#rose wilson

[starlitorchids]

BAD rose wilson comic: i hate my father and i loooove jason todd so much oh where'd my personality go 😇

GOOD rose wilson comic: i have a really complicated relationship with my father and identity issues. i do want to stab him sometimes tho.

[elektrastat]

he’s losing his baby girl next week :((((

[dragoneyes613]

Take your kid to work day at Lexcorp in My Adventures with Superman and so Slade shows up with Rose/Joey/Grant

[ungodlybliss]

this may seem like a senseless rant at the moment, but so far i can’t say i have been enjoying deathstroke 2026. i really wanted to, and i am still trying to keep an open mind, but i feel like a lot of the writing is very surface level and hasn’t reflected the characters all that well so far.

i wanna talk about rose mostly, because obviously that is my favourite character. for years now, she has been watered down from the character i fell in love with back in the 2000s and though there are still stories/arcs of hers i enjoy post new52 and onwards, i often get sad reading new things and feeling like she is missing something.

firstly, i didn’t mind her and slades interactions all that much, though i feel like fleece was giving rose a little too much sympathy for slade. shes emotional of course after losing wintergreen, but i think we have moved past the point of rose trying to find any reasoning behind slade being the way he is. she has seen him act worse than this all her life, i doubt she would care to express that to him directly.

secondly, adeline. since rebirth i have HATED the fact that she suddenly had both eyes and her gouging it out was retconned. the whole arc of slade drugging rose to keep her vulnerable, her clinging to him because he was the only one to show her any care, protection, and proper training at the time, and then in a moment of desperation to prove herself - takes out her own eye: that is one of the most defining moments of their relationship. that whole time spent together in her vulnerable state elicits majority of her trauma from him and really fuels her future hatred and resentment she held for him. now that has been erased, which completely downplays their whole relationship in my opinion, and is instead given to adeline to inflict.

obviously, the next issue isnt out yet we aren’t entirely sure if adeline did shoot rose eye out but assuming she did… i hate it. i am not sure of adelines motivations yet, but given the fact throuhout all of rebirth the most rose & adeline interacted was super snarky or completely ignorant of the other. aside from that, adeline inflicted her ultimate revenge on slade by shooting him in the head to which he survived. i cant imagine whatever motive addie has for shooting rose is enough for me.

i also find that having anyone but rose take her eye just completely downplays her trauma and shapes slade to be a better looking father than he truly was. it seems as though we are pushing addie down to make slade seem better somehow. i hate it.

all in all, these are just my thoughts so far… im still trying to hold out for this comic for the love i have for the wilsons but i suppose we’ll see how it pans out

[dragoneyes613]

Rose is devastated. For all that Slade was, ahem, far from an ideal father, for all that they fought each other, he was still her father, and he was the only family she had left.

On the other hand, here she says that Slade is "finally" dead, like she's been waiting for this to happen.

[dragoneyes613]

Damian looks devastated at finding out Respawn is dead. He barely knew him - and Respawn tried to kill him multiple times moreover - but he only just found out they were brothers, and now they'll never get to know each other.

Also notice how Rose takes off her mask when telling Damian the news. I've loved seeing the glimpses of Rose and Damian's friendship in Shadow War and Lazarus Tournament, and I wish I knew more about their relationship.

I'm still unclear as to why exactly Rose hated Respawn?

Rose and Damian standing together in silence. Bruce saying he's sorry for their loss - for whose loss? Rose? Or is he including Damian in that statement? Damian lost a brother too.

[dragoneyes613]

Slade says he's taking them all on a suicide mission, and nobody objects. Slade is also totally fine with all his...employees? Coworkers? Associates? Dying with him on this suicide mission. Even though one of them is Rose.

Like yeah, I get that his son just died and he's distraught and angry and grieving and wants to go out avenging Respawn. But he still has Rose. His last living child. Doesn't he want her at least to live?

He also says "we ran and hid because of Respawn," meaning only to protect Respawn. If not for him, Slade and the rest of them would have been fighting all this time. But Respawn was a child, and Slade was going to protect his son.