Rosalina "Thorn" Thorne

Thorn in UA2

### Titles

Leader of the Roses, CEO of Thorne Incorporated, Hero of the Rift, Guardian of the Gate, Director of Finances for Mirrorside Initiative

### Relations

Human Family Deceased, Sonya (Wife), The Roses (Her Gang/Extended Family)

### Datable?

No

**Rosalina "Thorn" Thorne:** Most only know her as Thorn. An influential and dangerous woman with a penchant for black coffee and a personality just as bitter.

There's constant rumours about the CEO of Thorne Corp, a security firm, being a vampire that Thorn has dissuaded since she got to Harrisburg in the 1970s. While it's true the secret of magic and the protection of the city were in the forefront of her mind. Now in UA2 with magic out of the bag she's taken a backseat in the micro-managing of Harrisburg.

## Pre UA

Rosalina Amelia Williamson was born in 1898 at the Royal London Hospital , Great Britain. She was one of four, with two older sisters and one older brother. She was raised modestly in a large house in Surrey, where her father made a decent living as a landowner - renting to the farmers around his estate. Little Rosalina wanted for nothing, except the escape of her nannies and the stuffy house and boring surroundings of rural England.

This escape came quite literally, as rumours of a war began to rumble Rosalina’s father began making contacts in America, in the hopes that he could evacuate his children before he was required to fight, and although he didn’t think the war would be such a hardship - he knew his family would get away from all the nasty business that comes with conflict.

War did come, and with conscription in 1916, Rosalina and her mother and sisters were packed up and shipped to America. They never saw their brother or Father again.

At 18 and unmarried America became Rosalina’s oyster. She adored the place, the strange food, the sheer amount of people and places. She worked in an office making coffees and listening to men talking quickly. She learned, she travelled and when her mother died in 1918, with the war over she had the choice to go home with her sisters. She took her side of the inheritance and bought a horse - and travelled as far as she could.

This led her to New Orleans. And her first discovery of the Inhuman.

A sideshow attraction proclaiming a real life mermaid caught her attention and that is where a then human Thorn first met her future wife Sonya. After freeing her from the freak show Rosalina hunted down more curiosities, desperate to know what this world had been hiding from her. This led her to New York, and into the company of some unfavourable characters. Her youth in offices got her a quick earning job in a large company, and her shrewd and blunt attitude got her noticed.

The mafia suited Rosalina. She felt like she had finally found a place that offered her the freedom she’d never had in a workplace and the perks were great too. It was through these connections she came across a man called Peter Ingrin, who ran the casinos in chinatown, and his wife, Esther.  Esther Ingrin was the most enchanting woman Rosalina had ever seen. She became infatuated almost immediately, and it was only when they started their affair did Rosalina discover Esther was going to introduce her to a whole other underside of the world.

Esther was a vampire who liked to prey on young women and ruin their lives and that's what she did to Thorn unknowingly making her what she is today. A new vampire Thorn laid waste to the people that had led her to Esther and she remained with the mafia in New York for a short amount of time before she was parry to an attempted assassination in New Orleans on business. Undead by that point she refound Sonya who felt she owed her a life debt and saved her.

The two new accomplices travelled together from that point on, a formidable duo and eventually inseparable lovers.

## UA1

### **The Weeds Among Us**

After being imprisoned and meeting new companions Tylin and Carlie Thorn returned to central Harrisburg and got back to her usual business of blackmail, forgery and threatening people who stood in her way.

The growing threat of the Weedkillers was beginning to become an issue to her and her Roses rather than a simple annoyance. Alongside Thorn accidentally releasing fae from their prison trapped in a deck of enchanted tarot cards.

Thorn spent most of her time attempting to damage control the spirits she'd released while also keeping the Weedkillers at bay. It all came to a head when Honey Graham, a lower level demon who was running the weedkillers, kidnapped Carlie and Sonya. After Sonya tricked her into an impossible deal Thorn was able to kill her and burn the base to the ground. The Weedkillers were then dispersed and some moved to different parts of the state in a system run by Warren and Aleta, Weedkillers that Thorn had taken in.

### **Buttercup**

Post-Honey Thorn kept up her work with Project Dandelion, which is attempting to safely rehabilitate and move the remaining Weedkillers that still lived in the city.

During a new mission as denizen Sonya left one night and returned in a terrible state, and told Thorn that if she didn't turn her she would die. Having never turned anyone before let alone do the impossible Thorn was wary but in a choice between turning Sonya or losing her forever she chose to turn her and was blessed by whatever gods were watching that night as Sonya returned to her a half-vampire/half-siren. The first and only of her kind (except her twin who was also turned.)

Members of the organisation SUCC showed up and attempted to take over the city, with the fairy leader Celia using Sonya's sister to her own wicked means. Sonya and Thorn took her in and attempted to protect her by any means possible.

Piper's Row - a street designed to be hidden specifically from Thorn was discovered and Thorn found an old ally in there in the form of Doctor Zerie Ford. Tensions were high but a truce was made when Sonya won their founder's festival.

Things with SUCC came to a violent head as Celia attempted to move in on Thorn who had been pre-warned about the attack and so prepared for it. Celia herself was killed by Tylin after she had been made magicless once the fae spirits had all returned to the mortal world.