Steven Universe Future Timeline (Including the Movie) [Short version]
We recently made a timeline for the events of Steven Universe Future, including the movie. It was very entertaining to find the exact dates, but we have to admit, it was a very long post that I had to remove a bit of the formatting to comply with the character limit, also, it takes a long time to read. So I made a condensed, shorter and better formatted version of the post.
My inspiration for creating this timeline was the original series timeline made by NubOnReddit on Reddit, which you can find by clicking here.
I considered some details for the construction of the timeline. Some from the series and others based on the timeline on Reddit:
Steven's birthday is August 15th. (Canon)
Steven was born in 2001, turns 16 in 2017 and 17 in 2018. (Headcanon)
With the exception of "The Future", Steven is 16 years old in the entire season of Future, according to his medical record in "Growing Pains". (Canon)
"Snow Day" occurs in December (Headcanon) and from Monday to Wednesday. (Canon)
"Snow Day" occurs one week before the third quarter (Canon), for Steven and by extension for Little Homeschool, third quarter means the third month of the four-month school period. (Headcanon)
"Little Homeschool" and "Guidance" are at most a week apart because Little Homeschool is recent. (Headcanon)
"Little Homeschool" and "Little Graduation" are at least two months apart because during that time Sadie and Shep start dating. (Canon)
"Rose Buds" and "Snow Day" are at least a month apart because Steven becomes a vegetarian. (Canon)
"Prickly Pair" occurs in June because among Steven's plants is a blue campanula, which blooms in June. (Headcanon)
"Bismuth Casual" takes place in mid-June because it is after exams at the cram school. (Headcanon)
"Together Forever" takes place during the beginning of the school vacations because Connie might be getting ready for college in the morning and it seems like her 15-minute break is recent. (Headcanon)
School vacations in human schools don't interfere with classes at Little Homeschool. Classes are from Monday to Friday throughout the year and Saturdays and Sundays are days off. (Headcanon)
"Growing Pains" takes place the day after "Together Forever" because Connie told Steven that she would call him at lunchtime in the previous episode. (Canon)
"Mr. Universe" takes place two days after "Growing Pains" because Steven said that he went to the hospital two days ago. (Canon)
In "Mr. Universe" Greg says his parents go to Florida Island every winter. To keep things consistent, Greg's parents also started traveling in the summer and he didn't know it. (Headcanon)
"Fragments" takes place one day after "Mr. Universe" (Headcanon) and has a range of five days. (Canon)
"Homeworld Bound” takes place on the night of the fifth day of "Fragments" (A.K.A. the day Steven shattered and revived Jasper) and in the early morning of the next day, on which "Everything's Fine" takes place. (Canon)
"Everything's Fine" and "I Am My Monster" occur on the same day. (Canon)
"The Future" takes place months after "I Am My Monster" (Canon) between October and early December. (Canon)
In the movie, the events supposedly began on May 21 (a Monday in 2018) according to Sadie Killer and the Suspects concert poster. However, it would be impossible for Steven to be 16 in "Growing Pains" if he had already gone through a winter. So I interpreted it as a moment of a little mistake (Like when Garnet asked a question in "Cheeseburger Backpack" or when Connie was affected by Blue Diamond's power in "Reunion") and adjusted the start date to Monday, August 21, 2017, with Steven turning 16 a few days ago.
As I progressed through the timeline, I included a few more details based on which month the events of each episode were most likely:
Since "Snow Day" occurs on Monday December 25 (2017), January 1, 2018 would be the start of the third quarter. So, Little Homeschool started on November 1, 2017.
The graduation of the Off Colors would be on February 28, 2018.
From "Little Homechool" to "A Very Special Episode", each episode would occur on a different day of the week.
"Little Homeschool" occurs on Monday, November 6 because the school would be in its first days and because… it's Monday.
In 2018, June 14 was Eid al-Fitr (End of Ramadan), so "Bismuth Casual" occurs after the mentioned date so Patricia can be present without skipping Tarawih (Correct me if I'm wrong).
Due to a chain of days that links the episodes from "Together Forever" to "I Am My Monster", "Together Forever" can only occur on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, and "Everything is Fine" occurs on a Wednesday, Thursday or Friday respectively.
"The Future" occurs over two days, as Connie is present on the morning of the first day and it doesn't appear to be a school day at Little Homeschool, the first day occurs on a Saturday or Sunday and the second day occurs on a Sunday or Monday respectively.
For some dates I implemented the following matches (I'm Peruvian, so I looked for dates in the United States because the series is set there. Correct me if I'm wrong on some):
"Guidance" occurs on November 11 because it's Veterans Day, the healed gems are basically military veterans.
"Why So Blue?" occurs on January 17 because it's International Mentoring Day. As Steven and Lapis try to teach two other Lapises to stop destroying worlds, the concept fits.
"Growing Pains" occurs on June 27 because it's National PTSD Awareness Day. In this episode we see that Steven has PTSD, and Dr. Maheswaran gave a good explanation of the topic.
The second day of "The Future" (A.K.A. when Steven begins his journey) occurs on Monday, November 5 because it would be exactly one year after "Little Homeschool" (November 6, but still a Monday). It would be symbolic because a year ago was the beginning of Steven's problems that unleashed his pink outburst, and now he's healing from his traumas and began a journey to discover himself.
After several calculations of days of the week and doing discard methods, the timeline looks like this:
Monday August 21, 2017 - Tuesday August 22, 2017
Saturday November 11, 2017
Wednesday November 22, 2017
Tuesday December 5, 2017 - Thursday December 7, 2017
Monday December 25, 2017 - Wednesday December 27, 2017
Wednesday January 17, 2018
Wednesday February 28, 2018 - Thursday March 1, 2018
Saturday June 2, 2018 - Monday June 4, 2018
Saturday June 9, 2018 - Sunday June 10, 2018
Saturday June 30, 2018 - Wednesday July 4, 2018
Wednesday July 4, 2018 - Thursday July 5, 2018
Sunday November 4, 2018 - Monday November 5, 2018
Well, this was the short version of the Steven Universe Future timeline post including the movie. I think the essential is understood. I'll leave the link to the long version at the end in the future.
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The long version in English will be available soon.
