Steven Universe (character)

## Steven Universe

Steven is a member of the Crystal Gems and the de-facto leader of the group, he was the first gem-human hybrid and is the son of Greg Universe and Pink Diamond.

## Fusions

* When fused with Connie Maheswaran, they form Stevonnie.

* When fused with Greg Universe, they form Mr. Multiverse.

* When fused with Lars Barriga, they form Stars.

* When fused with Pearl, they form Rainbow Quartz 2.0.

* When fused with Amethyst, they form Smoky Quartz 2.0.

* When fused with Ruby, they form Fire Quartz 2.0.

* When fused with Sapphire, they form Druzy Quartz 2.0.

* When fused with Peridot, they form Tangerine Quartz.

* When fused with Lapis Lazuli, they form Spirit Quartz.

* When fused with Bismuth, they form Titanium 2.0.

* When fused with Jasper, they form Peach Quartz 2.0.

* When fused with Spinel, they form Candy Quartz.

* When fused with Pink Pearl, they form Rose Aura Quartz 2.0.

* When fused with Nephrite, they form Liddicoatite.

* When fused with Ruby and Sapphire, they form Sunstone 2.0.

* When fused with Pearl and Amethyst, they form Spectrolite 2.0.

* When fused with Pearl and Pink Pearl, they form Mega Rainbow Quartz.

* When fused with Ruby, Sapphire and Amethyst, they form Lava Stone 2.0.

* When fused with Ruby, Sapphire and Pearl, they form Pietersite 2.0.

* When fused with Ruby, Sapphire, Amethyst and Pearl, they form Obsidian 2.0.

* When fused with Ruby, Sapphire, Amethyst, Pearl and Spinel, they form Strawberry Obsidian.

