Talk:Rose Alsandair/@comment-28644276-20190326032702

Rose is like bringing together the "heroine", the "catalyst", the "atoner" and, to an extent, even the "mentor" archetypes all together into a single one.

A mentor because she's by far the most experienced of the party when it comes to combat and how long she has been into this. Yet, also the heroine. Why? Well, when it comes to dealing with her feelings and the things she has been experiencing one after another in such a short ammount of time (as compared to her decades of lust first, and then atonement second), she feels just as lost as the other party members.

Or rather, at a loss for words. This is particularly evident during her conversation with Jack when she asks him if he can possibly tell/explain to her what love is. Because later, as he says he's "not sure what to tell her", Rose herself lampshades how she has much more life experience than him in her reply about him not being "old enough" to hear the reasons why she's disgusted with herself and can't yet talk to Louis or look him in the eyes. Much less confront him - or herself - about her feelings for him, as she can't be even sure if what she feels is love.

And this is another interesting point about her character: Throughout the story, not once I remember Rose trying to justify anything of what she did to others or explain herself or even ask for forgiveness usually. She doesn't even mention to the party the horrible events that led her down that path that ended up bringing so much tragedy in the long run. She only tells them of her own acts.

In fact, it's quite the contrary: She was prone to take the blame for all the matters at any given situation, and this only build-up more and more throughout the story until it finally culminated with her being willing to sacrifice herself for the sake of ending what she believes she was fully, doubtlessly responsible for.

So loong story short... Rose was, in my eyes, chained to all parts of her past. That fateful day where she faced the worst experience she could have as a woman, then the decades of desire that became a sin she could not forgive herself for in her eyes... Until someone finally came along and, together with her son, forgave her.

If Rose was chained to the past, Louis was like her key to the future in the present, and Jack ended up being the one who took those chains upon his own shoulders, giving his blessing to her good ending at last.

I'm glad she ended well and alive, and got another shot at having hope for the future, after so long and so much strife.