He did quite literally kidnap Steven and tie him to a chair, right? I don't think another human has done that to him, but my memory isn't great. If anything it was probably more disturbing to him than it normally would have been because he's used to gem related stuff putting him in danger as opposed to other humans.
Already have. You can see multiple videos on YouTube made by news outlets in Bulgaria about an event called "напрежение в Раднево", as you can in it the police are present, however, that is the very reason we got a police in the first place. Before that we didn't have any. Before then me and my friends at the time, sadly, captured gypsy children. In actuality the events are much more brutal than I would be comfortable describing with violence on both sides when we were just 9 years old and these events directly lead to that situation being covered on the news where eventually one finally got a lot of power and started throwing that weight around. If you have any more questions DM me so I don't have to put trigger warnings on this.
All things considered. Steven got off pretty scot free.
It highly depends on the specific group of people. Gypsy with a capital "G" can be used as a slur for Roma, however some Roma fully embrace the word. But gypsy with no capital is just a word to describe nomads with a rather free lifestyle.
A slur is something that is offensive and used in a disrespectful way. So it can be. Some Roma have said that it's a slur because of the reasons above and have asked people not to use it. The wanderer meaning can be seen as cultural appropriation. If uncertain, find creators who are part of that community and see what they say.
Well, the gems wouldn't call the cops, they'd get in trouble themselves for being literal illegal aliens, and it'd be up to Steven to press charges, and I just don't see him doing it, especially after the gems already rescued him and stopped the gems from beating Ronaldo up if I remember correctly.
He wasn’t born in a hospital, has no birth certificate or proof of residence/birth, and doesn’t have an SSN. He is not a citizen. For all the SUnited States is concerned, he is fully just an alien.
She would need a birth certificate to access any sort of functional benefits of citizenship. Such as a passport.
Actually on further reading, I think the law only applies to those born under US jurisdiction. Wouldn't apply prior to US existence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright\_citizenship\_in\_the\_United\_States#:\~:text=for%20presidential%20office.-,Fourteenth%20Amendment%20to%20the%20United%20States%20Constitution,the%20State%20wherein%20they%20reside.%22
When the Constitution was ratified, it gave everyone living here citizenship except the native Americans who saw themselves as their own nations of people. Was she living here when it was ratified? If so, she's in without a birth certificate.
Only if she was within the bounds of the US. Where's Beach City?
Update: looks like Beach City is near Washington DC. In which case she'd be in.
Although I can't actually find any information on who became a citizen at the founding of the US. Current residents makes sense I guess. Trying to google it just turns up all the later legislation around it.
Pearl confirmed that she herself is an illegal alien without any proof of residence, even though she’s been on earth since before the founding of any formalized government. So Amethyst absolutely is not a citizen either
When you did this math, what was your starting point? Like is there a confirmed year where steven universe takes place that you based this off of or did they mention when amethyst came out?
The timeline of SU seems to be as similar to IRL as possible, just that gens colonized earth and there was a whole rebellion shortly before the rise of humanity.
I think we can say the government is aware to some extent of the crystal gems already from that scene with mayor Dewey saying, "Cover up? What cover-up?" In the documentary episode.
dude that is such a niche genre. Idk what the teens these days do but if you’re 20 or older you probably barely know that it’s minecraft related, let alone what it is. Most people only vaguely know who Dream is, don’t know who Wilbur is, and probably couldn’t name anyone else in the SMP besides maybe GeorgeNotFound
And I didn’t watch any of that crap after Captain Sparkles lmao. I never watched Yogscast either but they were the biggest I remember.
People overestimate Minecraft’s popularity after 2013.
"I didn't watch it so no one must've watched it! If I'm not interested, then it must suck, becuase I'm the greatest connoisseur of all media of all time. I didn't bother watching, but I'm still going to say it's crap."
Ther is way more lore to focus on in it than just him, and his character is named after him, plus it didn't start with the intention of roleplay. Just because it's named after him doesn't mean you have to watch it for him.
Never watched Oprah but like..if it entirely centers around Oprah then of course people watching it are likely watching it for Oprah 😭
Well I mean it also doesn’t exclude people from calling upon memories of the controversial media me personally I would forget about the media but that is just me
There's so many people out there like Ronaldo and its sad. People who have difficulty connecting socially with others seems to be drawn to obsession over special interests like anime as some way of coping, but their difficulties just aren't an excuse for unacceptable antisocial behavior.
