Rose Oriana/Relationships

Raphael Oriana
Raphael was the father of Rose and the recent king of the Oriana Kingdom, whom Rose deeply loved and admired. While Oriana Kingdom had a negative view towards military service and public sentiment was negative to Rose for pursuing swordsmanship, her father was steadfastly supportive and gave his blessing as she went to the Midgar Royal Spellsword Academy as an exchange student. Upon discovering that her father had been brainwashed into a puppet by Duke Perv Asshat, Rose attacked the perpetrator but failed, fleeing until she could find a way to save her father. However, once she understood that Raphael would be forced to cause a war between Oriana and Midgar, Rose regretfully had to mercy kill her father.

After doing so, Rose's immeasurable guilt had led to constant nightmares about him hating her. Her guilt dissipated after learning how much Raphael loved her and the sacrifices he made to ensure her safety from the Cult of Diablos. Rose vowed to continue her father's mission and purged the cult from the kingdom.

Reina Oriana
Rose was very protective of her mother, even going so far as to defect from Shadow Garden when the Cult of Diablos seemingly took her mother as a hostage. Unfortunately, she became heartbroken when she learned that she was one of the Cult's collaborators. Still, Rose was horrified when she witnessed her mother be cut down by Mordred before the cult leader began his attempted cover-up.

Cid Kagenou / Shadow / "John Smith"
Rose is deeply in love with Cid Kagenou. When she battled him for the first time, she started to develop a deep respect for his perseverance during their candidacy battle for the Bushin Festival despite all the injuries he had seemingly received-- unaware they were faked injuries. During the terrorist attack, he quickly interceded an attack meant for her and she cried after Cid's perceived death, which she interpreted as an act of his love for her. After the attack ended, she learned that he was still alive and ran straight to his hospital bed to hug his hand while thanking him for saving her. This was the impetus for her harboring romantic feelings for Cid, as she stated he earned her love.

At the Bushin festival, after Shadow had saved her from Chancellor Perv's men, Rose recognized that she had met him before in their childhood as he had saved her from bandits under the alias "Fancy Bandit Slayer." It was that rescue which motivated her to get stronger to defend herself and his beautiful sword style which inspired her to take up the sword for her art form.

Since then, Cid became one of Rose's most important emotional drives as she constantly showers him with affection and holds his hand, despite his attempts to shake her. She also works hard to show everyone, including her father, of Cid's worth as her betrothed. After joining Shadow Garden, she was not as fazed that her clothes were torn as much as the fact that Cid's "gift" was destroyed in front of her eyes, emotionally damaging her. During the Civil War in Oriana Kingdom, when a depressed Rose was forced to marry Perv Asshat, Cid was once more the one that inspired Rose to rebel-- as he had left the Black Rose key in her room which she mistook for a proposal ring.

As for his Shadow persona, Rose had long admired him ever since she encountered him as a child when he rescued her from kidnappers, which also developed her love for swordsmanship. Her admiration increased when she listened to Shadow's playing Moonlight Sonata as she fled her pursuers. When Shadow prevented her suicide attempt in the Bushin Festival, she thoroughly believed that Shadow was the hero, "the sole light" as he were, fighting for justice against the Cult's darkness. After abandoning Shadow Garden, Rose regretted never repaying Shadow's goodwill but was surprised when he tried helping her, which revealed her mother's treachery and sparked her resolve to lead her nation to betterment. Following the Oriana Kingdom Operation, Rose briefly deduced that Cid was Shadow, but ultimately refuted her conclusion as her overthinking things, but may have likely figured it out had she stayed in service under Shadow Garden.

After her mother's betrayal and Oriana's civil war, despite being blamed for everything and losing her entire family, Rose stated that the only thing left in her life was her love for Cid Kagenou, without fully elaborating such to the public. While she still had that and until Rose can mature, Cid would become the only motivation giving her the strength to continue.

Alpha
Like the rest of the numbers, Rose is respectful of Alpha due to the elf's leadership and providing Rose the chance to challenge the Cult of Diablos. Having a respectful subordinate-master relationship, Alpha holds Rose in high esteem because she believes that Rose is a fundamental piece in Cid's plans against the cult. This is in part due to Shadow gifting Rose a part of his power, a blessing only eight others received before her.

Beta / Natsume Kafka
Rose first met Beta in her public persona as Natsume Kafka, Rose's favorite author. Rose admires Beta's Natsume persona and the original stories she's published in her short career. The two would form an alliance after the Sanctuary revelations with the Cult's origins, but Beta has yet to reveal her true identity. This is evident as Beta would hide her face when leading 664, 665, and 666 (Rose) during the Red Moon Incident into the Crimson Tower to research vampire progenitor blood and demon possession. Rose also trusts Beta as a senior, listening to her guidance during the confrontation with Mordred amid the Black Rose activation.

Gamma / Luna
Rose frequented the Mitsugoshi Company stores and associated restaurants as they are popular within the youth circles of royal peerage from Midgar to Oriana. Following the encounter with John Smith, Rose as 666 reported to Gamma and Alpha, indicating Rose is privy to Mitsugoshi being a public front for Shadow Garden. While their relationship isn't well explored, it can be deduced that Rose has respect for Gamma given her business acumen, intelligence, and leadership prowess as Alpha's sub-commander.