## Abilities

### Unique Abilities

* **Shield Proficiency**: Steven can summon Rose's shield. Because Steven's powers are maternal, he is required to feel a strong need to protect and help others to call his shield out. Early on, he had little to no control over how to summon it, only calling it forth by chance or when in mortal danger. As of "Sworn to the Sword", Steven is now able to not only summon his shield with little effort but also increase its size at will. He appears to have become quite skilled in wielding it as he was able to use it in conjunction with his protective bubble and defend against Pearl's strikes. Unlike some other Gems, instead of "pulling" his shield out of his gemstone, it appears over his arms similar to Garnet's gauntlets appearing over her hands. As of "Friend Ship", he has become completely capable of summoning his shield at any moment he requires it, even being able to scale his shield large enough to defend the Crystal Gems. It should be noted, however, that overuse of his shield exhausts Steven (such as using it three times in one day), though he has since overcome this weakness. The shield is remarkably durable. The greatest testaments of its durability are shown in "The Return" when it was able to withstand a charged shot from the Gem Warship, and *Steven Universe: The Movie*, where it was able to withstand an attack from Spinel that cracked (and eventually shattered) her entire injector. As of "Crack the Whip", Steven can summon his Shield as many times as he wants without tiring, even summoning more than one. This shows that his exhaustion was possibly due to inexperience. The shield also has reflective properties strong enough to reflect a laser fired from a scanning Robonoid, as seen in "Off Colors".
	+ **Tag-team Combat**: Due to the close bond they share, Steven can coordinate his shield techniques perfectly with Connie's swordplay, such as fighting back-to-back to defend and attack simultaneously or catapulting Connie from his shield for a powerful lunge attack.
	+ **Dual Wielding**: As seen in "Crack the Whip", Steven can manifest more than one shield.
* **Projectile Shield**: Steven, when in great excitement, can throw his shield as a projectile with great speed and power. In "Friend Ship", he weaponizes it as a ranged attack against Peridot, hitting her in the head with enough accuracy to temporarily stun her. In "Crack the Whip", Steven throws two shields at once in a sparring match with Connie. As seen in "Steven vs. Amethyst", Steven can boomerang his shield off of several targets, causing it to return to his hand. His shield also has razor-sharp edges and can cut through substances as tough as a solid rock before returning to him, hitting Amethyst in the process, showing Steven's growing skill in this technique. The shield may also have potential to damage metal, as seen in its debut in "Gem Glow", where Steven got so excited, he accidentally had it ricochet off the roof, floor, and walls of the Beach House on the Crystal Temple, until it hit Steven's TV, impaling and damaging it.
* **Shield Vibration**: On certain occasions when Steven's shield is hit, it emits an audible vibration that disables magical constructs. In "Ocean Gem", it destabilizes Lapis Lazuli's Water Clones when a ball of water hits Steven's shield. It also seems to play a brief role in "Sworn to the Sword", when a Holo-Pearl attacks his shield, and it promptly deactivates (the same sound in the former episode can be heard as it does).
* **Aura Projection**: While interacting with Blue and Yellow Diamond in the astral dimension, Steven was able to manifest and project a powerful pink aura, which convinced them that he was truly Pink Diamond reincarnated.
	+ **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.
* **Phytoanimation**: Like his mother, Steven possesses limited control and influence over plant life. Using his healing saliva, Steven can grow sentient and sapient flora by licking plant seeds. All seeds that Steven licks can fully grow in less than a day. These plants apparently don't need soil, water, or sunlight to grow as seen in "Watermelon Steven" where they grow on the dry pavement overnight. In that same episode, Steven discovers he can grow watermelons shaped like himself. They act as his bodyguards, but they are not directly under his control, and the Watermelon Stevens ignore his orders and attack whoever they think is threatening him, suggesting that he does not have full mastery of this ability thus far. It seems that this has changed, as once Pumpkin was brought to life, it was completely non-hostile and possessed its own opinions of others. It is also possible that, in the case of Pumpkin, Steven had full knowledge of the ability and thus control over it, whereas in the case of the Watermelon Stevens, it was accidental. It is unknown if this is a unique ability or an extension of the Diamonds' ability to bring life.
* **Pebble Animation**: As demonstrated in "Familiar", Steven's sweat can turn inanimate pebbles into living Pebbles.
* **Bubble Shield**: Steven can summon an incredibly durable bubble, as shown in "Bubble Buddies". The bubble encases him and others that he is protecting. In "Sworn to the Sword", it is shown that Steven is capable of summoning it reflexively, as he instinctively summons his bubble to protect himself and Connie due to his wariness of Holo-Pearls as a result of the events in "Steven the Sword Fighter". In "Nightmare Hospital", it is shown that Steven can expand his bubble to push away enemies. In "I Am My Mom", Steven used his bubble to free himself and his friends from Topaz, though it required a great deal of concentration to do so. In "Bubble Buddies" and "Bubbled", it is implied that the bubble can generate its internal atmosphere, as Steven and Connie could survive in the bubble for hours despite it being airtight and Steven is even able to breathe inside one he had just generated in the vacuum of space. While the bubble is incredibly durable, it is better at withstanding short, narrow bursts of pressure, such as being hit with a harpoon, than a large amount of pressure constantly being applied over a large area of the bubble, such as in "Nightmare Hospital", when the Gem Mutants hit Steven's bubble, the pressure causes little ripples to spread across the bubble, and in "Gem Hunt", when a corrupted Ocean Jasper stomped on his bubble with enough force to cause it to lose its circular shape and pop. This was most likely Steven intentionally allowing the bubble to become malleable so that it would pop instead of shatter so that he and Connie would be thrown away instead of crushed by the monster. The bubble could also be shattered, as demonstrated by a corrupted Biggs Japer shattering it after exerting massive amounts of pressure on it.
