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SU theory- Steven’s fusion survival tactic in Change Your Mind

Okay, so I have some thoughts about the scene where White pries Steven’s gem out in Change Your Mind. Specifically, about how cleanly that gem came out of a kid who’s body has literally grown around it for the past 14 years- it should be a completely integrated part of his system, right? Like another organ.

But after it comes out, there’s not a mark to be found on Steven’s human half. 

Now, logically the real reason this is so is because, well. Steven Universe is a cartoon intended for a wide range of viewers, especially kids. It’s fantasy, and the Gems are magical, and they’re not gonna show blood. 

But on an in-universe scale, I still think it’s fun to come up with theories as to why it might have happened this way.

So! Theory time!

My thoughts begin with the postulation that Steven’s gem is not the only Gem-like feature to his anatomy. He’s not just a completely human kid who happens to have a gem- instead, that gem is actually the core focal point (like a heart or brain) of a few non-human “organ systems” completely 100% integrated into his body. These systems are what allow him to fuse, shapeshift parts of his body, etc. etc, like a full Gem can.

As supporting evidence, I point to the gem destabilizers in Jailbreak. Specifically, their effect.

As in this:

This seems to be a sort of specialized Gem circulatory system that runs through their hard light forms and holds them together. It’s disrupted by the destabilizers, which is what makes Gems fall apart.

As a half-Gem, Steven also has this.

The same lines of hard light, running throughout his body exactly like nerves would, or blood vessels. (He doesn’t fall apart because he’s not merely hard light- destabilizers have no effect on solid flesh and blood!)

“But Jen,” you say. What does this tell us? What does it mean?

It means that if White Diamond were to rip his gem out as is, that Steven should be suffering major internal damage. Remember, to Gems, this is like a combo heart/brain. His skin and other organs literally grew around it, this Gem circulatory system is dependent on it, there’d probably be a ton of blood- Steven should NOT have survived this.

Repeat, Steven should NOT have survived having his gem pried out.

So how did he?

My theory is that- subconsciously, as a preemptive protective measure- Steven literally unfused, unraveled, Gem half from human half. 

This means that White Diamond did not on her OWN power excise his Gem. Instead, he “gave up” his gem momentarily to avoid what COULD’VE happened should she have actually succeeded. It’s like a jerk-moment survival instinct, the sort that’s hard wired into your DNA, the sort your body automatically initiates in times of danger.

At the very second this happened suddenly you have 100% human Steven, with not a single Gem “organ system” in sight, and then you have his Gem- completely separate from him at the moment. (And in White’s tight grasp.) Thus why there’s no blood. 

All this said, I do not think this is ever something he could ever consciously initiate. That’s because it’s not quite a TRUE example of fusion- it’s something a bit more unique. Where fusions like Stevonnie or Garnet are made up of two entirely autonomous halves, Gem Steven and Human Steven clearly cannot exist without the other. Both are extremely incapacitated by the loss of their other half. 

Human Steven is physically incapacitated, barely able to move or speak due to the sheer shock and trauma of being torn in two, of missing an entire side to his physiology that he’d lived with and grown used to his entire life.

Gem Steven is emotionally incapacitated, separated from his soul, his feelings. All the personality stuff that makes Steven who he is as an individual- his empathy, love, wit- is now gone, leaving behind an empty hard light shell running on nothing but detached memory and raw strength.

I’d probably describe it as a biological permafusion- not a permafusion of choice like Garnet, but one that’s existed that way since birth. A fusion that must not and cannot be split apart, not unless his survival is on the line.

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They didn't communicate much, but they have something in common

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There once was a doctor named Freud

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Conversation that Tumblr is not ready for:

A Vampire's fangs are also it's reproductive organs

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elf yuri except one of them is high fantasy and the other is one of santa's

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people who don't follow chess I promise this post is really funny

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“IT’S A SWORD, IT’S NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.” My favourite scene from The Hogfather. ___ See how this comic was made here.

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SOME SKETCHES

Tezzu finally showed me danny phantom

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Powerpuff Girls was actually a show about a group of small children crushing the patriarchy and no one will convince me otherwise

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i really want people to stop writing scientists as awkward, stilted conversationalists who don't understand idioms or emotions and start writing them as depressed alcoholics who swear like sailors unless they're in a specifically academic situation

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Day 19 of Old Art

Mornin'

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blight dump

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Day 30-31 of Old Art

I'm finishing with repostober today, but as it's tecnically two pictures, you can say I've fulfilled the promise

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Babygirl

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guys. you are not joking about that one ship that you “jokingly ship” you did not write a 500k word fanfic and consume every bit of material you could possibly get of them then purchase memorabilia of them just for shits and giggles. wake up.