#dedicate rosethorn

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Korra (The Legend of Korra)

My bisexual queen. She and her girlfriend have a mutual ex boyfriend. She ended and restarted the avatar cycle. She has over come so much, truly being a perfect metaphor for queer endurance.

Stede Bonnet (Our Flag Means Death)

Character, book, and author names under the cut

I wonder what Rosethorn is thinking in this scene, because she seems surprised by the plants reaction to Briar.

I imagine Niko told her that he had brought a new plant mage to Winding Circle. But Moonstream is the one who sent him to Discipline, not Niko, and this scene is only Briar's fourth day at Winding Circle. So maybe Niko hadn't told her yet, and this is her realizing he's a plant mage. A line prior to this scene says, "Rosethorn had said that if he or Daja so much as breathed on a plant, they would spend months suspended by their heels in the well." It's possible that Rosethorn banned him from the garden because she didn't know he was a plant mage - it's also possible she just didn't want him unsupervised in the garden yet.

Briar smiled dreamily. “She's home.”

Lark entered first, looking as tired as everyone else. Then two armored warriors, a dedicate and a novice, eased through the door sideways. They had made a chair of their arms and were carrying Rosethorn between them. She was soot-streaked, her hair black with sweat. Despite the irritated vigor in her voice, she had so little strength that she couldn't sit up, only lean against the novice.

It was Kirel; he looked positively harassed. “We brought her,” he told Niko. “And believe me, it wasn't easy.”

its not just that their both rose-based. briar specifically names himself after the Thorny Plant bc he want's to seem tough. even though we was hurt (has scars) from literal rose thorns, he still respects them enough to take them as his name.

So, Rosethorn herself is said to be named 'for her prickly personality" and its worth noting that she picked it herself. She's leaning into her prickliness .. she (presumably) wants to seem tough.

SO lets talk about how Briar and Rosethorn bond in Sandry's Book (I may post more as I read through the series - I need to remember it in enough detail)

Briar meets Rosethorn. He is scared of her - and most adults, to be fair - BUT respects her and recognizes that she has the knowledge he wants. One of the earliest examples of briar stopping avoiding her is him correcting her to call him his name - in some ways, this is an assertion of equality : both people with names (new to briar), both plant mages, both thorny roses.

AND THEN there's a scene in which they discuss briars rose-bush scars. Its shortly after briar learns he has magic. Rosethorn says this : "they must have really like you to cut that deep" and !! the symbolism !!