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* ElephantInTheRoom: Subverted. Steven tells Rose that he's had a lot of questions that he's wanted to ask her, and stories he's heard. He obviously means what he's learned during the past two seasons but is too polite to bring it up. After the GlamourFailure, however, he starts to unleash all his fears, anger and frustrations on her.
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* ElephantInTheRoom: Subverted. Steven tells Rose that he's had a lot of questions that he's wanted to ask her, and stories he's heard. He obviously means what he's learned during the past two seasons but is too polite to bring it up. After the GlamourFailure, remembering that she's just a construct, however, he starts to unleash all his fears, anger and frustrations on her.
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* GlamourFailure: The Room and its constructs don't show up on camera; Steven only sees himself in a black void when he tries to take a selfie.
* HopeSpot: Steven gets along with Cloud Rose, and tries to do parental things with her like play videogames and toss a football. When the GlamourFailure happens, however, he remembers that this Rose isn't real, that the real Rose is gone, and that she left him to deal with her problems.
* HopeSpot: Steven gets along with Cloud Rose, and tries to do parental things with her like play videogames and toss a football. When the GlamourFailure happens, however, he remembers that this Rose isn't real, that the real Rose is gone, and that she left him to deal with her problems.
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* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: The Room and its constructs don't show up on camera; Steven only sees himself in a black void when he tries to take a selfie.
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* GlamourFailure: Steven tries to take a selfie with Cloud Rose, but only sees himself in a black room.
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* GlamourFailure: The Room and its constructs don't show up on camera; Steven tries to take a selfie with Cloud Rose, but only sees himself in a black room.void when he tries to take a selfie.
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** Steven mentioning his temptation to emulate Rose by dyeing his hair pink explains his insight into the dyeing process exhibited in "Last One Out Of Beach City".
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Steven questions whether Rose was a failure and a coward that ran from her failures and created him as a means to hide from her mistakes.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse. Steven questions whether Rose was a failure and a coward that ran from her failures and created him as a means to hide from her mistakes.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Steven questions whether Rose was a failure and a coward that ran from her failures and created him as a means to hide from her mistakes.
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** Also a meta example. When the preview was released, it ended before Priyanka arrived. Due to foreshadowing in "That Will Be All", many fans feared that she and her husband had been abducted by the Diamonds and taken to the Zoo.
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* AdultFear: Inverted with Connie, who has a ''Child Fear''; Priyanka doesn't answer any of her calls and is ''very'' late to pick her up, something that's extremely out of character for her. Connie begins to grow more and more worried and terrified something might have happened to her mother, to the point of all but saying that she imagined her having a car crash on the way over.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear if Rose was simply an artificial construct like [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E19RosesRoom what we've]] [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E2OpenBook seen before]], or if she was actually being channeled through Steven's gem, though based on how much more advanced Rose acts than most cloud constructs it leans heavily towards the latter.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear if Rose was simply an artificial construct like [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E19RosesRoom what we've]] [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E2OpenBook seen before]], or if she was actually being channeled through Steven's gem, though based on how much more advanced Rose acts than most cloud constructs it leans heavily towards the latter.
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* AdultFear: Inverted with Connie, who has a ''Child Fear''; Priyanka doesn't answer any of her calls and is ''very'' late to pick her up, something that's extremely out of character for her. Connie begins to grow more and more worried and terrified that something might have might've happened to her mother, to the point of all but saying that she imagined her having a car crash on the way over.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear if Rose was simply an artificial construct like [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E19RosesRoom what we've]] [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E2OpenBook seen before]], or if she was actually being channeled through Steven'sgem, though based on gem. Considering how much more advanced Rose acts than most cloud constructs constructs, it leans seems to lean heavily towards the latter.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear if Rose was simply an artificial construct like [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E19RosesRoom what we've]] [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E2OpenBook seen before]], or if she was actually being channeled through Steven's
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* AudienceSurrogate: Steven vents to Cloud Rose what he and a good portion of the audience have been feeling.
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* AudienceSurrogate: Steven vents to Cloud Rose about what he and a good portion of the audience have been feeling.
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* BrokenPedestal: After learning about some of Rose's darker secrets, Steven's perception of her has faltered. He isn't quite sure how to process it, but by the end seems to finally accept that his mother wasn't perfect, but she wasn't as bad as he was starting to think.
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* BrokenPedestal: After learning about some of Rose's darker secrets, Steven's perception of her has faltered. He isn't quite sure how to process it, but by the end seems to finally accept that his mother wasn't perfect, but she wasn't as bad as he was starting to think.think she was.
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** Much like in "Open Book," Steven stops playing with Rose when he remembers that she's just a part of the Room, not actually his mother. He also remembers that the Room gives him what he wants, not what is real, but that the Room can help him with finding closure.
** When Steven starts to call out Rose, he references Bismuth and Pink Diamond, as well as how all of Homeworld has it out for Earth. The trauma has stayed with him.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Steven finally snaps at Cloud Rose over his anger at having to deal with all the messes Rose Quartz left behind. Cloud Rose (who Steven acknowledges is just him talking to himself) tells him that Rose couldn't have been that bad, or she wouldn't have left the tape for him he found in Lion.
