Characters: Rose Haruki

## **Character**

Rose Haruki is one of the members of Team Resonance and was the first of which that Colin Takeda met on his journey. in Fen City. Growing up she's had a rough life mainly involving her parents as they would constantly abuse her physically and mentally. After her parents were mugged and shot dead, Rose took her parents money and flew to Astia to find her friend Elizabeth Salthun and hopefully live with them. Due to strange occurrences, she meets Zarou Ichihara while stowing away onto the plane to Astia and he tells her about Red's return. Through this she meets Colin Takeda, and her life slowly gets better and eventually becomes friends with many people and even starts a relationship with Colin in Part III: War of the Stone.

### **Traits-**

Rose starts the series off as being shy, quiet, and depressed and doesn't quite understand why Colin and Shinjiro Harada are almost always happy and making jokes. Later on, she realizes that throughout Part I: The Return, Colin was helping her the whole time and felt bad for always being so down and now that he was split up from the team, she was afraid that she would never get a chance to say sorry. Luckily, halfway through Part II: Hollow, Colin is reunited with Team Resonance with Elizabeth. Once she's with Elizabeth again, Rose starts to be happy much more often. Before the end of Part II: Hollow, Rose is quite oblivious to many things that she should know due to her lack of education for the past 2 years as proven by Kaya Famar, as Rose thought that Kaya was in love with Colin and felt jealous. As a result, Rose hated Kaya until she said that this was never the case and they were just friends. Rose felt bad and they eventually made up becoming good friends.

## **Story**

### **Backstory/Early Years-**

Rose Haruki was born on Rei 2nd, 75 A.D. in Fen City. The unnamed Mr. and Ms. Haruki were he caretakers for a large portion of Rose's early years. When she was still young, her parents didn't have much money and were just scraping by life. However one day changed that, the Eastern Spies gave a secret offer to Rose's parents to sell drugs for them in exchange for egregious amounts of money, they took the offer. However they weren't just selling these drugs, they were on them as well, that mixed with them being alcoholics made them incredibly abusive toward Rose, both physically and mentally.

Rose enjoyed being at school more than home even though she was constantly bullied there too, because she felt more safe away from her parents. However there was one person who helped Rose in this time, and that was Elizabeth Salthun. Rose would often stay over at Elizabeth's house and the two became best friends. This didn't last too long as Elizabeth moved a few months later and Rose was back to being alone. Rose was soon kicked out from home and her parents were gaining copious amounts of money, which they used to buy more drugs.

One day out on the streets, Rose heard fighting from an alleyway nearby, and her curiosity lead her down there. She saw her parents fighting with someone who she didn't recognize, they were shouting loudly at each other, but no one was nearby. The unknown man pulled out a gun and fired five shots each of them had hit Rose's parents directly. Fueled by adrenaline, Rose ran up to the man and took his gun, shooting him in the face five times. Rose ran away before anyone would suspect her and went home and took her parents money. She had a new plan, fly to Astia, find Elizabeth, and get adopted by her family.

### **Part I: The Return-**

Once Rose made it to the airport, she was declined to go on a flight to Astia, due to her not having a passport. So instead she snuck over the building and made it on the plane, but not before meeting Zarou Ichihara. Zarou helped Rose, but in exchange wanted her help finding Colin Takeda to alert him about the return of Red. Once they both make it to Astia, Zeke was found sneaking through the bathroom vents and sacrificed himself so that Rose could get away while he distracted the guards. Though the guards saw Rose, she still narrowly escaped and made her way through the Tero Mountains on her way to Gamen Village.

Not far on her journey, Rose heard screaming in the Treetop Forest and she found Colin Takeda fighting Red, it had already begun!

## **Trivia**

- Rose's design is based off a scrapped design for Emillia Takeda.

- Rose's backstory was originally MUCH darker but was thankfully changed for obvious reasons.

- I still have a hard time describing Rose's personality because it really is all over the place.

- Rose is Japanese.

- Rose's use of a gun and knife are inspired by Joker, from Persona 5.

- Rose is in love with both Colin Takeda, and Kaya Famar.