#cg!steven meeks

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im sorry for my sudden sudden disappearance!!! Was busy with school- I was wondering though if you could make Cg!Meeks and Little!Dalton headcanons for dps please please please?! I will hug you so hardddd - 📔 anon

HI 📔ANON WELCOME BACK!!!

Also yes absolutely I'm always glad to get dps requests 💕💕💕 🫂

Cg!Meeks & Little!Dalton Headcannons

Starting off, these two's energies balance so well, big or little

Charlie tends to be a very rambunctious lil guy, not even knowing he's causing chaos a lot of the time

(though he does enjoy pranks and causing chaos sometimes)

Meeks is, while also a bit mischievous, a lot more reserved

Against everyone's expectations, the two end up becoming close very fast

A month after school started they were inseparable

Charlie really doesn't care if people know about his regression, but he didn't really know his new roommate (Neil) very well yet, and he prefers to be around people that he knows won't be mean while he's regressed

So he ended up going to Meeks' dorm and kind of explaining his problem

Meeks was a bit confused at first, he had never heard of regression before

But after he and Charlie talked about it a bit more, he accepted it fully

He even offered to let Charlie come into his dorm if he ever needed a safe place to regress

After a few instances of Meeks taking care of Charlie, he asked if he could become his Caregiver officially and Charlie was more than happy to accept

Misc. Headcannons :33

Meeks has a very gentle style of caregiving

He's very affectionate with Charlie, lots of hugs and hair ruffles

Charlie acts like he hates it, but he never seems to complain when he crawls into Meeks' lap for some cuddles

Meeks tends to let Charlie try to figure things out on his own, like a difficult puzzle or some little homework, but if he starts getting too frustrated he'll step in to help him out

Charlie doesn't do very well with homework (totally not projecting *cough cough*), so Meeks makes fun sheets or promises sticker rewards to help him study and understand the material

Meeks loves to read to Charlie

He has lots of interactive kids books so Charlie can always feel included in the storytelling

Getting Charlie to bed at night is usually the most difficult part of their schedule, second only to getting him up in the morning

Meeks always tries to give him a good end to his day, but Charlie is very much a "Bu' I'm not tired!" Kind of little and getting him to stay put in bed long enough to fall asleep is a chore by itself

It only got more difficult as the years went on and Charlie got stuck with a roommate who was much less accommodating than Neil was (Cameron)

But they found ways to work around it, mostly with stuffies and the good luck that Meeks shared a room with Pitts, who also regresses

It's not always pretty, Charlie has his fair share of meltdowns, but in the end Meeks is just glad Charlie trusts him enough to allow him to take care of him

I love these two so much, thank you so much for the request 📔 anon 🫂

[justmenoworries]

Steven canonically resents the diamonds a lot though, he always looked uncomfortable around them and as if he had to put up with them, he even put distance between them and at the end of the show was shown to have left beach city and the gems (who tbh also caused him a lot of trauma) and I actually really liked that, because of the way it resonates a lot with me.

This concept was also illustrated with Greg and Pink, they both had families and close people to them who hurt them a lot and the decision Pd and Greg chose to take was to simply leave their homes and never look back, and both character became much happier and healthier and were shown to have grown a lot thanks to following their own decisions.

At the end of future, (at least it’s what I believe) Steven didn’t seem to entirely have cut ties with his family, but he did left his hometown in order to find his purpose and he seemed to put distance between his family (the crystal gems) directly and indirectly paralleling Greg’s and Pink’s decision, what Was different in this situation was that he was able to let his dedication be known and his family accepted this, they were happy for him and respected him for his choice.

Like sometimes you have family and you love them and you know they love you, yet sometimes you also resent them because they also caused you harm, specially when you grow up in a toxic or abusive environment and sometimes the best thing to do in this sort of situations is to put distance and live your own life.

And Steven portrayed this not only with his main character, but also with Greg and Pink. (This is just only one of the many themes the show carries)

And all of this resonates a lot with me, the crystal gems are like a healthier version of my own family and the diamonds represent the worst aspects of them, and I just relates a lot with Steven and Pink struggles, the way they were seen as “meek” or “childish” and then the way they were affected by their trauma and how when they grow up they started to exhibit resentment and anger, this is very similar to my own experience.

And I just really loved how Pink and Steven being the youngest of the family (like me) were first portrayed as being the “innocent” and “pure” ones, yet this in itself was subverted and turned over it’s own head, because we saw how the treatment of others and their own situation and flaws affected them in a negative way, when Pink and Steven grew up suddenly their negative reactions and traits that they had picked over the years, something that seemed “cute” and “harmless” as younger, it suddenly became bigger and scary as they grew older.

And as someone who has lived in a very abusive household with family that are very similar to the CG and the diamonds, that was such a raw and personal portrayal to me.

I also really loved and appreciated Future for everything I mentioned above (I actually never understood why people disliked the last season so much, it was actually my favorite one of the show!)

Here’s the thing: I get that Steven Universe wanted to present the Diamond Authority as a broken family.

