#*heavy panting*

we don’t know if Connie does or doesn’t have detention or suspension for breaking the kid’s arm, it doesn’t even actually matter to the plot or episode, Connie is a lot more minor a character than a lot of the others, even though she’s Steven’s friend and makes up Stevonnie

but even if she doesn’t have detention or suspension from school for breaking a student’s arm

there’s a few possibilities for that.

1) Schools typically don’t give a shit if you hurt someone if you’re the aggressor. This is a repeated thing said in situations where someone who is bullied has reported the incidents and nothing is done, but the moment they respond to bullying with violence, the hammer comes down hard - on the bullied. Every school is different, and I was home-schooled so I do not know from first-hand experience, but this is a repeated story I have heard on the news and in documentaries and from people talking about their school experiences. School faculty pick out students to be hard on when they do shit, even if it’s super tiny insignificant shit that no one cares about, and pick out students to be super lax with, even if they’re violent little shits. It’s possible Connie is seen as a student who is worth protecting from blemishes on her record. But that wouldn’t be Connie’s fault, that would be the fault of a corrupt school system.

2) It is weird if the school DID hear about it and didn’t punish Connie, but Connie had run away and we don’t know if Jeff had even known who Connie was before she flipped him. Jeff could’ve easily just said “i dunno who she is, some Indian girl flipped me in the hall” and if there’s a lot of Indian girls at the school and no one at school knows about her swordsmanship training, there might be no reason to think it was Connie

3) Jeff could’ve just not told anyone - it was an otherwise empty hallway and we have no evidence of witnesses. Jeff might not’ve even told anyone his arm hurt until he got home. My aunt once kept a broken arm a secret for a whole week when she was a kid. Jeff could’ve even lied about how his arm got broken.

4) a reason to lie about how his arm got broken is that he might’ve been embarrassed that a girl had broken his arm. another reason is that he might’ve thought it was the coolest thing ever, to get flipped, even if his arm was broken by it, and hadn’t WANTED to get Connie into trouble.

we have no idea who this Jeff kid is, but he was super nice to Connie and he wants to learn how she had done it. He honestly thought she was cool. for a kid their age, I’d say that’s perfectly reasonable to suggest that he either omitted information when asked about his arm or outright lied about how it was broken.

Even if there’s no grounding or detention or school suspension, you also can’t say Connie ISN’T punished for what she had done - she was punishing herself with her guilt because she’s a good person and had felt bad about what she had done. And she had done the responsible thing and apologized and took steps forward to right what she had done wrong.

Connie is not a bad person because she made a mistake. Connie is not a bad person just because she did not get punished for something she had done wrong, and I repeat that we do not actually know if she has or has not been punished. We do not hear of a punishment nor do we see one on screen, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there.

There’s lots of things about human characters we’re just not privy to. Like, who Sadie’s dad is. Or when Sour Cream’s birthday is. Or exactly how old the Pizza twins are. And it’s not plot relevant to know if Connie got detention or not. It ultimately does not matter.

It doesn’t even matter to Jeff if Connie got punished. Jeff is cool with Connie even though his arm is broken. AND we don’t know how much time exactly had passed between fusion training sessions. It could’ve been the next day, it could’ve been next week. It could’ve been that Connie’s detention/suspension was entirely off screen between the first fusion training and the last one and that Connie hadn’t been ALLOWED to go to Steven’s until any sort of punishment was over.

I don’t think Connie would even make a big deal out of being in trouble; she’d completely understand the necessity of punishment in such a situation, but Garnet’s mindfulness lesson also gave her the ability to not let the guilt control her. It’s possible she didn’t mention it to Steven or the Gems at all - or that she had, but that had been off-screen, but thus didn’t have to tell him again when she was on screen because Steven already knew.

And I’ve broken a kid’s wrist before on accident when I was a kid. I did not get in trouble for it; it wasn’t at school, but Tae Kwon Do class, but I wasn’t suspended or told not to come back and my parents certainly hadn’t grounded me or anything. No one sued or anything. The kid got his wrist taken care of at the hospital, and his family made the decision to not let him come back. It’s not nearly as big of a deal as it might seem, especially since apparently bones can break a lot easier than you would think; I had barely touched him and he wasn’t supposed to have blocked a kick I had thrown because it was no-contact sparring and it wasn’t going to hit him. But I hadn’t even thought I had actually hurt him because the touch had been so light between my foot and his wrist, but it fucking broke. But it was an accident, and everyone understood that. Sometimes that shit just happens.

I might be a little sensitive about this because I have an OC that had gotten ripped apart for every little thing she had done wrong and was seen as ‘not getting punished enough’ when she had almost DIED as the result of one of her not-good decisions and was Not Having a Good Time and the literal only explanation I could think of was that the reviewer had been a sexist prick because she was a woman. That or they had just wanted to bully/gaslight me with what was and wasn’t appropriate punishments for my OC when I most certainly did not let that OC get away with whatever she wanted and had things like death and betrayal and miscarriage be consequences as the result of her not-good decisions. But the only reason I can find for having issues with Connie not being punished on screen for breaking a kid’s arm when she’s being taught important mindfulness skills that are being taught to her and built to help her put aside her own overwhelming emotions so she can properly address the situation and actually make things up to Jeff, be in an apology or accepting punishment, is if you’re somehow racist or sexist on such a level that you will only accept self-destruction and groveling for forgiveness as markers that she is not “getting away with being bad.”

If you want to talk about undeserved forgiveness, let’s talk about My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and how Starlight Glimmer is getting a redemption arc when she had brainwashed an entire village of ponies, created a cult, and had robbed several people of their individuality. How Rainbow Dash had achieved her dream of becoming a Wonderbolt, only to have the nickname that had haunted her years of being bullied in flight school to come back and negatively affect her performance in the Wonderbolts and for the solution being to “accept the nickname and reclaim it because all the Wonderbolts have nicknames that highlight embarrassing things that they had done on their first day” when it’s never established that any of the others ALSO have traumatic memories attached to their nicknames and that they’re basically telling Rainbow Dash to just get over it and Rainbow Dash for some reason deciding “Okay!” and so still no one respects that she doesn’t want to be called Rainbow Crash. And don’t get me started on Discord and how it’s always rubbed me the wrong way that he’s now a friend to Fluttershy.

Or let’s talk about Soos and Wendy about how shitty those two from Gravity Falls can be and how neither of them have any consequences for shit they’ve done wrong and how it’s like if you don’t like either of them you can’t talk to anyone about it because everyone else LOVES them even though they’re pretty selfish to the point of a 22-year-old man is getting angry and arguing with a TWELVE-YEAR-OLD over how he cares more about saving his SISTER’S PET PIG than his stupid feelings and him feeling included and his stupid T-shirts that Dipper will probably never grow into, to the point of a 15/16-year-old manipulating a TWELVE-YEAR-OLD into giving her the day off with full pay when she KNOWS that a little girl can’t run a gift shop by herself with only her ALSO TWELVE-year-old brother for help, to the point of same teenager TAKING WITHOUT PERMISSION a WELL-BELOVED HAT from a TWELVE-YEAR-OLD that his great-uncle had given him AS A GIFT all so SHE could have something to remember him by when she KNOWS that he still has a crush on her - and no, it does not matter that she told him that he’s too young for her, it’s still shitty. I can’t prove that she was manipulating him to let her get away with shit in season 1, but I sure as hell can think it.

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