Rose Lalonde

Rose Lalonde is one of the main characters of Cool and New Web Comic. She is a friend of Jhon Ebgret, or at least of his non-corrupt counterpart John Egbert. She was originally named Roze, but that name was rejected. Despite this, she is still referred to as Roze by corrupted characters. She uses the chumhandle testacleTheorist when chatting on Pesterchum.

She is the first character introduced to not be affected by the Corruption, arguably making her the main protagonist of ''CaNWC. ''Or if one takes the perspective of o and the other corrupt characters, its main antagonist. She has made it her mission to save her friends from the corruption.

Rose's mythological role in CaNWC is different from Homestuck. While there she is presented as the Seer of Light, here she is the Lord of Space. Likewise, her planet is now the Land of Light &amp; Froges (LOLAF), instead of the Land of Light and Rain (LOLAR).

Childhood
When Rose was first created through ectobiology, she was "corrupt" like the rest of the universe, its true natural state. While much of her early life is not known, it presumably has some superficial similarity to the events of Homestuck. She was raised by Momi, befriended Jhon, Dabe, and Jaed through the internet, and so on. She is aware of Dave's webcomic Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, but was unaware that it was based on people he knew. She became skilled at knitting, and was preparing a knitted rabbit as a gift for Jhon's birthday.

However, due to the Enhancement, she her memories of this past are a mixture of the details of Homestuck and CaNWC. She remembers everyone's normal name and behavior, such as John Egbert being a mild prankster rather than a deranged psychopath, but also remembers events unique to CaNWC, such as "Dave's" month long absence. This implies that Rose did not merely switch places with Roze from Homestuck, but rather is an enhanced version of Roze herself.

Pre-Entry
When Jhon turned 13, he immediately offered to have s*x with Rose. Around this time the Corruption occurred, transitioning Roze into Rose. This transition was not instantaneous. She slowly became aware that something was "off" about her world, noting how bizarre "John's" behavior was. As she became more aware of the problems in the world around her, Since her memories of the world were similarly altered, she concluded that rest of the world had changed, rather than herself.

As the game of Sburb coincides with the end of the world, she quickly became pressed for time and set up a session with Jhon to escape a meteor bombardment. They briefly established a connection, but Jhon quickly becomes bored and disconnects, opting instead to play RollerCoaster Tycoon, leaving Rose stranded.

Luckily, she was messaged by Hecka Jef, who offered to work as her coplayer instead. After being unable to convince Jhon or Jaed to play, she accepted. However, her shift left her unable to interact with the world around her propery, trapping her in her room. She successfully deployed the items Hecka Jef needed, but her own entry process was handled by Momi. Hecka Jef is also the one who prototyped her grimoire into her kernelsprite.

Entry
Rose begins Act 2 in the Land of Light and Froges (LOLAF), a white featureless planet. She confirms that the trolls have been "corrupted" as well by talking to Terezi. She talks to Hecka Jef, who warns her about stairs. Hecka Jef explains his relation to Dabe, Jhon and Dabe's relationship, the "clouns" of Prostit, the death of Swet Bro, and his planned revenge against Jhon.

Jhon then crashes into Rose's room. She rejects his advances once more and questions him about the corruption, but Jhon does not recognize any gap in his memory. Desperate to find any other normal person, she begins messaging random trolls. After speaking to Gametez and Equihorse, she finds a normal Kanaya. However, this appears to be shortly after Kanaya enhanced, since she claims to have not noticed any corruption beyond what Rose can directly point out, like with her username. Rose explores LOLAF and meets Bg'ogubglog'ybulsprite while Jhon makes out with her mother. She is almost crushed by a Durst ship piloted by Jack Noir, but is saved by Momi, who dies in her place. Rose immediately prepares to fight Jack, but seeing he is also normal, goes in cahoots with him.

Jaed Hardly also pesters Rose to flirt with her similarly to Jhon, and is likewise rejected. Jaed also reveals that she has taken control over the throne of Prostit.

Rose and Jhon work to retrieve Momi's body from under Jack's ship, which unlocks telekinetic powers. Momi is prototyped with Bg'ogubglog'ybulsprite, creating Bg'ogubmom'ibulsprite, who immediately resumes making out with Jhon again. Rose becomes disgusted with Jhon and sends him away.

While he is away, Jhon begins his RollerCoaster Tycoon session of Sburb, and begins to construct a theme park on Rose's planet. As Rose wanders this park, Jack is flung at her by one of the rides. She holds up her hands to protect herself, which glow with a purple light.

Act 4
We cut to Rose a little later in the future, recounting the events between Act 3 and 4, as well as her own theories on the Corruption, in her Walkthrough, which she posts online in the hopes that someone else normal might find it.

Rose has begun to realize several inconsistent points about the Corruption. For example, while she believed the Corruption had occurred earlier that day, Hecka Jef claims to have interacted with Jhon for years, or that "Dave's" month-long disappearance seems to be due to Dabe's submissive relation to Jhon.

Rose explains that when Jack was flung at her, she was able to use a time power to freeze him in place, distinct from her telekinesis. She then approached a horrorterror-possessed AR, who was beating Bg'ogubmom'ibulsprite.

