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Originally Posted by TheRaizin

My mind keeps going to Singapore's Merlion fountain statue which is the closest I got to a lion having relations with water.

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Originally Posted by The Chaos Entity

Thank you. I will henceforth adopt that as my headcanon XP

It seems that the relation between lion and water is more accurately from this; in the old times Egypt and Middle Eastern areas thought of lions as sign of rain cause lions headed north during rainy season(Also Egypt's goddess of rain has a head of a lion so maybe that derives from this thought as well). This idea later carried on to the Roman Empire and specifically their architecture which is probably why they have water fountains and faucets in lion shapes. That said the merlion stuff and this all probably factors into what resulted in the default motif for Blades.