Oscar x Rosalie

Oscar x Rosalie is the femslash ship between Lady Oscar and Rosalie Lamorliere from the The Rose of Versailles fandom.

Canon
The first time Rosalie and Lady Oscar meet, Rosalie is desperate since she hasn't eaten in days, her mother is gravely ill and no one hires her for any job since people are desperate as well in a time of crisis. In these horrible circumstances, desperate, Rosalie approaches Lady Oscar's carriage and asks her to "buy her for a night". Oscar just laughs at her and asks her if she hasn't realized Oscar is a girl yet. Rosalie gets down on the floor and starts bawling her eyes. Deeply moved, Oscar asks for Rosalie's name and the reason why she is this desperate. That's when Rosalie shares her situation with Oscar. Hearing this, Oscar helps her out by giving her a fair amount of money. And then rides away. Rosalie yells at the carriage to wait since she couldn't even get to ask Oscar her name, but the carriage is long gone. This leaves Rosalie longing to see Lady Oscar once more, to thank her personally.

Some time after their first encounter, Rosalie's life is once again hit by misery when her mother is hit by a carriage that kills her, and the carriage just leaves without even helping or taking responsibility for the murder. That day, Rosalie swore that she would kill the person in the carriage that killed her mother, and memorized the fact the person was blonde and had a dress with blue flowers. So the second time Lady Oscar and Rosalie meet again, she is hiding behind some bushes, watching Oscar and her mom getting down from a carriage. Seeing Oscar's mom fit the description of her mother's murderer, she tries to kill Oscar's mother, Lady Jarjayes, but Oscar quickly stops her. Then, she instantly recognizes Rosalie as the girl she saw that day, and invites her to come in.

Oscar sympathizes with her after Rosalie tells her all about the murder of her mom, and promises she will help her avenge her mom. However, she offers Rosalie all her help since in the state she was in, she was "incapable of even killing a dog". So that's when their relationship starts growing more and more, with the both of them spending a lot of time together fencing, learning history and manners, as well as other courtly skills so Rosalie can get her plan going, all with the help of Oscar. Rosalie comes to admire and love Oscar greatly throughout all the time they spend together, with Oscar sweetly and patiently teaching Rosalie everything. One day, while fencing, Rosalie falls into the water. Frustrated with herself, she asks Oscar if she is making fun of her. Oscar lifts her in her arms and tells her that she is mistaken, that she will never make fun of Rosalie. Rosalie is seen deeply touched by this, and just rests her head on Lady Oscar's chest as she says her name.

Overtime, Rosalie starts developing romantic feelings for Lady Oscar, thinking about her in a fond way, longing to be by her side. One day, she is asked to take some clothes to Lady Oscar's room and when she gets there and sees her uniform, she holds her close to her face, sensing Lady Oscar's scent. Then, Rosalie asks herself how can a person like Oscar exist in the world, and how she's so lucky to be by her side. Rosalie also confesses her feelings for Oscar to herself when she thinks about the fact that Queen Marie Antoniette has everything, while the only thing she has are her feelings for Lady Oscar.

Rosalie tells Oscar about Martine Gabrielle and Lady Oscar tells her that she will take her as a person known to her to a party with the nobles. At the party, Rosalie recognizes the Duchess de Polignac and tries to kill her, but Oscar stops her and tells her that killing her won't bring her mother back, and if she killed her, she would be executed. Later Oscar and André discovered the true identity of Martine Gabrielle and her relationship to Rosalie, as she is her biological mother. Finding this out, leaves Rosalie devastated. Oscar starts feeling guilty, and as Rosalie cries in her lap, she apologizes to Rosalie for not being able to erase her suffering, no matter what she has done to do so. Rosalie stops her abruptly, thanking her for all she has done for her, and tells Oscar that her words made her realize that her true mother was the person who raised her, not the Duchess de Polignac.

