Talk:Yellow Roses

Yellow Rose count
In the later part of Swansong, it said that two Yellow Roses were killed in Peter Piper's attacks, but in Behind the Times, it says that two only had "minor burns". Were there actually four Yellow Roses, and one was just never seen in the Fifth Anniversary roleplay? Because if there are only three, minor burns would likely not be enough to complicate into fatal conditions, unless the burns were infected or something. Outhra (talk) 15:15, April 27, 2013 (UTC)
 * Not so! The precise quote in Swansong is 'Peter Piper standing over the motionless forms of half a dozen Flowers, screaming defiance across the Small Auditorium.'  Justin clearly thinks they're dead - but given the number of unreliable narrators in that story, there's no reason to take his word for it. He's just wrong - the YRs are either unconscious or playing dead.
 * ​On a related note: I've always assumed there were at least a dozen Yellow Roses. Curiously, the original cover for the first edition of The Multiverse Monitor showed three, while the second version has... well, lots. The fact that three showed up in the Fifth Anniversary doesn't really mean anything other than that three showed up in 5Ani. But, that said, three is a nice number...


 * (They didn't die at Peter's hands because I like the idea of them just floating through life, unharmed by anything... there'll probably be Yellow Roses in the PPC after the Sundering, honestly) Huinesoron (talk) 19:36, April 28, 2013 (UTC)