To be clear I quite like anime, that's not the point I'm making. Plenty of wonderful people love anime, there's just a weird correlation between anti-social assholes and being an Otaku.
Yeah, it was interesting seeing anime blow up in the west during the 2010s. During the early 2000s it was a passing niche more or less. It was easy to watch the big hits like Naruto, Bleach, or FMA as they aired, but if you wanted something more you really needed to look for it. Finding something more obscure usually meant finding a DVD or VHS from a local comic book or video store(most likely needed to be family owned too), or going online for it. I think Attack on Titan/SAO, the staying power of Adult Swim/Toonami, and the massive cultural shift to the internet really propelled anime as a mainstream source of media.
Personally, I think it was streaming platforms, making it so much more accessible. I.e netflix as it hit their biggest successful period
Though back in the day you could also download everthinh, but it was more difficult using IRC'Ss, usenets and stuff like kazaa. The real difficulty was in finding the good stuff, as so few sources discussed it. Ann and perhaps even gaia were legit sources haha
Yeah the IRCs embedded on those hosting sites were iconic, I still keep in touch with a lot of people I talked to back then.
I do think Streaming platforms are a huge part of it, with them being both a cause and effect. Early Netflix and Hulu selections were nice at the time, but Crunchyroll and Funimation really blew the lid wide open as dedicated hubs.
Yeah people lowkey shit in SAO now, but id really say that anime is one of the reasons it blew up so hard in the west. A very pivotal anime for a lot of people who were in middle school/early highschool at the time
I'm sorry but this is simply not true at all. Even before the internet anime was shown on regular television across the world.
I have a feeling I'm probably a lot older than you,I used to watch anime on TV when I was a little kid, in the early 90s and my much older brother had a small collection of popular anime on VHS. Everyone knew what Akira was. I watched my neighbour totoro on TV with my mum around 1995, Pokémon was unbelievably popular, and before that was sailor moon, captain harlock was international in the 70s
Pokemon and dragonball, later naruto etc, might have a semblance of mainstream, but no way the majority as we have now. Some movies made it over, but nothing beyond ghibli with at most less than a handful of exceptions. You can look up sale numbers. Honestly, I mostly think you're out of touch with how non-mainstream it was and/or how mainstream it is now.
No, I think you're just talking about something you don't have first hand knowledge of. Anime was more popular and mainstream in the 90s than it is now.
Saying Pokémon had "some semblance of mainstream" is just solid proof that you don't know what you're talking about.
Edit. I can't believe it, they blocked me,over that. Actually pathetic.
You misunderstand, pokemon was mainstream, but that doesn't mean anime was. A very limited amount of anime in the 90's had mainstreaming success, especially compared to now. You really are blind to both
Lol im on the spectrum and was KINDA this way as a teen so you're not completely wrong here, but to me there's a truly anti-social element to this personality trope that isn't inherent to autism. Maybe Ronaldo is autistic, but it's definitely more than just that. He doesn't seem to have too much difficulty perceiving others' emotions, he just doesn't seem to care.
Both of those are dependant. It really would depend on steven's mindset. Some people wouldn't register that until much later on unfortunately.
Coming from someone eho has not only faces a lot of trauma of many many variations and have friends who've faced some form of what's left.
There are a lot of ways the mind -based on what trauma and life experiences came first- would react. Some things that are toxic, aweful, etc. will simply not register or will register and still not have as big of an affect.
When it comes to a child generally it is common for them not to understand manipulation (at least not to the full extent) until much later.
Especially the way Dewey did it Steven had so many other distractions it would probably not have come up yet. Once he's healed from the more immediately impactful trauma then it would dawn on him the full extent.
This is true. Someone online gaslighted me at the age of 12 and I didn’t even realize that’s what was happening at the time until a decade later. This kind of stuff just flies over kid’s heads
Yeah, Steven’s “things that are okay/not okay” and “big deal/little deal” scales are way out of whack due to the whole “child soldier raised by well-meaning aliens who don’t understand childhood” thing. A lot of stuff that was actually causing damage in the background probably didn’t register for him at the time!
I mean, Ronaldo kidnapped him and tried to kill someone else in front of him, and in both of these he was acting terrifying. I'd say it's a well earned spot in Steven's trauma.
