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Character: Rose Lalonde
Fandom: Homestuck
Character Notes:
History: Rose' life began thanks to the ectobiological machinations of her future friend John Egbert, who created himself, his friends and their guardians during a session of SBURB so that they could grow up to learn of and play SBURB.
As any fan of Homestuck will know, predetermination has quite the significant role in the characters' lives.
Thus Rose was created, genetically related to her Mom (with whom she would grow up) and Bro, who would go on to teach Dave not quite enough of what he needs to know to be a cool kid. She was then sent on a meteor to Earth, where she was found by Mom and taken in as her own.
For as long as she can remember, Rose's relationship with Mom has been one of antagonism and one-upmanship. She has always interpreted Mom's actions as being insincere, whether it was the funeral held for her beloved cat Jaspers when he died or what Rose percieves as a feigned interest in wizards to counteract her own, genuine interest. In all her years growing up, it never occurred to her that her mother might genuinely care for her, that her interest in wizards was in support of Rose's own or that her mother had gone to such extravagence over Jaspers' funeral because she thought Rose might appreciate it. No, to Rose's mind, all her mother cared about was drinking and one-upmanship.
Though she does her best not to show it, Rose cared deeply for Jaspers and loved to play at psychoanalysing him. It was through these sessions that she became aware of a secret Jaspers was trying to tell her; before she could figure it out, he disappeared and showed up dead. In time she forgot all about it, though her dream self never did, and Jaspers became just something else for her and her mother to compete over, as would be apparent to anyone who saw their fridge.
Over the course of the following years, Rose became friends with three people she met online: Jade Harley, Dave Strider and John Egbert. She also became even more interested in psychoanalysis and wizards (writing purple prose-filled fanfiction of the latter) as well as picking up interests in playing the violin, the bestially strange and ficticious - horrorterrors and eldrich abominations, in other words - and, thanks to a birthday gift from John, knitting. She also has at least some interest in video games, although it is hard to discern if her enthusiasm for SBURB in particular came more from Jade's implication that it would help her bring Jaspers back to life.
Ah yes, SBURB, the biggest influence in Rose's life thus far. The adventure began on April 13th, John's birthday and the day she began playing the game in question. She'd previously been bugging Dave to play the game with her but he was refusing to so much as consider doing so; when John recieved and installed the client disc for the game, Rose was more than happy to act as his server. And so she and John began to explore the game of SBURB, though it soon became clear that neither was quite sure what they were supposed to be doing. Compounding the issue, Rose's connection to the game depended on her internet connection and laptop battery power, neither of which were particularly stable, and this meant she sometimes lost connection at crucial moments. Nevertheless, she managed to get John into the medium (after venturing to the observatory to get a stronger connection) before the meteor that was aiming for his house made contact and killed him.
Now aware of the gravity underlying the seemingly innocent game, Rose found herself simultaneously trying to help John get to grips with the Medium, updating the GameFAQ walkthrough she had published to try to help others who had started the game and pestering Dave to connect as her server player so that she could escape the onslaught of meteors that were coming ever-closer to her home. During the course of her time prior to entering the Medium, she was forced to try and outmanouver her Mom so she could get to the family mausoleum and connect to the emergency back-up generator. Then, when that failed, she made her way to the nearby laboratory (whose internet connection she'd been using) and made off with one of their power hubs - but not before investigations led to her discovering a mutant kitten she named Vodka Mutini, trying and failing to appearify Jaspers (since this would have created a paradox) and discovering what appears to be a little girl's bedroom (strongly implied to be Mom's). It is from this point that Rose adds a scarf to her ensembles.
Mindful of the ever-decreasing countdown which she strongly suspects is counting towards impact time of the meteor, she teleports out and back to her house, specifically to what she had thought to be her Mom's room. The meteor impacting with the laboratory and the ensuing fire forces her to flee upstairs, where she does all she can to assist John as she waits for Dave to get hold of his Bro's copy of SBURB and get her into the game. He eventually does so and Rose enters the medium, prototyping her kernelsprite with the princess doll her mother bought for her (which has been Eldrichified by Rose) and Jaspers before she does so.