** When Steven starts to call out Rose, he references Bismuth and Pink Diamond, as well as how all of Homeworld has it out for Earth. The trauma has stayed with him.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Steven finally snaps at Cloud Rose over his anger at having to deal with all the messes Rose Quartz left behind. Cloud Rose (who Steven acknowledges is just him talking to himself) tells him that Rose couldn't have been that bad, or she wouldn't have left the tape for him he found in Lion.
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** Much like in "Open Book," Book", Steven stops playing with Rose when he remembers that she's just a part of the Room, not actually his mother. He also remembers that the Room gives him what he wants, not what is what's real, but that the Room can help him with finding closure.
** When Steven starts to call out Rose, he references Bismuth and Pink Diamond, as well as how all of Homeworld has it out forEarth. The trauma has stayed with him.
Earth.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Steven finally snaps at Cloud Rose over his anger at having to deal with all the messes Rose Quartz left behind. Cloud Rose (who Steven acknowledges is just him talking to himself) tells him that Rose couldn't have been that bad, or she wouldn't have left the tape forhim he found in Lion.him.
** When Steven starts to call out Rose, he references Bismuth and Pink Diamond, as well as how all of Homeworld has it out for
* CallingTheOldManOut: Steven finally snaps at Cloud Rose over his anger at having to deal with all the messes Rose Quartz left behind. Cloud Rose (who Steven acknowledges is just him talking to himself) tells him that Rose couldn't have been that bad, or she wouldn't have left the tape for
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** Steven while giving a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Lars in "Lars in the Cool Kids" mentions that he never got to know his mom. Now he gets the opportunity, via the Room.
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** Steven Steven, while giving a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Lars in "Lars in the Cool Kids" Kids", mentions that he never got to know his mom. Now he gets the opportunity, via the her Room.
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* ElephantInTheRoom: Subverted. Steven tells Rose that he's had a lot of questions that he's wanted to ask her, and stories he's heard. He obviously means what he's learned during the past two seasons but is too polite to bring it up. After the GlamourFailure however, he starts to unleash all his fears, anger and frustrations on her.
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* ElephantInTheRoom: Subverted. Steven tells Rose that he's had a lot of questions that he's wanted to ask her, and stories he's heard. He obviously means what he's learned during the past two seasons but is too polite to bring it up. After the GlamourFailure GlamourFailure, however, he starts to unleash all his fears, anger and frustrations on her.
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** Steven while playing with Cloud Rose asks why he didn't do this before. He gets his answer soon after: that Cloud Rose isn't his mother, just a recreating of how he wants her to be.
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** Steven Steven, while playing with Cloud Rose Rose, asks why he didn't do this before. He gets his answer soon after: that Cloud Rose isn't his mother, just a recreating recreation of how he wants her to be.
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* HopeSpot: Steven gets along with Cloud Rose, and tries to do parental things with her like play videogames and toss a football. When the GlamourFailure happens, however, he remembers that Rose isn't real, that she is gone, and that she left him to deal with her problems.
* LogicalWeakness: Steven tries to ask his mother why she lied to everyone and hurt them while trying to protect him. Rose can't give him a straight answer because the Room only knows what Steven knows, not what Rose was thinking at the time. With that said, Steven has enough evidence for the Room to give him ''an'' answer that placates him.
* LogicalWeakness: Steven tries to ask his mother why she lied to everyone and hurt them while trying to protect him. Rose can't give him a straight answer because the Room only knows what Steven knows, not what Rose was thinking at the time. With that said, Steven has enough evidence for the Room to give him ''an'' answer that placates him.
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* HopeSpot: Steven gets along with Cloud Rose, and tries to do parental things with her like play videogames and toss a football. When the GlamourFailure happens, however, he remembers that this Rose isn't real, that she the real Rose is gone, and that she left him to deal with her problems.
* LogicalWeakness: Steven tries to ask his mother why she lied to everyone and hurt them while trying to protect him. Rose can't give him a straight answer because the Room only knows what Steven knows, not what Rose was thinking at the time. With that said, Steven has enough evidence for the Room to give him''an'' an answer that placates him.
* LogicalWeakness: Steven tries to ask his mother why she lied to everyone and hurt them while trying to protect him. Rose can't give him a straight answer because the Room only knows what Steven knows, not what Rose was thinking at the time. With that said, Steven has enough evidence for the Room to give him
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** The Cloud version of Rose is like [[Disney/TheLionKing Mufasa]] who also appeared to Simba in the clouds, and was an extension of Simba. Like Simba, Steven talks to Cloud Rose to address his baggage.
** The second half of the episode references the Batman episode "Perchance to Dream," where Bruce Wayne ended up in a world where his parents were alive and he never became Batman. Like Bruce, Steven pulls away from the Room's fantasy when it registers that it isn't real.
** The second half of the episode references the Batman episode "Perchance to Dream," where Bruce Wayne ended up in a world where his parents were alive and he never became Batman. Like Bruce, Steven pulls away from the Room's fantasy when it registers that it isn't real.
