Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-69.120.20.92-20140223230952/@comment-24986099-20140526134027

My theory is that Lion, was involuntarily summoned by Steven in a way to manifest the still-locked powers that he has yet to physically obtain or voluntarily summoned by Rose to be-...

-Steven's Guardian, shown by how he has saved him twice, but only when he was in danger, allowing for him to learn from true battle and be-

-Steven's teacher, he brought Steven to a hidden area where only he, or probably Rose, could interact with, bringing up a traning simulator, which, later granted access to Rose's Sword, leading me to believe that Lion is-

-An indirect conduit for Rose's weapon that Steven may or may not be able to voluntarily summon anymore, since his official weapon is a shield, presuming that the Shield was not available to Rose. Evidence being that the gems were truly surprised when his weapon was projected from his gem for the first time.

It's confirmed that the Sword that Steven pulled from Lion was Rose's sword, it states it in the official rough-line art on the official Steven Crewniverse page.

Steven also never showed Rose's sword to the other gems so they wouldn't have anything to say on the matter unless Lion allowed it, but I believe that Lion wants to keep that a secret from the other Gems so that they won't worry when Lion takes Steven to train, if (s)he does again.

So, Lion is either Rose manifesting as a different physical being, Steven manifesting his powers as a living being, a magical being sent willingly from Rose's remaining power to protect and Guide him, or least likely, Rose manifesting her some-how restored physical form of that as a Lion, or Rose reincarnated as a being that has access to powers that her no-longer-in-possession-of-gem had.

(I talk alot, sorry.)