Romitri

Romitri is the het ship between Rosemarie "Rose" Hathaway and Dimitri Belikov from the Vampire Academy fandom.

Vampire Academy
Rose and Dimitri meet for the first time when Dimitri and a group of guardians are sent to get Lissa and Rose after they escaped St. Vladimir's Academy for a year. Dimitri bargains for Rose not to be expelled and becomes her mentor to help her catch up with her classmates. Rose soon becomes attracted to him. She develops a massive crush on him and even blushes when he pins her down during training. He catches her making out with Jesse (who tries to feed on her) and threatens him, telling her to act responsibly if she wants to be a guardian. Rose, through the bond, discovers that Lissa has been kidnapped and goes straight to Dimitri with the news. However, once she is there, she totally forgets about Lissa, and they almost have sex until Dimitri removes the necklace, revealing that it's a love charm (that Victor gave to Rose). Dimitri says that Rose would be an asset on the rescue mission because of their bond. After saving Lissa, he confides in Rose that he's in love with her but that they can't be together.

Frostbite
Rose and Dimitri travel to meet Arthur Schoenberg for her qualifier exam, only to find a massacre. Rose finds a silver stake, and they realize that humans helped. After Janine (Rose's mother) accidentally punches her, she confides in Dimitri that she believes it was on purpose. When he defends Janine, Rose and Dimitri end up arguing until she passionately kisses him. Dimitri stops her, warning her never to do that again. He then began to avoid her. Rose later learns from Janine that Dimitri received an offer for a guardian position and a relationship with Tasha and might be leaving to be both her guardian and her lover. She confronts him about this, and he criticizes her age. He later apologizes and confides confidential Strigoi information to her. Rose tells Dimitri to accept Tasha's offer. However, when Rose, Christian, Mia, Eddie, and Mason go missing, Dimitri and Janine question Lissa. Dimitri finds them after killing Isaiah and Elena and witnessing Mason's death, and Dimitri comforts Rose. She later talks to Dimitri, who tells her that he refused Tasha's offer because it wouldn't have been right, considering he was in love with Rose. He then kisses her.

Shadow Kiss
Rose wakes up thinking that Dimitri is kissing her, and she wants to kiss him again, only to realize it is Christian and Lissa through the bond. She goes for a walk outside, where she meets Dimitri (who is patrolling campus). She overhears Dimitri and Alberta discussing Victor's trial. After Dimitri finishes his talk with Alberta, he tells Rose to go to her room, and when she does, she sees Mason. Dimitri promises Rose that he will try to gain her access to the trial. Dimitri scolds Rose when she throws a fit after being assigned to guard Christian for field experience, although she eventually concedes. Lissa is approached by Jesse and Ralf to join Mână, and she agrees, although with a reason to spy on them. During the initiation, she is attacked by Jesse and other magic users. Rose senses that something is wrong with her through their bond and runs to help Lissa. Rose beats up Lissa's torturers, and Lissa tortures Jesse. Whenever Lissa uses Spirit, dark emotions run through her and make her severely depressed, so Rose takes Lissa's emotions from her through their bond. When this happens, it causes Rose to become violent, and she starts beating up Jesse severely. Dimitri and Alberta find them and intercept her. Dimitri takes Rose away to calm her down.

They go to an old cabin in the woods that Natasha Ozera uses when she visits the academy to see Christian. Rose tries to plead with him to let her go, but to no avail. Dimitri cleans up her wounds, and she is enraged that Jesse and the others were doing that and that they need to pay. She tries to break away, but Dimitri seizes her and calms her down. The darkness fades away, and Rose worries that she'll end up just like Anna or Sonya Karp. Dimitri tells her that she is so strong, and they express their feelings for each other and have sex for the first time.

After they are done and lying there, Rose sees Mason's ghost from across the cabin. Mason pointed behind Rose, and after some struggle, he managed to say "they're coming". Strigoi are attacking the academy. Dimitri tells Rose to run back to campus and tell them burya (storm in Russian).

During the attack, Dimitri was taken down by one of the Strigoi, who bit into his neck. Rose was forced to leave him for her own safety, and Dimitri was presumed dead. After the fight, Rose was informed that Dimitri's body was never recovered, and that meant he was taken and became a Strigoi. A week later, Rose shows up at Adrian's door, asking for money because she is going to drop out of the academy. He makes her a deal and bargains that if he gives her money, she will give him a real chance at having a relationship. Although she wasn't necessarily being, she agrees. Much to the academy's and Lissa's dismay, Rose sets off to kill Dimitri.