While AR is initially reluctant to share details about the Noble Circle, Rose is apparently considered a "horrer terrer" herself as the daughter of Bg'ogubmom'ibulsprite. AR reveals that someone named has been killing horrer terrers, despite them supposedly being immortal and eternal. It is also revealed that Rose shares her class with as the Lord of Space. Her coplayers Hecka and Jhon are revealed as the Mus of Time and the Boss of Wheels respectively. Some time later, Jhon messages Rose for help. She convinces Bg'ogubmom'ibulsprite to take her to LODAD, but arrives too late and finds Jhon dead. Bg'ogubmom'ibulsprite suggests kissing him to revive his dreamself, but this fails since Jhon doesn't have a dreamself as a RollerCoaster Tycoon player. Rose attempts to use her abilities to reverse time, but is only able to freeze Jhon in time instead. Bg'ogubmom'ibulsprite decides to take Jhon to his "Quest Coaster" in the hopes that will revive him, and also creates the dream bubbles for his ghost. Rose discovers that Jhon has been in contact with Whyte Wordes Guy shortly before being sent back to LOLAF.

Once she has returned, Rose is greeted by four messages from Whyte Wordes Guy, Dabros, Hecka Jef, and Kanaya respectively.

Dabros tries to troll her Rose, but is then killed by Kraket Vantage. Kraket offers to form an alliance with Rose against Hecka Jef, since Hecka is apparently responsible for creating two demons threatening their session, one of color and the other of darkness. Kanaya has now noticed the corruption. However, since her computer can look through Rose's timeline, she also discovers that Rose was initially "corrupt" herself. This proves that it is her own memories that are flawed, not the world around her, making her plan to "fix" the world fundamentally flawed. Naturally, this freaks out Rose, causing her to have a mental breakdown and literally exploding with power.

Kanaya is likewise disturbed by this information, but encourages Rose to not ignore beating Sburb. She also explains more fully her own situation, and confirms the trolls are being threatened by the demons of color and darkness. Rose in turn urges Kanaya to find some way to escape, and shares her walkthrough in the hope it will help her. They also realize they have both seen Animaker, although they don't know what exactly it is.

Whyte Wordes Guy is characteristically unhelpful. Rose learns that WWG claims to be omniscient and works for. He also hints to her once being the "Seer of Light," and that there is special significance about the letter "o".

Hecka begrudgingly admits that he needs Rose to play through Sburb, giving her Gristorrent to leech off of Jhon's excess supplies. Rose informs Hecka Jef that Jhon is dead, but she plans to resurrect them. Hecka is enraged, rebuking her for helping a murderer and disregard the value of "corrupt" lives. As Rose contemplates these accusations, a note from Jack floats into her room, saying that he has left to take over the Durst throne. Rose is suspicious of Jack's actions, having not fully forgiven him for killing her mother, but recognizes the tactical advantage of having allies as the rulers of both Prostit (Jaed) and Durst (Jack).Rose mulls over Hecka's accusations some more, but is thoroughly convinced she is in the right. Living on in this corrupt world simply isn't an option, and she will fight to similarly Enhance her universe. Rose explores the rest of her house and finds her alchemy devices, and finally begins to take an active role in her session, creating various items, including the Quills of Echidna with a code given to her by Kanaya.Kraket warns Rose that Hecka is making his move against Jhon. She begins devising a plan to return to LODAD, only to suddenly fall asleep. Jack had crashed into her dreamself's room, which had walls covered in the words "ROZE." Jack takes Rose to LODAD, arriving just in time to stop Hecka. With her powers over both time and space, as well are her superior arsenal and more tactical approach, she outmaneuvers Hecka. She destroys Animaker, kills several doomed Hecka and Dadd clones, Swet Mom, and destroys Hecka's left arm and eye.

Kanaya congratulates Rose on her victory, commenting on how Rose has become absurdly powerful and somewhat frightening. She also informs her that someone named o has posted his own walkthrough, which acts as a recap of the story so far.

Act 5
Rose updates her walkthrough to account for her new discoveries. She analyses the Mythological Roles given to her and her coplayers, and reveals her powers over space have grown to include teleportation. After her victory, she also assesses her relations with, Hecka Jef, o, and the Reader he alludes to. She also contemplates the morality of her actions, since she is trying to "save" a universe that never properly existed, and is now killing people in the process.

Personality and Traits
Rose is very similar to her Homestuck counterpart, sharing the same interest in mysteries, writing, literature, psychoanalysis, and knitting, and demonstrates an extensive vocabulary, intelligence. She also shares several points of knowledge, such as characters "real" Homestuck names and what counts as their normal behaviors. Rose is often shocked or disgusted by the way her world works, although on occasion finds it humorous. Her world is a joke, which makes it difficult for her to empathize with its inhabitants, except with regards to restoring their "original" selves. The new and cool challenges Rose faces also means her personality is developing in a different direction than in Homestuck. There, Rose is given a brightly colored planet and told to go off on some quest to help its inhabitants. Her natural curiosity and sense of rebellion led her to reject the path given, and instead has her go off deconstructing her session to better understand its hidden mechanics.