Rose finds herself in the Land of Light and Rain, with the title Seer of Light. As she gets to grips with killing enemies and discovering more about the game, she finds herself in increasing contact with the Trolls - an alien group of players who blame the kids for ruining their session. The main troll she encounters is Kanaya, though she also converses with Terezi and Tavros early into the session. Additionally, she learns about her dream self from Jade and of some writing that apparently appears on her walls. In Rose's case, this is simply MEOW over and over, the secret Jaspers told her. Eventually it turns out that this is in fact a genetic code - the very code used to create Jade's guardian/pet Bec.
Before Rose can figure this out, however, John is tricked by Terezi into skipping to his seventh gate and is subsequently killed by his Denizen. Dave and Rose spent the next four months trying to learn as much as they could about their doomed session before Dave, the Knight of Time, decided to skip back to before John could make that mistake. He suggests Rose goes to sleep, with the intent being that her past and future dream selves would be able to somehow connect. The future dream self persists until Rose falls asleep (as per Jade's advice) and awakens her true dream self. As promised in the future, her dream self goes to alert Dave's dream self of the fact that he is already awakened, just not aware of it.
While she is asleep, Kanaya has her "first" conversation with Rose - who is actually John using Rose's computer. This leads Kanaya to suspect that Rose isn't all that intelligent, leading to confusion in later conversations where she is actually talking to Rose. John also ends up leaving his adopted salamander Casey behind (to later be renamed Viceroy Bubbles Von Salamancer by Rose) and takes Mutie (later Dr. Meowgon Spengler, thanks to John). When Rose wakes up, she goes to find John but just misses him and instead decides to alchemise some useful tools and weapons. The most significant of these are the needlewands, created by combining needles and a wizard statue, which first gave Rose the power of magic, and the Thorns of Oglogoth, made by combining the former needlewands with her Grimoire.
This is where Rose's shift towards grimdarkness begins. As an awakened Derse dreamer, she begins communicating with the Gods of the Furthest Ring, acting on their behest as they tell her to destroy the MEOW code. (It is implied that Dave would be able to do the same if he weren't so distracted) It is also around about here that Rose learns their session is unwinnable and as such, she decides to set about tearing the game apart to find any way of saving herself and her friends - including blowing up her first gate rather than passing through it. She makes a final entry to her GameFAQ walkthrough declaring that she will tear her world apart to find answers and that she is no longer playing by the rules. She then uses a spell to rip the walkthrough from Earth's servers and store it in the Furthest Ring, where Kanaya eventually finds it and builds up a vision of what she expects Rose to be like.
Over time, Kanaya and Rose became somewhat close and built rapport, leading Kanaya to become increasingly concerned at Rose's reckless behaviour. In particular, Kanaya speaks of a time on the Trollian timeline where Rose disappears from view. She fears this may have something to do with a future plan Rose has to destroy the Green Sun - a plan fed to her by Doc Scratch, the First Guardian (Bec's equivalent) from the Trolls' session. Fueled by Doc Scratch's insistence that the destruction of the Green Sun and the creation of the Scratch will save all concerned, Rose liaises with Dave and John to set the plan in motion.
At the same time, however, Rose's communications with the Gods of the Furthest Ring become more frequent and involved, with Rose carrying out errands on their behalf. This led to much concern from her friends but a conversation with Jade triggered a devastating change. Jade's revelation that Rose's Mom had been killed by Jack Noir pushed her into a spiral of regret and anger that leads her to consider that instead of going along with her plan, she should seek out and kill Noir herself. Prompted by Jade's concern for her wellbeing and the advise of Doc Scratch, Rose asks the magic Cue Ball she has procured whether the gods she has been serving are evil. Instead of an answer, this pushes Rose into becoming Grimdark and thus becoming untraceable.
Grimdark Rose heads for Skaia, determined to take on Jack. On investigating his castle she comes across many interesting aspects. She also finds John, who was still looking for his Dad. Here it became apparent that Rose is no longer speaking English, rather some form of Eldrich tongue. After her attempts to break the news of his Dad's death fail, Rose leads John back to the roof where Mom and Dad's corpses rest. There, Jack is waiting for them and, as they prepare to do battle, stabs John. This enrages Rose even further and she prepares to fight him one on one. It's a tough battle but ultimately, Noir gets the better of her and she is killed.
