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"Sometimes when I feel lost or afraid... I try to imagine what he might have said to me."
— Rose Winters

Rosemary "Rose" Winters (ローズマリー・ウィンターズ Rōzumarī Wintāzu?) is an American superhuman. The daughter of mutants Mia & Ethan Winters, Winters' body was comprised entirely of Mold, which was replicating human DNA. Following her rescue from an outbreak in Eastern Europe, Rose grew up in the United States under special protection.

Biography[]

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An agent carries Rosemary to Chris Redfield.

Rose was born on 2 August 2020 whilst her parents were under BSAA protection. Due to the family's mutations as well as Mia's former ties to The Connections, they were at serious risk of abduction for experimentation or even assassination. While there is evidence suggesting they were moved repeatedly,[note 1] by 2021 they were living in a mountain range in Eastern Europe.

The Village Incident[]

Sometime in early 2021, BSAA Europe suffered an information leak, exposing the Winters' location and the results of a medical checkup which identified Rose's mutant nature.[2] Though this leak was soon realised, by February it had reached Mother Miranda, a shapeshifting Superhuman based in a remote mountain village who was searching for fellow Superhumans to use in her experiments. By Monday 8 February Miranda had successfully infiltrated the Winters household by abducting and imitating Mia; this got the attention of the BSAA, who attempted to assassinate her during a raid.[3] The body, Ethan and Rose were then taken away on a BSAA armoured car where they were to undergo testing. During the trip, Miranda woke up, killed the two operators and crashed the car on the outskirts of the village. Rose was unharmed in the crash, and was taken away to the village.

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The Four Lords mutilating Rosemary per Mother Miranda's instructions.

In the early hours of Tuesday 9 February, Rose was delivered to the Ceremony Site, the ruins of an ancient civilization that once dominated the mountains. Having long studied the Black God which lived beneath the soil, Miranda believed that Rose alone was suitable in her final experiment, which aimed to replace her conscious mind with that of Eva, her deceased daughter who was assimilated by Black God in 1919. In order to feed the Black God ahead of the procedure, Miranda allowed for the wholesale slaughter of the region's inhabitants to serve as a sacrifice, with Rose herself crystallised and split into four fragments under the protection of the Four Lords until the procedure, or "ceremony", was ready.[4]

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Miranda planning to use Rose as a vessel to resurrect her daughter Eva.

Over the course of the day, Ethan Winters searched for his daughter's remains, fed on information provided by Duke and Miranda herself, who in secret wanted her deputies dead to prevent any interference. By the evening the four fragments were reunited within the Holy Grail, an ancient relic designed as a means of communicating with Black God. The act itself triggered its rapid growth as Miranda had anticipated, and she was able to recover the Holy Grail to continue the procedure in Ethan's absence.

The procedure took place just before dawn on the morning of Wednesday 10 February. During the procedure, Miranda communicated with Black God and attempted to exchange Rose and Eva's consciousnesses, following which Rose was returned to her imitation human form. The procedure however proved unsuccessful owing to Rose's innate influence over the Mold; the consciousnesses were not exchanged, and Miranda herself was left in a weakened state in the process.[5] This weakness allowed Ethan to fight and destroy Miranda's physical body and rescue Rose, though his own body was in the process of dying due to wounds he suffered and Rose was handed over to BSAA Captain Chris Redfield who had himself rescued Mia. Rose and Mia were brought to a BSAA tiltrotor and flown out of the village as Ethan set off an N2 explosive to destroy Black God.[6]

Childhood[]

In the aftermath of the incident, Rose was placed in protective custody by the US government. As a Superhuman she both represented a direct security risk to the United States, and could be valuable as a tool for international bio-weapons developers. Rose was raised by Mia for a time, and saw regular check-ups from Redfield and his comrades who she saw as extended family. Despite her nature, Rose was allowed a regular education and was enrolled at an elementary school; the faculty were aware of her mutant nature, and Redfield met with them to assure them she was safe owing to safety concerns. Rose's experiences at school were poor, and she was met with physical and verbal bullying over her mutant nature, which manifested with the excretion of a white substance in her sweat when stressed. Among Rose's regular bullies were Lucy, Catherine and Jimmy, who pretended to be her friend to lure her into tricks.[7]

