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Character Name: Rosette Christopher
Series: Chrno Crusade (Manga)
Gender: Female
Age: Sixteen
Species: Human
Sexuality: Straight and committed

Appearance: At first glance, Rosette looks pretty average for a sixteen year old girl. The top sections of her shoulder-length blonde hair are pulled back into twin ponytails, the rest allowed to hang free, with bangs framing her face. Her blue eyes sparkle when she smiles, and it’s something she does often. She has a graceful yet sturdy feminine build, and just looks…well, normal.

If you can get past the blue nun’s habit she wears, that is. And the twin holsters on her hips. Up ‘til her arrival in Manhattan, these both held Colt .45 automatics. There’s also the matter of that pocket watch around her neck, but she’ll about bite your head off if you try to touch it.

Personality: Rosette’s strength is, for the most part, internal. She’s very determined - most any problem she comes across can often be solved through optimism, sheer tenacity, and a little creative bending of rules (so long as she kept at it, she’d find a way through it. She has only just recently discovered that some things can’t be fixed this way). It’s not infallible – she’s been discouraged before – but it doesn’t take much encouragement to get her back on her feet. Once she gets going again, she’ll keep at it until she accomplishes what she set out to do.

Though Rosette is generally lighthearted and mischievous, known to smile more than frown and to tease people incessantly, she does also have a solemn, mature side, a product of both events she’d witnessed four years prior and recent happenings. Through everything, her strength and determination has remained – she will do anything to take care of the people she loves, including putting herself in harm’s way in order to keep them out of it.

Abilities: Rosette is emotionally strong, damn stubborn, and very resourceful. While she has her weaknesses, it takes quite a lot of battering to break her, and she won’t give up on anything she believes in. She may not have the most orthodox of methods, but set her a task or give her a goal and by God she will get it done. This combination of traits has been what allowed her to keep going through all of the difficult times in her life.

So far as fighting abilities go, Rosette has received combat training as an exorcist with the Magdalene Order. She has basic training in hand-to-hand combat, but is far more skilled with a gun (specifically a Colt .45 automatic), something she’ll definitely be looking for once she finds out there’s homicidal seafood in the city.

Weaknesses: Rosette tends to rush into situations blind, relying more on sheer luck and improvisation than precise planning to get her through any problems she may encounter. Her stubbornness sometimes doesn’t allow her to see another point of view or another way of doing things, often making situations worse than they need to be. Her protectiveness can also be used against her, pulling her into very dangerous situations in order to keep someone she cares about safe.

While a persistent and creative fighter, Rosette is by no means an extremely skilled one. (Quite simply, she’s lucky and she’s good, but she’s not that good.) She can easily be taken out by somebody with more speed or strength than her, and as a sixteen-year-old human girl, once taken out she will most likely stay out.

Manhattanite or outsider? Outsider, but familiar with New York (the 1920s version of it, at least)

History: Rosette and her younger brother Joshua were orphaned at young ages (eight and seven, respectively) and sent to live at the Seventh Bell orphanage in Michigan. There, Joshua’s illness (a disease of mysterious cause that he has had all his life with symptoms similar to a horrible bout of the flu) worsened, while his healing powers strengthened. Because of his illness, and because he is the only family Rosette has left, she was always protective, to the point of being overprotective, of him. That was why, when the Magdalene Order heard of his powers nearly four years later, she would take him out to the surrounding woods or lake whenever they came to visit – she knew that, given the chance, the Order would take her brother with them and would in all likelihood leave her behind at the orphanage.

It was during one of these “escapes” that both Rosette and Joshua fell through a loosened patch of forest earth and landed in what looked to be an underground mausoleum. Looking for a way out, they came across a pair of stone doors, behind which lay a coffin and a child-sized demon who introduced himself as Chrno. Rosette’s kind heart and outgoing personality soon made him the friend of both her and Joshua.

Unfortunately, the happy summer days they spent together were not to last. Joshua made the decision to join the Order on his own, sending Rosette running down into the forest to meet Chrno with nothing but a lantern and her own fears and doubts. Instead of the reassurance she was seeking, the situation simply turned worse. One of Chrno’s old partners in crime, Aion, turned up with a proposition for him: If Chrno would join Aion once again, Aion would give Chrno back the horns (the very source of a demon’s power) he had taken from him fifty-four years before. Chrno flatly turned him down, choosing the life had then to the life he’d had before.

Aion simply shrugged off the refusal and turned to his backup plan: he gave the horns to Joshua instead. Joshua, whose sickness had recently taken a turn for the worse, was coerced with promises of strength to combat the weakness he’d experienced all his life. Unfortunately, the human mind is not equipped to handle the influx of power that comes with demonic horns, and Joshua was no exception. He lost what little control he had and, in front of Rosette and Chrno, released the latent power of the horns: the power to freeze time. As the epicenter of the power, Joshua was spared and later taken away by Aion. Only through Chrno’s efforts were he and Rosette saved from the effects of the blast. Chrno then explained to Rosette the power of a demon’s horns and through Rosette’s insistence, made a contract with her. When the seal of the contract (in the shape of a pocket watch) was released, Chrno would be able to draw power directly from Rosette’s soul. The obvious drawback to this is that Rosette’s life would be shortened in direct proportion to how much power Chrno used.

Rosette and Chrno were then taken in by the Order, she as a Sister and he as her partner and a special case. They have spent the last four years learning to fight demons and to work together, all in preparation to hunt down Aion and get Joshua back.

After finally receiving permission to do so (as well as receiving information that Joshua is in California), they make their way across the country in an attempt to find him. Disaster after demonic disaster occurs, including a demonic attack on San Francisco, culminating in Rosette being stripped of rank in the Order and Chrno being temporarily sealed. She and Chrno, with the help of a few other members of the Order, managed to leave and track down Aion.

It was while they were on Eden, Aion’s ship, that a ritual was performed that raised Pandemonium, both the mother of all demons and the demons’ original home, from the sea, causing a massive flood that decimated New York and a spike in worldwide Astral energies. This was a huge point in Aion’s plan to “erase the system,” starting the world over. The fight moved from Eden to Pandemonium and back again, splitting up Rosette and Chrno and throwing them into two separate battles: Chrno fighting to find Rosette again, and Rosette, seal opened and life draining in order to give Chrno strength, against Joshua, driven half-mad by the conflict between the horns and his own holy powers and no longer believing Rosette is his sister.

Rosette managed to shoot off one of the horns, bringing Joshua back to his senses enough for him to realize that power wasn’t what he wanted and to remove the other horn himself. The happy, relieved reunion between siblings that followed was short lived, for Chrno was still fighting and Aion needed to be stopped. They headed back towards the thick of the battle, where a horde of demons that had lost their minds in the influx of Astral energy once again separated Joshua from Rosette. He stayed behind to fight them as she hurried towards Chrno, ready to give him back his horns.

She was a scant few yards away from him when her own Astral energy, her life, simply ran out and she collapsed. Chrno made his way to her, and she managed to stay conscious long enough to try to give him back his horns.

When she next woke up, the last thing she remembered was finding Joshua again and seeing him returned to normal, and she found herself in an unfamiliar city.

[This is an RP journal for daisychainrpg played by yamikonumber7. Rosette Christopher and Chrno Crusade belong to Daisuke Moriyama. The writer makes no profit from this journal. All events in this journal are fictional; any resemblance to other persons or events, whether real or fictional, is coincidental.]

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