Steven universe question unanswered

Shaving your kid's head, them hiding their interests from you and never opening their letters don't sound very loving

>Let me get this straight you've fucked alien rocks, live in a van, have a mutant son and oh you're insanely wealthy? I love you son

>were greg's parents really that bad?
Will never really know. Going off what Greg said they were very controlling during the 20 years he lived with them. They never opened his letters, and if what he said about them never changing their routine is true that means they visited Beach City at least once every year and never bothered trying to get in contact with Greg.
And before anyone asks how I know they visit Beach City, they have a Beach City spoon underneath the picture in OP's pic and Andy mentioned that their family used to gather at the farm every year before it fell apart.

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if they hated their son, why keep the letters at all?
if they actually liked their son, why not read the letters?

this makes no sense.

It’s pretty common estranged relative behavior. They can’t just completely cut him out of their lives- he’s their son, they spent twenty years with him. But they can neatly pack away his letters just like how they boxed up all his old stuff- effectively compartmentalizing all of their feelings and memories and then ignoring them and any unpleasantness attached to them. It’d be harder to actually throw it all away and to take that step forward than it is to just remain in the same place. And if Greg’s right about them eating meatloaf every single Thursday for two whole decades and more, then they are probably very good at staying in the same place.

They’re probably waiting for a day when Greg will just pull into their driveway and apologize, and then they can go back to normal and force him to get whatever kind of job they always wanted him to have and live the life they planned for him and pretend nothing unseemly even happened.

>David Bowie inspired him to bail on his control freak parents
>not Dio

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Thinking about those unopened letters is kinda getting me down. Unless Greg also tried to contact them through some other means, then his parents don’t know he spent several months if not years eating out of trash cans rather than coming home to eat their shitty meatloaf. They don’t know they have a grandson, much less anything about him. They don’t know Greg eventually became fabulously wealthy. They don’t know whether or not he’s healthy, and they don’t know about all the times he nearly died or became stranded on an alien planet. In between receiving each new letter, they probably aren’t even sure if Greg is still alive. And they apparently don’t care.

About as bad as pink's.
That was the point.

I want fuck greg's mom so bad

>were greg's parents really that bad?
Yes. If you believe otherwise you're probably a retard

This right here is all the evidence you need. Only fuck ups put these things up in their homes

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Greg's face in that portrait is all the evidence you need

>Hey, why won't you just give me the fish!
>I don't wanna learn to fish! It's hard!
>Fucking lazy hack

You guys had a really shitty families if you’re this autistic about it

We were never told about the individual texture of every hair follicle on the pink lion's ballsack. Boy I really hope someone got fired for this omission, it's just lazy writing.

Of course they weren't as bad as what Steve has been going through, but they were still pretty shitty. They saw Greg as an extension of themselves, forcing him to like what they liked. The man didn't have a taco until he was an adult ffs.

And the fact that they didn't even bother to open Greg's letters shows that they didn't give a fuck about him.

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>They never opened his letters
What kind of person doesn't want to see their own grandson?

Assholes, that's who.

They never opened the letters so they never knew they had a grandson

Maybe they were wondering who this Greg Universe fuck was and why was his mail getting delivered to their house instead of mail from their son Gregory Demayo.

Steven would hang that kind of thing up in his home, especially if his gramma gave him one.

Oh shit. I dunno if you were joking, but I’m starting to consider that a real possibility. It’s just stupid enough to be the kind of thing that would happen in the show.

That doesn’t explain why they neatly stored so many of the unopened letters in a drawer, though, or why they refused to read any of them despite saving them.

I mean, I know I have a lot of old unopened junk mail laying around, but that’s because I’m a slob and a hoarder. Mr and Mrs DeMayo seem a lot tidier than that.

The key piece of evidence as far as I'm concerned is that Greg has refused to be unkind to literally anyone. Even his scummy old manager who slighted him on very personal levels. But when talking about his parents, there was a genuine fear and an outright declaration they were bad people. Greg speaking in an openly negative manner about someone isn't in his nature, and he's also the kind of person to heavily gloss over bad things that happened and he'd rather not think about.

