Well less of a rework and more me spouting ideas and defining Rose’s character more.
Rose’s upfront personality can be simply be described as cold and calculating with a permanent resting bitch face. Her mere presence is unnerving to most people, especially because it feels like she is always judging you. I imagine its a huge joke among YIJ that she never laughs or smiles when she first joins them.
But of course I am a sucker for cliches, so Rose’s intimidating persona really is just her covering up her serious lack of social skills. As you all know, she is on the spectrum which she is really self conscious about. She stays quiet most of the time, more of an observer, but as she grows more comfortable around the team, she does throw in a sassy one-liner here and there. The first time she ripped apart Ethan, I imagine everyone felt like they had whip lash.
If we are being honest Rose is pretty passive aggressive when she talks, with vague threats laced in between her words.
She also comes across as quite arrogant and prideful, especially when it comes to things she knows she is good at. This is tied to the fact that very often feels inferior, like she will never good enough.
Rose is extremely objective orientated. When she sets out on a task, she won’t stop until its completed and very often pulls a couple all nighters in a row, especially when she is working on gear for the team.
Originally, Rose’s decent into villainy is a bit like flipping a light switch, however, I want it to be a bit more gradual. As you all know, her adoptive mother is quiet strict and abusive, so it really all started with Rose sneaking out to escape from it all.
When she was about 15, she had been roaming the streets of Gotham one night when she came across a pair of robbers trying to break into a jewelry store. She bluntly told them they were doing it wrong and before either of them could react, next thing they knew Rose had completely disarmed the store’s security system. At that point they simply shoved a bag at her and told her to cover her face. In away it felt like it was the first time she was really controlling her own life. The robbers were willing to let her keep her bag but all she kept was a necklace with a small, crown charm on it.
It just kinda kept escalating from there as she essentially was just exploring what kind of crime she could get away with. Arson was pretty high on that list, especially destroying anything that related politically to Senator Nelson, her mother. During one of these “acts of rebellion” is when Rose met the Gotham Sirens for the first time. They encouraged and even helped her to destroy the hall that her adoptive mother was supposed to have a speech in the next morning. This moment is what really pushed her to step into the land of villains because the Gotham Sirens became her idols, especially Harley Quinn. She wanted to be just like them and thus Queen was born.
Her whole persona as Queen is huge mental release for Rose, essentially becoming a living and breathing metaphor for her taking control of her life.
Rose’s main special interest, besides mass destruction, is engineering. She was 7 when she managed to make her own main frame for the security system at her house. Other interests come and go depending on the project she is working on, but in general she is just scary smart. Kinda like an evil Tony Stark.
She builds her whole look from scratch, with some sewing help from catwoman to ensure that that materials don’t agitate her. However, most notably would be the gauntlets and boots she created. The gauntlets have multiple different functions including a wrist mounted gun, built in tasers, and a laser like ability that functions similar to combustion bending from AtLA to allow her to cause explosions out of thin air. Her boots also have built in thrusters to allow her to hover and fly short distances. Later on in life, I imagine she builds a proper flying suit.
Rose also goes out of her way to build things for the team, especially after she grows much closer with them. She probably straight up builds Hanna a new oven after some mess that Dev, Will, and Annie caused.
So some things on the abuse that Rose experiences through her adoptive mother along with some plot that I have had on my mind for awhile to really shape and push Rose’s character.
Senator Nelson is a extremely manipulative woman and has used Rose to get what she wants her whole life, putting her through behavioral correction therapy and verbal abuse on a daily. She has essentially driven Rose to believe that there is something wrong with her and that she will never be good enough.
She is around 16/17 when she finally joins the team through Hanna and kinda realizes that it’s okay to mess up. During this time she is still in school and because she is investing so much time with the team that she lets her grades drop. At first this goes unnoticed by her mother, but during the spring semester of her senior year, Senator Nelson is informed that her daughter would not be graduating with the rest of her class.
This leads to an abusive lecture that Rose tries to ignore and walk away from, but Senator Nelson actually hits Rose and continues to do so until Rose just snaps and knocks her unconscious. She ends up taking her mother to an abandoned warehouse across Gotham to torture and possibly kill her.
This is of course foiled by Batman and Robin and she is arrested which really blind sides the whole team. None of them really know about the abusive, not even Will but they still break Rose out of Jail before she goes to court. Its here that Rose finally realizes that the team really, truly cares about her and she is just so overwhelmed with emotion and I imagine this is just a good moment of truly familiar bonding for all of this.
Also before all of this happens, Rose provides for the Team a lot, financially speaking. She would divert portions of her mother’s salary to a debit card that she gives to Hanna to help with food/medical supplies/etc. Of course she all goes away after everything goes to shit and the team probably feels it for the first couple months but that just means more stealing and bank heists so really everyone is happier in the end.
Another quick note. There is a couple reasons she doesn’t tell anyone on the team about her abuse. Firstly, Rose doesn’t trust most of them for a really long time. Secondly, she was scared that if she did that they would think her weak and abandon her.
Now for some random things:
Rose is overall a very simple person and isn’t all that flashy outside of the Queen persona. However, she almost is always wearing some form of heal to add to her natural 6′0 height.
She likes to keep small potted plants around her “lab” at the hide out. They all have names and Sir Lancelot the Venus Flytrap is her favorite.
I noticed a lot of the team has died hair and all I can picture is Rose shyly asking Hanna or Brit to help her dye her hair pink one time. She is so happy and can’t stop touching it.
To stim, Rose tends to pop her fingers a lot. She also clicks her nails against things to help ground her.
Her lab and notebooks are littered with random facts about everyone on the team, like hobbies, interests, and things to avoid. They are color coordinated too, so anything written in blue is about Hanna.
