#roman rose

[vigilantsycamore]

I am rotating the LiLaL version of the Rose-Branwen and Xiao Long family tree in my mind

[rwbycolorswap]

He’s big and bold and in your face! Our first member of RMEN is up and ready to make a big show of everything just because he can!

Roman Rose - As drawn by Mod Silver, the first of our reference pages for this project 

[vigilantsycamore]

Neo, signing: You're losing blood

Roman: No, I know exactly where it is

Roman: The floor

Roman: Don't ever underestimate me

Roman: *faints*

[vigilantsycamore]

Obviously LiLaL!Roman's backstory is nothing like canon!Roman's backstory but I wish it was canon because (LiLaL spoilers)

imagine you're a criminal and suddenly all your heists are getting foiled by this one kid who looks exactly like your dead sister who basically raised you, who you've been putting on a pedestal since you were eight years old, and whose disappearance was the reason why you threw your entire life away and became a criminal in the first place, and also sometimes there's a second kid that looks like a blonde version of your dead sister's terrifying wife

and they can't actually be your nieces because you very deliberately distanced yourself from the entire STRQ family after your sister disappeared and if you really were suddenly running into them over and over again, you'd think the Brothers were personally fucking with you

LiLaL!Roman did switch sides shortly after the rally with the Paladin, but if canon!Roman had the same backstory, by the time the Volume 3 finale rolled around, forget the Gryphon he'd be a magnet for every Grimm in the Kingdom of Vale

[vigilantsycamore]

I'm up to Act IV in my LiLaL reread and this appeared in my head as I was reading Chapter 4

[vigilantsycamore]

The problem with reading fanfiction is that sometimes you get really attached to a particular fic's take on a character, to the point that they basically take up rent-free residence in your cerebellum and you end up thinking of that version before you think of the canon one and yes this is about my favorite version of Roman Torchwick again

[vigilantsycamore]

I need more people in the FNDM to read Linked In Life And Love so y'all can understand my obsession with that fic and especially its version of the Rose-Branwen family because I am haunted by all the could-have-beens that these fictional characters might have had if everything hadn't fallen apart

[vigilantsycamore]

[At some point during their Beacon days]

Summer: Where's Roman?

Raven: Doing stuff

Summer: I don't like the sound of that. Where's Tai?

Raven: Trying to stop Roman from doing the stuff

Summer: Good. Where's Qrow?

Raven: Trying to stop Tai from stopping Roman from doing the stuff

Summer: And what are you doing?

Raven: Trying to stop you from stopping Qrow from stopping Tai from stopping Roman from doing the stuff