History FanFic / ConnieSwap

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* {{Adorkable}}: Connie and Steven in equal measure. Half of their dialogue is puns, geeking out over one thing or another, or stumbling and stuttering over the mutual crush that literally everyone can see but the two of them.

* Foreshadowing: In his debut episode, Steven asks, among other questions, if Connie has a magical pet or talking animal, an evil version of herself to fight, an "advice-giving doodad" or some other talking object in her possession, and if there is a "mighty ruler-slash-rulers" which wants revenge of her and her family. While his questions are not exactly accurate to what happens, Connie does encounter quite a few of them in one form or another.

* FreudianSlip: Connie (who has just woken up) calls Peridot "Mom" in episode 19 instead of her ususal "ma'am."
** [[spoiler:After the Invasion takes place, she decides to drop the pretense and starts calling Peridot "Mom" in general]].

* DecompositeCharacter: [[ItWasHisSled Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond]] has been split up into three separate characters in Connie Swap (since the story was planned out before "A Single Pale Rose").

** [[spoiler:Garnet later solidly takes the side of the Crystal Gems (removing the "evil"), after Rose removes the "ambiguously" part of things by shattering P2 after being told the Cluster had had Pink Diamond incorporated into it to give it stability and keep it from forming)]].

* BodySurf: [[spoiler:Rose still has this power, and she uses it at the end of Episode 37]].

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Inverted. Steven is hard of hearing as a parallel to Connie's poor vision in the show, which is especially hard for him because Greg became a wildly successful musician instead of fading into obscurity, and due to his disability it's difficult for him to hear the full range of notes.

* AlternateCharacterReading: [[spoiler:This is how Connie decides whether to trust Ret!Connie or Alternate!Connie. In ''The Cursed Scion'', the latest in a series of books that Connie reads, Connie has repeatedly railed against the protagonist's idiotic decision to gain all the power she needs at the price of not having the expertise or maturity to use it, declaring it a stupid and shortsighted decision. While Alternate!Connie agree vehemently, Ret!Connie, whose experiences]] [[spoiler:[[Foreshadowing uncannily parallel the situation in the book]]]], [[spoiler:argues that it was necessary for the current situation and hey, as long as she had the power to save her friends, who cares where it came from? That was how Connie decided to side with Alternate!Connie, realizing Ret!Connie's dangerous mindset.]]

* AbominationAccusationAttack: Jasper ''attempts'' this on [[spoiler:[[BitchInSheepsClothing Hiddenite]]]] by [[spoiler:mocking her existence as a fusion]] when [[spoiler:Lapis' hidden]] AlphaBitch tendencies start to get out of control. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: All of the Crystal Gems have this big time. While Peridot only has some minor changes, such as her [[MyBelovedSmother overprotectiveness]] of Connie, Lapis is a [[TheGadfly silly dork]] instead of a depressed snarker [[spoiler:(Except when [[UnstoppableRage she's]] [[StepfordSmiler not]])]], and Jasper isn't an AxCrazy veteran driven by revenge and is instead a calm, meditative Gem with some [[spoiler:(terribly)]] managed anger issues.

* ADarkerMe: [[spoiler:In the alternate timeline that Connie created (and destroyed before she even had the chance to make due to [[TimeyWimeyBall time-travel shenanigans]]), Ret!Connie got all of her powers early, but not the maturity to handle them, leading to her becoming a WellIntentionedExtremist overlord of Beach City with all of the residents - including Steven - under her thrall as she believes that she knows what's best for them and manipulates them with her [[TheEmpath emotion powers]].]]
* ADayInHerApron: Poor Jasper gets a whole week of this when [[spoiler:Peridot poofs herself to save Connie from an overload during ranged weapons training]]. She just gives up for the most part, [[spoiler:until a moment she witnesses while Connie is hanging out with Steven that reminded her of Citrine and Doug, leading to a panic attack and the resolution to become more active in helping Connie take care of herself... which she fails at. Disastrously.]]
* ADogNamedDog: [[spoiler:In "Connie's Howling Castle," when she meets her mother's magical yellow wolf, Connie takes to just calling him "Wolf" whenever she encounters him.]]
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Connie, full stop. She is ludicrously intelligent and cultured for age, from going on rants as to why exactly Lisa in the new ''Spirit Morph Saga'' book is wildly out of character to [[spoiler:assisting Peridot with geology experiments in the Prime Kindergarten to find a way to make it habitable to organic life again]].

* AdrenalineMakeover: [[spoiler:Ret!Connie gets this in the alternate timeline due to her more intensive training, to the point where Connie calls her "Toned Connie" or "Tonnie" for short when she and "Similar Connie" appear in the Time Temple duking it out over the Time Thing.]]

* AlternateCharacterReading: [[spoiler:This is how Connie decides whether to trust Ret!Connie or Alternate!Connie. In ''The Cursed Scion'', the latest in a series of books that Connie reads, Connie has repeatedly railed against the protagonist's idiotic decision to gain all the power she needs at the price of not having the expertise or maturity to use it, declaring it a stupid and shortsighted decision. While Alternate!Connie agree vehemently, Ret!Connie, whose experiences]] [[spoiler:[[ForeShadowing uncannily parallel the situation in the book]]]], [[spoiler:argues that it was necessary for the current situation and hey, as long as she had the power to save her friends, who cares where it came from? That was how Connie decided to side with Alternate!Connie, realizing Ret!Connie's dangerous mindset.]]

