Petals Rosenbloom

Petals was born into a noble family in what used to be called the Sinnoh region. Ever since the disappearance of humans, her ancestors had taken residence in their old master’s manor, taking their old traditions to heart, thus marking the beginning of the Rosenbloom family. Petals had lived fostered for her entire life. She ate the best of foods, received the most prestigious education, slept in the comfiest of beds, everything she could ask for, she received with a snap of her fingers.

Well, just about everything. She wishes to believe that she has everything she wants, but in reality, it is the servants who give this to her. Her parents had ignored her for the greatest majority of her life, only interacting with her when absolutely necessary. Despite living in a paradise, she had lived in absolute isolation. One of the servants has a child whom she plays with occasionally, but even then, she’s rarely around.

Petals did just about everything for attention; breaking priceless artifacts, smashing windows, coloring on the walls, tossing soil around in the garden, you name it. Unforetunately she never received the attention she yearned for. Only the servants had scolded her, not once did her mother or father spoke to her about her actions.

It was in her teen years that she had finally discovered something that had interested her: alchemy. She watched with intrigue as Rattata choke and die on rat poison, and quickly began conducting experiments. Due to the Rosenbloom bloodline’s control over poison, she is capable of brewing different concoctions inside of her own body and excrete then from her thorns or fingernails.

So that’s just what she did. She experimented on rats, killing them in different ways with different poisons. She learned the intricacies of alchemy and poisons through her experimentation.

Eventually, as she grew older, her poisons became much more potent, and killed the rodents too quickly to get any data from. She needed to find something larger that can survive her poisons. So she turned to the servants who have spent their lives serving the family. At night, she’d sneak into their rooms and inject them with her newest concoction, and watched them writhe in pain. She felt bad at first, but eventually, lost caring about others and their pain. After all, nobody else did the same for her.

Everything changed on her 16th birthday, when her parents had came to her to tell her that plans for marriage with another noble family had been arranged, all without her knowing about it, nor consenting. This had thrown Petals in quite the loop. Her parents, who had been nowhere to teach her or help her grow, come out of nowhere to tell her that her life has been chosen for her. The only thing she does is smile and nod her head.

Years of neglect and mental torment. And the one time they ever show up in her life is to tell her that her life was over before it even began?

It only got worse from there. Eterna, the one who has neglected to raise Petals, and has rarely even spoke to her, had become overbearing in teaching her how to “become a lady”. Finally, she gets the attention from her mother, but instead of love and compassion, she was treated more as a tool for success rather than a daughter. At first, she was neglected, but at least she was free to do whatever she wanted. Now, she has an overbearing mother who expects in unexpectable from Petals.

This was where Petals became aggressive. She attacked the servants indescrimanently, and poisoned those who tried consoling her. Instead of trying to calm her daughter down, Eterna fought Petals as though she were an intruder with her rapier. She never dealt fatal damage, but scratched her enough until she faints from the pain.

Finally, she decided that enough was enough. She smashes the display case for two reverse-draw crossbows from the family armory, and fled the estate.

### Personality and Abilities

Petals is manipulative, a megalomaniac, and lustful, although you wouldn't ever figure that out with one interaction with her. She wears the façade of a calm and collected woman who's making a living doing what she enjoys. However, once she has you in her grasp, she'll show you just how poisonous the rose can truly be.

Well, that's what she wants to portray herself as. She had arrived in Astrea with the intent of driving her family's name and reputation through the mud. However, when she arrived, she had met a certain ghost who had shown more love and affection than she had ever experienced her entire life, even after she had assaulted him. Since then, she's managed to calm herself and had become much less antagonistic.

Despite her best efforts, she still has fits of pure, unbridled rage, bottled up from her past. She's been able to hold back most times, but any mention of her mother's name can pull the pin in her psyche and assault anybody in sight, needing to be restrained until she calms down.

She may not be very powerful, but she makes up for it with her powerful toxins. She's capable of changing the potency of her toxins, as well as changing their effects. Her favorites include numbing poisons, paralyzing toxins, aphrodisiacs, knockout tranquilizers, influential drafts, and even the simplicity of normal poison.

In order to deal with people who are smart enough to keep their distance from her, she always keeps two miniature reverse-draw crossbows loaded with darts. Rather than being poison-tipped, the darts instead have an internal storage filled with poison, like a syringe. The impact forces the bottom of the dart to fold in on itself, injecting the target with the poison. She always wears a viridian cloak in order to conceal the poisoned darts lined up and ready to use.

Petals has other types of darts, such as impact darts. They were originally created due to a defective dart, she makes these special darts with imperfections in the casing that shatter upon impact, splattering the target with the poison. She normally uses corrosive poisons in these darts in order to deal with steel type’s armor.

## Alliances/Family

This list is incomplete, and will expand as the story progresses.

### Eterna Rosenbloom

Eterna Rosenbloom is the mother of Petals. Selfish and arrogant, she believes that as her mother, she has authority over Petals. Despite this, she had always neglected her ever since Petals was a little girl, treating her as if she were an object, or a burden. Eterna seems rather indifferent about Petals running off on her own, believing that one day she will return to her, and things will return to normal. Despite how outlandish this belief is, it seems Eterna has measures in place to ensure this to occur eventually.

### Galvana The Beast

Galvana was a feral gymnomorph Galvantula who preyed on those who wandered too far into an alleyway. She got a meal every so often, but it was common for her to go to bed hungry. Petals was her latest prey, but due to her weakened state, was incapable of beating the flower in combat. Instead of killing the spider, however, Petals saw potential in her, and took her in as a pet, under the condition that she only eats other feral creatures, on her command.

### Cornelius "Zoom" the Snivy

Petals met Zoom as a Serperior one day, and spoke with him. After being taken to his quarters, she learns about the curse that he had inflicted upon himself. Worried for Zoom's health, she confided with Maria Rossi, and together with her husband, was able to break the curse and revert him to a Snivy. Petals now holds him with high regard, making sure that he knows that he's perfect the way he is.