History Fanfic / Professionals

** One of the new Peridots of Little Homeworld, Dottie, [[UpToEleven is somehow even worse,]] with Peridot suspecting she'd have been shattered had Homeworld not been strapped for resources. [[spoiler: It's later confirmed.]]

* GoingNative: Despite every effort to resist this happening to her, Blue Zircon ends up catching what Peridot calls Earth Madness. Blue Zircon naturally ends up freaking out as a result.
* ItsAllMyFault: Peridot has this reaction when [[spoiler: Blue Zircon is almost shattered by a Robonoid she was holding exploding in her hands.]] She even tries to quit as Little Homeworld's Chief Technician, before Lapis talks her out of it.

** One of the new Peridots of Little Homeworld, Dottie, [[UpToEleven is somehow even worse,]] with Peridot suspecting she'd have been shattered had Homeworld not been strapped for resources.

--> '''[[spoiler: Peridot's Gem]]:''' [[spoiler: Peridot Facet-2F5L Cut-5XG is now in calibration mode. Please press one for Gemglyph and two for simplified pictographs.]]

* AngerBornOfWorry: Lapis is furious when she finds out that Peridot has been tinkering with the Rejuvanator Spinel used, terrified that Peridot will get her memories erased. [[spoiler: Sure enough...]]
* AscendedExtra: In canon, Blue Zircon was a one off character featuring in the Trial who got poofed after accusing one of the Diamonds of being complicit in Pink Diamond's Murder. In Professionals, Steven hired her to serve as Little Homeworld's Lawyer, in charge of sorting out the new rules, since she's the only lawyer he knows.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Lapis starts feeling like this when Bismuth jokes about setting Peridot up with Biggs. It's what causes her to realise that she's in love with Peridot.

* ChekhovsGun: Peridot working on Spinal's Rejuvenator is mentioned a few times early on, with Lapis freaking out about the risk to Peridot, [[spoiler: only for it to blow up later on, with the implication of sabotage, [[EasyAmnesia resetting Peridot]].]]

* RunningGag: Peridot's idea for using the Rejuvanator for allowing Era 2 Gems to change their appearance is repeatedly compared to a Suicide Booth.

* AngerBornOfWorry: Lapis is furious when she finds out that Peridot has been tinkering with the Rejuvanator Spinel used, terrified that Peridot will get her memories erased. [[spoiler: Sure enough.]]

* ClingyJealousGirl: Lapis starts feeling like this when Bismuth jokes about setting Peridot up with Biggs.

* OnlySaneMan: Lapis, Blue Zircon and Bismuth all take turns trying to be this to Peridot's zaniness, though really only Bismuth really qualifies due to Lapis' overprotectiveness when it comes to Peridot and Blue Zircon being a big ball of anxiety.

[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21728824/chapters/51833323 Professionals]] is a [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Steven Universe]] fanfic set during [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture Future]] and focusing on the Little Homeworld Team of Peridot, Lapis, Bismuth and the new addition of Blue Zircon, focusing on their relationships with each other as they try to adjust to Era 3. It is available on Archive Of Our Own and is written by Demyx.

--> ''[[spoiler: Peridot's Gem]]:'' [[spoiler: Peridot Facet-2F5L Cut-5XG is now in calibration mode. Please press one for Gemglyph and two for simplified pictographs.]]

--> ''[[spoiler: Peridot's Gem]]: [[spoiler: Peridot Facet-2F5L Cut-5XG is now in calibration mode. Please press one for Gemglyph and two for simplified pictographs.]]

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Lapis admits she's tempted to be this for Peridot, especially when it comes to Homeworld Gems who continue to show FantasticRacism to her.

* FantasticRacism: Still shows up, with several Gems of Homeworld showing it towards former low caste Gems like Peridot and even relatively middle class like Blue Zircon.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Lapis starts feeling like this, when Bismuth jokes about setting Peridot up with Biggs.

