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Steven Universe facts you might not know

For all the folks out there who don’t read/don’t have access to the Steven Universe content outside the animated show, I’ve compiled some notable bits of story that you may not know from the comics and books! The creators have suggested that the comics and whatnot are “Level 2 Canon,” meaning you can consider them canon unless they contradict the show. So we have reason to believe these bits are applicable to our understanding of this world!

[Up to date with content up to July 19, 2016.]

FROM THE BOOK TIE-INS

Jasper, Amethyst, and Steven are all identified as Quartz Gems in The Guide to the Crystal Gems. Pearl is listed as a Pearl, Peridot is listed as a Peridot, and Garnet’s type isn’t indicated as anything but “Fusion.” We still don’t know if Ruby and/or Sapphire are considered to belong to any overall “type” of Gem class. (In real life, rubies and sapphires are both corundum, but given Ruby is a common soldier and Sapphire is a rare aristocrat, I doubt Homeworld designations for them would put them in one group together.)

Colors are sometimes inconsistent on the television show because the lighting is so dynamic, so the specifics being laid down in the Guide to the Crystal Gems is nice. Pearl’s hair is pink (not orange or peach). Steven’s shirt is pink, not red. Amethyst’s hair is pale lavender, not white.

All of Rose Quartz became half of Steven, according to the Guide to the Crystal Gems. She “wanted to experience birth,” and when she gave up her physical form, she integrated all her “information” with the DNA of Greg Universe to produce a real human child that was as much from her as he is from Greg.

Amethyst “experiments with male forms,” as per the Guide to the Crystal Gems’ “fun fact” about her.

The Guide to the Crystal Gems identifies Lapis Lazuli’s weapon as “water,” Peridot’s weapon as “Modern Gem technology,” and Jasper’s as “Helmet and Gem Destabilizer.” Alexandrite’s is, simply, “all of them.”

The Fusion section of the Guide to the Crystal Gems (narrated by Garnet) includes the interesting factoid that Fusions manifest partly as an expression of the fusers’ effect on one another. What they are, but also what they inspire each other to be. Cool!

Opal represents a peace that Amethyst and Pearl don’t often feel on their own. It causes her to be a little forgetful. [Guide to the Crystal Gems]

Rose Quartz’s manifesto, as stated in the Guide to the Crystal Gems, is as follows: “Fight for life on the planet Earth, Defend all human beings, even the ones that you don’t understand, Believe in love that is out of anyone’s control, And then risk everything for it!”

According to Live From Beach City!, the Steven Universe music book, Steven can’t whistle. He says so during a whistling lesson comic that accompanies the song “On the Run” in the book.

The book What In the Universe? has been criticized a LOT in reviews because it claims to be a trivia book with 300 facts but mostly just tells us stuff we already know from the show, with really no new information. But some of the phrasing gives maybe new info, such as the following:

The book outright states that Gems “don’t really feel” the heat or the cold. We already knew they aren’t generally damaged by extremes, but suggesting they don’t really feel it is new.

A page about Garnet’s future vision suggests she tends not to talk about it to other people “because it weirds them out.”

Rose’s Secret Armory is pictured on one page, and though no one in the show has called it this, the caption referred to it as “a trophy cave.” It was never suggested anywhere that the weapons and armor stored in this cave were “trophies,” so that might be a new perspective for us.

A page about Rose Quartz’s sword says Steven is “not quite ready to make it his.”

The book Postcard Power, which on the surface looks like just a collection of art you can mail, has a bunch of intriguing captions, some of which reveal specifics about history. According to some of the cards, Beach City was founded in the early 19th century, the “Garnet punches a shark” photo was taken circa 1800, and the “Comet” performance by Greg Universe was considered his “final performance.”

Also in Postcard Power, a couple more Crying Breakfast Friends are explicitly named. We already knew Sniffling Croissant and Spilled Milk because they were mentioned in “Reformed,” but one postcard gives names to Blue Apple, Sad Waffle, and Remorseful Pear.

The show Li’l Butler had “over 168 episodes, including several two-part specials.” [Postcard Power]

The duck on the billboard we see in “On the Run” (captioned “Sea Ya Later!”) is apparently the “official Beach City Duck.” [Postcard Power]

A map of Beach City released in Best Buds Together Fun (though distributed in high resolution on the Internet long before) reveals some interesting features of Beach City. It has references to old docks that were destroyed, which roads go into Beach City (SR 13, I-95, toward 1A), and plenty of locations both familiar and unmentioned in the show. The peninsula Beach City is on in Delmarva is bordered by Rehoboth Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

Steven’s “favorite food” is identified as fry bits in Best Buds Together Fun.

