I know we all love graceful, gentle, beautiful Opal, but I need all ya’ll to consider just how weird she’d be trying to live a mundane life like her components used to. Just imagine:

- Opal hoarding endless amounts of useless stuff like Amethyst, but fixing anything that’s broken, separating everything into neat piles and cataloguing all her treasures in a little notebook, so she can keep track of them.

- Opal decorating her room with geodes and waterfalls, stretching floating river paths like cobwebs between geode islands.

- Steven and Opal braiding each other’s hair. Steven always ends up with hundreds of tiny braids that take days to sort out.   

- Opal still picking Steven up and carrying him around long after he’s grown up. If Garnet dares to laugh, Opal picks her up too.

- Her and Garnet training together and learning from each other’s techniques.

- Her and Garnet accidentally knocking each other apart while training, and Pearl, Amethyst, Ruby and Sapphire remaining separate for the rest of the day, just hanging out like old times.

- Opal shrinking herself when indoors, but always making sure that she’s at least a few inches taller than Garnet, just to tease her.

- Opal having an almost mindreader-like sense for when Steven or Garnet needs a hug.

- Opal being the momfriend to everyone else, but somehow always getting herself into trouble.