Blue Diamond played along until it was inconvenient.