#waj13

I see this 100% as an accident, I don’t believe even at his lowest that Steven would even purposefully shatter someone. So technically I see it as like, manslaughter? I’m not saying he holds no fault at all for what he did, but at the same time how can we honestly expect a traumatized 16 year old who feels like he has no one he can rely on to not go off the deep end enough to do something drastic without thinking? Especially when his only companion at the time is another unstable person who desperately wants him to go bananas on her and consistently goads him into doing so? Like you said this is what she wanted, this is what she was begging him for, and he gave her what she wanted. I already made a comparison but it’s like a dog who’s been kicked repeatedly, eventually it’ll bite someone. Steven has been kicked from every angle since he was 12, and he was finally driven far enough to bite.

Who can we blame for this? The gems for raising him badly when they were suddenly left with a half human half gem baby? Greg for treating their lives like it’s a competition and saying Steven hasn’t had it that bad compared to him what Steven literally has PTSD from all the attempted murder and broken bones he’s experienced? Jasper for using Steven as another source of purpose that he doesn’t want to give her? Steven for being driven to such a low mental state that he was consumed by his power and rage? Pink for giving him that power, and that legacy, and forcing him into that life in the first place? The diamonds for abusing Pink to the point where she sought such an escape from her life? Where does this totem pole end? It’s such a tragic scenario I don’t think fingers can be pointed at any one person.

Honestly the reason why I didn’t think this would actually happen is because this is essentially going to be Steven’s breaking point, hurting someone like this, even accidentally and even if he’s able to heal them, would absolutely send Steven off the rails. And based on the promo that seems to be exactly what’s happening, he’s absolutely losing his mind.

I have no idea how he can recover from this mentally. Maybe if the show gets him and Jasper to actually talk things out? Cause it’s not gonna be easy for her either, she was essentially killed and brought back to life. If she forgives him, if they can commiserate over both of them being really fucked up and it being a tragic accident, maybe they can cope with it to some degree? But if that doesn’t happen I don’t know how else they could figure this out. I want so badly for Steven to be at least on the path to healing by the end of this series, he deserves it after everything he’s been through. If he doesn’t get some degree of a happy ending I will honestly be severely disappointed. I don’t want some bittersweet “that’s reality folks, sometimes shit sucks” ending.

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Dipper continues to go by “Dipper” for a few years after the events of the show. When high school starts, he transitions to “Mason.” He’ll still hear the occasional “Dipper” in high school. College is when he’s 100% shed the nickname. Everyone he meets in college knows him only by “Mason.” (You’ll notice that when I talk about him, there’s a split in how I use the name; I always say “Dipper” when it’s junior high and younger, and “Mason” when it’s high school and older. This is why).

Dipper tends to be a player, rather than a DM, for DD&MD. He will, however, take the lead when the group needs him to. In college, he gets involved in a DD&MD club, spending 8 hours on a Friday night drinking exorbitant amounts of soda, chilling inside an unused college classroom, laptop pulled out to check minor game rules between turns, as the DM scribbles things on a white board.

He plays tuba in band class through the end of high school. He’s less consistent with it in college but doesn’t drop it. The instrument does come to the dorms with him. Sometimes, if a college semester is light, he’ll go into the non-music-majors, lowest-most-casual-ensemble band. 

Mason and Pacifica end up dating when they are 17-18, during the summer between end of high school and start of college. They don’t date for longer than the summer, but that’s fine. The “break up” has no drama and is basically returning them to a good, stable, platonic relationship.