Lorraine Rose

**Beyond Comics**

* Godmother: Setting You Straight
* Fractured Stories

**Lorraine Rose** is one of the main characters / semi-antagonists of the comic series "Godmother". And is reintroduced as a supporting character in the Beyond comics "Setting You Straight" and "Fractured Stories". She is a Gold Blooded Sorcerer who years ago suffered the loss of her only daughter Caroline. Unable to coupe with her loss Lorraine tried to fill the void in her heart with various forms of magic such as constructs or illusions. She even became so consumed by grief that she resorted to Blood Magic and Necromancy in a vain effort to revive Caroline but managed to avoid going too far thanks in part to her husband Pierce before she lashed out at him and they divorced.

Eleven years after Caroline's death Lorraine had discovered a young man Oliver who had been at Caroline's side at the moment of her death did in fact carry a few small fragments of her soul within him. Still unable to move on from her death Lorraine put a plan together to try and use those Soul fragments in an effort to get her daughter back in some form. She eventually approached Oliver in a magic disguise claiming to be his Fairy Godmother there to help him in his struggling Modeling career. In reality she had enchanted a locket that also contained a few of Caroline's soul fragments to awaken the ones inside of Oliver to transform him into an aged version of her and allow her personality to slowly take him over so she could have her back in some form and Oliver could reap the benefits of being a successful model thanks to Lorraine using her magic to influence the industry in Caroline's favor.

Unfortunately Lorraine's obsession with having Caroline back blinded her to various side effects and draw backs that Oliver experienced due to transforming and she began trying to force things to work when they clearly weren't. She eventually gave Oliver a gift he actually liked in the form of an Arcane Dog named Anya as a new pet. Anya originally obeyed Lorraine's requests to grant Oliver wishes when he thought like Caroline but eventually she turned on her seeing her suspicious behavior and this resulted in Oliver finally putting his foot down and trying to end things with Lorraine and his becoming Caroline.

After seeing how much damage she had done to Oliver's personal life by making him live as Caroline Lorraine saw how wrong she was and admitted everything to Oliver restoring the memory of the real Caroline to him and showing him why she did what she did. After apologizing she promised to try and help Oliver better his own career and let him keep using the locket to become Caroline until his own career was repaired after she removed the enchantment that caused Caroline's personality to take over. Oliver then became Caroline for her a few more times but helped convince her that she had to learn to move on from her death. He inspired her to get back in touch with Pierce and helped her finally accept the fact Caroline was gone and could never be brought back. In the end Lorraine was at last able to accept that her daughter was gone and remarried Pierce. She also was able to prevent a scheme by Elsa Chevalier who stole and destroyed Caroline's locket in an effort to replicate its power for profit. After Elsa was stopped and things were mended with Oliver and his girlfriend Brooke Lorraine offered her help to better Oliver's own career and continued a friendship with the couple having at last found some degree of peace with her daughter's death.

## Design/Appearance

Lorraine is shown to be a middle aged blonde woman with golden yellow eyes and a fair figure. She is over a hundred years old but due to her longer lifespan as a sorcerer she appears only around the physical age of 50. She is shown to mostly wear more professional looking clothing but also uses a combination of magic to appear as a Fairy Godmother with an elegant Blue Dress and several angel wings but this is not her normal style and she tends to prefer less elegant clothing when possible.

## History

Lorraine was a skilled Gold Blooded Sorcerer who married her husband Pierce Rose, a Bronze Blood. Together they had one daughter, Caroline whom Lorraine loved more than anything. When Caroline was little Lorraine gifted her with a heart shaped locket that her own mother had given her and placed a picture of her and the two of them together in it. At some point the family took a small road trip to visit family and made a stop on Cinder Isle where they ate in a dinner and was served by a young man named Gavin.

When Caroline showed interest in a modeling career Lorraine supported her and took her to a casting call in 2006 when she was a teenager. After the casting call Lorraine and Caroline were planning to attend a Christmas party for one of their neighbors. Since the neighbor was a Nonblood, Lorraine chose to drive by car rather than teleport with magic. Unfortunately a bad snow storm hit that night and Caroline refused to put on her seat belt saying how it was pointless and uncomfortable. During the drive a Semi-Truck passed into there lane resulting in their car being thrown off the road and crashing headlong into a tree. Lorraine was knocked out but Caroline had been thrown through the wind shield and died of her wounds in front of another crash victim, Oliver Thompson who had been in another car with his father that had been over turned. Lorraine recovered with minimal injury but the death of her daughter left her with an irreparable hole in her heart.

