OMG 🫂💖 vampire academy my beloved my vampire ya romance onepick even!! to be fair to you dimirose had uhh a lot going on even outside of the cheating LMAO i personally find teacher/student romances offputting even though i love power dynamics and mentorshipping and authority figure x subordinate ships in non-school contexts, so dimirose was never one of my main vampac agendas but the cheating did put me off even further. it's a shame because rose was one of my fave heroines but cheating kind of is where i draw the line 😭 still, i have always been a henchman enthusiast and rose was one of my first.

for me the emotional core of the series will always be roselissa (and christian can be there too <3), real true love that transcends the boundary between life and death :') invented bodyguard romance to me like hello the resurrection, the bodysharing, the ladyknight power dynamic, the rose letting lissa feed from her because keeping lissa alive is more important to rose than any societal taboo no matter how deeprooted, the rose literally dying to protect lissa… christianlissa is my fave canon ship and i loooove christianrose unlikely besties in violence and combat. was obsessed with the sex comedy scenes where rose kept accidentally getting pulled into lissa's body while she was having sex with christian like guys it's in the text My Ship Real. i would have been SO happy with a poly v endgame with lissa as centre (obviously was never going to happen but a girl can dream).

(assuming tristan is autocorrected from Adrian) yess i thought adrianrose was soooo sweet even though they had NOT ENDGAME stamped all over them from the start, they met too late for adrian "second male lead" ivashkov to ever have a real chance ): what's frustrating to me about their relationship is that i just don't buy rose's reasoning that even aside from rose being permanently hung up on dimitri, adrianrose still wouldn't have worked out because he was toxically using her as a ReasonsToLive therapy crutch – i don't think this is actually borne out in the text. imo even though adrian's relationship with rose did inspire him to be a better person and try to develop healthier habits, he wasn't hinging all of that on rose until right at the end when dimitri was back in the picture and rmead needed to get adrian out of the way asap. he was developing strong interpersonal connections with lissa jill et al separately from his status as Rose's Boyfriend and finding community and friendship and support to ground his management of spirit magic use side effects. so the authorial attempt to justify rose cheating on adrian / adrianrose breakup was just so disappointing to me. adrian one of the poorest meow meows of the whole series really.

i am a firstlovetruther but i do really really love adriansydney – have you read the sydney-centric sequel series bloodlines? i didn't enjoy it as much as vampac but the developing relationship between adrian and sydney did make me smile, i think their personalities complement each other so well and they have some fun romijuli forbidden love tropes going on!

this is making me so nostalgic i should reread the series soon :')