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Rose Hathaway

ABOUT / VISUALS / CONNECTIONS / PLAYLIST

Angels Fall

"You're beautiful in battle... Like an avenging Angel come to deliver the justice of Heaven."

PRISMATICA
“I don't believe in Angels, I believe in what I can do for myself.”

ABOUT ROSE
“I'm really not good with impulse control.”

STATISTICS
NAME Rose Hathaway
AGE 18-19
VISIBLE AGE Early Twenties
DOB March 28th

SCRUBS Magenta
HEIGHT 5'7"
BUILD Athletic + Curvy
HAIR Long, Dark brown, slightly wavy
EYES Brown
ETHNICITY Turkish/Scottish
COMPLEXION Olive Skin

KINKS F-List

ABILITIES & SKILLS
COMBAT

Rose has trained to be a Guardian from the time she was a child. She is an extremely skilled fighter, in both armed and unarmed combat. Though she may be smaller than many of her opponents, she has trained to use her size and speed to her advantage.

VIOLENT TENDENCIES

Rose has a habit of hitting first and asking questions later. Impulse control - not really a thing she's learned. At all. This is sort of a heads up that she is prone to problem-solving with her fists so please be aware - I am so all for negative CR with characters, it's just that negative CR with Rose can result in a broken nose.

Some part of you will always ... fight to cling to life and experience all it has. That's why you're so reckless in the things you do. You don't hold back your feelings, your passion, your anger. It makes you remarkable. It makes you dangerous.

~ Victor Dashkov, VA. Talking to Rose.

Rose is a Dhampir (Half-Human/Half-Vampire) who has spent her whole life training to protect a race of good Vampires (Moroi) from a race not so good ones (Strigoi). She's reckless, mouthy and has a tendency to hit first and find out who she just hit later, due to her general lack of impulse control.

FIRST IMPRESSION
There's an unmistakable confidence (that borders on arrogance) in the way that she carries herself. A swagger in her step, even in the most unsettling of situations. Watch her and you'll see that she has a habit of clocking where all the exits are in a room and likes to position herself so that nobody can sneak up on her.

If you carry a weapon, you can bet that she's spotted it within minutes of meeting you. That once over she will give you? It's her sizing you up or checking you out. Possibly both. Wouldn't be the first time she's thought about kicking the ass of somebody she's attracted to.

RANDOM FACTS

She can't cook, has never cooked a day in her life and could probably burn water given half the chance.

She's worldly but not book smart; Can tell you the where to hit a person to incapacitate but not kill them but wouldn't be able to complete a basic quadratic equation to save her life; Not because she's naturally dim, she's just never learned.

Most pop-culture references will go straight over her head. She wasn't somebody who was read to growing up, she's never been one to watch a lot of movies or television, she didn't have toys as a child so there will be a lot of things that will result in a blank stare from her.

Rose has never had a home. She was given to a family to take care of her until she was old enough to begin training at age 5. After that she lived in an Academy Dorm.

Christmas and Birthdays have never really been a thing for her either.

HOME

PERSONALITY
“If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.”

A
PERSONALITY TYPE STRENGTHS
Loyal, Protective, Determined
WEAKNESSES
Reckless, Mouthy, Stubborn, Judgemental, Impulsive
NEUTRAL
Sassy, Flirtatious, Competitive
OTHER
Authority Issues, Abandonment Issues, Many Other Issues

Few people know the true Rose Hathaway. They see her as reckless and mouthy. Somebody who cares little for anyone or anything and even less for the rules and opinions of authority figures. Though some, if not all of this is true, it's not an accurate reflection of the real Rose. To truly know her, you only have to look at her relationship with her best friend Vasilisa Dragomir. For years now, Rose has been taking care of the unstable Moroi. Taking the blame for her actions whenever she has flown off the handle and even choosing to abandon a life she greatly enjoyed at the Academy, in order to protect her.

She proved in her time on the run that she is willing to sacrifice a great deal in order to protect the people she loves. She allowed Lissa to feed on her, despite the negative connotations associated with it (Dhampirs who let Moroi feed on them get labeled Blood-Whores), how weak she would be afterwards, and the risk of becoming addicted to Moroi bites (Like being injected with heroin every time you are bitten.) She was forever trying to put Lissa's needs and safety ahead of her own. Though all Dhampir training to be Guardian's are taught that they (the Moroi) come first, Rose's commitment to Lissa has proven to go beyond that.

She's determined (or stubborn if you will) when she needs to be, especially when she feels she has to prove herself. The easiest way to get Rose to do something is by telling her that she can't. Consequently, however, this can lead Rose to do things that are either unwise or just plain foolish. She often feels a need to prove herself and this at one point led not only to her capture but the eventual death of her one-time boyfriend and good friend, Mason, all because Rose gave in to the pressure from her friends rather than do what she knew to be the right thing.