Fortunately, John's status as God Tier meant that, because his death hadn't been heroic or just, he didn't stay dead. He was therefore able to revive Rose as her dream self by kissing her corpse and she woke up on Derse, a step closer to her ultimate plan. Said plan is essentially a suicide mission; of course, now her dream self is the only self left, this is a rather more permanent situation. Aware of this, Dave plots to have Jade kill and revive him, while they are fighting Noir, so that he will awaken on Derse too and will be able to sacrifice himself in her place. The final piece of the puzzle takes the shape of Liv Tyler, an upgraded version of the bunny that was Jade's gift to John. Liv had the Tumor with her, a bomb that was supposed to destroy the Green Sun.
With Tumor in hand, Rose and Dave severed the chain connecting Derse to its moon; Rose then knocked out Dave and went to pilot said moon towards the Green Sun. The two then share a dream bubble in which Dave berates her for her actions; when Draconian Dignitary shows up and stabs Dave, he awakens and comes after Rose in time to kill DD before he can stop them. They both therefore head towards the core of Derse's moon where they find their respective Quest Beds - the beds on which they must die to become God Tier. The explosion of the Tumor provides the requisite death; in addition, it actually creates the Green Sun, power source of First Guardian Doc Scratch and prototyped-with-First-Guardian Jack Noir. This is the last we saw of Rose, although Aradia's implication is that she and Dave are due to meet up with the remaining trolls.
Personality: Rose is very much the "straight man" of the group of kids. Her general demeanour is one of contempt for the world around her and the people in it, and the little humour she exhibits is in the form of long-winded sarcasm. Indeed, her vocabulary is impressive if not a little too overboard at times - much of what she says appears in purple prose format, using longer and more complex words over their simple counterparts wherever possible.
Despite her interest in psychoanalysis, Rose isn't especially adept at interpreting positive sentiment, at least so far as she exhibits. She's a pessimist and a cynic, always assuming that positive acts are done as a form of sentiment or cruel irony, rather than accepting that the people in her life genuinely care for her - in particular, her reactions to Mom and John show an inability to really process true sentiment. This isn't to say she doesn't care, more that she doesn't really exhibit as much. That said, she is more open to more unusual concepts and ideas than the others, as seen through the lack of surprise she exhibits whenever Jade lets slip some of her precognitive abilities.
The above is likely down to Rose being a rather private individual, especially when it comes to her personal belongings. She is the most likely of the kids to go off and do her own thing without consulting the others or even pausing to consider the consequences at times - this becomes more evident the more she communicates with the horrorterrors. Indeed, where she starts off helpful and does her best to help John no matter what, once she enters the Medium she is around a lot less. Even before this, however, she is not one to freely show emotion or let on about her motives.
Rose has always had an interest in magic and dark creatures, which in part was what prompted John to send her the knitting kit to give her a more light-hearted hobby. She enjoys corrupting things that are typically "cute", whether that be her Squiddle shirt or the princess doll her mother bought her for her birthday, by adding an Eldrich touch to them. She tends not to exhibit fear, at least that we've seen, instead becoming angered if a situation is spiralling out of her control - and it's here she's more liable to become reckless.
Despite her cynicism, Rose does care for her friends. She may not always exhibit it, particularly when it comes to Dave (with whom she seems to be constantly trading sarcastic barbs), and even with John her means of showing her affection for him is subtle and swathed in long words. But as has been shown when she heard about the death of her mother, just because she appears not to care does not mean that this is not the case.
Other: Rose's captchalog system uses the Tree modus. This can be set to eject from root (which can be awkward when carrying multiple items) or leaf, and can also be toggled between auto-balancing or not). However, after a certain point she eschews the captchalog system altogether in favour of having consort followers from the game's worlds carrying her belongings for her. Her strife specibus is Needlekind. Her Pesterchum handle is tentacleTherapist.
Additional Links: MSPA Wiki
First Person (entry type): Community, I find myself perplexed. Perhaps, given your varying positions within paradox space, there might be someone here who might be able to enlighten me.
