Hope Yudi

**Hope Yudi (Rose Cross)** is a main character in *Spes Vindicta*.

Hope Yudi is a spellcast and the adoptive daughter of Luthia Yudi. She is soulbound to Vidar, the god of venegeance, and the first Shadow Caster in 100 years. Hope attends Willow Creek High and is a member of the Outcasts. She is an orphan and a former student of The Circle. Hope and Luthia currently live on the run after Hope accidentally killed the Circle's Headmaster in self-defence.

## Early Life

Originally named Rose Cross, Hope lived on a quiet farmland with her mother and father, Elizabeth and Malcolm Cross. Malcolm was a former magister and lived in hiding from the Circle, and taught Hope how to harness her powerful magic at a young age. Malcolm was extremely abusive toward Hope and Elizabeth, to the point of sexually abusing Hope. After witnessing Malcolm kill her mother in a blind rage, Hope retaliated by murdering Malcolm with an axe while he was unaware. Luthia, formerly known as Josiah Fox, was the officer responding to a unintelligible 911 call, and helped protect Hope from execution by pretending her father and mother were murdered by an unknown robber. Hope was consequently sent to live in one of the Circle Academys.

## Throughout Spes Vindicta

* [./https://riverdale.fandom.com/wiki/Betty\_Cooper/Season\_1 Season 1]
* [./https://riverdale.fandom.com/wiki/Betty\_Cooper/Season\_2 Season 2]
* [./https://riverdale.fandom.com/wiki/Betty\_Cooper/Season\_3 Season 3]
* [./https://riverdale.fandom.com/wiki/Betty\_Cooper/Season\_4 Season 4]

## Physical Appearance

Hope is a young woman with deep tan skin, short dark brown hair, and almond-shaped brown eyes. She usually dresses in casual and comfortable clothing, with a grunge-like appearance, and often wears torn sneakers or combat boots. She refuses to ever wear dresses or skirts, except for formal occassions. Originally quite skinny and frail, Hope eventually becomes much stronger, which is evident by her broad shoulders and muscular arms. Hope has a few small tattoos on her arms and torso which were done by Ophelia Nigmos, they are usually covered to keep hidden. She has a large scar on the back of her left hand from when she was attacked by Kerran.

## Personality

Hope is portrayed to be a self-assured and opinionated young woman. While lacking in friends and magical skill early on, Hope never backed down from a fight and was always willing to stand up to her bullies. Nevertheless, she is outgoing and confident, though her former alienation makes her somewhat aloof in social situations, and she prefers to be alone. After arriving in Willow Creek, Hope's outgoing personality begins to open up more and she is able to quickly make friends and enemies, thanks to her forceful nature.

Due to the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father and the magisters of the Circle, Hope has large psychological issues. She is very quick to become angry and violent, something which she has tried hard to avoid as she has fears of becoming her father. She suffers from PTSD, which issues between her and authority figures, and causes her to have chronic insomnia or intense nightmares. Due to her past, Hope sometimes overly exercises and practices her magic often in an effort to become as strong as possible to avoid being harmed. She is also quiet uncomfortable around the subject of sex, and finds it hard to really connect with someone or to fall in love - pushing her into an unloving relationship with Memphis in an effort to appear "normal" to herself.

After Luthia abandons her, Hope ends up joining the Crows in an effort to gain the revenge she always sought after for abusers, murderers, and wrong-doers. During this time, Hope loses herself to anger and violence, and begins to feel an overwhelming amount of power and superiority to those weaker than her. Hope felt that mind was "slipping", and that she was too far gone into the dark-side to return to being a good person, and so she gave herself entirely to the Crow's ideologys.

## Relationships

* Hope and Luthia (link)
* Hope and Vidar

## Trivia

* Hope's personality type is ESTP
* After leaving the Crows, Hope takes anti-depressants to help her PTSD.