#steben

I drew these the other week and forgot to mcflippin post them, but i REALLY REALLY want to explore Rose's role as an active mother in this au, even if she's not as 'active' as she'd like to be because of how weak she's gotten.

The biggest tragedy of SU in my opinion is that. Steven is given a beautiful gift, yes, life and magic and an amazing (if struggling) family. And she probably never EVER intended for him to have to deal with her mistakes. She wanted him to experience life, free of her errors and past mistakes looming over her, over HIM, wanted him to be free in a way she never really got to, even after she became 'Rose' fulltime.

And he didn't get that. Her past shows up to haunt her, but it didn't find HER. It found all she left behind. Her family, her home, and her son, and so it haunted him in her place.

Her mistakes and past have a different face in the gemtaur au, but they are still real and present and have to be dealt with. But. Steben will not bear the brunt of it. She will be there. She faces her past when she's able, and can do what she can to protect her son and her herd from her past.

Also, I just sincerely think she would be a loving mother, and she deprived herself of that experience as well, when she chose to give up her form for steven.

Wait hold on,

Oh NO

ima just leave this here

wow okay thank you for submitting this @mary-moona it’s like you read my mind cause I’ve been looking for an excuse to post this

No touch.

Touch.

You think that’s all? Think again. It gets

even

worse.