Over the next decade Lorraine fell into great grief and depression. Unable to get over Caroline's death and likely blaming herself to some degree as the driver. Consumed by grief she began efforts to try and revive or recreate Caroline in an effort to fill the void in her heart. She started with things like magic illusions or constructs that were made in Caroline's image but everything she tried still felt so fake. She then began delving into several forbidden practices of magic in a vain effort to try and revive or create Caroline in flesh and blood. She tried various forms of Blood Magic, Soul Magic and even Necromancy in her attempts to revive her daughter but nothing worked and she began to damage and risk corrupting her own soul. Pierce who also mourned their daughter tried to be supportive of her at first but after seeing she was going much too far tried to reason with her and make her stop. In a fit of rage at one point Lorraine lashed out at Pierce refusing to give up on Caroline and as a result he felt she was too far gone and beyond hope of reason and regretfully divorced her. While this incident with Pierce did at least help Lorraine see that she was going to far and helped her avoid irreparable corruption and her eyes turning red she still could not give up on Caroline and continued to try and find some way to bring her back.

At some point in 2016 Lorraine crossed paths with a now grown Oliver Thompson, the boy who was at Caroline's side at the moment of her death. She sensed that within him were seven small fragments of Caroline's lingering soul that must have fallen into his body when her soul began to fade into the afterlife. Unsure of how or even if she should approach him about this and trying to think of some way she may be able to use this to her advantage of bringing her back. After nearly two years of planning and observing Oliver she learned that he had gone into Modeling as well but was struggling a bit to get decent jobs set up. Lorraine, seeing that he was struggling in the same career Caroline had expressed interest in, thought up an elaborate plan to try and solve both her and Oliver's problems. She took the heart locket that Caroline had been wearing when she died and and created a strong enchantment on it so the few soul fragments that lingered in the locket could merge with a transformation spell and awaken the fragments inside of Oliver. This would allow Oliver to transform into an aged version of Caroline who would slowly be taken over by the elements of her personality lingering in her soul fragments and not only look but eventually act exactly like Caroline would have had she grown up. However Lorraine knew that Oliver would never agree to transform into a girl who died in front of him and would be unlikely to trust some random woman who could do magic thus she added to her plan and instead erased Oliver's memory of the crash (as well as the memory of his close friend Brooke who was not present but knew that Oliver went through that event) and chose instead to make her self appear as a Fairy Godmother who would come to aide Oliver in his time of need.

Lorraine then approached Oliver in her guise as she Godmother and made him the offer to help him become a successful model by taking on a new identity. She gifted him with the locket and had him use it for the first time to transform back and forth into Caroline. At first Lorraine was in tears a bit at seeing her daughter suddenly grown up but managed to collect herself to avoid Oliver asking too many questions. Lorraine then asks Oliver to call her Mom while transformed and explains her plan to have him become a successful model as Caroline. She offers him 1500$ in cash to use for his monthly rent and bills to get by and give things a chance. Though Oliver was hesitant he agreed. Unfortunately Lorraine failed to take into account how Caroline would need a photo book portfolio to begin a job as a model and left Oliver (turned Caroline) to get one put together quickly.

A few days later Lorraine joined Caroline at her first big shoot and while the modeling agents there though she was good they were not convinced to call her for the final shoot until Lorraine used her magic to influence their minds and make Caroline their final choice. A few hours later she finds Caroline getting off the Ferry home and admires her "Little Girl". Caroline however mentions how she's been feeling new urges and odd thoughts and this forces Lorraine to admit the Locket has a few side effects that will cause her personality to become more and more feminine the longer she spends transformed. While Caroline is angered by this she gets a call back for the final photo shoot which convinces her to continue transforming seeing that Lorraine's promised success is coming true. Lorraine officially makes herself Caroline's modeling agent using her magic to ensure her success to keep Oliver dependent on her. She would then continue to drop gifts off to Oliver/Caroline over the next few weeks. Mostly in the form of purses and dresses.

