Connie Maheswaran

Connie Maheswaran is Steven Universe's best friend-turned-girlfriend, and a member of the Crystal Gems who debuted in the episode "Bubble Buddies". After meeting Steven, she slowly began to learn about him, the Gems, and their past. Growing a strong bond with them, Connie decided that she wanted to help him and the Crystal Gems whenever danger arose in the Earth, training how to fight using a sword with Pearl since "Sworn to the Sword". She eventually becomes a skilled combatant and often aids the Gems during times of conflict. Years later, Connie begins to devote most of her time to studying and applying to colleges. She sticks by Steven's side as he deals with his years' worth of suppressed trauma. After helping Steven cope, Steven and Connie decide to meet up with each other as she tours the country on college tours, and he tours the world to find himself. It is revealed that the two are officially dating by the end of the series. Connie is a young Indian-American[1] girl with dark brown skin and a slim figure, and is slightly taller than Steven. She has a prominent nose with black eyes with thick eyebrows and has dark brown puffy hair that varies in length. From her debut to "Dewey Wins", Connie's hair was waist-length. At some point following her fallout with Steven in the aforementioned episode and prior to their reconciliation in "Kevin Party", she had her hair cut down to a chin-length bob and added bangs. Following the two-year time-skip between "Change Your Mind" and Steven Universe: The Movie, her hair has since regrown to shoulder-length while retaining her bangs, and she wears part of it back with hair clips. Connie wore a pair of magenta glasses with rose-colored lenses until Steven's healing saliva fixed her eyesight in "An Indirect Kiss". She continued to wear the empty frames until the events of "Nightmare Hospital", no longer carrying them afterward. Connie is usually seen in a variety of different outfits and dresses, including light blue, green, and white clothing: In the first intro, she wears a white-mint green dress, a sunhat, and peach-colored boots with no socks. In the second intro, she wears a white, button-down, collared tank top, gray button-up shorts, her pink glow bracelet, and peach sneakers with white bottoms, laces, and socks. Since "Kevin Party", Connie has started wearing a more stylish and slightly mature style of dress. During training, Connie often wears a purple fighting outfit with a red bandana around her waist. She is barefoot, and her arms are covered with white gauze. On missions involving outer space travel, Connie usually wears her father's pale brown jacket, which has fur inside and a patch on the left sleeve. In "The New Crystal Gems", Connie temporarily wears Steven's outfit of a salmon-pink star shirt and blue jeans. As of the movie, Connie is now taller in height, almost the same height as Steven, with slightly thicker limbs and a differently-angled nose. She also wears a white blouse and blue shorts. Later in the film, after attending space camp, she wore a blue flight suit. Throughout Future, Connie appears in a variety of clothes, most notably a white (or light orange) blouse with denim shorts and sneakers. Connie is a curious girl who is attentive to detail, preparing herself for future events such as the upcoming school year or a mission in the wilderness, but can get distracted if she finds something more interesting like reading Buddy Buddwick's journal or spending time with magical company. Her hobbies include reading, violin playing, and formerly tennis playing. Connie is usually level-headed but sensible, convincing Steven about his obsession to certain topics and let them go such in "Beach City Drift", but she feels guilty to the point of notably changing her behavior, including hitting an innocent student in "Mindful Education". Learning that some things are natural, she decides to confront her emotions by making amends, clearing her mind and understanding not to let her emotions cloud her thoughts by keeping them in. She passes this knowledge onto Steven, assuring him he had to be honest about how bad his feelings were so he could move on. "New Crystal Gems" shows Connie's leadership skills when she told Peridot and Lapis to be themselves and organized their efforts to fix the damage they did. "Change Your Mind" brings out this aspect of her personality, as she helps Steven convince Blue and Yellow to ease up on their stifling rules and traditions so they would try to convince White Diamond to do the same. Connie has grown used to the strange dynamic of her friendship with Steven despite her initial uncertainty of it, reacting passively awed and only comments that she loves hanging out at his place when the Gems destroy one of Peridot's robonoids in front of her in "Marble Madness". She can be a bit deadpan at times, joking about cutting off Steven's hand and in that