The Ether

**The Ether is a general location in Rosie Desperaux's subconsciousness.**

## Background

The Ether is a limitless white space that connects spirits and souls through the hivemind of one's inner consciousness, existing in Rosie's mind. It is here in the Ether that souls, even universal counterparts like Rose Tahler are able to contact and communicate with Rosie's subconscious to tell her and warn her about the possible threats that threaten both her universe as well as Rose's.

So far, the Ether has made two appearances in Caillou SC.

## Events in Caillou SC

In *"We Need to talk about Rosie"* Rosie starts having hallucinations with her talk with Gina Degaldo as well as hearing voices in her head which scare her immensely, quickly ending the call with Gina putting her worry. It is revealed that Skyler is attempting to contact her older cousin through her counterpart in the Ether, not long before she was captured by The Ringmaster. Rosie during her interview with Headmaster Dollfuss, as well as Beth Armstong and her parents Boris and Doris Desperaux has another hallucination from Skyler who is still crying out for help, not long before Rose takes over Rosie's body for a brief moment and does not recognize anyone at the table then feels faint, Rosie's uncontrolled body bursts into a seizure.

In *"Rose?"* Rosie who is unconscious is in the hospital where Doctor Perry along with her family and friends are awaiting her to wake up. It isn't until Sting Hickenbottom and Lolli barge into Rosie's room, as Sting was told by Rose through Rosie's body to connect with her through The Ether. Doctor Perry attempted to stop Sting but was quickly incapacitated by a stun spell as he couldn't let anyone interfere with connecting his mind and Rosie's. Sting then rushes out carrying Rosie's unconscious body up on top of the Hospital's rooftop. It was there that he was able to connect himself to the Ether. He walks through dodging objects and even sees Blumper the Clown dancing. Sting then approaches Skyler's body on the ground and warns Sting about how she is being used by The Ringmaster, and that her powers are useless in the Ether. Not long after, The Ringmaster shows up with Skyler's body taunting Sting then he kicks Sting out of the Ether. Sting then tries to communicate with Rose as he knew where Skyler was but Rose did not respond, annoyed and hopeless Sting bursts into tears as he lost Rose again, eventually, Rosie wakes up to see Sting crying and told him not to worry. Followed by Lolli who came up to him and coaxed him that they can find Rose and Skyler again.

In *"A Duel in Central Park"* it had since been months since Rose had contacted Rosie through the Ether. Sting follows and stalks Rosie in a desperate attempt to see if she had heard from Rose. Rosie is frustrated with Sting and bluntly tells him that she does not want to go through what happened again with Rose taking over Rosie's body and mind. Later on when Sting is under attack by H.U.S.H., Rose calls out to Sting through Rosie's mind, and Rosie came to the realization that she had to go help him. After the fight, Rosie helps up Sting who sees Rose through his head.

In *"A Daydream Before Christmas"* after Rosie sees Rose through a snow globe, Rosie collapses to the shock of her friends, and siblings, Rosie was well aware of what was happening and had to let it pass through then falls asleep. Her mind wakes up in The Ether, as she was scared and frightened. It was not until she saw a scary-looking floating figure which chased her. Rosie ran through the Ether until she fell over, and fell down for a short period of time but was quickly saved by the figure's force. Rosie bursts into a panic attack until Rose comes up to her. Rose explains to Rosie that they had a limited amount of time to talk to each other as they were in danger. The figure then reappears behind Rose, which scares Rosie again but it's to be revealed by Rose that the figure is her brother Zero. Rose then offers Rosie an alternative plan that can help both Rose and Rosie protect everyone in their universe as well as the people who are out for Sting and Lolli, as Rose offers her physical powers and role of prodigy to Rosie. At first, Rosie didn't want to accept it as she was scared and weak, but then Rose reassures Rosie that she was scared once too, but she doesn't want to have Rosie go through what she had gone through with losing everyone she had loved, it was her destiny that Rosie continues Rose's legacy that she can protect everyone. The two come to an agreement and join hands. Rosie then wakes up from her hallucination, without a word she then walks off from her friends, especially Kiran who was calling out to her, but she didn't say anything. She got up on the ledge to everyone who was watching her and revealed her newly acquired powers.

## Trivia

* Everyone who enters the Ether naturally wears an all-white one-piece outfit. The ones who entered unnaturally such as The Ringmaster, Skyler, and Blumper do not wear the outfit as they invaded Rosie's mind through the Ether.
* Rosie and Rose wear their mother's respective haircuts in the Ether as their blood is traced back to the ones that bared them.