NOO steam wouldnt do that to a kid steam roughly pats him on the head and is like "kid, this kind of work isn't cut out for you. go read your comic books."

later on steam and gold have like a father son relationship despite hating eachother

yeah he's the only one really. Dusk was already like 300 years old anyway so like,,, but steam ad everyone else is pretty much the same age. gold gets stronger after learning how to use his Chaos abilities but he still gets kicked around like a doll