Rosa

Rosa is a female character and a minor antagonist in the Beauty and the Beasts series. She is a beautiful Tiger Beastman, who originally sought after Parker and Winston to be her mates and became very angry when they rejected her. She developed a hatred towards Bai Qingqing, as she saw her as the reason for her lack of luck in romance.

## Appearance

Rosa is considered to be a very attractive female by Beastman standards. Like Qingqing she is pale and slender yet busty, with captivating eyes and a small nose. Rosa has a round face, pointed chin and slightly messy short purple hair, the longest strand reaching the nape of her neck with wide shining purple eyes. Her typical outfit is a grey crop top with one strap on her right shoulder and a matching miniskirt made of animal skin.

## Personality

From her first appearance, Rosa seems to have an entitled, arrogant and selfish personality from her privileged upbringing as a royal princess and due to her status as a beautiful female for her kind. She is quite quick-tempered and very outspoken and impulsive, sometimes to her own detriment. She is also a very ambitious person when it comes to obtaining mates.

She seems to develop serious jealousy and disdain of Bai Qingqing for two of her male love interests choosing Bai over Rosa to the point that she wishes death upon the innocent girl.

She is also shown to be manipulative, crafty, plotting and problematic to others.

## Background

Rosa is the daughter of the King of the Tiger Clan, making her a relative of Winston. Rosa became infatuated with Parker and once tried to seduce him, (before Qingqing's arrival) however he resisted her, this however did not stop her from later asking for his hand. She may have had several mates before trying to court Parker, as she was seen beside two wolf Beastman and having one of their litters in later chapters.

## Synopsis

She is first seen joined by a pack of Tigers, also sitting on one, at Parker's father's domain, where she asks Parker to be her mate, she also says that he came to her and took her top off, Parker rejects her and accuses her of lying about his advances on her. She responds by calling Qingqing ugly, criticising Parker's taste in women.

Rosa later is seen offering Winston to be her mate; however, he turns her down because of Bai Qingqing. Rosa instead has intercourse with one of her mates, a wolf Beastman, becoming pregnant with his litter, sometime after giving birth, she sends her wolf pups out to spy on Qingqing. When the cubs fall into a trap, Rosa gets angry with Qingqing, who responds that it was not wrong for her to set traps on her property. Later on whilst Qingqing and Parker are out, Curtis finds and kills two of Rosa's pups that came to his property and eats one. When Rosa later arrives to Qingqing, Parker and Curtis' house, she asks where her pups are, Curtis bluntly responds that he ate her pup, which causes Rosa to cry as she asks The Ape King to avenge him/her, however Curtis responds saying that he is a feral and that rules and laws cannot be applied to him. Rosa demands that Qingqing be killed for her pups' deaths despite her not harming them in anyway. Rosa later sends a pack of wolves to kill Qingqing, one wolf Beastman is seen trying to kill QingQing by strangling her, but she defeats him using Parker's strength, accidentally killing him. This causes a war to break out. After that the Ape King is seen telling the Wolf King that Rosa caused the death of one of his sons, so she deserves punishment and puts her and an elderly female Tiger Beastman in a prison cell, Rosa finds out that the Ape King, like her wanted to kill Qingqing, Rosa says that she will tell his intentions to Bai Qingqing herself, he responds that will never happen and that her tongue will be cut out, he also orders Rosa to be sold off to a poorer village with the exchange of salt.

Later on, Rosa is seen with a bloody mouth kneeling beside The Ape King, Qingqing sees both of them and remarks that The Ape King looks more disappointed than Rosa. Qingqing then tells him that he wanted to kill her to rid Beast City of a triple marked Beastman, Parker and a Terta Marked Beastman, Curtis. The Ape King shows his true colours, giving an evil cackle and verbally acknowledges Bai Qingqing's intelligence.