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* WasItAllALie: Inverted; Cloud Rose asks Steven if he thought that the real Rose lied in the video. He has to admit that she didn't.
* WhatTheHellHero: Steven calls out (Cloud) Rose for her actions, like keeping secrets from the Crystal Gems.
* WhatTheHellHero: Steven calls out (Cloud) Rose for her actions, like keeping secrets from the Crystal Gems.
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* WasItAllALie: Inverted; Cloud Rose asks Steven if he thought that the real Rose lied in the video. He has to admit admits that she didn't.
* WhatTheHellHero: Steven calls out(Cloud) Cloud Rose for her actions, like keeping secrets from the Crystal Gems.
* WhatTheHellHero: Steven calls out
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* DrivenToSuicide: Not outright said, but Steven admits that he sometimes wonders if Rose made him just to escape from her mistakes.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Not outright said, but Steven admits that he sometimes wonders if Rose made him [[SuicideIsShameful just to escape from her mistakes. mistakes]].
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* RebuiltPedestal: Downplayed. Steven still has a lot of issues to resolve about his feelings on Rose, but the room makes him recognize that his mom really wanted him to exist out of love.
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* RebuiltPedestal: Downplayed. [[DownplayedTrope Steven still has a lot of issues to resolve about his feelings on Rose, Rose]], but the room makes him recognize that his mom really wanted him to exist out of love.
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* BrokenPedestal: After learning about some of Rose's darker secrets, Rose has become one for Steven. He isn't quite sure how to process it, but by the end seems to finally accept that his mother wasn't perfect, but she wasn't as bad as he was starting to think.
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* BrokenPedestal: After learning about some of Rose's darker secrets, Rose Steven's perception of her has become one for Steven.faltered. He isn't quite sure how to process it, but by the end seems to finally accept that his mother wasn't perfect, but she wasn't as bad as he was starting to think.
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** Twice the Cloud Rose makes a speech clearly patterned after the one on Rose's tape in "Lion 3: Straight to Video". She directly brings up again at the end, asking Steven if he thought she was lying.
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** While waiting with Connie, Steven plays several games of a ''Mad Libs''-style word game. While playing with Cloud Rose, she makes a speech that's basically word-swap of one of the few words he's directly heard his mother say, altered to be about ''sports'' instead of humans.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear if Rose was simply an artificial construct like [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E19RosesRoom what we've]] [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E2OpenBook seen before]], or if she was actually being channeled through Steven's gem.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear if Rose was simply an artificial construct like [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E19RosesRoom what we've]] [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E2OpenBook seen before]], or if she was actually being channeled through Steven's gem.gem, though based on how much more advanced Rose acts than most cloud constructs it leans heavily towards the latter.
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* CallBack: When Steven starts to call out Rose, he references Bismuth and Pink Diamond, as well as how all of Homeworld has it out for Earth. The trauma has stayed with him.
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* CallBack: CallBack:
** Much like in "Open Book," Steven stops playing with Rose when he remembers that she's just a part of the Room, not actually his mother. He also remembers that the Room gives him what he wants, not what is real, but that the Room can help him with finding closure.
** When Steven starts to call out Rose, he references Bismuth and Pink Diamond, as well as how all of Homeworld has it out for Earth. The trauma has stayed with him.
** Much like in "Open Book," Steven stops playing with Rose when he remembers that she's just a part of the Room, not actually his mother. He also remembers that the Room gives him what he wants, not what is real, but that the Room can help him with finding closure.
** When Steven starts to call out Rose, he references Bismuth and Pink Diamond, as well as how all of Homeworld has it out for Earth. The trauma has stayed with him.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Instead of repressing his emotions to let them bubble, Steven decides to deal with them directly, without the Gems' help.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Instead of repressing his emotions to let them bubble, bubble out at a bad time, Steven decides to deal with them directly, without the Gems' help.
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** Steven while giving a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Lars in "Lars in the Cool Kids" mentions that he never got to know his mom. Now he gets the opportunity, via the Room.
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* ElephantInTheRoom: Subverted. Steven tells Rose that he's had a lot of questions that he's wanted to ask her, and stories he's heard. He obviously means what he's learned during the past two seasons but is too polite to bring it up. After the GlamourFailure however, he starts to unleash all his fears, anger and frustrations on her.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** In the beginning, Connie is worried about her mom's safety, if she even made it back. After Connie leaves, Steven starts worrying about ''his'' mom and what she left behind.
** Steven while playing with Cloud Rose asks why he didn't do this before. He gets his answer soon after: that Cloud Rose isn't his mother, just a recreating of how he wants her to be.
** In the beginning, Connie is worried about her mom's safety, if she even made it back. After Connie leaves, Steven starts worrying about ''his'' mom and what she left behind.
** Steven while playing with Cloud Rose asks why he didn't do this before. He gets his answer soon after: that Cloud Rose isn't his mother, just a recreating of how he wants her to be.
