Steven Universe

* Current
* Starstorm

### Likes

Fun, adventures, exploring, nature, cooking, gardening, space, parties, dancing, singing, playing the guitar, music, video games, teaching, starfruit, tomato soup.

### Dislikes

Immaturity, danger, his friends or family being threatened, loincloths.

### Goal

To help Junior redeem his father and save his friends, and then continue finding himself back on Earth. (first series)

## Media

### Music Theme

"Secret Course"

―Steven to Lapis | ”

Click here to see more of Steven Universe's quotes.

**Steven Quartz DeMayo Universe** is the seventeen-year-old human and gem hybrid son of Greg Universe and Rose Quartz, and one of Bowser. Jr's best friends. The unlikely duo meet on exoplanet Omitaaru and teamed up, despite their differences, to defeat Bowser and save their friends, creating the team they established called the **Speedstars** which they lead together.

He forms his friendship with Junior months after leaving his hometown to find himself, and stays with him subsequent to light prism mission and during his adolescence, to help Junior become stronger before he starts high school in the soon future, whilst still thinking about himself and maintaining his journey of mental growth.

## **Background**

### **Distinctive features**

Steven has fair skin, curly dark brown hair, dark brown eyebrows, and full black irises which can sometimes have stars as pupils when he gets excited or optimistic. He still keeps his blue jeans and salmon-pink sandals, and still has his black Russian coloured shirt with a yellow star in the centre, and he also wears a pink varsity jacket with white trims. He is the average height for his age, with a thick, stocky build.

#### **Upgraded (Starstorm)**

―Steven to Bowser. Jr, when designing his gear. | ”

Steven wears a cerulean blue jacket, with brink pink and amour white stripes rather than his regular pink varsity jacket. He still wears his back shirt and jeans beneath it, sometimes he may wear tan jean shorts. Steven also wears finger-less gloves and a backpack, usually containing a gas mask for toxic fumes, or protective googles, or simply just lunch or books. Steven's shield can also change whenever the upgraded gear is worn.

### **Personality and traits**

Steven is a very optimistic, friendly, caring, and carefree teenager with a happy-go-lucky attitude that's appreciated by all. He is also musically inclined, a trait inherited from his dad, with the tendency to break into song or playing his a guitar. Steven sees the best in everyone and is also very compassionate, this is shown through his relationship with Bowser. Jr, when he sticks by his side through their adventures. He is friendly toward almost everyone he meets - even to his detriment, rarely holds grudges, and is non-discriminatory, never treating anyone with prejudice, even enemies. No matter the situation, Steven will always go out of his way to support his loved ones, even if it means putting his life on the line and will avoid resorting to violence if possible. He would instead make a compromise and choose to reason than fight back.

Though growing up living to the expectations of succussing his mother and become a hero, then soon leaving home to find himself as human, Steven still maintains his heroic potential through his resourcefulness, optimism, and confidence. He has grown to be very mature, and is a role model to Junior. However, despite being a teenager, Steven still has the playful mannerisms he once had as a child, as he still has enjoyment for games like Steven Tag. His genuine kindness, sincerity, and capacity for empathy let him inspire friendship, trust, and love from most of the people he meets which enables him to mend others' inner turmoil and reach others who are otherwise closed off, noticeably in the cases of Peridot and Lapis Lazuli.

## **Biography**

### Worlds Collide

#### Before meeting Junior

―Steven explaining to Junior how he ended up on the exoplanet | ”

Before Bowser returned home, he made a stop in Steven's universe to steal the light prism. He accidently teleports near Steven's location in the western states, where he had the company of his father, Connie, Lion, and the gems, including Spinel. Steven notices Bowser in the shadows with a luminating shape in his palms, alerting him that George had been kidnapped. The gems run after Bowser to stop him but become poofed by the manipulated prism's light, Bowser takes their gems with him and travels through a portal, never to be seen again. Steven knew he had to get them back and told the others to stay behind before going into the portal after him. He ends up stranded on an unknown planet, surrounding by wildlife and trees, he knew he had to fend for himself before finding his friends.

After adapting to nature's way of living for a few hours, he hears a warping sound coming from the warp pad. He assumes Bowser had returned and was ready to ambush, until he sees a smaller and noisier Bowser. His son, Bowser. Jr. Steven had already heard about the legend of his father and knew exactly who he was. They both explain to each other how they both got in the situation, and team up to help each other with their problems. Steven suggests they should lay low for a while, and not jump into anything before figuring out a plan.

## **Powers and abilities**

### Natural Abilities

* **Shapeshifting**: Steven possesses some level of the natural shapeshifting abilities typical of Gems, which he first displayed when he shapeshifts his hands to have cats for fingers, but he lost control of this rather quickly. He is shown to be much better at using this ability than before, being able to stretch various parts of his body at will repeatedly, though as with Amethyst he can only do this for a certain amount of time and his half-human nature puts more of a strain on his body than it would a Gem. Steven adopts the ability to shapeshift into his younger form, as seen in a game of Steven Tag.

* **Superhuman Strength**: Steven occasionally performs feats of strength that would be impossible for a human boy his age, or even a grown man. He also displays a large amount of strength in "Arcade Mania" when he rips off the top of the *Meat Beat Mania* arcade game to break Garnet from her trance.
	+ He displays an even further amount of strength when he smashes Greg's Van's dashboard with a single punch, apparently hard enough to both shatter it and activate the airbags. Later on he is shown to be strong enough to throw his shield hard enough to stun Peridot. When Peridot is unable to open the lid to the power grid, Steven can open it with little effort, though this may have been for comedic effect as opposed to an actual feat of strength. He can rip off the control panel from the drill machine when it malfunctions. He can also easily lift a crate of musical gear, a task that requires two adult humans to achieve.