After not being seen or mentioned for several chapters, due to being separated from and living in a different setting to the protagonists (having been sentenced by the Ape King) Rosa surprisingly re-appeared in Chapter 393 of the Web novel, where she was found stumbling in a forest alone, fainting to the ground close to Jasmine's village (also Bai Qingqing and her mates' new home), where she was discovered and escorted to the village by two watchful male Eagle Beastman, one of whom brought her to Winston, the King of the Tiger Beastmen clan on what to do with her, the Eagle Beastman asked Winston if he could take her as his mate, saying she had become reliant on him and they found she had no spousal marks on her body, indicating her to be single (becoming estranged from her original mates- Bart and the unnamed wolf Beastmen) . Winston responded by demanding to see the woman's face and when he lifted her head, he was shocked and angered to face Rosa, with a tearful expression and no tongue (which of course made her unable to speak). He then demanded her to be sent away from the village, back to the place she was found, but Rosa desperately clung on to Winston's leg, to his annoyance and Winston tried to push her off, but at first struggled due to her strength, after making her fall to the ground, the Eagle Beastman who had saved her vouched for her to stay with them, saying that due to her weak state of health, she should instead recuperate in their village but leave once she was recovered back to good health (but really was intent on having her spend the rest of her life with him in his village).

The Eagle Beastman then took Rosa to his home, where she stayed for some time. Here Rosa realised the village was Winston's new home. After turning down the Eagle Beastman's offer to become his mate, she gestured to see the Tiger King, and as such the Eagle Beastman took her to the Tiger King, for an interaction. The Web Novel also revealed Rosa's recent backstory from her own point of view and her feelings, through thought bubbles: that Rosa still hated Bai Qingqing, blaming her also for being sent to a poor village where she became harassed by the males there and after removing a spousal mark from a male became a despised outcast, becoming condemned for the behaviour in the village she could happily get away with as a Princess in Beastman City. The Web novel also revealed that she ended up crossing paths with the Ape King, still fiercely vengeful, who forced Rosa to climb over a crocodile or be killed, as he made her a bait to lure the "Floating Beasts". And Rosa indeed still wished to partner with Winston as his mate, so he could also ensure her protection. Winston became shocked and disappointed by Rosa's emotional and volatile behaviour, turning to and pacifying Bai Qingqing beside him, and seeming to realise Rosa's persistence for him, revealed that he became a spouse of Qingqing, Rosa however was shocked by this, thinking that Curtis would never accept Winston as Qingqing's mate, Rosa was shown by thought bubbles to think of herself as the better mate for Winston, due to them being the same species and belonging to Beastmen royalty, to double-check Winston's claims, Rosa grabbed hold of Bai Qingqing to make sure of the claim and after finding Winston's spousal mark on Qingqing's arm, was livid. After this Winston warned her to leave them. And set a new command that no males in his village were allowed to mate with Rosa, lest they become expelled. Rosa was later seen in a hut, beside Jasmine with other females as some food was being distributed amongst them, Rosa and Jasmine did not collect any food, instead sitting quietly beside each other, this was noticed by Harvey, who decided to help the women out, noticing them in a more vulnerable state. However his concern for Rosa, was frowned upon by Bai Qingqing's husband making Harvey respond why he could not feel sorry for her. He then became informed that he should not be so merciful and helpful to Rosa as she had tried to kill Bai Qingqing in the past. Despite this Harvey still made sure Rosa ate some food but with resentment, speaking to himself that poor people need something to be despised. Meanwhile Qingqing and Winston became concerned that Rosa was the cause of the Floating Beasts arrival to their village, this was confirmed when Harvey managed to recognise the scent of the floating beasts on Rosa's body and told this to Winston, working out that Rosa must have eaten a body part of the leader of the floating beast's mate, a rare act for a female, which in turn caused the floating beasts to follow Rosa, wondering about the reason behind this, they realised the Ape King had forced Rosa to do this to try and wipe out Bai Qingqing's family. Winston then went to Rosa to ask her some questions about her scent, and when she lied about her connection to the floating beasts, he decided to punish her, having previously vowed to himself by himself that he would make Rosa suffer a fate worser than death- if she dared tried to attack Qingqing again. Holding her body on the edge of a big cliff, he threw her to the ground, which she reached with a bloody head injury and bewildered expression, still alive and encountered by the Floating Beasts. It is unknown if Rosa died from her injuries and/or due to the Floating Beasts if they attacked her or if she was rescued, saved and treated away from Bai Qingqing's family, eventually leaving village, by the force of Harvey and Winston. As due to end of the chapter of her last appearance, it was reported that Harvey healed a group of females who had been injured from the attempted destruction of the village, after a scene of a seriously injured Rosa being approached by Floating Beasts.

