>>118654287Here's my elevator pitch:
His mother, Helena Starlight is older than Steven. She was in her mid thirties when they met, so when the show begins, she'll be in her late forties. They live in Jersey and a waitress in a small cafe and also the manager of a gas station, which is where they met. She's tall and a little bit heavyset but not quite fat, with skin the color of polished obsidian.
The boy's name is named Dejamar Starlight. He's smart, but he gets into trouble a lot. He's constantly looking for ways to make money because he feels responsible for his mother's poverty. He's tall and almost unhealthily skinny, with the 90s style flat top. He's got a bad temper and a tendency to take things personally. He tends to hold grudges for a long time.
He has a toned down version of his father's powers. He's strong, but not superhumanly so. He's intuitively empathetic and he has a green thumb and a talent for music. He heals quickly but cannot heal others. He can't summon the shield, but he's instinctively bubbled himself once during a car accident. He can fuse, but only with gems, and he doesn't know it yet.
He has a deep distrust of gems, but that begins to change when he starts high school and meets his new teacher Jasper (not that one), and begins to form a bond.
Like Steven Universe, the show is divided between slice of life and deepest lore episodes, but the slice of life episodes are mostly wacky get-rich-quick hijinks and the more serious back burner plot is about a government agency trying to protect earth from gem influence. The big season 4 or 5 reveal is that
a now-permanently-fused Stevonnie is in charge of it. 
