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[Character Name] Rosalia "Rose" Rossellini
[Canon] Trauma Center (specifically, Trauma Team)
[Point Taken from Canon] Post-canon
[Age] 15
[Gender] Female
[Sexual Orientation] Who even knows. Never exactly came up for her.
[Eye Color] Pink
[Hair Color] White
[Height] Around 160 cm/5'3", according to the artbook
[Other] None.
[Clothing] Canon outfit. Note that in Somarium she'll be wearing clothes that cover more (i.e., most) of her body for safety reasons - long sleeves, gloves, pants/long skirts, etc. She'll be keeping the same general taste in fashion as best as she can, though, along with those elaborate hair ribbons.
[Background]
History write-up here and a timeline here. The Wikipedia article on Trauma Team is over here; there's also a fan wiki for the series, but I don't recommend using it as a source since it's not always very well written and occasionally prone to stating speculation/fan bias as fact (e.g., Rosalia's age is wrong and her bio skips pretty much straight from the orphanage fire to her death).
[Personality]
Rosalia's strongest quality is probably in her optimism. She wants the best for the world, and she'll do everything she can to try and help it. She has a lot of faith in the world, because in many ways she was a very lucky, very happy girl until the end of her life. She was orphaned at an early age and was noted to have been very sad in her time there, likely because of the fact that her parents were gone—until, of course, she found that there were people out there who were kind enough to save her life even in the face of danger. This was a big deal and most likely a turning point for her, soon reinforced when a man decided to take her life into his own and adopt her as his daughter. Despite her misfortunes the world has largely showed goodness to Rosalia, and it's little wonder she wants to do good back.
Her optimism is both the product of and the driving motivation behind the way she grew up: being both her father's daughter and research subject, she was aware from childhood that her blood contained one thing that had the potential to do really bad stuff and another that had the potential to do really good stuff. Rosalia's father worked endlessly to find a way to neutralize the bad and utilize the good, and while Rosalia's love for her father and unconditional belief in his goals help explain how she could happily go through years of isolation and sometimes painful testing to achieve that they're almost certainly not the only factor. Rosalia honestly wanted to be able to help heal people, and it was the vision of a future where every disease could be cured along with her dad's success that gave her the strength to keep going.
In general, Rosalia's a very friendly girl and a loving daughter: she adopts Maria as her big sis just because Maria saved her, she seems to look up to her brother just as much despite their limited time together, and she loves her father unconditionally. Rosalia believes the best of everybody and everything; when her father told her that he'd wronged her brother beyond forgiveness, Rosalia seemed to accept that her father did something wrong but firmly believed that her brother still loved him all the same – everything would turn out all right. She really does adore the people she has in her life, both because she's only had so many and because she's just that kind of person. She's likely to feel the same way about any new friends she's ever able to make.
In terms of maturity and behavior Rosalia is somewhere between a normal teenager and a sheltered daddy's girl, because she really is both of those. She's eager to meet people and make friends, although having spent much of her life confined to her house and the surrounding area she hasn't had much experience in complex social interaction and her education has been pretty spotty since around the age of nine – despite growing up with a doctor and a teenage genius med student and despite being a human lab rat for eight years, Rosalia doesn't seem all that knowledgeable about medicine and science. When she talks about the virus it's mostly in terms of what her father has told her about it, and she seems less interested in the actual science than the idea that they could produce some kind of miracle cure from the virus.
It's worth noting, though, that having watched the virus in her blood cause a nationwide pandemic of extra-delightful things like bloody death and murderous insanity, Rosalia isn't completely naive. She spends most of the game looking sad and scared, trying to warn Maria of danger but barely able to communicate, and when Naomi uncovers the truth of her death she remarks that Rosalia has suffered in the past few years. After all that's happened, Rosalia is very much aware of the dangers of her virus; for this reason, she'll also be more careful about herself while in the game - she'll be very much interested in doing whatever good she can, but she'll also be conscientious about the risks she takes. Although her belief in her virus's potential for healing has been shattered by the events of the game, she still believes strongly in people's (and medicine's) potential to accomplish great things. It's not quite canonical due to the fourth wall, but accomplishing certain challenges in the game earns you praise and commentary from various characters in the game; once you've gotten far enough, Rosalia's implies that she believes you might have the skill to accomplish what she and her father could not.
In daily life, Rosalia has also shown herself to be responsible by necessity - someone had to take care of the house while her father got caught up in his research, after all. For similar reasons she's also strong-minded when she needs to be: the game's introduction to Rosalia in life has her snatching her father's tape recorder mid-log in a loving but forceful attempt to bring him to dinner, and her banter with her father is firm but empty of real resentment. Given the chance to live again, while she'll have some trouble trying to adjust to life alive and among people again she's responsible enough to look after herself once she gets her bearings.