CaNWC has turned this on its head. Instead of a whimsical planet of rainbows, she is given a blank and empty slate, and the sanity of her friends are put at risk.Rose's rebellion against her session is much more focused on forming alliances with powerful groups of people that can help her fix the world according to her ideals. She still wants to deconstruct her session, but it defies proper analysis. But while she may not seem particularly active, often spending time just talking to people or lying around, when she does move, she's decisive and ruthlessly effective.

Dealing with the insanity of the world has also placed a lot of mental stress on her. Not only does she need to process shocking discoveries, like the "Corruption" being the natural state of this world, but is also thrown into absurd situations like fighting an army of babies, and wrestling with the ethical complications of properly valuing "corrupt" life while still working for a better world. She is a child who must act as an adult in a world where even adults are extremely childish.

Lord of Space
In CaNWC, Rose's mythological titleis the Lord of Space, rather than the Seer of Light. This reflects her increased prominence within the story and the difference in her journey.

The Lord is a master class. It is "the most active class of all, reserved for male players." However, the gender restriction has been lifted in this case, which also has some precedent as Hussie has approved female Prince players, another "male exclusive" class. A Lord commands their aspect, and it ultimately works to serve their will. As Caliborn puts it in Homestuck, "AS A LORD OF TIME. I THINK I'M GOING TO MASTER TIME. NOT WITH MY BRAIN. WHICH WOULD BE TOO HARD. BUT WITH MY INSTINCTS. LIKE IN A WAY THAT WORKS WITH MY NATURAL IMPULSES... I THINK PART OF MY PERSONAL QUEST. IS TO BECOME AT EASE WITH THE FORCES OF INEVITABILITY. INEVITABILITY THAT ALL THINGS SHOULD AND WILL FALL IN MY FAVOR. THAT ALL CAUSALITY ANSWERS TO ME. AND THAT ALL OUTCOMES NOT ONLY SERVE ME. BUT CONSIST OF MY BEING." A reasonable interpretation then is "one who masters their aspect, or masters through their aspect."

This is by no means an easy task for them. A Lord may need to go through tremendous hardship to gain their rightful place, as Caliborn's immense perseverance allowed him to win what should have been an unwinnable time challenge in his dead session. "FEW COULD POSSIBLY UNDERSTAND MY SUFFERING." Despite this struggle, it is also something the Lord is equipped to overcome. "A LORD'S WORTHINESS IS AT NO POINT EVER IN DOUBT. HIS NOBILITY IS MANIFEST. SUPREME MASTERY WAITS FOR HIM PATIENTLY. LIKE AN EMPTY THRONE UNDER HEAVY GUARD."

Space is the aspect of creation and dimension, and is the pair to Time. Space players see the "big-picture" for how things interact and work relative to each other, and express themselves through that. Space not only looks out toward creation, but the act of creating itself. As Kanaya states, "I Somehow Came To Understand Space Meant More Than Just Space. Like Not Just Physical Room And Dimension For Stars To Occupy. Its Deeper Than That. A Field Related To Propagation." This is perhaps most directly seen in the Space player's frog breeding responsibility, which allows for the creation of their sessions’ new universe. Space players arrange situations, "setting the stage," and patiently wait for the right moment to strike. As it is described by Calliope the Muse of Space, "it is important to know when the greatest good is best served by remaining dormant. whether that burden is for close to eternity, or only a few more minutes. it is something to learn as a space player. space falls back. it yields. hosts the play silently. then, it roars to life when its time comes, showing all who is really the master. and so too when the time comes, it collapses in on itself, taking all else with it." Calliope ultimately completed this in Homestuck by taking the choice of sacrifice, which ultimately led to her being able to collapse the Green Sun and defeat.

The Lord of Space then would be the "master of creation, or one who masters through creation." The Lord of Space struggles against the forces of their universe. Their very nature is set up so that they will dominate space. This might require great patience on their part as they explore and learn about their setting, but if they set up the right situation they can achieve complete victory, they can create a new world in their image.

This very clearly matches Rose's quest to enhance her universe. There is also the direct powers she gains, of course, including telekinesis, teleportation, and size alteration but there is also the commanding role of a Lord. Rose has organized together a significant following of enhanced and corrupt characters alike, and in the battle of VERTICLE MOVEMENTS was able to emerge victorious over Hecka Jef's group. Her supporters include the Jaed the Quen of Prostit, Jack Noir the King of Durst, the trolls, and Bg'ogubmom'ibulsprite the legendary head of the Noble Circle of Horrorterrors.

She faces a very real struggle against the fabric of Paradox Space itself, but she is also by far the person best situated to solve the mysteries of  CaNWC, and to organize the effort to bring it to sanity.

Trivia

 * Rose is considered a horrorterror now because her mom's a horrorterror. That makes sense.
 * According to the Final Agent, one of the two other Last Guardians is a "teenage girl in another universe." Given Rose's pink time powers, Rose seems to be the likely candidate.
 * Rose's classpect is Lord of Space, a fusion of Caliborn's classpect ( Lord of Time) and Calliope's classpect (Muse of  Space ).