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OOC Information
NAME; Len
AGE; 20
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED; n/a

IC Information
CHARACTER NAME; Rose Strider
CANON; Homestuck AU
AGE; 13
TIMELINE; After Dave enters the Medium, but before she discovers Bro's body.
FAMILY TYPES; Dragon's Roar, Metal Empire, Virus Busters

WORLD; Homestuck wiki. The world is structurally the same in this AU, with the only differences being the kids having swapped guardians and the trolls having swapped blood colors.

The kids are now Jade Egbert, John Lalonde, Rose Strider, and Dave Harley. The trolls (color-coded with their new blood colors) are Equius Zahhak, Gamzee Makara, Feferi Peixes, Eridan Ampora, Tavros Nitram, Karkat Vantas, Nepeta Leijon, Aradia Megido, Sollux Captor, Vriska Serket, Terezi Pyrope, and Kanaya Maryam.

APPEARANCE; Rose is a normal human girl as far as appearances go; she has short blonde hair and is a bit on the small side for a girl her age, with a sharp and almost wiry build. Since entering Sburb she usually wears suits (with a skirt, thank you very much) in various colors, but no matter what clothes she's wearing she'll always be sporting a pair of triangular anime-esque sunglasses.

PERSONALITY;

Rose Strider is the portrait of an angry young girl with no way to manifest her negative feelings. Unlike Purple Rose, who was able to cultivate a softer side during her younger years due to the more subtle derision of her mother, Red Rose shut down completely from day one because of Bro's harsher parenting style. She wants nothing to do with her feelings, preferring to push them back to the furthest point of her mind and let them fester until they explode at the worst possible moment. Her lack of interest in psychology means that she also doesn't understand any of the things she feels, which makes emotions a thing to be feared rather than embraced.

Although she's a horribly stunted little thing, underneath her insecurities Rose is a fiercely loyal person prone to self-sacrifice for the sake of the people she loves. She makes every attempt to push her friends away but secretly would do anything to keep them safe without a second thought. Her social world isn't very large, which makes the people who consistently put up with her all the more precious.

That said, despite her unwavering loyalty Red Rose has the same difficulty trusting others that Purple Rose does. She is full of serious self-image problems, seeing herself as both a failure in general and particularly to her gender. There's very little she sees in herself that's positive, and as such she doesn't believe that the loyalty she feels is mutual. If she were in a dangerous situation, Red Rose would immediately assume that her friends would leave her high and dry.

Similar to Purple Rose, she matured far more quickly than a young girl should. This is born from a strong desire to not live off of pizza for the rest of her life and maybe have clean laundry every day of the week. Any fruits of her labor are specifically done to exclude Bro however, because Red Rose can be an incredibly mean-spirited and petty girl when she's brushed the wrong way. As such all of the sarcasm she uses is intended to hurt feelings rather than gently poke fun in the way Purple Rose does.

Because she doesn't have as good a handle (read: any) on her feelings as Purple Rose, her temper is markedly shorter than hers. It's not hard to mildly irritate her, and all that suppressed emotion means that she has a tendency to snap and take it out on those around her, and unfortunately it's usually a close friend.

She carries on the Rose tradition of having an incredibly complicated relationship with her guardian - Red Rose hates Bro with a blinding passion because she sees him as an irresponsible tool who isn't fit by any stretch of the imagination to be raising a child, while unconsciously loving him in the same way Purple Rose loved Mom. She uses Bro as a benchmark for her success, having determined that she wants to grow up to be nothing like him. Despite this she stills feels like Bro is incredibly disappointed in her, and finds that this actually bothers her. It's an uncomfortable feeling that she'd never talk about outside her own mind.

Although her speech doesn't always reflect it, Red Rose is every bit as smart as her purple counterpart. The topics she's interested in may have changed, but underneath the snarl of antagonism lurks as fearsome a vocabulary as any Lalonde. Thankfully for the rest of the world it only rears its head when she wants to intimidate and shame someone, a common occurrence for many of Rose's conversations. Although she desperately wishes to be a hero she doesn't like being the object of intense scrutiny unless provoked, similar to Purple Rose's private nature.