	+ **Shape Alteration**: Steven can change the size of his bubble, as well as change its shape from a sphere into a variety of other shapes - for instance, causing sharp spikes to appear along its surface, or stretching it to encompass and protect other people. The versatility of this ability has increased as Steven has grown, and is fully on display during his battle with Spinel in *Steven Universe: The Movie*.
	+ **Bubble Gloves**: Steven can create small, hard bubbles around his fists like boxing gloves, enhancing the strength of his punches and his ability to block attacks.
	+ **Popping**: Steven can "pop" his bubble to knock surrounding enemies back, as seen in "Nightmare Hospital", where he knocked much larger Gem mutants back by popping his bubble. His bubble will also pop if he is startled, as seen in "Sworn to the Sword", when Pearl startles Steven, or if immense pressure is applied to the bubble, as seen in "Gem Hunt" when the Snow Monster popped Steven's bubble by stomping on it.
	+ The extent of the bubble's durability is unknown, although it has survived most of the following:
		- The tremendous pressure of an ocean trench ("Bubble Buddies").
		- Being crushed by a falling injector ("On the Run").
		- A spaceship crash ("Jail Break", "Jungle Moon").
		- The entire Gem Warship detonating ("Jail Break").
* **Empathic Telepathy**: In "Horror Club", Steven can sense the Lighthouse Gem Monster's presence as well as its emotional state. In the episode "Chille Tid", it is shown that Steven can communicate with Gems through his dreams. Steven talks to Lapis Lazuli mentally as he was dreaming. He also saw Jasper and Malachite in the same dream at Malachite's Realm and they noticed him as well. Steven was later shown in "Gem Drill" to be able to communicate with a distressed Cluster while it was struggling to form. In "Kiki's Pizza Delivery Service", he helps Kiki battle her inner demons in her dreams. This ability has primarily come to light while other beings are under emotional turmoil. "Kiki's Pizza Delivery Service" shows with Kiki that Steven can also enter the dreams of other humans, but also that repeated use of this power can physically exhaust him, as sleeping in this state seems to provide no restful benefit that would otherwise be gained from typical sleep. In "Steven's Dream", he shows a strange development of this ability, in being able to subconsciously see through the eyes of Blue Diamond, while crying her tears. This can even happen when he's awake, if in close enough proximity to her, though this may be a result of Blue Diamond's empathetic powers seen in "The Trial". In "Together Alone", Steven dreams that his mother juggles, then coughs up her hair; the nightmare then reveals the likeness of White Diamond. In "Change Your Mind", another nightmare has the Diamonds directly attack Steven, which causes him to change between himself, Rose Quartz, and Pink Diamond.
	+ **Mind Transfer**: First shown in "Super Watermelon Island", when he can take control of a Watermelon Steven, Steven can transfer his consciousness into another living being he has a connection with while his own body is asleep. The true mind of the host body lays dormant while he is in control of it. The full extent of this ability is unknown. In "The New Lars", Steven is shown to be able to possess someone (in this instance Lars) he thinks about while he sleeps. It is shown in the episode "Escapism" that this ability is strong enough to reach from Homeworld to Earth, which is likely many lightyears away.
	+ **Mind Link**: First shown in "Steven's Dream", Steven can link his mind with another being. This power allows Steven to feel the target's emotions and see the world through their eyes. For example, if the target is crying, Steven will cry as well, regardless of his current emotional state. When Steven sleeps, his dream will be whatever the target is looking at. Steven does not have to willingly link minds with a person for this power to work since he did not originally know his mind was linked with Blue Diamond.
		- **Psychometry/Retrocognition**: First shown in "Jungle Moon", when fused with Connie as Stevonnie. He can relive moments experienced by his mother Pink Diamond, either as an observer or as Pink Diamond herself. This only occurs when he is sleeping somewhere of great significance to his mother. When fused, the subjects of these memories can appear as amalgamations of figures both components consider to be similar. Steven is unaware of the nature of the memories at first, and it can sometimes take him a while to realize he's reliving Pink Diamond's experiences. In "Can't Go Back", he observes the shadows of the Diamonds and even Pearl. In "Together Alone" and "Change Your Mind", he sees things as Pink Diamond.
	+ **Astral Projection**: It is shown in "Reunited" that if Steven is knocked out hard enough, his mind will go into an astral dimension while his body remains comatose. While in this state, he cannot interact or communicate with anyone in the physical world unless he phases through them. It is unknown how Steven can return to the physical world on his own. Steven used this new ability to inspire his teammates to keep fighting and convince the Diamonds to halt their attack.
	+ **Electrical Interference**: In "Maximum Capacity", Steven appeared to be able to control Greg's TV based upon his emotion. For instance, when he was shocked, the television went to static. In the episode "In Dreams", his dreams were projected onto the TV in his bedroom, confirming this to be a power of his. This ability appears to originate from his telepathy interfering with nearby radio signals.
* **Speed of Descent Regulation**: As shown in "Steven Floats", Steven, like Rose, can levitate his body and even manipulate its gravity based on his emotions. When he thinks happy thoughts, he floats slowly to the ground, while when he is sad or angry, he descends much quicker. While floating slowly, anything he touches will also float just as slowly, no matter how large. This also allows him to jump higher than normal, having to be able to jump up to the temple's face and even above the clouds. It was first seen in "Rose's Scabbard" as Steven leaps to a floating land island to reach Pearl, however, her turning to suddenly look at him causes him to break in concentration and fall to catch himself on the island's roots. Steven is shown to have some control over his powers in "Steven vs. Amethyst" and in "Monster Reunion" when he easily leaps up to get to Nephrite's bubble and safely descend again. He displays his ability to jump extreme distances again in "Steven's Dream", when attempting to catch Blue Diamond's ship, but is blasted back by the ship taking off. Numerous times in *Steven Universe Future* he has shown to have mastered the ability to the extent that he can all but fly, hovering in the air and even jumping off his own shield to ricochet around as seen in his fight against jasper. "Fragments" shows that in his pink state he can hover.
