Is rosaria an undead person? Shes so grey. Like. Its so grey. Why is she fast at night??? Who is she??? Where did she come from???
I did a bit of digging for this one and. Wow. Okay. Rosaria's story is dark as HELL. There's nothing that actually explicitly implies she's undead/a vampire, but she does have a major theme of death itself- So she could, possibly, be related to some kind of undead species.
There's gonna be a lot of character spoilers here, but I'll only bring up the stuff I find relevant to the questions!
Basically, Rosaria wasn't born in "Mondstadt"- Instead, she was born to a mountain village somewhere else. It doesn't go into where exactly, but given our current topography, the only real 'mountain' in Mond is Dragonspine... Which lines up with how her story describes the conditions as 'frigid' and 'freezing'. This, combined with the fact that she's first introduced there and shows remarkable resilience to the cold, heavily implies that she was, in fact, born somewhere within Dragonspine.
Unfortunately, a group of bandits slaughtered and destroyed her entire village when she was just a baby, and took her in as a tool they taught to kill. She was subjected to hard physical labour and exposed to horrific things even as a child, leading to her cold nature.
This, however, brings up an interesting point: Rosaria doesn't know her birth parents, or her history. Why would a village live within Dragonspine, when there's plenty of other more hospitable areas throughout the land? There's a couple things I can think of from the top of my head:
Cultural. It's not odd for people to live in dangerous places, and Earth itself houses many people who live quite happily in climates that most of us couldn't handle. The two lead ons from this are that her village could be comprised of totally "average" humans, OR her "species" prefers a colder climate.
Species. If Rosaria really isn't human, then maybe her village was ostracized from society due to this- Teyvat has demonstrated that there are many mixed species within the world, including Katzlein, Adepti, foxboys(?), and Elves. It's accepting of most, but it's possible that not all people are considered welcome.
TL;DR: Rosaria was likely born somewhere in Dragonspine, in a remote, apparently defenseless village. She does not know her history.
Each character in Genshin can be broken down into certain themes. For Rosaria, her themes include: Death, and Night. These themes are referenced explicitly within her stories and attributes.
"She also possesses exceptional strength and knows the weaknesses of the human body like the back of her hand — and has no reservations about using this knowledge to kill."
"What led her to become a blood-soaked slayer? Why does she stay silent while others praise the gods for their protection?"
"As far as she was concerned, the golden sunlight was not so much cleansing as blinding. For Rosaria had long since come to understand that she was a child of the moonlight, and it was inevitable that she would someday return to the embrace of darkness."
"Rosaria's youth was just like Mondstadt's sunset — blood-red from horizon to horizon, and so fleeting that night had fallen before she'd had the chance to stop and take in the view."
"If they must disappear, then Rosaria shall be the last person they meet. Such dark work, which cannot see the light of day, is to be done by her hand alone. She always sets out after the sun has set, finishing her work in one fell swoop. Sometimes, if she makes it back by the crack of dawn, she gets to usher in the day ahead with a glass of breakfast wine. The people of Mondstadt live in the golden sunlight, but Rosaria dwells under the silver moonlight."
"Though, in her eyes, "young people" means all citizens of Mondstadt who live in the light of the sun, regardless of their age."
Rosaria is a self-contracted assassin who works entirely in the night, believing it to be more suited to her work and fate. She doesn't consider herself to be the same as the rest of Mond, and sees herself as older/wiser. She kills alone, in the darkness, with an affinity for the cold.
"Spinea Corona" translates to "Thorny Crown". It has religious symbolism, known heavily from Christian lore as what Jesus wore when he died. I don't know much about religion at all, so I can't go into that very well, but-
I assume that her constellation reflects her skewed divinity, as apparently, the thorned crown was placed upon Jesus as a form of mockery.
Overall... I don't think we can accurately say what she is or isn't related to at this point in time! Her history doesn't give any indication that she may have died at any point, so she's not a zombie- But there's no saying what her origin is either, so. Maybe some kind of half-vampire? Who knows!
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