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calypsolemon · 10 months ago

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Feeling some kind of way about how Steven sings a beautiful, empathetic song about how his mother's upbringing and his own are similar, about how both their guardians loved them but simply don't see them as capable and believing thats the core of the issue, right before experiencing torturous punishments (which his own guardians would have never done to him), alongside some of the most extreme physical and psychological abuse he experiences throughout the series, all done to him under the pretense that the perpetrator believed he was his mother.

#the way everyone is telling him he's just like his mother #as they repeatedly prove that actually her upbringing and experiences were VASTLY different #but also the way that I dont think he can ever truly understand her because his experience was so different #even though he's trying so desperately in some ways to BE her or embody her and reach out and understand her #not to imply he's innocent at this point in the series but he does approach the situation with a level of naivete about abusive families #which pretty much carries through into future despite him having this experience #because despite this being incredibly traumatizing to him. its different than LIVING under this for thousands of years #its different than essentially growing up under it #btw this is also not to say ''steven had it better'' I just believe steven did not have an abusive upbringing #the nature of his childhood trauma is really different and it gives him mental blocks in relating to that sort of oppressive control

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