* **Pink State**: According to Priyanka Maheswaran because Steven experienced a great deal of physical and emotional trauma from his numerous adventures and ordeals during his childhood, it affected his body's ability to respond to minor stress normally. As a result, Steven's body began reacting to new stress as if he was in a life-or-death situation. This response manifested as a defense mechanism known as pink state. This first manifested during his training with Jasper in "Little Homeschool". In this state, Steven's body (except his clothes) glows pink, and his strength, speed, and destructive energy output became tremendous. Steven in this state was able to easily outmatch Jasper in a fight - for instance, knocking her through many large trees with one bubble-enhanced punch, and even shattering her - as well as do significant damage to the walls of The Reef just by shouting. However, Steven had little to no control over this state; he entered it automatically when angry or when he experienced anxiety, and it put him at risk of accidentally hurting people near him. During his training with Jasper, he managed to maintain this state for a prolonged period of time and gain some control, during which he gained a greater degree of strength and a change in personality. However, he eventually lost all self-restraint as a result, enjoying the thrill of the battle and actually shattering Jasper. The ability of the pink state appeared to also extend to abilities of fusions as well, as demonstrated by Smoky Quartz in "Guidance". So far, the demonstrated abilities have been:
	+ **Enhanced Speed:** Heightened overall speed and great accuracy when moving at this speed. It has been used to combat Jasper, Bluebird, "Eyeball", and Aquamarine all of whom could not keep up. He can also move so quickly that time is nearly standing still. This ability is demonstrated in "Fragments" when he runs away from the Crystal Gems or races against Jasper. Smoky Quartz is demonstrated to also be able to use this power as in "Guidance".
	+ **Enhanced Strength:** Increased physical strength capable of shattering several large trees. The physical power varies. When facing Jasper or when angry at The Reef, Steven demonstrated incredible power far beyond his natural strength. When facing Bluebird, Steven didn't appear to strike them as hard while still hitting hard enough to knock his opponent(s) around.
	+ **Enhanced Agility:** Heightened agility and bodily coordination. During his training with Jasper, Steven used his shields to jump off while they were in the air.
	+ **Sonic Scream:** A scream that, in Pink Pearl's own words, *"could shatter the walls."* As seen in the episode "Volleyball", this scream is powerful enough to almost completely ruin the Reef, create a large crater beneath him, break many lights and crack the walls. In the episode "I Am My Monster", in his monster form as his spikes glow, Steven roars to make a crack on the ground of the ocean beneath him, pushing his friends and his father, and even knocking out the Diamond Mech. Much like how the other Diamonds powers inverted to more cooperative and benign forms when they viewed their role and self differently, this power may be the reverse happening to Steven, his healing and protection powers becoming harmful and destructive.
	+ **Barrier Creation:** A powerful shield dome that can close inwards, and only releases once Steven calms down and comes to terms with his anxiety. It is different from the bubble shield in that it appears as a series of interlocked diamond shapes that disappear in groups when deactivated. When it first manifested, it demonstrated the ability to carve through several solid objects, slicing them apart at the impact.
	+ **Bodily Size Manipulation:** Uncontrollable manipulation of his own body proportions. Steven's body stretches, grows, and swells up when he is under emotional stress. "Growing Pains" highlights Steven's uncontrollable body alterations during his checkup with Dr. Priyanka Maheswaran, when she examines Steven's height, he grows a bit taller, then returns to normal, but then his neck stretches up high, and when he remembers Connie rejecting his proposal, Steven grows and swells up to the point he fills out an entire hospital room. This seems to only occurs when he is anxious and overwhelmed but when Steven remains in his pink state for prolong periods of time, he grows taller and gets more muscular, as shown in "Fragments" and "Everything's Fine".
	+ **Hexagonal Force-Fields:** Hexagonal pink shields that are capable of completely repelling boulders thrown by a strong fighter such as Jasper. Steven can stack a number of them to make a thicker one or wall of them, or protrude spikes from them that can be thrown with enough force to completely shatter a gem. He can also summon these shields in his normal form as seen in "Homeworld Bound".
	+ **Power Augmentation:** Steven's powers are enhanced to the point they became more potent.
		- **Descent Regulation:** When Steven is upset, his body becomes more heavy. As shown in "Together Forever", after becoming depressed, Steven laid on the beach as his body created a crater.
			* **Flight/Levitation:** When Steven is feeling joy or ecstatic, he can propel himself in the air and fly. As shown in "Fragments", Steven can remain hovering in the air.
		- **Empathic Telepathy:** As shown in "Everything's Fine", Steven can broadcast his subconscious even while awake, without the need to sleep, as his TV showed him tearing off the steering wheel during his argument with his father, shattering Jasper, and his intrusive thought of slamming White's head against a pillar. Steven even broadcasted his subconscious to Connie's phone, which showed Steven himself saying "Steven's here to help." with the message distorting to sound like "Help Steven" in a way that tells Connie, Greg, and the Crystal Gems that Steven needs help.
		- **Phytoanimation:** Steven giving life to plants can make said plants become aggressive versions of Steven. "Everything's Fine" shows when Steven places his saliva on a torn flower, several plant copies of Steven burst out of the greenhouse.

