Koishi Rosales

> “How do three grown-ass adults not have five dollars between them?.”
> — Koishi to Aimee, Luka, and Neptune
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Koishi Rosales is an up-and-coming clockmaker who lives in the Big House.

Luna (Roommate)

Neptune (Work Partner)

## Profile

Koishi was born in Rakka as the daughter of psientist Juanita Rosales and faye-therapist Haru Sawatari, and raised in Rosewood, where she met Doris at the age of ten. The two of them promised to protect each other after performing a Smokehole ritual to see the future. Unfortunately, Koishi also developed asthma after inhaling particles from the bonfire, which went forever undiagnosed due to never telling her mothers about this. She also promised to create a grandfather clock for Doris.

#### The Raven Program

When Koishi was twelve, her mothers signed up for The Raven Program, which was run by Lilith Grunnerkrig and Constanza Bellami, and was designed to ingest the greatest minds possible to improve the AI of the Automatons Constanza was developing. Koishi stowed away on the ferry transporting the subjects of the program by stashing herself in a crate of hor'dourves, which she survived off of for the two-night trip. Upon arriving, she witnessed Lilith and Constanza activating the program, causing her parents to disappear before her eyes. She was able to deactivate the program by slamming Lilith's head into the console, causing it to implode, injuring Constanza's leg and presumably killing those sucked inside. This was false, as the CPU was intact, keeping those trapped inside in a coma for eight years.

#### Moving In

For almost a decade, Koishi lived with Doris in The Big House, which was eventually purchased by Kato, who let them live with him and his foster children. Koishi set to work on rebuilding a grandfather clock in order to fulfil the promise she made to Doris. She regularly clashed with Kato due to his, in her words, "whore-like tendencies".

#### Luna's Arrival

After Luna arrived at the house, Koishi was originally skeptical of her, being one of few residents who know who the Chamted Family was. That, added with Luna being a more distant relative of Kato, made her believe she was here to either swindle or just hurt him. Eventually, Luna earned Koishi's trust, even to the point of letting her help with the clock.

When she and the others went with Kato to pick up his children, Koishi held him responsible for dumping them in Otherworlds, but eventually softened up when she realised Kato had been simply been unprepared and had thought he wouldn't be able tp take care of them. She helped Skids to pack up to leave the village, and gave them advice on how move on from the Greyscale Fae Village, drawing from when she had lost her parents. In 9Q's Otherworld, she helped Luna to perform alongside her by helping her to deal with the watching eyes of the crowd, taking the role of a manager for the concert. When Luka arrived, she insisted xe were a bad influence and tried to keep Luna from getting too close to hir. She was watching with visible concern when Luka and Luna went for their joyride through the skyline. She didn't come with the group to pick up Aldo, instead staying back. Misfortune and Reiner were left in her care for a the time. Despite it only being two hours, it was enough to make Reiner and Misfortune both terrified of Koishi and fully willing to do whatever possible to keep her happy.

#### The Thearian Revolution

When the revolution came to rescue Ezra, believing she was in danger, Koishi's first instinct was to fight the nearest one, that being Neptune. The two were somehow evenly matched, despite Koishi being unarmed. She actually learned to fight by overanalysing the choreography of the movies Koishi made her watch. The two called it a draw, and ended up earning each other's respect. When the residents were recruited into the revolution, Koishi was actually the one to pay for the inter-planet cable car, to everyone's surprise.

When they were taken to fight the royal guard at the castle, Koishi armed herself with a bow and vouched for Misfortune when she offered to fight. They were insisted to fight from a distance, to Misfortune's disappointment and Koishi's relief. When they were both caught by guards, they managed to fight close-up well enough, until Balkan came and saved them. When taking Attilian by force, Koishi was the one who held his legs, while Aldo held the upper body.

Koishi was the first person who brought up the fact that the monarchy probably wasn't that easy to take down, which was seconded by Reiner and thirded by Luka, of all people. Koishi and Neptune decided to leave the crisis to discuss the possibility of the two of them working together, and Neptune possibly collecting extra parts for the smaller clocks she made when she wasn't working on Doris' one.

#### Chromavelations

When Luna was found injured with a discoloured eye, Koishi was immediately protective of her and insisted Parable leave The Big House. She carried Luna while she was having fever dreams caused by the sudden intake of the Bleue's powers, and gave her the hoodie she was wearing when she started shivering. When Luna woke up Koishi hid the fact she was worried, watching from the side with her arms folded. When Dakota went missing, Koishi wasn't too concerned.