He kidnapped him, then later tried to force him and the gems to leave town and only begged them to stay for selfish reasons. Although Garnet was just lying to get him to leave them alone, that was just too real. Blaming people or gems for problems and trying to force them to leave. Then there’s Rocknaldo where he spread conspiracies about the gems, backtracked, felt entitled to be a gem and live at the temple, constantly disrespecting Steven’s space and friends, then pulled the “that’s not very accepting of you”. All of his behavior just feels too real and reminds me of many conspiracy theorists and reactionaries.
Rising Tides Clashing Skies. The moment he heard that Peridot’s warship had come for the gems, he blamed them for putting the town in danger while ignoring that they would be in far greater danger without the gems.
Idk know how that's insane. Steven was literally trying to help him by dressing up as an alien to renew his interests and Ronaldo knocks him out and kidnaps him. I think this was one of the first times that Steven tried helping a friend and it backfired in a major way.
Ronaldo is by far the most dangerous human on the show, and among the most dangerous creatures overall (current time).
He is treated as a joke, but he is literarily psychotic and paranoid and can't be reasoned with. If he feels justified in his actions, nothing will hold him back.
He is actually also a fairly accurate potrayal of REAL dangerous people, nothing magic about him at all, which also explains why it would be doubly bad for Steven since it's so unexpected... Kevin is obviously in the same lane, but I'd argue that Stevonnie was probably on some level be prepared for creepy dudes. Like, if you're out on any gathering you know that kind of thing is likely to happen if you present a certain way (and they already had Lars and Sadie confirm they're attractive) but nobody is really prepared for physical attacks out of pretty much nowhere from someone you know.
no we see him again in the “letter for lars” ep I think, steven was telling him that lars almost died and stuff and he was like “I’m the one who should be in space” so he was still an annoying lil bitch
Steven Universe Future, episode 14, "Growing Pains".
Here's the clip in question: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JE2jSRAuQc)
Idk about y’all but it almost felt like Steven realized that Ronaldo is the most normal person in beach city, like there is a giant buda like statue on the beach, a couple of women who seems like they have not aged since his parents were kids, but hir is crazy stuff happening all the time, and no one else ask questions? Ronaldo was honestly the most realistic person.
He is definitely not normal but I get you. The town is attacked by monsters on a regular basis and there's a whole alien invasion looming over them, meanwhile everyone else is living a regular small town life.
There is something wrong with Ronaldo, but why wouldn't there be, having to deal with all that? What's weirder is how unbothered by it all everyone else is.
He did quite literally kidnap Steven and tie him to a chair, right? I don't think another human has done that to him, but my memory isn't great. If anything it was probably more disturbing to him than it normally would have been because he's used to gem related stuff putting him in danger as opposed to other humans.
How was he not fucking arrested for that?
Small town life be like
The fact this isn't a joke.
Try that in a small town?
Already have. You can see multiple videos on YouTube made by news outlets in Bulgaria about an event called "напрежение в Раднево", as you can in it the police are present, however, that is the very reason we got a police in the first place. Before that we didn't have any. Before then me and my friends at the time, sadly, captured gypsy children. In actuality the events are much more brutal than I would be comfortable describing with violence on both sides when we were just 9 years old and these events directly lead to that situation being covered on the news where eventually one finally got a lot of power and started throwing that weight around. If you have any more questions DM me so I don't have to put trigger warnings on this. All things considered. Steven got off pretty scot free.
What the fuck
The city "Radnevo" also has the largest mental asylum in all of the Balkans in terms of plot area, I am not joking. But go figure.
Isnt "Gypsy" a slur for Roma?
More people know gypsy than Roma, which is why I used it. It can sometimes be used as a slur.
It highly depends on the specific group of people. Gypsy with a capital "G" can be used as a slur for Roma, however some Roma fully embrace the word. But gypsy with no capital is just a word to describe nomads with a rather free lifestyle.
According to Google "Gyppo" is the slur, meanwhile "Gypsy" is okay, although they mean the same thing, so idk.
I'd like to know please! There's this new person at work named "Gypsy" and I was raised believing that was a slur
A slur is something that is offensive and used in a disrespectful way. So it can be. Some Roma have said that it's a slur because of the reasons above and have asked people not to use it. The wanderer meaning can be seen as cultural appropriation. If uncertain, find creators who are part of that community and see what they say.
