Rosie Perez

**Rosie Perez** is a freshman student at Pendle Hill Academy and a close friend of Bailey Ward. She first appears in Book 1.

## Background

Rosie comes from a Puerto Rican family of nonwitches in Brooklyn, NY. She had a relatively isiolated upbringing as her father, Cecilio, is a strictly religious man and was infuriated when Rosie decided to leave the Catholic church.

When Rosie was younger, she volunteered at a cat shelter.

## Story

### Book 1

She admires Professor Wilson and defends him when students criticize him, including Bailey. Bailey upsets Rosie after she reveals that she stole hawthorn from the Greenhouse to save her, and insists she confess to Wilson. However, Rosie begins to resent Wilson after Bailey interrogates him with the Flower of Truth they were cultivating together in the Greenhouse and his lies kills the plant.

Later, Bailey confronts Rosie after seeing photos of her and Lydia Summers arguing at the Ipswich Witch Museum the day before Lydia disappeared. Rosie and Bailey fight, with the former arguing that Bailey only thinks of Lydia.

Rosie and Bailey reconcile in the Greenhouse, with Rosie admitting that she was worried that Bailey's close friendship with Lydia would jeopardize her relationship with Bailey. She also tells Bailey she had gone to the museum with Lydia to become more familiar with her before they began arguing.

### Book 2

After Bailey returns to Pendle Hill, Rosie helps Bailey smuggle the radio she acquired from the Tinkerman to request Janis's help disassembling the radio by disguising it as a stuffed anteater.

When Wilson becomes acting chancellor after Shirazi is terminated by the Coven, Rosie begins to cover graffiti mocking Wilson and soon finds one of her classmates to be the culprit.

## Relationships

### Bailey

Rosie is good friends with Bailey, whom she argued with Lydia over, as Rosie was afraid Lydia would jeopardize her relationship with Bailey. Rosie is also close with Professor Wilson, whom she volunteers with in the Greenhouse to care for plants.

### Nissa

Nissa is Rosie's girlfriend, who attends Western Academy for witches.

## Personality

Rosie is down-to-earth, sweet, and considerate of others. She has a special fondness for flora spells, plant life, animals, and nature in general.

## Appearance

Rosie has brown skin, brown eyes, and brown curly hair. She wears pink lipstick and black eyeliner. She wears a rose-colored cardigan, a wine-colored midi dress, dark brown tights, and black mary-janes. Rosie also wears round glasses with a thin brown frame and a red and fuchsia flower crown, moon choker, seashell necklace and beaded pendant.

Since volunteering with the cat shelter in her teens (wherein many of her clothing were damaged), she adopted the attitude that fashion should take a backseat to practicality.

## Trivia

* She struggles with anxiety, and often drinks drinks magicka-infused chamomile tea — and, on occasion, hums Celine Dion’s *My Heart Will Go On* — to soothe her nerves.
* During the bonding ceremony, when asked about her biggest fear is, she responds with, *“Too many. What if everyone secretly hates me? What if I wake up blind? What if I smell weird?”*
* When asked about her biggest regret, she admits to having written her girlfriend a 20 page letter describing a picnic she’d like to have with Nissa and suspects she may have come too strong, as she hadn’t heard back.
* Her idea of a perfect day is a long walk in a big forest, as she is most at peace when surrounded by nature.
* Her hobbies revolve around gardening. She often goes to the library to water the plants, since Ms. Blue tends to neglect them.
* Her favorite food is alcapurrias veganas.
* Her favourite spell is regrowth.
* Her astrological sun sign is Taurus, thus her birthday falls somewhere between April 19 to May 21.