History Fanfic / ATriangleInTheStars

* StepfordSmiler: Both Steven and Bill are this, ''especially'' Bill. It's even confirmed in their [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse respective]] [[Literature/GravityFallsDipperandMabelandtheCurseoftheTimePirates'Treasure series]]. Their smiles indeed hold a ''lot'' of pain...

* StepfordSmiler: Both Steven and Bill are this, ''especially'' Bill. It's even confirmed in their [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse respective]] [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls series]]. Their smiles indeed hold a ''lot'' of pain...

* OppositesAttract: Platonic. [[spoiler: You'd think an angry, sociopathic demon and a sweet, empathetic half-Gem wouldn't mix.]]

* [[spoiler: MoralityPet]]: Steven is this to Bill.

* TheHero: Steven Universe, along with a few others.

* HumiliationConga: [[Downplayed]]. A more [[PlayedForDrama serious]] one than most, Bill Cipher goes through much confusion when his efforts [[spoiler: to appeal to Steven's darker side, for lack of a better explanation,]] backfire. This, and other events that play more to the TraumaCongaLine, leads to {{spoiler: his [[BreakTheHaughty confidence]] [[VillainousB.S.O.D. shattering]]}}.

* [[spoiler: HeelRealization]]: [[spoiler: Bill Cipher, while he's had others too, has a rather harrowing and permanent one in Chapter Thirty-Two, realizing he had become worse than his parents.]] He gets better.

* GoodFeelsGood: Bill experiences this sometimes, [[spoiler: particularly when he makes Steven dinner in Chapter Eleven.]] That doesn't last, and he doesn't understand. However:

* LackofEmpathy: [[Sociopath Bill Cipher]], of course. [[spoiler: But this doesn't last.]]

* WhatIsThisFeeling?: Related to FirstTimeFeeling. Bill often questions the little feelings that often come up, wondering what they are and why they exist within him. Even after he's told in Chapter Thirty-Two what it is, [[spoiler: empathy]], he spends a lot of time trying to figure out how it works. More than a trillion years without a feeling tends to do that.

* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: Bill suffers from this for the grand majority of this story. He often calls Steven, the Good, an enigma, which comes as a shock to him. [[spoiler: Even after he figures it out. Read: "is told".]]

* FirstTimeFeeling: Bill experiences this throughout, since Chapter Three, starting with confusion. But it later grows into indecision of whether he loves it or hates it. And ''later'' feels like a train station and like a tree is growing inside his mind. [[spoiler: It's empathy. Something he lost a long, ''long'' time ago.]]

* TheHero: Steven Universe, along with a few others.

''A Triangle In The Stars'' is a collab crossover fanfic between ''{{WesternAnimation/Steven Universe}}'' and ''{{WesternAnimation/Gravity Falls}}'' created by @/{{Troper/The_Cosmic_Troper}} and Ace the Demon, both of whom are on Google Plus where this story originated as a roleplay March 2016. It has then been uploaded to fanfiction [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12015928/1/A-Triangle-in-the-Stars]] by said Troper on June 24th, 2016 and has so far forty-two chapters and is still growing.

* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:'''Bill.''']] Nuff said.

* [[spoiler:{{Abusive Parents}}]]: It was hinted at in several chapters and finally confirmed in Chapter Thirty that [[spoiler:Bill Cipher suffered from these for ''several years''.]]
* {{Adaptation Expansion}}: This story is of course set after the end of Gravity Falls and after Ocean Gem. So it's more like expanding Gravity Falls.
* {{Alternate Continuity}}: See directly below.
* {{Alternate Universe}}: Of course, that's where the trope above stops. It has few differences, but the differences can be staggering. For example, there's no Cluster and a few Gems are quite different.
* [[spoiler:{{Break the Cutie}}]]: Steven ends up taking a lot of this trope. [[spoiler:And so does Bill in a way. See below.]]
* [[spoiler:{{Break the Haughty}}]]: [[spoiler:'''Bill.''']] Nuff said.

* {{Sugar Bowl}}: Mostly {{Averted}}. This combined world certainly has some problems, but it's not enough to call it a {{Crapsaccharine World}} and is relatively a nicer world than some.
* {{The Hero}}: Steven Universe, along with a few others.

''A Triangle In The Stars'' is a collab crossover fanfic between {{Main/Steven Universe}} and {{Main/Gravity Falls}} created by @/{{Troper/The_Cosmic_Troper}} and Ace the Demon, both of whom are on Google Plus where this story originated as a roleplay March 2016. It has then been uploaded to fanfiction [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12015928/1/A-Triangle-in-the-Stars]] by said Troper on June 24th, 2016 and has so far forty-two chapters.

* {{Adaptation Expansion}}: This story is of course set after the end of Gravity Falls and after Ocean Gem.
* {{Alternate Universe}}: Of course, that's where the trope above stops. It has few differences, but the differences can be staggering. [[spoiler:For example, there's no Cluster and a few Gems are quite different.]]
* [[spoiler:{{Break the Cutie}}]]: Steven ends up taking a lot of this trope. [[spoiler:And so does Bill in a way.]]
* [[spoiler:{{Break the Haughty}}]]: [[spoiler:'''Bill.''']]
* {{Sugar Bowl}}: This combined world certainly has some problems, but it's not enough to call it a {{Crapsaccharine World}} and is relatively a nicer world than some.

''A Triangle In The Stars'' is a collab crossover fanfic between {{Steven Universe}} and {{Gravity Falls}} created by @/{{Troper/The_Cosmic_Troper}} and Ace the Demon, both of whom are on Google Plus where this story originated as an RP. It has then been uploaded to fanfiction [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12015928/1/A-Triangle-in-the-Stars]] by said Troper on June 24th, 2016 and has so far forty-two chapters.