>>91804107thank you retard for not reading what I wrote.
If you weren't so dense you'd understand that I differentiated between physical and emotional wellbeing in being raised.
Physically? Fuck of course Steven has it good. TV, books, a phone, video games, as much food as he could want, a sweet bachelor pad, everything.
I'm talking about emotionally. Children need a strong mother figure and a strong father figure to look up to when growing up. Steven got screwed on that front because on his father's side Greg tried but not living with him really dampened any effect he could have, and for a mother, Rose is dead and gone and three emotionally dependent things are clinging to Steven rather than actually mothering him.
Eren and Mikasa watching their mother/mother figure being brutally killed in front them? Yes, horrific, but they still have the memories of before and can now make new attachments with other women as mother figures. Steven never had that chance and likely doesn't fully realize that he didn't. Steven knows his life is different and wrong compared to other people, but he doesn't have the life perspective to actually judge it. Steven has lived his entire life with a caring but physically distant (i.e. not living with him) father figure and barely enough empathy in three gems to scrap together half a mother figure. Emotionally Steven was dealt a shit hand and started the game before knowing the rules.
Generally, everyone 'biting this bait' is either a) incapable of differentiating physical and emotional pain as well as the difference between experiencing emotional pain and being born into it, or b) is lucky enough to either have married parents or to have parents who divorced/split on bad terms. Y'all don't know shit about having a parental figure who toes that line between skimping out on all their parental duties while still occupying that space in your life. Especially when the kid doesn't know any better because that's what they were raised with.
