History Fanfic / ATriangleInTheStars

** [[spoiler: Stanford]], after spending the majority of the story being hateful towards [[spoiler: Bill, for good reason, starts to realize he's not so bad now]], and the realization is solidified by Chapter Sixty. He even attempts to [[spoiler: save Bill from Jasper when he saw how courageous and sacrificing Bill was by helping them rescue Peridot]].

** [[spoiler: Stanford]], after spending the majority of the story being hateful towards [[spoiler: Bill, for good reason, starts to realize he's not so bad now, and the realization is solidified by Chapter 60. He even attempts to [[spoiler: save Bill from Jasper when he saw how courageous and sacrificing Bill was by helping them rescue Peridot]].

** Later, [[spoiler: they fuse into Malachite to deal with Bill in Chapter Sixty-Four]].

** Steven Universe becomes less happy, but still tries his best to stay optimistic for himself and his friends.

** Connie, at first friendly to Bill, turns hostile when she sees him again in Chapter Thirty-One. Turns out, as revealed in Chapter Forty-Six, [[spoiler: Wendy gave in and told her what happened]]. She goes through this again in Chapter Forty-Six, where she learns that [[spoiler: she can trust Bill, that he's changed]], and goes back to being friendly.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Chapter Fifty-Six focuses on Peridot, and in it she explores Beach City, having gotten tired of sitting in the boat. [[spoiler: This, unfortunately, leads to her getting poofed in the next chapter.]]

* VitriolicBestFriends: [[Bill Cipher and Steven]] start off as this, much like Lars and Steven canonically. But Steven is the one who is friendly towards him throughout, only calling him out sometimes when he messes with his friends. [[spoiler: However, Bill didn't consider Steven a friend until much later, and by that time the vitriol is out of the equation.]]

** Throughout the majority of the story, there are hints pointing towards a certain.. "trait".. Bill has buried deep inside, and even blatant digs are made at the issue. [[spoiler: He turns out to suffer from severe, but well-hidden, depression due to his past actions, his past in general, and his newfound empathy makes it no better and in fact ''caused'' it all, having forced him to see all his past actions as horribly wrong, [[spoiler: minus killing his parents]]. Ultimately, in Chapter Forty-Four, he tries taking his life. Fortunately, Steven talks him down.]] The storm that occurs during that painful event, as mentioned above, also foreshadows this.

* CainAndAbel: Way before ''Fanfic/ATriangleintheStars'' begins, [[spoiler: Bill was the Cain to Gabriel's Abel, though they [[WeUsedToBeFriends initially got along excellently]]. The triangle [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge just got]] [[TheResenter fed up with]] [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer how]] [[TheUnfavorite he]] [[AbusiveParents was treated]] and how Gabe was so loved, and Gabriel in fact grew to be condescending towards his older brother.]] Instead of murder, the "Abel" was simply imprisoned. In the present, the school arc, the roles switch, for obviously different reasons. Interestingly, [[spoiler: it's the Abel who kills the Cain]].

--> '''Bill''': "Eh, <insertsentencehere>."

* CainAndAbel: Way before ''Fanfic/ATriangleintheStars'' begins, [[spoiler: Bill was the Cain to Gabriel's Abel, though they [[WeUsedToBeFriends initially got along excellently]]. The triangle [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge just got]] [[TheResenter fed up with]] [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer how]] [[TheUnfavorite he]] [[AbusiveParents was treated]] and how Gabe was so loved, and Gabriel in fact grew to be condescending towards his older brother.]] Instead of murder, the "Abel" is simply imprisoned. In the present, the school arc, the roles switch, for obviously different reasons. Interestingly, [[spoiler: it's the Abel who kills the Cain]].

* CainAndAbel: Way before the story begins, [[spoiler: Bill was the Cain to Gabriel's Abel, though they initially got along excellently. The triangle [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge just got]] [[TheResenter fed up with]] [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer how]] [[TheUnfavorite he]] [[AbusiveParents was treated]] and how Gabe was so loved.]] In the present, the school arc, the roles switch, for obviously different reasons.

** [[spoiler: Peridot is a lot more empathetic and kinder than how her [[Characters/StevenUniversePeridot canon self]] started out.]] And her go-to mindset is curiosity rather than violence.

* AdaptationalVillainy: While she does retain her care for Steven, [[spoiler: Lapis's]] disregard for Earth and the people who live upon it is more highlighted here, [[AscendedExtra simply because she has more screentime]], and she's also more manipulative, drawing more parallels between her and Bill. She also [[spoiler: goes along with Jasper, though it's often unwilling and vitreous]].

** [[spoiler: Lapis]] has a fear of [[spoiler: Jasper getting to Steven]]. It comes true in Chapter Fifty-Five.

** Second are [[spoiler: [[HeroAntagonist Stan and Ford]], coming to erase Bill from existence because of a call from Wendy in Chapter Twelve]].
** Third are [[spoiler: Lapis and Jasper, coming to capture the [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch rogue]] [[DefectorFromDecadence Peridot]]]].

** [[spoiler: Lapis]] also counts, since she has a lot more screentime to allow for her full personality to shine, and also details [[spoiler: what happened between her and Jasper when she was captured in Chapter Forty]].

