Rose McClane

**⚠ This page contains canonical information added by Ima Crook which has not yet been mentioned in the Ima Crook Universe (ICU). This page contains spoilers.**

## Biographical Information

### Nickname(s)

* Michael Hyde's Daughter
* Insane McClane
* Deadeye Wayne McClane
* Triple Tap
* Carrie

### Family

* Arthur McClane (Husband, Deceased)
* Michael Hyde (Father)
* Mary Hyde (Mother)
* Asherah Newman (Sister)
* Cora Bennett (Niece)

### Affiliations

* Miami Police Department
* The Taskforce
* Ricardo Moreno Vega
* Casey Russo
* Asherah Newman
* Damon Bennett
* Cora Bennett
* Leilani Bennett
* Josė Vasquez
* Joe Reynolds
* Smithy
* Nick Tavarez
* Amelia Bright
* Sienna Bloom
* Lyssa Clarissa
* Steve Hearn
* Phil Foreman
* Yasmin De León
* Ramón Rodriguez
* Camila Azevedo

## Additional Information

### Weapons

* Glock 17
* AK-47
* Uzi

### Appearances

Vice Part One

Rose McClane (née Hyde) is the primary protagonist of Vice. Rose is a police lieutenant having joined the police academy at 18.

## Biography

### Early Life

Rose was born in Miami, Florida, on July 31st, 1993 to Michael Hyde and Mary Hyde and has lived in Miami her entire life. As a child, Rose was very close to her sister Ash. Rose and Ash both suffered under the hands of their parents and Rose describes Ash as more like a mother to her during their childhood, saying that Ash "basically raised [me]." Ash was a protecting force for Rose, shielding her from much of the abuse from her parents.

#### The Disappearance of Michael Hyde

***Main Article:** The Disappearance of Michael Hyde.*

In 2001, when Rose was 8 years old, Michael Hyde mysteriously disappeared. Though Rose wasn't displeased at his disappearance, the case became a major national headline making Michael Hyde a household name. The subsequent media attention was extremely traumatic for Rose and she still holds a resentment for reporters and paparazzi. Rose says she was labelled as "Michael Hyde's Daughter" until she joined the police academy, a nickname she despises.

#### Life After Michael Hyde

Although Michael Hyde was the main source of the household's abuse and trauma, things only became marginally easier for Rose once he disappeared. Her mother would lock herself in her bedroom all day every day, leaving Rose and Ash to fend for themselves.

In 2007, when Rose was fourteen years old, Ash moved out, leaving Rose with their mother Mary.

### Career

Rose left home as soon as she could and she joined the police academy at the minimum age of 18, wanting to make something of herself, feel more powerful and escape from the life of being nothing more than "Michael Hyde's Daughter." On her first day in the academy, she met then Lieutenant Arthur McClane, the man she would end up marrying at some point between 2011 and 2023.

Rose graduated from the police academy in 2012 aged 18 and got a job as a police officer at the Miami Police Department. She was put on patrol, something she hated at the time but later wished she could return to. Ambitious by nature, she quickly found herself moving up to the traffic department where she was partnered with Smithy. The two of them worked patrol together for an unspecified amount of time, though it's insinuated that Rose wasn't in the traffic department for very long before again working her the floors, this time landing in vice. Rose and Arthur married some time while Rose was working traffic.

Once she arrived in vice, Rose made it her mission to make lieutenant. Rising to homicide was complicated, given the nature of the Miami Police Department's rules regarding officers within the same department dating. To be safe, Rose made made vice her home and quickly began working to gain promotion with the help of Arthur. Rose had all the ambition and Arthur had the experience and knew how to play the game. Rose eventually made captain, then became the youngest lieutenant in MPD history in 2020, aged 27.