After this intimate moment, the two of them go hand in hand to a ball dance party. There, Rosalie meets her sister Charlotte, and she realizes that she's crying, because she's being forced to marry a grown noble man, despite the fact she is only 14. Rosalie also realizes that Charlotte likes Lady Oscar as well. And in between tears, she sympathizes with the pain of an unrequited love she must be feeling. There, Rosalie confesses her love for Lady Oscar once again. Some time later, the incredible amount of suffering she was enduring leads Charlotte to killing herself. After her daughter's death, the Duchess de Polignac starts insisting Rosalie to move with her as her daughter, to which Rosalie profusely refuses. After that, Rosalie goes running into Oscar's arms, crying that she doesn't want to leave her. But her heart gets broken into pieces once more when the reality of her homophobic society dawns upon her and Lady Oscar reminds her that she is a woman, and that, therefore, they can't be together.

Rosalie's unrequited love keeps being a source of pain for her. Later that night, the Queen, Lady Antoniette, organizes another ball dance and Rosalie gets excited thinking about Oscar inviting her to dance. But she gets heartbroken once again, and starts sobbing, when she sees Oscar inviting the Queen to dance. She thinks about what a great couple they make, and thinks to herself that "no matter how much I like her, I have to let her go." In that moment, André approaches her and tells her that he understands her since he also has an unrequited love towards Lady Oscar.

Some time later, Lady Oscar gets herself involved in a fight in a tavern at night. The next morning, while her nanna was tending to her wounds, Rosalie watched her from afar all the time, deeply worried about her. When Lady Oscar notices her, she asks Rosalie to come closer and to sit with her on the bed. Oscar apologizes to Rosalie for making her worry and keeping her awake all night. And as she lets her rest her head on her chest, Lady Oscar also laments the fact she wasn't born as a man. And she tells Rosalie that if she was a man, she would've already made Rosalie her wife.

When Jeanne, Rosalie's sister, escapes prison, Lady de Polignac, taking any and all opportunity to discredit Lady Oscar, getting her out of her way, starts accusing her of helping Jeanne. Desperate, Rosalie follows her and tries to convince her to not accuse Oscar this way. So Lady de Polignac takes the opportunity to take advantage of Rosalie and to force her to go to her palace, in exchange for not accusing Lady Oscar. This, of course, turns out to be all false and it was meant as a plan to "replace" Charlotte, Lady de Polignac's deceased daughter, with her other daughter, Rosalie, to force her to marry the noble man she wanted Charlotte to get married with. Finding this out, Rosalie escapes the palace, refusing to marry the man. And since she felt like a burden for Lady Oscar, she decides to come back to her old poor village, instead of to the palace with Oscar.

After some time, as Lady Oscar is chasing the Black Knight, she gets surrounded by his men, and in that moment someone saves her and she passes out. When she wakes up, she realizes she is in a home, safe and being taken care of. There, she reunites with Rosalie, giving her a long, lingering look. Rosalie tells her she will bring some food, and as soon as she turns her back on Oscar, she breaks down crying. Oscar gets deeply worried, and Rosalie runs into her arms, repeatedly calling out her name. Later, Rosalie serves her some soup, and Oscar is horrified to see that the proletariat people can only eat this while the nobles have feasts. That's when she promises Rosalie that she wants to give her everything. And while they ride back home on the carriage, Oscar holds Rosalie close to her.

Back home, Rosalie gets some rest, but she is woken up again by some loud noises, so while she goes to see nanna, she gets kidnapped by the Black Knight, who broke into the palace. Lady Oscar sees this right on time and screams for Rosalie. Quickly, she gets on a mission to save her, putting herself in danger to save her. Going to the place where she is kidnapped, that turns out to be a trap. When they do manage to get out, Oscar devises a plan to take Black Knight with her. On the forest on their way back, her and Black Knight start having a physical fight, and as they struggle, Rosalie sees Oscar being in danger, and terrified, she grabs the gun and shoots Black Knight on the hand to protect her.

Fanon
Oscar x Rosalie is a very popular ship in the Yuri community. Although it's not the first, it is considered as one of the very first Yuri couples in anime/manga history. Due to the year the story is contextualized in, and the fact it came out in the 70s, the two of them didn't get to end up together, something they themselves acknoledge throughout the story. So many fans headcanon that if they were born in other era, or in a society where they weren't marginalized for their existence as LGBT+ women, they would've ended up together. In fanfiction, the reincarnation trope applied to these two characters is often explored for this very reason.

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