There are some things about Rose on the other hand, that are exactly as they appear. She speaks her mind, whether it's appropriate or not. She won't take crap from anyone and the only hope you ever have of getting her to not go down the road of 'don't get mad, get even', is if doing so puts the people she loves at risk. She prefers to solve her problems with her fists rather than words. She somehow manages to be both guarded, and yet wear her heart on her sleeve (Especially when it comes to Dimitri), a side effect for the most part from being shadow-kissed. Despite all her faults (and she knows there are many), she wants to be the very best that she can be, if not for herself, then for Lissa. She wants to be worthy of the title of Guardian and has worked every day to make that happen.

If her life wasn't complicated enough already, Rose is shadow-kissed. Though this may not affect her in the exact same way it did back home, the event that caused this greatly changed Rose's life, and with or without the bond, she is still greatly defined by this. To be shadow-kissed is to have died, and be brought back to life by a Moroi who has the rare magical gift of Spirit. Spirit magic allows the user to heal and in rare circumstances, resurrect a person that has passed on. In bringing Rose back, Lissa's powers as a spirit user blossomed, and she forged a seemingly permanent bond between the two. Rose has been able to not only read Lissa's mind but enter it, see through Lissa's eyes. The bond was only one way, which meant that though Lissa could send thoughts through to Rose, Rose was unable to communicate with her (without the help of another Spirit user.)

There was, however, a severe downside to being shadow-kissed. Spirit users are by nature, very unstable, and the more they use their magic, the worse it gets. As the person bonded to Lissa, Rose absorbs some of the darkness that would overcome her. Though it made Lissa better, Rose was prone to moods, sudden outbursts and even uncontrollable fits of rage. The best way to deal with that was to wear objects charmed with Spirit, or to receive small healings from Lissa. She could control the rage to a degree, but eventually, something had to give and more often than not, the result was not pretty.

With the bond seemingly no longer intact, Rose would feel as though a piece of herself is missing. For the last four years she has had to think for two people and try and balance the wants and needs of both. She has almost forgotten what it means to make choices based solely on her own needs and desires, and though the prospect of being on own would have been frightening in her own world, it will actually give Rose the opportunity to grow and mature in ways that were never possible before.

Like all Dhampir who train to be Guardian's, Rose seems much older than her age may suggest. Imagine being taken from your home from a very young age and raised to fight an enemy who is stronger, faster and shows no mercy. With a life expectancy of mid -twenties (younger if you aren't as gifted as others), there isn't a lot of time to be young and foolish. In her earlier years Rose may have been more frivolous than her peers (drinking, not paying attention in class, almost never, ever picking up a book). Once she saw first-hand just how dangerous the real world was, Rose cast aside her youth, or perhaps it's better to say that she had it ripped away from her when she was forced to see first-hand just how powerful and deadly Strigoi can be.

Still, she is Eighteen years old. She has moments of emotional immaturity. She hasn't learned that some fights aren't worth having. She has railed against the mother she believed abandoned her for her own career as a Guardian, which is perhaps why she's had little to no regard for authority figures. She is still naive enough to believe that society's opinions shouldn't matter if you feel it is right. She seems immune to all rules of society, treating the Queen with the same indifference that she may treat a fellow Guardian in training if she feels that they are wrong. She can be unfairly judgmental, though finds a way to justify it in her mind. She is arrogant - sometimes deservedly so but sometimes too much for her own good. She is both fearless, yet utterly frightened at the same time but at the core of it, she is a good person. Sometimes that just gets lost along the way.

HOME

APPEARANCE
“You see something you like?”

LOOK BOOK

Once upon a time Rose was the kind of girl you associated with revealing necklines and hems that showed off her long legs. Over the last year and a half she has become 'boring' (according to her best friend), opting for practical over what accentuates her best features. She prefers hoodies, tank tops and sweats, anything she can move in and generally sticks to dark colors (preferably black).

Her Turkish and Scottish heritage gives her skin the color of the inside of an almond. Paired with long brown hair and brown eyes, Rose describes herself as having semi-exotic desert-princess features. Standing at 5ft7, she has an athletic build brought on by years of training.

Rose also has a number of tattoos that are unique to Guardians. Several marking the number of Strigoi that she has killed: Molnija Marks, that look like lightning strikes forming an X and a Zevzda Mark, a tribal star that signifies the person has been in a great battle and killed many Strigoi and lastly what looks like an elongated S, the mark given to a Dhampir when they become a Guardian, referred to as a Promise Mark.