Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5413572-20150411050637

Feel free to shoot this theory down (though if you must, please be civil), but I thought I'd bring it up.

It's been pretty much established that Lion is connected to Rose somehow, but at the moment, their exact relationship is unclear. A popular theory is that Lion is or is a part of Rose. I agree with the latter- but I think there's yet another part. I think that, upon death, Rose split into three pieces- her body, her mind, and her spirit. Her body, of course, became a part of Steven's. But what of her mind and spirit?

I think the latter became Lion- this is why he possesses Gem-like qualities such as a pocket universe inside himself and teleportation, despite seemingly lacking any kind of Gem himself. (It would also literally fit with the motif of a spirit animal.) Her mind, meanwhile, became the Tiny Floating Whale seen in her room.

Now, of course, it didn't literally incarnate into this particular whale, as the latter only manifests when Steven wishes for one. However, her mind has instead been somehow imbued into her room, and now manifests in the Whale, and potentially the fake Connie seen in "Open Book" and other such structures. Given the room's affinity for the mental and how the whale talks to Steven in Rose's voice at one point, I think this is quite possible.

In short:

Rose's Body = Steven

Rose's Spirit = Lion

Rose's Mind = Her room/the Tiny Floating Whale

Thoughts? 