>>120705788Blue and Yellow are hard to keep interesting.
Unlike White and Pink you have to explain more, since they should both be out in space constantly seeing each other (from the Diamond perspective of time). One going missing would be immediately missed. You have to figure out what happens to Yellow and Blue Pearl, who are hard to write as serious. You have to explain what their Courts are doing, why they would do something so short-sighted and self-destructive. You have to explain how and why they hooked up with Greg, and how they make their way to Pink and the Crystal Gems.
All without ripping off Chekhov, unless you decide to make a fancomic of a fancomic. Permission on that last point being heavily recommended.
Plus, tone. Yellow Steven lends himself well to the tone and artstyle of the pilot, Blue Steven would be a bit of a sad sack with nowhere to go.
BUT
Sugar gave us cheatcodes. She said each Diamond was so extreme they became the opposite of their self-identity.
Pink was so certain she was powerless and nothing that she was the most powerful and most important.
Yellow was so overwhelmingly powerful and controlled that she was weak and acting without really thinking.
Blue was so certain she was sensitive and invaluable that she was unfeelingly cruel and let others do 100% of her work.
White was so convinced she was correct about everything, that she was literally everything, that was was wrong about the most basic fundamentals of the universe and practically lobotomized herself through forcing herself to feel nothing.
Pink Steven overcomes power, while being vulnerable to the same issue. He speaks when Pink fought or screamed, trusted when she betrayed, was honest when she lied, accepting his vulnerability and becoming the immovable object to her unstoppable force. But he also constantly wanted to be powerful, loving fighting and having a lifelong desire to be powerful. Something he finally deals with in Future.
There is the roadmap.
