“hey,” rose went up to the woman as she was packing up for class. “i noticed you were kinda out of it today...is everything alright?” she’d become a regular for rose, someone she looked forward to seeing and joking around with. somehow, she was different than the other women in her age range. she never once asked for a refund after pulling a muscle. she just kept showing up. and rose had to admit she’d developed a bit of a soft spot for her in their time together.
if there was anything that rose hated, it was bad scene partners. and evie had to be the worst one she’d ever been paired with. how was she supposed to show the casting characters she could act when she was acting against a brick wall? the frustration was clear every time the director cut them to give the other girl another direction. rose tried her best to be civil. kept her arms uncrossed, kept a smile on her face every time they told them to start over. but as soon as they were out of the room, they went to her. “what the hell was that? have you never taken an acting class?”
hi !! i’m hazel and this is rose. i’m super excited to rp w y’all !!
&. * — a warm welcome to ROSE DUBOIS , the THIRTY year old WOMXN born in PARIS, FRANCE . as a local AERIALIST residing in BROOKLYN , SHE/THEY is loved for their GENEROSITY, CHARM, SENSE OF HUMOR . but behind their back, they’re described as SHORT TEMPERED, SELECTIVE, STUBBORN . still not impressed ? what if i told you they looked exactly like JODIE COMER ? that should do it.
rose grew up in val d'oise, france- a high end suburb located right outside of paris. their mother is the owner of the biggest physical theater company in paris, le theatre du soleil, her father the dean of l'école internationale de théâtre jacques lecoq. rose spent their entire life surrounded by clowns, acrobats, mimes, and other artists that would come in and out of their parents’ lives.
they were homeschooled from age 10-18, all the while spending their time taking aerial, clown, dance, and movement classes. because of this, rose never had much of a social life outside of the one they forged for themself inside of their classes and in their mother’s theater company. they spent all of their time surrounded by people older, more mature, and more creative than they were.
through them they figured out their gender, sexuality, and artistic vision, all while remaining incredibly close to their mom and dad. their younger sister followed them around everywhere, but was never as headstrong and determined as rose was. this caused Rose’s parents to favor rose, ignoring coraline almost completely, and building rose’s ego.
at age 15, rose was an official member of their mom’s theater company, going on world tours and performing to sold out houses at the heart of paris. nothing felt better to them than performing, their favorite and best act being aerial silks and hoops. they let it consume their entire life, ignoring everything that didn’t have to do with bettering themself and their body in some way. rose wanted to fly, wanted to break gender and performance norms, wanted to change their mother’s theater company out of the 60’s physical theater movement and into something new.
as rose grew older, they began to argue more with their mother. specifically about how badly they wanted to do a show on their fucked up experienced in the catholic church growing up. their mother, of course, didn’t agree. she was a devout catholic and did not want to be shunned from her church community. when rose was 17, while they were on tour, they saw a performance of blackwatch at the national theater of scotland. this changed everything for them. they continued to push their mother to change the way their company created work, continued to push for change in a company set in doing what it had always done. this upset their mom as she felt tested and undermined. rose kept pushing, though, until every night they had an argument about their lack of flexibility in the creation of art.
while all of this was happening, coraline had given up on the artistic aspect of owning a theater company and went more toward business. suddenly, coraline was in the favor of their parents, and rose was left behind- feeling for the first time what it meant not being the favorite child. they pushed harder, created work outside of the theater company, doing anything they had to do to show their mom that they were right. when their parents found out, however, they kicked rose out of le theatre du soleil, telling them that they had broken their contract by performing with outside companies.
rose was not only no longer in their parents’ good graces, but they were kicked out of the family business, their dream, everything. they left their childhood home at age 19 and moved to scotland, hoping that maybe there they would be able to join the national theater of scotland and do the work they wanted to do.
on their 25th birthday, they got a call from their mom for the first time since they moved away from home. while rose didn’t usually answer their phone for their family anymore, something told them they needed to. their mom told them that for the past 2 years, she had been battling various forms of cancer, and she didn’t have much time left. they immediately left the company, terminating their contract, and went back to paris, where they watched their mother die.
le theatre du soleil was left with coraline, rose only getting books and various jewelry. they understood. they hadn’t been with their family for most of their young adult life, but it didn’t hurt any less. rose, not able to go back to scotland because of their terminated visa and contract, moved to new york to play the american physical theater game. they remembered their time there when they were on tour fondly- their happiest memories being walking down busy streets with their company members.
they haven’t been able to get into any companies, but they teach aerial classes full time. though, at this point, it’s mostly them trying to convince 45 year olds they can, in fact, still train their body to do a split. and yes, this will make their rich husbands want to fuck them.
PERSONALITY
ok a little bit of a closed off bitch when u first meet her it simply do be like that sometimes. she’s pretentious and picky.
when they get to know you tho it’s All Over they’re your mom now.
they might be picky but they rly do love All Women.
really obsessed with having control over her body. she doesn’t drink or do drugs because of this- it would only cause her anxiety. but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t like going out!!! u can catch her in ridiculous hot outfits out dancing any day of the week.
