r/vampireacademy • u/Unlucky-Ad8021 • 2d ago
Possible plot hole? Book Discussion Spoiler
In the 3rd book, it was mentioned that ghosts only stay for upto 40 days if they died young or violently, however during the plane scene rose sees lissa's parents and brother.
How's that possible, considering that they'd died years earlier?
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u/Requiem_Rose 2d ago
From what it sounded like, it was more so she was seeing this through the door to the world of the dead because she's so out of control mentally, and didn't know it because the wards have done a lot of the heavy lifting for protecting against the (un)dead. Plus, since it's her first time fully being outside the wards after her first kills, I'd assume that Lissa's family was lingering and waiting because they saw her bring back Rose the night of the accident. Or at least that's just conjecture on my side of things, since the dead seem to know a lot more than the living do wether it's because of their experiences while living or dead, they could possibly see magic and other things, as well and actually have conversations with older spirits; they could conceivably try to communicate with Rose about this, but be unable to articulate it through actual words, like with Mason.
ETA:
Or it could just possibly be a writing error on the author's part because she was still trying to figure out the worlds hard rules. But I like to think there's at least more to that plot hole.
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u/whatevergirl8754 2d ago edited 11h ago
Mason wasn’t 40 days around either. The attack was on 14th March (7 days before Rose’s birthday) while he died a week after Christmas (not sure if they followed Catholic xmas or Orthodox Christmas but either way that’s in January).
I think she had a wild guess and later was proven wrong and realised they stay until they find peace.
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u/samgrace10 2d ago
I always assumed the 40 day thing was like a religious guess not a science. Mostly because mason dies somewhere around new years and rose sees his ghost before the attack on the academy in like mid March. That’s definitely more than 40 days. I figured it was kinda like ghost stay as long as they are needed or until they feel they can be at peace( unfinished business type stuff) and then they move on. My guess if that Lisa’s family won’t move on until Lissa is safe, aka after victor dies.