Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5413572-20150414042947/@comment-25839649-20150417135600

The problem respectively is we're talking about abilities here. And all abilities of a Gem are exclusive of that Gem. It's part of what makes them special. Rose's ability is to heal with her tears. You can't transfer your ability to heal with tears to an air cloud and create  it into the physical shape of a lion. That makes no sense whatsoever. Secondly, the bottom line is Steven has Rose's Gem, which means he has all of her abilities. " If a Gem knew that they weren't going to live much longer, might they perhaps be capable and inclined to pass on more power?"

In all honesty, if that were the case, she did that entirely with Steven already. She passed on her power to Steven - it's like genetics. If she hadn't done this and had randomly transferred to some other thing she made out of thin air for that purpose, Steven would probably... honestly.... be non-existent. If Rose were to pass on her abilities or transfer them to some other being in that way, it would have to be of her own creation. Lion, in that case, would have had to have been born from Rose's womb instead of Steven, so that she could have passed on these qualities and/or abilities.

So then ... I guess we can create a new theory. Lion is Steven's brother. But that makes no sense at all, and I can't come up with anything explanatory where it would make sense - I mean, Rose would have to have mated with a lion in that case......... .....nevermind i'm done with this theory