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** The second half of the episode references the Batman episode "Perchance to Dream," where Bruce Wayne ended up in a world where his parents were alive and he never became Batman. Like Bruce, Steven pulls away from the Room's fantasy when it registers that it isn't real.
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* SympathyForTheDevil: Part of the reason Steven calls out Cloud Rose is because he's seen how the Diamonds and Homeworld are affected by Rose shattering Pink Diamond, in addition to Homeworld targeting the Crystal Gems.
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* TaughtByExperience: Steven immediately reminds himself that Cloud Rose isn't real, rather than give her a LogicBomb as he gave Cloud Connie in "Open Book". This means that instead of the Room attacking him to get him to confess, Rose delivers a calm ArmorPiercingQuestion and a CooldownHug.
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* WasItAllALie: Inverted; Cloud Rose asks Steven if he thought that the real Rose lied in the video. He has to admit that she didn't.
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***The promotional art above is also one to ''{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}}''.
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* AdultFear: Priyanka doesn't answer any of Connie's calls and is ''very'' late to pick her up, something that's extremely out of character for her. Connie begins to grow more and more worried and terrified something might have happened to her mother, to the point of all but saying that she imagined her having a car crash on the way over.
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* AdultFear: Inverted with Connie, who has a ''Child Fear''; Priyanka doesn't answer any of Connie's her calls and is ''very'' late to pick her up, something that's extremely out of character for her. Connie begins to grow more and more worried and terrified something might have happened to her mother, to the point of all but saying that she imagined her having a car crash on the way over.
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* VisionQuest: Steven faces down his troubled feelings towards his mother by venting his frustrations at her image, before realizing that, everything else aside, Rose really did love him and wanted him to exist.
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* AudienceSurrogate: Steven to Cloud Rose vents what he and a good portion of the audience have been feeling.
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* AudienceSurrogate: Steven vents to Cloud Rose vents what he and a good portion of the audience have been feeling.
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All alone with nothing but his thoughts, Steven showers and changes out of his Zooman outfit and back into his usual clothing. He microwaves himself a little mac and cheese, then sits in the living room to eat it. Unfortunately, he's not entirely alone. The room is completely overshadowed by the calm and benevolent painting of Rose that hangs above the door. Steven tries to ignore it for a while, then takes his meal outside – only to have a delicate little rain suddenly turn into a furious thunderstorm!
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All alone with nothing but his thoughts, Steven showers and changes out of his Zooman outfit and back into his usual clothing. He microwaves himself a little mac and cheese, then sits in the living room to eat it. Unfortunately, he's not entirely alone. The room is completely overshadowed by the calm and benevolent painting of Rose that hangs above the door. Steven tries to ignore it for a while, then takes his meal outside – only to have a delicate little rain suddenly turn into a furious thunderstorm!
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But the door opens and it's his family!
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But the door opens and it's his family!
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Greg has brought over pizza and apologizes that they were out of pepperoni so got mushroom.
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Greg has brought over pizza and apologizes that they were out of pepperoni so he got mushroom.
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* AudienceSurrogate: Steven to Cloud Rose vents what he and a good portion of the audience have been feeling, like that
* BittersweetEnding: Steven, after he's let his emotions loose and Cloud Rose had comforted him, leaves the room and lies down on the couch. Greg and the Gems then arrive with pizza, and he starts to perk up, giving the impression that his family can help him through his feelings.
* BittersweetEnding: Steven, after he's let his emotions loose and Cloud Rose had comforted him, leaves the room and lies down on the couch. Greg and the Gems then arrive with pizza, and he starts to perk up, giving the impression that his family can help him through his feelings.
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* AudienceSurrogate: Steven to Cloud Rose vents what he and a good portion of the audience have been feeling, like that
feeling.
* BittersweetEnding: Steven, after he's let his emotions loose and Cloud Rosehad has comforted him, leaves the room and lies down on the couch. Greg and the Gems then arrive with pizza, pizza and he starts to perk up, giving the impression that his family can help him through his feelings.
* BittersweetEnding: Steven, after he's let his emotions loose and Cloud Rose
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* BrokenPedestal: Rose has become one for Steven, after learning about some of Rose's darker secrets. He isn't quite sure how to process it, but by the end seems to finally accept that his mother wasn't perfect, but she wasn't as bad as he was starting to think.
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* BrokenPedestal: Rose has become one for Steven, after After learning about some of Rose's darker secrets.secrets, Rose has become one for Steven. He isn't quite sure how to process it, but by the end seems to finally accept that his mother wasn't perfect, but she wasn't as bad as he was starting to think.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Instead of repressing his emotions to let them bubble, Steven decides to deal with them directly, without the Gem's help.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Instead of repressing his emotions to let them bubble, Steven decides to deal with them directly, without the Gem's Gems' help.
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...the shot changes to indicate they've passed quite a lot of time. They assembled a 1000 piece puzzle, built a rather lofty house of cards, and are playing “Weird Words”. Connie, now more than a little concerned at the absence of her usually prompt mother, calls again and the voicemail picks up. Again. Steven starts another round of Weird Words to distract her, but her worry is infecting the game as she suggests articles of speech that indicate she's worried her mother has gotten into a car accident ending in an explosion. Steven offers to take Connie home on Lion, but it's not the getting home. It's her mother's out of character lateness without calling.
