Oscar x Marie Antoinette

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

Canon
The both of them meet during one of Oscar's first missions. When she arrived in Paris, she was rescued from a kidnapping attempt from her cousin, the Duke of Orléans. While on the ride to Paris, Oscar realizes that Marie ran away and follows her to the forest. There, she sees her surrounded by the Duke of Orléans' men. So she rescues Marie, and since that day Marie Antoinette adored Oscar and saw her as her dearest friend. Later, Marie is informed that her new guard is a woman, the Commander of the Royal Guards. Marie says that she's very disappointed that her guard is a woman. However, she sees Oscar with the sunset behind her and sparkles around her, and Marie's eyes shine bright.

Throughout the story, the two of them remain close. Oscars remains as loyal as ever, next to Lady Antoinette, as her guard. Even when Madame Du Barry and Marie Antoinette have a fight, Oscar remains by her side. One day, Lady Antoinette wakes Oscar up, all dressed up and wearing a mask, telling her she wants to go to a masquerade. Oscar is unsure about it, thinking about the princess' safety. However, she decides to join her as her guard. During the ball, Oscar keeps a very close look at the princess as she dances with some masked man. The man starts telling Marie Antoinette that he will kidnap her later in the night, in a tone he finds "romantic". And Oscar is watching this all from afar, with an annoyed face. Lady Antoinette decided to go out to the balcony for a breath of fresh air, and there, a man harasses her as she repeatedly says "no". Oscar comes right on time and gets in between the princess and the man. The man later reveals his name is Axel Von Fersen, and Oscar tells him that if he wishes to speak to the princess that he needs a formal petition first. The man ends up showing up at the princess' palace, and they start developing a relationship, something that worries Oscar as she starts seeing the princess acting differently. This simultaneously shows how well Oscar knows Lady Antoinette and how much she cares about her.

This is shown even more when Oscar saves Marie Antoinette's life some time later. Despite everyone's warning against it, Marie Antoinette decides to ride a horse (although she has no experience doing so). For this very reason, she loses control of her horse and the horse gets away with her on top of it. Deeply concerned, Oscar  decides to follow them with her own horse, as Lady Antoinette keeps screaming for Oscar's help. As the both of them were approaching a cliff, Oscar grabs Marie and the both of them jump to safety, with Oscar saving Lady Antoinette's life.

Fanon
This ship is the main one of the series. Although it is not the most popular. This is because the friendship between Marie Anotinette and Lady Oscar was the one the author designed to be the center of the series. However, Oscar and Rosalie's relationship ended up being the most popular ship of the series.

Despite this, it's still one of the most famous ships in the series and fans have the same feelings they have with Oscar and Rosalie's relationship. The feeling that if they were born in another era or in a society that didn't marginalized them just for existing as two queer women in a relationship, that they could've ended up together. Marie Antoinette herself shuts her own feelings about Oscar down as soon as she finds out that she is a woman just because of this fact, not because her attraction suddenly disappeared. In fanfiction, fans often explore what their relationship could've been like if she didn't dismiss her own feelings.

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