It's been one year since Steven Universe Future ended · 1:41pm Mar 27th, 2021

March 27, 2020 was the premiere date of the final 4 episodes of Steven Universe Future and the entire SU franchise. The epilogue limited series focused on the aftermath of the events of the original series and Steven's experience with psychological trauma.

While there's no more major conflict and everything is supposedly peaceful, Steven realized that there are things that he can't change and experienced feelings of purposelessness. As the series progressed, Steven's mental state got worse due to his friends moving on to different stuff and bad memories and nightmares involving the Diamonds and his mom that kept on haunting him.

Whenever he glowed pink, he gets angry to the point that it destroys everything in his path. He later used it to channel his anger, but it went too far when he shattered Jasper during their rematch. Though he revived her, he went to the Diamonds for help, but to no avail as he had cold and vengeful feelings towards White for ripping out his gem that nearly killed him.

During the intervention, he kept on saying that he's fine when he's clearly not. Sorrow, guilt, and frustration consumed him as he concluded that he didn't learn anything from his mistakes and that it made him worse than before. As he admitted that he's no longer the person that everyone knew, he literally turned into a monster.

I Am My Monster was when he let out all the bottled up anger as a result of everything the Diamonds and Spinel put him through. The scene that really got me was when everyone joined in a group hug to comfort and calm Steven down. Every time I watched that particular scene, I genuinely ended up in tears because I totally understand what he went through.

Months after the meltdown, Steven regularly sees a therapist, gave parting gifts to the Gems and his dad, and left Beach City to find a new purpose and live a normal human life, wrapping up the most wonderful series ever made on Cartoon Network.

I relate to Steven a lot because of my struggles of healing my past wounds and emotional trauma. The COVID-19 pandemic has made my mental state go on and off for the past 12 months. His experiences influenced me to go to therapy which I've started a few days ago and I'm glad I've taken this important step to get my life back on track. I will forever be grateful for the show and I encourage everyone to reach out and seek help if you're having difficulties getting through life.