So while we'll sadly never have proof one way or another, it seems more than likely his parents were probably FAR worse people than Greg actually related to Steven, and he was behaving as he always does, trying to downplay the truly awful things they did because he doesn't want to remember them, thus agitating Steven further because he's not reading between the lines and assumes they were just a little bit strict and not outright abusive.

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Opening someone else's mail is a crime.

You know about return to sender right?
They didn't even give him the satisfaction of knowing they recognized the letters exist.

That would only prove my point

What? Letters are addressed to the demayos, the "from" section has Greg universe in it.

The Andy episode confirms a few things:

A) The family scattered to the four corners of the Earth, or at least far enough that you need a plane to visit.

B) Most have a genial relationship, except for Andy who is bitter they all left.

C) Even Andy doesn't want to hang out with Greg's parents who are still living exactly where they always were.

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It's literally addressed to them

Sounds like Greg's parents were so incredibly shitty that even their own siblings left the country to get away from them

Yes, they probably were ‘that bad’, and that’s bad according to what Greg considers unbearable parenting. Not what you or anyone else considers shit parenting.

Greg: Wow, I heard music and loved it!
Greg's parents: We're banning music so hard you'll need to hide any you own.

Yes, user, they really were pieces of shit. The sort that cared more about having getting a carved wooden "Love Lives Here" hanging on the wall than they cared about actually showing love.

>They don’t know they have a grandson, much less anything about him. They don’t know Greg eventually became fabulously wealthy
Andy probably told them since he’s probably the only one that has tried keeping in contact with everyone.

>comparing show writing to learning how to fucking fish
Learning to fish won't catch you a brain, buddy.

>lived with the for 20 years
>20 years
Most parents would have kicked him out before he was 18

He was taking college courses and his parents kept him in a bunch of academic shit. He mentioned in that flashback episode that he’s a college dropout, so we know he did it by choice and not because of bad grades.

its obvious Greg is exaggerating or over stating it, although the fact that they have no contact with Steven or Greg likely says something, because I don't think Greg would deny them meeting him but from what Greg said it sounded like his parents cut him off after he stopped conforming to what they wanted.

but the real point was that all parents suck, or all kids feel like their parents suck, too strict, too much freedom, there is no easy way to balance such things and personally I think literally all parents are doomed to fail at raising their kids well, even if most kids are too nice to ever let their parents know how shit they were at it.

Read the thread

>its obvious Greg is exaggerating or over stating it
Nah, if anything he was probably understating it

This user never caught a fish by himselr

Hey
Is the father of Steven Universe
Maybe in other timeline Dio is the inspiration for Chad Universe

Then they don't deserve Steven.

I totally agree with Greg on keeping them away.

How much do you want to fuck Steven's grandma?

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Their son became a wealthy hermit. They did alright

A wealthy hermit who can say he fucked an alien and his progeny overthrew a galactic empire

Its only lazy writing and a poor excuse, if it leaves a major or foundational plot thread up to you to decide. Greg's parents are neither. You got all the information that you really need, specifics are not necessary. I know you wanted them, but a lot of people want a lot of things. One guy here is pretty pissed about Peedee getting no screen time, other people want to know the specifics of Pearl's mystery girl, there's a thread right now about how we didn't see Lars and Ronaldo do anything to further reconcile. Would you have found an ending where they touched on every person and connection satisfying and well-written? No, you'd have felt that ending to be akin to a checklist, offering no creativity at all. Which would be real lazy writing.

You were given clues to their nature. They were probably not psychopaths, and they probably were strict because they wanted what they believed to be the best for their son. That might not be true, they may have been control freaks who didn't actually care. I'm sorry you won't find out, but you can draw your own conclusions. That's not the worst result for you, imagine how the people who hyped up White Diamond feel after everything.

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greg reach out and they refused to reconnect with him. remember the unopened letters?

they suck

>Greg is a manchildren who never grow up
>Steven is going for the same route

DeMayos are fucks.

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redpilled fucks

Why would they even keep pictures of Greg if they hated him that much?

Why would they receive his letters but not open them

I also love jj abrams and the mystery box

so these are "first world problems" huh

no one that works on this show has ever dealt with any other kind of problem

It's not a corruption

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