lion is the best character even as a totally 2D cat, but he becomes more complicated and better written once you learn he’s rose. even (sometimes especially) when lion is only an observer, it affects SO many scenes that already had emotional impact on their own!
su lore of the day: onion stole all the GUYS and GALS out of the vending machine at funland. this is why steven spends a bag of quarters getting only dave guy & why onion covets his misprinted (unique) ranger guy enough to steal that too
Lion 4: Alternate Ending. Lion is tired of Steven magical destiny-ing like in An Indirect Kiss, far more reluctant to share than in Lion 3, but Steven begs enough. He shows Steven PD's ship...and the Nora tape.
One tape diff is "We can't both exist, /but I won't be gone./"
In Nightmare Hospital, Lion watches Connie give her mom feedback and actually succeed, and Steven hug his sword sans mom. In It Could've Been Great, he knows how to get to the Moon Base but doesn't want to.
In Cry for Help, Lion checks the broken warp pad at the Comm Spire right away (probably because he had to warp everyone there, lol), keeps an eye on Amethyst re: Sardonyx, and can't bear to watch Pearl trick Garnet into fusion/Steven's callout