* **Superhuman Durability**: Steven is more durable than what his human physiology and stature would lead one to believe. Befitting his nature as a half-diamond Gem, his body can take a great amount of punishment, as seen when Amethyst swings him down from the air and into the floor of the Ancient Sky Arena, he can stand up and continue fighting despite being seen with torn clothes, scratches, and bruises. When Bismuth tossed a training statue at Steven and slammed him into a wall during their fight, he emerged with several scratches yet was not badly injured. Steven's durability allowed him to handle the full force of faster-than-light space travel. While the other Crystal Gems were unable to hold their physical forms together, Steven was not only able to survive, but also show no sign of internal or external injuries. In his final battle with Spinel, he shows that using his shield he can withstand every blow she throws at him without injury, while the injector beneath him cracked and shattered from the force. In "Growing Pains, his conversation with Priyanka Maheswaran reveals an X-Ray of Steven's skeleton, showing numerous physical injuries and fractures that seemed to heal nearly instantly (according to her diagnosis). While she isn't entirely sure how it works, it shows that a number of Steven's injuries were seemingly healed shortly after the damage was made.
	+ **Gem Weaponry Resistance**: Because Steven is half-human, he is resistant to anti-Gem weaponry. He can pass through the yellow destabilization fields used in the Gem Warship and can grab the live end of a Gem Destabilizer with only mild discomfort. It is unknown what long-term exposure would do to him. However, repeated strikes from a Gem Rejuvenator will render him powerless.

### Unique Abilities

* **Superhuman Speed**: As shown in "Greg the Babysitter", Steven has the power to travel faster than any normal human. In his pink state, he is capable of moving at a percentage of light speed, with his perception of time also becoming highly accelerated.
	+ **Healing**: Steven has the power to heal animals and plants, as well as repair Gems and inanimate objects. He is shown to be capable of healing cracked gemstones as seen when he healed Lapis Lazuli in "Ocean Gem". He can also heal common human injuries and conditions, seen when he healed Connie's eyesight in "An Indirect Kiss" and Greg's broken leg in "House Guest". In "The Test", Pearl remarks to the other Crystal Gems that he has lost his healing ability and that their test should hopefully increase his confidence and therefore prevent him from losing any other abilities. In "Monster Reunion", Steven's healing abilities came back to heal Master of Ceremonies Bear Bear, showing conclusively that his powers affect inanimate objects, and can partially heal the Centipeetle Mother. In "Bubbled", Steven successfully heals "Eyeball"'s cracked gem. He generally applies this healing saliva directly by licking his hand and placing it on the injury, but a comment by a Ruby in "Volleyball" suggests he will sometimes use a kiss.
		- **Resurrection**: Like his mother, Steven possesses the ability to resurrect the dead with his magic tears. The recipient turns pink and gains special abilities, such as the ability to grant access to the Pink Dimension through their hair as well as an extremely slowed metabolism and heart rate. Two known cases of this are Lion and Lars.
		- **Corruption Reversal**: As demonstrated on Nephrite in "Legs From Here to Homeworld", Steven, along with Blue Diamond, Yellow Diamond, can temporarily reverse the effects of the Corrupting Light on Gems. And it's shown in "Change Your Mind" that they can heal the effects permanently when all four diamonds sit in Rose's Fountain together with the corrupted Gems.
		- **Shatter Reversal**: As shown in "Fragments", Steven, along with the rest of the Diamonds' essence, is able to completely repair a shattered Gem.
		- **Self Healing**: As displayed in "Growing Pains", Steven endured a lot of physical trauma during his adventures, and an x-ray reveals that his injuries had already been repaired.

### Weaknesses

* **Unique/Hybrid Physiology**: Steven inherits vulnerabilities from both the Gem and human sides of his family — for instance, he is dependent on his gemstone but also needs to sustain and take care of his body. When White Diamond removed his gemstone in "Change Your Mind", he was split into two separate entities embodying his half-human, half-Gem nature: his human half was extremely weak while his Gem half lacked self-restraint and both halves sought to reunite with each other.
	+ **Power-control Loss**: He often has little to no control over his Gem abilities which tend to fluctuate erratically from time to time such as when Greg faked his leg still being broken in "House Guest" and cost him his healing powers until "Monster Reunion", much to Pearl's anger and dismay. It is later learned that his abilities are tied to his moods: if Steven is happy, he has access to the majority of his powers, but if he is greatly disturbed, they either malfunction or fail entirely. As stated before, if struck repeatedly by the rejuvenator, he is rendered powerless unless he can piece himself back together. In *Steven Universe Future*, he enters a supercharged state similar to his Gem-half when fighting Jasper. Afterwards, this goes out of control when feeling extreme emotions.

## **Statistics**

* Collision Archive
* Collision Analysis

Steven's stats, according to the Collision Archive

Steven's stats, according to the Ultra Analysis Book

## **References**

 **Unfused Members:** Ruby • Sapphire • Peridot • Lapis Lazuli • Spinel
**Fused Members:** Garnet • Sunstone • Smokey Quartz • Rainbow Quartz 2.0 • Opal • Sardonyx • Sugilite
 Antagonists