Blood Promise
Rose travels to Russia with the money Adrian gave her and starts staking out popular Moroi nightclubs to find Moroi men who might know where the dhampir commune where Dimitri's family lives is. One night she leaves the club and thinks she has a follower tailing her, so she hides and comes face to face with an alchemist named Sydney Sage. After saving Sydney from a Strigoi, Rose learns about the hidden group of humans who know about her "mythical" world (the alchemists hate and fear all abnormal non-human creatures of the night but agree to help them so they can protect the human race). Sydney agrees to take Rose to the commune, and on the way, they get attacked by Strigoi, and Rose ends up being injured. Rose starts saying "Belikov" in her sleep, so they take her to the Belikov household.

Rose meets all of Dimitri's family and tells them that she was his student and about his death or being turned. They hold a funeral, and Sydney apologizes to Rose for assuming the worst. Everyone can tell that Rose and Dimitri were in love, but no one disapproves that they were together. The Belikov family takes a liking to Rose and accepts her as their own. She becomes great friends with Viktoria, Dimitri's sister, and meets the famous Zmey, a mobster named Moroi who deals in illicit business. While there, she also meets Mark and Oksana, a Moroi-Dhampir couple, and finds out they have the same type of bond she and Lissa have. Rose goes out with Viktoria and sees that a no-good moron wants to have his way with Viktoria, and Rose can't stop it. Zmey offers to help, and she reluctantly agrees. He tells Rose to leave Russia, and he will take care of this. She agrees and is confronted by Yeva, Dimitri's grandmother, to go on a mission.

She then leaves with a group of vigilante, unpromised novices to find Dimitri somewhere in Siberia. Rose finds Marlen in Siberia, and he knows where Dimitri is. She tells him to let Dimitri know that she's looking for him. Dimitri later finds Rose and knocks her unconscious, bringing her back to Galina's place. Dimitri says that he will keep Rose until she willingly becomes Strigoi to be with him forever. He often feeds on her to numb her senses. She's finally able to escape captivity by threatening Inna and finding a silver stake in a vault.

Dimitri catches up with Rose on a bridge, where they fight, but she manages to stake him and push him into the river. She is found later on the side of the road and calls Zmey to help her, and she is taken to Oksana for healing when she finds out that Lissa is in danger through the bond. Avery Lazar, a royal, has been compelling Lissa and is about to fake her suicide. Oksana and Rose enter Lissa's mind, and they find out that Avery is a spirit user as well.

When everything is back to normal, Rose returns to the academy (courtesy of Zmey's pocketbook and personal escort) while wondering if Dimitri would have said he loved her if given the chance. Along with this thought, she is confronted by her mother and finds out that Zmey is her Moroi father. She then agrees to give Adrian Ivashkov a real chance to date her since she knows she can be free of Dimitri considering how long he has chased after her. She receives a parcel, the stake she used on Dimitri, and a letter from him, saying that she should have been certain he was dead and that he's coming for her.

Spirit Bound
Rose continues receiving love letters and death threats from Dimitri. Learning that Victor's half-brother Robert may have once restored a Strigoi back to their original form, Rose, Lissa, and Eddie break Victor out of Tarasov Prison. When Eddie almost kills Dimitri, Rose intervenes, believing that he can still be saved. Dimitri later kidnaps Lissa and Christian as bait for Rose. Rose makes the decision to kill Dimitri for good and is about to do so when Lissa and Christian stop her. Lissa was able to infuse the stake with magic and then stake him through the heart. Instead of killing him, it returned him to his original form. Consumed by the guilt of his actions, Dimitri refuses Rose's comfort, claiming that he can no longer love as a side effect of being Strigoi. He tells her his love has faded. Dimitri talks to Rose the morning after she lets Adrian drink her blood, and he sees the marks. Guardians then attack, and they feel instinct kick in to protect each other. Rose stops Dimitri, knowing that he's already in danger of convincing people he's a Dhampir again, and Rose is arrested for Queen Tatiana's murder.

Last Sacrifice
Rose is in her prison cell, contemplating the charges brought against her and occasionally using the bond to slip into Lissa's mind to view what's going on at the court. During Queen Tatiana’s funeral, statues outside the church suddenly blew up, causing chaos and acting as a distraction for the guardians. Mikhail, Eddie, Adrian, Abe, and Dimitri break Rose out of the cell. Dimitri takes Rose out of court, and they drive for hours until they reach Sydney, who is also aiding in the escape.

The Dashkov brothers invade Rose’s dreams, and they later meet up with her at Sonya's house in Kentucky, where Robert changes Miss Karp back into a Moroi by staking her with a silver stake infused with spirit. After recovering from the initial shock of being restored, Sonya leads them to Jillian Mastrano’s house in Michigan, where she is revealed to be the illegitimate child of Eric Dragomir. Not long after they arrive, guardians raid the Mastrano house, forcing them to scatter and flee again and creating the opportunity for Victor and Robert to kidnap Jill. Using her spirit abilities, Sonya is able to locate where the brothers are hiding Jill and relay the information to Rose. Upon questioning, Miss Karp also reveals to Rose that her and Dimitri’s auras shine extraordinarily bright when they are around each other, which shows they are in love. This further confuses Rose about Dimitri's true feelings for her. Rose, Dimitri, and Miss Karp quickly find Victor and Robert and fight them to get Jill back. Rose battles with Victor, and in a spirit-induced rage, she inadvertently kills him. She becomes distraught as the group heads to a hotel to recover. In one of the rooms, Dimitri attempts to tell her she doesn't need to blame herself. He admits he loves her, regrets losing her, and wants her back, but refuses to take another man’s girlfriend. Rose tells him she only belongs to herself, and she chooses Dimitri. Then they kissed and had sex again. Rose makes the decision to break up with Adrian when she sees him in person and not in one of his spirit dreams.

