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.
He's their Captain and they're his crew and they travel through space and steal shit together and yet... he's always a little bit of an outsider on his own ship. Maybe he always will be...
