Steven Universe has seen/been
- Pearl be stabbed in the gut by herself and then disappear into a gem for 2 weeks, leaving him with the evil clone of herself
- Garnet be literally split in half. The person he thinks the strongest be literally split in HALF.
- Amethyst turning into his dead mother and freaking out his father to the point he was shutting down
- Amethyst (nearly) get crushed by a rock and found out she was meant to be evil and saw her completely break down
- Amethyst falling off a fucking cliff and had to watch helpless as her body started malfunctioning knowing he had the power to reverse it but didn’t know how
- Lars making fun of his dead mother
- Connie being drowned in a bubble of water
- his three maternal figures chasing after him and Connie angrily in a giant monster form
- headbutted unconscious by a giant threat who insulted his mother, split up Garnet, and imprisoned him and his friends to take him to a strange dangerous planet
- Pearl lash out at him and ran away from him, left him to fall off a giant fucking rock in the sky and made him climb back up
- Garnet looking at him furious and chasing after him
- Felt Connie’s panic attack, foreign for Steven
- eaten by a fucking bird
- potential deaths and dangers constantly in Future Vision and Winter Forecast
- Lapis Lazuli being forced to fuse into a monster and drag herself to the bottom of the ocean
- nearly got squashed by Peridot’s machine fist after trying to be friendly to her
- Saw Sadie and Lars be eaten by a haunted lighthouse
- Centipeedle sacrifice itself for Steven
- The fusion of two of his mother figures attacking the other mother figure, while the latter lost hope
- blamed by his family for taking away his mother
Steven Universe hasn’t seen/been
- His own mother
- hopeless.
So don’t EVER say Steven is a weak character.
I don’t think any of the SU characters are weak.