Garnet has unexpectedly elegant handwriting. The Gems’ signatures are displayed on a certificate at the end of Best Buds Together Fun, and while Pearl’s loopy cursive and Amethyst’s blocky capital printing were predictable, Garnet’s slightly tighter, fancy cursive is an interesting touch.

And in the Mad Libs activity book, there are at least a dozen inconsistencies that explicitly contradict show canon, so I doubt we can extract anything we can trust as new information, but one page says Garnet loves to surf. Well, that makes sense, since we did already know she was a Really. Good. Swimmer.

FROM THE COMICS

In the short “Vacation” [Steven Universe comic #1], a Gem that Pearl bubbles refuses to go back to the temple when she tries to make it do so. So apparently that can happen.

In the short “Birthday Bake-Off” [Steven Universe comic #1], the Gems are embarrassed to find that they forgot to get a cake for Steven’s birthday, and attempt to bake him one. Amethyst fails because she figures lumping a bunch of candy and sweets together and sticking it in the oven will make something edible, and she is quite wrong. Pearl goes the other direction by trying to scientifically construct a cake that includes the right nutrition, but she doesn’t understand that humans can’t obtain iron from, say, bolts cooked into a cake. Garnet’s cake is the winner, as it is edible and perfect-looking and … made entirely of frosting. (Which Steven likes.)

For the record, as we see Steven’s fourteenth birthday in the episode “Steven’s Birthday,” we assume he’s been thirteen in episodes 1 through 73 (or may have been twelve for some of the first few episodes). But some people mistake “So Many Birthdays” as a birthday episode for him for some reason, even though it’s about a birthday party substitute he throws for the Gems. And dialogue in “Nightmare Hospital” suggests Steven and Connie have been hanging out for about a year since “An Indirect Kiss,” so he probably had an unmentioned birthday somewhere in there. Maybe the comic birthday in “Birthday Bake-Off” is his thirteenth!

In the “Bike Race” short [Steven Universe comic #2], the Gems are worried about Steven being in a bike race because he might get hurt. Pearl admits determination might be important for his training, and Amethyst says if he gets hurt it’ll be no big deal because he’ll just reform. Garnet adds that they don’t know if he can come back like they can if he dies. It’s interesting that according to the comic they don’t know if he’ll stay dead.

In the “Taxi” short [Steven Universe comic #4], Steven is hiring Lion out to do transportation errands for Beach City residents. Onion enlists their services to take him to a flowery meadow, where Onion turns a turtle right-side-up after it was stuck on its back. That was it. (???)

Also in the “Taxi” short, Jenny hires Lion to take her to the movies, and Lars is with her. Ooh. And Ronaldo is flipping out about kale and manganese, while Mr. Smiley says he’s missing a coffee date. (With who?)

In “Taxi,” Halloween is explicitly mentioned, as the Gems are watching a cooking show with a Halloween recipe on it and they comment on it. No official holidays have been shown to exist in the alternate world of the Steven Universe TV show, except for New Year’s, and a creator has said these holidays don’t exist.

In the “Doppelganger” short [Steven Universe comic #4], Ronaldo is convinced that Garnet is secretly a model because he sees a model that looks like her in an ad. Funny how her ACTUAL identity as an extraterrestrial superhero is less intriguing to him than the possibility that she might be a secret model. Steven claims to not be able to see the resemblance.

In “Library, Part One” [Steven Universe comic #5], Steven says Beach City doesn’t have a public library because a “slug thing” happened and now they don’t.

In “Library, Part One,” Pearl gets sick because she absorbs a corrupted Gem that’s embedded in a book into her Gem. She actually sneezes and coughs up objects and becomes ill (and is of course disgusted by this). To cure her, Steven and Garnet have to go inside her Gem and get the book out. The inside of Pearl’s Gem realm is full of slightly askew columns, rose bushes, and doors.

In “Library, Part Two” [Steven Universe comic #6], Amethyst describes Pearl’s Gem space as “kinda like a wallet but more infinite.” Steven also describes the inside of her Gem space as beautiful. Also, when Garnet and Steven are inside, Pearl can hear Garnet yelling and asks her not to be so loud.

In the “Steven-less!” short [Steven Universe comic #5], Amethyst’s mission adventures have left her stuck shape-shifted as a cat. Nothing we’ve seen so far in the show suggests Amethyst could get trapped in any shape-shifted form, but perhaps it’s possible!

