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Original post date: 11/25/19

(Take two! All links will be given in the reblog, due to Tumblr being a “functioning” website and not letting my first attempt show up in tags or on people’s dashboards. Apologies for the inconvenience!)

This post has been long overdue. It’s been almost two months since Steven Universe Future’s intro aired at NYCC, and since then there’s been both new information and a surplus of fascinating musing throughout the fandom about this idea. Strap in, folks. We’re absolutely gonna go under the cut with this one.

So, first things first-

For ease of clarity, throughout this post I will be referring to this big fella…

As ‘the creature,’ and using the nonspecific pronouns they/them, since we don’t know what or who they are yet. Personally, I’d rather not get used to referring to them as ‘Steven’ or ‘he’ in the case that this whole theory is bonkers crazy, haha.

Second, I will be organizing the bulk of this post in the form of questions and answers.

(A detailed description of how this theory originated can be found in the reblogs! I have links in it, thus why I have moved it to the end.)



Q. Why are so many people calling the creature ‘Wormy Boi’ when it’s clearly not a worm?

This one is my bad. In the original theory post, the one that circulated around so wide, this is what I jokingly referred to them as. Later, many people have been quick to point out that— while we still can’t see their full form, due to being obscured behind the other antagonists— this creature appears to have visible shoulders, which suggests limbs. I heartily agree with this.



However, it’s often tough to circulate updates to old ideas when the old ones are already so wide-spread. For a while I used ‘wyrm’ as a descriptor, since mythological wyrms are more dragon-like serpents with limbs, but at this point it’s become clear to me that we simply don’t have enough information to make a fair assessment on the creature’s form.

Until we learn more, ‘creature’ will have to do.

Q. Why explore corruption in SUF? Hasn’t that plot thread already been dealt with?

Yes, and no. The immediate problem of corruption has been dealt with, when the corrupted Gems were finally healed in Change Your Mind. But there’s still so many mysteries about corruption left, making it a prime target for SUF’s promise to “tie up loose ends.”

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