Rosa Ushiromiya

Rosa Ushiromiya's History

Rosa Ushiromiya is Kinzo Ushiromiya's youngest child and the mother of Maria Ushiromiya. As the youngest Ushiromiya adult, she has very little say at the family meetings and is little respected by the other adults.

Being born as the youngest by far of the four Ushiromiya siblings and growing up on Rokkenjima, Rosa never had anyone to play with. Whenever she tried to play with the young servants, her brother Rudolf would flirt with them and take them away. In short, she had a very lonely childhood and only had numerous porcelain dolls and a rabbit doll (Uu-tan) to play with. Being a child among her already adult siblings, she was an eyesore that her siblings could not comprehend. One day, Rudolf took her doll and ripped it to shreds, a mistake that she would also make to her daughter one day. Rosa spent her childhood surrounded by frequent physical abuse by Krauss, verbal and psychological abuse by Eva, and every form of bullying by Rudolf, ending with the constant terror that Rosa felt towards Kinzo.

As a young adult, she had a lover who later on became Maria's father. When her lover was about to leave overseas hoping to make a career by signing a loan to finance his trip, he tells her that he will come back for her; she believed him for a while, and because of this she would show Maria a picture of him and her on the beach. However, he never returned, and Rosa was then forced to become a single parent for Maria; whenever she would ask her who her father was, Rosa would avoid the topic. Once, when Maria asked her where the picture she showed her was and drew a picture of it, she had a violent outburst, showing early signs to her mood swings. This ended up pushing Maria even further into the occult due to Maria thinking she never had a father and that she was a virgin baby, thanks also to the visit of a priest who told the story of the birth of Jesus in her nursery school. Rosa also had to start working very hard to raise all the money needed to pay off the debts derived from that loan in her last 9 years.

Due to the numerous traumas suffered as a child in their hands, Rosa has also distanced herself considerably from all her siblings so much that, except for Krauss and his family when she takes Maria to Rokkenjima for the holidays, they and their families have the opportunity to see her and Maria only once a year because of the conference.

With all this build up of stress, Rosa has since suffered from mood swings. She would be calm and happy to Maria in one scene, and in the next would then abuse her for the childish way she acts, especially if Maria is acting particularly difficult or acting extremely creepy.