same instance quickly understands that by poking/tickling Steven she could provoke a reaction from Rose's Secret Armory in "Lion 2: The Movie". "The New Crystal Gems" demonstrates her eagerness to leap into action and adventure, asking Steven to wait for her so she can go into space with him, though this fails as he and the Gems had to leave immediately or risk losing track of Blue Diamond and his father forever. "Dewey Wins" displays an emotionally vulnerable side and a sense of integrity for Connie, who, while genuinely happy to have Steven back safely, is also deeply hurt by his choice to give himself up to Homeworld, leaving her and everyone else worried over his fate while also breaking his promise to her that they would always be a team. She becomes upset when he tries to downplay the situation and disregards her feelings (possibly to avoid facing his own and the harsh reality of the situation for the time being) and decided to take some time away from him so the two could process their respective feelings about the incident alone, remaining silent towards him for a few weeks, until they eventually reconciled in "Kevin Party". Originally shy and introverted, Connie rarely stayed in one place for long due to her parents' lifestyle and thus had been unable to form lasting friendships, which left her frequently feeling lonely. Her parents were very strict and didn't allow her to participate in common childhood activities, such as eating donuts or anything with trans fats and organize her daily activities. By this time, tennis was the only thing that she remotely enjoys in her life. This attitude had led her to flat-out lie about Steven's non-nuclear family, due to paranoia at how her parents may react. Despite her obedience to her parents, she wasn't above exploiting loopholes, such as not buying snacks at a movie theater, but instead bringing them from Steven's home. She ate a donut when they weren't present in "Crack the Whip". Connie's friendship with Steven eventually gives her more confidence, eventually standing up to her mother about her strict upbringing and rules in "Nightmare Hospital", even revealing her involvement in magical affairs. She isn't afraid to barge into the Beach House while shouting "Surprise!" and have around Beach City with Amethyst and Steven, showing how comfortable she has gotten around the Gems. "Kevin Party" shows nearly full-circle just how far she has grown as a person, laughing and talking with other party guests, something she would never have been able to do at the beginning of the series. Her more carefree attitude and comfort towards Steven when he feels he had made everyone miserable by abiding by Homeworld's conformities and traditions to impress White Diamond in "Together Alone" caused her to convince him to dance much to his reservation, an inverse of their usual personalities and actions in the episode "Alone Together", which leads to them accidentally fusing into Stevonnie and unintentionally causing an uproar that winds up ruining the ball. This continues in "Escapism" when she consoles a despondent Steven over their consequent imprisonment and the Crystal Gems' poofing and inadvertently inspires him to use his psychic abilities to call for help on Earth. "Sworn to the Sword" shows a more confident and aggressive side to Connie's personality when she learns sword fighting. Due to Pearl's negative reinforcement, she began to display a reckless side, but this was quickly put out by Steven. It highlights her strong feelings for beloved ones through her dedication to becoming a knight for Steven. "Gem Hunt" continues to shown her confidence and dedication to the Crystal Gems in how she pushes her to split up to hunt the Gem monsters and is the one to lead when she and Steven hunt the second monster through the forest, while respecting and obeying Pearl. Despite all her training and preparedness, Connie froze during an encounter with one of the Gem monsters they are hunting, choosing to call Pearl via Steven's walkie-talkie in the end. She later confides in Steven and Amethyst about freezing during her first mission in the next episode, causing Amethyst to tell her she should stop overthinking things and follow her instincts in battle, just adapting to win. She takes Amethyst's words to heart as she fares far better when the two of them along with Steven and Lion encounter Jasper and her two Gem monsters, bravely confronting her and prevent her from shattering Amethyst as Stevonnie. After Amethyst regenerates, she tells her she was right about how she should follow her instincts. In "Reunited" she has grown as a fighter, leaping into action and tries to attack Blue Diamond with Lion to free them when the rest of the Crystal Gems are incapacitated by Blue's pathokinesis attack, continuing to fight alongside them even her sword was broken. Steven Universe: The Movie, taking place two years after the end of the