Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26808654-20150516082728/@comment-26307962-20150525084512

okay then. if i may quote you:

"   On Steven’s human limitations: again, we will probably meet some of that “you get the best of both species” thing. And again, it can be explained within the show. One of the creators mentioned that Rose developed a womb and DNA so that Steven could be born, and we know from “Lion 3: Straight to Video” that Rose already knew that she would have to give up her physical form to give birth. We can speculate that Rose did more than simply code DNA to match Greg’s and allow Steven to be born as a fairly healthy, ordinary kid. Maybe Rose also managed to code a way to Steven’s body to behave similarly to a Gem body, thus making it possible for him to also have Gem powers and a human physiology (what may turn out to be extremely useful for fighting modern Homeworld Gems, as the Fandom’s been speculating)."

my first qualm with this is your decsription of Steven's creation as 'coding'. that's not how anything related to making bab13s works - but you did mention that you like physics and you also said something about lapis 'programming' the water clones and 'functioning like a supercomputer', so i guess wording things technologicallly is just your cup of engine oil.

the problem i have is with the wording - and i'm a writer, so wording is my cup of engine oil - when talking about genetics, i dont think coding is the right word - and in Steven's super-special magic case, it's even less applicable.

if i may quote Rose now:

"I'm going to become half of you..."

We all heard this line and its nothing new, but you said you took physics and you used that as the basis for your pseudi-essay up there, so take the word of someone who took senior English and senior Biology.

When a baby is created, they get one complete set of DNA. half from the mom, half from the dad (or other dad or other mom in the case of IVF). if the parents are blood related then chunks of these halves are the same, and thats what makes some birth defects.

So, to be a whole being, Steven would have to have some DNA from Greg and some DNA from Rose. But, oh wait, Gems dont have DNA. So the 'Rose' half of Steven has to be Rose herself. Greg gave some more Greg, but Rose cant give more Rose - Rose has no more Rose to contrbute to the new living being.

Rose had to merge with Greg's DNA to make Steven. That's also probably why Steven is male - His only human DNA is from his Dad, and therefore his physical gender is, inherently, male.

Steven isnt half of Rose that Rose left behind - Steven is a new Rose, only now 50% human.

Steven isn't so much a mishmash of Gem and Human with chances of gaining the strengths and/or weaknesses of both - hes gem with human thrown in, in the hope that the whole thing doesnt go down in flames. He is complete however, because some things humans dont have gems do, and some things gems dont have humans do. like ageing. and genders.

So now i've explained it. i hope it makes sense. so basically what i'm requesting, very kindly, is that you take all this 'logic' and apply it to your own theory, and then see what you come up with.