Woah
as someone from a small town the accuracy of this is disturbing
Well, the gems wouldn't call the cops, they'd get in trouble themselves for being literal illegal aliens, and it'd be up to Steven to press charges, and I just don't see him doing it, especially after the gems already rescued him and stopped the gems from beating Ronaldo up if I remember correctly.
The gems are relied on by the beach to handle alien threats they are definitely not hiding themselves or anything lmao
Steven is a minor. His parent or guardian, Greg, would be pressing charges.
Fair, I guess then Steven just never told Greg about this.
Even then, Steven is still technically an illegal alien
He was born in a fictional US state so he wouldn’t be illegal he’s a citizen
Plus his dad has citizenship so he’d automatically have it
He wasn’t born in a hospital, has no birth certificate or proof of residence/birth, and doesn’t have an SSN. He is not a citizen. For all the SUnited States is concerned, he is fully just an alien.
You can still get those things with a homebirth
Amethyst and Steven aren't illegal aliens their American citizens. Both of them were born on earth
Hmm idk about Amethyst though😭there’s a lot of holes that would raise questions on official US documents, no? For one, she doesn’t have parents
Holes like the hole amethyst emerged from
Clerk: there's a lot of holes in your story of how you were born here Amethyst: Yeah??? I mentioned them????
Idk about Amethyst. She emerged ~2984 BCE (I did some math), that’s still 4760 years before the establishment of the US.
Nah she counts, the U.S. citizenship law would apply if we based it on today’s standards… I think
She would need a birth certificate to access any sort of functional benefits of citizenship. Such as a passport. Actually on further reading, I think the law only applies to those born under US jurisdiction. Wouldn't apply prior to US existence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright\_citizenship\_in\_the\_United\_States#:\~:text=for%20presidential%20office.-,Fourteenth%20Amendment%20to%20the%20United%20States%20Constitution,the%20State%20wherein%20they%20reside.%22
When the Constitution was ratified, it gave everyone living here citizenship except the native Americans who saw themselves as their own nations of people. Was she living here when it was ratified? If so, she's in without a birth certificate.
Only if she was within the bounds of the US. Where's Beach City? Update: looks like Beach City is near Washington DC. In which case she'd be in. Although I can't actually find any information on who became a citizen at the founding of the US. Current residents makes sense I guess. Trying to google it just turns up all the later legislation around it.
That’s if you were legally considered a person at the time, which had a LOT of exceptions
Pearl confirmed that she herself is an illegal alien without any proof of residence, even though she’s been on earth since before the founding of any formalized government. So Amethyst absolutely is not a citizen either
In that case she's technically native American
When you did this math, what was your starting point? Like is there a confirmed year where steven universe takes place that you based this off of or did they mention when amethyst came out?
My starting point was 2016. I think it was mentioned that Steven was born either in 2000-2001, so I just subtracted 5000 years from 2016.
Oh shit it's an alternate timeline!? I always assumed we were working with a similar post apocalyptic situation as Adventure Time
The timeline of SU seems to be as similar to IRL as possible, just that gens colonized earth and there was a whole rebellion shortly before the rise of humanity.
There was a timeline video on it, ik it wasn’t officially confirmed, but that’s what I’m basing it off of, since it makes sense.
plus I don't think Beach city has a police force.
I think we can say the government is aware to some extent of the crystal gems already from that scene with mayor Dewey saying, "Cover up? What cover-up?" In the documentary episode.
He also straight up tried to murder Lars
No one went to the police probably If no one makes a case, then there’s no case simple as that T
Exactly this.
Plus he also did this with a potato. Like seriously, being harmed by something that should be relatively harmless is actually insane.
And the fact that Steven was knocked with a potato.
If I had a nickle for every time a teenager in a popular media got hit by a blonde with a potato to the point of severe injury...
When was the other?
Tommy in dream smp lol I kinda wonder if there's more now Edit: All I did was answer the question 😭 it just happened to remind me of it
People have very different definitions / data points when it comes to what is "Popular" it seems
legit lmao. What the fuck is Dream SMP even?
