Steven

## Steven Universe:

**Steven Quartz Universe** is the titular main protagonist of the franchise of the same name. He is the son of Greg Universe and Rose Quartz, the only known hybrid of a human and a Gem and the first Crystal Gem of human descent. As a result of his parentage, Steven is an extraordinarily unique being with innate powers beyond that of normal humans and Gems. While he was only a child, Steven steadily grew from a tag-along to the Crystal Gems into the heart of the team thanks to his kind-hearted nature and resourcefulness.

Steven is devoted to protecting humanity and helping those in need just as Rose Quartz did, and though her monumental legacy once forced Steven to live in her shadow he has since surpassed her by ending the authoritarian practices of the Great Diamond Authority and establishing peace across the galaxy. However, the consequences of his mother's mistakes continue to haunt Steven and those he cares about to his growing frustration. Additionally, as his friends and family continue to grow and start to go out into the world and beyond, Steven has begun to struggle with his own self-identity and what he wants to do with the rest of his life. He has also started coming to terms with suppressed trauma that he has built up over the course of his years of adventures and near-death experiences with Gems.

At the end of the series, however, after holding his feelings in for so long culminates in him transforming into a giant Gem monster after coming to the conclusion that he is one, Steven's friends and family manage to get through to him with the power of love. In the months following, he decides to leave Beach City to go on a road trip on his own to see the world and find himself.

## Appearence:

### Debut

According to Pearl and Vidalia, Steven takes after his parents. He is relatively short with a thick, stocky build. He 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 wears a salmon-pink T-shirt with a gold star in the center. He also wears cuffed blue jeans and salmon-pink flip-flop sandals. His gemstone, a pink diamond he inherited from his mother is where his navel should be. As revealed in "Steven's Birthday", while he is fourteen years of age his half-Gem physiology affects his rate of aging and he appears younger.

### *Steven Universe: The Movie*

As of *Steven Universe: The Movie*, Steven has aged physically, having grown slightly taller and now having a visible neck. He still keeps his blue jeans and salmon-pink sandals, but his shirt is now sky-blue with a yellow star in the center, and he also wears a pink varsity jacket with white trims.

### Current

As of *Steven Universe Future*, Steven wears the same clothing he had worn in the movie except that his blue shirt is now black, resembling his father Greg's old Mr. Universe shirts. Due to his new height and healthier lifestyle, as revealed in "Snow Day", he appears leaner than before. After the events of "Together Forever", Steven looks noticeably chubbier as a result of his depression-induced eating. Once Greg was able to calm him down and reduce his magic swelling at the end of "Growing Pains", Steven returned to his healthy appearance upon returning to his current size and shape before the following episode.

In "Fragments", after tough training with Jasper, Steven appears to have aged physically again, combined with results of the training he went through and his power that makes him appear older based on his mental state. He became taller and bulkier, with his hair also getting longer and more untamed and starting to look like Pink Diamond's hair. While losing complete control over his diamond powers, Steven's pupils appear to become diamond-shaped with pink irises, similar to those of Pink Diamond's, albeit the pupils being colored white compared to Pink's black pupils and not too dissimilar to White Diamond's pupils. After shattering Jasper, he returns to his former form. At the end of "Homeworld Bound", Steven's hair is similar to its appearance during his training with Jasper, looking longer and untamed again.

### Monster

At the end of "Everything's Fine" and during "I Am My Monster", he transforms into a giant Kaiju-sized monster after coming to the conclusion that he is one. He is massive in size, towering over the Crystal Temple and completely dwarfing the Diamonds, though he noticeably decreases in size over time, becoming only a few meters taller than his fellow Diamonds. His posture is heavily hunched over and his anatomy is disproportionate, with a potbelly, a long heavy neck ending in a small head, a short tail, long powerful arms, and relatively short legs. His body is covered head to toe in hot pink tuberculate scales that are hexagonal in shape, and his back is protected by a thick armored carapace. He has numerous pinkish off-white thorn-like spines running down the length of his back and forearms, starting at his forehead and ending halfway down his tail. He retains his human form's facial profile and nose, though his eyes have gained black sclera and glowing pink pupils, and his mouth is now filled with sharp teeth. On the sides of his head are a pair of long, angular horns that point upwards, as well as a similar-looking pair of short, curved tusks on the sides of his lower jaw. His forearms are thick and powerful, bearing large human-like hands with four fingers and a thumb each, all five digits bearing sharp, dark pink claws. His legs are digitigrade in posture and his feet bear five claw-tipped toes each. His gemstone is still located where his navel would be, though it appears much smaller due to his massive size in this state.

### Gallery:

https://stevenuniversecharacters.fandom.com/wiki/Steven%27s\_Gallery