>Dad, is that where our name comes from? You took it from a SONG?!
Honest question: how many people do you think have named their offspring, or changed their own legal names after Steven Universe characters, and will need to have this exact talk with their children in 10 to 20 years?
Honestly some of the characters' names wouldn't be too bad for someone in real life to have
I was named after a song
Unimaginative bastards, i'm sure its an extremely common thing for normies to do.
I like to think about everyone who named their child Daenerys before season 8 of GoT happened. Nothings gonna top that.
John Karkat turns 10 this year
Yeah, this I mean it's dumb if you're introducing your kid as STEVEN, LIKE STEVEN UNIVERSE, but that and a lot of the more common Gem names like Pearl, Ruby, etc. aren't that weird. It's not exactly MLP-tier like the Swedish (?) guy who legally changed his name to Fluttershy or something.
My brother and I were named for John Wayne characters.
And I've heard that it's very common down in Mexico for kids to have Dragon Ball character names, lots of Gokus and Gohans and Piccolos, probably a few Roshis floating around.
y dunt they jus read da buks?
lol
>reading
>2020
Better check netflix instead. Fucking savages.
Rate SU names based on how normal/good/terrible they are
All human first name in the show are perfectly okay, except for Onion's family.
If you name your child Steven, Connie, Greg, etc. you are perfectly well off.
If you name them Onion, Sour Cream or Vidalia, you should probably just kill them now.
I thought Sour Cream was a nickname
>y dunt they jus read da buks?
Because the series got ahead of the books and started writing its own plot, independent of what the original author had planned.
If the original author finishes the series, those kids might be "redeemed", although he has been famously taking his time, and there is a good chance the final book will never be released, making the tv series plot will the definitive one.
Was it? If it was, we never learned his real name, and his parents also call him "sour cream".
Honestly I don't get why Steven was mad at Greg for this. He's the one person who would understand his father's connection to music, given that he sings a song almost every fucking episode
Could be worse my name was nearly Jesus and Im not even a spic my white protestant dad was just a little too jesus crazy
Besides human names, Ruby, Pearl, Amethyst, Sapphire, and Jasper are all good. Shit like Spinel or Nephrite are terrible. I also think Peridot would be a pretty name, but too outlandish
It could be worse; imagine having that conversation only to find out you were named after a Twilight character. Especially when it gets revealed that neither the books or films were considered good even by most people at the time but was liked "ironically".
Vidalia's also a place name so it would be unusual but not on the same level as Sour Cream or Onion.
I think Amethist is "eh" tier, not great, not terrible.
Obsidian or Diamond would be super cringy, and inevitably people would assume you named your child after Minecraft. Same With Lapis.
I agree on Peridot, kinda autlandish, but actually sounds really cool. It's also reminiscent of the real name Perdita, which I'm not sure is a blessing or a curse, because on one hand - it's a legit given name - on the other - the etymology of it is "whore".
Opal I think feels kinda pretentious, same with Sunstone, those are the names I would expect from hippies.
Sugilite is garbage. Alexandrite is too, but it has the benefit of being shortened to just Alex.
I think most of the gem names would work well enough as middle names since it lets you pay tribute to something that you enjoyed but isn't going to come up all that much.
Shortening their middle names to use as nicknames would also work then. Like Amy for Amethyst.
I mean, he wasn't mad at Greg FOR this, it was pretty much just the excuse to start shit. He was probably mildly disappointed by the fact that the origin of their LEGAL NAME is as shallow as "a song I liked", but Steven was really mad about the fact that Greg abandoned his home, his parents, the stability that Steven desires so much, that he never introduced him to his own grandparents, etc. Those were all the issues Steven was really mad about. The name was just the last tiny straw.
One time, someone in a restaurant asked what my sister's name was and when my mom told them (she was months old at the time), they asked, "Oh, like the band?" She then (sarcastically) pointed to me and said, "Right, and that's her brother, Aerosmith."
Why did Greg think it was no big deal to take Steven to his fucking grandparents house
Well, what IS your sister's name?
He probably thought that Steven would have just asked about his grandparents if he had wanted to know about it.