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...the shot changes to indicate they've passed quite a lot of time. They assembled a 1000 piece puzzle, built a rather lofty house of cards, and are playing “Weird Words”. Connie, now more than a little concerned at the absence of her usually prompt mother, calls again and the voicemail picks up. Again. Steven starts another round of Weird Words to distract her, but her worry is infecting the game as she suggests articles of speech that indicate she's worried her mother has gotten into a car accident ending in an explosion. Steven offers to take Connie home on Lion, but it's not the getting home. It's home that concerns her, it's her mother's out of character lateness without calling.
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* CryCute: Steven starts to cry as he hugs Rose.
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* DullSurprise: Connie's mother replies with a "huh" after Connie reminds her Steven went into space, not a spa.
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* FunnyAnsweringMachine: Connie's mother's voicemail ends with a sharp comment that if the caller is one of her patients, they shouldn't have her number.
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* FunnyAnsweringMachine: Connie's mother's voicemail ends with a sharp comment that if the caller is one of her patients, they shouldn't have her personal number.
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Steven is just happy to have his family together. Pizza without pepperoni but with mushrooms hardly figures into his restored happiness.
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Steven is just happy to have his family together. Pizza without pepperoni pepperoni, but with mushrooms hardly figures into his restored happiness.
happiness.
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* HopeSpot: Steven gets along with Cloud Rose, and tries to do parental things with her like play videogames and toss a football. When the GlamourFailure happens, however, he remembers that Rose isn't real, that she is gone, and that she left him to deal with her problems. This leads to hi
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* HopeSpot: Steven gets along with Cloud Rose, and tries to do parental things with her like play videogames and toss a football. When the GlamourFailure happens, however, he remembers that Rose isn't real, that she is gone, and that she left him to deal with her problems. This leads to hi
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* AudienceSurrogate: Steven to Cloud Rose vents what he and a good portion of the audience have been feeling, like that
* CallBack: When Steven starts to call out Rose, he references Bismuth and Pink Diamond, as well as how all of Homeworld has it out for Earth. The trauma has stayed with him.
* CharacterDevelopment: Instead of repressing his emotions to let them bubble, Steven decides to deal with them directly, without the Gem's help.
* CryCute: Steven starts to cry as he hugs Rose.
* HopeSpot: Steven gets along with Cloud Rose, and tries to do parental things with her like play videogames and toss a football. When the GlamourFailure happens, however, he remembers that Rose isn't real, that she is gone, and that she left him to deal with her problems. This leads to hi
* LogicalWeakness: Steven tries to ask his mother why she lied to everyone and hurt them while trying to protect him. Rose can't give him a straight answer because the Room only knows what Steven knows, not what Rose was thinking at the time. With that said, Steven has enough evidence for the Room to give him ''an'' answer that placates him.
* RealityEnsues: Steven may have started working on his trauma in "Mindful Education," but the baggage and resentment won't go away overnight, especially after a stressful endeavor to rescue his father.
* LogicalWeakness: Steven tries to ask his mother why she lied to everyone and hurt them while trying to protect him. Rose can't give him a straight answer because the Room only knows what Steven knows, not what Rose was thinking at the time. With that said, Steven has enough evidence for the Room to give him ''an'' answer that placates him.
* RealityEnsues: Steven may have started working on his trauma in "Mindful Education," but the baggage and resentment won't go away overnight, especially after a stressful endeavor to rescue his father.
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* ShoutOut: While playing football with Cloud Rose, Steven falls for the old "pull-away-the-football" prank Lucy always pulls on Charlie Brown in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** The Cloud version of Rose is like [[Disney/TheLionKing Mufasa]] who also appeared to Simba in the clouds, and was an extension of Simba. Like Simba, Steven talks to Cloud Rose to address his baggage.
** While playing football with Cloud Rose, Steven falls for the old "pull-away-the-football" prank Lucy always pulls on Charlie Brown in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''.
** The Cloud version of Rose is like [[Disney/TheLionKing Mufasa]] who also appeared to Simba in the clouds, and was an extension of Simba. Like Simba, Steven talks to Cloud Rose to address his baggage.
** While playing football with Cloud Rose, Steven falls for the old "pull-away-the-football" prank Lucy always pulls on Charlie Brown in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''.
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* TroubledFetalPosition: Steven lies on Rose's lap in this way, to seek comfort.
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Steven goes into his room in the Temple to look for more answers.
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The episode begins right after the events of “The New Crystal Gems”, only the Gems and Greg have all gone off somewhere leaving Steven and Connie alone in the house.
Connie ceremonially returns Steven's bed to him, and as they return downstairs, Connie says she hopes she'll get to say goodbye to the Gems before her mother arrives. Steven is in no hurry for Connie to leave, as usual – but Connie asks if he doesn't need some alone time or space to think about his harrowing adventure in space.
