President Rose

## Overview

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The President responsible for the Civil Cleansing, Rose was a former (and accomplished) soldier and one of the most anti-mutant, anti-vigilante politicians to date. His hard work trying to pen all mutants up into a floating prison on the pacific has left a burning trail for likeminded politicians to follow-- and scarred a whole generation of mutants, too. Rose was killed by Castor Von Doom during a raid on his secure facility, and is currently kept in the Soul Stone in eternal torment.

## History

#### Early Life and Military Service

One of many children, Rose was from the lowest economic bracket and did not have much going for him, unable to access adequate healthcare when his youngest sister fell ill. From a young age he had a dream of becoming a politician and changing things, but was reminded by his parents that there's nothing 'people like them' could do to change things. Arthur internalised this for most of his adolescence.

Leaving high school prematurely, Rose was picked up by military recruiters and flourished in the regimented structure of the military despite his tendency to talk back. In the military he met his future husband, having been deployed during the Gulf Wars and stationed at the same base. As the two drew closer over the years, not long after the most impromptu eloping to man it came to light that his husband was a mutant. During a poorly executed attack, he and Rose were stranded and injured, and the stress of the situation awakened the late-blooming powers of his husband.

Rose was struck by the bizarre plague-esque power that rendered him as sick as a dog and unable to properly metabolise oxygen as the big red mass that started growing on his chest started interfering with his tissues. He was healthy enough to make it back to base but his condition quickly worsened; Rose ended up needing immediate interventional care and was left with a heavy artificial circulatory system with an alternative oxygen source strapped to him for the rest of his days. His husband was quarantined to a far away base and Rose was essentially grounded, hearing reports of other mutant soldiers in battles and fostering a growing resentment for the 'people' who took his body away from him.

#### Political Career

Rose was honourably discharged once it became clear keeping him as a soldier would require serious money invested into meeting his needs; sent packing back to the US with a disease no one has ever had and no support, he became reacquainted with the idea of becoming a politician. Briefly, he held a small support group for mutant attack survivors, but with little to no turnout he scrapped it, dug in and got to work with local politics in New York. Once he had reached presidential office, Rose bolstered defences against invaders like aliens and putting pressures on systems to find out how best to rework them to better suit his people. Somehow he worked it out well enough that America prospered during his term. Rose, however, kept a close tab on the superpowered population all throughout, and when he was given the news he only had so long to live he came to the conclusion that he needed to make his stand. The death-date bombshell coincided with him (somehow) getting re-elected, so Rose put all his money into Project Phoenix.

#### Project Phoenix (The Cleansing)

Contacting various robotics companies with his Sentinel schematics, Rose and Director Fury of SHIELD hatched the plan for the cleansing. It was never Rose's intentions to kill all mutants; rather to pen them into their own area so that 'normal' people don't have to deal with them; but it somehow got baked into the Sentinel codes that that was the plan. Phoenix also included researching the X-Gene to perfect the power dampening collars, which meant kidnapping and researching mutants. As the project was long underway, the Brotherhood uncovering an X-Gene research facility meant little-- but Fury's death kicked the whole plan into overdrive. He wrote the Detaining Bill and the Thorn Act without presenting it to congress and outlawed mutants, vigilantes, and other undocumented super-people; with SHIELD providing the man-power.

#### Death

Rose knew he was going to die regardless, so he didn't care for the Avengers Rebellion attacking the base he holed up in. Doom stole his soul with the Soul Stone, where he has since been enduring perpetual torment.

## Trivia

* Rose is FTM.
* idk abt u but i think rose n fury had smth going there yk u feel me