Her nightmare pulsed into me, shaking me out of my own dream, which had something to do with a beach and some hot guy rubbing suntan oil on me. Images -- hers, not mine -- tumbled through my mind: fire and blood, the smell of smoke, the twisted metal of a car. The pictures wrapped around me, suffocating me, until some rational part of my brain reminded me that this wasn't my dream.
Excerpt from Chapter 22:
"Not that hurt?" he laughed. "I'm not talking about her ankle, which was still impressive. I'm talking about the car accident. Because you're right, you know. Rose didn't get 'that hurt.' She died."
He let the words sink in.
"That's... no. She lived," Lissa finally managed.
"No. Well, yes, she did. But I read the reports. There was no way she should have survived - especially with so many injuries. You healed her. You brought her back."
Okay now that I’ve calmed down a little (not really), here’s what I’m thinking:
Season 1 is kinda like a prequel to the books because
- Lissa and Rose were completely awestruck by the human world
- Dimitri “has” to follow the rules, while Rose is all “fuck them all”
- Sonya can’t heal Victor anymore (🥲) but he’ll have to be healed again if he wants to make it through the trials, therefore forcing him to try and use Lissa
- Victor will probably try to kidnap Lissa, but Rose will come save the day and decide to run away to protect her from him
- without Lissa, Victor will be too weak to win the trials, therefore putting Queen Tatiana in place
And BOOM. Season 2 will start like the beginning of book 1—Tatiana as Queen, Victor as the villain, Sonya as a Strigoi, Dimitri bringing Rose and Lissa back to St. Vladimir, Rose having to catch up in classes, Dimitri trying to hold back his feelings, etc.
it's how she urged him to choose duty, because that's what he always did, and that's what he did with her. And you can clearly see that he shakes his head as if to say "No this time I choose you Rose, not the duty". He think he deserves this and that Rose needs this.
It was the most beautiful and most significant scene of the episode.
In this moment Dimitri chose Rose, he put her first.🥀❤️
I would say Rose is handling the breakups pretty well because if I lost my boyfriend and best friend on the same day, I would have burnt everything to the ground. Become public enemy #1 like the strigoi would've had nothing on me fr
Holy crap, Rose and Dimitri are freaking insane. Dimitri getting Rose alone, the make out on the wall, and then Rose pushing him away then responding to Lissa like she's not flustered. Same girl. He is feral with that kissing
Love Dimitri talking about his past with Rose and how freedom scares him to death until her like OMG 😍😭😩
Him keeping her warm in his jacket and burying his head into her hair. I CAN'T TAKE THIS
"Every second of it, but never again." 😭💔 I hate this.
I felt like I was intruding on their dance. Rose knew what she was doing putting her hands all over him like that. He fully smiled. They're so HOT
I love when the brute type of guys gets vulnerable and says what scares them, I'm a sucker for that
Not Rose losing Lissa and Dimitri on the same day. 💔 I guess back to Mason...
I may have to go back and rewatch again bc they were all I was paying attention to, the brain rot is real
THEY'RE CINEMA
The way Dimitri was trying not to get jealous of Adrian, he was trying to hold back his smile when she and Lissa came out 🥰
The way I love a spin-off paranormal/urban fantasy series of a more popular paranormal/urban fantasy series that’s set after the events of the first series with different characters and the female protagonist only featured in the last book or last couple of books of the original series but developed a friendship with the female lead of the og series in them, and the spin off is set in California where there’s a murder mystery going on and the main couple is a blonde girl with brown eyes and a brunette boy with green eyes who paints, and their love is forbidden because of the fantastical government which the storyline/themes are extremely critical of and also there’s familial/psuedo-familial drama and exploration of parts of the magical lore of the world the og series didn’t get into as much (witchcraft/alchemy for bl faeries for tda).
they really went ahead and turned rose and lissa into show arya and show sansa wrt their preferences regarding "feminine" activities....
book rose loves dresses, she just isn't able to wear them as much because of her being always on duty. book rose laments not being able to indulge in perfumes and nail polishes because one fight will ruin both these things. book rose and book lissa planned their weddings together. rose doesn't hate dresses, and rose never ridiculed lissa's fantasies of getting married. women can simulatenously like such things and be able to beat the crap out of people, and to generally prefer violence as a solution. stop treating female characters like this jfc