In the “King Hotdog” short [Steven Universe comic #6] (also called “Hot Dog King” in a different set of credits), Amethyst wins a hot dog–eating contest, and Mayor Dewey crowns her King Hotdog for eating 226 dogs.

In the “Storytime” short [Steven Universe comic #7], Connie and Pearl spend some time together bonding over literature. Pearl is impressed that humans can tell stories along the lines in Connie’s book, but when she starts identifying with the protagonist and the story doesn’t go how she wants it to, she screams that Connie is telling lies. It’s interesting because this appears to take place before they started sword-fighting together, and highlights a similarity between the two of them: they both get fixated on their own interpretations of literature, like Connie did in “Open Book.”

In the short “Mean Look” [Steven Universe comic #7], a Gem monster they’re fighting can shoot teleportation beams. So Lion isn’t the only creature that has the mysterious ability to travel without Warp Pads.

In the short “Mean Look,” Onion is featured eating popcorn. Many viewers of the TV show believe Onion doesn’t eat at all, but they’ve forgotten the one time he was depicted eating in the show was his first appearance: “Bubble Buddies.” In that episode … he was eating popcorn. So clearly popcorn is a thing for Onion. (In this comic, Onion becomes furious when a monster knocks his popcorn out of his hand. Considering how often he himself has ruined others’ food, this is peculiar. Don’t mess with the popcorn!)

In the short “Opal’s Day Off” [Steven Universe comic #8], Steven convinces Opal to stay fused by claiming there are important missions at Funland. Very similar to the quarrel that broke up Alexandrite in “Fusion Cuisine,” Opal eventually unfuses because she is conflicted over whether she should eat the hot dog Steven offers her. (Obviously, when Amethyst and Pearl are back, Amethyst eats hot dogs.)

In the short “Universe and the Moon” [Greg Universe Special #1], there is some heartwarming bonding between Greg and Garnet. He suggests the Gems are wise and experienced and she must know everything, and she disagrees, pointing out that she does not understand humans. When Greg replies that *humans* don’t understand humans, she concludes that maybe she does know everything then. It’s interesting seeing Greg express a sort of longing and envy about everything the Gems have seen in their long lives.

In the “Now In 3D” short [Greg Universe Special #1], Steven goes to see the 3D Cookie Cat movie with his dad and the Gems. As per usual, Amethyst’s mischief wrecks things and Pearl goes full MST3K on the movie’s plot. The conflict surrounding Garnet is that she’s blocking everyone’s view behind her because she’s so big. (She also has 3D glasses that accommodate her third eye! Where’d she get those??) Garnet folds herself up in the seat to try to be smaller, which is odd since she could theoretically shape-shift to be less in the way, but in the show she does this too–preferring to scrunch into and squeeze through spaces that are tight for her instead of shape-shifting to make it easier. Also, Lars complains about “Garnet’s giant head,” which is a little surprising because except for Vidalia, Connie, and Greg, humans generally don’t even seem to know the Gems’ names and rarely acknowledge that they exist. I guess Lars and Sadie know who Garnet is!

In a short addition to Volume 1 of the trade paper collection for the Steven Universe first-run comics, Rebecca Sugar offers a scene of Steven’s comic books getting destroyed because the Gems were fighting a shape-shifting monster that took the form of Steven’s comics. They decide to make it up to him by drawing him a new comic. The comic-making roles were as follows: Pearl wrote the comic, Amethyst drew it, and Garnet colored it!

We know Steven lives in Beach City, but place names and geography are a bit murky in the show. We see Steven, Greg, and Garnet going to Keystone during “Keystone Motel,” and Keystone is described as “the next state over,” but the name of Steven’s state is not explicitly spoken in the show as such (in “Same Old World” Steven only refers to being familiar with “the Tri-State Area”). The state name is, however, mentioned in a few other places, like Ronaldo’s blog, some book tie-ins, and the comics. Steven’s home city of Beach City is in the state of Delmarva. It shows up as a postal abbreviation on a flyer in the “Open Mic” short from Steven Universe comic #3 (it’s postal abbreviation DV), and it’s also on a license plate in the story “Traffic Cones” from the Steven Universe Volume 2 graphic novel (it’s one of the extra stories in the compilation), and in that same story Steven also mentions Echo City. The word “Delmarva” and abbreviation “DV” is also seen in newspapers outside the Big Donut and on the window of the Big Donut itself. It is also explicitly referenced in Postcard Power and Best Buds Together Fun in addresses and on maps. On Ronaldo’s blog, the city Charm City is also mentioned. And Empire City was mentioned in “Story for Steven” and flown over in “Same Old World” in the show. Other city names with beach themes are rattled off in “Same Old World,” including Surf City, Sea City, Aqua Town, and Bayburg. (With Ocean Town being mysteriously destroyed, mentioned in “Political Power.”) By the same token, we also know of Kansas, where films are made, because of Jamie’s mention of it in “Love Letters.” The United States is still the United States if we can believe what’s printed on their money. And Japan probably exists (but is maybe called something else?) since Connie says a Japanese word in “Winter Forecast,” and Germany exists under the same name because in “Drop Beat Dad” Sour Cream suggested “80% of Germans” make a living DJing. A place called “Dhawar” probably exists as well as that name was on an airplane in “Steven Floats” and Dhawar is a real place in India.