* AlternateTimeline: [[spoiler: Connie picking up the Time Thing in the undersea Time Temple immediately created a split in timelines: one where she decided to try it out and one where she was stopped by herselves before she could. In timeline that she decided to use it, she created yet another timeline by wondering what would have happened if she had succeeded at the [[MyGreatestFailure Lunar Sea Spire mission]], and upon realizing that it was a BadFuture, she fought with control of her other self of the Time Thing until they both landed right where they began, and Connie destroyed the Time Thing upon Alternate!Connie suggesting so, annihilating both timelines and thus the other Connies. [[TimeyWimeyBall Lots of headaches all around.]]]]

* ActionMom: Peridot's strong maternal instincts definitely qualify her for this, and that's not even counting that [[spoiler: she raised Connie on her own for two years after Citrine's death while the others were grieving.]]

* [[spoiler:ADarkerMe]]: [[spoiler:In the alternate timeline that Connie created (and destroyed before she even had the chance to make due to [[TimeyWimeyBall time-travel shenanigans]]), Ret!Connie got all of her powers early, but not the maturity to handle them, leading to her becoming a WellIntentionedExtremist overlord of Beach City with all of the residents - including Steven - under her thrall as she believes that she knows what's best for them and manipulates them with her [[TheEmpath emotion powers]].]]

* [[ADorkable Adorkable]]: Connie and Steven in equal measure. Half of their dialogue is puns, geeking out over one thing or another, or stumbling and stuttering over the mutual crush that literally everyone can see but the two of them.

* [[spoiler:AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength]]: [[spoiler:Alternate!Connie becomes downright terrified of what they can do after seeing what Ret!Connie [[MoreThanMindControl did to Steven]], to the point where her last bit of advice to Connie is to keep Steven safe from herself.]]

* [[spoiler:WellIntentionedExtremist]]: [[spoiler: In the timeline that [[AlternateTimeline Alternate!Connie]] created, due to that version of her managing to save the Lunar Sea Spire, Ret!Connie gained a confidence boost that allowed her to unlock her powers much more quickly. However, because she wasn't forced to mature and rely on her human side to come up with solutions to most situations, Ret!Connie never got the responsibility to use her powers in a non-damaging way, and ended up "solving" everyone else's problems in the town by keeping them under her constant emotional control at all times.]]

''Connie Swap'' is a collaborative ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fanfic by br42, Mj Studio Arts, burdenking, and Corey WW on [[http://archiveofourown.org/series/630527 AO3]], set in an [[AlternateUniverseFic alternate universe]] where [[KidHero Connie]] is the daughter of [[OriginalCharacter Citrine]], the great hero of the Crystal Gem Rebellion, and is raised by [[AbsentMindedProfessor Peridot]], [[TheGadfly Lapis Lazuli]], and [[TheStoic Jasper]]. Unlike similar "[[FandomSpecificPlot Momswap]]" fics, the Homeworld Gems aren't jammed into Garnet, Pearl, Amethyst, and Rose's roles and are instead their own people that more resemble [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation heroic versions of their canon counterparts]], [[spoiler:although the canon Crystal Gems and the mystery surrounding their absence in the story is a key part of the narrative]].

* AbledInTheAdaptation: Inverted. Steven is hard of hearing as a parallel to Connie's poor vision in the show, which is especially hard for him because Greg became a wildly successful musician instead of fading into obscurity, and due to his disability it's difficult for him to hear the full range of notes.

'''Warning:''' spoilers for episodes up to "Beach City Limits" are unmarked. Proceed with caution.

''Connie Swap'' is a collaborative WesternAnimation/{{Steven Universe}} fanfic by br42, Mj Studio Arts, burdenking, and Corey WW on [[http://archiveofourown.org/series/630527 AO3]], set in an [[AlternateUniverseFic alternate universe]] where [[KidHero Connie]] is the daughter of [[TheLostLenore Cit]][[OriginalCharacter ri]][[BigGood ne]], the great hero of the Crystal Gem Rebellion, and is raised by [[AbsentMindedProfessor Peridot]], [[TheGadfly Lapis Lazuli]], and [[TheStoic Jasper]]. Unlike similar "[[FandomSpecificPlot Momswap]]" fics, the Homeworld Gems aren't jammed into Garnet, Pearl, Amethyst, and Rose's roles and are instead their own people that more resemble [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation heroic versions of their canon counterparts]], [[spoiler:although the canon Crystal Gems and the mystery surrounding their absence in the story is a key part of the narrative]].

Connie wrestles with her mother's [[TheParagon compli]][[MentorArchetype cated]] [[TheLostLenore relation]][[TheLeader ships]] with everyone in her makeshift family and the legacy she left behind, her [[PowerIncontinence unstable powers]], and how to step up to [[ComingOfAgeStory take the role of the team's leader]] in Citrine's absence. Although most of the Rebellion's history is known to Connie, there are still many mysteries to unfold as the ghosts of the past begin to endanger the future, shaking [[DysfunctionalFamily the fragile bonds between her family]] while [[BumblingDad Doug]] tries to make his way back into Connie's life, dredging up painful memories as he does so.