Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26208943-20150224183255/@comment-25563656-20150317032623

Haruko-chan wrote:  Additionally, Steven is a manifestation of the love shared between Rose and Greg so I think Rose would want Steven to be equal parts Greg and her. As we've recently learned, when two gems love each other, they will give up the whole of themselves to fuse with the whole of their partner to form a completely new being that is stronger than either but equal parts both of them. Conversely, a very, very basic approach to the concept of human reproduction is that a child is formed through the union of half of each parent's DNA into a full person. Therefore, since Greg is biologically limited to only being able to provide half of himself, Rose would have to match Greg and only contribute half of herself for Steven to be an equal union of the two.

 So, if this is the case, Lion could simply be the byproduct of this human-gem fusion process. He could be just the excess parts of Rose that didn't go into Steven, which could also serve to explain Lion's inconsistent behaviour. If Lion is the manifestation of excess Rose then he wouldn't be a complete being and wouldn't have many of the full personality traits of Rose.

 ... But, this is all just my personal theory. It pleases me to think this way and I thought it was a decent enough theory to share but I'm not married to the idea and would just as easily accept others if and when they are demonstrated in the series.

 I just want to end off with one little notion that occurred to me as I was writing this. If Steven is equal parts Greg and Rose then he would be even-steven~ ;P

I like your theory, a lot. If I'm wrong in my theory, I hope canon is close to yours.

You make a good point about human reproduction. Really good. I think that I'd like to say that Steven probably isn't equal parts Greg and Rose. Because Rose is from a species that can compact their entire selves into a relatively small amount of space. And so, I think Steven has 100% of Rose's gem, but Rose's gem does not play into Steven's genetic makeup.

But then that raises a lot of questions, yes I know. It's just fun to think about. I just don't take it too seriously. :)

Lion is possibly Rose's familiar, I think. Lion is part of Rose's estate maybe. Everything that was hers now belongs to Steven, including magical big cats. I think that Rose probably created Lion with science, like Goliad from Adventure Time. Except Lion isn't evil. We'll probably find out about Lion's origins later. I'm not worried :)