roachpatrol:

one of my favorite things about steven universe is how immediately and unabashedly parental steven is towards anything even slightly smaller than he is. a goat? his son. freaky watermelon? his baby. centipeedle? his delicate and beautiful daughter. 

i think when pearl says ‘sometimes you even sound like her’, this is the kind of thing she’s talking about— this immediate protective love he has for anything that comes close enough to hug.