Peridot frowns at him, and sighs softly at the last statement, tilting her head back to stare at the ceiling of her dreamscape for a second while she thinks.
Actually... now that she's really taking a moment to acknowledge her surroundings, she decides she really doesn't want to be having this conversation in one of her depressing old stations back on Homeworld. And with that thought, the scenery shifts: Peridot takes that same mastery over her own mind that basically gave her superpowers all the way back in the Matrix, and uses it to force a location change to somewhere more pleasant. The kindergarten control room seems to melt away in seconds, while the warm and familiar space of the barn emerges in it's place, like a secondary set that has been hidden behind another backdrop this whole time.
"Sorry, that was really bothering me. Anyway..." she huffs, settling back as soon as she's finished. She's back to giving Steven a weird Look, her head cocked slightly to one side as she considers what he just said. "I think it does matter, unfortunately. I... Ugh. Look, this is just a theory, but, hear me out: One of the things that happened not too long after you were taken was... we ran into the Count of Crows. A whole bunch of absolutely insane garbage happened that I can try to get into in a moment, but what's important to this topic at hand is that the Count tried to use... Nnngh. Something called a bloodbond? To make Childermass surrender himself, so he could hand him over to the Rose Queen. I don't really understand exactly how that works, but, if the Rose Queen has the same sort of power over you..."
She pauses to grumble wordlessly for a second, trying to figure out how to put this delicately. "I just... don't think it helps your ability to resist her thrall if you yourself keep lending further credit to this narrative she has crafted that you're her son! Do you get what I'm saying? Your name isn't Steven Rose Queen, it's STEVEN QUARTZ UNIVERSE, and she's just some cracked up fae that the cruel and unknowable multiverse happened to slap you with while trying to find a place to put you in a universe where none of us belonged!"
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Actually... now that she's really taking a moment to acknowledge her surroundings, she decides she really doesn't want to be having this conversation in one of her depressing old stations back on Homeworld. And with that thought, the scenery shifts: Peridot takes that same mastery over her own mind that basically gave her superpowers all the way back in the Matrix, and uses it to force a location change to somewhere more pleasant. The kindergarten control room seems to melt away in seconds, while the warm and familiar space of the barn emerges in it's place, like a secondary set that has been hidden behind another backdrop this whole time.
"Sorry, that was really bothering me. Anyway..." she huffs, settling back as soon as she's finished. She's back to giving Steven a weird Look, her head cocked slightly to one side as she considers what he just said. "I think it does matter, unfortunately. I... Ugh. Look, this is just a theory, but, hear me out: One of the things that happened not too long after you were taken was... we ran into the Count of Crows. A whole bunch of absolutely insane garbage happened that I can try to get into in a moment, but what's important to this topic at hand is that the Count tried to use... Nnngh. Something called a bloodbond? To make Childermass surrender himself, so he could hand him over to the Rose Queen. I don't really understand exactly how that works, but, if the Rose Queen has the same sort of power over you..."
She pauses to grumble wordlessly for a second, trying to figure out how to put this delicately. "I just... don't think it helps your ability to resist her thrall if you yourself keep lending further credit to this narrative she has crafted that you're her son! Do you get what I'm saying? Your name isn't Steven Rose Queen, it's STEVEN QUARTZ UNIVERSE, and she's just some cracked up fae that the cruel and unknowable multiverse happened to slap you with while trying to find a place to put you in a universe where none of us belonged!"