Talk:Stevonnie/@comment-27426273-20151220052333/@comment-5544341-20151220071149

Think of it this way. Does Garnet ever once address Stevonnie as "experience" in lieu of their name?

Let's take a look at the one and only time Garnet uses the word toward them.

"You are not one person, and you are not two people. You are an experience. Now go. Have. Fun!" If you replace experience here, you get "You are a Stevonnie." which gramatically is not correct, as human names connect to identities, not to personal attributes like gem names do, and as such you wouldn't refer to someone as "a Carl" in the same way you'd refer to them as "a Steventhusiast".

In that way, no experience is not one of their nicknames (and to be fair, imo, Peridot's use of "Clod" itself doesn't constitute a nickname any more than Steven's use of "dink" to refer to Lars when he was BEING a dink. Those are put-downs, either used for multiple people or once in a specific situation, and not pet names).

A nickname is something someone uses to refer to someone with instead of their name, is typically unique to that individual, and sometimes but not always affectionate or teasing, such as Amethyst calling Garnet G-Squad, or Greg calling Amethyst Chico.