#emosquad

                                                 &&&family+childhood&&&

despite the late (or early, depending on who you’re asking) hour of rose’s birth on march 23rd, 2006, her birth was a fairly easy one. she continued to be fairly easy throughout her childhood, aside from her inheritance of ron’s tendency to put his foot in his mouth. she got along well with both of her parents. when she did rebel, it was only because she deemed a rule stupid or contradictory, and usually after some discussion they all agreed.

it was only after she got to hogwarts that her relationships with her parents started to get more strained - especially with hermione. rose had a hard time bringing herself to care about things she wasn’t interested in, and though she excelled in potions, she performed abysmally in every other class. she skipped morning classes to sleep in, handed in essays weeks late, and lost about a hundred points for her house in her first year for general rule-breaking. and as much as she tried to explain to her mother how useless the rules she broke were, hermione wasn’t nearly as open to debate as she’d been growing up.

things only got worse when hugo was sorted into slytherin. rose had always been close with her father, but even she knew his reaction was unfair. she and hugo, who’d never been particularly close, bonded a lot in the time immediately after, and it was a long time before either of them went home for christmas. even now, things are cold and tense at dinnertime. part of rose still misses evenings spent curled up on the couch listening to hermione read aloud from a history of magic, but she’s pretty sure those days are gone forever. 

                                                  &&&relationships&&&

rose is not the easiest to get along with: she’s blunt, emotionally stunted, and tends to have blinders on when it comes to other people’s feelings. it would never occur to her to be intentionally cruel, but it also wouldn’t occur to her to temper her words, so she settles somewhere around insensitive. thanks to this and her propensity towards cancelling plans to sleep, she has few friends. 

her cousin albus is one of them. they’re almost complete opposites but it tends to work in their favor. she’s one of the few people who can draw him out of an emotional funk, whereas he can usually help her figure out the latest way she’s put her foot in her mouth. they also make a pretty good business duo - early in fifth year she starts brewing a line of pain-relieving drugs (used for both medical and recreational purposes) and he’s always able to find a buyer. sometimes she worries about the effect her work is having, but she can usually dismiss it. if people get addicted, that’s their problem.

at hogwarts, her general apathy towards relationships included sex with men. during a brief phase of worrying there was something wrong with her, she slept with a couple different guys and really did not enjoy it. it was only after graduating that she realized she was a lesbian. now, fully immersed in the (admittedly small) wizarding lgbt community, she’s got a bit of a reputation: you’ll sleep with her, she’ll make you breakfast, you’ll think you’re in love, and she’ll promptly forget to call you. this reputation has yet to slow the queue of girls lining up to get their hearts broken, however.

not that rose notices. it’s gonna take an anvil dropping on her head to make her aware of the concept of feelings - but when it does, watch out. 

                                                  &&&adult life&&&

rose currently works as a potions engineer for the wizarding world’s equivalent of big pharma. she knows it’s not the most morally righteous position but it pays for her and al to live in a fancy shmancy high-rise flat (and the parts of her that are aware of his problems know that he needs a steady home base).