During Caroline's first big shoot Lorraine arrived to help her apply make up as Oliver had no knowledge of what to do. She also influenced the shoot manager Nancy to give Caroline a long term job with her magazine. In the following days Lorraine makes plans to go out shopping with Oliver transformed so she can have some Mother-Daughter time with Caroline and teach her how to apply her own make up. Caroline is angered at her at first as she learned how she ate meat while her mind was fully crossed over despite the fact Oliver is a dedicated vegetarian. Lorraine explains to her how after 8 hours her mind will effectively black out to Caroline's personality and she won't feel like what she's doing is odd. Oliver asks her if she can remove the personality shift but Lorraine claims its a side effect she can't control. However during their shopping trip she thinks to herself how she could in fact control the personality shift but she gets fed up with Oliver's bad attitude and refusal to even try and enjoy their time out. So she chants a spell that makes Caroline's personality take over early and then finally gets her Mother-Daughter day out. After several hours out Oliver transforms back but still seems to act like Caroline a bit and Lorraine realizes an unforeseen side effect of the locket and how it seems to take at least 8 hours for Oliver's personality to reassert itself once Caroline's has taken over. While she begins to feel a bit guilty about what she's doing to Oliver she is to obsessed with having her time with Caroline to stop her plan now.

Several days later Lorraine comes to tell Oliver/Caroline about a number of jobs she's lined up for her over the next several weeks. Caroline is still not too excited to have to be a girl to get success but enjoys the growing fame she is getting because of it. She also asks Lorraine about the altering the locket so it can change her clothing when she transforms to avoid a bit of the drama she has already been through. Lorraine has also arranged to get her a spot on the Erica's Secret fashion show a very big deal in the modeling industry much to Caroline's joy. After another 2 weeks Lorraine arrives in Oliver's apartment to find him/her gone and goes to look for her to see what she's up to. She finds Caroline in a coffee shop with Oliver's best friend Brooke and her roommates as she is posing as Oliver's Cousin and offered to model for some of Brooke's fashion designs. Lorraine wants to help build up Caroline's circle of Girlfriends so she stops in posing as both her mom and agent and after a brief talk goes as far as to offer Brooke a bit of career help hoping to arrange for Caroline to have her as a best friend just like Oliver. Soon after this Oliver goes through a bit too much drama after Caroline's boy crazy side making him/her sleep with his friend Lorenzo and he contemplates ending this arrangement with Lorraine. However when she arrives to announce that Caroline got the spot at the fashion show and shows him the pay for the contract Oliver is forced to agree to continue unable to pass up that chance and check.

A month later Lorraine adopts an Arcane dog named Anya whom she gifts to Oliver knowing how much he loves animals. She uses her magic to entice his landlord to let him own a dog despite his lease and also tells Anya how he gender swaps for work. Since Lorraine can't be by his/her side all the time she gives Anya a collar that will change color when Oliver or Caroline's personality is most dominant. She asks Anya to use her magic to grant Caroline wishes when the collar is all pink and while Anya seems suspicious about her intentions she agrees. Lorraine then brings Anya to Oliver who is so excited to not only be allowed to own a dog now but also that she can talk. Lorraine then joins Anya and Oliver for a walk around the block to show Anya her new home. Oliver asks Lorraine if she could transform his natural body to be more muscular as his having to be and maintain Caroline's body has caused his own male body to wither away and loose a lot of muscle. Lorraine lies and says she can't help him even though Anya knows its easy magic but doesn't say anything, fearful that Lorraine may take her back to the pound. Lorraine remains too blinded by having her daughter back in some way and thinks its a beneficial side effect, failing to acknowledge the issue its causing for Oliver.

Months later when the big Erica's Secret fashion show comes up Lorraine accompanies Caroline. However Caroline has suffered many more awkward issues due to her transforming and living a double life and plans to end their arrangement after the show. Unknown to Lorraine Oliver lost his best friend Brooke who assumed that the girl clothing in his closet meant that Caroline was his girlfriend despite him asking Brooke out. When Brooke arrives to help with the show Lorraine leaves them to have some time to talk but when she overhears Caroline about to reveal her secret to Brooke she reenters the room and makes a point to tell her that if the truth comes out then she'll have to stop being her agent/godmother. Brooke leaves confused and Lorraine and Caroline argue. Seeing that Oliver's attitude could ruin her big break in the show Lorraine forces Caroline's personality to take full control again to make her more excited and focused. After the show Lorraine congratulates Caroline but Oliver's feelings for Brooke help bring him/her to her senses and she elects to skip the after party to head home and tells Lorraine she needs to talk with her tomorrow about something important.

