dare I go even further and say he would try to overcompensate too? self hatred really distorts the past, he tends to think of himself as having been worse than he actually was, near evil really. so he acts meaner than he would have, figuring he'd do stuff like yell at a stranger for no reason when in reality the most he'd do was roll his eyes. so everyone's like "dude what the hell is going on, why are you being so mean today? you're not usually like this." and he's like huh?... i'm not?... but i... but wasn't... didn't i... but everyone hated...

Like the current fit is iconic of course but... it's. not his. it's iconic to another character that the Crewniverse decided to make a reference toward with Lars' outfit. Which is fun, but...

I just don't think that the main outfit of our new main character should be a reference, y'know? If he's getting a series all about him then he should have a unique outfit. Something undeniably Lars, something where you see the cape on its own and everybody thinks of the exact same character.

So like tear that thing up. Bye. Make him put it in the laundry and it turns out it was hand-wash only or something. Force him to steal another cape. Assemble his own outfit. I wanna see something LARS.

i mean idk it's just it's

you know,,

wait i was looking at the synopsis for #34 of Steven Universe Ongoing, and while this description makes the comic seem way more dramatic than it actually is (it's SO lighthearted), I'm intrigued by the last line it's something I surprisingly have never thought about before.

Hm. Hmm. Stuck as an outsider forever on his own ship. Hmmm. In the current timeline the crew are very accustomed to Earth so he'd no longer feel like an outsider in that regard... but he is still the only human(ish) in a ship full of Gems. man the parallels between him and Steven are insane. BUT

He was born a human and he gained these new powers which is cool but he's lived such a different life from them. And even with his gem capabilities he's still part human, something they will never truly know. 18 years spent growing up in completely different conditions before he met them and they're so similar which is why they're best friends but they're also so so so so so different and some of the differences they will never understand.

He's human-ish on a ship full of Gems. And he's their Captain, but...

Sometimes he brings up something, anything, and the Gems don't understand, and he's once again hit with the fact that he's a different species from them. They don't know what it's like to be human.

Sometimes they bring up stuff that he doesn't understand, too. And fuck. That hurts.

And that damn hair portal.

He's human. He was human, he's not supposed to have these powers, he never wanted them. He lived a normal life. He was supposed to have a normal life. And the powers are fun on paper, and he wouldn't give up the space adventures for the world, but he's pink and he has stupid magical abilities that set him apart from every other human in existence. Sorry, not 'other', he doesn't exactly belong to that group anymore.