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For Nora, Bk I: Reunion (Too Much To Talk About) by Profoundish
Fandoms: Steven Universe (Cartoon)
07 Jul 2023
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It’s been a weird half-decade for Steven and Connie. They’d spent a lot of time apart, giving each other space. They’d still been best friends and best couple, certainly! (Well, Connie had a new girlfriend, so now they were in a “V” triad, actually.) But then Steven left the galaxy for the last 2 of those 5 years. Still, all that distance, that space, it hadn’t been the end of their relationship, or even a particularly hard part. And this is the story of their reunion: about how Steven came back to earth to move into the home Connie and her partner Lilith had bought not long before he’d left. About how the two of them had had a lot to talk about, but tried to rush past a lot of it. About how that backfired on them and got them in a body-swapping situation, forcing them to confront overdue conversations: finally beginning to open up about Steven’s gender, about Connie’s fear and obsession w/ fusion, and about the nature of Steven’s “being a fusion all the time” as his gem and human half. And then, just when they thought they’d made some progress, and they try to swap back, something entirely new happens. . .
(Sequel to https://archiveofourown.org/works/10532106 , https://archiveofourown.org/works/43488183)
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- Part 5 of The Pink Nora Universe
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[E3: 0]
Sometimes all it takes is one little nudge, something as simple as a short video or a swapped name, and suddenly you think about your whole life differently and question things you never thought to wonder about.
A story of a young girl suddenly finding herself in transition, and the world that has to transition with her.
Canon after Lion 4: Alternate Ending. Slightly older Steven and Connie than in the show though -- slightly more mature themes. Work in progress, more to come!
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- Part 1 of The Pink Nora Universe
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[E3:2]
Really more of a character-building exercise and dialogue than a full narrative. But I imagine some of you will enjoy. Takes place immediately after Connie walks off with her mother near the end of SU:F ep 14 Growing Pains.
‘Connie *wanted* to talk to Steven about the proposal, but she knew that he was falling apart [though even she doesn’t realize how bad yet], so she just did her best to let him down easy. But she’d hidden – from Steven, even a little bit from herself – her temptation to immediately say yes to him. To start that very moment. To form Stevonnie and never look back. So she realized that this desire was something she’d have to confront.
But instead of, like, talking about it and examining it non-judgmentally, she pathologized it and felt a lot of guilt instead.
But now, given an opportunity to unload onto her mother, Connie takes the chance to talk about everything. All of it:, first about the proposal, and then about basically every harmful thing that’s happened to her, from the moment she and Steven met all the way through the proposal and everything in between, including Priyanka talking some about what it was like to make the parenting decisions she did.’
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- Part 4 of The Pink Nora Universe
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[E3:0; E3:2]
Ever stretched a part of your life out for way longer than you really need to? Ever anchor yourself to an internal struggle as a means of emotional (in)stability? Ever know anyone who spent way more time questioning than anyone around them expected?
Anyway here’s Wondewall. . .
Follows a canon-divergent Steven who had been experimenting with gender identity, but then got tangled up in denial for a while. . . A story with an unhappy, unresolved ending.
(Spiritual successor to/in continuity with https://archiveofourown.org/works/10532106)
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- Part 3 of The Pink Nora Universe
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Play of the Water (Trick of the Light) by Profoundish
Fandoms: Steven Universe (Cartoon)
06 Dec 2022
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[E3:0]
(Spoilers from 5x18: A Single Pale Rose.)
Imagining a conversation between Steven and Pearl and how that could have led to the cellphone idea she executes in Single Pale Rose. First, a fairly one-sided conversation where Steven tries to pry information about Rose's past. Then we see how Pearl got everything set up for the long-overdue Reveal.
[CW: brainwashing, forced conditional mutism, counter-programing, self-manipulation and repression]
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- Part 2 of The Pink Nora Universe
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Canon-divergent timeline with trans!Steven. Covers gender, questioning, and transition; issues of identity, from gender to self-concept and beyond; polyamory; fusion angst, more fusion angst (but different), and *more* (still-yet-different-er) fusion angst; struggling with immortality; reflection on healthy vs unhealthy relationships; mommy issues; internal knotted-ness and watching characters play with fire; and generally just gently but firmly invites readers to look at the more tragic and/or uncomfortable and/or squick-y realities of Steven and Connie's lives; and just generally how to try and build a good life for yourself even when you're kinda messed up.
(Bulk of the stories are T or M btw, 18+ is *not* the focus of this series.)
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*Takes place after SUF, Aged-Up Characters, Steven X Connie. OCs. Light-Headcannon. Smut in later chapters. Chapters containing Smut will be noted in the chapter title. *
Finding one's purpose in life is hard. Thankfully, Steven made friends on his 39-state expedition who genuinely cared about him and wanted to see him happy. One friend became his roommate, and another joined forces with said roommate to form Steven's band. The 3 called themselves P.D.I.N.C. (for Pink Diamond Incorporated), and Steven found himself in a place of happiness and purpose, discovering joy in writing and performing music.
The only downside was that one member was a pothead, and the other was the Pink-Diamond version of himself. Dealing with a subconscious was hard enough, but seeing it as an apparition that others could see was harder.
Watch Steven grow up with us.
If you want to hear P.D.I.N.C's set, click link below.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3UqAcxuBPl5CMMDlnFt8wa?si=77bcac672bc5447dBookmarked by Profoundish
18 May 2023
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Being roommates gives Lapis and Peridot a lot of time to get to know each other and, despite their rocky history, they might just be able to make something entirely new.
Chinese translation here.
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Bookmarked by Profoundish
18 May 2023
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When Steven shatters Jasper, he blames Pink. It becomes a bit of a habit.
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- Part 1 of Always You
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07 Feb 2022
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Beach City's gone, Steven's more Diamond than ever before, and Connie hasn't had a heartbeat for 500 years. If you can't really be human anymore, what do you become?
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22 Dec 2022
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A fight with the Crystal Gems has left Peridot cracked within an inch of her life. Trapped on Earth, with no one and no way to get home, Peridot's all but given up hope. But she doesn't know the lengths Steven is willing to go to in order to keep her alive.
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Bookmarked by Profoundish
20 Feb 2022