Thanks Roogle. I'm sort of bringing this post back from the dead by replying, but I feel that given the most recent topic posted by someone where they essentially bashed Rosa, it's important that I bring it back up. Plus, I actually do want to respond to you.

Recent stories and doujins have me upset. It sounds petty, but it's because of the way they portray Rosa so they can boost Rydia on a higher pedestal. In the fanfic I read, the writer tried to justify a relationship between Cecil and Rydia by having Rosa just suddenly leave out of the blue, no development or reasoning whatsoever except that she supposedly wanted to become the new Elder of Mysidia in the fashion of becoming a nun. Which makes absolutely no sense because the game makes it blatant that she's highly devoted to Cecil to the point she would travel any distance and risk her life out of love for him.

The doujins bothered me more. Both were of Rydia paired with Cecil, and in each, the artist portrayed Rydia as the "pure and innocent" type as she.. err.. copulates with Cecil. I don't have issue with the portrayal of Rydia here because her being pure and innocent is accurate, although a relationship between her and Cecil just would NOT happen. What really bothers me here: in both, Rosa is portrayed as a shameless slut, the type of women that loves sex, has no concept of good manners about the topic, and will do it with anyone. One involved her sleeping with Kain on the sly (only for a few panels, so they could justify Rydia and Cecil together without Rydia looking villainous for it) and the other had Rosa play the role of the devious, salacious slut that corrupts the pure, innocent Rydia into the act.

Neither one of these are Rosa at all. And it wouldn't bother me so much, if not for how readily people had believed The Man when he claimed Rosa used to date Kain but dumped him for Cecil because she's, saying it crassly, loose for whoever has more power and respect.

I'm quite seriously and honestly expecting that a year from now, majority opinion will be that Rosa is a shameless slut, and that Rydia has all of her traits PLUS all of the traits Rosa actually DOES have.

Maybe I'm being a bit delusional or neurotic, that's possible, but after a year of seeing things seemingly only get worse in regards to how people see her, despite all my attempts to get people to see her for who she really is (ignoring any parts of what I say that make her out to be MORE than she really is, which can happen from time to time), I really have no faith in people to know the difference between who Rosa really is and what's just a horrible mutilation of everything she is by some zealous Rydia fanboy or Rosa hater.