Rosa Ushiromiya

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Rosa Ushiromiya is Kinzo Ushiromiya's youngest child and the mother of Maria Ushiromiya. As the youngest Ushiromiya woman and the only one without and husband to support her, she has very little say at the family meetings and is poorly respected by the other adults. Rosa is a young and beautiful woman who has sandy brown hair with a hime cut. The length of Rosa's hair varies between different adaptations. In the visual novels, her hair falls past her shoulders. However, in the various manga adaptations, her hair can reach past her waist. Her eyes are black in the original PC version and light brown in the anime and console ports. She has fair skin and appears to be somewhat more flat-chested than other women, as well as very thin. She wears a long, black, country-styled gown, combined with what appears to be a long dark red skirt, a white shirt under her coat, and long black boots with medium heels. The One-Winged Eagle family crest is embroidered in gold on her oversized white tie. In the console version, Rosa's casual attire consists of a blue navy vest over a white, wide-sleeved shirt with matching blue navy pants. Both the anime and the manga adaptations shows that, as a teenager, Rosa wore a checkered red-and-black skirt and wore her long hair in pigtails. She wore a blue vest over a white, long-sleeved shirt. Since her absent lover abandoned her when she gave birth to Maria, she's had to raise her up by herself and work overtime in her company. All these stresses over time had caused her to develop mood swings; calm and loving one moment, but then very quick-tempered and violent the next, especially towards her own daughter, whom she physically and verbally abuses on multiple occasions. Despite her very violent tendencies, she tends to regret her choices and feels bad about what she does, often apologizing to Maria by crying with her and accepting her daughter's imaginative interpretation that Rosa herself had been possessed by "the Black Witch". Rosa even goes so far as to define Maria as her only ally in the world. Even though the other siblings and their spouses find her to be very dumb, naive and an easy target because she's the youngest, she is shown to be rather intelligent and manipulative actually, as she is the only one besides Eva to solve the epitaph on her own (and indirectly helping her sister find it before her by pointing out a key detail that Eva herself was overlooking) and in the Turn of the Golden Witch she keeps separating the servants from the rest of the survivors, pretending to be concerned about them and pushing suspicion onto them; for this very reason, in this Episode she emerges as a dictatorial, resentful and vindictive figure, unable to trust others unless she is sure of earning something without taking any risks. Rosa's treatment of the servants can also be seen as a result of extreme paranoia, given that Rosa has experienced numerous betrayals of trust at the hands of her siblings at a young age and thus always expects the worst from people. Rosa also seems well aware that Battler has inherited Rudolf's fondness for beautiful women, using it to her advantage during her aiding the young boy in solving the epitaph during End of the Golden Witch by lightly flirting with her nephew and making him promise to give her a share in case he succeeds in finding the gold before anyone else. Throughout all the games, it's implicitly stated that the origin of her violent mood swings is not only due to the abandonment of her daughter's father but also from the cruel treatment that her parents, her brothers and sister reserved for her when she was still a kid and it is often shown more than once that Rosa has a veiled profound resentment and hatred for all of them. The hatred she feels for her older siblings is explored extensively in the second game where, after getting over the initial scare and shock of finding their bodies, Rosa has no problem appearing subtly pleased with their deaths in front of her nephews and she's constantly obsessed with how badly they had treated her in the past. All of this eventually led to her being tortured in the Tea Party; being physically forced to ingest their severed body parts and their blood to fulfill her childhood wishes of punishing them. As demonstrated in the second and fourth games, Rosa is volatile and will lash out at others at the slightest doubt or provocation when she finds herself in a situation where she has power over other people in more disadvantaged positions than her own. This seems to echo what Eva always did to her. In these situations, she also subconsciously speaks in a venomous manner like her older siblings when she expresses her real thoughts towards her family and servants. Her ambiguous nature is further deepened so much that, even with her poor tolerance, her emotional frailties and her serious unsolved psychological problems, in her moments of tranquility Rosa is able to effectively project a very kind and calm aura of herself with which she is partially able to deceive most other of her relatives including Battler, who initially saw her as the most peaceful and mature of the family's parents. Rosa is also greatly affected by her status as a single mother in an oppressive society like