One Thing I Don't Often See People Talk About In Steven Universe.

missed the mark by (looks at calendar) uhhh. hm. but I really wanted to do something for the 5th anniversary! happy five years to these idiots 🎉

WHAT THE HELLY . WHAT THE HELL

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I love general Lilia I’ve been thinking about this guy for a good while now.

doing another re read of kuro and the amount of detail in these two panels alone is mind boggling

it’s Ciel’s 10th birthday and the day the Phantomhive family is murdered. we know this firstly because the narrator (Elizabeth) tells us, but also because we can see an advent calendar behind her with the 14th unopened.

advent calendars are popular among children who celebrate Christmas, building up excitement for weeks before the holiday. each door has a festive gift behind it; oftentimes candy or a small toy, and children open them as soon as they can. as someone who grew up with these, they were the first thing opened every morning without fail.

given Elizabeth hasn’t opened this door yet, either she’s showing major restraint or is preoccupied by something far more important. we see her sitting at a desk with embroidery tools visible, which leads us to the next panel…

her gift to Ciel is a hand embroidered handkerchief, a common and heartfelt gesture between lovers in the Victorian era. my guess is that she is mimicking what the older female figures in her life at the time (likely Angelina or Rachel) are doing with their partners. regardless of the why behind the gift, it’s clear how much she cares through her efforts.

the embroidery is flowery and intricate, symbolizing an innocent, childlike love, and the ‘cuteness’ she’s trying to maintain. on the contrary, there’s bandaids on her fingers, showing the pain she’s been through to complete the work, or maybe it’s from her fencing lessons. either way, her duality is on full display.

and she’s SO proud of herself, you can see it on her face. it’s amazing! yana really did an amazing job making an 11 year old girl complex.

please let her be happy 😭

Something we don’t really talk about enough, and I’ll probably write about more later, is Malleus’ kindness and how, even though at times it’s taken wrongly by others, it persists despite his past and what he went through. He is still kind in his own way and he tries to be.

Can you imagine being a little one and being “cursed” from such a young age? Can you imagine? Watching others receive the love and care you always wanted, and despite it all?? You still try to be kind?

Imagine having to hold your emotions in, practically numbing yourself from everything? Because to feel any emotions would harm others? Do you realize the strength it would take to do that? And still be kind?

To still have the…openness to try and get along with humans even when they tend to see you in an unfavorable light? To hope that someone treats you normally?

By all means, if you think of some of the experiences that he went through since he was a child, someone weaker would not be able to handle what he has.

He’s cursed with powers that he can’t handle by the senate who only want to use him and show their importance. The senate who probably have cursed generations of draconias most likely.

Malleus who had to be careful with the way he laughed or talked in fear of hurting someone accidentally.

He was able to see Lilia who came to visit him and at times sneak in to see him. The one person he can be himself with and even then he accidentally hurt him.

The Malleus, who people said was boring and arrogant, but we know now why he was don’t we? Because he had to be to control his powers.

But also Malleus, who snuck away to see Lilia, who took care of silver because it would make Lilia happy. But also, someone who grows to care for that little babe.

But can we also add on this? Malleus, who was “blessed” with these curses having to see Silver, who was “blessed” out of love. (The silver hair not the sleeping curse) and despite it all, he didn’t resent silver, he loved him. (He still loved him despite knowing the truth about who killed his mother)

Can you imagine the strength it takes to be this kind?? To continue to be this kind? And not let it foster to hate and anger?

In a way, Malleus reminds me of Lilia. His parallels with Lilia is never ending. Lilia, for everything he went through, had all the reason to grow to hate humanity but he changed through his journey.

Malleus, in a way, is also like this. He has all the reason to hate and have anger, but he doesn’t. He shows kindness repeatedly. Sometimes that kindness isn’t translated well, but despite it all, he is kind. He’s not someone who grew to hate and have anger in him. When he had all the more reason too than anyone else.

So this is love~ mm-mm-mmh-mmm~

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I really need to read some headcanons of this wonderful series :') (The image does not belong to me)

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missed the mark by (looks at calendar) uhhh. hm. but I really wanted to do something for the 5th anniversary! happy five years to these idiots 🎉

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Apparently there are ppl out there who actually ship these two. 💛 Really I picture the two having so much fun teasing and dressing Sakura up! That's a mini comic I would love to work on someday lol