When i say i like straight romances I don’t mean stereotypical romances like bumping into someone and hanging out with them, i mean romance with a loving boy who ends up falling head over heels in love with an emotionally repressed girl with trauma and parental issues and the boy helps her cope and feel safe and where they experience so many life or death experiences that they bond so closely together that they think about the other person before themselves.
Examples include:
Peeta + Katniss
Jack + Rose
Percy + Annabeth
N + Uzi
Ethan + Lena
Liam + Ruby
Add your favorite ship to this that lines up, do it or I’m in ur walls.
The one part of Titanic I will absolutely never recover from is at the very end:
Jack, the person she loved most is the one waiting for her up the stairs at the clock. As you get closer to Jack, the other people Rose was more familiar with and/or cared for her are the ones standing nearest to him, with Jack’s third class friends she met and danced with being toward the bottom of the stairs and Fabrizio is even leaning on the rail with his foot on the first step (hon. mention to Mr. Murdoch who saw Jack and Rose cavorting on deck and smiled and laughed about it).
But you know who the only other character is that’s not only fully on the staircase, but several steps up from everyone else?
Mr. Andrews 🥺
He was the only one of Rose’s first-class peers to show her respect, value her intelligence, and show genuine concern about her making it off Titanic alive.
And it both warms my heart and tears me apart that next to Jack, he was clearly the next closest person she held dear. And I know everyone smiles and greets her as she walks by but Thomas Andrews just looks so fucking proud of her. He’s so proud that she made it out and lived her life.
So I think it’s safe to say that in return, Thomas Andrews was the one who cared for Rose the most, aside from Jack.
When she walks in and people start noticing her, you can see Fabrizio speaking to Mr. Andrews before spotting Rose and gesturing toward her, and UGH they both just look so happy to see her.
So I know the end is up for interpretation on whether it’s a dream or she died. But personally I choose to believe she passed peacefully in her sleep and was finally reunited with the people she cared about most, who had been patiently waiting for the last 84 years for her to rejoin them.
The reason why Jack does not survive, regardless of wether he could fit or not, is that Jack represents the victims of the Titanic and everything that was lost.
While Rose represents the survivors who somehow made it and got to tell the tale.
In the end, all the survivors of the Titanic lost something that day, which they could never recover. May it be friends, family, lovers or the life they had before, it's something that sunk with the Titanic and they would never recover.
It's the irony that a cold, useless piece of rock survives, but the bright, warm soul full of potential perishes.