#liveblagging

You guys all remember

“SHE’S GOOOOOONE!”

I always wondered how Pink!Steven was able to do that (the crater thing.) I assumed it was just the power radiating from his gem combined with his emotions - and Pink Pearl confirms that this was actually a thing Pink did:

“White told [Pink] she wasn't fit to run [a colony] and, well - that set her off... You remember how she was with her destructive powers? Throwing tantrums left and right? She had a scream that could crack the walls."

And poor Steven was so sure he was a healer and that he only helped people, but it turns out he can do this, too

“I just want to FIX IT!”

I mean, we already been done knew Pink was NOT a good person. She was very selfish and single-minded (though after becoming Rose Quartz, she seemed to care about others very deeply and was shown that she wanted to change - she was trying to be different.) But I’m wondering if Steven has a little bit of this selfish trait as well. There’s a thing that makes him think his ideals are better than anyone else’s. We’ve seen it many times, where Steven just moves ahead with what he thinks is right (because he’s so sure it is, bless him) and he only realizes he’s wrong after things go south. Each time, he apologizes and fixes it and we all think “He’s learned his lesson,” only to see him do it again. And again. (I know he’s not doing it maliciously, I’m just making a point.)

For example, in a previous episode, he tries to put gems in places he thinks they’d be better off at, not where the said gems wanted to be or what they wanted to do - even after Amethyst tries to talk to him about it. It took the gems failing and causing mayhem for him to even realize that “Oh, maybe my idea wasn’t as good as I thought.”

Pink was shown to be immature and emotionally unstable, and I’m wondering if Steven is now showing these signs because it’s a gem thing, or if it’s a genetic thing. Pink’s emotions rule her actions and powers

And I have to wonder if this is some kind of “flaw” with her. Was that why the other Diamonds treated Pink so differently? Why they always watched her carefully and never gave her more responsibility? Is that why Pink was so much smaller than the other Diamonds? Why she seemed to be stunted  developmentally?

Or is Pink something else? White said to Steven: “As for me, I’m certain I don’t need [Pink]. After all, I’m every color of the light. But, you’re a part of me... A part I always have to repress.” So does this mean Pink is just a fragment White somehow removed from herself? A piece of her that was too loving and too head-strong and White thought she’d be better off without those strong emotions? “It’s a pity, the way you bring out the worst in others. See how you encourage their deficiencies? It’s written all over their gems... You enable their terrible behavior so you can be the best of the worst.”

(White is another whole entity I would love to learn more about, but I’m getting off topic here.)

Is all of this - Pink’s destructive tendencies and her selfish desires - why she tried so hard to change? To become something new? Why Pink said it was a GOOD thing Greg didn’t know anything about her?

I have so many questions and I’m very excited to see that the final season is delving more into Pink and her background and what it means for Steven, because I’ve been dying to know these things about her. And I ache for our poor sunshine boy Steven, but I also want him to learn that you can’t just run from the past and pretend it didn’t happen - because that’s what he keeps trying to do, like if he says he’s moved on enough, it’ll become true.