### Events of Vice Part One

In 2023, Arthur tells Rose of a standoff at a warehouse in Montgomery Industrial, Miami, between police and two armed criminals believed to be members of Los Perros Locos. Along with Josė, Smithy, Reynolds and Tavarez, Rose arms herself and heads to the crime scene. Moments later, Arthur arrives with Diane and approaches Rose. However, as the criminals begin shooting again, Arthur is struck in the head by a bullet and collapses to the ground, dead. Rose's partners attempt to console her and drag her off his body but she pushes them away and charges into the warehouse. One of the gunmen shoot her, knocking her to the ground where she hits her head, rendering her unconscious.

When she awakes, the two gunmen tie her up and escape through the back of the warehouse, knocking out a SWAT officer in the process, and force her into the back of a van. The two criminals then take her to an abandoned cafe in a run down part of the city and reveal themselves to be Ricardo Moreno Vega, a former Columbian soldier, rebel and Los Perros Locos member on the run from Bella Ortiz after a job gone wrong, and Casey Russo, an amateur underground boxer from Chicago who fled to Miami after making an enemy of The Commission. The two men drug her, contemplating what to do with her. Eventually, Casey kills a woman with Rose's gun and blackmails her. The two men then set her free and Ricardo drives her back to her house.

## Appearance

Rose is a thin Caucasian-Hispanic woman with long chestnut hair and piercing emerald green eyes. Although the narrator describes Rose as "attractive," Rose gives us little reason to believe it, regularly noting how unattractive she feels. Additionally, very few characters in the series display any romantic or sexual interest in her with more than one character telling her she's not their type when she wrongly assumes their interest in her (Casey Russo, Ramón Rodriguez, Steve Hearn).

She's fairly tall, standing at 5'7" (170cm), and is of athletic build, despite her slender frame.

### Scars

Over the course of Vice, Rose accumulates several scars. The most prominent of her scars is a burn on her thigh she accumulates in Can't Trust Nobody. Rose feels terribly self-conscious of this burn scar, noting how ugly it looks every time she thinks about it. After this chapter, Rose stops wearing shorts, dresses and any other articles of clothing that would display her scar.

### Tattoos

Rose has a small dolphin tattoo on her ankle. When she got the tattoo is never revealed, neither is her reason for choosing that tattoo, but dolphin tattoos often symbolise free-spiritedness or freedom, so Rose may have gotten her tattoo after her father's disapearance, or after joining the police academy and leaving the family home. The tattoo is never described in detail but Ima Crook did confirm the tattoo's existence in a now-deleted Reddit comment before the release of Vice.

## Personality

Right from the outset, it's clear that Rose is a stressful person who doesn't deal well with the pressures of her life as a police lieutenant. Though she constantly denies it, even to herself, it's evident Rose feels out of her depth in her position and relies heavily on the guidance of her husband (now Captain).

Rose is an insecure character who puts on a tough and unlikable façade to protect herself mentally. This trait becomes less prominent as her story continues and is most apparent at the beginning of Vice Part One. Rose lowers her voice when she speaks and tries to present herself as less feminine than she really is, especially at work (although this also becomes less apparent as her story continues and she becomes more confident in herself). Rose, more than anything, is terrified of the world and her place in it and constantly puts up a shield to protect herself from it. Reflective aviators are a part of her style, rarely being seen without them. Living in Miami, she uses the bright weather as an excuse to explain why she wears them constantly, but the real reason she's never without them is because they help her hide from the world. Rose does somewhat drop her façade around love interests like Arthur and Sienna, allowing herself to become more vulnerable around them than most poeple.

***"Rose was a woman born twice. Not in the religious sense; she wasn't one for such make-believe." -** Vice Part One*

The first thing we learn about Rose, other than her name, is that she actively rejects religion. This remains a constant in her personality. She's not fatalistic and doesn't believe everything happens for a reason. She strongly believes that she's in her position (whether good or bad) because her own actions landed her there. This unwavering belief fuels her intense ambition, taking a belief that if she doesn't improve her situation, nobody else will. Even though she'd dedicated her life entirely to her career and become the youngest lieutenant in MPD history, she remains frustrated at her position in life, always wanting more than she has. Interestingly, Rose is very aware that this trait is both her biggest strength and her biggest flaw. Rose is incredibly pessimistic and cynical and constantly feels unappreciated, frustrated, overwhelmed and unfulfilled.

