Finally got around to watching those Steven Universe episodes!

[conuly]

I'm not going to break it all down, I just have a few thoughts:

1. Padparadscha is adorably awesome.

2. Steven is quite right. He stumbled upon the off-colors within minutes of escaping custody. Either coincidence is a much stronger narrative force than anybody wants to admit, or Homeworld (not to mention other colonies) must be positively swarming with rejects. Which would explain why they come down so hard on them, actually.

2a. But I'm a little surprised that even our true off-colors (that is, not fusions) had heard varying stories of Rose Quartz. When would they have had a chance to hear these stories in between being created and going into hiding?

3. Steven narrating his own letter to Lars while poking out of Lars' hair was hilarious. Great reveal.

4. Is it just me, or does "No, Pink Diamond is definitely, definitely, 100% dead, your mother made sure of that" sound less and less convincing each time somebody says it? It seems the obvious follow-up is "So... you saw her get shattered? You were right there, right?" but Steven doesn't ask that, probably because the answers would raise still more questions.

5. KITTENS.

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[erinptah]

I figure the writers just made her the special variety so she would have a unique name, and they weren't stuck juggling two semi-main protagonists named Sapphire.

[conuly]

And I thought she was literally "off-color", and possibly being literally off-color is the most common form of non-fusion outcast on Homeworld.