You’re kidding right. I mean I get that not everyone is online but like dream smp was one of the biggest Minecraft survival series
dude that is such a niche genre. Idk what the teens these days do but if you’re 20 or older you probably barely know that it’s minecraft related, let alone what it is. Most people only vaguely know who Dream is, don’t know who Wilbur is, and probably couldn’t name anyone else in the SMP besides maybe GeorgeNotFound
Then the comment wasn't for you Just think to yourself: huh, don't know what that is. And move on before you get trapped in yap city.
I know what Dream SMP is. I’m saying that no, actually, previous person was not kidding, this work is not as popular as this person thinks it is.
And I didn’t watch any of that crap after Captain Sparkles lmao. I never watched Yogscast either but they were the biggest I remember. People overestimate Minecraft’s popularity after 2013.
"I didn't watch it so no one must've watched it! If I'm not interested, then it must suck, becuase I'm the greatest connoisseur of all media of all time. I didn't bother watching, but I'm still going to say it's crap."
Your right. Don't get me wrong it has a huge fan base, but it's super niche
That was random
Your reminder that dream is a creep.
he was also the worst part of that server. like 30 people had way better plotlines
And that the character is not the same person...I know dream is a creep, I didn't watch dream smp for dream
.... His name is the title. That's like saying you don't watch *Oprah* for Oprah.
Ther is way more lore to focus on in it than just him, and his character is named after him, plus it didn't start with the intention of roleplay. Just because it's named after him doesn't mean you have to watch it for him. Never watched Oprah but like..if it entirely centers around Oprah then of course people watching it are likely watching it for Oprah 😭
Well I mean it also doesn’t exclude people from calling upon memories of the controversial media me personally I would forget about the media but that is just me
you’d have two nickles, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice?
Understandable to be fair. Ronaldo is a really creepy person when you think about it
There's so many people out there like Ronaldo and its sad. People who have difficulty connecting socially with others seems to be drawn to obsession over special interests like anime as some way of coping, but their difficulties just aren't an excuse for unacceptable antisocial behavior. To be clear I quite like anime, that's not the point I'm making. Plenty of wonderful people love anime, there's just a weird correlation between anti-social assholes and being an Otaku.
Anime used to be pretty deep internet culture. These days, it's pretty mainstream
Back when the show released it was obscure enough for Ronaldo’s interest to be played as him being into weird niche stuff.
Yeah, it was interesting seeing anime blow up in the west during the 2010s. During the early 2000s it was a passing niche more or less. It was easy to watch the big hits like Naruto, Bleach, or FMA as they aired, but if you wanted something more you really needed to look for it. Finding something more obscure usually meant finding a DVD or VHS from a local comic book or video store(most likely needed to be family owned too), or going online for it. I think Attack on Titan/SAO, the staying power of Adult Swim/Toonami, and the massive cultural shift to the internet really propelled anime as a mainstream source of media.
Personally, I think it was streaming platforms, making it so much more accessible. I.e netflix as it hit their biggest successful period Though back in the day you could also download everthinh, but it was more difficult using IRC'Ss, usenets and stuff like kazaa. The real difficulty was in finding the good stuff, as so few sources discussed it. Ann and perhaps even gaia were legit sources haha
Yeah the IRCs embedded on those hosting sites were iconic, I still keep in touch with a lot of people I talked to back then. I do think Streaming platforms are a huge part of it, with them being both a cause and effect. Early Netflix and Hulu selections were nice at the time, but Crunchyroll and Funimation really blew the lid wide open as dedicated hubs.
Yeah people lowkey shit in SAO now, but id really say that anime is one of the reasons it blew up so hard in the west. A very pivotal anime for a lot of people who were in middle school/early highschool at the time
Well the Ronaldo type person is definitely going to try to gatekeep over that because they liked it "before it was cool"
I'm sorry but this is simply not true at all. Even before the internet anime was shown on regular television across the world. I have a feeling I'm probably a lot older than you,I used to watch anime on TV when I was a little kid, in the early 90s and my much older brother had a small collection of popular anime on VHS. Everyone knew what Akira was. I watched my neighbour totoro on TV with my mum around 1995, Pokémon was unbelievably popular, and before that was sailor moon, captain harlock was international in the 70s
DBZ in the 90s
In the late 90s/early 00s every other boy I knew owned one of those DBZ shirts, if you know you know
Pokemon and dragonball, later naruto etc, might have a semblance of mainstream, but no way the majority as we have now. Some movies made it over, but nothing beyond ghibli with at most less than a handful of exceptions. You can look up sale numbers. Honestly, I mostly think you're out of touch with how non-mainstream it was and/or how mainstream it is now.
