Personal InformationName: Pedro
Age: 32
Personal Journal: N/A
Email / AIM / MSN / Plurk: elpedrososama (@plurk and email)
Character InformationCharacter Name: Connie Mahaeswaran
Fandom: Steven Universe
Character History:
Connie was content living her life quietly and out of the way. Her father’s job as a security guard had her constantly moving from place to place, so she never really had a close friend. Additionally, her parents are both fairly strict with what Connie can take part in, so simple kid things like watching brainless TV or indulging in snacks is not a possibility.
One day, young Connie Mahaeswaran is by herself, reading a book, minding her own business. There’s some strange boy trying to show her a bike trick, but it fails and he runs home. A few minutes later the same strange boy rushes over to her to stop a rock avalanche from squashing her flat. He is able to erect a protective bubble, but is so new to his powers he doesn’t know how to get them out. They try several different ways to get free, but eventually end up falling to the bottom of the ocean. Connie despairs, thinking she’s going to die without any friends, and Steven tells her he’d be her friend, telling her he’d seen her before in a parade on the beach. She remembers him, and their mutual laugh breaks the bubble, and, through a series of events, Steven defeats a monster with Connie’s help.
This is how Connie first meets Steven Universe: a boy with a destiny, and one of the crystal gems.
The two go on more crazy adventures too: a simple outing to see a movie results riding a lion through an interdimensional portal into a cave with a weapon room, one of which attacks them and follows them to the movie theater, and again, Connie helps Steven defeat the thing. The more Connie gets involved with her extraordinary friend, the more she finds her quiet life interrupted, and calm, collected Connie even gets a little dangerous herself. On one adventure she almost is drowned helping Steven, and the same day she rides Steven’s lion and saves him herself. Slowly, she starts to see she likes Steven more and more, though interruptions prevent anything more than friendship from happening.
One of those interruptions is Steven inadvertently curing Connie’s eyes so she no longer needs glasses. Another close moment between the two cause Steven’s gem to glow, and the two actually FUSE into one being, Stevonnie, merging Steven’s gusto for life and fun with Connie’s sensibilities and reasoning. Here the two are able to actually share something special: Steve can share with Connie at her best, and at her most vulnerable when they go to a party and Connie has a panic attack when everyone stares at her, and she can feel Steven’s freedom and enthusiasm and BE a part of that. After rebuffing a persistent teenager, the two revert back, and dance the rest of the night away, happy and having fun with each other.
Clearly, Connie is meant to go on more adventures with Steven Universe.
Character Personality: Please be
as detailed as possible.
Connie is, for the most part, an introvert: she is quiet and mousy, usually preferring to be by herself. She tends to opt for the company of fantasy, hence Connie loses herself in books and learning about things she’ll never be able to take part in.
When Steven enters the picture everything changes her a little. Connie gets to see a part of Beach City she’s never seen (the magic side) and through Steven Connie meets the Crystal Gems, inter-dimensional beings tasked with defending the earth from Gem monsters that appear in Beach City and around the world. For the first time, hanging out with her friend has an edge of danger she would never be involved with otherwise. It’s as if all of Connie’s fiction is become reality, and she finds that she really, really likes it! Connie can’t even picture what her life without Steven and Gems around is like anymore. What’s more, Connie flourishes in dangerous situations BECAUSE of her ability to think and act swiftly. Logic and sensibility goes hand in hand with adventure and danger: if you want a cool head, Connie is your girl.
This is not to say that Connie is not corruptible. As Steven was able to bring this out in her, all it takes is the right nudge to make Connie want to try something different, something new, and that isn’t always healthy for you. Let it not be forgotten Connie has sustained injuries and near drowning due to her willingness to step into adventure.
It’s important to remember that the introvert in Connie IS still there, even if it is less so: Connie hates being the center of attention and will naturally shy away from that kind of situation if she can. At times she forcibly has to remind people she is NOT the hero of the story, that she’s just an ordinary girl who happened to have one of the coolest friends ever. Connie likes being in the background for as long as it suits her. Throw her in the spotlight and she’s likely to have a mini panic attack and shrink into herself.
Connie is very respectful of adults to a fault: she doesn’t try to offend if she possibly can. Thanks to Steven, she has a strong sense of justice and is now more likely to speak up if she sees something that she doesn’t like. Connie is self-assured, and is less likely to let someone walk over her if she really believes she’s in the right. While Connie is still not the type to cause waves, she IS more adaptable to the strange and the unknown, and less likely to allow something she doesn’t like to go down without saying something.
Powers and Abilities:
Not applicable. Connie is an ordinary human.
Sample: http://dear-mun.dreamwidth.org/12081072.html#commentsesNetwork: Ok. Testing. Testing. Right, I was never good at these; I don’t like doing voice things on my own phone. [Ahem].
This is Connie. Um. Hi. This is a little awkward, since I don’t know who’s listening, or how long I’m here. But I really shouldn’t be here. I mean
really shouldn’t. Do you have any idea how much I’ll be grounded if mom and dad can’t find me? Privileges aren’t guaranteed in my family, you CAN get them taken away. Mom’s already mad because of that night with me and Steven turning in-look, it doesn’t matter! All I know is, raves are apparently not for children and that’s bad and you should bring me back, please! I’m a regular human! I know you must have been after one of the gems!
Oh my god. Is this their home world?
That is so cool. I’m not a gem, I promise!
Third Person: She adjusted her glasses, though clearly there was little reason for that: no lenses. Steven had made that happen: at this point it was just a nervous habit, like a tick or a stutter. But from where Connie stood, there was PLENTY to be nervous about.
She had no idea where she was. Steven was nowhere to be found, yet here she was, clearly on one of those destiny/wrong turn places he should have been instead. If she were with him that was one thing: they’d gone to some pretty crazy places so far. Without him though? Connie was on the verge of hysterics. Nothing looked like Beach City, there was this strange AURA about this place, and she had a feeling somehow that she wasn’t going to get home with the snap of a finger.
“Come on cell phone!” She was counting on it at this point, honestly, and her face fell when she saw the error screen. “Drat.”
The GSP tracking told her, with a heavy heart, exactly what she had sensed: she was nowhere on earth. She JUMPED dimensions. At least last time with Lion, she understood why, but how did it happen here?
Only one way to find out.
She was going to have to approach people, and though that brought with her some dread, staying in a place she knew nothing about was worse. The streets of this place were nice enough, something out of a science fiction book actually. Maybe there was a library around here? There HAD to be a place where you got information, right? Good! That would spare her the awkwardness of having to ask a stranger for questions!
Wait. She’d need to know where a library was in the first place.
Connie sighed, shaking her head. “Excuse me,” she said to the nearest person, “could you tell me where I can get information? I’m lost and…well, actually, where am I?”
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