>>108913243Steven is pretty much an isekai harem protag that will get everything handed to him on a silver platter. Half of this is because Steven is a self-insert of Sugar's autistic brother she wants to coddle and the other half is that anything close to her can't suffer lasting consequences.
If you look at the episodes she co-wrote/storyboarded in AT such as Incedium, Burning Low, and Hot to The Touch, you can see Rebecca trying to create a tragedy romance for Finn since she wanted him to suffer the real life consequences of romance. Finn even cries in Hot to Touch but all he gets is regret and heartache at the end of the episode.
Steven is the opposite though. All he has to do is cry and throw a tantrum and everything goes his way. Sure his "feelings" are hurt in the moment, but eventually the universe bends over backwards to mollycoddle and pamper him. Finn does not and did not get the same treatment, especially from Rebecca.
>TL;DRFinn is the child forced to be an adult, who has to live in the real world and suffer debilitating consequences no matter how hard he tried to avoid them. Steven is the child pretending to be an adult who doesn't suffer any lasting negative consequences and at worst gets his feelings hurt only for him to be absolutely spoiled rotten after his tantrum.