Rosalia does get lonely, but she tries not to let it get her down anymore ever since she was rescued from the fire. She mentioned missing her brother and "big sis" in a recording made just prior to her death and expressed hope that one day she'd be able to go out and make friends after her father's research was done; even after six years of no success, she was always looking to the future. And at the same time, she was also satisfied with where she was too: "I think I'll be okay if I can stay here like this." Reminders of the really bad things in her life may shatter her generally sunny disposition for a while, considering that these include getting murdered by her father and being the cause of a lethal virus outbreak, but overall Rosalia truly appreciates everything she has rather than the things she doesn't and focusing on those is what keeps her strong and happy.
[Specialties/Abilities]
Rosalia has no special abilities for use beyond housework (her father frequently got too wrapped up in research to notice the time, so homekeeping duties tended to fall on her), but it's definitely worth noting that her blood is very dangerous, as it contains a virus that causes viral hemorrhagic fever in its victims. It's a scientific cousin of ebola except on (non-scientific) steroids, which is a nice way of saying that this virus...kind of eats everything it can get its hands on in a body, may drive the victim insane, and eventually makes them die bleeding out of every facial orifice. It's scary, okay? The good part is that Rosalia also has antibodies so that it won't kill her, and since it's only transferred via mucous membranes the only feasible way to get the virus is via ingestion (and assuming the antibodies don't go with it), i.e., as long as her blood doesn't get into someone else's body by some means then everyone's safe. In-game, this pretty much translates to "it won't be an actual threat unless relevant parties agree to make it one."
[Affection]
Hugging and friendshippy things are cool! Rosalia will probably be pretty prone to these herself. Intimate stuff is iffier, and would probably be a case-by-case basis.
[Fighting]
Rosalia can't fight and will be actively avoiding fights, due to the above concerns regarding her blood and general lack of knowledge/willingness to do anything violent; therefore, anything involving blood is extremely iffy. Note that she doesn't like guns, having been killed by one already. That said, if you want something to happen talk to me and we'll see.
[Other Permissions]
Mind readers are free as they want, fourth wallers can say what they want (although depending on what's said she might just get confused). Anything at all involving blood is a no unless for plot things.
[Other Facts] Doctors are the coolest. Also, in Somarium Rosalia constantly wears clothing that covers most of her body and always carries bandages around for safety reasons.
[Canon] Trauma Center (specifically, Trauma Team)
[Point Taken from Canon] Post-canon
[Age] 15
[Gender] Female
[Sexual Orientation] Who even knows. Never exactly came up for her.
[Eye Color] Pink
[Hair Color] White
[Height] Around 160 cm/5'3", according to the artbook
[Other] None.
[Clothing] Canon outfit. Note that in Somarium she'll be wearing clothes that cover more (i.e., most) of her body for safety reasons - long sleeves, gloves, pants/long skirts, etc. She'll be keeping the same general taste in fashion as best as she can, though, along with those elaborate hair ribbons.
[Background]
History write-up here and a timeline here. The Wikipedia article on Trauma Team is over here; there's also a fan wiki for the series, but I don't recommend using it as a source since it's not always very well written and occasionally prone to stating speculation/fan bias as fact (e.g., Rosalia's age is wrong and her bio skips pretty much straight from the orphanage fire to her death).
[Personality]
Rosalia's strongest quality is probably in her optimism. She wants the best for the world, and she'll do everything she can to try and help it. She has a lot of faith in the world, because in many ways she was a very lucky, very happy girl until the end of her life. She was orphaned at an early age and was noted to have been very sad in her time there, likely because of the fact that her parents were gone—until, of course, she found that there were people out there who were kind enough to save her life even in the face of danger. This was a big deal and most likely a turning point for her, soon reinforced when a man decided to take her life into his own and adopt her as his daughter. Despite her misfortunes the world has largely showed goodness to Rosalia, and it's little wonder she wants to do good back.
Her optimism is both the product of and the driving motivation behind the way she grew up: being both her father's daughter and research subject, she was aware from childhood that her blood contained one thing that had the potential to do really bad stuff and another that had the potential to do really good stuff. Rosalia's father worked endlessly to find a way to neutralize the bad and utilize the good, and while Rosalia's love for her father and unconditional belief in his goals help explain how she could happily go through years of isolation and sometimes painful testing to achieve that they're almost certainly not the only factor. Rosalia honestly wanted to be able to help heal people, and it was the vision of a future where every disease could be cured along with her dad's success that gave her the strength to keep going.