The Next day Oliver calls Lorraine after another series of drama unfolded for him and he revealed his secret to Brooke as she managed to figure it out on her own to some extent. Any also having gotten fed up with the lies and told Oliver how Lorraine was just a sorcerer and there was no such things as Godmothers. Lorraine arrives to try and explain herself to Oliver but is mad to find Brooke there and that he revealed the secret to her. Oliver finally puts his foot down and says he never wants to be Caroline again. At first Lorraine tries to talk him back into it as she's already arranged many more jobs and gotten him so much success as a girl but Oliver rants on about its been ruining his life. Having at last seen the damage she's been doing and how arrogant she's been Lorraine breaks down in tears apologizing for all she's done to Oliver. Oliver at first thinks its a ploy to get him to use the locket again but Lorraine decides to come clean and teleports them all to her home to reveal the truth to them. After some explaining, Lorraine returns the memories she removed from both Oliver and Brooke and explains why she did all this. She thought her plan would help the both of them and bring Oliver success as a model and give her her daughter back in some form but now she sees all the unintentional side effects and her trying to force things to work only caused Oliver pain and trouble and she feels terribly sorry for what she's down to him. After some talk Oliver embraces Lorraine sorry about the real Caroline and while he is not quite to the point of forgiving her he now understands why she did what she did. Lorraine then arranges for the personality shift effect to be removed from the Locket so Oliver can keep using it without too many side effects and get some work done as Caroline while he works his own male model career back up now that Anya's improved his body. Lorraine promises to help in any way she can to try and make up for what she's done to Oliver.

Over the next several months Lorraine does favors for Oliver such as teleporting him and Brooke to and from their hometown for dates now that the two have made up and still assisting a little in Caroline's model career while Oliver's slowly improves. At one point Caroline arrives to surprise Lorraine at her real job as an elementary teacher. She wanted to surprise her with a mother daughter day to thank her for her recent help in improving her real career and life and had Anya restore the personality shift effect of her locket. Lorraine is grateful and the two have a day out together. Lorraine tells her about her ex husband Peirce and opens up about her painful history with obsessively trying to revive or recreate Caroline. Caroline/Oliver talks with her a bit and suggests she should try to reach out to Peirce and that she needs to learn to accept her daughters death. Lorraine is still worried moving on would be like forgetting about her but thinks Oliver is right and agrees to think it over. She also says she got an offer for Caroline to do a model job in the Bahamas and that Oliver could go there with Brooke as a kind of vacation while changing back and forth for work. Oliver is excited and thanks Lorraine, but also suggests they need to try and ween her off Caroline a bit more and changes back before heading home,

Weeks later Oliver/Caroline is in the Bahama's with Brooke and tries to call Lorraine after her locket was stolen by Elsa Chevalier who sought to use it to replicate its magic for profit. But Lorraine is in a low service area when she goes to visit Peirce on his ranch in Montana. While he is surprised to see her, Peirce is happy to see she hasn't been corrupted by her obsession yet and the two talk a bit. Lorraine tells Peirce about her recent attempts to revive Caroline through Oliver. She admits that after finally seeing she only ever seems to hurt other and is only simulating Caroline pointlessly to try and fill a void in her heart Lorraine has come to accept that their daughter is gone and give up on her attempt to bring her back somehow. Peirce is happy to see she's finally come to terms with their daughter's death and invited her to spend the weekend with him to catch up. However this leaves her out of contact with Oliver who is now stuck as Caroline unable to change back without the locket.

A few days later when Lorraine finally got Oliver's messages and teleported to the Bahama's with Peirce to tell them how the two had made up and see what the issue was. She says she's come to accept Caroline is gone and asks Oliver for the locket back offering to help his male career with her magic so he no longer needs to become her for work. When Oliver and Brooke explain the situation however, Lorraine is furious with Elsa for stealing the locket and teleports away to get it back. She then observes Elsa's experiment with a set of men's jewelry she plans to mass produce and sell to turn men into women loyal to her company's clothing brands . After the first experiment Elsa is attacked by Lorraine who demands the locket back but Elsa informs her it was destroyed in order to for them to replicate its effects and she offers Lorraine a fair amount of money to make up for it. Lorraine refuses in fury however and the two have a grudge match until Lorraine gets the prototype watch and the few remaining ashes left of the Locket. She then reveals she recorded Elsa's experiment and threatens to expose her illegal use of magic for profit if she makes any moves against Lorraine or her friends. She then destroys the watch leaving Elsa with nothing to go through with her plans.