* ChekovsGun: Peridot working on Spinal's Rejuvanator is mentioned a few times early on, with Lapis freaking out about the risk to Peridot, [[spoiler: only for it to blow up later on, with the implication of sabotage, [[EasyAmnessia resetting Peridot]].]]
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Peridot and Lapis are the only ones who don't know about their mutual attraction to each other, with Bismuth, Blue Zircon, and Steven all having realised it ages ago.

** In a flashback, one of Blue Zircon's colleagues shows comtempt towards Steven's HalfHumanHybrid status, refusing to see him as a Diamond as a result.
* TheKlutz: Peridot like in canon is incredibly accident prone, with a brief anecdote about her crashing face first into a tower while wearing a jetpack being mentioned. [[spoiler: This carries over to Tilly, her Fusion with Steven, causing Bismuth to recognise her as one of the Fusion's components.]]

* OddFriendship: Blue Zircon the walking stressball and the hyperactive Peridot, who ended up like this after Peridot forced Blue Zircon into watching wierd vampire lawyer shows with her, [[NotSoDifferent though it's implied it's really becuase both suffer from severe anxiety issues.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Lapis, Blue Zircon and Bismuth all take turns trying to be this to Peridot's zaniness, though really only Bismuth really qualifies due to Lapis' overprotectiveness when it comes to Peridot and Blue Zircon being a big ball of Anxiety.
* RealityEnsues: Technically correct or not, accusing the Diamonds of the murder of one of their own has made Blue Zircon a washed up hasbeen at best in the eyes of her fellow Zircons, and a laughingstock at worst.
** As brilliant as Peridot is, the fact she happened to be assigned to the Cluster by chance, along with feeling like she only got the position of Chief Technican because she's the only Peridot Steven knows all that well, and the millenia of working under Homeworld, makes Peridot feel like she's interchangeable with any other Peridot and they might even be able to do a better job than her.
* SourSupporter: 2PK, one of the new Peridots of Little Homeworld, might be standoffish and rude, always being willing to point out the flaws in Peridot's ideas, but she does express genuine concern, [[spoiler: when Peridot is almost caught in a meltdown of one of the Solar Cells.]]

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Lapis admits she's tempted to be this for Peridot, especially when it comes to Homeworld Gems who continue to show FantasticRacism.

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Lapis admits she's tempted to be this for Peridot, especially when it comes to Homeworld Gems who continue to show FantasticRacist.

* SourSupporter: 2PK, one of the new Peridots of Little Homeworld, might be standoffish and rude, always being willing to point out the flaws in Peridot's ideas, but she does express genuine concern, [[spoiler: when Peridot is almost caught in a meltdown of one of the Solar Cells.]]

* OddFriendship: Blue Zircon the walking stressball and the hyperactive Peridot, who ended up like this after Peridot forced Blue Zircon into watching wierd vampire lawyer shows with her, [[NotSoDifferent though it's implied it's really becuase both suffer from severe anxiety issues.]]

* RealityEnsues: Technically correct or not, accusing the Diamond's of the murder of one of their own has made Blue Zircon a washed up hasbeen at best in the eyes of her fellow Zircons, and a laughingstock at worst.

** One of the new Peridots of Little Homeworld, Dottie, is somehow even worse, with Peridot suspecting she'd have been shattered had Homeworld not been strapped for resources.

* OddFriendship: Blue Zircon the walking stressball and the hyperactive Peridot, who ended up like this after Peridot forced Blue Zircon into watching wierd vampire lawyer shows with her, [[NotSoDifferent: though it's implied it's really becuase both suffer from severe anxiety issues.]]

* Chekov'sGun: Peridot working on Spinal's Rejuvanator is mentioned a few times early on, with Lapis freaking out about the risk to Peridot, [[spoiler: only for it to blow up later on, with the implication of sabotage, [[EasyAmnessia resetting Peridot]].]]