#rose killdragonosa

[queer-disney]

Sasha has a crush on Rose and they are both Bisexual!

[rosetyler42]

With all this talk of Drericka and Jake/Rose comparisons getting me into simething of a ADJL kick, I thought it'd be fun to draw these two sparring together. Ended up going in a different direction than expected. It was just going to be banter about Ericka being the more experienced one/giving her advice, But it ended up going in a mich fluffier + funnier direction. Which fits even BETTER with these two, anyway. (And allowed for fun "bait and switch" joke and Addams-esque bits.)

Still a fun way to bounce these two characters off each other, playing with how this interaction would go. The bouncy older huntress who chose to leave her situation for love and family and the child who felt trapped in her situation until Jake made his wish that freed her from it.

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[one-fandom-became-all-fandoms]

Bingo Anyone?

I'll start.

[we-are-all-of-legend-now]

If you could change 3 things about Rose and Jake's relationship, what would it be?

*hides my pile of AUs under the bed* Nothing!

Sorry, not funny. Um, probably not a whole lot, because I've come to appreciate it for what it is in the show and put my own building blocks around it, but here are three things that I wished were different in the actual show:

In Act 4, Scene 15, Jake and Rose actually kissed as Antony and Cleopatra. I know why they didn't because Jake and Rose would have had their first kiss too early on, but I can picture a scene so vividly where Jake is celebrating about finally kissing Rose and Trixie totally bursts his bubble by pointing out that Rose is good at acting, which means she's probably done it before, which means that she's probably kissed guys while in character before, so really, Jake just kissed Cleopatra and that takes the wind out of his sails and he's like "oh shit, Trixie is right" and goes right back to being awkward. Meanwhile, Rose has been squeeing about her first kiss with Jake and thinks that they're actually going to go on a date or something soon, but then he starts acting weird and she thinks that she's just a bad kisser or something, and so we're in that cycle again.

I would have liked to see more of Rose with Jake's family. It's not by accident that I like to write scenes where Rose bonds with Jake's family - in particular, Haley. It's just one of those fairly typical things of a relationship is being comfortable at one another's house and with each other's family. I just think that it would have been really cute to have Rose taking refuge at Jake's and doing homework on the couch with Haley while Susan cooks dinner because Rose doesn't get those things at the Huntsclan.

This is probably the most obvious but ... More of it. Not to say that I hated The Hong Kong Longs or anything but I have questions! The Huntsclan doesn't exist except, at some point, it did, because Jake remembers them and Rose was able to go get weapons from an old cache after she remembers them, so, like, how does she deal with that? How does she go from being a normal girl, vibing in Hong Kong, to knowing that magical creatures exist and, in a different life - not really a former life because it would have happened simultaneously as the current life she's living - that she hunted them? Do her parents move back to America, does she go on her own to a boarding school or something? Do she and Jake go adventuring around China because, at this point, she's seen more of it than he has even though it's his heritage? Do other people start to remember what the Huntsclan was? Does Rose have to defend herself about it? Also, Rose's sister? That twin we saw?'

Anyway, rant over, for now, I guess. I'm going to start editing the next chapter of I'll Carry You Home so that will be out later today or early tomorrow. :)

[hitchell-mope]

About damn time

[we-are-all-of-legend-now]

Do you think Jake would have contacted Rose when he was in Hong Kong if the Dark Dragon issue never arose?

Yeah but, probably, as adults.

Like, okay, I'm not so good at short things but I'll try it. Picture this:

Jake hesitated. It wasn't part of his nature but, this time, he did. He wondered what it would be like, to look at her after two different life times and a decade. But, he wanted to know. He had let the past lie, as Trixie and, even, Spud had told him to do. Haley had told him otherwise but she had grown into a completely hopeless romantic and never, not once in all his years on Earth, had Jake taken her advice.

Until she popped up on his 'people you may know' section on Facebook. She was friends with a few people from middle school that had slightly overlapped but it had taken this long for her to appear.

Rose.

She was beautiful, posing in a picture with the city of London spread out beneath her feet. He clicked on her profile, sliding through the things that she had left public. No longer living overseas, she was back in the U.S., pursuing a doctorate in history. She was within arms reach and it was so strange. They didn't know each other at all. She definitely didn't remember the time that they had bumped into one another in front of the school and Jake had decided to miss her forever, to wonder forever, about what would have happened if she had known him. But, she deserves a normal life. A life that wasn't filled with hunting. A life where she would know her parents and her twin sister, and have a world that was normal. He had given her the gift of normal.

Did he have it in him? Did he have it in him to ruin it for her? No matter what, he was still a dragon. There was still magic in the world. If he never reached out to her, she could be the normal of all normal. Magic itself was a delicate thing and if he remembered their before life, it could just be under her skin, lurking in the memories. He shouldn't open that up for her. He had made another decision, so long ago. He knew it was the right decision.

Add friend.

Message.

Jake clicked message.

'Hi, Rose, I don't know if you remember me, but I we went to school together. Wondered how you were doing? If it's too weird, you don't have to message back. I know it's been so long ...

He clicked send and he didn't even regret it. He bit down on one nail, wondering if he should regret it. Wondering if he should have thought this through more.

Then:

Jake? You had green hair, right?

Eagerly, Jake typed back.

[we-are-all-of-legend-now]

If you had to give Rose a boyfriend apart from Jake, who would it be? And how would you go about doing it in the canon of the show/in your own writing?

Apparently Rose was going to date Nigel Thrall in initial post-homecoming plans (that is if she had stayed in New York). In fact, Supernatural Tuesday was going to be about that.

In the project that's likely going to come after I'll Carry You Home, Jake and Rose are both dating different people at the onset so I guess we'll see how my writing it goes because I guess I don't ever really do them dating other people lol

As for in the show canon, I don't think it would last for long. Like, I think Nigel Thrall and Rose would be fine, but I think it would go like how Sam Manson dating Gregor in Danny Phantom went - it was a thing for basically one episode and it was used to further her relationship with Danny. And I really feel like that would be the case with Nigel because he's another rival to Jake and he's also magical. I think I would have liked her date someone who was non-magical and just so overwhelmingly fine and normal that Jake would have nothing to complain about.

[we-are-all-of-legend-now]

I have to ask, what do you like about Jake and Rose as a pairing in American Dragon?

I guess because they have a little bit of everything: enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, love at first sight, lots of angst potential, two very powerful people who shouldn't be together, good versus evil. And, as is the style with a lot of older cartoons, lacking in just enough detail that you can run amok with your own headcanons.