Rose Wilson
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Rose Wilson is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. She is a member of the Teen Titans and the illegitimate daughter of Deathstroke the Terminator.
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[edit] Character history
Slade Wilson (Deathstroke) met Lillian Worth on a search-and-rescue mission a few years after his divorce from Adeline Kane. His mission was to make sure that she escaped war-torn Cambodia safely. After an intermittent love affair with Wilson, Worth gave birth to a daughter whom she named Rose. Believing it to be in the child's best interest, Worth kept Rose a secret from Wilson. Worth eventually settled down at a brothel in New York City, and during a time when Deathstroke is injured and a fugitive from the law, Worth takes him in and nurses his wounds. Deathstroke's butler Wintergreen discovers 14-year-old Rose and suspects that she is Deathstroke's daughter.
Deathstroke's half-brother Wade DeFarge, using the name Ravager, later kills Deathstroke's friends and family. DeFarge discovers Rose, captures her, and tells her that Deathstroke is her father. Wintergreen and Worth launch a rescue attempt, but Worth is presumed dead after she drives a jeep off a cliff while trying to run over DeFarge. Wintergreen successfully rescues Rose and escapes.
Rose tries to reach out to her father, but he turns her away. He fears for her safety because he believes himself to be responsible for the deaths of two of his sons. Deathstroke leaves her in the care of the Titans superhero team. During a training exercise, Rose is injured and taken to the hospital, and her precognitive powers emerge for the first time when she has a lengthy vision of Deathstroke's future. She awakens before she can test her powers further. She leaves the Titans shortly after and does not see them again until the Technis Imperium conflict when she allies herself with the Titans to save fellow Titan Cyborg.
[edit] New Ravager
The Madison family in Chicago adopt Rose, but DeFarge kills her new family. The Ravager claims to have been offered $100,000 for her death by an anonymous source, but neither of them know that Deathstroke hired DeFarge, in an attempt to bring Rose closer to him.
Deathstroke anonymously alerts the Titans that Rose's life is in danger, and they fight to defend her. All of the fighters are rendered unconscious by an explosion of halothane gas, and Rose awakens in Deathstroke's lair. He apologizes to Rose for abandoning her and says that she is the only family he has left. Deathstroke suggests that she become his apprentice, offering DeFarge as her first kill. Rose accepts and takes the name “Ravager” for herself. Deathstroke secretly injects Rose with the same serum that gave him his abilities, and it causes her to suffer from psychosis.
Deathstroke doubts Rose’s readiness to work with him and plans to disown her after she hesitates and is unable to kill Deathstroke’s son Jericho. To prove her loyalty, she gouges out an eye to match his missing eye.
After Rose suffers a defeat at the hands of Batgirl, Deathstroke allows her to be trained by Nightwing, who leads Slade to believe has given up being a hero. Nightwing agrees to train Rose so that he can teach her to lead a better life. In order to test Grayson's loyalty, Deathstroke replaces Rose's missing eye with a kryptonite one and pits Nightwing and Rose against Superman. Rose attempts to kill Superman with the kryptonite, but Nightwing, proving he is still a hero, tells her that over time, the kryptonite will slowly kill her and lead to a painful death. Enraged that her father has betrayed her, Rose breaks her ties with Deathstroke and runs away.
[edit] One Year Later
One year after the events depicted in the “Infinite Crisis” crossover, Rose became a member of the Teen Titans. She wore the same costume and wielded two katana-style swords. With Deathstroke and his serum's influence gone, Rose appeared more balanced than previously depicted. Tim Drake, the newest Robin, admitted Rose to the team as a favor to her former mentor, Nightwing.
After Rose join the team, she develops a sexual attraction to Robin. One night, naked, she was on the Boy Wonder's bed, drunkenly proposing him for sex. Robin not only just rejected her, but handcuffed her as well, and another member Kid Devil saw the whole thing.
Rose formed a friendship with Kid Devil, the other new Teen Titan. When Kid Devil was injured during a mission, Rose defended him, and on multiple occasions threatened those she deems a threat to him. Rose had an antagonistic relationship with Wonder Girl, and she told Kid Devil that she was afraid that if the old Teen Titans rejoined the team, she would be kicked out. She also said she was afraid that if she was kicked out, her father would find her and inject her with the serum again. Unknown to her, that Robin prepared a counter-serum in case her father does it to her again, revealed on Teen Titans vol. 3 #44.
Recently, the Teen Titans came to the conclusion that they needed more members. After discovering that Raven believed there was a traitor on the team during the previous year, the team agreed to begin with her. The team traveled the world in search of Raven, who was apparently on the run from the traitor. They also met several other former Titans, such as Red Star, Zatara, and Bombshell. During a meeting with Bombshell, Rose was accused of being the latest Traitor, working for Deathstroke instead. She denied the accusation, supported by not only Kid Devil, but also Wonder Girl, who believed Rose would never go back to her father. Robin and Cyborg agreed that Ravager would return to the Tower. Furious, Rose prepared to quit the team altogether until the team's caretakers, Wendy and Marvin, revealed to her that the traitor had stolen one particular object: the computer disk containing Jericho's essence.
Realizing why Raven is truly on the run, Ravager quickly returned to the Titans' aid, just as the traitor is revealed to be Bombshell. Ravager manages to save Raven, just as the empathic Titan uses the same spell which resurrected her, to resurrect Rose's dead and previously insane half-brother Jericho. Upon the resurrection of her elder brother, Joseph and Rose begin fraternizing, unaware that Bombshell's betrayal was orchestrated by Deathstroke, and that their teammates had been subdued by his associates.
[edit] Alternate versions
When the Teen Titans were thrown back in time after teaming up with the Legion of Super-Heroes, they found that they had arrived 10 years into their own future. Their future selves had turned evil, and a Titans East team had been formed to stop them. Rose Wilson was a member of the Titans East and was in love with Bart Allen, then the Flash, who was spying on the evil Titans. Rose and the Flash helped the Teen Titans to return home.
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