“ We found a seeeeecret way to track you, and we’ll never tell you how, even if you ask nicely!”

So, when I first watch the episode, the levels of snark Steven had here honestly felt odd to me.

Espeshally since the opening to this conversation with Peridot had him saying a genuinely friendly “Good mornin’!” and the ending with him hoping she’d have a nice weekend. Previous encounters with Peridot has him being friendly and polite, but in this episode there’s a couple of moments where he just suddenly lays on some snark.

It then hit me upon rewatching the episode, and seeing Peridot mock this scene, that that snarkyness honestly seems like something along the lines of Peridot’s sense of humor, albeit very much sugarcoated, since, well, this IS Steven.

It still seems very obvious to me that Steven still doesn’t really want Peridot to be hurt, and would just prefer everyone to be friends. Cuz, again, he’s Steven.

So what if, since just straight up politeness doesn’t seem to be swaying Peridot, Steven was attempting to connect to her and get her to warm up to him by mimicking her style of snarky humor?

After all, He knows using humor to get a gem to take a shine to him and become his friend has worked before

With Lapis