-->'''Steven:''' The last thing I need is more space!
Connie calls her mother, but the call goes to voicemail, uncharacteristically for her mother. Connie is a litte bewildered, but since she can't go home without a ride, she stays.
Steven suggests they pass the time.
...the shot changes to indicate they've passed quite a lot of time. They assembled a 1000 piece puzzle, built a rather lofty house of cards, and are playing “Weird Words”. Connie, now more than a little concerned at the absence of her usually prompt mother, calls again and the voicemail picks up. Again. Steven starts another round of Weird Words to distract her, but her worry is infecting the game as she suggests articles of speech that indicate she's worried her mother has gotten into a car accident ending in an explosion. Steven offers to take Connie home on Lion, but it's not the getting home. It's her mother's out of character lateness without calling.
Finally Priyanka arrives, and is all apologies, explaining that a surgery ran late and she had to cover for another doctor, and that her phone died because a patient might've stolen her charger. She thanks Steven for allowing Connie to stay late, and murmurs to Connie that Steven must be back from the spa.
-->'''Connie:''' No, I said ''space''.
All alone with nothing but his thoughts, Steven showers and changes out of his Zooman outfit and back into hisroom usual clothing. He microwaves himself a little mac and cheese, then sits in the Temple living room to look eat it. Unfortunately, he's not entirely alone. The room is completely overshadowed by the calm and benevolent painting of Rose that hangs above the door. Steven tries to ignore it for more answers.a while, then takes his meal outside – only to have a delicate little rain suddenly turn into a furious thunderstorm!
Back inside with his waterlogged meal, Steven begins thinking out loud about Rose. In response to his emotions, his gem opens up and he walks into Rose's room. After being awkward about not having been in the room lately, he asks it to show him his mother. A Cloud!Rose is created and they share a sweetly awkward handshake. Steven tries to bond with her by playing video games, and then football. They laugh and hug, and Steven wonders why he never tried this before. Then he realizes that the Cloud!Rose isn't really his mother – she's what Steven wants his mother to be like. He demands to know what she really is, and as his emotions bubble up about what Rose did to Bismuth and to Pink Diamond, the room reflects his turmoil by stirring up a storm.
Steven accuses his mother of being a user, a hurter, and a liar, who abandoned the Crystal Gems and Greg.
-->'''Steven:''' They don't know what to do without you!
He accuses her further of having only created Steven himself to get away from her mistakes and leave him to clean up the mess she left behind.
The Cloud!Rose reminds him of what the real Rose told him in the videotape she left him, and asks him if he believes everything she said to him there was a lie.
Steven calms again as he remembers the tape, and admits he believed she meant her words sincerely. They start to embrace again, and Steven lets the illusion of Rose drop. He leaves the room and returns to his cold, waterlogged meal.
But the door opens and it's his family!
-->'''Greg:''' Look who's back in jean shorts!
-->'''Steven:''' Dad! Garnet! Amethyst! And Pearl!
Greg has brought over pizza and apologizes that they were out of pepperoni so got mushroom.
Steven is just happy to have his family together. Pizza without pepperoni but with mushrooms hardly figures into his restored happiness.
Connie ceremonially returns Steven's bed to him, and as they return downstairs, Connie says she hopes she'll get to say goodbye to the Gems before her mother arrives. Steven is in no hurry for Connie to leave, as usual – but Connie asks if he doesn't need some alone time or space to think about his harrowing adventure in space.
-->'''Steven:''' The last thing I need is more space!
Connie calls her mother, but the call goes to voicemail, uncharacteristically for her mother. Connie is a litte bewildered, but since she can't go home without a ride, she stays.
Steven suggests they pass the time.
...the shot changes to indicate they've passed quite a lot of time. They assembled a 1000 piece puzzle, built a rather lofty house of cards, and are playing “Weird Words”. Connie, now more than a little concerned at the absence of her usually prompt mother, calls again and the voicemail picks up. Again. Steven starts another round of Weird Words to distract her, but her worry is infecting the game as she suggests articles of speech that indicate she's worried her mother has gotten into a car accident ending in an explosion. Steven offers to take Connie home on Lion, but it's not the getting home. It's her mother's out of character lateness without calling.
Finally Priyanka arrives, and is all apologies, explaining that a surgery ran late and she had to cover for another doctor, and that her phone died because a patient might've stolen her charger. She thanks Steven for allowing Connie to stay late, and murmurs to Connie that Steven must be back from the spa.
-->'''Connie:''' No, I said ''space''.
All alone with nothing but his thoughts, Steven showers and changes out of his Zooman outfit and back into his
Back inside with his waterlogged meal, Steven begins thinking out loud about Rose. In response to his emotions, his gem opens up and he walks into Rose's room. After being awkward about not having been in the room lately, he asks it to show him his mother. A Cloud!Rose is created and they share a sweetly awkward handshake. Steven tries to bond with her by playing video games, and then football. They laugh and hug, and Steven wonders why he never tried this before. Then he realizes that the Cloud!Rose isn't really his mother – she's what Steven wants his mother to be like. He demands to know what she really is, and as his emotions bubble up about what Rose did to Bismuth and to Pink Diamond, the room reflects his turmoil by stirring up a storm.
