>I know you're upset because you figured out that I priotised giving you freedom to such an extreme that you missed out on some essentials needed to prepare you for adulthood, including but not limited to schooling and health care, all because I'm an immature van bum. But know that I'm proud of you for telling me that and know that you can tell me anything, I'm not actually going to listen to it and offer an actual solution to I'm, I'm just gonna be as lenient as possible and hope ice cream will solve it.
>implying the Gems would accept Steven going to a normal human doctor >implying the Gems would accept Steven going to school, where they can't combine doing their stupid missions and hawk-watching him to prevent his penis from getting in the way
Steven has to beg them to go on missions and he didn’t even get his powers until he was 12, plenty of time to go to school
Colton Watson
Grass is always Greener
you try to give order, the kids want freedom you try to give freedom, they want order
Greg was so restricted and had no agency under his parents that he lashed out the the other extreme. He doesn't offer solutions because he figures that Steven is mature enough to find it out on his own (and given how steven is it's not too presumptuous to assume that)
Steven is kinda just rebelling, asking what all people have asked and are still asking "what could've been" (though turns out what could've been was Diamond territory)
Andrew Hughes
Every parent is shit in their individual way. Realizing your parents a shit, hating them, then getting the fuck over it and reforming a bond is part of life. >in B4 anons who are either too early to have had the realization or who are in the midst of a shitty protracted period of embitterment yell at me
Tyler Cooper
Steven is a basically one step below a child soldier and has almost died multiple times.
Greg's parents may have sucked, but the grass was definitely greener. Steven had a loving family, but an absolutely abysmal environment and Greg absolutely could have done better than leaving him in the care of three women who dob't even understand what a baby really is when they first meet him.
Luis Thomas
I mean they are humans after all imagine if you were a parent and have to explain your shortcomings where originally you could just blow it off as "the haters"
John Parker
The Gems let Greg raise him until he was like six or whatever, surely Greg could have put his foot down and Garnet would have complied.
Chase Price
Steven would have still been involved in the conflict even with more structured and authoritarian parents. He would either do what Greg did and run the fuck away after realizing his opinions and agency doesn't matter or gel with them and be a bit more willing to see eye to eye with the policy of the galaxy conquering aliens.