My question is a simple one: Why, in a society where shades of grey are the norm and hardly anyone so much as says what they mean anymore, does this notion of dark meaning evil persist? Why are the majority so afraid to challenge the norm and accept that the forces they concieve of as dark are no more inherently evil or morally bankrupt than they are? Less so, in some cases.
It is a question that has crossed my mind more frequently of late. Input would be appreciated, if only to allow me more insight into the human condition. A little harmless psychoanalysis would make a welcome reprieve.
Third Person: Rose gazed out across the familiar bright landscape, barely even cognizant now of the perpetual rainfall. For so long she had been convinced that she and her friends would easily best the game of Sburb, even as it became apparent that there was far more to the game than any of them had anticipated. At least, than she, John or Dave had anticipated - with Jade it was hard to tell what was news to her and what was something she'd known long before it had ever been an issue. It was something that had always fascinated and frustrated Rose in equal measures.
And yet, now, her friends and co-players seemed so distant to her. Not distant enough that she had given up on John or would stop pestering Dave to acknowledge the Gods of the Furthest Ring, but she was keeping her own progress much more to herself. Dave, of course, would be able to see her if he decided to check in but would be unlikely to pay much mind to what she was doing. Which was probably just as well because, right now, Rose really wasn't sure what she was doing. Until now, she had been aiming towards beating the game, progressing through the gates, killing her Denizen and helping to create the new universe. But that had been before she had woken up.
A wave of ogres and imps interrupted her thoughts, forcing her to focus on using the inate magic of her needlewands to dispatch them far more easily than she had been able to with just her knitting needles. As she fought her way through the swarm of enemies she glanced upwards and saw her first gate overhead. The gate that would push her further along the supposedly correct path to defeating a game that couldn't be defeated.
With the enemies gone, she looked upwards once again, this time in determination. If she couldn't win then she was going to tear apart every single patch of the game to figure out exactly why. And her first gate was as good a place as any to start.
Player LJ: ms_shalimar
Way to contact you:
Email: malakian_angel@hotmail.com
AIM: momentsbtwnsleep
Other: Plurk: amazinglystrange
Are you at least 15?: Y
Current Characters: None
Character: Rose Lalonde
Fandom: Homestuck
Character Notes:
History: Rose' life began thanks to the ectobiological machinations of her future friend John Egbert, who created himself, his friends and their guardians during a session of SBURB so that they could grow up to learn of and play SBURB.
As any fan of Homestuck will know, predetermination has quite the significant role in the characters' lives.
Thus Rose was created, genetically related to her Mom (with whom she would grow up) and Bro, who would go on to teach Dave not quite enough of what he needs to know to be a cool kid. She was then sent on a meteor to Earth, where she was found by Mom and taken in as her own.
For as long as she can remember, Rose's relationship with Mom has been one of antagonism and one-upmanship. She has always interpreted Mom's actions as being insincere, whether it was the funeral held for her beloved cat Jaspers when he died or what Rose percieves as a feigned interest in wizards to counteract her own, genuine interest. In all her years growing up, it never occurred to her that her mother might genuinely care for her, that her interest in wizards was in support of Rose's own or that her mother had gone to such extravagence over Jaspers' funeral because she thought Rose might appreciate it. No, to Rose's mind, all her mother cared about was drinking and one-upmanship.
Though she does her best not to show it, Rose cared deeply for Jaspers and loved to play at psychoanalysing him. It was through these sessions that she became aware of a secret Jaspers was trying to tell her; before she could figure it out, he disappeared and showed up dead. In time she forgot all about it, though her dream self never did, and Jaspers became just something else for her and her mother to compete over, as would be apparent to anyone who saw their fridge.
Over the course of the following years, Rose became friends with three people she met online: Jade Harley, Dave Strider and John Egbert. She also became even more interested in psychoanalysis and wizards (writing purple prose-filled fanfiction of the latter) as well as picking up interests in playing the violin, the bestially strange and ficticious - horrorterrors and eldrich abominations, in other words - and, thanks to a birthday gift from John, knitting. She also has at least some interest in video games, although it is hard to discern if her enthusiasm for SBURB in particular came more from Jade's implication that it would help her bring Jaspers back to life.