Rose is very protective of her loved ones, especially Ash and her niece, Cora. Beyond just feeling protective, Rose constantly feels like she's in Ash's debt because of their childhood and is very aware of how much Ash sacrificed for her and protected her as children. Ash, however, shows nothing indicating that she feels Rose is in her debt and is incredibly grateful whenever Rose does anything for her. Rose also carries constant guilt for cutting Ash out of her life for an unspecified period of time after marrying Arthur; the implication being that Ash and Arthur never got on (with Ash thinking the extreme age gap between Rose and Arthur was weird, bordering on grooming) and Rose chose Arthur over her sister because her marriage to him was good for her career.

Rose is driven by ambition. There is no final step for her. She sets her goals high and as soon as she reaches them she sets new ones, never content with what she'd built. For much of her adult life, her goals were career oriented. Things start to change however when she meets Lyssa and Sienna. When Rose first visits Sienna's penthouse and realizes there's a whole other world out there for the mega-rich elites that she'll never be able to taste, she sets her sights on accumulating as much wealth as possible. Throughout Vice, she constantly thinks back to Sienna, seeing her as somebody who lives the perfect life Rose could only dream of living. She becomes increasingly money-oriented after this point in her life. Interestingly, she's never seen spending large amounts of cash when she doesn't need to. She often daydreams about the cars and penthouses she wants to buy when she'd rich, but she never actually buys them when she begins earning money, unlike Ricardo. She even sees Ricardo's spending as foolish, recognizing that they weren't going to be earning that sort of money forever.

Rose is incredibly sarcastic, especially when she's annoyed, and swears far more often than any other character in the story. In fact, the very first thought of Rose's we read is "for fuck's sake" and we get a first glimpse at her sarcastic comments just a couple of paragraphs later.

Rose yearns for close relationships with people, despite having few. At the start of Vice, she's estranged from Ash, Cora and her parents and feels like her officers gossip behind her back and don't respect her. The only person she's close with is Arthur. She's close to Jose too but she doesn't recognize how close they are until later in her story. Jose is first described as "the closest thing Rose had to a friend on the force" when in reality Jose was very close to Rose and her family. Once she reunites with Ash and Cora, it doesn't take long for them to become just as close as they'd ever been and Rose slowly begins to grow more and more attached to the people around her.

### Reputation

Rose's hot-headed 'bitchy' nature doesn't do wonders for her reputation, especially in the eyes of her co-workers. Various characters refer to her as 'Insane McClane' and it's suggested the nickname is one she's been stuck with for a long time. Naturally, Rose brushes off the insulting nicknames, often reacting in anger, but deep down the comments really affect her. For much of Vice, most of her co-workers try to avoid her, potentially because they think she'll snap at them if they interact with her. Often, she'll catch her co-workers laughing and joking with each other, then abruptly stopping and returning to work as soon as they notice her. Additionally, many of them gossip about her, suggesting that she slept her way to a rank she didn't deserve (due to her relationship with Arthur).

Among her criminal partners, Rose is sometimes seen as overly serious, making a big deal over what they deem to be trivial inconveniences that are just a part of 'the life'.

## Skills and Abilities

Despite her slight build and largely volatile emotional state, Rose is a force to be reckoned with. Perhaps to set herself ahead of her colleagues, and perhaps to prove to herself that she's worthy and capable, Rose developed a mastery of various skills.

### Krav Maga

Though we never see her put her martial arts skills to the test, Rose and the narrator remind us multiple times that she's a skilled krav maga practitioner.

### Driving

Rose is a skilled driver (which may have been a skill she perfected during her short time in the traffic and patrol departments). To the envy of her colleagues, she drives a Dodge Charger Pursuit, which is a very fast and powerful muscle car that not every cop would be able to control. Furthermore, Rose has a serious interest in cars, being able to recognize even old and obscure cars by the sound of their engine.

