Connie Maheswaran

* Strawberry (Steven)
* Jam Bud (Steven)
* Young Lady (Dr. Maheswaran)
 **Relative(s)** | * Dr. Maheswaran (Mother)
 **Friend(s)** | * Steven (Romantic interest)
* Amethyst
* Pearl (teacher)
* Garnet
* Greg
* Jamie
* Lion
 **Voice Actor** | **Grace Rolek**

**"Connie Maheswaran"** is a character in *Steven Universe*. She is Steven's close friend who made her debut in the episode "Bubble Buddies"

## Appearance

Connie is a young small framed girl with dark skin and waist-length dark brown puffy hair. She has a prominent nose, somewhat thick eyebrows and wears a pair of red lens-less glasses (after the events of "An Indirect Kiss"). She is slightly taller than Steven.

She's usually seen in a mint-green and white dress, along with a baby blue sash and lime green socks, as well as salmon-colored boots. In the intro, she wears a hat and has no socks. Her casual wear includes blue overalls with a green-striped white shirt; a green shirt and gray khaki shorts; white shirt which has a golden sun, with blue shorts and dark pink flats; pink shirt with blue shorts, and her boots; sleeveless periwinkle dress with a pale violet lace around her waist, and powder blue flats. For tennis practice, she wears the outfit she previously wore in "An Indirect Kiss" (the second casual outfit), along with a pale blue tennis visor and has her hair in a ponytail. Her formal outfit is a pale yellow mini cardigan, white top, black-gray leggings, and pink heels. Her snow wear is a pale blue coat with a thick white fur-collar, white mittens, and pale blue-colored version of her boots.

## Personality

Connie has a bookwormish personality, generally being withdrawn and introverted, as well as curious and intelligent. Due to her parents lifestyle Connie rarely stays in one place for long and has been unable to form lasting friendships until she met Steven, and often feels lonely. Her parents are very strict and disallow her from common childhood activities (such as eating donuts or anything with trans-fat), this has led her to flat-out lie about Steven's non-nuclear family, due to her paranoia about how they might react. Although despite her obedience to her parents she is not above exploiting loopholes (such as not buying snacks at a theater and instead bringing them from Steven's home).

Connie  has grown used to the strange dynamic of her friendship with Steven despite her initial uncertainty to it, as in "Marble Madness" such as when the Gems destroy one of Peridot's robots in front of her, she reacts passively and only comments "[she] loves hanging out at [Steven's] place." She can be a bit deadpan at times, such as when she jokes about cutting off Steven's hand in "Lion 2: The Movie" and in that same instance quickly understands that by poking/tickling Steven she could provoke a reaction from Rose's Secret Armory. Her hobbies appear to include tennis and reading, she also plays the violin, as seen in "Fusion Cuisine."

## Relationships

### Steven

Steven first saw Connie about a year prior to the start of the series during a parade. He saw her drop her bracelet and decided to keep it in his freezer so he could return it to her one day. She also remembered seeing him on his father's float, mentioning the soap bubbles in his hair. He becomes her first friend, although Connie does sometimes feel like her life is rather mundane compared to Steven's. They are currently good friends, and share a mutual crush as seen in "An Indirect Kiss" and "Alone Together." Steven was even more heavily implied to have a crush on her in "Open Book," and it's also shown that she cares deeply for him in "Full Disclosure" as she repeatedly called and visited him to make sure he was okay, even going as far as to say she wanted to "be a part of [his] universe."

### Mr. Maheswaran and Dr. Maheswaran

Connie is very loyal to her parents. While they tend to be strict, they want the best for her, and want her to be smart, orderly and healthy. She closely follows their orders, but does occasionally exploit loopholes or even lies to them to get away with something. In Nightmare Hospital however, Connie revealed to her mother that she was training to sword fight with Steven. Her mother has now become more accepting of this and her friendship with Steven.

## Episode Appearances

* Bubble Buddies (debut)
* Lion 2: The Movie
* Rose's Room (cloud)
* An Indirect Kiss
* Mirror Gem
* Ocean Gem
* Fusion Cuisine
* Alone Together
* Winter Forecast
* Marble Madness
* Full Disclosure
* Open Book
* Love Letters
* Sworn to the Sword
* We Need to Talk
* Nightmare Hospital
* Steven's Birthday