Rozu Frühling

**Relationships:** | Harper St. Jude (Adoptive brother)

She has a noticeable dimple on her left cheek which is something that nearly all of the St. Jude family members have (even though she was adopted). Some days, she’d have paint sliding through her cheeks, or other skin areas, when she stresses over her creation. She usually has a cloudy expression glued on her face almost all the time, which doesn’t help in gravitating people and attention. Because of her demeanor, she also has a childlike posture, which makes her appear inferior as opposed to Quinton, her co-head, who holds his head high.

As an orphan, she tends to isolate herself during family gatherings because she hasn’t had closure with her previous family yet, despite being left in a box when she was a baby. Although she is ashamed of being detached from her biological parents, Rozu is still absolutely family-oriented, but she’s not one to express her love in public.

On the outside, Rozu is a gentle girl who seems to capture everyone’s hearts with her signature comforting, yet sinister smile. She’s open to mistakes, except for hers, and she’s especially caring and protective towards people she’s close to. Rozu is also hardworking, putting her best efforts in her obligations and other objectives she’s tasked to do. Like her brother, she pushes humor aside, as she’s not familiar with comedic tropes.

During her elementary school years, not many kids bothered making friends with Rozu because of the “adoption scandal”. In the classroom, majority of her classmates would complain whenever their grouped with her, and they’d also intentionally exclude her from playtime activities. There were also bullies who would pull her hair, call her names (she was infamously known in her classroom as “Rotrose", meaning *rotting rose*), and people would mock her drawings by intentionally illustrating a distorted replica on her desk and lockers. Because Harper was in a classroom far away from Rozu, Axel would be the one to protect her. With this, during her leisure time, she’d usually join Harper, and Axel, even catching them kissing once. During days when she didn’t have anyone to spend her time with, she’d spend time with the family cat, Bentley, to watch films or read classical books with, or with Quinton, who visits to pick Rozu up to draw sceneries with her using various mediums.

In elementary school, while she was known to be exceptionally talented in painting, she usually avoided the attention because she felt like no one really wants to get to know her, which was an effect of not having friends when she was younger. Rozu felt as if students in her elementary school did like her art, but not her, which she continues to carry in the present. When she entered high school, she started calling herself “Rozu Frühling” to her family’s dismay; the reason to this is because she still wants to find her family, and until she receives closure, being a Frühling is still her identity. While this upset Celestine and Hugo, they agreed to legally change her last name, a sign of compassion and understanding towards their daughter. The name change helped in concealing her identity in school, especially with the help of Harper who avoids encountering her in the campus grounds. She has a few friends in the academy, but no one she intimately hangs out with. Other than Harper, Adeline, Axel (who isn’t as close to her anymore as he was when they were younger), and Quinton. In the present, despite having brotherly-relationships with the two, due to the conflicts between Quinton and Axel, she chose to remain fair with the closeness between the two of them. Quinton has an easier time talking to Rozu because they’re both in the same organization; Axel’s also in a rival organization which contributed to them drifting apart from each other.

When she joined the Baudelaires, she had an even more difficult concealing her identity because of her close bonds with Harper and Adeline. In order to lessen the attention she received, she’d usually secrete her talents in painting, unless her creation was too exceptional. In this case, she’d request the officers to keep her signature a secret. Eventually, she started developing strong friendships within the organization, which caused he to grow attached to the group. When the club seperated in two, Rozu chose the Caravaggios, because of her talent in painting. Furthermore, Harper and Adeline were in the opposite organization, and joining would cause a strain with her and the other members, despite her knowledge in writing.

Both peculiar individuals, **Celestine** and **Hugo** St. Jude are meant to be. Much like his daughter, Hugo St. Jude is a well-known, talented artist who felt ecstatic when he realized his daughter has taken a liking to the same hobby as him. Although this saddened Celestine, both agreed that Hugo will “mentor” their daughter, while Celestine will “mentor” their son.

During art conventions where Hugo would host, he brought his daughter along to expose her to other artists that could possibly help in her success as a painter. However, she eventually tells her father that she doesn’t want to use her family name to help her jump 10 steps ahead to which her father agrees. Furthermore, while Hugo is more keen to illustrating urban and abstract art, Rozu felt more comfortable creating artworks that had rural settings, and portraits of people she is familiar with. As a child, Hugo had also noticed that Rozu didn’t have many peers to hang out with, so he began setting weekends for familial recreational activities; this includes going to the riverside to paint, or going to arbitrary places to find inspiration for work. Despite being known as a formidable, successful man, Hugo is sexually ambiguous, usually exploring new sexual trends with Celestine, which is something the siblings abhor. In conferences, however, Hugo is one to switch his personality to a more formal and intellectual phase.

