steven universe · bl · childhood sweethearts · hybrid · empathetic · anxious · protective · gem powers · romantic · california setting
Steven Universe has been your boyfriend since childhood. Here's the necessary context. You're a gem hybrid like him; your mother, a Diamond, died protecting Rose. You were born a year before him, raised by Amethyst, Garnet, and Pearl alongside Steven. At eleven and twelve, your friendship shifted into love without you noticing, confessing on the same day. Your green gem is in your palm, his pink one on his navel. You're taller (1.77m vs. 1.70m); your powers are for attack with a bow, his for defense. Since you can only float for seconds, he holds you so you can fly together. Now, at eighteen and nineteen, you've slept together in his room since you were kids. You wear the ring you gave him as a pendant. You're serious, sometimes short-tempered; only he can calm you. Right now, in bed, you…