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Character Basics:

Character Name: Rose Hathaway
Journal: littledhampir
Age: 18
Fandom: Vampire Academy
Canon Point: Book 5, Chapter 11 - Post Confrontation in Vegas
Debt:

Class A: 37 Years
Class B: 29 Years
Class C: 157 years and 3 months

GRAND TOTAL: 223 Years, and 3 months.

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Personality:Few people know the true Rose Hathaway. They see her as reckless and mouthy. Somebody who cares little for anyone or anything and even less for the rules and opinions of authority figures. Though some, if not all of this is true, it's not an accurate reflection of the real Rose. To know her true person, you only have to look at her relationship with her best friend Vasilisa Dragomir. For years now, Rose has been taking care of the unstable Moroi. Taking the blame for her actions whenever she has flown off the handle and even choosing to abandon a life she greatly enjoyed at the Academy, to go on the run with Lissa to try and protect her from some unseen evil that only Lissa seemed to be aware of.

She proved in her time on the run that she is willing to sacrifice a great deal in order to protect the people she loves. She allowed Lissa to feed on her, despite the negative connotations associated with it (Dhampirs who let Moroi feed on them get labelled Blood-Whores), how weak she would be afterwards, and the risk of becoming addicted to Moroi bites (Like being injected with heroin every time you are bitten.) She was forever trying to put Lissa's needs and safety ahead of her own. Though all Dhampir's training to be Guardian's are taught that they (the Moroi) come first, Rose's commitment to Lissa has proven to go beyond that.

She's determined (or stubborn if you will) when she needs to be, especially when she feels she has to prove herself. The easiest way to get Rose to do something is tell her that she can't. That's exactly what happened when she returned to the Academy, catching up on two years worth of missed training in just a few short months. Consequently however, this can lead Rose to do things that are either unwise or just plain foolish (going after several friends because she was challenged, led not only to her capture, but the eventual death of her one-time boyfriend and good friend, Mason).

There are some things about Rose on the other hand, that are exactly as they appear. She speaks her mind, whether it's appropriate or not, as shown in her many conversations with the Queen. She won't take crap from anyone and the only hope you ever have of getting her to not go down the road of don't get mad, get even, is if doing so puts the people she loves at risk, such as when Mia was going after Lissa. She prefers to solve her problems with her fists rather than words, again, Mia's broken nose case in point. She somehow manages to be both guarded, and yet wear her heart on her sleeve (Especially when it comes to Dimitri), a side effect for the most part from being shadow-kissed (as you will read about below). Despite all of her faults (and she knows there are many), she wants to be the very best that she can be, if not for herself, then for Lissa. She wants to be worthy of the title of Guardian and works every day to make that happen.

If her life wasn't complicated enough already, Rose is shadow-kissed. Though this may not affect her in the exact same way as it did back home, the event that caused this greatly changed Rose's life, and with or without the bond, she is still greatly defined by this. To be shadow-kissed is to have died, and be brought back to life by a Moroi who has the rare magical gift of Spirit, that allows the user to heal and in rare circumstances, resurrect a person that has passed on. In bringing Rose back, Lissa's powers as a spirit user blossomed, and she forged a permanent bond between the two. Rose has been able to not only read Lissa's mind, but enter it, see through Lissa's eyes. The bond was only one way, which meant that though Lissa could send thoughts through to Rose, Rose was unable to communicate with her (without the help of another Spirit user.)

There was however, a severe downside to being shadow-kissed. Spirit users are by nature, very unstable, and the more they use their magic, the worse it gets. As the person bonded to Lissa, Rose absorbs some of the darkness that would overcome her. Though it made Lissa better, Rose was prone to moods, sudden outbursts and even uncontrollable fits of rage, such as the altercation between Rose and the Moroi's who were using their magic to attack each other. Were it not for Dimitri's intervention, Jesse would likely have been killed. The best way to deal with that was to wear objects charmed with Spirit, or to receive small healings from Lissa. She could control the rage to a degree, but eventually something had to give and more often than not, the result was not pretty.

With the bond seemingly no longer in tact, Rose would feel as though a piece of herself is missing. For the last four years she has had to think for two people and try and balance the wants and needs of both. She has almost forgotten what it means to make choices based solely on her own needs and desires, and though the prospect of being on own would have been frightening in her own world, it will actually give Rose the opportunity to grow and mature in ways that were never possible before.

