#su173

Despite the effects it had this episode, I really like that Sapphire is a hopeless romantic.  Love fundamentally changed her worldview, changed her ability to conceive of a worldview.  She believes love defies all probability,  that it’s the glue that holds reality together, that it always wins in the end.

And she’s right about that, at least.  Love won today.  Not in a big, flashy, marriage-proposal kind of way, but in a grounded, real way, in the way that Steven and Connie love each other, in the way that she understands him and forgives him his foolishness today.  Love wins, today, because Steven and Connie’s love is a quiet suffusion rather than a loud party.

I, obviously, am a huuuuge Conniverse shipper.  I want them to smooch and get married and have a happy life together.  But this...this episode was painful to watch because Steven and Connie fit so well together.  Jumping forward in the relationship like this is a terribly bad move, and the fact that it didn’t scare Connie off is a testament to how much they really do love each other.  Watching him with the worry of him blowing it was SO painful.

Ruby and Sapphire each have their own individual lives.  I was about to snark that they have their own individual lives now, but, you know?  They probably DID have their own individual lives before Rose died.  I’m willing to bet that her death was what led to them not unfusing for thirteen years straight, trying to cope with that loss and what it meant for them.  They rushed into each others’ arms, so to speak, and didn’t quit that embrace voluntarily until the whole Sardonyx mess happened.

It’s a “not now”, Steven.  She loves you.  She does.  It’s unmistakable.  It’s fact.  She’s not going to leave you behind.  She’s not going to let you let her leave you behind.  She’s here for you, if you’ll let her be.  She’s the person in the world who gets you the best.