### Shooting

Despite never having shot anybody in the line of duty by the beginning of Vice Part One, Rose is an accurate shooter and has put in countless hours in the department's shooting range honing her craft. She sees her gun, a Glock 17, almost as an extention of herself, noting that she feels naked and vulnerable whenever she's without it. Often, when she's stressed, scared or angry, her hand gravitates towards her gun before she reels it back in and pulls herself together. Despite all of this, there's little to suggest that Rose actually likes guns and it's generally understood that Rose greatly overestimates her abilities with them — something Ricardo seems to pick up on very quickly, standing his ground when Rose suggests she's a better shot than him.

## Diet

Throughout Vice, Rose is seen eating very little, despite how much she's seen smoking and consuming drugs and alcohol. Given her slender frame, this may be because she regularly foregoes eating, choosing instead to dedicate that time to work or criminal activities. Similarly, neither the sight of food nor the thought of it ever seems to produce a hunger response in Rose — though she does sometimes link food to memories, such as noting how different her eating habits were when Arthur was alive. However, when the narrator does mention food, it's clear that Rose enjoys pizza with it possibly being her favourite food. She'll often think about how she can't wait to get home to watch Slay and share a pizza with Ash and Cora, even if she rarely follows through with these plans on page.

## Sex Life

Rose is sexually inexperienced outside of her marriage with Arthur, stating that he was the first and only person she'd slept with. This is likely because she was always far too focused on her career goals to explore her own personal development, similar to how she shows subtle signs of being socially stunted in adulthood.

### Dating Preferences

There are subtle signs throughout Vice that suggest Rose is attracted to powerful people. Multiple characters mention finding the age gap between Rose and Arthur concerning and wondering what she saw in him. When Rose and Arthur first met, he was in a powerful position within the police force and society. Although Rose noted how beautiful Sienna was when they first met, there were few signs of Rose being sexually attracted to Sienna until she learned of her wealth, social status and close friendship with Lyssa Clarissa. The only other time Rose notices anybody else physically, other than quickly noting that somebody is "attractive", is when she notes Ricardo's muscular forearms. Although this only slightly hints at attraction, it still comes after Ricardo rescued Rose and tended her wounds. Furthermore, Rose doesn't physically see anybody murder more people in Vice than Ricardo does; the ultimate display of power.

### Sexuality

There is nothing to suggest Rose had ever questioned her sexuality until Sienna kisses her in Purple Hearts. Rose obsesses over this kiss for much of Vice Part One which eventually culminates in a brief sexual encounter with Sienna in Never Let Go which further confuses Rose.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Asherah Newman

During their childhood, Ash acted almost as a parental figure for Rose due to their parents' neglect. Rose is extremely thankful for the sacrifices Ash made for Rose during their childhood and rarely lets herself forget all Ash did for her. Perhaps because of thier childhood experiences, Rose and Ash grew extremely close with Rose seeing Ash as her best friend, sister and mother all at the same time. Disappointing Ash is one of Rose's worst nightmares and she constantly goes above and beyond trying to repay Ash for taking care of her in childhood, despite Ash doing nothing to suggest Rose is in her debt.

#### Cora Bennett

Before we first meet Cora in Vice, we learn Rose and Ash haven't spoken in a while. Because of this, Rose missed some of Cora's childhood and vows to change that and strengthen her relationship with Cora moving forward. Interestingly, Cora doesn't seem to be stunned by meeting Rose and still refers to her as "Auntie Rosie," suggesting the time Rose spent out of Cora's life may not have been very long, or at least not as drastically long as Rose's thoughts would have us believe.

Rose is overall rather calm around Cora and holds a lot of love in her heart for her. Though the two don't often get time to interact alone without Ash's presence, when they do Cora seems to see Rose as a motherly figure. Despite Rose's disliking of children, she genuinely loves Cora and is thankful that Cora is such a kind, well-behaved child.

