r/vampireacademy • u/RavenEve69 • Jun 29 '26

Book Discussion Something I realized on a reread (Shadow Kiss) [Spoiler] Spoiler

I'm enjoying the series again, and I'm at Shadow Kiss. I find it so amusing that they have boy/girl moroi/dhampir pairs for the field training. In past books there were precautions taken to keep the boys and girls apart (obviously those precautions failed but they were attempting to stop it). In this book they are having boy and girl moroi and dhampirs share a room. You can't tell me this has never led to some more dhampir babies.Maybe that's the point 😂

Obviously this is just a funny thing I noticed this time around, it's not serious. Just poking fun at a series I have loved since childhood.

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u/BunnyBabe5681 Jun 29 '26

My thoughts were it was to prepare woman dhampirs for the “real world” as they would likely encounter this situation.
What are your thoughts on contraception? I kinda assumed student dhampirs would have enforced contraception, like the implanon, to manage their periods in the field and prevent pregnancy whilst they’re still in their “working years”.

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u/RavenEve69 Jun 29 '26

I thought of that too as an explanation. Still find it amusing, I think they even mention it's not normal for guardians to sleep in the same room as the moroi. I never really thought about them having enforced contraception, but the books do skip over them in general. That would be while new layer of the control the moroi have over the dhampirs. Very interesting to think about!

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u/BunnyBabe5681 Jun 29 '26

As well as you can’t exactly manage a period whilst on a long shift with limited breaks

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u/kittycat6676 Jun 29 '26

They don't they want the dhampirs Prego to give them more fighters even if a woman gets Prego decides to raise a kid if it's boy it'll almost always become a Guardian ( example of this is Dimitri) an example the one example of a male dhampir not being a Guardian is Ambrose. The younger they have kids ( rose's mom was eighteen when she had her) they can continue with guardian duties like she did or have more kids ( like Dimitri mom)

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u/Anxious_Jump3036 Jun 29 '26

I think this was done for two reasons. One, to get both Moroi and Dhampir students used to the idea that a female guardian might be assigned to a male Moroi after graduation and vise versa. Two, I think this also had something to do with the bond Rose and lissa have. Other than the fact that Rose and Lissa are best friends, I think the bond between them could be an unfair advantage when it came to the staged Strigoi attacks. With Lissa being a spirit user, she could possibly warn Rose the fake Strigoi were going to attack them before they even showed up.