Steve Small

Mr. Steven "Steve" Small is a supporting character in . He is the hippie school counselor at Elmore Junior High. Although his job is to advise the students, he tends to act like the one that needs the most help.
He was voiced by Lewis Macleod in Season 1 and by Adam Long for the rest of the series. In the Japanese version, he is voiced by Jun Fukuyama, who also voiced from Koro Sensei in Assassination Classroom.
==Appearance==
Mr. Small is a tall, fluffy cloud-like creature. He wears a rainbow-patterned shirt, black bell-bottoms, and blue and yellow sandals. White fluff covers almost all of his body, which is more plentiful on his forearms, feet, and head. He also has a small ponytail to keep his hair tied back, which is very long. His eyes are round and colored lime green with red pupils. According to "The Lie," he has a humanoid appearance underneath his fluff.
As a student in Junior High, his hair was very long, going mid-back. He also used to have a pink shirt with a sideways yin yang symbol on it, along with bluish-white jeans.
Starting in season 2, his design was altered slightly. The most noticeable changes were the addition of eyebrows and alteration to the design of his sandals.
In the first season, he usually spoke in a calm, quiet, southern accent. From the second season onward, he gained a more stereotypical hippie voice, with his southern accent completely gone.
==Personality==
===Counseling===
Mr. Small is the guidance counselor of Elmore Junior High, meaning that his job is to assist students with personal problems and help them make the right choices in life. However, because most of his counseling techniques seem to lie on the strange and ineffective side of the spectrum, most kids who enter his office seeking assistance leave confused and no better off than they were previously, sometimes worse.
For example, in the episode "The Painting," Mr. Small attempts to help Gumball and Darwin deal with their destructive energy, but, his attempts prove to be less than helpful, as most of his teachings involve things such as screaming in an attempt to relieve oneself of excess anger, and expressing oneself through coating them in paint, and allowing them to track it all over the room.
Mr. Small loves helping the students. He gives Gumball and Darwin some advice, Darwin and Gumball start to take his advice, which begins to lead to mischief. In "The Advice," Mr. Small said that he came to Elmore Junior High to shape minds, challenge perceptions, and be remembered as the single greatest teacher that ever lived. Mr. Small feels that he has not inspired the children, and is driven to tears by his guilt at this until Gumball and Darwin ask him to inspire them, much to his delight.
===Hippie nature===
Mr. Small has been described as a hippie and a new ager many times, which is somewhat reflected in his mannerisms and appearance. He seems to enjoy meditation and is overall a mostly mellow person.
He has a large array of spiritual paraphernalia such as incense, healing crystals, scented candles, and other such things he uses to help the students he counsels. He also seems to go through phases on interest with such items, always hopping on whatever the current new-age fad is at the time. He also has a deep love and appreciation for nature and animals, yet while he claims to be a vegetarian, he is seen compromising his principles on various occasions.
===Eccentric behavior===
Mr. Small is one of the stranger people in Elmore. In "The Dress," there is a short scene of him bending over backward while greeting Gumball.
In the first season, he seems to have a bit of a temper, such as when he yelled at Gumball for doing the wrong move when they were doing an interpretive dance. Another example of his rude personality is in the episode "The Sock," as he grew tired of Gumball and Darwin not understanding honesty, and decided to use the Silence Snake, a sock puppet he used to yell at them and force them both into silence.
In the second season onward, his split personality is more toned down and he greatly mellows out. He is also shown to be a coward and very weak on several occasions. In "The Banana," he is seen drinking "herbal tea" that causes him to pass out at first and then space out later in the episode. Throughout the episode he enthusiastically helps Gumball and Darwin with their problem with Banana Joe, commending the two of them for their work on resolving the chewed pen issue.
In "The Void," he searches for Janice, a purple van with surreal, psychedelic imagery on it. He is also shown to believe in several strange conspiracy theories, such as redheads being the descendants of aliens, and, more truthfully, that there is a Void where all the world's bad ideas are sent to. In "The Allergy," he attempts to cure Darwin's allergy using "alternative medicine" that involves tools like energy crystals and acupuncture. In "The Silence," he tries the same thing, only for Gumball and Darwin to become severely malformed.
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