In general, Rosalia's a very friendly girl and a loving daughter: she adopts Maria as her big sis just because Maria saved her, she seems to look up to her brother just as much despite their limited time together, and she loves her father unconditionally. Rosalia believes the best of everybody and everything; when her father told her that he'd wronged her brother beyond forgiveness, Rosalia seemed to accept that her father did something wrong but firmly believed that her brother still loved him all the same – everything would turn out all right. She really does adore the people she has in her life, both because she's only had so many and because she's just that kind of person. She's likely to feel the same way about any new friends she's ever able to make.
In terms of maturity and behavior Rosalia is somewhere between a normal teenager and a sheltered daddy's girl, because she really is both of those. She's eager to meet people and make friends, although having spent much of her life confined to her house and the surrounding area she hasn't had much experience in complex social interaction and her education has been pretty spotty since around the age of nine – despite growing up with a doctor and a teenage genius med student and despite being a human lab rat for eight years, Rosalia doesn't seem all that knowledgeable about medicine and science. When she talks about the virus it's mostly in terms of what her father has told her about it, and she seems less interested in the actual science than the idea that they could produce some kind of miracle cure from the virus.
It's worth noting, though, that having watched the virus in her blood cause a nationwide pandemic of extra-delightful things like bloody death and murderous insanity, Rosalia isn't completely naive. She spends most of the game looking sad and scared, trying to warn Maria of danger but barely able to communicate, and when Naomi uncovers the truth of her death she remarks that Rosalia has suffered in the past few years. After all that's happened, Rosalia is very much aware of the dangers of her virus; for this reason, she'll also be more careful about herself while in the game - she'll be very much interested in doing whatever good she can, but she'll also be conscientious about the risks she takes. Although her belief in her virus's potential for healing has been shattered by the events of the game, she still believes strongly in people's (and medicine's) potential to accomplish great things. It's not quite canonical due to the fourth wall, but accomplishing certain challenges in the game earns you praise and commentary from various characters in the game; once you've gotten far enough, Rosalia's implies that she believes you might have the skill to accomplish what she and her father could not.
In daily life, Rosalia has also shown herself to be responsible by necessity - someone had to take care of the house while her father got caught up in his research, after all. For similar reasons she's also strong-minded when she needs to be: the game's introduction to Rosalia in life has her snatching her father's tape recorder mid-log in a loving but forceful attempt to bring him to dinner, and her banter with her father is firm but empty of real resentment. Given the chance to live again, while she'll have some trouble trying to adjust to life alive and among people again she's responsible enough to look after herself once she gets her bearings.
Rosalia does get lonely, but she tries not to let it get her down anymore ever since she was rescued from the fire. She mentioned missing her brother and "big sis" in a recording made just prior to her death and expressed hope that one day she'd be able to go out and make friends after her father's research was done; even after six years of no success, she was always looking to the future. And at the same time, she was also satisfied with where she was too: "I think I'll be okay if I can stay here like this." Reminders of the really bad things in her life may shatter her generally sunny disposition for a while, considering that these include getting murdered by her father and being the cause of a lethal virus outbreak, but overall Rosalia truly appreciates everything she has rather than the things she doesn't and focusing on those is what keeps her strong and happy.
[Specialties/Abilities]
Rosalia has no special abilities for use beyond housework (her father frequently got too wrapped up in research to notice the time, so homekeeping duties tended to fall on her), but it's definitely worth noting that her blood is very dangerous, as it contains a virus that causes viral hemorrhagic fever in its victims. It's a scientific cousin of ebola except on (non-scientific) steroids, which is a nice way of saying that this virus...kind of eats everything it can get its hands on in a body, may drive the victim insane, and eventually makes them die bleeding out of every facial orifice. It's scary, okay? The good part is that Rosalia also has antibodies so that it won't kill her, and since it's only transferred via mucous membranes the only feasible way to get the virus is via ingestion (and assuming the antibodies don't go with it), i.e., as long as her blood doesn't get into someone else's body by some means then everyone's safe. In-game, this pretty much translates to "it won't be an actual threat unless relevant parties agree to make it one."
[Affection]
Hugging and friendshippy things are cool! Rosalia will probably be pretty prone to these herself. Intimate stuff is iffier, and would probably be a case-by-case basis.
[Fighting]
Rosalia can't fight and will be actively avoiding fights, due to the above concerns regarding her blood and general lack of knowledge/willingness to do anything violent; therefore, anything involving blood is extremely iffy. Note that she doesn't like guns, having been killed by one already. That said, if you want something to happen talk to me and we'll see.
[Other Permissions]
Mind readers are free as they want, fourth wallers can say what they want (although depending on what's said she might just get confused). Anything at all involving blood is a no unless for plot things.
[Other Facts] Doctors are the coolest. Also, in Somarium Rosalia constantly wears clothing that covers most of her body and always carries bandages around for safety reasons.