## Relationships

King of the Tiger Beastman Clan **†** (father)- Rosa seem to be beloved by her father, and as his daughter Rosa lived a privileged life of high status with nobody ever crossing her. The King of the Tiger Beastmen may not have known about his daughter's rebellious behaviour or if he did know covered it up and protected her. This freedom changed however when Rosa commanded an assassination of Bai Qingqing, which resulted in the deaths of many Beastmen, including a prince of the Wolf Beastman tribe, where on account of her actions, she became jailed by the Ape King, who also had her tongue cut and sent her to a poorer village by his servants with the exchange of salt. This caused Rosa to become estranged from her family including father who died before they could ever reunite

At least two male Wolf Beastmen (mates)-

Parker (former love interest)- Rosa wanted to marry Parker, likely his handsomeness, high status as a prince and him being a fellow Big-cat Beastman being big reasons. She seemed to at least have a crush on him, infatuated but Parker did not share her sentiments, when she asked for Parker's hand in the Leopard Beastman King's territory, she got turned down by him, as he had already vowed to partner with his love, Bai Qingqing, this made Rosa so scorned and was the original reason she began hating and targeting Bai Qingqing, and she also brewed contempt for Parker. After she plotted Bai Qingqing's death several times, Parker grew a hatred for her and later on when he discovered his wife's attempted murderer in his new home village, even revealed a desire to kill Rosa, to his family members.

Winston (relative and former love interest)- Rosa and Winston are relatives as both are members of the Tiger Beastmen Royalty. They are perhaps siblings or cousins, depending on their parents. Rosa had an unrequited love for Winston and even sought him as mate, but became, scorned, jealous and revenge-driven when he turned her down, him having chosen to be with Bai Qingqing over her. Rosa even tried to assassinate and plot to kill Qingqing several times, making Winston's heart harden towards her. Much later, Winston comes across Rosa in a delicate state, within his village after she is presented to him and whilst Rosa is still determined to mate with him, he demands her to be sent away, pushes and warns her away from him and his family, commands no men in his village to mate with her, with the punishment being expulsion from the village and eventually having become sick and tired of her lies, throws Rosa off a cliff to a floor filled with Floating Beasts

At least three Wolf Beastman Cubs (children)- Rosa had at least three male wolf Beastmen children by one of her partners, one of them was killed and eaten by Curtis, but the fates of the others are unknown, as their mother was forcibly separated from them and sent to another village.

Bai Qingqing (enemy)- Rosa was enemies with Bai Qingqing from their first meet, teasing her appearance with her drawn-on freckles and despising her bitterly after Parker rejected her, having chosen to be with and loyal to Qingqing. Rosa ended up getting double rejected when Winston also picked Bai Qingqing instead of Rosa. This made Rosa see Bai Qingqing as a rival and also a problem to be purged- thinking that she could conceivably have whoever mate she wanted if Bai was not around- even though Bai Qingqing guiltless and posed no harm or threat, she used her tactics and tried several times to get Bai killed, causing the men she liked to turn against her and escape for the life of their love. When she encounters Bai Qingqing after years of separation, she also blames her for the Ape King's cruelty to her.

Ape King (enemy)

Curtis (enemy)

## Trivia

She, Parker and Winston are royalty, and the princess and princes of their Beastman clans respectively. This could be one of the reasons why she looked down on and hated Bai Qingqing, because she was not in their privileged social class.