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I read the whole rosewood chronicles series in the span of two weeks so here is one of my favourite scenes in princess in practice

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reject modernity, embrace tradition

FUCK JARU

FUCK JAPHAEL

FUCK JOTTIE

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FUCK JARU

FUCK JAPHAEL

FUCK JOTTIE

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oh jamie volk you deserved the world

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"we need more complex female characters" you couldn't even handle Ellie Wolf

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omg i have a draft from last year that sums up most of my feelings on jaru...it's like i Knew

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omg i have a draft from last year that sums up most of my feelings on jaru...it's like i Knew

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why is the olliel one making me feel ... things

ELEANORWOLFSON ROSEWOOD CURSED EDITS ARE BACK

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interesting writing choice having jamie be someone who has struggled with self identity and figuring out who he is outside of other people be and what they expect and want him to be be romantically paired off with someone FOUR YEARS OLDER than him (jamie was 16, haru was 20) who has manipulated him for most of their relationship and worships and revers him as a "prince" of a literal terrorist organisation (not even getting into the power dynamics here) .

right after being rejected by a girl who fundamentally understood his roles and responsibilities in life in a way literally nobody else did (complete servitude to another person, the main reason he suppresses his own self identity) be reduced to "mommy issues" .

Thinking about how Jamie really shouldn’t have ended up in a relationship at the end of rwch and if he had to it should have been with literally anyone else

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rwch as jjk characters

i'm an anime only lol, still reading the manga (vol 7) so no manga only characters for now...

lottie - yuta

ellie - gojo

jamie - megumi

micky - inumaki

saskia - nobara

ollie - yuji

haru - geto

mai - ingrid

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WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO JAPHAEL

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day 35

chap’s 6,7,8

it’s a cosy day, hot chocolate to the left of me, purring cat to the right

ellie gender dysphoria

ellie you are allowed to be a burden (and you reading this, are allowed to be a burden too)

ellie being incredibly gay for lottie while being gender dyshphoric

lilies!!

jamie?? have we turned right into what the fuck alley?

“spiked and jagged demon clothes” foreshadowing on multiple levels

the ginger one sounds like my cat

miko is literally the coolest character prove me wrong

okay but i want to know the conversation that happened to get ellie to use anis shampoo (and ani to share?) (maybe a very short fanfic coming soon)

oooooh strawberries being picked off a cheesecake- like micky picking off lottie’s strawberry in up

no ellie the blame should not fall on him or you

its so funny ellie loves Pinku Oni-chan but hates sayuri

LOTTIE ugh why do you do this to ollie don’t be mean :(((

if lottie and ellie are the vixen and the delicate mouse, and haru is foxlike- what’s jamie

not the questionable age gap 😭😭

this is why japhael should have happened- raph does for jamie what haru does but without the manipulation

i mean you make a good point haru, he should think about his own life and hobbies

i wish we got to see more of miko in books 4&5

raph and rio definitely watch drag race together

lilies and roses

i love folklore and fairytales

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just realised jaru is toxic yaoi lol

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a collection of Thoughts on haru's hidden complexities

(originally a bunch of thread from my priv twt where i ramble to myself, essentially— collated and edited. long post ahead.)

on haru, sayuri and what Exactly is his whole deal anyway?

i think it's safe to say that for me and many others, haru as a character felt enigmatic at best, and plain underwritten at worst and very divisive lol. but, i do think within the series we're given some interesting things to work with when inferring haru's reasonings for being with leviathan, his motives, and the nature of his obsession with jamie (before it, in my opinion, shifts to something "more simple," as claude observes).

to start with, a quote:

"it was haru's apathy that fascinated [Jamie] so much. but was it apathy, or something else something more dangerous?

it's interesting because lottie/sayuri believe partially that haru was brainwashed into joining leviathan....and as far as we know, that's not true. claude doesn't use the hamelin formulaon members! but in another way they're not Wrong.

it IS claude's manipulation + his ability to appeal to vulnerable teenagers base desires and wants—he promises to haru that of being a hero (is what he says anyway) and generates this obsession with jamie in haru that inadvertently becomes haru's sole motivation.

but what EXACTLY is going through haru's mind when he joins?

is it that sayuri is so capable that haru feels obsolete? pushed to the side as a partizan? and MAYBE he thinks jamie can fill that role as someone he can protect...?

in PEA, it says something along the lines of "the obsession Claude had encouraged in Haru had turned to something more simple...a boy who felt unwanted by his master [and] fancied himself a hero, so claude gave him a prince to save."

from this we can easily infer a big part of the reason really is that he felt like sayuri didn't need him, and in haru's mind this probably felt like a fairly righteous cause. i mean, haru can relate to jamie as a partizan—perhaps he sees parts of himself in jamie too. claude definitely spun it to him as a worthy endeavour. he might have said something like "oh you're so unsatisfied in your current life and sayuri doesn't need you, but if you joined leviathan you would most certainly be needed," and haru, probably feeling directionless and vulnerable, saw that offer and thought yeah actually that sounds Good.

and perhaps, sayuri was all haru really had. seeing as he's a partizan it's possible he doesn't have a relationship with his family/is an orphan, and I THINK her aunt dying (if it was as recent as i think it is) maybe led to her changing and becoming more distant, effectively shutting haru out (that and her parents divorcing; god poor sayuri).

in a sense, jamie—or the idea of him at first—was all haru had. this all, i think, gives us a bit more context as to how he acted during the Reveal in PAH despite manipulating jamie—the flash of genuine hurt when jamie found out Everything, because of the possibility he would lose him.

how all of this, informs haru's actions

in addition, reading with PEA in mind and the small incites we get from it does actually put a lot of haru's choices into context. whereas before i was thinking oh no poor jamie and his trust issues, I can see a little from haru's perspective too now.

for haru, his top priority was saving jamie. for him, the end goal justified the means. even tho his methods certainly were not pure or ethical. he has to deceive jamie for some time, yes, but he does also come to very earnestly like him. he says he was planning to tell jamie everything, and i do actually believe that to be a genuine remark because beforehand he'd been dropping clues.

there is, of course, also something so tragic about it, on both sides— jamie's never felt seen and understood the way haru sees him, and haru very desperately wants to be needed and in a way jamie is all he has (so there's a lot at stake for him).

not only that, but despite the illusion of free choice and liberation claude gives his subordinates, haru's just another one of claude's pawns. his "obsession" with jamie is apart of claude's plan, and of course claude has no regard for haru's emotional state—in fact he uses said emotions to his advantage.

i think parsing these details out ultimately renders haru more a sympathetic, and comprehensible character. of course, he's still flawed and antagonistic, but to me that makes him a more compelling character, not less! i like the idea of a character who does lie, and does manipulate, but underneath all that there is pure intent, no matter how dishonestly they started out. i also think that, in haru's case, it could've been executed better.

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Im so behind but i will catch up i swear to god

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i keep getting rwch fanfic idea out of my skill level