So I rewatched Storm in the Room
And I noticed how when at first, the room-made Rose is very generic; she does what the room-made Connie did and asks Steven what he wants to do, she doesn’t even try to beat him in the video game, and when Steven wins, she just repeats what he said. Even the way she speaks sounds… off… it sounds kinda fake chipper, like an employee at a store.
Then when they’re playing ball, Room!Rose’s line: “Nice catch, son!” and giving him the thumbs up, is so generic that I’m convinced it’s from a movie that Steven has seen and the room is just making Room!Rose copy.
Her speech afterwards about sports is literally just a tweaked version of the speech about Earth and humanity she gave to Steven in the video tape.
What happens afterwards is a reference to Peanuts, but it might also be from an inverse version of the comic strip that Steven has read.
After all of this however, you can hear a change in Room!Rose’s voice; it starts to sound more natural and she pats the space next to her. In a way, she is deciding what to do next now, not Steven.
Steven begins to talk about how difficult it’s been to live up to the memory of Rose, and how he even thought about dying his hair pink. Room!Rose says that there is nothing wrong with Steven’s hair; that it’s beautiful the way it is, just like Steven himself.
Steven realizes through his phone that there is nothing there (physically), he’s just “talking to himself”. He confronts Room!Rose about all the things he’s learned about the real Rose, and finally he accuses her of only creating him to escape all of the consequences for her actions.
What is interesting is how Room!Rose reacts to these accusations; with how the room generally works, Room!Rose should either flat out deny it or confirm it, depending on what Steven himself believes. Instead Room!Rose reminds Steven about the video tape and asks him if he thinks the things Rose said in it was a lie. Steven says no, but also says that he still needs to fix Rose’s mess.
So, what is the point I want to make? I think it was the real Rose that Steven was talking to, not in the beginning, but towards the end.
Now, hear me out; Rose said in her tape to Steven that she was going to become a part of him. If Rose is still conscious within Steven, she would be able to manipulate the room just like Steven, albeit to a less powerful degree.
In fact, the reason the door to Rose’s room even opened was because Steven’s gem started glowing after he expressed a desire to learn who Rose was. His exact words were: “I just wanna know the real you. Not the you everyone tells me about.”
What really makes me think that the Rose Steven talked to towards the end is the real one, is how she brought up the tape. The real Rose wouldn’t just confirm or deny it, since she would know that that wouldn’t stop Steven from thinking what he does; she needed proof. So she brought up the tape message she made for him, telling him how much she loved him, and asked him if he believed that was a lie.
Another angle you could see it from would be that Rose was genuinely hurt by the idea of Steven thinking she only made him to run from her problems and that she never cared about Greg, Pearl, Amethyst, or Garnet. So, she is honestly asking him if he believes that she doesn’t love him.
I don’t know if any of this is true, but I’ll cross my fingers and hope that it is, at least that Rose is watching over Steven, because it would create the perfect ending for the series; Steven finally talking to Rose. Steven being able to ask her all of his questions and her answering them. And most importantly, Rose telling Steven how much she loves him and how proud of him she is. Letting him know that Rose never wanted any of this to happen, but that she is so happy that Steven could do all the things that she never could.
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