Rose Alexander

Rose is a vampire child currently travelling with Cher Amies.

Description
Rose is a small albino girl. She has shoulder-length white hair, and red eyes that glow both in the night and when she uses her powers.

Rose was once a happy, outgoing child who was talkative and energetic. However, after being kidnapped by Ursuline and turned into a vampire, her personality changed greatly. She is jumpy, shy, and easily frightened, and has trouble speaking, even to those she is comfortable around. She still displays elements of her former innocence and childhood, especially around animals and toys. Rose knows she has been made into a monster, and feels deeply uncomfortable in her own body. She sometimes wishes she had been killed by Ursuline, just like her parents were. She hates having to drink blood, and refuses to drink the blood of a person if she can avoid it.

History
Rose was born in the town of Valedon in Illuren. Her father Ivan was a town guard, and her mother Francine was a farmhand for a local farmer. Rose was their only child, and they spoiled her as much as they could.

For Rose's ninth birthday, the family went on a trip to a camping ground near the town of Seiras, by Kirkbelle Lake. It was an excursion they had done many times before, and Rose had been eagerly looking forward to it for weeks. The trip, however, did not go as planned. The family was ambushed enroute before they even made it to the camping ground. It was after dark, shortly before the family planned to stop for the night. Her parents shoved her into the family's carriage and tried to fight off their attacker, but both were killed. When the carriage doors opened, Rose saw a beautiful woman with dark hair and glowing red eyes. The woman smiled when she saw her, but Rose did not feel relieved, asking where her mama and papa were. The woman's smile widened, and lunged at her. Rose felt a searing pain in her neck, and everything went dark.

When Rose awoke, she had been buried in the ground. She could not breathe or see, and began to panic, clawing her way through the shallow layer of dirt that she had been buried under. She saw the same woman standing above her, still smiling. Rose tried to run, but the woman was quicker. She bound Rose, and forced a vial of dark red liquid that tasted like metal down her throat.

The next couple of months passed in a blur. Rose was soon put into a cage by the woman, who told Rose her name was Ursuline. She explained that she was a vampire, and Rose was going to become one, too, and become her new daughter. First, however, the transformation had to complete, and Ursuline had to teach Rose to be obedient.

The transformation was excruciating. Rose began to feel thirstier and thirstier, and didn't understand what was going on. She wasn't being fed any food, but she didn't feel hungry - just thirsty. She asked Ursuline for water, but Ursuline laughed, and told Rose she wouldn't be drinking water anymore. She offered Rose a small amount of blood from a gnome she had killed earlier that night, but Rose, terrified, refused. She began to grow weaker and weaker as days passed without feeding, until finally, when presented blood once more, she drank, and felt replenished immediately.

Rose was disgusted by herself. She was eventually moved from her cage into a cell underground. She frequently refused to drink, and Ursuline became more and more displeased, striking her on a regular basis. Eventually, Rose broke. She began to drink what Ursuline would bring, and felt as though she was losing her mind, trapped in the small dark cell that stank of blood. Often, Ursuline would not even bring the blood directly to Rose, simply pouring blood through the top bars of her cell for Rose to drink off the ground.

Campaign
Rose was found in early 2255 by a group of strangers. Ursuline was apparently dead. The group wasn't sure what to do with Rose at first - to kill her or to take her with them. Eventually, they decided on the latter, thus beginning Rose's time with Cher Amies. The first few days were rough. Two of the group members were extremely distrustful of Rose, and she overheard the group arguing about whether or not to kill her. However, she bonded easily with Matthew, who knew what it was like to be a monster, with Raevynn, whose surprising maternal instincts caused her to take care of Rose, and with Neva, who resembled Rose's mother. Eventually, Rose became slightly more comfortable with all of the group members, even Katya and Miffy. Rose began adapting to her new life living in the carriage Cher Amies owned, emerging after dark or in her bat form.

When the group encountered Luna in Dragonsmaw, Rose found another friend in her. Luna, just like Matthew, knew how Rose felt.


 * hi this is koji im writing this from matthews perspective so its a little skewed
 * Matthew found a trap door in the mansion and opened it, and saw a crumpled little girl behind bars, told the party, and immediately jumped down to try and help. The rest of the party followed shortly after.
 * Matthew noticed that she was non verbal and traumatized. She drew words in the dirt of the cell to communicate. Raevynn also tried to help calm her. I think Neva found the history-of-rose's-torture-journal written by Ursuline and showed the party. Matthew immediately confessed that he is a demonic host to Rose bc similar trauma yeehaw. Katya and Miffy were unsure but we decided to let Rose come with us. Rose tugged on Matthews clothes and pointed at the dirt she was drawing on, pleading in her own way for him to take it so she could have something to communicate with. Matthew obliged and brushed the dirt into the party's shared bag of holding. That they let him be the keeper of. Turns out this dirt is important special dirt!
 * Matthew gave her a book and a pen to communicate with instead of dirt.
 * There have been many an interesting tactic to get people to invite Rose into their house, such as the lovely mess that happened at Petyas house (which resulted in us just telling him that we had a vampire with us), and Raevynns much more tactful "may we all come in?" at an inn.
 * Raevynn bought her a cute pink dress and some kitty plushies and she absolutely adores them. Me, sobbing in the distance,
 * One night when the party was camping out Katya and Miffy discussed their distrust of Rose, thinking they were out of ear shot, but Matthew is a perceptive little shit and heard them anyway and Rose has supernatural hearing?? Anyway Matthew confronted them about it because he was confused as to why they would trust him, a demon, and not Rose. Katya had to make an intelligence check to realize that her late girlfriend also experienced prejudice for being a tiefling. This resulted in a big feelings time and things were mostly resolved.
 * Rose had a really not good fucking time when the nightmare demon happened and Matthew feels really shitty about that.
 * When we met with the Zirios followers who saved Katya from her nightmare they told us that the Zirios Dreamer sect didn't discriminate against vampires. I believe we discussed this with Rose as a possible place for her? I know at least the party discussed it.... hrm