#ps i have no idea why the pictures wont stay next to each other :( it says that they are whenever i try to edit it

[roseworth]

What do you think Rose’s love language is?

violence blood killing maiming etc.

no but actually i thought about this and i think its absolutely words of affirmation (also im sorry for how much detail im about to go into but im taking a class rn where we talk about love styles/love languages a lot so i have a lot of thoughts about this)

for one thing she really cares about what other people think of her and ties her own personal value into what she can do for others, so i think the verbal reminder that other people care about her means a lot to her

also before i get into this i want to say for the record that love languages can also be platonic so the screenshots im about to use are Not all romantic ships (i know this is common knowledge but i just wanted to be very clear bc im about to use screenshots of like. lian and slade. and i dont want anyone thinking im saying it romantically)

anyways first things first in fresh hell (best rose book ever) she is hallucinating the team a lot and pretty much every time she hallucinates them theyre encouraging her or saying that they care about her. shes kinda using the words that she wishes other people would say to her to support herself while shes Alone and Struggling

not to mention when it actually does happen not in a hallucination it clearly means a lot to her every time

(ok in fairness the kyle one isnt really words of affirmation but i really like that moment so im posting it anyway)

also the less serious example is rose in nightwing #114 asking dick how she looks then glaring at him until he says she looks nice hfdkjasfhsdf the renegade arc is a comedy to me

plus she also tends to feel most hurt when people are saying harmful things about her

not to mention she tends to look for slade to say something positive about her and will get. um. very upset when he doesnt

anyways i think that her love language stems from rose's mom because lili very clearly has no problem with outright talking about how much she loves rose <3

now you might be thinking "lauren you dumb bitch. all youve done is make a compilation of people being nice to rose. relationships are a two way street and rose doesnt compliment people"

and to that i say... its complicated okay

i have two possible reasons for this. the first is that she is so fucking bad at expressing herself and she doesnt know how to be nice to people, and is terrified of showing others that she loves them

the other reason is that some people have different love languages for giving & receiving!!!! and i think that while rose's receiving love language is words of affirmation, her giving love language is acts of service

now usually these "acts of service" are either saving their life or beating the shit out of someone that hurts them but it COUNTS okay!!!

and of course. the funniest "act of service" which is marrying hosun

anyways i ran out of images but rose as deathstroke arc my beloved, i consider that another act of service because her father was dead and she knew what he would have wanted to be done (killing his last target) so she did it

also id like to think that her acts of service love language stems from wintergreen because of how he did so much to help her when they first met <3 <3 <3

i had more for all of these but tumblr only allowed 30 images per post <////3 how am i supposed to be publicly insane when theres a limit 😔

tldr: her receiving love language is words of affirmation and her giving love language is acts of service <3