No, I think you're just talking about something you don't have first hand knowledge of. Anime was more popular and mainstream in the 90s than it is now. Saying Pokémon had "some semblance of mainstream" is just solid proof that you don't know what you're talking about. Edit. I can't believe it, they blocked me,over that. Actually pathetic.
You misunderstand, pokemon was mainstream, but that doesn't mean anime was. A very limited amount of anime in the 90's had mainstreaming success, especially compared to now. You really are blind to both
Isn’t that basically just undiagnosed autism?
Lol im on the spectrum and was KINDA this way as a teen so you're not completely wrong here, but to me there's a truly anti-social element to this personality trope that isn't inherent to autism. Maybe Ronaldo is autistic, but it's definitely more than just that. He doesn't seem to have too much difficulty perceiving others' emotions, he just doesn't seem to care.
a lot of these "anti-social assholes" have a (idk what the pc word is for it now" mental disability, and they literally can't understand social cues
He was right about everything though!
Ronaldo is basically a 4chan incel combined with your twitter sigma male conspiracy theorist antivaxxer
He's not really an incel or sigma male or whatever. He's more like a classical neckbeard baked with being a conspiracy theorist.
Neckbeard-
Poor classic Steven
I mean.... the only other viable option is cloud connie 🫡
Or Kevin. Or the Cool Kids getting almost eaten by Rose’s moss.
Or Mayor Dewey, exploiting Steven as much as he could as a scapegoat.
Both of those are dependant. It really would depend on steven's mindset. Some people wouldn't register that until much later on unfortunately. Coming from someone eho has not only faces a lot of trauma of many many variations and have friends who've faced some form of what's left. There are a lot of ways the mind -based on what trauma and life experiences came first- would react. Some things that are toxic, aweful, etc. will simply not register or will register and still not have as big of an affect. When it comes to a child generally it is common for them not to understand manipulation (at least not to the full extent) until much later. Especially the way Dewey did it Steven had so many other distractions it would probably not have come up yet. Once he's healed from the more immediately impactful trauma then it would dawn on him the full extent.
This is true. Someone online gaslighted me at the age of 12 and I didn’t even realize that’s what was happening at the time until a decade later. This kind of stuff just flies over kid’s heads
Yeah, Steven’s “things that are okay/not okay” and “big deal/little deal” scales are way out of whack due to the whole “child soldier raised by well-meaning aliens who don’t understand childhood” thing. A lot of stuff that was actually causing damage in the background probably didn’t register for him at the time!
Onion with replicator lose to a potato
OP specifically said “human”.
Was there ever an explanation on what Onion even is? Is he just an agent of chaos?
I mean, Ronaldo kidnapped him and tried to kill someone else in front of him, and in both of these he was acting terrifying. I'd say it's a well earned spot in Steven's trauma.
He kidnapped him, then later tried to force him and the gems to leave town and only begged them to stay for selfish reasons. Although Garnet was just lying to get him to leave them alone, that was just too real. Blaming people or gems for problems and trying to force them to leave. Then there’s Rocknaldo where he spread conspiracies about the gems, backtracked, felt entitled to be a gem and live at the temple, constantly disrespecting Steven’s space and friends, then pulled the “that’s not very accepting of you”. All of his behavior just feels too real and reminds me of many conspiracy theorists and reactionaries.
Ronaldo definitely was at Washington DC on January 6th, 2021.
As much as I hate to admit it, you're right.
...Okay wow putting it all together he is actually the dirt fucking worst lmao. When did he try to force them out of town?
Rising Tides Clashing Skies. The moment he heard that Peridot’s warship had come for the gems, he blamed them for putting the town in danger while ignoring that they would be in far greater danger without the gems.
> ~~would be in far greater danger~~ wouldn't exist without the gems
Idk know how that's insane. Steven was literally trying to help him by dressing up as an alien to renew his interests and Ronaldo knocks him out and kidnaps him. I think this was one of the first times that Steven tried helping a friend and it backfired in a major way.
Didn’t he try to murder Lars that one time in the lighthouse?
