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What’s your opinion on Ro? I feel like she’s problematic but means well. And what do you think of her relationship with Keefe? I feel like she tries her best to be protective but can be really rude sometimes.

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Mossy! My week/life is going alright, started my summer classes and one of my textbooks is so dense it took me an hour to read 18 pages. But it's chill, and I hope you're also doing good!

My personal opinion on Ro are unsavory, which is mainly due to the repetitive nature of her character that at this point I've grown kind of tired of. When she was first introduced I liked her, she was a loud female character who exhibited strength and didn't adhere to typical femininity and had knives, so very cool. She has dyed hair and loves violence, great! She poked and pried at various parts of the story no one else was willing to (the love triangle) and didn't have the same filter as everyone else.

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But I think she's become too much of that. Her first teasing remarks about the love triangle were fun, but now it's like...girl we have been here and done that how many more times can you say the exact same thing. How many times can you call Sophie oblivious and be obnoxious to Keefe about not confessing his feelings. How many times can you make a face at the sparkles. I don't have a problem with those aspects of her character it's the frequency!! It feels like she's being snooty and judgemental every single scene she's in! Like we can't interact with her without her making a comment about the love triangle like please. Ro. For the love of god give it a rest for once we get it.

It's also gotten--to me, at least--uncomfortable to read about at this point. Keefe and Sophie and Fitz clearly don't enjoy it or benefit from it at all, yet she continues to make her comments. It was an interesting dynamic in the beginning to finally have someone make those kinds of comments, but it's not changing anything anymore. Keefe doesn't like it when she makes those comments or interferes and pushes her way into things, so I think that's part of her relationship to Keefe I don't enjoy. Because he can't do anything about his discomfort. Ro is his bodyguard and he's not allowed to leave her, and so they're always together and if Ro doesn't want to cooperate? Keefe can't do anything.

I think protective but rude is a good way to describe her. She's an ogre warrior and she takes her reputation seriously, wants to win the throne. Performing badly as a bodyguard reflects poorly on her, so she is protective! She fights and keeps her charge safe to the best of her abilities (Keefe is a tricky charge), but she's not there to be nice. She's got no problem insulting and hurting other people, and sometimes her actions hurt people like Keefe. She's got the physical protection thing down. Everything else? Not quite. And she doesn't see a reason to change that

It's possible that with the extended time she's spent in the Lost Cities that she'll change a little. We saw from Keefe's pov that he felt actual concern and care for him coming from her, that she hugged him and was worried about him. We also saw her call herself Auntie Ro when talking to Sophie about her match stuff in Legacy.

I think she does care, in her own way. She was really antagonizing Keefe in Unlocked, but that was to try and get him to talk to prove that he could do it without controlling everyone. So as much as the rest of her actions make me uncomfortable, there is that and it's something that could be expanded upon in the final books.

For now though, I'd say that I don't think very highly of her given how uncomfortable she makes some of the main characters and how repetitive the interactions with her have been. This is something that can change in the future, but that's where I'm at right now. I want to like her more, but I think I'm going to see more of her first

#kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc character analysis #quil's queries #mossy nonsie #kotlc ro #I want to like her more than I do because I used to think she was pretty fun #but then it just. kept going. the same attitude and demeanor for so many books #in nightfall she's like 'ooo a lovers quarrel let's get popcorn!!' and in legacy/unlocked she's like 'we could address this unspoken thing #because your so oblivious ;)'#it hasn't changed!! it feels like the same thing every time and I am tired of it #I want more from her than her stirring up drama #if that makes sense #i made a post once about her character feeling like wasted potential. it might be on my masterlist #just checked it's the 'how I would've written ro' one under the side characters masterlist #doesn't address exactly the same things but those are more of my thoughts on her

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