Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26208943-20150224183255/@comment-26274291-20150405043103

Personally, I think that the hipothesis that Lion is a physical hologram like Holo-Pearl is pretty persuasive, but there are some points to consider:

- As often mentioned, Lion's characteristics severely differ from those of Holo-Pearl: he isn't translucid, his eyes are not always plain white.

- We don't know if Rose was able to project holograms. As far as I remenber, only Pearl has been show to have this particular ability with holograms. We know that all gems are able to constitute their physical bodies (Garnet refers to them as illusions) and weapons, but they differ in nature to a hologram. Pearl holograms are visualisations of the images in her mind, are projections, similar to cinema. Even thought we have seen Gems summon their weapons twice, we also saw that Gems keep armories, which may mean that they need the physical weapon in order to summon it, which in turn mean that the process of summoning is similar to one of teletransport (we know it is a technology the Gems master by the use of their warps, but we don't know how the warps work, if their effect can be mimic by a Gem herself [warps are depicted as crystal-like], if warps are necessary to teletransport with a not-that-accurate precision objects with small mass [warps can be used to transport human beings, a transport that requires cellular precision,while weapons are almost homogeneous, it's transport would allow a greater imprecision rate]).

- Holograms function as simple programs, with determined simple algorithms. Holo-Pearl was unable to learn, and spoke aloud it's analisys (ranked Pearl's defence by studying her openings). Holo-Pearl had different levels of rational, in training level one only being able to fight in the parry-parry-thrust order. Lion has a complex, organic consciousness, what signifies that either Rose mastered computation enought to create an AI (may not be such a stretch taken Rose's known brilliance, but it would take practice, so some flashback would or will show her creating her own holograms), either he isn't a hologram.

With this, I belive that the principle is correct, but only the principle. Lion may have been Rose's pet, and pets often are depicted as part of inventories in cartoons. This does fit with the point of "Rose's Scabbard". However, we must consider another version of a created being. We define Rose's power as phytokinesys, but in "Watermelon Steven" Garnet mentiones that Rose's plants were sentient, but beligerant. If we assume this as at least as knowledge in elementary genetic engineering, we can also assume that this same knowledge can be applied to other life forms, such as animals. Then go forward to assume that phytokinesys can also have this progression, first simply in plants, then in all sorts of living beings.

Anyway, this is getting too long, so, for now, farewell.