cookiecats | ☆ 001 [video/action for New Bark Town]

[Steven seems to be enjoying himself. He has the camera angled down towards his Cleffa, who's rubbing up against his leg, ears twitching.] W-Whoa, now, stay still, okay? I wanna take a picture to send back to the Gems. You're pretty photogenic! You should be a model. I could be your agent!

Okay now, c'mere -- oof! [Steven reaches down to try and scoop the Cleffa up in one hand, jiggling the camera as the Pokemon wriggles in his hold. He flips the view around so that Steven's face is in shot, and he's grinning wide over the big brown ears of his Pokemon.] Whooaa. Heh heh. I'm on camera!

Ok, Steven, you gotta play it cool. You're practically in a movie.

AHEM.

[Steven grins.] Hi! I'm Steven Universe! I don't know where I am! [Nailed it.] I mean, I AM a Crystal Gem, so I can DEFINITELY take care of myself, buuuut.

[Steven frowns a little, glances around him.] Theeeere's not a single thing here that seems familiar! It's like I'm on a whole different planet! And the Gems are going to get pretty worried if I don't come back soon.

...but at least I've got this little guy here to keep me company! Isn't that right? [Steven turns to the Cleffa, gives her a little poke.] Do YOU know where we are?

[She makes a few noncommittal noises, nuzzles up again his chin. Steven beams.] She loves me.

[The camera jiggles again as Steven flops down on the grass, plops the Cleffa in his lap.] Hehe. You can be my second best friend. That way Lion won't get jealous.

But maybe we should get back to the temple first. Right? [Steven nods, off camera, mostly to himself.] Right.

Anyway, I guess I should stop recording now. I hope the Gems can see this so that they can come here and have fun with me, too! Okay, bye.

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_{[HELLO STEVEN! WELCOME TO JOHTO. HAVE A TALKING MOP OF HAIR.]}

Your Pokemon is very pink. It looks like a pillow.

Also, what'sa gem?

[HELLO, SENTIENT MOP! Steven waves hello, as does Cookie.] She is, huh? It's a pretty great color!

Oh, I'm half-Gem. Amethyst, Garnet, and Pearl are full Gems, though. And together...we're the Crystal Gems!

We protect the earth and fight monsters together.

Oh!

So you're like superheroes? I've heard about them. They punish bad people.

_{[His pop-culture knowledge is... extremely limited, but that's one thing he HAS heard of!]}

W-Well, the other Gems do most of the punishing. I don't really like to fight unless we have to.

[He's had a lot of thoughts on that subject, really.]

Really?

Fighting's fun!

I fight a lot.

... Well, I used to anyway.

Fighting isn't fun at all!

[He seems a little alarmed.]

People get hurt, and they hurt other people. Everyone's mad at each other and they don't want to try and stop it.

Well, being mad is kind of what I was born for, soooo...

[ :I ]

T-That doesn't seem very good...

... You're saying I'm not good?

_{[Wrath lets out a bit of a huff-- but he doesn't sound surprised. No one back home did-- not even his own team-mates, except for Mommy. Here people were more generous.]}

Well, you're a human. Of course you would.

_{[Or half-human. Whatever.]}

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No! No, no, I didn't mean it like that!

[Steven frowns. He seems pretty upset that he might have hurt Wrath's feelings.] Where I'm from, we have to fight a lot of monsters because it's our job. But sometimes you just need to talk to them, a-and be nice to them, and then they aren't so bad after all!

...I used to think it was really cool, going on all these adventures with the Crystal Gems. We were protecting the earth from the bad guys! And I love Garnet and Amethyst and Pearl, I really do, but all they do is fight. It's dangerous, and... [He sighs.]

I don't know about where you're from, but that's what it's like in Beach City.

And I'm not human, not really. Well, here I am, I guess...

_{[Well, in all fairness, Wrath has been called much worse things than 'not good' before. Try 'abomination', and 'monster'.]

[In any case, poor Steven's honest confession gets a somewhat disdainful sniff from Wrath.]}

Well, I'm a monster, and I like fighting things.

I fight things all the time.

[Steven doesn't seem too jarred by this news. Befriending monsters is fairly familiar territory for him, after all.

He gives Wrath a curious look.] Hmm...what kind of monster are you?

I used to have to keep it a secret but nobody cares here, so I guess I can tell you.

I'm a Homunculus.

I'm what happens when somebody dies and a stupid human tries to bring them back to life.

Nobody's ever very happy to see us.

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