Japan, in which women like her are looked down upon, perceiving how everyone forces her to always and only put her daughter first at the expense of her own needs and desires. Because of this, she is very obsessed with her public image both as a woman and as a mother, so when she loses control and punishes Maria for one of her tantrums or neglects her, she tries to do it discreetly and so that no one suspects anything. Her daughter, neighbors and employees seem to believe that, like her brother Rudolf, she is very fickle in romantic relationships because she regularly starts relationships with many men and gets engaged only to soon break up with them. Because of her very stressful and tiring lifestyle, a part of her started to dream of a life in which she is so rich that she doesn't even need to work, spending her time traveling and relaxing in hotels and spas and completely free from any responsibility. Due to the way she was raised and abused by her own family, as well as her inability to replicate the academic achievements of her older siblings, Rosa also developed low self-esteem (for example deeming herself often not very smart and incapable as her parents and siblings always describes her), as well as a certain level of cynicism about her own ambitions and a general self-contempt, that its only worsened in the years following the abandonment of Maria's father and her other many unsuccessful romantic relations. Similar to Natsuhi and Eva, Rosa is also characterized by a certain amount of pride; very often during the beginning of the games she always tries to hide her complicated relationship with Maria so as not to give the rest of the family further excuses to attack her. Her pride can be seen also in categorically refuses to talk about her financial difficulties in front of her daughter so as not to involve Maria into her problems. It is also confirmed that, beyond her suffering from the stigma of Japanese single mothers, combined with the fact that she lives in the 80s when the babysitter system in Japan was considered something unthinkable, Rosa left Maria alone at home and forbidding her to come out for preserve her good image as a mother and not attract further negative judgments on both her and Maria. What nobody knows is that, apparently, the reason why Rosa is so determined to get her share and use it to repay her debt is because she hopes that by doing so Maria's father will come back to them only to give her daughter the opportunity to finally meet him. However she also knows that it is very unlikely, if not almost impossible, that this scenario happens and her real goal is to put an end to one of her greatest regrets and to be able to give herself and her daughter a bright future. However, she is also, understandably, very resentful of her daughter's father and is prone to outbursts of anger when she is confronted unfavorably with him. Furthemore, one of her biggest fears is find out he left her to start a new life and family with another partner. In the Twilight of the Golden Witch manga, a glimpse of Rosa's childhood is shown where she was very sensitive and empathetic. She suffered cruel abuse at the hands of her parents and siblings and had many dolls and stuffed animals as her only friends, explaining why she spoiled Maria by buying new toys to make her happy. If what Beatrice reveals in the second Tea Party is to be believed, Rosa as a child often wished to be an only child and found herself dreaming several times that very horrible things happened to Krauss, Eva and Rudolf, pointing out a further resemblance to Maria who does the same with her in order to deal with her abuses. Sometimes, probably because of her lonely childhood spending by growing up in Rokkenjima without any friends, Rosa is very aware that she has never been able to become completely an adult mentally, as she often points out in the first Episodes. She also feels immense shame when Maria behaves in a childish way, whether it's talking about magic and witches in public or treating her toys as a real living friends; this behavior makes Maria the object of bullying at school and reminds Rosa of her father Kinzo. It becomes worse when only the name of Beatrice becomes a source of debate and discussion due to the fact that it awakens traumatic memories buried in her psyche that have to do with the witch. In any case, the beginning of the troubled relationship between her and her daughter is mainly due to her own constant feeling of hatred and self-loathing, combined with the feeling that her whole life is a failure due to her problems and regrets, which Rosa, unconsciously, seems to project them onto Maria (whose social problems and difficulties behaving like a normal child alienate her from the rest of the other children and make Rosa herself a target of her older siblings and Japanese mentally restricted society) because of their numerous similarities. Ultimately, Rosa can be judged as a very resilient person because, although she often gives in to her darker emotions when she unleashes them on Maria, it is noteworthy that she took charge of raising Maria alone despite all the adversities that she has faced throughout her entire life. With the Ushiromiya family's many problems, Rosa wants to try to be a better mother and build a happy future with Maria.