R Rose-Wood/History

## Early Life

The first thing they remembered was a piercing pain on the side of their neck, getting scolded for tryna soothe the pain, R was born into the world. Although given the name R, they were never referred as it. The only reason why they even knew their name was when a highly intellectual preteen told them that name.

Even at a young age of 7, R Rose-Wood forcefully spent their childhood training to become a highly skilled assassin; with no other concept of life they were only taught to kill everything and everyone. Granted with a pretense that only makes assassinations much more easier, they were trained under harsh condition to become a tool. They were never seen outside and preferred to just stay in their isolated room. They appeared to be suffering from malnutrition as they rarely got anything to eat.

They rarely saw the person who gave them the name R and grew up with mainly Dohyun and Mi-Sun. They never had any positive parental role figures in their life to guide them. Often facing and dealing with emotional and physical abuse, which were done by Dohyun. Mi-Sun would only simply watch. Neither of them cared for R on a personal level and they made it quite clear to R. They both only taught R about assassinations and some basic general things.

They remember reading a book about a family but the very next day the same book was burned. With a bitter Mi-Sun always reminding R that family will let you down and Dohyun reminding R that families are nothing but a mistake, they had no concept of family.

Ironically enough they were always assigned with killing family members then seeing the aftermath of the murder. At first when seeing the aftermath, they didn't understand their emotions because R themselves had no emotions to begin with. They often took notes about the characteristics of the victims they were forced to kill.

Mi-Sun would also remind R of a graduation happening when they turned 14.

The years started to fly much quicker, the cycle of abuse only became harsher and the killings were just starting to become an impossible challenge. One day R had something clicked inside of them, for all their life they felt as if they were incomplete. Naturally as the cycle of abuse and killings started to build up, R started to realize what emotions were. They felt something for once and that feeling was a darkness. They didn't know what it was but their mind was clouded. Always thinking of how to kill people, now R finally thought "I never wanted to kill them to begin with".

While refusing to kill anyone, Mi-Sun decided to convince Dohyun to let R have a rest. Which he agreed to. Then R felt another emotion, one where they finally were able to rest, this emotion made them smile. Although they were sure that it didn't last long as the door opened to the room, they were preparing for another beating. A woman came face to face with R.

The same one who gave R an identity, the woman asked R if they wanted to know what a family was and instantly R nodded. It went by so fast but R remembered when they first felt a piercing on the side of their neck, it always felt like they were weighed down by it. Yet now they felt much lighter and free.

The woman told R their full name, R Rose-Wood. The woman gave R a picture of what now seems to be a family with 2 brothers and 1 sister.

"Find them but do not kill them, tell them your full name and say you're the child of a sibling they had." With that the woman left but R was confused until they realized what they wanted, freedom.

They remember where the exit was in the facility and they ran as quick as possible. Running as far as they possible can from the facility, on the date of July 16th R escaped and now had was given a reason to live, to know what a family is.