Dove Roseluck

Dove Primrose is a Rose Drimare from the Green Kingdom in Amaranth. She's Florian's mother and she used to belong to a higher class family of Roses, who disowned her after she ran off with a man she had fallen in love with.
After finding herself pregnant, she was abandoned by this same man and was rejected by her family for returning with an illegitimate son, living on her own ever since.
== Appearance ==
Dove is about 160cm tall, appearing to be quite frail. She has pale white skin with an off-green tint to it, white hair and two red rosebuds on her head. 
Her eyes are ochre brown coloured and she wears red eye shadow.
Being an older Flower Drimare, her leaves and lashers have gained a greyish green colour and she wears a long black dress with red and gold accents.
== Personality ==
Dove appears to be your typical bitter old woman, she's cold, cynical and judgemental, and due to her trust issues, she has trouble forming bonds with others.
Her closest bond actually happens to be with her son Florian, who she has a very rocky relationship with. She sees most as untrustworthy and rarely to never opens up with anyone, causing her to often feel frustrated with others and herself.
Although frequently feeling sad and lonely, Dove is a proud woman, wishing to do everything by herself. She isn't too good with emotions and tends to push everyone away.
Deep deep deeeep down she's caring and protective of those she cares about, but this criteria hardly applies to anyone, so very few actually get to see this side of her.
== Relationships ==
=== Florian ===
From the very beginning, Dove's relationship with her son was always filled with turmoil. Her resentment towards her family and his father caused her to project those same negative feelings on him throughout his childhood.
The world didn't treat her kindly and she raised Florian with that same mindset that others were cruel and not to be trusted.
She began blaming him for being the reason her whole life was in shambles, considering him a mistake. Even if she didn't always mean it, she hardly made an effort to stop, and as Florian grew up, their relationship got a lot more unstable as he began arguing back with her.
And once he was old enough, he moved out, cutting off any connections with his mother. Dove was upset but simply regarded him as ungrateful.
Years went by without her ever seeing him again, until one day he suddenly came knocking at her door, he had been turned into a vampire and desperately needed to go into hiding.
Despite their past grudges, she still wanted to protect him, and so, she helped her terrified son hide away while they tried to figure out a cure for his vampirism. However, it was futile, and soon, the rocky relationship between the two began to show itself once again.
At some point, Dove had grown jaded with covering up for Florian's crimes, the prospect of hiding bodies with him and becoming an accomplice to his crimes becoming nothing new to her.
She hated it, but she knew that it was either this or having her son get caught and taken away, and despite knowing he deserved it, she couldn't stomach the idea of ratting him out and losing him forever.
When he was captured and imprisoned, she lost contact with him once again but was surprised to find that he had wriggled himself into manipulating the King and becoming a royal assassin. They stopped seeing each other after that.
He still visits at times, and they still don't get along, as Dove makes sure to remind him of how ungrateful he is whenever they meet. She lowkey still cares for him, but never lets him know this, however, she does feel happy when he visits, even if she acts annoyed most times.
She's not proud of the life he lives and the job he has, but she's too scared of losing him so she simply keeps a low profile.
=== Eris ===
Dove isn't too thrilled by the fact that Florian's partner is not a Flower Drimare like they are, and is even less thrilled by knowing Eris is the one who turned him into a vampire to begin with. She regards Eris as a predator, but refuses to show any weakness before her.
Although Eris has been nothing but polite to her, Dove is unimpressed, not finding Eris to be "wife material". But at the same time, she doesn't care that much to get involved in whatever it is that they have going on. She's simply too old to even begin to understand what an "open relationship" is.
She lowkey just wants grandchildren.
=== Clover ===
Although never having met the King of Clubs, Dove is not comfortable with Florian working so closely with him, nor is she fond of how he initially intended to have her son suffer a death penalty for his crimes.
And although Florian hides it, she knows that there is something really wrong with the relationship between the two of them and she just hopes it does not escalate.