Like all Dhampir's who train to be Guardian's, Rose seems much older than her age may suggest. Imagine being taken from your home from a very young age and raised to fight an enemy who are stronger and faster and show no mercy. With a life expectancy of mid -twenties (younger if you aren't as gifted as others), there isn't a lot of time to be young and foolish. In her earlier years Rose may have been more frivolous than her peers (drinking, not paying attention in class, almost never, ever picking up a book). Once she saw first-hand just how dangerous the real world was, Rose cast aside her youth, or perhaps it's better to say that she had it ripped away from her when she was forced to see first-hand just how powerful and deadly Strigoi can be (Mason's Death.)

Still, she is eighteen years old. She has moments of emotional immaturity. She hasn't learned that some fights aren't worth having. She rails against the mother she believes abandoned her for her own career as a Guardian, which is perhaps why she has little to no regard for authority figures. She is still naive enough to believe that society's opinions shouldn't matter if you feel it is right (her relationship with Dimitri case in point). She seems immune to all rules of society, treating the Queen with the same indifference that she may treat a fellow Guardian if she feels that they are wrong. She can be unfairly judgmental, though finds a way to justify it in her mind, (Her mistrust of Christian Ozera and her resultant meddling in his relationship with Lissa). She is arrogant - sometimes deservedly so but sometimes too much for her own good. She is both fearless, yet utterly frightened at the same time but at the core of it, she is a good person. Sometimes that just gets lost along the way.

Though her most significant relationship may be with her best friend Lissa, there is one person who has come into her life that has arguably had the greatest impact on her to date, and that is Dimitri Belikov. Seven years her senior, what began as a student-teacher relationship, grew into something more, but due to a variety of reasons, (age, school, the fact that both will become Lissa's Guardians) Dimitri refuses to allow things to go further.

Despite the sexual tension, during the six months that Dimitri had taken Rose under his wing, he taught Rose how to value herself, not only as a potential Guardian, but as a woman, by letting her see that she was worth more than casual hook-ups with Moroi students (and threatening to beat said students up if he caught them at it). He taught her that looking after herself was more important than putting Lissa first in everything, that the motto 'They Come First' didn't mean that she had to sacrifice her wants, needs and quite literally her sanity. He was the one to see her through learning about her various shadow-kissed abilities and he was the first, and only person she ever appeared vulnerable before.

It took the two of them consummating their relationship, only to have Dimitri turned Strigoi that same day, for Rose to truly understand what it meant to choose herself. When she turned her back on the Academy, it was for the love she felt for Dimitri, and the unspoken promise the two had made: That it was better to be dead, than to be one of them. Though Lissa tried to force her to stay, for the first time in Rose's life, she found the strength to say no.

When it comes to Dimitri, Rose is reckless, putting her love for him ahead of everything else. When she discovered there was a chance to turn Dimitri back to a Dhampir, she hatched a crazy plan to break a man out of prison. She refused to take the opportunity to kill (Strigoi) Dimitri even though it led to the deaths of a number of innocent people right before she was taken from her world. She understands now that the day may come when she has to kill him, but a part of her will still be desperate to save him because as long as Dimitri is Strigoi, Rose will not be able to rest.

She may have lost the love of her life but Rose is not completely alone. She has her boyfriend, Adrian Ivashkov, the one person who seems to want to understand what Rose has been going through. Their relationship however, does not hold a candle to the torch she still carries for Dimitri and though neither seem willing to discuss it openly, Rose has a tendency to put Adrian's wants and needs to one side in order to focus on Dimitri. He has provided her with moments of happiness, with a distraction from what she must do but she continues to hide things from him and take him for granted. As long as Dimitri is around, as long as there's even the slightest chance that she can save him, Rose will never give Adrian a real shot.

Powers/Abilties

Though Rose is shadow-kissed, after arriving she would no longer have the same connection she once had with Lissa. The bond is effectively severed unless Lissa. While they remain in two different places, Rose will no longer take Spirit's ill effects from her.

What is arguably the most frightening side effect from being shadow-kissed, is that Rose can communicate and worse still, be attacked by the dead. Spirits that have not moved on will seek her out and if she weakens and can no longer keep her mind closed they will break through into her reality. They appear invisible to the human (or Moroi/Dhampir) eye, but will turn on any they do not believe should be walking in the mortal realm. Though this will cause Rose excruciating pain, she has found it useful when facing a Strigoi. Though she was brought back to life, they are the living dead and the spirits will focus their wrath on them over a shadow-kissed. They do however need a shadow-kissed to be channeled into the physical realm.

Rose can also sense the undead, a fluttering in her stomach hitting her as any creature that falls into this category comes close to her. (Yet another side effect of being shadow-kissed.)