### Skillset

* **Intelligence**: Though never directly stated, Steven is shown to be extremely intelligent in his own right. He is a natural problem solver, as most of his early adventures relied on him using intelligence and creativity to get himself out of trouble without the use of his powers. He is also able to converse with the highly intelligent Connie on an equal footing since they first met. For much of the early series, his intelligence was overshadowed by his immaturity, something that has faded as he has matured and shown how deeply he thinks about things, particularly what he has learned about Rose Quartz, even though he actively tries not to. "Snow Day" shows Steven's intelligence and organisation as he works on the class schedule for Little Homeschool.
	+ **Piloting**: In "Legs From Here to Homeworld", he controls his mother's old ship to get a running start to take off. In "Change Your Mind", Yellow tells Steven to take a knee and Steven kneels to control it on the outside.
	+ **Driving**: In *Steven Universe Future*, Steven is seen driving the Dondai Supremo, suggesting he has his driver's license.
	+ **Multitasking**: In *Steven Universe: The Movie*, Steven is able to defend himself against Spinel while also trying to talk things out with her.
* **Martial Arts**: Steven has been shown to exhibit martial arts moves while wrestling during "Tiger Philanthropist". Due to his superhuman strength, these moves can easily injure or knock out other humans when used by Steven. He can also go blow for blow with Spinel (while attempting to talk things out with her) and was able to impress Jasper, a former highly skilled Gem soldier in their own right.

## Gallery

Steven at 14 years old.Steven at 16 years old.Steven's Gem Half.