taking what acid pear told me as an order and attempting to put some of my thoughts on steven into words. which will all be under a cut. please excuse spelling mistakes or words that look like they shouldn't be there i use swipe typing and my phone hates me
hes so. hes so. fucked. hes absolutely BORKED. there are so many things wrong with him dont know where to start. first though, because im ill, im going to talk about him at least implying in canon that he ran multiple freddys locations. which i think is really interesting.
during his nighttime minigame in dsaf 1, when you find the body stuffed into the springlock suit, he says something along the lines of "I won't let them find it _again_." . he has done this before, he's been in this position before, and just like last time, there was a kid stuffed into a suit.
the main reason i love this so much is because after dsaf 1, he's scrapped. it doesn't matter what you do, he's scrapped. i never cared for dsaf 2, so i'm not sure if in the endings other than perfect peter gets scrapped or not, but the implication from dsaf 1 (and, for that matter, 3 bad route) is that when a phone guys location is closed or they're retired, they're scrapped.
this is not true for steven. at least, in one case, or maybe more-- whatever you think, ultimately it's uncertain. personally i like the headcanon he ran the majority of locations, because i feel like if he really was just some one-off boss it would be weird as hell logically for him to be in the flipside alongside, you know, the kennedys and dave.
the thing with him, someone whos either a side character or an antagonist depending how you look at it, being with the main group is a whole other thing of its own which i'll only get into if asked .
(speaking of, if anyone has any steven things they would like me to talk about, i will)
