Rosa


Castlevania 64
Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
Rosa is found in the indoor garden of the Villa, Stage 3, only at a certain time of day (dawn); she shows up at the end of Stage 4, the Underground Mine, to warn Reinhardt against going forward; she acts as a boss on Stage 5, the Castle Center, only for Reinhardt; and she appears, resurrected, as part of the good ending for Reinhardt
Rosa is found in the indoor garden of the Villa, Stage 3, only at a certain time of day (dawn); she shows up at the end of Stage 4, the Underground Mine, to warn Reinhardt against going forward; she acts as a boss on Stage 5, the Castle Center, only for Reinhardt; and she appears, resurrected, as part of the good ending for Reinhardt

Every day, at the midst of dawn, Rosa would head down to the Villa mansion's indoor garden to feed to the white roses a diet of warm blood. At first glance, Rosa seemed to be but an ordinary young woman; however, upon breaching the Villa's defense, Reinhardt Schneider learned that Rosa's was quite the unfortunate plight.

To Reinhardt she revealed that she was under Dracula's dark curse, as were all other Villa habitants, and that she would soon become an unwilling slave to his every whim. She warned Reinhardt that he would surely suffer the same fate should he hang around the Villa for too long. While Rosa was already a vampire, the conflict within still burned, and she was able to resist plunging her fangs into the hero.

The two met later on in the caverns when Reinhardt burst through a door only to find Rosa attempting to kill herself by exposing her flesh to a beam of sunlight. He stopped this event and lectured her that suicide was not the answer, and, furthermore, it was "forbidden by God." She requested, instead, that he end her pain using the Vampire Killer, but Reinhardt refused. He wasn't sure what she'd do next.

They met once more in the castle center, but by this time, there was no turning back; her condition had reached a point to where she could no longer resist the urge to protect her newly accepted master, Dracula, and destroy any resistance to his cause. The confrontation that followed, engineered by the amused Death, finally brought about a battle between the two. Though justified in his actions in unleashing his wrath, Reinhardt vowed that he would extract revenge for her lost soul.

When Death attempted an ambush at the top of the clock tower, it was Rosa that appeared once again to throw herself onto Reinhardt, to shield him from the incoming attack. Reinhardt was surprised by her sudden restraint. As she lay in his arms, she revealed that she did believe in him and his cause, and she knew that he had the power to destroy Dracula. In her final moments, she also expressed a fear that her soul could not be forgiven; the comforting Reinhardt placed in her hand a cross and assured her that God forgives all. At the words' conclusion, Rosa faded away.

Though, this would not be their last meeting. Due to Reinhardt's timely defeat of the freshly risen Count Dracula combined with her will to be forgiven, Rosa's soul was allowed to escape from his demonic grasp and in divine fashion return to this world in human form. The very symbol of their friendship, a rose that fell from the sky, materialized into a now-free-from-the-curse Rosa, who shared a hug with the ecstatic Reinhardt. With the Dark Lord purged from this world, she would now be ready to begin a life anew.

          

 
 
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