"Who wants to watch a show about people crying?"
Name: Steven Universe
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Personality: Full of child-like innocence, SU is very youthful and energetic. Very open-minded, she doesn’t always approach problems in a conventional manner. While her peers are hiding from a menacing villain, she’ll be the one to walk right out and kindly ask what said villain’s plans are. She likes to remain optimistic in even the worst of scenarios, and she often assumes that everyone is a good person at heart no matter what others think of them, even trying to befriend monsters that most would want to either avoid or destroy. She’s fun-loving and often remains calm (or at least, calmer than others) in the face of danger, confident that she and her allies will always save the day — and if you think they can’t, they’ll always find a way! But, if something
does really frighten or worry her, she might be a bit quicker to break down, crying and panicking. Thankfully, though, her optimism usually keeps her together.
Abilities: As a
Gem, SU’s power is centered in the gemstone on her stomach. Really, her entire body is just an extension of the power contained in that gem. Therefore, if she is ever fatally wounded, her body will disappear and her energy will retreat back inside the stone, allowing her to regenerate later, and make changes to her appearance if she wishes. The only way to really injure or kill her would be to crack or shatter her gemstone.
Her other Gem powers include:
Gem Fusion: She has the ability to fuse together with another Fandom to form a "giant woman" (or a giant non-binary person, depending on who she fuses with). Each fusion has a vastly different appearance depending on the individuals that combine to form it, but most of them are much larger than both individuals, and may have an unusual number of limbs/eyes/etc. Fusion can be achieved when she and another individual “synchronize their forms”, that is, dance together. The dance can take on any form or style, so long as the two synchronize well.
Shapeshifting: Something she theoretically should be able to do, but she’s usually afraid to because of how easily it can
spin out of control.
Bubble: Capable of creating a
protective bubble around herself and others. Despite its soft appearance, the bubble has a glass-like solidity and is very difficult to shatter without powerful gem magic.
Healing Saliva: Mostly self-explanatory. You’ll have to either drink it or let it touch your wounds.
Equipment:
-She often carries around her trusty
cheeseburger backpack, which she keeps filled with all sorts of odds and ends. Who knows what sort of miscellaneous junk might come in handy.
-While much of the contents of her backpack is unpredictable, she always carries duct tape. If duct tape is capable of patching up a dome containing a giant storm that would otherwise vaporize the entire world, it’s definitely something to keep on hand.
-She drives the
Mr. Universe van, which is really just a normal, non-magic van. But, she
does keep a lot of her stuff in there, and actually spends a lot of time just sort of hanging out in it, making the place feel rather homey. In fact, it’s easy to think that she might even live in that van. …And that’s sort of correct.
Home: While she spends so much time in the Mr. Universe van that it might as well be her home sometimes, her more permanent place of dwelling is the
Crystal Temple — or, at least, the beach house at the front of it. While the temple gate further inside is supposed to lead to all sorts of magical rooms, most of it is off-limits to her. That’s because the door of the gate only responds to the presence of the Crystal Gems from the show, and SU’s gemstone, most closely matching Rose Quartz’s stone, only opens the door to Rose’s room.
Rose’s room is designed to be able to create anything that SU wishes for, which sounds nice in theory, but the room’s creations can very quickly devolve into nightmare fuel depending on the nature of the wishes made, and the room can be rather difficult to escape, as well. Because of this, SU tries not to use Rose’s room except for extremely important circumstances. And, since she can’t access any other rooms in the temple, her home might as well just be the beach house in front. Oh well, at least the temple is nice to look at from the outside.
While the beach house section of the temple isn’t anything special, it
is where she keeps her TV, bed, most of her food, and other things that don’t really fit in the van. And, since the show’s creators apparently weren’t afraid to include uncensored references to real-world entertainment, SU inherited a lot of interesting merchandise from the in-show Steven, such as Sailor Moon manga, and several actual Nintendo games like Zelda and Animal Crossing.
Quirks:
-May reference things that pre-date her by several decades, sometimes not even really understanding what she’s actually referencing.
-Will not deny that she is in fact a “gay space rock”.
-She can’t look at actual, real gemstones without thinking of the characters that are based off of them.
-She likes to imagine what the “gemsonas” of other fandoms would be like, as well as what it would be like to fuse with some of them.
-She has mixed feelings about the Uncle Grandpa fandom…
-SHE IS VERY VERY SORRY ABOUT THE KEYSTONE MOTEL INCIDENT.
-As a Gem, she doesn’t
need to eat or sleep, but she still does because it’s fun.
Other:
-Between her open-minded personality and the show’s progressive nature, she really doesn’t mind being called “Steven” or otherwise being thought of as a boy. It really doesn’t make much of a difference to her. Which is good, since the “Mr. Universe” van tends to lead to a lot of assumptions that would probably really annoy her, otherwise.
-Being a TV show with great music and also having several musician characters, SU shares some of that affinity for music. She plays guitar and ukelele and just loves a great tune in general. She has some amps, mixers and other related equipment piled up in the Mr. Universe van.