Back at Court and in front of the Council and assembled Moroi, Rose presents Jill as part of the Dragomir bloodline, arguing that this enables Lissa to become Queen, before she reveals to everyone that Tasha is the one who killed the queen, as she hated Tatiana's policies about Dhampirs and Moroi. Rose also silently notices that Tasha has longed for Dimitri the entire time, which is why Tasha framed Rose for the murder. As guardians attempt to take in Tasha, she grabs a gun and holds Mia hostage. Lissa hurries forward in an attempt to compel her to stop, but Tasha makes a rash decision, shooting at Lissa. Rose jumps in front of Lissa and takes the bullet in her chest. Her final glimpse is of Lissa and Dimitri standing over her as she blacks out.

A few days later, she awakens with Dimitri by her side. He tells her that they have both received full pardons and their guardian statuses again — she is one of Lissa’s guardians and he is Christian’s guardian. Both are finally able to be open about their relationship. When Lissa visits Rose, she realizes they are no longer bonded. They speculate that because Rose was on the brink of death and healed herself without the help of spirit, the bond was negated. Lissa also won the royal election, thanks to Jill being part of the Dragomir bloodline and making her eligible for the throne. Adrian visits Rose and confronts her about why their relationship failed. Adrian blames it on Rose's constant yearning for Dimitri, but Rose tells him it’s both that and the fact that they are so different, and he depends on her too much, saying that she is his anchor to life. Rose spends the remainder of her convalescence healing and being with Dimitri. As Lissa is crowned the new queen, she shares a humorous look with Rose in the crowd. Rose and Dimitri are feeling happier than ever because they are finally in love with each other, and Lissa's triumph tells him that she thinks that their future will be great.

Bloodlines
Rose told Sydney that she and Dimitri are together, but they are both disappointed that they couldn't properly settle down and spend time together as a real couple. Otherwise, they are happy to be together and finally have an open romantic relationship. Sage has to protect Jill at a school in Palm Springs from the alchemists posing as her sister and Adrian and Eddie posing as her brothers. During her time there, she finds that a local tattoo parlor is using vampire blood to create performance-enhancing tattoos similar to the alchemist ones but using copper and steel instead.

The Golden Lily
Dimitri Belikov has come to Palm Springs with Sonya Karp to figure out experiments with the element of Spirit. Dimitri is seen to mention Rose a lot and miss her terribly. When Sonya, Dimitri, and Sydney went to a restaurant, he got a phone call from Rose, and he was seen smiling and talking to her lovingly, according to Sydney.

The Indigo Spell
In the beginning of the book, Adrian and Sydney go to Sonya Karp's wedding. Rose is a bridesmaid, and Dimitri is on duty. They are seen as a cute couple talking to Sydney about Adrian dancing with her.

The Fiery Heart
Rose and Dimitri were sent to Dallas, Texas, when they heard that another Strigoi had been restored back into a Dhampir. It is seen that Rose leans against Dimitri to the point where he wraps his arms around her when in the house watching Adrian.

Silver Shadows
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The Ruby Circle
Rose and Dimitri visit Adrian and Sydney. They have dinner together with Jill, Eddie, and Daniella. Adrian caught a brilliant flash on Rose's finger, which turned out to be her engagement ring. It's a large round diamond set into a lacy square of platinum filigree that was edged in tiny blue opals. Rose jokingly announced that she could wait for marriage until she had two at the beginning of her age. They both seem to be settled and happy. Sydney also mentioned that she's wondering how they would handle having kids since they could possibly have children on their own. They were also seen teasing each other about babies, but Dimitri would love a child of his own.

Pilot
Rose is running to welcome her best friend back to school when she is stopped by a Guardian whom she tries to get out of her way, and he takes her down which leads them to have a long stare at each other. When Rose asks who that was, she learns that it's her Lissa's new Guardian, Dimitri. Rose claims that she "didn't notice" that he was good looking either.

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Fanon
Romitri is one of the most popular ships within the Vampire Academy Fandom next to Dragozera. The romance between Rose and Dimitri in the books are somewhat controversial because of the age difference, but some choose to ignore it, and some are weirded out. Rose (and a few other characters) in the TV Adaption are aged up to around 19/20 to fit modern times.

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