Ah yes, SBURB, the biggest influence in Rose's life thus far. The adventure began on April 13th, John's birthday and the day she began playing the game in question. She'd previously been bugging Dave to play the game with her but he was refusing to so much as consider doing so; when John recieved and installed the client disc for the game, Rose was more than happy to act as his server. And so she and John began to explore the game of SBURB, though it soon became clear that neither was quite sure what they were supposed to be doing. Compounding the issue, Rose's connection to the game depended on her internet connection and laptop battery power, neither of which were particularly stable, and this meant she sometimes lost connection at crucial moments. Nevertheless, she managed to get John into the medium (after venturing to the observatory to get a stronger connection) before the meteor that was aiming for his house made contact and killed him.
Now aware of the gravity underlying the seemingly innocent game, Rose found herself simultaneously trying to help John get to grips with the Medium, updating the GameFAQ walkthrough she had published to try to help others who had started the game and pestering Dave to connect as her server player so that she could escape the onslaught of meteors that were coming ever-closer to her home. During the course of her time prior to entering the Medium, she was forced to try and outmanouver her Mom so she could get to the family mausoleum and connect to the emergency back-up generator. Then, when that failed, she made her way to the nearby laboratory (whose internet connection she'd been using) and made off with one of their power hubs - but not before investigations led to her discovering a mutant kitten she named Vodka Mutini, trying and failing to appearify Jaspers (since this would have created a paradox) and discovering what appears to be a little girl's bedroom (strongly implied to be Mom's). It is from this point that Rose adds a scarf to her ensembles.
Mindful of the ever-decreasing countdown which she strongly suspects is counting towards impact time of the meteor, she teleports out and back to her house, specifically to what she had thought to be her Mom's room. The meteor impacting with the laboratory and the ensuing fire forces her to flee upstairs, where she does all she can to assist John as she waits for Dave to get hold of his Bro's copy of SBURB and get her into the game. He eventually does so and Rose enters the medium, prototyping her kernelsprite with the princess doll her mother bought for her (which has been Eldrichified by Rose) and Jaspers before she does so.
Rose finds herself in the Land of Light and Rain, with the title Seer of Light. As she gets to grips with killing enemies and discovering more about the game, she finds herself in increasing contact with the Trolls - an alien group of players who blame the kids for ruining their session. The main troll she encounters is Kanaya, though she also converses with Terezi and Tavros early into the session. Additionally, she learns about her dream self from Jade and of some writing that apparently appears on her walls. In Rose's case, this is simply MEOW over and over, the secret Jaspers told her. Eventually it turns out that this is in fact a genetic code - the very code used to create Jade's guardian/pet Bec.
Before Rose can figure this out, however, John is tricked by Terezi into skipping to his seventh gate and is subsequently killed by his Denizen. Dave and Rose spent the next four months trying to learn as much as they could about their doomed session before Dave, the Knight of Time, decided to skip back to before John could make that mistake. He suggests Rose goes to sleep, with the intent being that her past and future dream selves would be able to somehow connect. The future dream self persists until Rose falls asleep (as per Jade's advice) and awakens her true dream self. As promised in the future, her dream self goes to alert Dave's dream self of the fact that he is already awakened, just not aware of it.
While she is asleep, Kanaya has her "first" conversation with Rose - who is actually John using Rose's computer. This leads Kanaya to suspect that Rose isn't all that intelligent, leading to confusion in later conversations where she is actually talking to Rose. John also ends up leaving his adopted salamander Casey behind (to later be renamed Viceroy Bubbles Von Salamancer by Rose) and takes Mutie (later Dr. Meowgon Spengler, thanks to John). When Rose wakes up, she goes to find John but just misses him and instead decides to alchemise some useful tools and weapons. The most significant of these are the needlewands, created by combining needles and a wizard statue, which first gave Rose the power of magic, and the Thorns of Oglogoth, made by combining the former needlewands with her Grimoire.
