Random Character Question Time! -- Your relationship with Greg was... 'rocky' to start off with, and now you're cordial with him at the very least (enough to help fix his van, at least) was there any one event that helped you to get over your mutual disdain for each other? What was the hardest part about raising Steven into the young man he is today? Is there any particular reason you and the gems chose the site you did on which to build the Temple?
◎ - “Well you see I -uh...didn’t ...really understand how Rose felt about him. She’d always been fascinated by humans, more so than every other living thing she’s cherished in her lifetime. I thought he was just a phase, another human being she fascinated for their...uh, human-ness. But despite everything I thought, including the time she had spent with before....I guess thousands of years together doesn’t make a difference with love...but after they danced together that night...I knew she had chosen her favorite. Though to be honest, I think I’ll always have disliked him more than he disliked me...
“W-was?! As if I’m still not raising him?! The boy isn’t even a thousand years old-! He’s still just a baby! We still don’t know everything there is about a human gem! I still don’t know fully well how to prevent him from aging like he did before- and what’s going to happen when he gets seriously hurt? We still don’t know if he’ll be able to turn back into his gem form!” She’s pretty much forgotten the original question at this point- putting herself in a sea of worry before she was again distracted by the next question.
“Oh, because it’s a monument of great importance historically and- well, it’s easy to access all the teleportation pads from there...it was a simple decision, really!”