== Backstory ==
Dove was born and raised to a high-class family of Rose Drimare from Toadstool, Amaranth. Being a vain and proud family, Dove grew up sheltered, under the expectation of always being quiet and to never speak up unless spoken to, Anything bad she said or did, could reflect poorly on her family and this frustrated her immensely, as much as she wanted her family to be proud of her, she knew their reputation was more important.
However, upon hearing that her family was planning on marrying her off to a man she had never met without warning, Dove became infuriated and decided to storm out of the house. She found a spot and as she sat down, she cried, soon being spotted by another Flower Drimare like herself. But rather than a regal Rose like she was, he was a Primrose, a commoner, someone that her family would consider below them, someone who was below her.
Yet, in her fragile state, she didn't have the energy to shoo him, and she was baffled when this stranger tried to comfort her and listened to her frustrations. She befriended this stranger, and upon returning home, he was all she could think of. Her family was disappointed and refused to listen to her complaints regarding her getting engaged so soon, and she felt powerless.
In a fit of rebellion, she started meeting her primrose friend, and eventually lover in secret. Her engagement was close and Dove was desperate for an escape and he was all she had. A while later, she realized that she was pregnant from him and a whole new world opened up for her. She began fantasizing about running off with her primrose, raising a family together, all without her family there to control her every step.
And so she did, yelling at her family that she had fallen in love with a Primrose man and she was going to run away with him and that they were going to raise a child together. Her family was shocked, she was quickly kicked out, the entire engagement now cancelled and Dove now disowned from her family. But she didn't care, she had a new family now, one she could actually be happy with.
She ran off to her primrose and the two celebrated her escape, and how they could finally be together without hiding from Dove's family. She then happily told him about the pregnancy and plans to raise a family, but his tone was quick to change. He became dismissive and sought to change the subject. They were together for a while, but Dove began to notice how her partner had started to become distant and dismissive. She didn't think too much of it, until one day he simply just disappeared from their shared home and never came back.
Dove tried to look for him, but he was just nowhere to be found, She was distraught at first, her dreams of a new happy life were slowly getting shattered right before her eyes, but she soon realized that he was running away from the responsibility of becoming a parent. She scolded herself for believing that she would ever deserve an ounce of happiness, grieving for so long with how she had lost both her family and her lover so soon.
But it wasn't all gone.
She still had her child, she wasn't ready to give it up before it was even born, it was the only person she had left, and she learned that no one but herself was going to help her through it. She lived on her own, months later giving birth to a Rose child she named Florian. Despite being born a Rose, the boy resembled his father the most, which filled Dove with sadness.
She tried her best to raise him by herself, eventually trying to get into contact with her family to seek help. Her family, however, did not wish to associate with her nor her child and she got to feel the sting of rejection all over again.
Instead, she kept raising him, the resentment she felt for her family and lover getting her to become increasingly frustrated with her life. She blamed her family for sheltering her, she blamed the Primrose man for tricking her into believing there was such a thing as true love, and eventually, she blamed her son Florian for being the final nail in the coffin.
As such, she began subconsciously projecting her resentment on her son, although still caring for him, she regarded him as a mistake, often berating him and being emotionally abusive and neglectful. He moved out as soon as he was able, while Dove also resented him for abandoning her when she was the only one to ever stick by him.
His visits were scarce as the months turned into years, until one night, he came knocking. Dove opened her door to find her son with a terrified look on his face, mouth full of blood, skin dull, and eyes dark red rather than their usual pink colour.
He had just killed someone, and he needed a place to hide.
== Trivia ==
* Dove's design was actually inspired on an old concept for Florian where he was an "albino rose vampire", her colour scheme was inspired on the one he was going to have.
*Dove was inspired on Beatrice Horseman from Bojack Horseman, who also happens to be her main voiceclaim.
* She was originally created back in 2018, but remained untouched until 2020 when she got her full redesign and personality.
* Dove actually refused to let Florian take her last name, either by being ashamed of her family, or feeling like he was undeserving of it. As such, she made him take his father's last name, despite never having met him.
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