>>122286877True, although Steven Universe’s case is particularly extreme from the beginning. The extreme fanbase projected on her characters hardcore and Sugar didn’t want to seem insensitive to that. I recall an interview she gave where she admitted to feeling nervous about how she wrote Jasper because her fans said that they would kill themselves if something bad happened to her (something along those lines).
Perhaps I’m a conspiracy theorist, but I do believe that Sugar wanted Pearl/Greg to be endgame. But with the way the fandom was, there was no way that would go over well with them. Best to end it with a one-sided crush on Bismuth’s part and leave it at that.