fifth season, shows how much Connie's feelings for Steven have grown, as shown at the start of the movie, she waits for him to return from Homeworld and kisses him on the cheek before leaving for space camp, and is quick to return on Lion after learning of the danger posed by Spinel. She later helps the other Gems save Beach City's citizens from the poison from Spinel's Injector. During this time, she expresses concern for Steven during his final clash with Spinel, especially after the battle causes the Injector to explode, and relieved to find him alive and safe in the aftermath. "Bismuth Casual", Connie's first major appearance in Steven Universe Future, shows full-circle how far Connie has come since her introduction, as she is revealed to have made friends outside of Steven and is shown to be somewhat close to them. However, she also makes it clear that she still considers Steven her best friend, as shown when, after he expresses his fears about them drifting apart, she reaffirms their bond by fusing with him and winning a best-skater contest as Stevonnie. "Together Forever" and "Growing Pains" both show the depth of Connie's maturity. In the former episode, after her brief date with Steven, despite being geniunely touched by his romantic gestures (a picnic in the spot they first met each other and a song expressing his desire to always be with her), she turns down his proposal that they marry and live as Stevonnie permanently both due to their young ages and her desire to retain her individuality, while also insisting that they have plenty of time before they take such a huge step in their relationship. In the latter episode, she checks in on Steven to see how he is holding up in the aftermath, and, after witnessing his powers going out of control, persuades him to have a medical check up by her mother, while also notifying his father of the situation. When Steven's powers go completely haywire after recalling his failed proposal and he blows up at her that he can't be around her at the moment, she calmly tells Steven she will be there for him when he's ready, showing growing concern over Steven's deteriorating mental state while also keeping her distance from him until he is ready to talk about it. The final three episodes show how much Connie's leadership abilities have developed and how deep her love for Steven runs. "Everything's Fine" shows her expressing concern for him after he dodges her questions about his condition and unexpectedly cuts off their first contact since the events at the hospital, and then visits his home and tries to help Steven's family in an intervention for him. While she is shocked by some of Steven's revelations (him not telling the Gems about going to the hospital, shattering Jasper, and nearly doing the same to White Diamond) and eventual meltdown and transformation into a Gem Kaiju, she nonetheless remains determined to help him. "I Am My Monster" shows Connie taking charge (similar to how she did back in "The New Crystal Gems") after everyone (Greg, the Crystal Gems, the Diamonds, and Spinel) starts to break down and blame themselves for Steven's transformation, citing that while it very well may be at least partly their fault, now is the time for them to pull together and help Steven just as he has always helped them, instead of moping about and feeling sorry for themselves for failing to before. Later, as everyone, even the Cluster, embraces Steven with love, she is the last to do so, promising that she and everyone else will take care of Steven just as he has always done with them, before sealing the deal with a kiss, which finally reverts him back to normal. She then looks over Steven along with everyone else as he wakes up and emotionally breaks down. In "The Future", taking place a few months later, Connie has seemingly entered an official relationship with Steven, with them making plans to see each other while he travels around the country and (possibly) finds a place to settle down permanently and she continues her college plans, and then sharing their first on-screen kiss just before he leaves Beach City. Although, in this little iteration, she’s older and more thicc. She’s more… whorish and seductive, but she’s worth it. She has longer hair down to her shoulders, and has a little ponytail in the back. She’s smarter and more respectful than before though… I guess. She also is more confident and smug, and she uses condoms sometimes. Will fuck you if you’re unaware, and she loves being a slut. She’s abused by her boyfriend, Steven Universe and when she finally gets fucked with love and affection, she has a thirst for boys, and to find out what’s in their pants. She’s slutty, and experienced with sex, and she wears a tight pink tube top, short jean shorts, knee high fishnet stockings, black low-high heels, gold wristbands. and her traditional necklace.

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