Rose (Street Fighter)
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| Rose | |
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 Rose from Street Fighter Alpha 3 |
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| Game series | Street Fighter series |
| First game | Street Fighter Alpha |
| Voice actor(s) | Michiko Neya |
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| Birthplace |  Genoa, Italy |
| Blood type | Unknown |
| Fighting style | Soul Power |
| Likes | Sherry wine, bathing |
| Dislikes | UV rays, waking up early |
| Special skill | Reading tarot cards |
Rose (ローズ Rōzu?) is a video game character from Capcom's Street Fighter series of fighting games.
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[edit] Story
Rose makes her first appearance in Street Fighter Alpha. There, Rose is on a mission for an unknown organization to capture, contain, or destroy M. Bison. The two fight and Rose is able to defeat Bison with great personal strain to herself and is nearly killed in the process. While she was unconscious, Bison resurrects himself using his Psycho Power and the fate of Rose during this time is unknown. She uses her Soul Power to defeat Bison.
In Street Fighter Alpha 2, the adivin and Tarot reader Rose sensed that doomsday was approaching, and knew a person of great evil was causing it. She found the source of the evil in Bison and defeats him, thinking she has rid the world of him for good. Unfortunately, by reading her tarot cards she discovered Bison was still alive.[1][2]
In Street Fighter Alpha 3, she faces Bison once again and finds out that she and Bison share the same soul. Bison outmatches her as he takes total control of her body. There she lay unconscious where Guy (who she meets earlier on when he goes after Shadoloo) finds her. When Bison is killed by Charlie (who sacrificed his own life in the process), Bison's soul went to his new host, Rose.
Bison stayed in and controlled Rose's body until a new, albeit weaker, body was made for him during the time of Street Fighter II. Akuma killed Bison during the second World Warrior tournament.
[edit] Rose in the UDON Comic
In the Street Fighter comic produced by UDON in close collaboration with Capcom, it is told that Rose was a member of a tribe of Roma (a.k.a. Gypsies) that followed a white haired woman known only as Master. The woman had a glowing yellow lightning bolt on her forehead and a very similar hairstyle to Rose. When Rose was a child (roughly ten years of age), M. Bison, a former student of the Master, returned to the tribe and declared that he was going to kill Master, as her knowledge of Soul Power was a threat to him. Though Master fought bravely, Bison's Psycho Power (corrupted Soul Power) ultimately killed her and almost every other person present in the village. Only a man who was away chopping wood away from the village survived. He returned after the explosion and discovered an unconscious Rose who now bore Masters Lightning bolt on her forehead (events in Street Fighter II #1). In Street Fighter #2, Cammy was tracking Ken and Ryu in San Francisco where she was intercepted by Rose. Later, Rose completely cleansed her of the Psycho Power's influence and erased her brainwashing. She later deposited Cammy on the doorstep of the British Embassy in Italy where her instinctual response to a terrorist attack directly led to her being recruited to Delta Red. Rose is distressed when Cammy, under the employ of MI5, not only returns to a life of violence but also engages in missions that will inevitably lead her back to Bison.
[edit] Appearance
Rose is slender, has long dark wavy hair that flows outward horizontally, violet eyes, a fair complexion, and a small mouth with full lips. Most official artwork of Rose make her appear to be puckering her lips. In battle, she wears a loose red evening gown with large gold buttons, and a large golden scarf around her shoulders and arms. By channeling her mysterious Soul Power through it, she is able to make the scarf glow, and wield it in such a way that is particularly damaging to her opponents. Rose also wears a dark coloured body stocking, and managed to fight capably while wearing high heels.
In one of Rose's win poses, she wears a large red ball gown, a choker decorated with an antique key design, and matching earrings (in her ending movie in Alpha 2, she is seen wearing this outfit). Also, a lighting-bolt design is visible on her forehead in this form. In this particular victory pose, she holds tarot cards in each hand, and one in her cleavage. This win pose is reserved for a perfect win in Street Fighter Alpha 3, but is a normal victory in Capcom Fighting Evolution. In the UDON comic book series, Rose is often pictured in this attire, particularly when she is interpereting the future or some removed location.
[edit] Gameplay
Rose (being the only new character in Street Fighter Alpha), has attacks and techniques that take advantage of the Street Fighter Alpha game engine and playing style. She is relatively simple to play as, designed to allow players new to Street Fighter Alpha to use a new character with a control scheme similar to Ken or Ryu's.
She has short ranged attacks in Street Fighter Alpha, but by Street Fighter Alpha 3, most of her normal attacks had been modified to strike from a very long range. Her jumping hard punch and crouching medium punch has unusually high priority, allowing Rose to play aggressively and cancel many incoming attacks.
[edit] Techniques
Rose's projectile, the Soul Spark, causes her to extend her scarf outward as she releases the spark. While it is slow, the scarf will push away an air-blocking opponent a significant distance, suitable for the Street Fighter Alpha playing style.
Rose's Soul Throw causes her to leap, catch, and throw an airborne opponent, most suitably when they jump in while blocking, as this move has low priority. The requirement for an opponent to be air-blocking (or air-parrying in Capcom Fighting Evolution) is another nod to Rose's moves being crafted specifically to the Alpha engine.
Rose's Soul Reflect either reflects enemy projectiles, or absorbs them into her super meter, similar to Anakaris' projectile consumption/expulsion move.
[edit] Actors
- Rose has been voiced by two seiyuu: Ai Orikasa in the anime; and Michiko Neya in the games.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ According to Capcom, these events replace Street Fighter Alpha 1's events in Street Fighter canon.
- ^ (September 2000) in Studio Ben: All About Capcom Fighting Games 1987~2000. Denpa Shinbunsha, 37. ISBN 4-88554-676-1.
[edit] External links
- WikiKnowledge.net’s entry for Rose Previously hosted by Wikibooks
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