So yeah....Connie and Steven
It’s been a while seen something related of Steven Universe pops up, this time in NYCC, we have a sneak peak of “Dewey Wins” were they show the reaction of the kids about Steven’s return to earth. Here the fandom exploded, siding with Steven or Connie (or simply don’t care about, I dunno :v) As for me, I’m in favor and against of both of them. I talked about this with my friend @anawinkaro and we both have good points, and our conversation convince me to post my thoughts Just to be clear: This are my opinions, mine, if you have another point of view of this or opinion. it’s fine, this is only what I think. (Be prepared, it’s going to be a long one)
First, let’s start with Connie, we can see she’s mad at Steven because he gave up and they were going to resolve all the together, together as a team, and you know what, she has the right to feel about that. Connie was feeling mad, worried, and more, seeing her best friend/love interest to go away, without a fight and even asking for her help (as he promised), then returning and acting like if nothing happened. Here we can see that Steven didn’t get that she’s hurt from the inside, because Connie felt that he “didn’t trust her enough to do everything together”, also seeing how on sword to the sword, with the “who’s going to protect you dilemma” how they switch places, and Steven acting like Connie before, and being him the one that make her see that, it’s kinda contradicting of Steven’s believes. But here’s the catch for me, as we know Connie’s personality can be more mature than Steven’s, but this was it wasn’t that mature. It’s true she can be all mad with Steven about all what he did and acting, but she closed herself with that anger, without seeing Steven’s point of view/or feeling aftermath. And it’s not her fault, after all, she’s only a kid, and many kids can behave like that. And also, let’s be real, if it was Connie’s move instead of Steven in surrender or keep going, what would she choice, the one that she keep fighting, with a probability of harming Steven’s, the gems and the others’ life, or surrender but everyone is safe?
Now Steven, to be honest, at first, I was pissed at him, but then I begun thinking, and I concluded this. First the choice, we must remember he made it when Aquamarine and Topaz caught his friends, it was a moment of pressure, were one false step and it’s bye bye. So, without thinking and we can say it was acting by instincts (just like a human), he decided to surrender just to save his friends. We can’t be sure it was the best choice, but remember, many of us can’t think that well when we are under pressure and something like that, he didn’t have the time to process everything and think a way out, and also, just like Connie, he is a kid, so the pressure will be higher (heck, i get under pressure just to choose an ice cream flavor). Now with his attitude when he came back, yes it’s true that is kinda immature, but for me it was something else. Remember, after he surrender, he faced 2 giant tyrants that wanted to execute him, he had little hope of returning home, he felt a big guilt of not saving his friend, seeing that friend die with your own eyes, and then leaving that friend behind. So for me, acting like he doesn’t care, could be a mechanism of defense, in other words, he could be acting like that so that his do not worry or feel bad, seeing that he is fine, others could be fine (were in fact he is not), or he could be in denial with his emotions, don’t want to feel just like he felt on Homeworld. But also here’s his problem, because he wants to see that everything is ok, he can’t accept/see that everyone is not ok, especially Connie were she told him that, but he didn’t catch it. But then again, he is a kid, so throwing him that amount of pressure is a lot of someone of his age, and his conduct is not intentional,maybe he wanted to believe that everything is fine, but it felt that he didn’t care at all.
So in the end, I believed that both of them were right to feel like that, but they were kinda mind closed of their believes and not seeing of the other And you know what, I don’t blame them just like my friend Ana said: “They’re humans and humans made mistakes” No one’s perfect on his decisions and feelings, and both begin of a young age, it can be more complicated to understand that So that’s my opinion. But we don’t know what could happen, after all, this was like the first 2 minutes of a Dewey episode (everything can happen), and Steven just return, they need to process what happened, and when they cool off, they could try to talk again. (Thanks for reading by the way)
Coming back from this i can safely say, nah im with steven on this one
Sorry connie
