Canon Update

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Canon-update two!

[watermelogisty]

Character Name: Steven Quartz Universe
Canon: Steven Universe
Original Application: Here. Also, previous canon-update here.
Current canon point: Episode 78 (season 2), "Log Date 7 15 2"
Updating to: Episode 105 (season 4), "Know Your Fusion"

Personality: With all the big, important and incredibly stressful events that occurred between his last canon-point and the updated canon-point, while Steven remains mostly the same, he's also matured in some aspects. Still joyful, playful, sometimes naive, and empathetic to a point of putting himself at risk; but also riddled with a lot more self-doubt (expressed since the beginning of the series, but seems to have developed to something much bigger as he is constant compared to and mistaken for Rose Quartz, and finds himself in a lot more dangerous and possibly lethal situations) and with a lot more battle experience.
This won't provide much of an outward change in Ruby City, specially since he doesn't have any canon-mates at the moment that actually know things that happened back home, but it will affect him personally and his way of thinking. Most relevant to his stay here will be his way to view and act in battle, how he'll view monsters/enemies, and how he'll resolve these situations.

Abilities:
General combative skills: Having trained with Pearl, and through his experience throughout the series, Steven is now stronger, faster, and seems to be much more organized in terms of battle. His strategy is far from perfect, and he sometimes forgets the extent of his magical powers, but he can definitely hold his own.

Rose's Shield (updated): Steven can now not only summon Rose's shield, or several copies of it in rapid succession, he also seems to be much better at handling it. He can now also use it as a throwing weapon, even with a boomerang effect.

Bubble shield (updated): Steven can now create spikes on the outward layer of the bubble shield, and he can also create smaller versions of the shield (while inside the main one), able to pull those into the main bubble (to pull others who are in danger and weren't close enough to him to be included on the bubble shield he summoned around himself, for example.)

Jumping/Floating/Speed of descent: Steven is now able to jump to incredible heights, as if weightless, and control his speed of descent. This is connected to his emotions, as he needs to think of things that bring him happiness so that this power works, or it will fail. While he tends to forget he has this power, he seems to have gained better control of it in recent episodes.

Healing spit (updated): Steven's healing spit is back, connected to his emotional state as most of his powers. He is now able to not just heal most physical injuries and maladies, he also seems to be able to use his spit to repair objects. He was also able to partially heal a corrupted Gem - a affection that affected only Gemkind after the events of the war, that causes them to turn into monsters with a more animalistic sense of consciousness, with effects that seem to lie on the Gem's mind -, albeit only temporarily. While he wasn't able to fully heal it, he seems to have gone farther than his mother in this situation, meaning that, perhaps, his healing powers are stronger than hers. It's also not touched upon whether he can heal any other psychological maladies.

Gem Fusion: It is now confirmed that Steven can fuse with other gems, and fusion does not demand a dance (he must simply be in sync with his fusion partner).

Enhanced speed: Steven has demonstrated to be a lot faster than one would expect a human to be. It's unconfirmed how fast he actually is, but he is, at least, faster than Amethyst (who is faster than humans).

Enhanced durability: As a half-Gem, Steven is a lot more resistant than a human. As seen in several episodes, he can take a lot of damage (such as being pulled out of the sky and slammed on the ground hard enough to crack a hole into it, and still be able to move; or being hit with a stone statue so hard, he and it create a dent on a wall, and he, with some minimal struggle, is still able to throw it at his opponent).

Telepathic powers - Dream communication (update), Mind transfer, others: While it was already shown that Steven could communicate with Gems by accessing their minds while he's asleep (including accessing a fusion's mind and communicating with its component Gems), it's now been shown that he can access human dreams as well, and is able to affect it at will (including being able to create the most ridiculous and imaginative scenarios and objects, as one might expect to seen in actual dreams). While this happens, he does not get any rest he would have gotten while actually in a normal sleep state, but it doesn't seem to affect the dream host's sleep in a significant manner (though they do remember seeing Steven as an element of their dream). While he was unaware of the situation when this power first affected a human (having thought he was simply having a regular dream of his own), he was able to purposely visit their dreams later on, showing proper control of this power.
Steven is also able to transfer his mind into the body of another human - and other creatures (in the very least, the humanoid Watermelon people created by his Phytokinesis). His own body remains asleep during this process, and it is a one way power (meaning there is no mutual mind transfer. The other subject, apparently, simply remains dormant as Steven controls their body). For this process to end, Steven's original body needs to be woken up. At this point, human mind transfer has only happened by accident, while he was able to purposely transfer his consciousness into a Watermelon person after having done it by accident once.
Besides these - Steven seems to be able to communicate with other Gems in very unique ways - during his and Peridot's attempts to defeat a gigantic cluster of Gem shards - Gems who were shattered during the war, and seemed to have kept partial consciousness in each shard, suffering immensely - he seems to be pulled into some sort of telepathic conversation with them, while apparently having fainted nearby. It's unclear what actually happened in this situation.

[rubycitymods]

Approved!