#### Damon Bennett

Like Ash, Rose stayed on good terms with Damon after his break-up with her sister. It's unclear how often the two talked before his appearance in Vice, and there is nothing to suggest they remained particularly close, but Rose still had Damon's phone number and Damon didn't question why Rose wanted to meet him at the cafe. When they do unite, they get along well and there's no awkwardness between them. Despite Damon no longer being in a relationship with Ash (and the two never marrying), Rose still considers Damon family.

Rose always approved of Damon for Ash, a sentiment that never changed. Rose has a great deal of respect for Damon (and respect is a luxury Rose doesn't offer many people). She admires his stoicism, practicality, efficiency, effectiveness and loyalty. Damon is also one of the very few people Rose wholely trusts, never once questioning his loyalty or abilities. To her, there's nobody she'd rather have fighting alongside her or protecting her loved ones.

#### Michael Hyde

Michael was physically and emotionally abusive to Rose and Ash during their childhood, the aftermath of which has never truly left either of them. Rose's feelings towards her father are considerably more concrete than her feelings towards her mother. She hates the mention of him, refusing to speak about him to anybody but Ash. Even then, the two of them seem to have some sort of mutual understanding where they speak of him very little, usually saying nothing more than a few passing words when they do mention him. She gets angry at the thought of him and her thoughts usually circle around to her appreciation of Ash when she does.

It's unknown how much of Rose's feelings toward her father were fuelled by his abuse and how much of it was fuelled by his disappearance but it's clear she harbors resentment for both. Michael's disappearance affected Rose and Ash deeply; not because he was no longer their lives (something they were actually pleased about) but because of the relentless waves of media attention that followed.

#### Mary Hyde

Rose's relationship with her mother is a complex one. While Ash blames Mary (who she calls 'The Womb') just as much as Michael for their childhood, Rose isn't so sure and largely sees Mary as another victim. Importantly, Rose blames Michael's disappearance on her and Ash (something Ash does not) and, to a lesser extent, thinks the abuse they suffered was because she and Ash were bad kids, something Ash thinks is preposterous. Despite all this, Rose doesn't treat Mary any differently than Ash does and makes no attempt to contact her, even when Ash suggests she should (though Ash makes the suggestion to prove to Rose that she hates Mary just as much as Ash does). Despite her claims to the contrary, it's clear Rose does think Mary shares some of the blame, though she's far more conflicted than Ash is.

### Romantic

#### Arthur McClane

Rose and Arthur met in 2011 when Rose was in the police academy and Arthur was the lieutenant of homicide. It's not clear when the two officially began dating but it's suggested it was shortly after Rose graduated from the academy. The two married sometime between 2011 and 2023, though it's implied they married fairly quickly after they began dating.

Although we see very little of Arthur on page he features heavily in Rose's thoughts in Vice and she's riddled with grief for much of the trilogy. She feels immense guilt whenever she develops romantic or sexual feelings towards anybody else.

##### Controversies

Rose and Arthur had a 32 year age gap. When they first met, Rose was 18 years old and Arthur was 50. Multiple characters over the course of Vice suggest the age gap between the couple was weird, either by asking Rose what she saw in him or suggesting Arthur groomed her. Sometime prior to the events of Vice Part One, Rose and Ash fell out and lost contact. It's revealed the main reason for this was Ash's disliking of Arthur because she always thought he was grooming Rose and taking advantage of Rose's desperate circumstances. Other characters who don't initially find the age gap between Rose and Arthur concerning begin finding it strange once they learned about the power dynamic between the couple (with Rose being in the academy and Arthur being the lieutenant of the department she wants to join, then later Rose being a lieutenant while Arthur was captain).

### Friendships

#### José Vasquez

Rose describes José as "the closest thing [she] had a friend on the force." Despite this, the two are actually shown to be extremely close. José is unquestionably Rose's best friend and she later refers to him as such multiple times. José didn't just befriend Rose but made an effort to get to know her family. He was close with Rose's sister, Ash, as she was with Rose and even helped to take care of Cora, Ash's daughter, when Ash was working.

