Was Rose Being Responsible?

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

With all the weird happenings barely alluded to, and slowly added to, we learn that some weird things were going on around Lissa. Was it the responsible thing to take Lissa, the last Dragomir, out in the world rather than try and get help from within the Moroi populace? And did Rose keep them safe by skill or happenstance? She mentions evading psyhounds (sp?) but we never learn how. And there was never a mention of Strigoi around (and we know that Dmitri beat her in sparring early on) so how would she have fared if they stumbled upon those killers?

Discuss!

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

I think she would have fared pretty well against a strigoi.
I mean, even though she was taken down by Dimitri, she knew he was a Guardian, and thus succumbed more easily.

But against a Strigoi? Theres a difference, there. Because adrenaline would have kicked in, to save Lissa from being turned. The most a Guardian could do, was take them back to the Academy, thus, they really weren't in THAT much danger.

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

But after all the training with Dmitri, Natalie took her rather easily. She was new to being Strigoi. Now take a seasoned Strigoi like we meet in Frostbite and take away Rose's training with Dmitri....see....Lissa wasn't as well protected physically as they all thought.

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

I think that she made a good choice. And Lissa wanted to leave too.

I think she would have protected Lissa from an attack... She would have survived, thats just how Rose is.

But I think she would have been smart to stay at the Academy. But either way it works.

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

I don't think it was very responsible of Rose to take Lissa out into the world. Wasn't she manipulated into doing do by that teacher who then turned into a Strigoi? She wouldn't be able to last two seconds with a Strigoi.

Dimitris_girl77 · Subject: Re: Was Rose Being Responsible? Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:36 am

I think she was and wasnt being responsible. Yes she was able to fight off psyhounds and keep lissa safe. But she wouldnt have known if there was going to be a different kind of attack on her and Lissa, and that is where I thinik she was being iresponsible [my spelling sucks]. She should have been thinking ahead.

bite_of_the_vampire · Subject: Re: Was Rose Being Responsible? Tue Mar 24, 2009 2:27 pm

yes they should have but not as much to test the guards for her when she older

Hanner · Posts: 141 Join date: 2009-03-10

Although Rose and Lissa's decisions were risky I feel like it was the right thing to do. Lissa needed a break from all the pressures and stress she was feeling from her environment at the academy, and who knows maybe if they had stayed she would have kept cutting herself or actually gone crazy and killed herself or gone strigoi...

Also I think by escaping for a while helped Rose grow up more, become a more capable guardian (maybe not skill-wise but mentally) and strengthen the bond between the two. They might not have gotten it to be so strong if they were in such a heavily watched and secure place. Remember, intense emotions were needed originally for Rose to sense Lissa...

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vampire freak · Subject: Re: Was Rose Being Responsible? Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:09 pm

I have to agree I think what Rose did was the right thing to do

marya_badica · Subject: Hmmmm Sun May 10, 2009 4:54 am

Yes.. I think that Rose made the right desicion and was being responsible

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xx_nykole · Subject: Re: Was Rose Being Responsible? Sun May 10, 2009 9:43 pm

I think that, while it might not have been the most responsible thing, they did what they thought was right for them.

I mean, it's not like they felt they really could have said anything. It was risky, but they didn't die or get hurt. Isn't that really all that counts in the end?

DhampirLoveInterest · Subject: Re: Was Rose Being Responsible? Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:28 pm

I think Rose did a HEALTHY thing for Lissa. Maybe not the RESPONSIBLE thing but sometimes you have to throw that out.
Lissa was getting SUPER depressed and the cutting and all that so she needed to get away for a while with the one person that could make her life easier.

Spoiler:
	At least until Christian.

I'm not so sure she would have fared well if she BATTLED a Strigoi, but she probably would have figured something out.
Sorry if that makes little sense.. I tried.

JILL-JILLIAN-JUST JILL · Subject: Re: Was Rose Being Responsible? Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:27 pm

I think Rose did the best she could out of the situation she was given. Rose would have died trying to protect Lissa. Just as in the book rose protects Lissa from a lot of things not just strigoi.

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rose13 · Posts: 18 Join date: 2009-09-02 Age: 19

i think she had just as much of a chance as rose

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James Stark · Posts: 4 Join date: 2009-09-02 Age: 21

I think it's iffy personally. I think at the time, she felt she was making the best decision for them. I think she was responsible at the time, because she wasn't sure who she could trust. But looking back after learning things, it wasn't the best decision for Lissa, or even herself. She wasn't fully prepared for what could have potentially happened.