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OOC INFORMATION;
Player: Steph
Age: 21
Personal Journal: useantibioticgel
Contact Info: PMs, elemental_shark, ElementalShark86 on AIM

IC INFORMATION;
Character's Name: Rosalia Rossellini, also goes by "Rose"
Age: 17 (alive 15 years + 2 years as a ghost), probably 15 physically
Canon: Trauma Team, from the Trauma Center games
Canon Point: Post-Trauma Team
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Orientation: No information in canon and probably not emotionally mature enough for any serious relationship, but let's go with bi for spouse purposes since she gets along with anybody otherwise

History:
History writeup here and timeline here.
Appearance:
In-game image.
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 had the potential to do really bad stuff and also 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 little 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 research subject 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 consequences of what she and her family tried to do and that sticks with her - although it hasn't changed her views completely. 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 in the world at large again she's mostly 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.

Abilities:
Rosalia has no special abilities for use beyond housework, but it's definitely worth noting that her blood contains a dangerous 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 the virus won't be transferrable, so no more worrying about accidentally killing people with every papercut. Yay!)
Other: Nothing!

SAMPLES;
First Person: Post from a previous game!

Third Person:
Rosalia was not prepared for high school. She'd been a little nervous just trying to come, because was it really okay for her to be in twelfth grade? She'd only made it to fourth grade before she and Daddy moved, and Daddy hadn't taught her everything in the six years after that. Some algebra, and some more about science, and a lot of books...but she sure didn't feel like she belonged in high school with that much. That was definitely beyond her level.

They'd said she was in this grade, though, so here she was. The teacher was here, so Rosalia tapped her pencil on the desk anxiously as she waited for class to start and hoped she wouldn't turn out too embarrassing. Maybe the people would be nice and oh, the teacher was starting!

...She didn't get it. Rosalia felt a stab of fear as she tried to listen, and - wait a minute, what the teacher was saying didn't have anything to do with math. At least, she was pretty sure it didn't.

Five more minutes and she ran through all the math she knew in her head. No, none of that sounded like this. Another five minutes, and she checked her schedule. Yes, this was supposed to be a math class. But it sure didn't sound like math. She looked around and saw a lot of bored looks and blank expressions, but she couldn't make out why. Did they not get it either, or did they already know everything?

Rose chewed on her lip nervously, trying to follow what the teacher was saying through to the end of class, but it didn't get much better. As everyone started filing out of class, she eyed the boy next to her and took a second to give herself the courage to speak up. "Hey, was all that...supposed to be math?"

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