Steven accuses his mother of being a user, a hurter, and a liar, who abandoned the Crystal Gems and Greg.
-->'''Steven:''' They don't know what to do without you!
He accuses her further of having only created Steven himself to get away from her mistakes and leave him to clean up the mess she left behind.
The Cloud!Rose reminds him of what the real Rose told him in the videotape she left him, and asks him if he believes everything she said to him there was a lie.
Steven calms again as he remembers the tape, and admits he believed she meant her words sincerely. They start to embrace again, and Steven lets the illusion of Rose drop. He leaves the room and returns to his cold, waterlogged meal.
But the door opens and it's his family!
-->'''Greg:''' Look who's back in jean shorts!
-->'''Steven:''' Dad! Garnet! Amethyst! And Pearl!
Greg has brought over pizza and apologizes that they were out of pepperoni so got mushroom.
Steven is just happy to have his family together. Pizza without pepperoni but with mushrooms hardly figures into his restored happiness.
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* FunnyAnsweringMachine: Connie's mother's voicemail ends with a sharp comment that if the caller is one of her patients, they shouldn't have her number.
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* AdultFear: Priyanka doesn't answer any of Connie's calls and is ''very'' late to pick her up, something that's extremely out of character for her. Connie begins to grow more and more worried and terrified something might have happened to her mother, to the point of all but saying she imagined her having a car crash on the way over.
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* AdultFear: Priyanka doesn't answer any of Connie's calls and is ''very'' late to pick her up, something that's extremely out of character for her. Connie begins to grow more and more worried and terrified something might have happened to her mother, to the point of all but saying that she imagined her having a car crash on the way over.
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* AdultFear: Connie's mom doesn't answer any of her calls and is ''very'' late to picking her up, something that's extremely out of character for her. Connie begins to grow more and more worried and terrified something might have happened to her mother, to the point of all but saying she imagined her mother having a car crash on the way over.
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* AdultFear: Connie's mom Priyanka doesn't answer any of her Connie's calls and is ''very'' late to picking pick her up, something that's extremely out of character for her. Connie begins to grow more and more worried and terrified something might have happened to her mother, to the point of all but saying she imagined her mother having a car crash on the way over.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Cloud Rose gets Steven to reconsider his anger at Rose and doubt about himself by asking him if he really thinks she was lying on the tape she left for him to find inside of Lion. Steven realizes no, he doesn't, and thus she might not have been perfect, but she's not as bad as he had let himself start thinking.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Cloud Rose gets Steven to reconsider his anger at Rose and doubt about himself by asking him if he really thinks she was lying on the tape she left for him to find inside of Lion. Steven realizes that no, he doesn't, and thus that she might not have been perfect, but she's not as bad as he had let himself start thinking.
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* BittersweetEnding: Steven, after he's let his emotions loose and Cloud Rose had comforted him, leaves the room and curls up on the couch. But then Greg and the Gems arrive with pizza, and he starts to perk up, giving the impression that his family can help him through his feelings.
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* BittersweetEnding: Steven, after he's let his emotions loose and Cloud Rose had comforted him, leaves the room and curls up lies down on the couch. But then Greg and the Gems then arrive with pizza, and he starts to perk up, giving the impression that his family can help him through his feelings.
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* BrokenPedestal: Rose has become one for Steven, after learning about some of Rose's dark secrets. He isn't quite sure how to process it. By the end, he seems to finally be accepted that his mother wasn't perfect, but she wasn't as bad as he was allowing himself to believe.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Steven finally snaps at the cloud Rose over his anger at having to deal with all the messes Rose Quartz left behind. Cloud Rose (who Steven acknowledges is just him talking to himself) tells him Rose couldn't have been that bad or she wouldn't have left the tape for him he found in Lion.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Steven finally snaps at the cloud Rose over his anger at having to deal with all the messes Rose Quartz left behind. Cloud Rose (who Steven acknowledges is just him talking to himself) tells him Rose couldn't have been that bad or she wouldn't have left the tape for him he found in Lion.
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* BrokenPedestal: Rose has become one for Steven, after learning about some of Rose's dark darker secrets. He isn't quite sure how to process it. By it, but by the end, he end seems to finally be accepted accept that his mother wasn't perfect, but she wasn't as bad as he was allowing himself starting to believe.
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* CallingTheOldManOut: Steven finally snaps atthe cloud Cloud Rose over his anger at having to deal with all the messes Rose Quartz left behind. Cloud Rose (who Steven acknowledges is just him talking to himself) tells him that Rose couldn't have been that bad bad, or she wouldn't have left the tape for him he found in Lion.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Steven finally snaps at
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* DrivenToSuicide: Not outright said, but Steven admits he sometimes wonders if Rose killed herself by making him just to escape from her mistakes and the mess she made.
* DullSurprise: Connie's mother replies with a "huh" after Connie reminds her Steven went into space and not a spa.
