Sasha Rose

Sasha Rose is a Player Character of Arc 2 and played by Sam.

## Description

Sasha is a hairless Tabaxi covered in tattoos with which she commemorates her heists by getting tattoos of objects she stole or creatures she fought. She has a heavily metalled arm that acts as a shield for her, and a Cloak of Elvenkind.

Sasha comes from a family of thieves known as the Rose Clan. She herself is a thief, too, and has done some heists. As a day job, she works in an armory, which she does not own herself, but where she comes up with new designs and magical enhancements for customers who can afoord it. Sasha is a skilled Armorer Artificer. She built herself a little homunculus servant, a flying crab named Coco, who is very helpful to her, but has the tendency to break. Coco has a black pearl base that can revert to a big blue coconut crab. It can fly with its boosters underneath its body, and has clicking claws. Usually, it assists her with menial tasks, for example by handing her things she needs.

With her night job as a thief, she covers her personal artificer expenses. On the jobs she does, she leaves a small metallic rose she crafted as a tag.

She is very proud of her work as an artificer, and neither procrastinates her work, nor takes a lot of time off when she is on a project. Once she set her head on doing something, she will make sure to complete it somehow.

Sasha got all her tattoos from Mischka, who is a tattoo artist many members of the Rose Clan trust and go to. They became closer and started dating, and have been going steady for a few years at the beginning of Arc 2, at which time Sasha plans to propose to her. Mischka is fond of Sasha, but does not like her going on heists, because she worries about Sasha getting hurt. Because of Mischka, Sasha managed to turn around her impression of herself: while she used to be very self-conscious about her appearance, now that she has all these tattoos, she sees herself as beautiful.

Sasha lives in Glaceria in an apartment together with Mischka. Their apartment shows signs of scratches on some furniture, because Sasha sometimes scratches it with her claws, but she tries to be better. She and her family are still in close contact and come together for a number of boisterous occasions.

Her patreon submitted item is the Lightning Line.

## Background

Sasha's family, the Rose Clan, is a sprawling family of rogues and thieves, some of them, but not all, related by blood. Nearly all of them are well-acquainted with breaking the law, and they are well-connected, so if anyone needs a job done, they can usually find the right person in the Rose Clan.

While her parents were away, a gnomish couple from down the street usually cared for Sasha and her two brothers Viktor and Borys. Because Sasha was the only hairless cat in the family, her brothers were a bit cruel to her when they were younger, and she spent a lot of time tinkering with the gnome family rather than playing with them. As they all became teens, though, they were already well on their way to becoming successful thieves, and took turns joining their parents on smaller missions. Over the time, the teasing of her brothers turned more into lighthearted jokes, and her brothers and her grew closer and more protective of each other.

Generally, her brothers and her are very close, but also have a lot of lighthearted banter between them. When they give Sasha a time to show up, she takes that as a suggestion rather than a fixed time, and with some good pressuring and charming, she can convince them to leave her their sending stones. They were thinking about getting her on the heist anyways, because she was the only one they would trust in building a replica for the diadem, but held back until there was no other option anymore because they knew that technically, she didn't want to be involved in big heists like that again, for Mischka's sake.

Generally, it has been a longer time since Sasha was on a mission that big, although she still does small jobs on the side.

## Character Arc

The arc starts with her brothers introducing her to the other party members and their plan for a big heist. She joins the party in hopes of getting the money to propose to Mischka, and an exciting heist: nobody from the Rose Clan has robbed a Lovejoy vault before, even though everyone dreams of it.

Mischka does not like her going on a heist that big and dangerous, but she manages to convince her that she will take care of herself, and that it's the last time she will to a heist on that scale.

During the week of preparation before the heist, Sasha can use her exceptional artificer skills to create a replica of the diadem Gem Lovejoy uses to identify herself to her teleportation circles. She focuses the whole week on doing this, to the point where Mischka is a bit worried about her. While she works on it in the back of the business she works at, she tells her coworker Jinx, who covers at least some of her shifts, that she is tinkering around on Coco.

During the heist itself, in the Summervault, Sasha looks for and finally finds the perfect gem: an opal shot through with red and blue streaks. Red is Mischka's favourite colour, blue hers. She takes it with Robyn's blessing, who tells her it's a gift, and makes a ring from it. At the end of Episode 6, Sasha proposes to Mischka with the ring, and Mischka says yes before she can even finish. They marry around the events of Arc 3. Before the proposal, Sasha was very worried that Mischka might say no, even though she did not really have a reason to fear that.

## Trivia

* During the events of Arc 2, Sasha casts the cantrip Guidance 19 times, significantly more than any other spell. In comparison, the cantrip Produce Flame was cast 13 times; 4 times by Ash and 9 times by Ember.
* Sam expected Sasha to be the support character during the arc, and help out when a little spell would be needed.
* Sasha can cook, but Mischka is a better cook.

## Fan Additions

Playlist created by Patreon member Seashellvids; https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6unsIGNhGh7jfzp0iVQqDH?si=a729080035d44fce

* Here's is a document that explains why songs were chosen; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T1wXaId5vHRyqVJndgEjOmnu2f4FgRC\_SRtJ4diiTTg/edit?usp=sharing