Rosemarie Hathaway

jedibarrister · Admin Posts: 222 Join date: 2008-12-31

She's a complex character. Immature and young, yet wise and old beyond her years. She makes mistakes she shouldn't yet doesn't make some you'd think she would. She kept Lissa safe for 2 years on the run from Guardians and Victor yet no one really respects her until she has to constantly and continuously prove herself. With deep "mommy issues", forbidden love, and suitors and enemies all around, Rose aka Roza is a character that girls and women can nevertheless respect. She's the closest character to Buffy Summers I've seen in a long time.

Rose~Beauty · Posts: 10 Join date: 2009-01-16 Location: Here and There...

I really like Rose.

She would have to be my favorite character.

I really respect her. I love how she protects the people that she loves and cares about.
I just really love the kind of person that she is.

jedibarrister · Admin Posts: 222 Join date: 2008-12-31

To me, she comes closest to Joss Whedon's heroines. She's part Buffy and part Faith. She's strong, has to deal with a lot of responsibility, has an aggressive temper, yet still struggles to be "normal" and has a softer side.

xMiss Bat · Admin Posts: 15 Join date: 2008-04-15

God, I LOVE Rose. She ranks on my top favorite characters ever list. =D
Pisses me off though that she has to constantly prove herself to people.
And how someone [at first] she didn't even know, respected her more than people she's known her entire life. Of course, I love the segments with her and her mom. I really wanna see Rose take down Janine in the future.

And for some reason, I have a feeling she's gonna end up facing off with her again, with what happened in Shadow Kissed.

~Mystic~ · Posts: 10 Join date: 2009-01-22 Location: Earth

Buffy has got to be my favorite character of all time and Rose seems very like her. The slayers have also been strong people and Rose definitely kicks but. lol! No wonder I think she's a great character!

Magdalene · Posts: 29 Join date: 2009-02-21

xMiss Bat wrote:

Pisses me off though that she has to constantly prove herself to people.

Actually, I think it prevents her from becoming a Mary Sue. I mean, we already know she's hot and everyone lusts for her. If she were also respected and acknowledged on the spot, then she'd be really boring and unrealistic. Plus, that's how life usually is. It takes a million tries to build up rep, then one tiny mistake can make it all go down.
She's really a breath of fresh air, after reading about Bella Swan.

SecretMagic · Posts: 1269 Join date: 2009-06-12 Location: Australia

I absolutely adore Rose.
For years she thought of no-one but Lissa trying to protect her from almost everyone and everything. She's just amazing. No matter how many times she wanted something of her own (aka. Dimitri) she was always conscious of how Lissa would work into that arrangement. I know she deviated from this path a bit in Shadow Kiss, but until those last few pages she was always dedicated to Lissa.

Lil_Dhampir · Subject: Re: Rosemarie Hathaway Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:40 pm

Rose is my all time favorite character. I love how complex she is, and like everyone in real life, makes mistakes. She's so badass, and I really like how finally there is a female role model where the girl can kick ass on her own, and doesn't have to be the "conventional" female.

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DhampirLoveInterest · Subject: Re: Rosemarie Hathaway Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:45 pm

Rose is Rose. That's all I need to say. She's absolutely amazing and I relate more to HER than I do to Bella in Twilight. She's strong, impulsive, protective, fierce, BA, and thoroughly enjoyable. I'm glad we get to see things through her eyes. I love Lissa but in her POV it might be a bit too sad and shy to me. I love her relationship with everyone. She's a major flirt but she has virtues, and she's an AMAZING friend. She DOES care deeply.

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I love how she kicked Dimitri's butt. THAT was hot and awesome! I'm just like: GO ROSE! But I hope she patches things up with Janine. *shrugs* I'm a sucker for a happy ending.

greatavatar · Subject: Re: Rosemarie Hathaway Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:57 am

DhampirLoveInterest wrote:

Rose is Rose. That's all I need to say. She's absolutely amazing and I relate more to HER than I do to Bella in Twilight. She's strong, impulsive, protective, fierce, BA, and thoroughly enjoyable. I'm glad we get to see things through her eyes. I love Lissa but in her POV it might be a bit too sad and shy to me. I love her relationship with everyone. She's a major flirt but she has virtues, and she's an AMAZING friend. She DOES care deeply.

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I love how she kicked Dimitri's butt. THAT was hot and awesome! I'm just like: GO ROSE! But I hope she patches things up with Janine. *shrugs* I'm a sucker for a happy ending.

Seriously, you took the words from my mouth. Bella sucks @$$. She is not a role model in anyway possible. But Rose is. Rose's attitude is very similar to mine and you just gotta love it. Bitches rule!! YEAH!! cheers

Lissa's pov might piss me off. I'm thinking that it would be:
- Get dressed and look perfect
- go eat and suck blood
- train with adrian
- get jealous of adrian mastering some of your talents
- make out with christian
- hang out with rose for like five minutes
- go sleep

BORING!! oh and one more:

- talk politics. (talk about catching up on beauty sleep..)

Rose is just awesome. Her pov is understandable and exciting at the same time and her life itself is exciting although dangerous.

*SPOILER* and that scene is one of my favourites in Shadow Kiss. It was just so hott!! * Shivers then melts into gooey puddle on floor* I was reading it and melting at the tension... the sexual tension. I think my fave line was :

"HIs eyes looked at me with pride- and a hell of a lot more." Damn, by that time I was a puddle on the floor.

I'm out,
essa.
(need to re-read that part)
*wink wink* lol!

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mer-MAJESSTY · Posts: 33 Join date: 2009-06-23

I like Rose. She was a amazing character. I like the way she called Dimitri grandpa lol!

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Tonystark616 · Subject: Re: Rosemarie Hathaway Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:53 am

greatavatar wrote:

Lissa's pov might piss me off. I'm thinking that it would be:
- Get dressed and look perfect
- go eat and suck blood
- train with adrian
- get jealous of adrian mastering some of your talents
- make out with christian
- hang out with Rose for like five minutes
- go sleep

BORING!! oh and one more:

- talk politics. (talk about catching up on beauty sleep..)

Why would angel princess Lissa go and be boring, when hearing about her feels fun, to me, everyone? Embarassed

Could Christian hurry up and mate with her, already? Crying or Very sad

And why would she worry alot about looking perfect, for that matter?She's fun to stare at, to me. Razz

mer-MAJESSTY · Posts: 33 Join date: 2009-06-23

ah...Lissa... I like her when I read the first book, but she was annoying in the third book... I hate her Sad

Poor Rose....! Sad

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Tonystark616 · Subject: Re: Rosemarie Hathaway Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:20 am

mer-MAJESSTY wrote:

ah...Lissa... I like her when I read the first book, but she was annoying in the third book... I hate her Sad

Poor Rose....! Sad

What happened to the two of them in the later novels, that made everyone hold Lissa in contempt? Crying or Very sad

SecretMagic · Posts: 1269 Join date: 2009-06-12 Location: Australia

Tonystark616 wrote:

What happened to the two of them in the later novels, that made everyone hold Lissa in contempt? Crying or Very sad

I think its mainly because she tried to make Rose stay behind at the end of Shadow Kiss. I don't blame her for wanting to keep her best friend (and pretty much her only family now) safe and in her life still. She was hurt that Rose hadn't trusted her and scared that she'd leaving on what could be seen as a death mission. Not many sane people go hunting the Strigoi. But I don't like the way she went about it. Using complusion on her was definitely not a smart move.