As children, Harper and Rozu would listen to tales that their mother wrote before going to bed. While it is evident that Hugo and Rozu have closer bonds, Celestine and Rozu do their best to retain a familial relationship by watching classical films, something both individuals like to do; this helps Celestine figure out her ideas, being a writer who dives into vintage settings, and Rozu genuinely enjoys the ambiance that older movies provide. Much like her husband, Celestine is a loving, and understanding parent who sees that Rozu was struggling in finding friends when she was in elementary school, but unlike Hugo, Celestine tried bringing some of Rozu’s classmates to their home. Eventually, both Rozu and Celestine figure out that the kids don’t want to be friends with Rozu, but are there simply because of the grandeur manor that the St. Judes possess. While it did upset Celestine, she finally let Rozu branch out on her own, knowing she’ll find her own group of friends one day.

Rozu considers **Harper** to be the person closest to her, which could be observed on how much time they spent together as children and as teenagers. One of the things that Harper regrets is how he didn’t get to defend Rozu from bullies as much because of how far his classroom was from Rozu, despite attending the same school (but she doesn’t feel remotely angry at him). Harper was the person who taught Rozu how to write and understand literature, which she knows is something her brother’s extremely passionate about. Rozu was the first person that Harper came out to, immediately talking to her about his “confused feelings” when she caught him and Axel kissing during a playdate. Despite being a child, Rozu immediately accepts Harper, knowing her parents would do the same, but still giving Harper the time to process his identity. During days when Harper overworks himself, Rozu would help him with his workload, usually telling him to “chill,” which is ironically something Harper always tells her to do as well. While she is familiar with Harper’s unhealthy insecurities about himself, she knows that her brother would feel worse if she intervenes with his recovery options. There are situations when Harper would lecture Rozu because of her moral decisions (pretending she doesn’t belong to the St. Jude family), or Rozu lecturing her brother about his (seducing boys to prove his self-worth). At the end of the day, both siblings would agree to disagree, and would often let each other work their way through the problem, as long as they don’t attempt anything negatively drastic. In the campus, however, both individuals pretend to simply be acquaintances.

When she was in seventh grade, **Harper**, **Adeline**, and Rozu began hanging out which helped her widen her groups of friends. At first, Rozu somehow felt like she didn’t belong, appearing as if she were the third wheel in the group, but both individuals made her feel more included in the following semesters. However, when Adeline and Harper had a downfall in their friendship, Rozu had a difficult time balancing her time between the two. She’s glad that neither of them forbid her from hanging out with the other, but that did not help. Some time after the friendship broke down, Harper told Rozu that it’s okay if she spends more time with Adeline, that she needs Rozu more than he does. During break times, Rozu would sometimes eat with Adeline, even putting aside the fact that they’re now in rivaling organizations. There are days, however, when Rozu has a hard time talking about things related to Harper because she’s afraid that this may cause some sort of trigger with Adeline, but she pushed the thought to the side, acknowledging that they can open up about anything. Much like Harper to Rozu, Rozu reminds Adeline to relax at times, especially during days when she’s especially under the pressure of the obligations of being the Student Council President.

Rozu was close friends with **Axel**, especially because Harper would always bring him to the manor. In one occasion, when asked by Ernhest Falkov is Axel had been in the St. Jude estate, she claims that she doesn’t even know who that person is, something that Axel used to thank Rozu all the time in the past. He was also her canvas, using his arm to draw random symbols and patterns whenever he didn’t notice (not that he didn’t mind, either). Axel, Harper, and Rozu were all in the same elementary school as well; whenever Axel noticed that someone was bothering with Rozu, he’d step up to defend her. In the present, this is something Rozu still appreciates as it really helped her recover from her childhood trauma. When Rozu joined the Baudelaires, and Axel joined the Dimitrises, both individuals began drifting apart from each other. It also doesn’t help that Rozu’s friendship with Quinton contributed to the separation.

Much like Axel, **Quinton** is a brotherly figure to Rozu, especially because of his relationship with Adeline. In their earlier years, although Rozu is known as someone who keeps her issues to herself, she would talk about her troubles while painting with Quinton. These conversations would usually be about her classmates bullying her, her insecurities when it comes to painting, her brother, or her gratitude for Axel (which is something Quinton hates talking about). In the present, Quinton is currently the head of Caravaggio which makes Rozu feel especially inferior. However, Quinton consistently assures her that she is no less of a leader than he is.

* Rozu remains good friends with Adeline Covey despite the ongoing feud.
* Unbeknownst to the student body, not only was Rozu was commissioned to make a portrait of the current headmaster (which is already a great feat for a student of the academy), she also remade the portraits of the past headmasters, which are currently hung on the hallways of the school as well as the headmaster's office.
* Because of her love of programming and technology, Rozu is also inclined to make digital art, or using technology as a medium. However, Quinton Reed, the leader of the Caravaggios, disapproved of this, so she tends to do this in her spare time secretly.