This is where Rose's shift towards grimdarkness begins. As an awakened Derse dreamer, she begins communicating with the Gods of the Furthest Ring, acting on their behest as they tell her to destroy the MEOW code. (It is implied that Dave would be able to do the same if he weren't so distracted) It is also around about here that Rose learns their session is unwinnable and as such, she decides to set about tearing the game apart to find any way of saving herself and her friends - including blowing up her first gate rather than passing through it. She makes a final entry to her GameFAQ walkthrough declaring that she will tear her world apart to find answers and that she is no longer playing by the rules. She then uses a spell to rip the walkthrough from Earth's servers and store it in the Furthest Ring, where Kanaya eventually finds it and builds up a vision of what she expects Rose to be like.
Over time, Kanaya and Rose became somewhat close and built rapport, leading Kanaya to become increasingly concerned at Rose's reckless behaviour. In particular, Kanaya speaks of a time on the Trollian timeline where Rose disappears from view. She fears this may have something to do with a future plan Rose has to destroy the Green Sun - a plan fed to her by Doc Scratch, the First Guardian (Bec's equivalent) from the Trolls' session. Fueled by Doc Scratch's insistence that the destruction of the Green Sun and the creation of the Scratch will save all concerned, Rose liaises with Dave and John to set the plan in motion.
At the same time, however, Rose's communications with the Gods of the Furthest Ring become more frequent and involved, with Rose carrying out errands on their behalf. This led to much concern from her friends but a conversation with Jade triggered a devastating change. Jade's revelation that Rose's Mom had been killed by Jack Noir pushed her into a spiral of regret and anger that leads her to consider that instead of going along with her plan, she should seek out and kill Noir herself. Prompted by Jade's concern for her wellbeing and the advise of Doc Scratch, Rose asks the magic Cue Ball she has procured whether the gods she has been serving are evil. Instead of an answer, this pushes Rose into becoming Grimdark and thus becoming untraceable.
Grimdark Rose heads for Skaia, determined to take on Jack. On investigating his castle she comes across many interesting aspects. She also finds John, who was still looking for his Dad. Here it became apparent that Rose is no longer speaking English, rather some form of Eldrich tongue. After her attempts to break the news of his Dad's death fail, Rose leads John back to the roof where Mom and Dad's corpses rest. There, Jack is waiting for them and, as they prepare to do battle, stabs John. This enrages Rose even further and she prepares to fight him one on one. It's a tough battle but ultimately, Noir gets the better of her and she is killed.
Fortunately, John's status as God Tier meant that, because his death hadn't been heroic or just, he didn't stay dead. He was therefore able to revive Rose as her dream self by kissing her corpse and she woke up on Derse, a step closer to her ultimate plan. Said plan is essentially a suicide mission; of course, now her dream self is the only self left, this is a rather more permanent situation. Aware of this, Dave plots to have Jade kill and revive him, while they are fighting Noir, so that he will awaken on Derse too and will be able to sacrifice himself in her place. The final piece of the puzzle takes the shape of Liv Tyler, an upgraded version of the bunny that was Jade's gift to John. Liv had the Tumor with her, a bomb that was supposed to destroy the Green Sun.
With Tumor in hand, Rose and Dave severed the chain connecting Derse to its moon; Rose then knocked out Dave and went to pilot said moon towards the Green Sun. The two then share a dream bubble in which Dave berates her for her actions; when Draconian Dignitary shows up and stabs Dave, he awakens and comes after Rose in time to kill DD before he can stop them. They both therefore head towards the core of Derse's moon where they find their respective Quest Beds - the beds on which they must die to become God Tier. The explosion of the Tumor provides the requisite death; in addition, it actually creates the Green Sun, power source of First Guardian Doc Scratch and prototyped-with-First-Guardian Jack Noir. This is the last we saw of Rose, although Aradia's implication is that she and Dave are due to meet up with the remaining trolls.
Personality: Rose is very much the "straight man" of the group of kids. Her general demeanour is one of contempt for the world around her and the people in it, and the little humour she exhibits is in the form of long-winded sarcasm. Indeed, her vocabulary is impressive if not a little too overboard at times - much of what she says appears in purple prose format, using longer and more complex words over their simple counterparts wherever possible.