Into her teenage years, Rose got Ethan's jacket from Chris, but continued to experience bullying by other students at high school. Mia herself no longer had a regular presence in her life,[7] and Rose was instead protected by federal agents. Rose was at this point suffering from low self-esteem and an intense revulsion of herself and her nature, describing herself as "hardly even human".[8] She asking herself how her father was, only thing she knew is he sacrificed his life for her. Her bodyguards would make regular jokes about her being "Eveline", in mockery of her similarity to another Superhuman who was linked to hundreds of deaths in Louisiana in 2017. Rose was at the time unfamiliar with the name.[9] By the age of 16, her abilities were becoming of interest as an asset, with the federal government and Redfield taking interest in recruiting her, though Rose declines the invitation due to the work that she witnesses Redfield putting his Hound Wolf Squad through.[8][9]

Traveling inside Realm of Consciousness[]

Rose finds herself in the 'Realm of Consciousness'

Rose finds herself in the 'Realm of Consciousness'.

In 2037 Rose became the target of a plot by the Black God, which had survived in a greatly reduced state, with one sample being preserved in a lab in the US for closer observation. Due to her proximity to the lab, Rose became susceptible to its quorum sensing abilities, something which the archived copy of Miranda took advantage of in the hopes of finally completing her plans to turn Rose into a vessel. One day, Rose experienced an hallucination where she was asked by Charlie Graham to meet her at a park; during a conversation with the apparition, she was lured over to the lab and encouraged to directly handle the Black God, which suggested that would allow her to render her powers inert and live as though an ordinary human.[8]

Rose's interaction with the Black God allowed her to mentally connect with its stored memories, which manifested as the "Realm of Consciousness". The Realm was a distorted landscape made from scattered memories of the village and consisted of three layers, with the upper layer most similar to the physical world and the lower layer the more chaotic; the Purifying Crystal deep within Black God which could be used to weaken Rose's powers was located within the bottom layer.

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Rose confronts The Masked Duke.

She continues deeper to find herself end up in the warped distortion of Castle Dimitrescu along with various clones of herself being trapped and violently murdered by Face Eaters. During her journey, Rose encounters an entity emitting golden dust which guides and helps her along the path with Rose naming it Michael after the archangel Michael, Michael tries to persuade Rose into leaving the realm due to the dangers that it presides over but she insists in continuing with her objective with Michael relents into helping her. Afterwards, Rose stumbles onto The Masked Duke which takes the form after The Duke and spots the crystal trapped behind an mechanism but accidentally exposes herself to The Masked Duke who chases after her with numerous Face Eaters with Michael intervening to help once again. Acquiring all the pieces necessary, Rose retrieves the crystal only for The Masked Duke to reveal that it had been an replica with the crystal crumbling immediately much to her shock and despair. The latter abducts her to an underground arena where she is forced to fend off against the brute monster and Face Eaters. After killing the Executioner, The Masked Duke angrily seeks to surround, trap and kill her but Michael manages to direct Rose an way out where she jumps into the next stratum.

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Rose in the gardens of House Beneviento.

Rose eventually finds herself on the gardens of House Beneviento where Michael warns her that the further she goes, the harder it is to escape from the current stratum and tries to persuade her once again to leave but due to Rose's stubbornness and her strong desire of living an normal life, Michael willingly agrees to continue helping her. Upon entering inside the house, Michael is forced away due to another entity's intervention with Rose finding the inside of the house decorated just for her only. Rose is forced to solve puzzles in relation to her childhood trauma by the voice of an young girl who claims to know the location of the crystal and is willing to help her. The girl asks Rose to take the elevator to her which she races back only to get relentlessly chased by multiple mannequins of her mother. Rose manages to get inside the elevator and get send to an larger version of the house with multiple dolls actively seeking her out, Rose eludes her way to the bedroom where Eveline had asked her to meet only for her and her father to be ridiculed and laughed at by larger dolls, reigniting her traumatic memories at school.

Unable to handle it anymore, Rose flees and eventually encounters Michael, who intervenes and saves her once again. Following the aftermath, Rose expresses that she does not know anything about her father besides the fact that he had died in protecting her, and conveys her desire of wanting to know more about him which Michael agrees to. The entity transports Rose to her childhood home filled with memories and voices of her dad on the day of her half-birthday 16 years ago, Rose finds her dad's letter addressed to her on her birthday in which she finds emotional comfort in.

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Rose confronts Eveline.