Rose has trained to be a Guardian from the time she was a child. She is an extremely skilled fighter, in both armed and unarmed combat. Though she may be smaller than many of her opponents, she has trained to use her size to her advantage. Her weapon of choice is a Silver Stake that has been charmed with the four key elements of Moroi Magic, (Earth, Fire, Wind & Water.)

Finally, as a Dhampir (a half human, half Vampire), Rose has increased strength, agility and senses. She's not exactly what you call a super hero, but she is superhuman. She heals a little faster than a regular person but doesn't drink blood or have any sensitivity to light.

It should also be noted that as a Dhampir, Rose is slightly more resistant to compulsion than the average human. A supernatural creature would be able to smell the difference on her, particularly her blood. It is also said that Dhampir or Moroi blood makes a Vampire (Strigoi) stronger and harder to kill.

Appearance

Rose's Turkish and Scottish heritage gives her skin the color of the inside of an almond. Paired with long brown hair and brown eyes, Rose describes herself as having semi-exotic desert-princess features. Standing at 5ft7, she has an athletic build brought on by years of training and is known for her curves, despite her athleticism.

Rose also has a number of tattoos that are unique to Guardians on the back of her neck. One a Promise Mark that was inked the day she passed her trials (Similar to an elongated S), and the others marking the number of Strigois that she has killed: Molnija Marks, that look like lightening strikes forming an X and a Zevzda Mark, a tribal star that signifies the person has been in a great battle and killed many Strigoi.

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His words and actions hadn’t matched in a long time and this, was no different. What should have perhaps been touching only served to confuse her more. She couldn’t look at him, not now, not with everything she had just admitted because she was ashamed of herself for losing control of her emotions and running away with her words. Those weren’t things she’d been ready to say and now they were out there, it just made everything worse somehow, like she was walking on the thinnest part of the ice, waiting for it to break and drown her.

She didn’t even interrupt him, too emotionally drained, too raw to have this fight. She just listened, her heart hurting at his words, things that made hope bloom then just as quickly die in her chest. Had they been having this conversation a year ago, maybe it would have all been different. Maybe she would have been wanting and willing to fight for them the same way she had back then, but a year was a very long time.

“Why are you telling me these things?” Her voice still quiet and though it would cost her, she finally turned, not looking at him directly but seeing him out of the corner of her eye. Her face was streaked with all the tears she hadn’t been able to shed for him back then, Rose hugging the sheet closer still, trying to make a cocoon out of it, as if it might somehow protect her from whatever may come.

“Telling me you want to be near me, that last night mattered when… When you’re still talking about us like we’re a thing of the past.” He’d said it. He’d had his chance. He was too late.

“I’m here now. You’re here now.” She pressed her lips together, tears blurring her eyes once more, Rose becoming increasingly frustrated by her inability to stop them. As silly as it was, she liked that he wasn’t trying to stop them either. Finnick broke every time she shed a tear. Dimitri just waited for her to be ready, trusting her to stop when it was right for her.

“I fought for you.” She wasn’t trying to make him feel worse, she just needed to say these things. Maybe if she could just let it out there was a chance that she would heal, even just a little. “I – I was there. When they went back… when…” Hrmm, no. She wasn’t ready to talk about this, not yet. He was alive now but the day he’d been taken in that cave, waiting for them to bring his body back. That had been the longest day of her life. She didn’t think she’d ever be ready to talk about that.

“I guess I just wish that you would have fought for me.” That he would now, she realized. She thought that she and Dimitri had the kind of love that was worth fighting for. It was the sort of thing they wrote songs about. She’d travelled the world to bring him back to her and he was right, he had thrown it all away. He’d thrown her away. Epic love stories like theirs were not supposed to end in a church with a few hurtful sentences. They were supposed to go on forever.

Rose sighed, not sure what to say, whether there was anything that could fix this... Whether she should even try. She was with Finnick now. She loved him. No, not in the same way that she loved Dimitri but it was still love, she believed that. More importantly she supposed, Finnick loved her too and he wasn’t afraid to tell her that. Almost every bit of happiness she’d known on this island in the past year had been because of him. Didn’t that mean… something?

“You are a good man Dimitri.” She finally managed to say. “The problem is that you don’t believe that anymore. You’re punishing yourself for all these things that aren’t your fault but… The thing is? When you do that, you’re punishing me too and... and you're letting them win.” Those words ringing true in her mind as she said them. Everything he was saying to her, all the confusion it all made sense when she looked at it like this. Somewhere along the way he’d decided that he wasn’t a good person that because other people wouldn't punish him for it, he would instead.