#(this post was actually a warm up for writing Elemental Steve in RRFF)

[illusion-reality-steve]

For today's post, I want to appreciate how differently Galaxy Steve and Elemental Steve talk.

Remember that one time balloons were mentioned in the Steve Saga? When Rainbow asked what a balloon was, Galaxy told him to imagine, "sand, but it goes up instead of down." He describes a foreign thing by asking his audience to imagine a familiar thing, but with a twist.

If Rainbow asked Elemental to explain what a balloon was, Elemental would probably say, "How do I explain it...It's basically a bunch of gas molecules bound together by this material that is like - how do I describe it - fabric, but also not like fabric. The gas molecules are trapped, but at the same time, it's still dispersing, since it is still a gas. Some balloons fly up. So the gas is free to move around in the sky, but at the same time it's still limited in movement. It's complicated, I know."

These two characters are so different in how they explain things, and I just wanted to appreciate that for today.