>>116618937Which is often 80% of the time since Sugar thinks crying = empathy+insta-forgiveness. The remaining 20% Steven escalated into violence but oy through fusion or siccing the Crystal Gems on them. I know Sugar claims that it was about Steven being passive & muh shield, but hes the stereotype of a bad pacifist. The pacifist who will preach non-violence and barely fight his battles because they have others who commit violence for them.
Its also ironic because Sugar's writing on AT was the Antithesis of SU. Sugar campaigned for AT not to revolve around Finn & Jake along with proving that Finn didn't deserve happiness/wins on virtue of being an MC. She also wrote him as a the stoic badass she tries to "subvert" with Steven. Every time Sugar had Finn show emotion, her stories had him realize that his emotions didn't matter because he needed to bottle/bury them so he could be a tool for others along with him becoming a passive sadsack. Steven had this at first but then everyone showers him with affection tfor the bare minimum of crying & singing that got Finn nowhere but heartbreak.
As much as I dislike Sugar's writing, its more likely shes just an inept hypocrite that let Steven be babied because he's an insert of her little brother, showing how nepotistic Sugar truly is. Youd think she'd learn and improve on her previous writing habits but instead she keeps regressing back into her infantile Tumblr/LiveJournal persona.
