Rosie
From Changeling Venue
| Seeming | Fairest Treasured |
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| Court | Spring Court •• |
| Freehold | The Freehold of the Riven Smoke |
| Player | Sally Brewer |
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Overview
Alias(es):
Real Name: Entirely unknown. Rosie occasionally says that her Motley think she would just be irresponsible with her own name if she knew it.
Age: Appears to be in her early twenties.
Concept: Broken doll.
Entitlement: None that anyone is aware of.
Physical description: Rosie is astonishingly pretty. Sadly, she seems to be entirely unaware of this fact, and instead quietly bemoans the fact that she is now soft, fleshy and incapable of preventing her face from showing emotions. Her hair is a glossy dark brown (a sad mix of colours, with no internal consistency, Rosie thinks), her eyes are bright green (although her Keeper disliked green, and always told her that she looked nicer with sapphires instead of eyes), and she has a bright smile, that Rosie worries is a little too easy on her face. It's not proper to display one's feelings quite so openly. She tends to wear corsetry, in an attempt to stop her body from wobbling in a manner she finds unseemly.
Relevant Mechanics: Striking Looks 4
Character Livejournal: http://rosie-sparks.livejournal.com/
Character Information
Known History
Basic Timeline:
1930s: Born in England
1940s: Snatched from London during the Blitz.
1940s - 2007: Kept in Arcadia by the Lord of Darken Fel
2007: Found in the Hedge by Carin, and brought back to Birmingham
Current Activities:
Merit Details: Striking Looks x 4. Rosie is very lovely to look at, when she managed to take care of herself.
Background: Very little is known about Rosie's background. Deyenira has drawn fragments of memory out of Rosie regarding her life before Arcadia. Rosie remembers wailing sirens, a cardboard box banging against her knee and a label pinned to her chest. She remembered explosions, and falling brickwork. Interspersed with that are vague memories of somewhere green, and a few snatches of songs that were once popular on the radio in the 1930s.
Her life in Arcadia seems more real to her. Rosie spent over sixty years there, until she was temporarily freed from her Keeper when his ship crashed in a storm. Wandering lost through the Hedge she found Carin, and attached herself to him, following him through the Hedge and out into the real word.
Since then she's continued to cling to Carin, a little confused by reality. Rosie was gone a long time, and has found it hard to re-adapt to this world, let along her own newly vulnerable human body.
Motley
Allies
- Aria - who seems to have performed wonders in turning Rosie from a bedraggled mess to something vaguely presentable.
- Deyanira - Aria's motley mate and another who seems to be working on introducing Rosie to reality.
- Shard - Rosie and Shard's ties go back into Arcadia, where they were both ornaments in the same gentry household.
- Saint Amen - Rosie works in his flower shop, where she seems to have developed a strange fascination with bonsai trees.
- Drago Dokic - he and Rosie seem to have some kind of connection, although she is very edgy about describing him as a 'boyfriend' still.
Enemies
Character Inspirations
- The Ship Who Sang, by Anne McCaffrey.
- A very old doll, once owned by my mother, which now lacks all its limbs.
- The golden ship from the Mysterious Cities of Gold cartoon series.
- A very sad photograph of a shipwreck, with a rotting figurehead resting on the ocean's bed.
- A newspaper article on Stockholm Syndrome.
Soundtrack
Bjork - Play Dead
Aqua - Barbie Girl
Rachel Unthank and Winterset - Sea Song
Levellers - Far From Home
Quotes
- "It's hard to be around her sometimes. She brings out the best and the worst in people - often at the same time. I hope bringing her here wasn't an act of cruelty, but I know - in the short term - that she wishes I hadn't" - Carin
- "She needs to learn to enjoy herself again. Fortunately, she's got a motley full of people all willing to help her get back on her feet and settled again, and I'm happy to be there to help if she wants me to be." - Aria
- "She's really pretty, and she has really big eyes that look really sadly at everything when she's unhappy. I don't like it when she's unhappy, but I don't know if I can make her not unhappy. I hope I can." - Good Doug
- "Everyone had a different time, and has come out with different memories. But I still think the eyes she has now look pretty enough without being replaced by sapphires." - Deyanira
- "She's motley, yeah. But she makes my fists itch sometimes." -Rea
- "Being with Rosie make me happy and like world is full of adventure. She also make me want to have more adventures, hope with her. Not always understanding her idea of romance, not liking her verbal plates but we work out, I like her very much" -Drago Dokic
- "There are times when Rosie kind of wanders through a situation, and just doesn't seem to get it. Then suddenly, she'll just say or do exactly the right thing." -Aidan
- "When you're teaching a child, it's tempting to justify things by saying that things are that way because they are. A good teacher tells the child why, and takes the time to explain." - Cormac the Poet
- "Dammit, but I love the girl. She's sweet, and tries so hard, and I can never thank her enough for being there to help Carin when I couldn't be. I only hope that I don't make things worse by trying to show her how the world works these days. And she's not a damn child. I wish people would stop making that mistake - I certainly am working on not falling into the same pattern as everyone else." - Aria
- I've not had a chance to speak to her that much yet. She seems to be alright though. She certainly makes Drago happy, and thats the important thing. - Dominic
Rumors
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