Steven protecting Star? The thought I had is maybe something happened, Yellow got angry, and tried to poof Star, but before she could do enough damage to poof him Steven stands in the way, trying to protect Star. He demands they listen, maybe takes responsibility for what happened. Yellow stops only cuz Blue calms her down and she concedes that Star has "made progress in training her pet" so leaves with just that "mild punishment"(the mild punishment leaving Star unable to get up off the floor for awhile because of the residual energy from her attack, but she considers it mild since she didn't poof him, or lock him up)
Sorry this wound up so long. My brain tries to make everything a story all it's own. 😂
OMG?? SOBB that’s so saddd and angsty.
I can’t draw a comic (even tho you described the scene so well, it really hit me in the feels) but here’s somethin:
This whole scene makes me ugh, gonna be rotating the angst in my brain for a good bit.