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Rosa Ushiromiya | Umineko no Naku Koro Ni | unreserved
Character Name: Rosa Ushiromiya
Character Series: Umineko no Naku Koro Ni
Canon Point: Turn of the Golden Witch, right after Beatrice’s tea party.
Preferred Housing: N/A
Background:
Rosa was born the youngest of the four children of the prestigious Ushiromiya family. Growing up, she was often bullied by her elder siblings. One day, when she was a teenager, she sought to escape her siblings and stern parents by hiding away in the dense forest of Rokkenjima Island. She inadvertently stumbled upon a secret mansion deep within the woods, and met its sole resident, the Witch Beatrice trapped in a human form. Rosa befriended the witch and decided to take her to see the outside world. However, Beatrice was overly excited in exploring and, when she and Rosa were walking along a seaside cliff, fell off the cliff to her supposed death and release from her human shell. Rosa kept the encounter secret and never divulged it to anyone, not even her siblings.
When she reached adulthood, Rosa fell in love with a man who would father her child named Maria. However, the man abandoned her soon afterwards. She and Maria were all but disowned by Rosa’s father Kinzo when Rosa decided to keep her fatherless child and name her Maria, against her father’s wishes. To support herself and Maria and to pay back the debt Maria’s father had saddled her with, Rosa took up a management career that she did not want as the owner of clothing company called Anti-Rosa. However, raising a child took a toll on her social life. Rosa still very much wished for romance, and taking care of Maria not only cut into her leisure time, but made her appear less attractive to the single men she chased after. Partly due to her own immaturity, she was often frustrated with Maria to the points that her harsh discipline would border on abuse. Though she often tried to be a good mother, even making Maria a stuffed lion named Sakutaro, her temper always got the better of her. In one of her rages, she even destroyed Sakutaro, driving a wedge between her and Maria.
Shortly after that incident, she and Maria attended the annual meeting of the Ushiromiya family. As they headed to the meeting, Maria whined about wanting to celebrate Halloween. This led to Rosa severely disciplining her daughter but later apologizing and buying Maria a candy at a train station to make it up to her. Afterwards, they arrived on Rokkenjima with Rosa’s siblings and the party all stopped to admire the main manor’s magnificent rose garden. During this time, Battler, Rosa’s nephew, asked Maria about Halloween. Her detailed explanation as well as fascination for the Golden Witch Beatrice angered Rosa, who considered it embarrassing that Maria still believed in magic. When the relatives went to the guesthouse, Rosa inflicted her discipline upon Maria and broke the candy that she had bought for the child. She left the child outside before proceeding to a meeting with the other adults. The meeting year was slightly different than all the others because the prospective heirs knew of their father’s deteriorating condition and the fact that he would probably soon die. They began arguing about the inheritance as well as the supposed secret cache of gold that Kinzo owned. At the time, Rosa, like the rest of her siblings, was experiencing financial trouble because her company’s business was floundering and the debt from Maria’s father was still unpaid. Kyrie, Rudolph’s wife, managed to soothe the mood by requesting that they all relax and take a drink of black tea. Rosa and Kyrie began talking, which led Rosa to regret her earlier actions with Maria and attempt to retrieve her child before the typhoon struck. She found Maria standing where she had left her. As she tried to get Maria to go back into the house with her, a mysterious woman who Maria identified as “Beatrice”, the witch of the island, arrived. Maria offered Beatrice the battered sweet, and as Rosa watched on, incredulous, Beatrice repaired the candy with “magic”. Beatrice also gave Maria and Rosa letters to read at the family meeting.
When the two came back into the house, the adults began discussing the identity of “Beatrice”. Rosa took Maria out into the hall to question her, but was unable to get any explanation beyond the fact that Beatrice was a “Witch”. At dinner, the adults became embroiled in an argument about Beatrice and expelled the children to the guesthouse so they could argue about Beatrice and the inheritance. There, they had a discussion which reached late into the night. The next morning, Rosa was called up by the servants to investigate the disappearance of her siblings and the strange magic circle on the chapel door. After opening the door, all six of the other parents were found gruesomely murdered in the chapel. Rosa, as the sole remaining Ushiromiya parent, tried to protect the children, especially Maria. However, she was unable to prevent Jessica’s murder after the girl became overly emotional and had to be left alone. Rosa, after trying to consult with Kinzo, but finding him still locked away in his study, took one of her father’s Winchester rifles and urged everyone to stay together. She referred to the situation as a wolf and sheep puzzle, where the culprit was the wolf and everyone else was the sheep. In the wake of discovering Jessica’s death, she accused all of the present servants and the already dead but disappeared Kanon of committing the crime. Even Battler’s reassurances were not enough to ease her doubts and she later expelled all servants from the room that she and the children were in.
Afterwards, Shannon, Genji, and Gohda called her to the servants’ room since Kumasawa and Dr. Nanjo were killed. Rosa once again suspected the servants, and due to the absence of the corpses, would not believe that the other two were dead and thus beyond suspicion. She forced the servants to relinquish their Master Keys and once again drove them away from her group, though this time George left with Shannon. To Battler’s shock, not even the servants obediently giving her their keys and removing themselves from the relative safety of Rosa’s group would make her trust them. She continued to see only herself and Maria as the ones she could trust.