Despite their close friendship and mildly flirtatious behaviour, the relationship between Rose and José (and José and Ash) is completely platonic and Rose is deeply hurt when she (incorrectly) thought José made a sexual advance towards her.

#### Smithy

Rose met smithy at the age of 19 when she was moved to the traffic department and partnered with him. The two of them spent a lot of time together in their squad car with little to do but talk. Naturally, the two of them became close, but Rose was more invested in promotion and moving up to vice or homicide than she was in her friendship with Smithy. According to Rose, it took her months after joining vice to even notice Smithy had been transferred too. Despite this, Rose has somewhat of a soft spot for Smithy, as he does for her, and it's likely Smithy was the second friend Rose ever made (after Yasmin De León).

#### Lyssa Clarissa

Even before meeting Lyssa, Rose was a huge fan of her music (even so far as having posters of Lyssa up in her bedroom). Once they finally meet, Rose is awestruck by how "perfect" Lyssa is and, more notably, how kind she is. Lyssa appears to take to Rose instantly, drinking and doing drugs with Rose and her friends all night. Furthermore, Lyssa grants her permenant access to The Mayan and ensures Rose and Ash are always treated well when they visit theprestigiouss nightclub. Rose struggles to understand why Lyssa appears to like her so much, assuming she'd have so many friends of her own (and friends who live a similar lifestyle) that Rose would be uninteresting to her. Still, after talking with Dr. Brown, Rose tries to suppress these thoughts and gets closer to Lyssa.

#### Yasmin De León

Yasmin was Rose's childhood best (and possibly only) friend. Little is known about Yasmin but, according to Rose, Yasmin eventually grew closer to Ash than her.

### Acquaintances and Colleagues

#### Chief Power

Chief Power was close to Arthur and holds a level of respect for Rose but the two certainly aren't close.

### Enemies

#### Diane Watkin

Rose dispises Diane — a feeling that's mutual.

## Crimes Committed by Rose McClane

* Entrapment of Ramón Rodriguez.
* Aided in the robbery of an armored W.M. Pharma van which left two innocent transport guards dead.

### Murders Committed by Rose McClane

* Josė Vasquez: shot to death in the final chapter of Vice Part One.

### Murders Connected to Rose McClane

* Murder of two W.M. Pharma transport guards by Ricardo Moreno Vega and Steve Hearn during a heist Rose helped plan.

### Disappearances Connected to Rose McClane

* Michael Hyde: Rose's father. His disappearance was the largest disappearance case in Florida's history. Everybody in the country knew Michael Hyde's name and millions of families saw Rose and Ash beg for his return on national television.
	+ ***Main Article:** The Disappearance of Michael Hyde.*
* Cora Bennett: Rose's niece. Kidnapped by Siobhan Boyle in Vice Part One because of Rose's connection to organized crime and her debt to The Animal.

