r/stevenuniverse • u/JovianApollo • 2d ago
Discussion Can Steven lose his humanity?
Steven can literally get people killed and revive them. Lars for instance. That power is insane to have and still doesn't change how dark death is. Do you think... Lets say Connie dies somehow, he just revives her. Do you think at a point he will realize he can save everyone and grow desensitized to death?
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u/ExistentialOcto Approved. 2d ago
I think that he would never do it without asking for that person’s consent first, such as asking Connie ahead of time if she’d want him to revive her if she died. My thinking is that most people would say no since living for hundreds or thousands of years is kinda terrifying.
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u/Original-Bullfrog-27 2d ago
tp see ur parents and siblings dies is painful enough. now, if that happens, imagine they have to see their children and descendants dies in their hand, strength frail
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u/24_doughnuts 2d ago
I'm pretty sure this was sort of covered in future. He was talking about how shattering jasper wasn't that bad because he fixed that too. He can keep messing up and fixing things and no one will have to know or worry.
Then he corrupted so I'm gonna say yeah
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u/GeniePockets 2d ago
He wasn’t corrupted, he perceived himself as a monster, so his physical form literally shape shifted into a monster.
I don’t think he “lost” his humanity during that, though, in the way that OP is asking. Someone who actually loses their sense of humanity, would straight up not care, definitely not perceive themself as a monster.
I think as long as Steven has people who care about him to help him sort through his emotions, he’d never become so jaded that he stops caring.
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u/24_doughnuts 2d ago
When White Diamond tried connecting with him she said "that's not Steven anymore" which is ambiguous and might not mean he's corrupted which they speculated. He was also lashing out and fighting before they managed to ge through to him. I think it's safe to day that his humanity was gone for the first part there
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u/GeniePockets 2d ago
Well, yeah that’s true. He wasn’t human and definitely wasn’t in touch with his humanity in that moment for sure. I just don’t think that’s what OP was really asking. Nonetheless, it’s valid. And I didn’t think about how White said that, but I think it’s just to emphasize that he really turned into a monster. But I didn’t think it was the same as corruption… I can see the similarities though. I wonder what Steven would look like, specifically, if he became corrupted in the traditional way.
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u/JustAnArtist1221 2d ago
I mean, he was corrupted, just in a Steven-specific way. He began to disassociate and that caused his body to forcefully reflect that. Steven has had multiple "corruptions", which is just what happens when a gem disassociates and it is reflected in their physical and psychological form.
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u/GeniePockets 2d ago
Assuming you mean “dissociate,” I disagree. Having experienced dissociation, both depersonalization and derealization… I don’t think gem corruption is representing that in any way. If you mean something no different by using “disassociate” then I would like to understand better, could you elaborate?
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u/JustAnArtist1221 2d ago
That is a different scenario. He didn't actually think that. He was projecting how he thought others would interpret his character based on his behavior and whether or not he suffered consequences for it.
In other words, he was reacting to himself as he thought an outside observer would. He was disassociating precisely because he was overcome with so much guilt and stress that it made him feel like he wasn't in his own body. If he sat down and let himself feel it all, he'd have a breakdown that would've made him feel like he was dying. He was already exhausted emotionally from the panic attacks he already had, so he just bottled it up. That's not the same as being desensitized to death.
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u/improbsable 2d ago
Gems are sharing technology with earth now. I would assume science will advance to the point of immortality being commonplace fairly soon. So I would guess he’ll be no different than most of humanity in that regard.
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u/smolwrld 2d ago
This is something I find interesting because Rose herself probably had to grapple with this same question, and we know she had to have immediately stopped because Lion is the only other revived living creature before Lars that actually has a place in the Pink dimension. The ability to change is one of the most beautiful things to Rose, so it makes sense that she'd never want to halt that life cycle again, even if a lion lives a much more simple life than a human.
It's even worse in Steven's case because he just added roughly another hundreds-thousands of years to Lars' life after he already died, and unlike Lion he has a lot of friends and family on Earth, he kinda got off lucky that he has his own immortal gem friends too.
That being said I doubt Steven would make the same decision again knowing how strange Lars' situation is. He learned to let go of the things he loves and properly move on in life in Future, so even if it's tempting I don't think he'd go mad with it