In the end, after discovering the missing bodies of Kumasawa and Nanjo, as well as the bodies of George, Shannon, and Gohda, Rosa continued to suspect Genji, and even turned her suspicions on Battler after finding a letter from Beatrice in their locked room. Shortly after, she took one of the ingots of gold from the chapel where the first six victims lay and tried to escape the island with Maria. However, they were pursued by Beatrice’s goat familiars. Rosa fought bravely, protecting her daughter, but in the end, she was overwhelmed by the goats. Waking up in Beatrice’s Golden Land, she was offered a meal by the witch, supposedly as a form of condolence. However, she soon realized that her meal was composed of the flesh of her dead siblings. As a final “treat”, Beatrice tried to make Maria into Rosa’s dessert, but mother and daughter were rescued by Battler, who once again picked up playing the Witch’s game.
Personality:
Raised in a mostly loveless household and relentlessly bullied by her older siblings, Rosa never properly developed parenting skills, confidence, or maturity. Nowhere is this better seen than in her relationship with Maria. As Maria’s mother, she indulged much of her early bad behavior, not knowing when she should be firm. However, once Maria’s tantrums reached a certain point, she easily became frustrated and retaliated the only way she knew how—with extreme physical discipline. However, she is also quick to regret her periods of lashing out at Maria. Like a child, she does not know how to properly resolve conflicts or act firmly without becoming physically violent. She also lacks the emotional fortitude and patience to deal with the usual trials of a parent, becoming easily flustered or angered. In addition, she explains the rage as a “black witch” possessing her, thus shunting blame away from herself. She is impatient with Maria’s developmental delays, discouraging her belief in magic and verbal tic because they are an expression of those delays. She also dislikes the idea of anyone even implying that she cannot control her daughter. She nevertheless puts on an easygoing act, allowing her nieces and nephews to think of her as the “cool” one of the family.
Her treatment of Maria also stems from the inferiority complex she developed from her siblings’ bullying. She is generally either submissive or uninvolved whenever family matters come up, as she knows she cannot compete with her siblings. Giving birth to Maria was, for her, an act of rebellion against the family who had constantly controlled and belittled her. She does her best to project a mature, level-headed personality so she can escape her family’s perception of her as a stupid, easily bullied child. However, she constantly breaks this façade when around Maria, whose behavior seems to mark Rosa as a “bad” mother and embarrasses her in public.
Rosa is also rather ruthless. While she is willing to risk everything to protect her child, she has little consideration for anyone else. After the Rokkenjima murders started, she isolated the servants from the Ushiromiya family under the rationale that since they were not of Ushiromiya blood, they had more reason to act as the murderers. Even after Battler tried to persuade her that the servants could not be the culprits, she only offered a superficial apology, still considering the servants to be outsiders who could not be trusted. She also was ready to kill her nieces and nephews should they show any threat to her and Maria. This also shows her careful nature and intelligence. She chooses to err on the side of caution, even if it means exposing potential innocents to danger. Like her siblings, she is willing to use any measures necessary acquire the money needed to pay back her debt.
There is also a romantic side to Rosa, one that does not manifest in the best of ways. When she fell in love with Maria’s father, she was willing to cosign a large loan with him, and worked to pay back the debt because she thought he would return to her once she did. After he made it clear to her that he was not going to return, she shifted her interests to finding romance with someone else. However, her dates would sometimes cause her to neglect Maria. Maria’s reaction was to develop a verbal tic that Rosa had once taught to her as a “spell of happiness”. Rosa proceeded to see it as just another expression of Maria’s developmental delay. This delay in turn caused problems with Rosa and her boyfriends. It turned into a vicious cycle where Rosa believed that Maria was an obstacle to her romantic relationships and became frustrated with her, thus beating her even more; while Maria, desperately hoping for her mother’s love, continued using her verbal tic. In addition, Rosa also half-resented Maria, blaming her for causing Rosa’s lover to leave.
However, all her immaturity and tendency to suspicion aside, Rosa is a very protective mother. She truly loves Maria, feeling extremely remorseful for beating her daughter during her fits of bad temper. She knows, on some level, that she is indeed unfit to be a mother and apologizes about that to Maria. When not beating Maria, she indulges her daughter, partly out of guilt. She believes Maria is everything she has and will do anything to protect her. On the verge of death, she was willing to even abandon the money she had taken to pay her debt, because to her, Maria was more important. She is filled with love, both filial and romantic, but either kind can easily overwhelm her.
Sample Entry:
http://mewsbawks.dreamwidth.org/981.html?thread=10709#cmt10709
http://dagerotelhart.dreamwidth.org/1589.html?thread=5941#cmt5941
http://the-playground.dreamwidth.org/1902.html?thread=256110#cmt256110
Notes: Rosa is a human with no special abilities. However, she has a certain amount of skill with firearms like Winchester rifles, and in a pinch, is good at improvising weapons. She has also inherited the Ushiromiya “magic” which, when fuelled by love, allows her to pull off almost superhuman stunts of strength and marksmanship.