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Vampire Academy

2014

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Rose and Dimitri Wedding Aesthetic....✨💎🌹

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do you think rose dismantling the system would have been a better ending? that’s quite complicated to write and keep at a YA level…

Yes, Rose dismantling the Dhampir system, or at the very least seeing a singular concrete change in the system, absolutely would have been a better ending for Vampire Academy than the half baked, out of no were murder mystery that we got in The Last Sacrifice. As much as I love VA the end was so, so disappointing to me. It felt rushed. Hell I remember going What the fuck even was the "last sacrifice"? Nothing was lost. Frankly, besides Lissa being queen and the bond being broken, everything was pretty much exactly the same as the start of the story. It honestly felt like Richelle had given up on the story she had been building.

From the very first book we establish just how poorly the Dhampirs are treated by the Moroi. The Moroi literally only believe they should exist as assets to them, and the Dhampirs are so desperate to not die off they buy into this narrative. Think about how easily Viktor exploited Rose, a child he'd known her entire life, as a means to an end. Despite the Moroi being fully capable of protecting themselves with their MAGICAL POWERS, Tasha and Christian are considered freaks for even suggesting it. Most Dhampirs are born from a Dhampir mother not a father. The Moroi women won't lower themselves by having a Dhampir baby, but Moroi men will use the Dhampir women as a sexual outlet. The Moroi don't respect the Dhampir. Hell even Rose and Lissa's relationship highlights just how unfair this dynamic is. Rose lived her life for Lissa. She was her protector, her confidant, her food source. Shit Rose even took the insanity from Lissa. What did she get in return from Lissa? (Yes I know Lissa resurrected Rose this is just to highlight the grander Moroi issue) The series spent 5 books highlighting the injustices Dhampirs face. How they die young, how their women are systematically abused, and the lack of freedom to do what they want in life without shame. This isn't subtext these are active conversations, and arch's through the story. Then they have the age law passed, and you see how, universally, Dhampirs are against it. I honestly thought when Rose was framed for Tatianna's murder it was going to be a catalyst for the Dhampirs to start acting out, to push back against this system. Yet the Dhampirs are sidelined to focus on the family laws for Royal Moroi????? It was truly ridiculous. We don't even see change in Bloodlines, just small references that focus on the Moroi council. Rose was exploited by the Moroi in literally every single way imaginable, and the books were building to her realizing the problem with it. Yet, it's all ignored for her to focus all her energy on making sure Lissa was elected queen. (Yea, she was spurred on by trying to stop the age law, but it really came back to the fact Rose viewed Lissa like a deity) The story set up a revolutionary change for the Dhampirs, but it was cut because Richelle couldn't commit to acknowledging how all Moroi, especially Lissa, were flawed when it came to the Dhampirs.

Also onto your second point, that it would be too complicated for a YA novel. Richelle didn't shy away from other really heavy, complicated topics. Bloodlines is literally focused on indoctrination, and cult deconstruction. The latter half of Blood Promise is an allegory for intimate partner abuse. Also remember that The Hunger Games are YA novels. Avatar the Last Airbender is a children's show. Media being for a younger audience does not mean it cannot cover and deal with complex, and dark topics.

Thank you lots for this question! It was fun to respond to - Missy :)

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The Hunger Games are over, but dhampirs are still being oppressed. I absolutely did not like the ending of Vampire Academy — every time I think about it, I get furious. Nothing changed in dhampir society, and they still have to become guardians, die young, give up everything, and be born to serve others. It’s practically the same as if the Capitol had continued ruling, sending children to the Hunger Games, while Capitol citizens still saw district residents as inferior beings and animals (districts are treated like animals, while dhampirs are treated like slaves and disposable tools).

The difference between The Hunger Games and Vampire Academy is that district residents understand that they are being treated unfairly, while many dhampirs don’t realize it (or do realize it but do nothing) and continue dying for ungrateful moroi. Plutarch asked Haymitch in Sunrise on the Reaping why they allow the Capitol to treat them like this. It’s the same with dhampirs: for the survival of their race (and I don’t even understand why they need it if they are literally born to die), they allow the moroi to treat them like this. Of course, they are influenced by propaganda and believe this is their only and “correct” option, but the problem is that nothing changes and nothing gets resolved.

Damn it, even in the first book Rose slightly realizes how unfair this all is, but of course it leads nowhere and the system stays exactly the same! Some royal moroi literally wanted to use compulsion on dhampirs so they would fight for them, and dhampirs still just accept it! I don’t remember if any guardians besides Rose and Dimitri learned about this proposal, but even those two continue serving the moroi!

This is not a criticism of the characters (at least not of Rose — after all, Dimitri is older and should understand better), but of the author. Why, why did Richelle Mead do this? Why couldn’t the series end with a dhampir revolution instead of this?

Someone said she didn’t have the courage to do it, because then she would have had to admit that all moroi (and Lissa in particular) behave selfishly and cruelly toward dhampirs. Maybe that’s true. Maybe it’s because the original plan was for 5 books, but then Richelle Mead was offered to expand it into a six-book series and write another spin-off (namely Bloodlines). I think she had already lost interest in Rose and Vampire Academy, which is why everything feels unfinished, rushed, and underdeveloped.

For me, Last Sacrifice is one big mistake.

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I have finished making all the charts to all the icons (excluding the three new ghosts as they don't seem to have icons as of yet) but the physical pieces are taking a bit longer so here are all the ones I've done so far!

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Emile Concept Art. From our campaign Pathfinder: War for the Crown.