>>114358245Does anyone in the show?
Good relationships are worked out over time, on giving and receiving of support. You help others just as much as yourself by relying on others when you need it.
That’s what most Fusions are illustrations of. Aside from early Sugulite and Malachite, they are a being made stronger than their components by using each other’s strengths and feelings to salve the weaknesses and pain of each other.
Take Smokey Quartz for example. Steven and Amethyst both have crippling self-loathing and are ashamed at even existing at the point they first form her. But they love, trust, and admire each other. Smokey is that positivity twice over making up for their dislike of themselves. Steven and Amethyst continue to help each other, until Steven withdraws after learning his mother was Pink. Which was him letting something in his life slowly bleed over into his other problems.
Nobody in the show starts positive right off the bat. Steven himself was a major fuckup who required nonstop emotional support at first, so in spite of being the therapist to everyone he met, everyone other than Lars plus whichever Gem(s) wanted him dead at the time also had to prop him up right back.
