"Well..." Connie sighs, running a hand through her hair. This was going to be very difficult to explain to someone who had almost no context about how things worked on her world. "Back home, these aliens called the Gems were sorta like a second family to me. The had a bunch of weird stuff going on—sentient polymorphic space rocks and all that—but one of the coolest things they could do was fuse with one another. Like, uh... have you ever watched Wyrmsphere X?"
Probably not because the media of Connie's Earth is ever-so-slightly to the left (with the odd exception of Revolutionary Girl Utena), but it still stands.
"It's like that, except they do it for reasons other than beating the absolute shit out of their enemies. Although they do that too. For example, Garnet, one of the coolest people I know, is a permanent fusion between these two Gems named Ruby and Sapphire because they loved each other so much that they couldn't stand to be apart.
"I'm guessing off track. My point is, my best friend and..." Connie takes a deep breath. This is the first time that she's admitted it out loud to anyone. "...former boyfriend, Steven Universe, is half-gem. So he could fuse with humans too. I was actually the very first person he fused with, haha! And we were Stevonnie together.
"Stevonnie was... an amazing experience. Completely seeing and understanding Steven for the first time was part of the reason why we got together in the first place, really, and being someone else, someone outside everybody's expectations and the binary and... everything, it was. Amazing. I'm not kidding when I say that it changed my life."
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Probably not because the media of Connie's Earth is ever-so-slightly to the left (with the odd exception of Revolutionary Girl Utena), but it still stands.
"It's like that, except they do it for reasons other than beating the absolute shit out of their enemies. Although they do that too. For example, Garnet, one of the coolest people I know, is a permanent fusion between these two Gems named Ruby and Sapphire because they loved each other so much that they couldn't stand to be apart.
"I'm guessing off track. My point is, my best friend and..." Connie takes a deep breath. This is the first time that she's admitted it out loud to anyone. "...former boyfriend, Steven Universe, is half-gem. So he could fuse with humans too. I was actually the very first person he fused with, haha! And we were Stevonnie together.
"Stevonnie was... an amazing experience. Completely seeing and understanding Steven for the first time was part of the reason why we got together in the first place, really, and being someone else, someone outside everybody's expectations and the binary and... everything, it was. Amazing. I'm not kidding when I say that it changed my life."