Purple Rose's issues with authority are also carried over to Red Rose and ratcheted up several notches. Red Rose can't stand being told what to do by anyone, which include the horrorterrors floating over Derse. The hatred of someone dictating her life is a large reason why she refuses to commune with the Old Ones, although there's some unvoiced worry there as well. It's difficult for Rose to follow someone even if she knows it's for her own good because she hates to feel boxed in.

HISTORY;

Rose had to contend with a hardass of a brother for her entire life, although some of the irritation over this was lessened by the fact that she had developed a strange sort of friendship with a group of other kids online. Sometimes she could even pretend that most of her waking moments didn't center around avoiding being thrown off roofs or down stairs.

That is, until Sburb entered the picture. After a mean-spirited joke while setting up the items necessary for John's entry into the game nearly results in his death, Rose herself is nearly flattened by a meteor as she herself struggles through unexpected obstacles in the form of a meddlesome sprite. Upon narrowly escaping an untimely death she finds herself transported to the Land of Rain and Clockwork, the planet created specifically for her to completely fulfill her game-ordained title as the Seer of Time.

Thanks to her abilities as a Heroine of Time and a certain cackling purple-blooded troll with a penchant for stirring up needless chaos, Rose soon finds herself trapped in a futile timeline destined only for termination. With the majority of her friends dead and nothing to lose, she rewinds time to prototype herself as her alpha self's sprite and preserve the timeline, but the experience leaves her incredibly bitter and jaded in regards to the game.

This becomes a serious problem when Rose discovers a horrifying reality: even with the correct timeline in motion, this session of Sburb is barren and destined for an inevitable failure and the subsequent demise of its players. Unwilling to accept defeat and desperate to do whatever it takes to save her friends, Rose begins searching for some way to fight the future and secure survival for everyone she cares about. Rosesprite, full of anger and now knowledgeable of all the game's secrets thanks to her spritedom, suggests that perhaps Rose could turn her Time powers on the game itself and utilize the power of the Scratch to rewrite the future into something winnable.

Rose, trusting of her alternate self and determined to follow up every lead, begins to listen to her sprite and pull away from her friends as she works towards her new goal. During her misadventures across the planet she's repeatedly bothered by the trolls, in particular Nepeta (who has begun worrying about her actions) and Kanaya (who has developed a slight fixation after being told off for the first time in her life by Rose). As she does so, Dave finally enters the Medium and (unbeknownst to her at this canon point) her Bro is killed in a battle with Jack Noir and pinned to the Clocktower on LORAC.

Suffice to say things only get worse before they get better.

SAMPLES
FIRST PERSON; A post from another game!

THIRD PERSON;

Rose sighed and pushed away from her computer desk, hands already unconsciously reaching up to rub at the bridge of her nose. Dealing with John had always been an exercise in varying levels of frustration, but ever since he'd begun to communicate with the horrorterrors in earnest that frustration had been tinged with an amount of worry that she wasn't comfortable with. No matter how many times she told herself that John's bad decisions were his own problem, that after he'd ignored her warnings she wasn't responsible for whatever happened to him, her mind continuously dwelt on the issue.

It wasn't the sort of thing that she had time for, another outwardly unsolvable problem to pile on top of the rest she was balancing, but Rose had no idea how to get rid of it. She wasn't even certain if she wanted to get rid of it. The other kids considered John a friend, certainly, but they were just trusting enough that they'd assume he knew what he was doing. If Rose didn't look out for all of them, John included, then who would?

A sudden tapping noise at her window pulled Rose away from the thought path that was quickly becoming uncomfortable for her to navigate. She looked up to see what the disturbance was, inwardly grateful for the distraction; whatever it was, it was almost guaranteed to be easier to deal with. Her assumption soon proved right as an ogre met her gaze almost guiltily through the window, expression making it clear that it hadn't expected her to notice it quite as quickly as she had.

The look on Rose's face quickly morphed into a grin made unpleasant by the way she decaptchaed her seam rippers simultaneously with it. The ogre's timing couldn't have been better; she was certainly spoiling for a fight to push the problems she couldn't control back into the dusty recesses of her mind where they belonged.

With one swift motion she rose from her chair and dashed forward. Showtime.