Hmm I'd probably like a pre-made rosebride because to make someone I know already take on a less-than-themselves personality doesn't really do it for me. I mean I'd have to hate them I guess.
And simultaneously I'd have to want them to do every one of my wishes. And I actually find subservient people really annoying in real life. I have to be very careful to stay kind and not snap at them.

I don't know really.. I'm verryyyy torn on this one.

Half of me says, i'd rather BE one than choose one... however, I also have that "must save the world" complex about me.

EX:

I work at a bookstore where we must maintain a certain percentage of discount cards in comparison to our sales totals.

Often, i find myself canceling previous plans to... "save the world" (be the prince?) and fix the percentage...


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I guess to sum it up...

I want to be the prince and save the world.

But when it comes to finding MY prince i'll be the rose bride any day

Edit: grammar stuff =/

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Giovanna wrote:

Yasha.

Sometimes she's really more my prince, but other times she's just an enabler for my bad behavior.

As far as the enabling bad behavior component goes, Frosty could be my rose bride too.

Huh... I thought you'd make Akio your Rose Bride, and Yasha would make Touga hers.
Oh wait...

Shoot, it has to be REAL LIFE person. Aw, poo...

I probably would be someone else's Rose Bride. I'm too submissive for my own good.

Lady Chani wrote:

I probably would be someone else's Rose Bride. I'm too submissive for my own good.

But is Anthy really submissive to anyone but Akio?  Or are the Akio Car pseudo-brides really the submissive ones?  Shiori, sure (in this context), and there's an argument for Saionji, but I think Touga and Kozue were more in control of the situation than their respective duelists.

As for me, I'm going to add another voice to the "I wouldn't want to make anyone play that role for me" chorus.  (If we're just talking about someone who could remove my soul sword without knocking me unconscious, well, I still wouldn't go for the dress when there's the option of matching suits.)

Personal sharing note: I have been known to be, in my (hindsight-aided) opinion, too Rose-Bride-y in a few relationships.  In the sense of quietly adapting myself to what they seemed to want while (sometimes secretly) holding back a bit of my core self.  It turns out that's not really such a good idea.

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Steering away from the context of the "Rose Bride" in Ikuhara's world, a bride is to serve her groom therefore love is-or should be-present. Love, to me, is not love without sacrifices, so it's not merely servitude or convenience that some may think of their best friends and/or lovers as their very own Rose Brides.

My real life best friend, FencingCaptain, and I switch roles. She can be my Rose Bride when my stubborn, bratty, dominant nature is too much for her to handle; I play her rose bride when she tames the prince in me (i.e. the description of a true prince in Machiavelli's mind; I'm not for the fairy tale type of prince).

This thread makes me think of what Anthy said: "All girls are like the Rose Bride"...thoughts?

I agree that many girls are like the Rose Bride at some point of their lives.  There will always be someone that can weaken them, that they would be willing to do anything for.  A person they adore, and often eventually grow to resent.  (Ex, Anthy resenting Akio for who he became, Kozue resenting Miki for being unable to achieve his goals, and Shiori resenting Ruka for him being who he naturally is, and of course Ruka himself with Juri.)

Most likely my Rose Bride would be my friend Kyle.  Although the two of us are well known for our spats and disagreements, he's similar to me and often someone I want to 'save.'  We share an understanding of eachother's darkness and imperfections.  There is no romance in it, or any sense of a relationship, but the two of us are made from a similar core.  Or, would I be his 'witch' because of that?  I'm not sure.
Or, I'd end up in a similar situation to Juri, and have a RoseBride I resented.

There is no one I know offline who I would be the rose bride to.

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