But when you throw war and genocide into the mix, the issue stops becoming just personal to the family member (in this case Pink and Steven).

If Sugar wanted to just write an abusive family, why not leave it at that, instead of also making them colonizers, murderers and tyrants?

No hate for viewers like you who empathized with and saw themselves in Pink Diamond and/or Steven. I just want you to understand why I think this was a really sloppy decision on Sugar’s part.

[autistic-girl-academic]

eh whatever here’s those su rewrite ideas i had last night

okay so first of all tweaking the main three cg’s personalities/giving them more equal focus, they could each have a big emotional problem that steven helps them get over.

give garnet more of a thing about inheriting a leadership role with rose gone and struggling with that, like an extension of the future vision worries where she thinks she has to be more aloof to be ‘strong’ but really can’t do that 24/7 and needs to have her vulnerable moments.

take the soft sad gay thing they’re trying to do with blue diamond and give that to pearl, cause rose died incredibly recently for potential immortal aliens like them. have her struggle with speaking up for herself and such because with the rebellion over she doesn’t know what her purpose in life is (the whole “i was designed to be a servant” deal would be handled better this way i think instead of how it was in like the sardonyx episode).

bring out how much more amethyst enjoys human life than the other two. between that and being a kindergarden reject, does she feel like a ‘real’ gem the way steven sometimes questions his humanity? have her be the main link to the minor human characters next to steven - more than just vidalia, she knows like everyone in beach city.

then fusion tweaks:

opal becomes a thing about how pearl (ingrained traditionalist, but meek/unintentionally passive-aggressive) and amethyst (free spirit, defiant, wants to break norms but also feels like an outcast for doing so) find a middle ground. i love opal but i think she fuses a bit too easily sometimes? idk

SUGILITE. change like this entire episode. maybe the homeworld tower thing that they fuse to break has like a defense mechanism or something and sugilite gets amnesia (bc the part about losing the old identities makes much less sense for garnet and amethyst as sug than, say, lapis and jasper as malachite); steven and pearl have to help her remember with all the reasons they loved garnet and amethyst. and maybe add a little thing about how both parties want to hide their insecurities in the fusion, like sardonyx but much less yikes.

SARDONYX oh boy. maybe make her episode more about overwork/perfectionism. instead of pearl tricking garnet into fusion by rebuilding the tower, there’s some kind of trick to it they can’t figure out, so they keep having to reform even as it tires them out, as much as gems can be tired. again like with sugilite, the crux of the issue is that both gems are hiding their fear of making mistakes under sardonyx’s confident facade. then maybe they don’t handle it well at the end of the episode, blaming each other, and their reformation after keystone motel (which i guess in this rewrite, ruby and sapphire splitting would be triggered by garnet reaching max self-doubt) isn’t “pearl says she’s worthless and garnet says she’s not” but “garnet and pearl admit their mistakes and reaffirm what they admire in each other”. i rly like focusing on the cg’s friendships okay.

and that was the meat of what popped into my head last night but here was some extra little stuff

remove the episode where pearl wants to go home because it really makes no sense in light of what we know about homeworld, or like change it so it’s about steven wanting to go into space instead, maybe he finds an old gem ship and kind of takes off accidentally (but also at a point where he’s wondering where he really belongs + frustrated that he doesn’t know a lot about homeworld) and has to find a way back/to communicate with the gems for help

change steven’s racist uncle into, like, agent mulder. he’s a low-ranking Men in Black expy guy and that’s why greg hasn’t seen him in a long time, plus y’know hiding the alien wife. steven and greg are worried about all those movies where aliens get dissected and stuff and think he’ll hurt them but uncle just really thinks aliens are cool and wants to meet them. and then the twist is that the men in black stand-ins have low-key known about the cgs for ages or something.

instead of banishing them to the barn, have lapis take breaks to go off on trips exploring nature to heal and reacquaint herself with her love of water. have peridot like apprentice with bismuth (who rly needs like an entire post to herself). also change peridot from being short since we have too many short cgs, make it so she just actually has missing limbs or smth and gets to choose a middle ground between “homeworld forced these enhancers on me bc they don’t tolerate how i really am” and “my enhancers are my comfort objects” by letting her build her own and decide when to use them

[thorin-baby-bear]

Hello, I'm here to bother you again! If you could and feel comfortable with, could you maybe right some Cg! Mr. Keating and Little!DPS boys headcanons please? I just feel like all of those boys need to be able to relax once and a while and Mr. Keating would be over the moon to help his boys out and be even more thrilled that they all feel comfortable enough to be vulnerable and small around him. Anyways that's all, have a great day!💜💜💜

EEEE Absolutely!!! Also yes, give those boys a break please

Cg!Mr. Keating and Little!DPS Headcanons :3

General:

Keating loves these boys like they were his own

As such he makes sure they all have a place to go that they know will be safe if they can't regress in their own room or if their cg is away

This place ultimately ends up being his office, in which he keeps lots of little gear and sensory stuff (well hidden from the prying eye)

They don't trust him all at once (Todd and Cameron take the longest), but eventually they all spend many a Saturday playing in Mr. Keating's office while he does some paperwork

