Stevnel

Stevnel is the non-binary ship between Steven Universe and Spinel from the Steven Universe fandom.

Steven Universe: The Movie
Spinel comes to earth on top of her injector, asking Steven if he is Steven Universe. He responds yes, and after a musical number (Other Friends), poofs Pearl, Garnet and Amethyst. Soon after, Steven takes Spinel's scythe and poofs her. After Garnet, Pearl, and Amethyst reform, Steven discovers that they have been "reset". They do not have any of their old memories. Spinel then reforms, not remembering anything.

After Spinel suggests that recreating old memories may help the trio get their memories back, Steven and Spinel go around trying to help the three get their memories back. However, Spinel's injector is still in the ground, and only she knows how to turn it off.

Steven brings Spinel to an old garden, as per Pearl's suggestion, where he discovers his mother left her there for six thousand years, after her song, "Drift Away", in which she gets her memories back and tells Steven her story. He comforts her, stating that his mother hurt other people, too. She says that someday she will love again,

Spinel and Steven return to Earth, and she brings the injector out of the ground. However, after seeing her scythe in his pocket, she comes to the conclusion he was going to poof her.

Spinel blows her horn again, causing the injector to go back into the ground. Spinel and Steven fight on the injector. Steven sings "Change", and tells her that only she can change the way she feels. She becomes sad and confused on why she is fighting Steven when all she wanted was to be friends.

She says she wants a friend, but she's already messed everything up with Steven.

The diamonds come to Earth and take Spinel back with them.

Homeworld Bound
In Episode 17, when Steven leaves Beach City to get help from the Diamonds his first interaction is with Spinel. She sees him and her eyes turn to hearts, popping out of her sockets much like in classic cartoon crush sequences, enthusiastically yelling his name. She grabs him and kisses him. While Steven's response to this was by glowing pink and asking what's wrong with her, she displays no anger or regrets at his response. In a way, she almost responds flirtily, replying over her shoulder.

She continues to help him throughout the episode by bringing him to the diamonds for help, and towards the end of the episode, he asks her for help, grabbing her shoulders and asking how she got rid of her revenge feelings.

She replies (in a mildly drugged-out manner) that she changed because of him, and then begins belting out "Change" and reenacting his performance. Its good to note that she did this as a parody, her singing here is drastically different than in the movie.

Fanon
The ship is mildly popular among Steven Universe fans, although this ship and the fans that support it are being attacked by others, commenting that it is pedophilia and toxic. The ship could be considered toxic, because Rebecca Sugar herself has said that Spinel is a toxic person, however, it cannot be pedophilia. Spinel (as are other gems) are simply put, rocks. Their bodies are light projections. Along with that Rose, who is a diamond, was probably very very "old" and was with Greg. Connverse shippers say that its confirmed Spinel and Steven (as well as the other Crystal Gems) are family, based on concept work. However the Spinel there is her Reset/Original form and it can be argued that her personality now is very different and that she's not considered family. Some people are placing the Hashtag #idontmindstevinel to "defend" the ship or "end" the harassment towards this.

It is a rival ship of Spinearl and Conniverse.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Steven/Spinel tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Steven/Spinel tag on FanFiction.Net

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