It never occurred to Greg that Steven would just not think about the fact that Greg had parents and wonder what happened to them.
Megadeth
It's pretty uncommon and she uses it on social media. I don't want to inadvertently dox her.
To be fair, it's a perfectly logical assumption because Steven knows what a parent is and how lineage works. He's even aware that grandparents exist through Nanefua.
Nickelback
10 good boy points have been deposited in your account.
The Lord Weird Slough Feg
I don't know but Jemaine Clement is kino
If anyone has any sense they'll make "Game of the Thrones: the Two Towers" movie series when it finishes, to "right" the show's "wrongs" and then start terrible fanbase wars 15 years from now between various factions of millennial middle-aged weirdos arguing about which was better.
Don't you mean Game of Thrones: Brotherhood
Metallica
I wonder what ever happened to that baby who was named Dovahkiin by his parents
In the past kids would get names like Arthur and Alice which were normal enough that you wouldn't assume parents named their kid after a fictional character, in the modern era you have Sephiroth and Aerith. Suffice to say the modern era is worse.
>tfw zoomers never had a chance
I've seen this so many times and I still hope it's just a joke
>Greg and Rose are the boomer/xer "adult rebels" that never thought about the consequences of shitting everything up and steven is the zoomer/millennial angry that his idiot parents denied him a normal life out of purely narcissistic, shallow reasons
deep
Gwar obviously.
Game of Towers: the Two Darks and the Chamber of Skywalker
Well I can tell you in 10 years he'll probably beat up his dad
First time visit is a break-in at night? We can't keep defending Greg
"Of course not, you were named after Saint Stephen!"
"Did you know Janis Joplin's nickname was 'Pearl'?"
"I don't know what you're talking about, Bismuth."
But Metallica is an AWESOME name.
>cares more about insensitive names than a planetwide death bomb
My brother is named after a coworker that he meets in hospital the same day
My mom named my brother and I after Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Brendan Fraser respectively.
So glad Brendan is bouncing back.
BASED
Kind of wish the show really grappled more with the question of whether Steven COULD have a normal childhood.
>My brother and I were named for John Wayne characters
Based, the eldest better be named Big Jake
>Garnet
Stupid
>Pearl
Fine, many people have that name though it's grandma teir
>Amythest
Is on the razors edge in terms of normalcy, it's very hippy-ish. It can at least be shortened to Amy
>Lapis
Dumber than Amythest but better than garnet
>Rose
Probably the best name you could give your kid out of the gems so long as she's a girl
>Peridot
Stupid, Even shortening it to Peri won't help much
>Jasper
A more fitting name for your cat
>Diamond
Your kids gonna be a stripper, congratulations
>Bismuth
Not only did you name your kid after a shitty real life gemstone, you named them after the worst gem, congrats they'll kill themselves by 3rd grade.
>Not only did you name your kid after a shitty real life gemstone
Actually, it's not a gemstone, it's a metal, and the cool looking bismuths are actually artificially grown.
natural bismuth just looks like a chunk of rock with a little bit of a sparkle
Just like his original characterization way back in season 1, Steven refuses to ask follow up questions about anything important in his life.
Could be worst.
You and your siblings could have been named after cars.
Okay millennial.
If only Greg had raised Steven in a strict household where he had zero freedom, wasn't allowed to explore his interests like playing music, and not allowed to have friends that Greg didn't approve of.
He'd be much happier
How about fuck you. I'll defend Greg, especially for this. His parents were shit and introducing them to Steven would have only caused harm
There are girls named Roxanne even after the prince song
My parents named me after a character from some shitty fantasy novel but you don't see me bitching about it, and that's with a weird-ass pseudo-polish FIRST name everyone gets wrong on their first try. Steven's last name is motherfucking UNIVERSE and he's still whining his ass off.
I mean some gems names are not so bad, because there always being girls called Amethyst, Pearl or Ruby, so people might think their parents were into spiritual shit
Gunsen Roses Jr.
>not being named after nascar racer puns
>not living to the title of needing to go fast
>not boogety boogety boogety let's go racing