Lorraine returns to Oliver's apartment with the others and explains what happened. With the locket destroyed the last of Caroline's soul fragments now exist only within Oliver. At first he/she offers to wait a bit longer for her to find some other kind of vessel to place the fragments in so Lorraine can keep them as a final memento of Caroline. Lorraine however sees this as her chance to rip off the band aide so to speak and decides to remove the soul fragments and let them fade away for good. This not only transforms Oliver back but also at last puts Caroline wholly to rest and allows Lorraine to fully accept her daughter is now at peace. She offers Oliver any and all assistance with his own career and is finally able to feel at ease over her daughters death.

#### Beyond Universe

Lorraine is reintroduced in the non-cannon beyond comics Godmother: Setting you Straight, and Fractured: Stories (which have been explained to exist within the same alternate timeline)

In this time line Caroline/Oliver experienced a bit of a sexuality shift after Brooke got pent up with her in the Bahamas when she refused to sleep with her due to Caroline being a straight women and her being stuck like that. Lorraine still was not able to come to help her until the end of the trip but eventually did return to change her back, at the time unaware of the effect it had on Oliver.

Some weeks later Lorraine went on honeymoon with Peirce whom she had remarried. The two traveled to Australia where she encountered a group of four women who were in fact men cursed to now live as women. Lilly, Eva, Kailey, and Miley. Sensing the curses within them but not strong enough to remove them Lorraine instead listened in on the issue the girls now faced in their altered lives. While most of them had come to accept their new lives and bodies they each faced issues that left them unhappy. Lorraine decides help them out and finds a way she can help each of them with her magic even if she is not powerful enough to change them back. She then uses Mass Memory alter on Eva's family back in Korea so she can return for a reunion without dealing with any fall out of her now being a woman. She also arranges for a friend of her and Peirce to meet with Lilly knowing he has a preference for women like her. She then dawned her Godmother guise again and paid a visit to Miley who was still at odds with her split personality and shifting back and forth between her Matthew and Miley sides. One night when Miley was asleep she used her magic to merge the two conflicting sides of her mind and thus ended the conflict within her. She left a note telling Miley what she had done and if she had any questions to call Kailey and ask for her as Lorraine's last stop was to help her as well.

(to be continued)

After her endeavors in Australia Lorraine returns to find Oliver (now Olivia) and Brooke who have come to find themselves the victims of another side effect of transformations. Olivia who had come to prefer sex on the receiving end and Brooke enjoying the feeling of male genitals. They had Anya create transformation rings to let them turn back and forth to their preferred forms but now even after removing her ring Olivia is unable to change back and Anya is unsure what is wrong. Lorraine examines Olivia and finds she is pregnant and explains how the baby has negated the reverse transformation. Olivia and Brooke are excited to be parents and ask Lorraine to be their baby's godmother which she happily accepts.

## Traits/Personality

While Lorraine is a kind soul at heart she is shown to suffer from sever depression and grief regarding her daughter's death. This unfortunately spiraled into a psychotic obsession with trying to recreate or revive her despite any attempt to make her see reason and find a better way to coupe and accept that her daughter was gone. She seems to have blamed herself somewhat due to Caroline dyeing mostly due to the fact Lorraine did not force her to put on her seat belt and was driving in a snow storm when they could have easily used magic to teleport instead. Due to this guilt combined with her grief Lorraine became disillusioned with bringing Caroline back and eventually came up with the plan to try and recreate her by using Oliver as a vessel to channel what little of her soul survived. While she had loving intentions her plan had multiple side effects and draw backs for Oliver that she made every effort to ignore and tried to force things to work, because of her own mad obsession. In the end however Lorraine came to see she was only causing misery for Oliver just so she could have mother-daughter time with a recreation. She came to see her own faults and felt great guilt for what she had done. Eventually able to finally accept that her daughter was dead and could not be brought back and she had to learn to live without her. She then showed great remorse and made every effort to right her wrongs and find a new meaning in life.

## Trivia

* Lorraine's Mana Mark is the only one seen that seems to have a discernible pattern. In her case it resembles a set of angel wings and has a small halo like design at the top. An ironic reference to her "godmother" ruse.
* Lorraine is the third oldest Sapphire Fox Character (Main Timeline) due to her longer life span as a sorcerer after Sylvana and Alistair Huntington
* Lorraine is likely meant as an example of what Sylvana could have ended up as had she not gone too far and become corrupted by her use of blood magic. Both Lorraine and Sylvana have the same history of trying to revive a dead daughter and delving in forbidden magics in an effort to do so.