* EmpathicEnvironment: As Steven releases his buried frustration towards the Cloud Rose, the Room becomes more and more tumultuous until it's a storm.
* DullSurprise: Connie's mother replies with a "huh" after Connie reminds her Steven went into space and not a spa.
* EmpathicEnvironment: As Steven releases his buried frustration towards the Cloud Rose, the Room becomes more and more tumultuous until it's a storm.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Not outright said, but Steven admits that he sometimes wonders if Rose killed herself by making made him just to escape from her mistakes and the mess she made.mistakes.
* DullSurprise: Connie's mother replies with a "huh" after Connie reminds her Steven went intospace and space, not a spa.
* EmpathicEnvironment: As Steven releases his buried frustration towards the Cloud Rose, the Room becomes more and more tumultuous until it's a dark, raging storm.
* DullSurprise: Connie's mother replies with a "huh" after Connie reminds her Steven went into
* EmpathicEnvironment: As Steven releases his buried frustration towards the Cloud Rose, the Room becomes more and more tumultuous until it's a dark, raging storm.
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* GlamourFailure: Steven tries to take a selfie with Cloud Rose, but only sees himself.
* RebuiltPedestal: Downplayed. Steven still has a lot of issues to resolve about his feelings on Rose, but the room made him recognize his mom really wanted him to exist out of love.
* RedemptionInTheRain: Once Steven manages to accept that Rose wasn't perfect nor she created him just to escape her problems, he hugs Cloud Rose while rain starts to pour down inside the room.
* TheScapegoat: Steven reveals he considered himself to be just a way for Rose to escape the consequences of her actions while leaving her baggage on his shoulders.
* ShoutOut: While playing football with Cloud Rose, Steven falls for the old "pull-away-the-football" prank Lucy always pulled on Charlie Brown in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''.
* RebuiltPedestal: Downplayed. Steven still has a lot of issues to resolve about his feelings on Rose, but the room made him recognize his mom really wanted him to exist out of love.
* RedemptionInTheRain: Once Steven manages to accept that Rose wasn't perfect nor she created him just to escape her problems, he hugs Cloud Rose while rain starts to pour down inside the room.
* TheScapegoat: Steven reveals he considered himself to be just a way for Rose to escape the consequences of her actions while leaving her baggage on his shoulders.
* ShoutOut: While playing football with Cloud Rose, Steven falls for the old "pull-away-the-football" prank Lucy always pulled on Charlie Brown in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''.
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* GlamourFailure: Steven tries to take a selfie with Cloud Rose, but only sees himself.
himself in a black room.
* RebuiltPedestal: Downplayed. Steven still has a lot of issues to resolve about his feelings on Rose, but the roommade makes him recognize that his mom really wanted him to exist out of love.
* RedemptionInTheRain: Once Steven manages to accept that Rose wasn't perfectnor she created and didn't create him just to escape her problems, he hugs Cloud Rose while rain starts to pour down inside the room.
* TheScapegoat: Steven reveals that heconsidered started to consider himself to be just a way for Rose to escape the consequences of her actions while leaving her the baggage on his shoulders.
* ShoutOut: While playing football with Cloud Rose, Steven falls for the old "pull-away-the-football" prank Lucy alwayspulled pulls on Charlie Brown in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''.
* RebuiltPedestal: Downplayed. Steven still has a lot of issues to resolve about his feelings on Rose, but the room
* RedemptionInTheRain: Once Steven manages to accept that Rose wasn't perfect
* TheScapegoat: Steven reveals that he
* ShoutOut: While playing football with Cloud Rose, Steven falls for the old "pull-away-the-football" prank Lucy always
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* WhatTheHellHero: Steven calls out Cloud Rose for her actions, like keeping secrets from the Crystal Gems.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Steven calls out Cloud (Cloud) Rose for her actions, like keeping secrets from the Crystal Gems.
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--> '''Cloud Rose''': In the tape I left you, I told you how much I wanted to have you and let you exist. Do you think that what I said to you in the tape was a lie?
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* BogglesTheMind: When Connie starts to worry about her mom, Steven tries to take her mind off things with a game of Weird Words. Connie has to stop when she catches herself using words like "mishap", "crashed", and "explosion".
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* BogglesTheMind: When Connie starts to worry about her mom, Steven tries to take her mind off things with a game of Weird Words. Steven stops when Connie has to stop when she catches herself using keeps giving words like "mishap", "crashed", and "explosion".
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* DrivenToSuicide: Not outright said, but Steven admits he sometimes wonders if Rose killed herself by make him just to escape from her mistakes and the mess she made.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Not outright said, but Steven admits he sometimes wonders if Rose killed herself by make making him just to escape from her mistakes and the mess she made.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear if Rose was simply an artificial construct like [[StevenUniverseS1E19RosesRoom what we've]] [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E2OpenBook seen before]], or if she was actually being channeled through Steven's gem.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear if Rose was simply an artificial construct like [[StevenUniverseS1E19RosesRoom [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E19RosesRoom what we've]] [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E2OpenBook seen before]], or if she was actually being channeled through Steven's gem.
