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[jessicahambys]

What are your fave Vampire Academy ships and friendships?

If this is the same VA anon I've been getting, thank you for the questions even though I'm such a slow poke and completely forgot the other messages in my inbox. If it's a new one, hi! Thanks for the q's because I love VA! On to the question -

Should put a disclaimer and say I've only read half of book 1 of Bloodlines, so I have no strong feelings towards any ships in that series yet. As for Vampire Academy

Rose/Dimitri: my babies. idc there's an age gap, I have loved these two since I read this series in middle school. I used to go back and reread the strigoi plotline all the time. I wish there were more fanfics for them. i love them so much. 

Rose/Lissa: I love this friendship a lot, especially as it developed out of its state of codependency in the books. as a ship, I respect it, but it's not exactly my cup of tea? I think I like it as a ship when its more of an unrequited thing, maybe tied in with the codependency, with lissa being so codependent on rose partially bc she's pining, and that's why it hurts so much when rose leaves her for dimitri and begins to prioritize dimitri and herself over lissa. that's some good ol angst I'd read in a fic for sure.

Lissa/Christian: they're fine. I liked them in the books, but I was never really invested. good background ship.

Rose/Adrian: not my thing. 

Rose/Christian: I ship. like, as snarky friends and the duo they were in book 3? amazing. I love them as friends. but this is a ship I do ship as like a short-term, passionate kinda thing. nothing in the long-term, nothing permanent. but a fling, a one night stand, fwb, I can see. there's a spark there that I enjoy.

Sonya/Mikhail: soooooo cute in the books.

Rose/Mason: I like this friendship a lot. I think Mason having this unrequited crush on Rose is cute and then sorrowful in the books. I said before that I can def see the show going in a Meredith/George path with these two in the show, and I actually like that a lot, because Rose def kinda takes advantage of Mason and doesn't really see his worth or his character because he's just a bit too tame/good for her and she's far more focused on the riskier option of Dimitri (just like Meredith with Derek), that a kiss/hook-up happening between the two that goes wrong seems like a very IC plotline for the show. It'd make the angst of the ending of Frostbite all the more angsty too if this kinda plot occurred while Rose was feeling neglected and dejected by Dimitri at the ski resort and kinda leans on the validation Mason willingly gives out.

Rose/Sydney: love this friendship. love love love this dynamic. I don't ship, but I respect this ship. I just really like that Rose was able to make this new connection while away from Lissa and the school, that she built these new dynamics outside of the school. Kinda now wanna read a jealous pov from Lissa's perspective on observing this new dynamic between these two.