** There's also Sadie, who stands up to Bill and [[spoiler: keeps him from messing up the school as badly as he initially wanted]], [[spoiler: Peridot, whose metal powers activate with feelings of frustration]] and Kryptos, who banged his hands on [[spoiler: the bubble keeping him and the remaining Henchmaniacs trapped upon hearing that Pyronica betrayed Bill.]]

* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler: Peridot, whom Stan and Ford meet in Chapter Twenty-Three. Unlike Canon Peridot, she's always had doubts about whether she belonged to and in Homeworld, and disliked what her species did regularly.]] It's {{Downplayed}}, however, in that she goes along with her new crewmates because she's curious about them and Earth, and is happy helping them.

* FishOutOfWater: [[spoiler: Peridot]] definitely fits this trope. She doesn't know what oil, rain or money is. She's extremely curious about Earth and its inhabitants. She uses the Salute of the Diamonds instead of the Earth salute [[spoiler: and had to be taught that by Stan]]. Among other things. Most importantly, she's stuck there, and [[TheRunaway can't return]] [[PersonaNonGrata to]] [[IWantThemAlive Homeworld]] even if [[DefectorFromDecadence she]] wanted to. [[LikeADuckTakesToWater And she doesn't]].

** Throughout the majority of the story, there are hints pointing towards a certain.. "trait".. Bill has buried deep inside, and even blatant digs are made at the issue. [[spoiler: He turns out to suffer from severe, but well-hidden, depression due to his past actions, his past in general, and his newfound empathy makes it no better and in fact ''caused'' it all, having forced him to see all his past actions as horribly wrong. Ultimately, in Chapter Forty-Four, he tries taking his life. Fortunately, Steven talks him down.]] The storm that occurs during that painful event, as mentioned above, also foreshadows this.

** A more PlayedStraight example, but [[spoiler: Peridot]], to the point that the author wants to write it out.

* HostileWeather: Thanks to [[spoiler: Lapis trying to delay Jasper reaching Steven's home]] in Chapter Forty, the already-ensuing storm becomes much, ''much'' worse, bringing [[spoiler: Jasper's ship]] down and in Chapter Forty-One threatening to tip over [[spoiler: the Stan O' War II]]. Because of this, [[spoiler: Stan, Peridot and Ford have to [[RainRainGoAway wait just outside the perimeter of the deadly waves and rain until the storm clears up before they can head on to Beach City]].]]

* RainRainGoAway: This occurs on [[spoiler: Stan's, Peridot's, and Ford's part]] in Chapter Forty-One. While the rain is in fact [[HostileWeather very nasty]], they decide to pull out and wait on the cusp, opting to playing a game of Poker until it lets up. Ten chapters later, it finally does.

** Weather doesn't actually occur simultaneously in every single area. It could be brutally storming in one place, and lightly raining or even sunny a few blocks away. [[spoiler: Ford is nonetheless amazed by this in Chapter Forty-One.]]

** Stanley Pines is the Red to Stanford Pines's Blue, and [[spoiler: Peridot]] is the Blue, and sometimes Red, to both of them.

* SuicideForOthersHappiness: Absolutely bungled in Chapter Forty-One, but [[spoiler: Bill]] honestly believed that everyone would be better off without him. He's actually right in some cases, but Steven proves him wrong by bringing up his changes. See DrivenToSuicide[[=/=]]TalkingDownTheSuicidal for more details.

* WhatAnIdiot: Steven in Chapter Fifty-Five. Instead of [[spoiler: listening to Bill, he decides to take matters into his own hands and reveals himself as half-Gem to Jasper so he would get taken instead]]. Naturally, given what kinda gem he has, it doesn't end well, and Bill called him out on it. It's even [[TitleDrop called out by the co-author]].

* In the chapter before that, [[spoiler: Gabriel jumps in the way of the Quantum Destabilizer's shot toward his brother. Everyone, except Stan, is shaken by this.]]

** [[spoiler: Lapis]] has a fear of [[spoiler: Jasper getting to Steven]].

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

* {{Forgiveness}}: Steven himself is full of this, given how often he forgives Bill and how he pardons his past actions. In fact, it's the [[spoiler: overall theme of this story. No matter what somebody did, if they try their hardest to change, to turn over a new leaf, ''and'' '''''want''''' to change, they're worth forgiving.]]

* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler: Peridot]] suffers from this. Whenever feelings of frustration run high, her ferrokinesis goes wild. One catch: she's not even aware of it. So far, it's happened twice in the story.

* RainRainGoAway: This occurs on [[spoiler: Stan's, Peridot's, and Ford's part]] in Chapter Forty-One. While the rain is in fact [[HostileWeather very nasty]], they decide to pull out and wait on the cusp, opting to playing a game of Poker until it lets up.

* DaylightHorror: One [[spoiler: Cluster Demon goes after Steven on Gabriel's orders, offscreen however.]] It was morning.

** [[spoiler: Ocean Town]], which was visited and explored in Chapter Twenty-Four, falls into this after Last One Out of Beach City aired. In this story, its economy reached a dead end and it and the citizens never recovered from the riots. In the episode, it's confirmed that [[spoiler: [[NoodleIncident it was simply on fire]]]].

* BigBrotherBully: {{Inverted}}, but this is what [[spoiler: Gabriel]] was implied in Chapter Thirty-Five to have become [[spoiler: towards Bill when they were growing up. All the love and especially the hierarchy of their society went to his head]].

** Chapter Thirty-One hints that [[spoiler: Bill Cipher himself used to be one]].