Garnet has never eaten anything in the show, even though Greg claims in “Keystone Motel” that “Garnet likes to eat sometimes.” (She is implied to have sipped a soda during “Secret Team,” but we see her actively avoiding food that’s in her possession during “Beach Party” and “Back to the Barn.”) In the comics, though, Garnet has eaten food twice. The first time, it was ice cream (in “Doppelganger,” Steven Universe comic #4). The second time, it was marshmallows (in Steven Universe and the Crystal Gems #1).

Steven doesn’t go to school in the show, but in Too Cool for School, Steven and Pearl make references to him being homeschooled. He does very well on his exams in the school arc and partially credits his education with the Gems, which suggests he is getting one off-screen. [Too Cool for School, Original Graphic Novel #1]

Connie finally gets some friends who aren’t Steven in Too Cool for School. She gets inducted into the Junior Safety Patrol with some unnamed children who like her. [Too Cool for School, Original Graphic Novel #1]

Garnet and Pearl used to scare Amethyst with a story about a Glass Ghost to make her stop wandering off. It took her centuries to get over it. (They believed it was just a story, but they got the story from Rose.) [Steven Universe and the Crystal Gems #1 and 2]

Onion might sleep with his eyes open. This is unclear, because it is in a fictional representation of a story Steven is telling, illustrated with characters from the show (Garnet as the babysitter sporting her “Chille Tid” design, Amethyst with her baby form from “So Many Birthdays,” and Onion as … Onion). But at one point Steven narrates that the children are sleeping, over an image of Baby Amethyst snoring away and Onion staring creepily at the ceiling. [Steven Universe and the Crystal Gems #1]

Garnet declares that she enjoys her sleeping bag because it’s “like a hug for your whole body.” It’s canon: Garnet likes hugs. [Steven Universe and the Crystal Gems #1]

While discussing scary stories in Steven Universe and the Crystal Gems #4, the characters bring up mummies, vampires, and Frankenstein’s monster as potential antagonists. Interesting that Frankenstein’s monster is specifically mentioned (by Pearl), since that indicates that the novel by Mary Shelley exists in the SU world.

I’ll try to add to this as new book tie-ins and comics come out, but I can’t update reblogs obviously, so if you want it in your resources for anything, make sure to favorite or link the original post, not a reblog!

Hope y’all enjoyed this!

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steven: jeopardizes the mission because of his naivete and his youth

amethyst: jeopardizes the mission because of her recklessness

pearl: jeopardizes the mission because of her insecurities

garnet: jeopardizes the mission because shes super GAY

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You could say Stevonnie is...

Drift Compatible.

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what she says: i'm fine

what she means: i was fine... with the men, who would come into her life now and again. i was fine because i knew they didnt really matter, until you. i was fine when you came and we fought like it was some silly game. over her, who'd she choose. after all those years i never thought i'd lose... it's over, isn't it? isn't it? isn't it over? It's over, isn't it? Isn't it? Isn't it over? You won, and she chose you, and she loved you, and she's gone. it's over, isn't it, why can't i move on? War and glory, reinvention. Fusion, freedom, her attention. Out in daylight, my potential, bold, precise, experimental. Who am I in this world without her!? Petty and dull with the nerve to doubt her! What does it matter, it's already done, now I've got to be there for her son. It's over, isn't it? Isn't it? Isn't it over? It's over, isn't it? Isn't it? Isn't it over? You WON and she CHOSE YOU, and she LOVED YOU and she's GOOOOONE. it's over, isn't it, why can't i move on? it's over, isn't it, why can't i move on?

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