## Trivia

* Rose and Arthur weren't initially supposed to be particularly close, with Rose seeing him as little more than a springboard for her career and a way to change her last name. By the final draft, however, Rose's feelings towards Arthur were more genuine and loving.
* Rose wasn't initially going to be so emotional and stressed. She was supposed to boarder on psychopathic and show little care or affection for anybody. She also didn't initially have such a hard time killing people for so much of the story and was calm and collected in gunfights.
* In the outline, Rose and Ricardo were going to form a romantic connection as early as her kidnapping but when she came to write the first draft Ima couldn't find a way to make their relationship blossom naturally from such an environment and wanted the reader to get to know Rose independently of her relationships.
* Rose tends to think of characters by their last names, not their forenames.
	+ The only exceptions to the rules, excluding family members, are: Lyssa (who she often thinks of by her full name), Sienna, Emily, Jose, Smithy (who she thinks of by his nickname which is a variant of his last name), Diane, Casey, Ricardo, Vivian (likely to avoid confusion with her father who she refers to by their shared last name - though Rose often refers to her by her full name), Ramon (who she often thinks of by his full name) and Camila.
* Rose's parents called her Rosie as a child. Rose dropped the name, changing it to Rose as early as she could.
	+ Sometimes when Rose and Ash argue, or when Ash is teasing Rose, Ash will call Rose 'Rosie'.
	+ Cora is the only character, other than Rose's parents, who consistently calls her Rosie.
* Rose was initially supposed to enter a relationship with Ricardo as early as chapter three but Ima Crook couldn't find a way to make it believable.
* Rose was initially supposed to have two therapists: Dr. Brown and another private therapist. Her interactions with Dr. Brown were written true to their original design (though there are a few less than were planned) but her second therapist was dropped altogether because Ima Crook really wanted to show Rose's 'conceal, don't feel' attitude.
	+ Rose was supposed to be quite open with her second therapist, even sharing details of her crimes with him.
	+ Rose's second therapist, and her interactions with him, were written into the first draft of Vice Part Two but were later removed.
* Rose describes the race of characters very simplistically (and sometimes semi-offensively), only usually deviating from terms like "black", "white", "brown", etc. if the character is somebody close to her (with a few rare exceptions).
	+ Despite the insensitive language sometimes used to describe characters' races, Rose is not racist and holds no negative feelings towards any race.
	+ Most Miami Police Department officers and some gang members also share this habit (with some characters using more deliberately offensive slurs). No civilians are shown describing race at all.
* Though Rose's race is never mentioned explicitly in Vice it's hinted that she's of mixed white-American and Hispanic ethnicity. On multiple occasions, she corrects characters when they call her a "gringa" or other such slurs or otherwise suggest she's a white American.
	+ What we do know is that both she and Ash speak fluent Spanish, understand multiple Spanish dialects, and both were born and raised in Florida.
* The narrator never mentions Rose having a poster of Lyssa Clarissa in her bedroom. The first and only time it's mentioned is when Ricardo mentions it. Rose lies, pretending not to have a Lyssa Clarissa poster in her bedroom, but confesses to herself that she does, in fact, have one up on her bedroom wall.
* Rose is fluent in English and Spanish and has no problem understanding any Spanish dialects she encounters.
* Originally, Rose and Arthur weren't particularly close and Rose wasn't going to mourn his death particularly heavily. In the first draft of Vice Part One, he's almost exclusively referred to as 'Captain McClane' rather than Arthur. This was later changed; Rose thinks of him by first name and her grief over his death became a huge part of her story
* Josė Vasquez, Diane Watkin and Arthur McClane are the only three cops in the entire series who Rose regularly refers to by their first names.
* In early drafts, Rose was less emotional and far angrier, responding to the smallest inconveniences and disrespect with uncontrollable rage.

### Author's Notes

* Ima Crook has said she would hate Rose if she knew her in real life.
* Despite never being mentioned in the books, Ima thinks Rose suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), with the latter occurring from two separate events: her childhood and witnessing Arthur's death.
* Before the release of Vice, Ima Crook mentioned in multiple Reddit posts and comments that Rose was a narcissist with the three protagonists (Rose, Casey and Ricardo) completing the dark triad (Rose the narcissist, Casey the psychopath and Ricardo the machiavellian).
* In a now deleted Reddit post, Ima Crook confirmed the abuse suffered by Rose and Ash at the hands of their parents was not sexual, though there are clues in Vice to suggest it may have been physical. This distinction may be important as the specifics of the abuse is never explicitly mentioned in Vice.
	+ The narrator doesn't explicitly mention the word "abuse" until late into Vice; neither do any of the characters.

## Quotes

* "We always have a choice."
* "It's Lieutenant!"

## Gallery

DALL-E generated image of Rose based on her physical description.Leaked image which circulated in 2021 which was suspected to be of Rose. The image later turned out to be a hoax but still bears an uncanny resemblance to Rose.