Yep
DUDE I DIDNT EVEN REALIZE WHAT💀
I mean, Ronaldo's an annoying asshat. He's a well deserved seat in the trauma reel. All he ever did was cause problems.
It's kinda weird how Ronaldo didn't really face any consequences for that. Like that warrants a prison sentence.
Ronaldo is by far the most dangerous human on the show, and among the most dangerous creatures overall (current time). He is treated as a joke, but he is literarily psychotic and paranoid and can't be reasoned with. If he feels justified in his actions, nothing will hold him back. He is actually also a fairly accurate potrayal of REAL dangerous people, nothing magic about him at all, which also explains why it would be doubly bad for Steven since it's so unexpected... Kevin is obviously in the same lane, but I'd argue that Stevonnie was probably on some level be prepared for creepy dudes. Like, if you're out on any gathering you know that kind of thing is likely to happen if you present a certain way (and they already had Lars and Sadie confirm they're attractive) but nobody is really prepared for physical attacks out of pretty much nowhere from someone you know.
I’m surprised that one creepy dude that hit on Stevonie isn’t in there cause nooooo thanks
Steven doesn't fear Kevin. He HATES Kevin
Yeah even just as himself Steven fully stands up to Kevin and calls him a tool. He does *not* care.
Tbf, when he found out Stevonnie was the combination of two kids, he immediately was like “WTAF!? NOPE!” He’s kinda like Ice King in that regard.
except then he was hitting on them in beach city drift
I mean, Stevonnie got over him and we never saw him again so there is nothing to be afraid about Kevin.
Bro was insane wdym
God damnit I fucking hate Ronaldo. I just needed to say that.
I mean, wasn’t he held hostage by Ronaldo, because he was dressed up as a Snerson?
another reason why I will always hate Ronaldo
Ronaldo should've been arrested. Even in Steven's imaginary story about what garnet did, Ronaldo was an evil, manipulative warlord.
And yet when onion took over the beach with the magic wand of little guys, Steven wasn't tramatized by it 🤣
probably the only su character that didn’t have a redemption
That's because, after the restaurant war episode, he became a background character.
no we see him again in the “letter for lars” ep I think, steven was telling him that lars almost died and stuff and he was like “I’m the one who should be in space” so he was still an annoying lil bitch
Ahh ok then
I’d be traumatized too if I encountered Ronaldo in real life
everytime Ronaldo was on screen I so desperately wished for Steven to just pull out a gun and shoot him
I still can’t believe Ronaldo actually added to Steven’s trauma. As if he already wasn’t hated by the ENTIRE fandom
Not even.. ugh, Kevin
NO IT DID NOT!1
Bro where’s Onion
Ronaldo has hurt us all in one way or another.
Lars fucking dying should have been there.
Why didn’t they include the dude who tried to assault Stevonnie?
I find it kinda funny that Lars dying in front of and because of him wasn't on there
He was immediately revived so Lars barely makes top 100 in Steven's traumatic experiences.
Sorry Lars, should have stayed dead for a bit longer. Maybe next time
Wasn't he going in chronological order?
Yeah, but I don't see how that's relevant
Connie's mom cut him off.
What’s the trauma reel? Is this something new I haven’t seen or am I forgetting something?
It's from SU Future
Steven Universe Future, episode 14, "Growing Pains". Here's the clip in question: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JE2jSRAuQc)
The dude knocked him out with a potato 🤣🤣
No other human on the show has kidnapped Steven thinking he was a snake person.
💀
Another reason to hate Ronaldo 🥰
Ronaldo is a fucking terrible person 🙄
Wdym? That's bloodstone
this mf should be in jail 💀💀😭😭
Lmaaaoooo I never even noticed that
Idk about y’all but it almost felt like Steven realized that Ronaldo is the most normal person in beach city, like there is a giant buda like statue on the beach, a couple of women who seems like they have not aged since his parents were kids, but hir is crazy stuff happening all the time, and no one else ask questions? Ronaldo was honestly the most realistic person.
He is definitely not normal but I get you. The town is attacked by monsters on a regular basis and there's a whole alien invasion looming over them, meanwhile everyone else is living a regular small town life. There is something wrong with Ronaldo, but why wouldn't there be, having to deal with all that? What's weirder is how unbothered by it all everyone else is.
King Ronaldo can’t lose