Jason Rosewood

**Jason Rosewood** was a male Borealan Aethuman from the planet Borealis. Rosewood was the son of Jasmine and Oswald Rosewood, the latter of whom was the patriarch of House Rosewood and captain of the Thorns. Jason was an old friend of Amber Lafayette, a member of the Dawns and House Lafayette.

## Biography

### Early Life

In 5928 ASA, Jason Rosewood was born on the planet Borealis. His Aethuman father Oswald was the patriarch of Borealan noble house, House Rosewood, and the captain of an elite team of Borealan fighters called the Thorns. Oswald Rosewood and his team of Thorns served House Stone while its patriarch, Danton Stone, was in power. His Human mother Jasmine, as the wife of Oswald, was the matriach of House Rosewood.

Assigned female at birth, Jason grew up as friends with Amber Lafayette and Berniece Piper, the latter of whom was a member of the minor House Piper. Jason and Amber would often sneak away from the snobby upper levels of Borealis to hang out with the down-to-earth kids of the lower levels like Berniece, who they affectionately called Bea.

In 5947 ASA, when the group of friends were 19, Amber's entire noble house was taken during a raid and imprisoned at the Hailstorm penal colony. Although Amber had her friends to support her, Amber was forced to leave Borealis for her own safety. Jason and Bea would not meet Amber again for several years.

### Life as a Weapons Runner

By the time Jason was an adult, he ran weapons during the conflict between the Borealan House Nuñez colonials, the imperial Drazarian settlers, and the Devozoa native tribes on the planet Thal'devo (called New Augustine by the Borealans). Jason provided weapons to the Devozoa natives in their fight against a foreign occupation. As an arms dealer, Jason traveled to many different places in the Cassiopeia Galaxy, including Drazarian Space and the planet Makuru.

He eventually came to know the Pithecan-Human Samayo Nishikiyama. The two of them considered each other business associates at best.

Berniece Piper wanted to meet with Amber again after having been separated for a decade. Bea had help from Jason, who helped Bea "pull a few strings and do some research", as Bea put it. With Jason's assistance, Bea was able to contact Amber and meet up with her for the first time in ten years.

### Reuniting with Amber, Helping the Dawns

In the year 5957 ASA, a group called the Dawns was targeted by the Praeliorian Empire in an elaborate scheme to incriminate them, all while boosting up the public image of the empire. The Praeliorian Empire worked hand-in-hand with House Stone in order to accomplish their goals. Berniece Piper informed Jason of this news, emphasizing how this plot affected their old friend Amber Lafayette.

Jason was lounging inside a shady tavern on the planet Makuru, where a variety of shady figures—ranging from Morkarian pirates, Moranian gangsters, Ordovician smugglers, and those of a similar upbringing—often met and operated. Samayo Nishikiyama, a member of the Dawns himself, took four other members of his team—Amber, Annesidora, Asher Kardia, and Isosceles Idoh—to meet up with Jason in order to have him assist in their plan.

The Dawns planned to use the conflict on New Augustine against the Borealans. They wanted to attempt to influence the Drazarian Empire to attack the penal colony of Hailstorm, where several Drazarians were being kept as political prisoners. In doing this, the Dawns hoped to break out House Lafayette from their unlawful imprisonment during the chaos of the Drazarians' attack on Hailstorm. The Dawns needed Jason to accomplish this plan.

Jason met with Amber after years of no contact, both of them glad to see each other again. Jason was a bit surprised to find that Amber and Samayo knew each other. The leader of the Dawns, Ann, informed Jason of their plan and requested him to bring them to Drazaria Prime, the capital of the Drazarian Empire. Once Jason knew that his involvement would be limited to simply taking the Dawns to Drazarian Space, he accepted their request. Had the Dawns wanted to have freed someone else from Hailstorm, Jason would've been more hesitant to assist them.

#### Flying the Dawns to Drazaria Prime

Jason later took two Dawns, Ann and Moon, to the planet Drazaria Prime. He reminded them to be polite and not complain about the food, as Drazarians were notorious for their vampiric diets. The two Dremirian women initially wanted Jason to land directly at main palace of the Sentinel, which surprised him.

Jason offered them jetpacks to use once he landed at the spaceport nearest to the main palace, as Jason informed them that the only way not to stand out while traversing the planet was through flight. While Moon was reluctant, Ann accepted the jetpacks, seeing it as the only way to get to the main palace efficiently from the spaceport.

Jason dropped off the two Dremirian women after they reached the spaceport, telling them to have fun before deciding to leave the planet and its region of space with his starship.

## Personality and Traits

Jason Rosewood was a tall Aethuman man, although with only a fourth of Aetherian ancestry and having been mostly human. Jason had light-toned skin, rose-pink-colored eyes, and blond hair. He had scars that lined the bottom of his pectorals as a result of his top surgery.

Jason was a well-traveled man, having been to Drazarian Space and to the planet Makuru out in the far reaches of the Central Expanse. Like his friends Amber and Bea, Jason wasn't fond of the elitism and snobbishness of the Borealan noble houses of the upper levels. He much preferred the more modest scene, having hung out with the children of Borealis' lower levels as a child. Jason enjoyed simpler things in life, like humming to music in relaxation and hanging around taverns all around the galaxy. The aristocratic way of life was not for him, as he kept himself happy by venturing throughout the galaxy and making a living as a weapons expert.

While Jason knew his father had his faults, he respected Oswald Rosewood and considered him to be a good man. As Jason came to love himself and be proud of who he was, he always hoped that his father would someday feel the same way about his own self.

## Skills and Abilities

Jason Rosewood was a skilled fighter, able to hold his own in combat against many foes. Like his father, Jason knew how to properly use a jetpack with relative ease, as well as how to pilot spacecraft. As an arms dealer, Jason was a weapons expert at heart.

## Trivia

* The idea of Jason Rosewood as a character came from a dream Naps had about a made-up Borealan childhood friend of Amber Lafayette named "Jason Rose", supposedly based off of a nonexistent *Steven Universe* fan character named Black Pearl. Naps' close friend adapted "Jason Rose" into Jason Rosewood, the son of Lord Oswald Rosewood, patriarch of House Rosewood.