Delta
Upon witnessing her fight, Rose came to feel only pity for the Therianthrope's opponents.

Epsilon / Shiron
Before joining Shadow Garden, Rose had immense respect for the revered and acclaimed pianist, Lady Shiron, especially with her original music like Moonlight Sonata. After joining Shadow Garden, she was not aware that Shiron was Epsilon's public persona, as she was astonished that Cid became her "apprentice" and pondered what he must have done to achieve such an honor. Working under Epsilon, Rose was lied to about her mother's safety as they didn't want to burden her, and both were shocked to learn Reina Oriana was a Cult's conspirators, but Rose didn't not hold that against Epsilon. During the Black Rose incident, Rose fought alongside Beta and Epsilon, heeding her senior's guidance as they worked together to battle Mordred.

Eta
Rose's interactions with Eta are not well-known, but she likely knows the Seventh Shadow heads research and development given the data compiled from the Crimson Tower and the many advanced technologies she produced from the Shadow Wisdom.

Lambda
Rose learned her combat under Lambda, who emotionally devastated Rose by destroying Cid's wrapper. Rose utilized Lambda's training as 666 on missions and during the Black Rose event. Rose likely holds some resentment over the wrapper, but moreso respect given Lambda's tutelage gave Rose the strength she needed.

Nu
Nu's service as Gamma's direct subordinate had her relay commands to 664, 665, and 666 for the counterfeit bills investigation mission. Rose's interactions with her were limited, but it can be inferred that Rose respects her while not fully knowing her character.

Victoria / 559
Victoria was Rose's superior during the first Oriana Kingdom operation. They did not get along from the beginning, mostly due to Victoria's distain of her and uncertain as to why Shadow gave his power to Rose. This eventually culminated in Victoria branding Rose a "traitor" when she deviated from the mission to save her mother, to which Rose retaliated with criticism of Victoria's leadership, citing that she did not even bother to explain their objective. Ultimately, their animosity was one of the reasons for the operation's failure. While Rose was a hostage in Oriana, Victoria did whatever she could to petition Shadow to kill Rose, but Shadow refused her and instead revealed the Queen's treachery to Rose.

After Perv Asshat and Mordred's death, Victoria nonetheless gave Rose another chance, but warned Rose she would kill her should she complicate their mission again. Resuming their relationship in a manner more opposing than originally antagonistic.

664 & 665
Following her induction into Shadow Garden, Rose was assigned to a team that comprised herself, 665, and 664; the lattermost being assigned as the leader. She developed a close camaraderie with her teammates and was overjoyed that the two came to her aid in protecting the Oriana Kingdom from the magical beasts from the Black Rose opening. After Rose became the new queen of the Oriana Kingdom, 664 and 665 were sent by Shadow Garden to serve as her bodyguards, disguised as maids.

Alexia Midgar
Due to their royal backgrounds, Rose and Alexia usually get along and tend to have a friendly relationship, this has led them to form an alliance in order to protect the people who are important to them-- along with Natsume. They are unaware that they are really love rivals for Cid.

When Rose fought against Alexia when she and Natsume were looking for her, Rose realized that Alexia was influenced by Shadow by seeing that she was copying his sword movements. This made Rose love Alexia in the end, and she had to defeat her friend with sheer magical force.

Margaret
Margaret was Rose's personal maid. The two were very close with Rose enjoying her maid's smile growing up. However, their friendship took a sad turn when Margaret learnt that Rose had murdered her father, which led to their kingdom undergoing a civil war. She despised Rose ever since but still resumed her duties as best she could when she finally returned to Oriana.

Their friendship was restored after Margaret learned the full truth of Rose's actions, the reasons behind the king's declining health, and the princess coming to her aid to protect her from a Magical Beast. A reflective Margaret tearfully apologized to Rose and wished to resume their friendship.

Perv Asshat
Rose was hesitant to have Perv as her fiancé and tried to petition her father for Cid instead. Finding Perv brainwashed her father, Rose's uncertainty turned to hatred upon this discovery. By wearing the ring Cid "left" for her, which was the king's last will in a hologram recording, Rose exposed Perv's evils and cleared her name to the audience in attendance. However, Rose had sought to imprison Perv for his crimes and was still shocked to see him slain by Mordred.

Mordred
Rose had originally heard of Mordred from the intelligence reports within Shadow Garden, knowing he was the Ninth Seat of Rounds and held incredible power. When she met him during the Black Rose event, Rose learned about Mordred's involvement with her father's deterioration. Also learning from Alpha and Beta the manipulations he had done to Oriana for the Cult's machinations, Rose held incredible hatred for Mordred. When the fighting concluded, Rose was satisfied when Shadow ended Mordred and worked to legally undo what she could regarding the Cult's influence in Oriana.

Iris Midgar
Their interactions were little and brief, but due to her status as Student Council President and royal background, Rose was the only known witness Iris spoke to when the Academy was terrorized by Cult members posing as Shadow Garden. Her testimony confirmed both organizations existence and forced Iris to investigate them and ponder whether Shadow is an enemy or not.

Claire Kagenou
The two encountered each other when Cid was held for interrogation for a week and Rose had to stop Claire from causing destruction trying to free her brother.