It's a cozy scene, and one they are all glad of after the long weeks of Hellton

Neil

Neil is, of course, the one who trusts Keating first

He's already something of a parental figure to Neil, so when Niel decides to open up about his regression, nothing really changes

He does treat him a bit gentler when regressed, less pushing and more gentle persuasion (this really goes for all the boys)

Neil LOVES it when Keating reads to him, so he makes sure to buy his favorite books whenever he can

Lots of Arthurian Fairytales and Adventure Stories

Keating will also play whatever role Neil needs him to play in the shows he puts on with his stuffies

(He usually ends up playing the "scary" villain or the wise old wizard)

Neil isn't very used to physical affection from a parental figure, so it takes a while for him to warm up to Keating's casual hair ruffles or back pats

The second Neil gets uncomfortable, Keating stops, but it can be difficult to tell at times

Neil is very good at hiding how he truly feels

Keating actually has an oddly hard time telling when he's regressed if he's not told

But the second Neil comes into his office upset, he is ready to accommodate whatever he needs

Pacifier? On it

Comforting words? A whole notebook full

Someone to sit and listen? He's always had a good ear

He ends up being just what Neil needs in the absence of his own father

Todd

Again, he takes the longest out of all the poets to trust Mr. Keating enough to regress around him

He and Cameron usually just sat off to the side, watching the others play enviously

It wasn't that Todd didn't want to play, but the idea of being that vulnerable in front of others made him want to puke

No matter how much he tried to hide his discomfort, Keating always seemed to know what he was feeling

He was very good at making sure Todd was still included even if he wasn't comfortable enough to regress around him

Offers to take care of the others usually disguised an excuse for Todd to play and have fun while still being comfortable

Eventually the two had a conversation about Todd's feelings on regressing in front of Keating and the other Poets (which is something Keating would never force him to do)

They came to the decision that Todd would start regressing in front of the others little by little, taking baby steps and pulling back whenever needed

Keating made sure he was comfortable and set up his ground rules with the others for playing with Todd

No teasing, roughhousing, or bullying of any kind was the gist of the rules

The others were very kind and gentle with Todd for the most part (Charlie had a couple mishaps)

Todd still stuck mostly to Neil, but Keating soon become one of the few others he would cling to if he needed reassurance or comfort

He very much acts like a little koala, and Keating is usually fine getting clung to unless he needs to chase down one of the other boys

Keating still tries to get Todd out of his comfort zone, but in a much gentler, slower way.

Charlie

Firstly

Keating and Charlie definitely have a more rough relationship at first

Charlie doesn't have much issue with regressing in front of Keating, but when Charlie's regressed?

He's the brattiest little of all the boys.

Keating knows how to handle it, but he gets a little burnt out after multiple days of Charlie's antics and has to remind himself not to snap

If he does snap, he's always sure to tell Charlie that no, he doesn't hate him, he just needs a calm moment to breathe

Charlie knows to leave him alone then, if only for a moment

The two go back and forth with play arguments quite often

Keating also helps Charlie get his energy out by playing lots of soccer, or even sometimes just chasing him around the room until one of them is too tired to go on

The two get on each others nerves, but at the end of the day Keating just wants to make sure that he is safe and happy

Knox

Keating helps Knox out a lot when he can't understand what the others are talking about

He's very good at putting it into simpler terms for the boy and making sure he doesn't get too lost in the conversation

The two sit down together often to work through any homework he doesn't understand and help make it simpler for him (projecting? me? never!)

Keating is also has no problem going to Knox's other teachers and berating them for bullying him in class

Knox is one of the littles who definitely needs help falling asleep, so the others usually find him napping on Keating's lap while he work out difficult problems or works on grading

Meeks

Keating loves to help Meeks with little expirements when the boy is regressed

Does he understand the science? No, but Meeks does and it makes him happy, so what does that matter?

Keating also lets the Meeks and Pitts use the tv in his room to watch sci-fi programs and historical documentaries whenever he can

Pitts

I don't have much to say about Pittsy

However

I do think that he has a surprising sweet tooth that Keating is more than happy to indulge

He gets Pitts sweets anytime he goes into town

Both Keating and Pitts love red licorice, so they have their own stash set apart from the other snacks

Cameron

Cameron is... difficult

he doesn't regress around the others often

(mainly because he thinks that they really hate him)

but whenever he does, he stays very quiet and tries not to get in the way of their games too much, even though he really does want to play

He is the only one of the Poets that Keating pushes a bit harder to play with the others while regressed, because he knows that the others don't hate him

Keating hates seeing any of his boys feeling left out so, much like with Todd, he always makes sure Cameron has at least one person to play with at all times

He actually usually puts Todd and Cameron together to play because of how shy they both are

Because of this, the two become better friends, and end up sticking together like glue most of the time they are regressed.

Anytime Keating sees the two of them stuck together, he smiles a bit because of how proud he is of them coming out of their shells

Hooo this was a doozy! Loved every second of writing it <3 <3 <3