Suddenly, the young girl - revealed to be Eveline - traps her out of jealousy and sends her back to House Beneviento. Eveline reveals that the crystal is not on this stratum but on an much deeper one and proceeds to destroy the house in order to kill her. She expresses her envy over Mia's love for Rose instead of herself and the fact that Rose had a loving family as opposed to her. She had hoped that both Ethan and Mia died so they could be reunited as a family in death. During Rose's escape, Eveline manages to catch her but Michael deters her away, with Rose managing to learn of Eveline's identity through the entity. Still within Eveline's grasp, Michael urges Rose to use her power and suppress Eveline's abilities. Her weakened form would allow Michael to bring himself and Rose to safety. Rose confronts Eveline and successfully uses her abilities in suppressing and weakening her, with Michael managing to defeat her. Eveline cries and despairs over the thought that no one is able to love her because of her low self-worth. Rose approaches Eveline but is thrown off and is about to get killed until a man's shadow manages to push Rose off to safety and into the next stratum. He urges her to find the crystal.

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Ethan shields Rose from Miranda.

Rose awakens and finds herself on the grounds of the Village. Realizing that the man has the same voice as her father, Rose comes to the conclusion that her guardian angel Michael had been her father Ethan. Finding new sense of determination, Rose continues in finding the crystal and tracks it down to the cave where the core root had been given birth to copies of Rose in hopes of finding the perfect vessel but the results were not ideal due to multiple factors, Rose also finds traces of someone who had been conducting researches inside the cave recently and finds out that The Masked Duke was created as a form of stress test as well as their acknowledgement of Eveline being the intruder to the realm. Rose continues deeper inside and eventually senses the strong aura that the Purifying Crystal gave out. She manages to acquire the crystal and her powers leave her body.

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Rose prepares the fatal blow to Miranda.

Shortly after, Miranda appears before her and explains that she cannot directly subdue her due to her powers and needed to relinquish it willingly in the form of K. She reveals that their conversation at the park and the lab have been an illusion that lured her deep within the Realm of Consciousness to become the vessel for Miranda's daughter, Eva. Miranda prepares to attack her until Ethan intervenes and they both escape - until Miranda intercepts once again. She incapacitates Ethan, who urges Rose to leave him and live her life normally. Unable to abandon her father, and finally embracing her identity as a superhuman, Rose breaks the Purifying Crystal, reabsorbs all of her abilities, and begins to fight Miranda. When Miranda proves too much to handle, Ethan gives his power to Rose. Her new strength quickly brings down Miranda, finally destroying her consciousness within the realm.

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Rose says goodbye to her father.

Rose and Ethan share one last moment together before she reawakens back in the lab, and finds Ethan's wedding ring in her hand. She gratefully cries, content with the experience.

Visiting Ethan's Grave[]

"Duty calls. I love you."
— Rose to her father
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Rose visits her father's grave.

Sometime, following her experience inside Realm of Consciousness, Rose decided to join Chris's operation and had undergone a multitude of tests. She later takes a Village of Shadows book and flowers, wearing Ethan's wedding ring, and jumps on a bus bound for the cemetery where her father's grave was located. She places flowers on his gravestone to mark his birthday. As she spends time talking to her father with love, an agent that was a part of her security detail arrived after a brief search for her, having foreseen that she would be at the cemetery given the occasion. He tells her that she is needed while mockingly referring to her as "Eveline". Enraged at the mention of the name, Rose grabs the agent by his tie and threatens to harm him in ways that even Chris wasn't aware of.

As Rose storms into the car, a nearby sniper was awaiting orders. The agent orders the sniper to stand down, stating he could handle Rose and she's "just a kid". Rose scolds herself for the outburst, but the agent affirms that she's just like her father, a statement she proudly acknowledges. Before they fully drive away from the cemetery, an unknown figure is seen approaching their vehicle.

Sources[]

  1. One photograph in the Winters house places the family at a beach.

References[]

  1. Resident Evil Village - Ending Credits
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  2. 2.0 2.1 Resident Evil Village (2021), file: "Medical Checkup Report".
  3. Resident Evil Village (2021), scene: "A Bad Feeling".
  4. Resident Evil Village (2021), file: "Eugen's Diary".
  5. Resident Evil Village (2021), scene: "Eradicating Evil".
  6. Resident Evil Village (2021), scene: "Rose".
  7. 7.0 7.1 Resident Evil Village (2022), file: "Little Girl's Diary".
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Resident Evil Village (2021), scene: "Shadows of Rose Chapter 1 opening".
  9. 9.0 9.1 Resident Evil Village (2021), scene: "Epilogue".
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