Connie Maheswaran

## Connie Maheswaran

* Current
* Previous
* Second
* Debut

## Media

### Voice Actor

**Grace Rolek**

**Connie Maheswaran** is a Crystal Gem, and an original character that appears in *Steven Universe*.

## Appearance

Connie has a slim body type with two thin arms and legs. Her complexion is deep brown and she has two large black eyes, a prominent nose, and undefined lips. Her hair is very dark brown and is either worn long or styled in a bob haircut.

### Debut

She wore thin glasses with an ivory and light green shirt sleeved dress with very large and bulky salmon boots.

### Second

She wore thin glasses with a sleeveless white shirt, light gray shorts, and coral sneakers with white soles and bows.

### Third

She wore a light blue and dull indigo short sleeved dress with dark brown boots.

### Current

She now wears a deep salmon shirt sleeved shirt with white denim shorts and coral and white sneakers.

## Personality

Connie is a curious girl who is attentive to detail, preparing herself for future events such as the upcoming school year or a mission in the wilderness, but can get distracted if she finds something more interesting like reading Buddy Buddwick's journal or spending time with magical company. Her hobbies include reading, violin playing, and formerly tennis playing. Connie is usually level-headed but sensible, convincing Steven about his obsession to certain topics and let them go such in "Beach City Drift", but she feels guilty to the point of notably changing her behavior, including hitting an innocent student in "Mindful Education". Learning that some things are natural, she decides to confront her emotions by making amends, clearing her mind and understanding not to let her emotions cloud her thoughts by keeping them in. She passes this knowledge onto Steven, assuring him he had to be honest about how bad his feelings were so he could move on. "New Crystal Gems" shows Connie's leadership skills when she told Peridot and Lapis to be themselves and organized their efforts to fix the damage they did. "Change Your Mind" brings out this aspect of her personality, as she helps Steven convince Blue and Yellow to ease up on their stifling rules and traditions so they would try to convince White Diamond to do the same.

## Abilities

### Fusions

* When fused with Steven Universe, they form Stevonnie.

### Natural Abilities

* **Strength:** Connie has impressive strength for a girl her size, being able to lift and carry Steven when he was weakened from having his gem removed.

### Skillset

* **Swordsmanship:** As of "Sworn to the Sword", Connie has become skilled in the art of sword-fighting with Pearl as her mentor. She was able to work in partnership with Steven and his  shield. She can attack swiftly with light attacks or with power in heavy attacks.
* **Tag-team combat**: Due to the close bond they share, Steven can coordinate his shield techniques perfectly with Connie's swordplay, such as fighting back-to-back to defend and attack simultaneously or catapulting Connie from his shield for a powerful lunge attack.
* **Wide Intellect**: Connie is shown to be very intelligent for her age, knowing a lot about boats, reading very hard books (she enjoys reading hard books like The Spirit Morph Saga and also enjoys reading non-fiction books for fact and to get smarter than she already is )having proficiency in tennis, violin playing, and sword fighting, having an extensive vocabulary, and even managing to find loopholes in her parents' many rules. In Gem Hunt, she is shown to be very prepared and intelligent when it comes to surviving in the wilderness, thanks to reading a book.
	+ **Survival Skills**: Connie is shown to have very impressive survival skills, thanks to reading a book 20 times all about it. Thanks to her book, she has adapted these skills and because of this, she was perfectly able to locate a spot to hide from the Gem Monsters, and she was able to make a very healthy, Vitamin C-rich tea out of pine needles.
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat**: In addition to her swordsmanship, in "Mindful Education", it is revealed that Connie possesses some hand-to-hand combat skills, presumably through her combat training under Pearl. Due to her training, she was able to grab a fellow student at her school by the arm and throw him to the ground, breaking his arm in the process, albeit unintentionally as he had accidentally bumped into her which caused her to attack and injure him instinctually.
* **Heightened Reflexes**: As shown in "Mindful Education", Connie's reflexes have been honed to such an extant that she reacts to a perceived threat before she knows what's she's doing as seen when she attacked a fellow student who bumped into her without realizing it until after she had done it.

### Weaponry

* **Rose's Sword**: In Nightmare Hospital, the sword is given to Connie by Steven because she is learning to sword-fight. She uses the sword to protect her mother and Steven from the Cluster Gems. In Gem Hunt she is seen comfortably carrying the sword on her back and drawing it over her shoulder. Interestingly enough, despite the sword's size, Connie is able to wield it with little effort. It is unknown if it is because of the sword's magical properties, or if Pearl's training helped Connie achieved a level of strength fit to use it. She also uses Rose's scabbard. She has used the weapon in all further appearances paring it with Steven and his shield in combat situations and using it during sparring matches with him.

## Gallery

Steven Comforting a Pregnant Connie Part 1.Steven and Connie as Young Adults.Steven Comforting a Pregnant Connie Part 2.Steven and Connie’s Wedding.
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