Rose

Rose is a fictional character in the Titanic: A Lion's Story trilogy. She is based off the character of the same name from the 1997 film by James Cameron. She is the main female protagonist of the first story, its sequels and the series.

Early life
Rose was born to middle-class lion and lioness, Tara and Elliot Adams in 1894. She had a carefree life and her parents loved her very much. Unfortunately, this was cut short when Rose was six years old. Tara and Elliot were murdered by a malevolent male lion.

Rose became terrified and homeless shortly after that. She was then forced to raise herself for many years and cheated death several times. When she was fifteen years old, she was abused by Marcus Hartwood soon after she fell in love with him and he attempted to seduce her, but she refused; causing him to react violently.

Rose met Neko the Rat a few years later; continuing to survive on the streets. This loyalty he had to her grew into obsession and overprotectivness.

At the age of 18, the young lioness stowed away on the R. M. S. Titanic because she didn't have anywhere else to go or anyone to turn to. She began to believe she would never be happy again, until Jack Dawson took her under his wing.

Personality
In "Titanic: A Lion's Story," Rose is portrayed as very mousy and timid. She is also very afraid and skeptical of Jack at first, even after he meets and takes care of her. She has a terrible fear of heights and an inability to swim. Her demeanor eventually changes in the middle of the first story and later in the two sequels following it; from frightened and shy to confident and determined.

Unfortunately, Rose is prone to having disturbing periodic nightmares and visions, as a result of what she had gone through in her younger years. Long before she even met Jack, she was seduced by teenage lions (besides Marcus Hartwood) who pretended to fall in love with her. This explains why she was so afraid and refused to make love with Jack in "Titanic: A Lion's Story.” Instead of being treated like an object by him, as she expected, Jack was so gentle and affectionate with Rose during their lovemaking, that she was happy for the first time in years.

There are times where Rose can become enraged when provoked. This is evident in The Prisoner (#88), Broken Memories (#127) and War. She smacks Alexander Theiessen across the face, scratches Marcus with her claws and rips Lockhart's ear off while fighting with him.

Physical Appearance
Rose is a slender lioness with long red hair. Her fur is peach colored with black tips on her ears, while her nose and insides of them are the same shades of pink. Her muzzle, stomach and the tips of her paws are completely white.

In Titanic: A Lion's Story and its sequels, her eyes are green. In the series, her eyes are lavender.

Her clothing is a pink gown with purple on the collar and sleeves; which she wears throughout the trilogy and most of the series. During the scenes where Rose reunites with Jack in the slave mining quarters, she wears a buttery yellow gown with a white button in the middle of the collar.

Relationship with Jack
When she first meets Jack, Rose isn't very trusting of him. This is mainly because of the trauma she endured throughout her life. It isn't long before his kindness towards her wins her heart. She loves him deeply and becomes incredibly concerned when their lives are in immediate danger. She has saved both herself and Jack on numerous occasions; risking her life for him.

In the serial, "Titanic: A Lion's Story: The Series," it is shown that they have made love more than one time and even mated; before or after she has gotten into heat. In a deleted portion of the series, Rose reveals to Jack she's become pregnant with their first cub and they start raising it as a family. This idea was scrapped because it wasn't important to the fiction itself.

One particular scene from "Titanic: A Lion's Story: War Begins" is the morning after she and Jack make love for the second time in his barrack after reuniting. Rose admits to the lion she would like to get used to making love with him.

In "War Begins," "The Final Chapter" and Serial
Rose is treated like a secondary character in the sequel, "War Begins" a little; however, the story keeps the focus on her and Jack throughout. In the story, she is 22 years old and Jack is 21. Driven to the point where she cannot stand to be alone anymore, Rose travels to England, without telling Tommy or Fabrizio, and reunites with Jack in the army base camp he is staying in during WWI.

Near the end, when Jack's commander, Richard Ames, tries to kill him with his gun, Rose pushes her mate out of the way and is hit instead, almost fatally wounding her. She survives the gunshot and makes a full recovery.

The third story of the trilogy, "The Final Chapter" centers on Rose entirely. During the events of the 1918 flu pandemic, her love for Jack immediately turns to fear when he catches the contagious virus and almost dies from it.

In "Titanic: A Lion's Story: The Series," Rose becomes haunted with the memory of her parents' deaths when she first encounters Lockhart in "Nightmare," (Act #58). She becomes convinced that he is the one who killed her parents, and soon begins having frequent nightmares and visions about him.