Despite her interest in psychoanalysis, Rose isn't especially adept at interpreting positive sentiment, at least so far as she exhibits. She's a pessimist and a cynic, always assuming that positive acts are done as a form of sentiment or cruel irony, rather than accepting that the people in her life genuinely care for her - in particular, her reactions to Mom and John show an inability to really process true sentiment. This isn't to say she doesn't care, more that she doesn't really exhibit as much. That said, she is more open to more unusual concepts and ideas than the others, as seen through the lack of surprise she exhibits whenever Jade lets slip some of her precognitive abilities.
The above is likely down to Rose being a rather private individual, especially when it comes to her personal belongings. She is the most likely of the kids to go off and do her own thing without consulting the others or even pausing to consider the consequences at times - this becomes more evident the more she communicates with the horrorterrors. Indeed, where she starts off helpful and does her best to help John no matter what, once she enters the Medium she is around a lot less. Even before this, however, she is not one to freely show emotion or let on about her motives.
Rose has always had an interest in magic and dark creatures, which in part was what prompted John to send her the knitting kit to give her a more light-hearted hobby. She enjoys corrupting things that are typically "cute", whether that be her Squiddle shirt or the princess doll her mother bought her for her birthday, by adding an Eldrich touch to them. She tends not to exhibit fear, at least that we've seen, instead becoming angered if a situation is spiralling out of her control - and it's here she's more liable to become reckless.
Despite her cynicism, Rose does care for her friends. She may not always exhibit it, particularly when it comes to Dave (with whom she seems to be constantly trading sarcastic barbs), and even with John her means of showing her affection for him is subtle and swathed in long words. But as has been shown when she heard about the death of her mother, just because she appears not to care does not mean that this is not the case.
Other: Rose's captchalog system uses the Tree modus. This can be set to eject from root (which can be awkward when carrying multiple items) or leaf, and can also be toggled between auto-balancing or not). However, after a certain point she eschews the captchalog system altogether in favour of having consort followers from the game's worlds carrying her belongings for her. Her strife specibus is Needlekind. Her Pesterchum handle is tentacleTherapist.
Additional Links: MSPA Wiki
First Person (entry type): Community, I find myself perplexed. Perhaps, given your varying positions within paradox space, there might be someone here who might be able to enlighten me.
My question is a simple one: Why, in a society where shades of grey are the norm and hardly anyone so much as says what they mean anymore, does this notion of dark meaning evil persist? Why are the majority so afraid to challenge the norm and accept that the forces they concieve of as dark are no more inherently evil or morally bankrupt than they are? Less so, in some cases.
It is a question that has crossed my mind more frequently of late. Input would be appreciated, if only to allow me more insight into the human condition. A little harmless psychoanalysis would make a welcome reprieve.
Third Person: Rose gazed out across the familiar bright landscape, barely even cognizant now of the perpetual rainfall. For so long she had been convinced that she and her friends would easily best the game of Sburb, even as it became apparent that there was far more to the game than any of them had anticipated. At least, than she, John or Dave had anticipated - with Jade it was hard to tell what was news to her and what was something she'd known long before it had ever been an issue. It was something that had always fascinated and frustrated Rose in equal measures.
And yet, now, her friends and co-players seemed so distant to her. Not distant enough that she had given up on John or would stop pestering Dave to acknowledge the Gods of the Furthest Ring, but she was keeping her own progress much more to herself. Dave, of course, would be able to see her if he decided to check in but would be unlikely to pay much mind to what she was doing. Which was probably just as well because, right now, Rose really wasn't sure what she was doing. Until now, she had been aiming towards beating the game, progressing through the gates, killing her Denizen and helping to create the new universe. But that had been before she had woken up.
A wave of ogres and imps interrupted her thoughts, forcing her to focus on using the inate magic of her needlewands to dispatch them far more easily than she had been able to with just her knitting needles. As she fought her way through the swarm of enemies she glanced upwards and saw her first gate overhead. The gate that would push her further along the supposedly correct path to defeating a game that couldn't be defeated.
With the enemies gone, she looked upwards once again, this time in determination. If she couldn't win then she was going to tear apart every single patch of the game to figure out exactly why. And her first gate was as good a place as any to start.