Rose Oriana/Chronology

Early Life
Born as the daughter of King Raphael Oriana and Queen Reina Oriana, Rose was expected to excel in an art and later marry in life. While growing up, she became friends with Margaret who later became her family's maid and accompanied her father to the Kingdom of Midgar but snuck out of her inn to play with other children. Due to her extravagant clothes, she attracted bandits who kidnapped her for ransom upon realizing her nobility. Before they intended to use her for ransom, Cid Kagenō under the alias "Fancy Bandit Slayer" suddenly appeared to slaughter all her abductors. Having been saved, Rose became enamored by the sight of the mysterious figure's swordsmanship after witnessing his onslaught and became spurred into developing her own built around basics without wasted movements.

Due to traditions within Oriana royalty, she was required to chose an art to excel in. Despite her country's stigma on swordplay, she made it as her specialty and strived to prove her country wrong in believing that swordplay is uncivilized. In her mid-adolescence, she attended Midgar's Spellsword Academy as an exchange student, where she later became Student Council President.

Midgar Academy Terrorist Attack
Entering the Bushin Festival tournament, she first encountered Cid in the preliminaries and dominated the duel with her vastly superior skills. Seemingly overpowered, he refused to yield however and impressed her with his unyielding willpower. Intent on ending their bout, the two combatants prepared to launch a decisive blow before the referee stopped and the ended the fight in her favor. Despite triumphing, she later developed respect for the unassuming freshman.

Approximately a week later, Rose along with the student council candidates gave a speech in his class to discuss their upcoming election. While speaking, several black hooded men posing as Shadow Garden raided the academy. In an attempt to defend the students, Rose confronted the terrorists and failed to notice that her magic was disabled when she attacked. Upon realizing, Cid was forced to intervene and shield her when one of the terrorists tried killing her. Seemingly sacrificing his life to save her, Rose was astonished by his actions and interpreted them as his unwavering 'love' towards her.

With no time to mourn over his apparent death, Rose vowed to avenge Cid while she and other students were forced into the auditorium. During their captivity, She and the other students hoped that the Knight Order would come to their rescue. Due to the Order being barred from entering the academy and magic being sealed, Rose began to think for a way out of confinement.

Later in the day, Rose saw that some of the terrorists began to maliciously attack the students. She told the students not to do anything because without magic, they won't stand a chance until she saw a shining light that made her magic return. At that moment, she lunged at one of the terrorists and declared to the students that their magic had returned as she tried rallying them into fighting back. With their battle commenced, Rose fought off the terrorists while weakened from her magic not fully recovering and was too weak to continue.

When she was nearly killed, Rose was saved by a black hooded swordsman who suddenly plummeted through the roof with several other black-hooded figures who announced themselves as Shadow Garden. Upon their arrival, they collaborated with the students to fight off the rest of the terrorist until a fire appeared in the auditorium. Rose took the opportunity to lead all the students out of the auditorium while the two groups continued fighting each other.

In the anime, Rose alongside other students came out of the burning auditorium and treated several injured students while waiting for the Knight Order. When Iris Midgar asked what had happened, she reported to her that a mysterious organization called Shadow Garden appeared to fight off the terrorist group who bared the same name.

She later discovered that Cid had survived and found him unconscious in a bed at the school infirmary with his friends nearby. Overjoyed by his miraculous survival, she thanked him for saving her and said that he had earned her love.

Sanctuary Infiltration
Due to the Academy's damaged infrastructure, students had their summer vacation started early. Rose had received an invitation to attend the "Goddess' Trial" in Lindwurm as a special guest. Before she went to depart from Midgar, she bumped into Cid and discovered he was also going there as well. Using this coincidence as an opportunity, she eagerly suggested him that they should go together.

On the way, she held onto his hand while voicing her affections to him that they'll overcome any adversity their "relationship" would bring. Though dismayed by this, Cid was aware of her affection and tried shaking her off to no avail. She informed him about the incident at the Academy and thought that something was going on behind the scenes. She suspected the two groups who called themselves Shadow Garden were involved but distinguished them that they differed drastically in swordsmanship, prowess, and members as actual members of the organization except their leader were females.

In the anime, Rose tried sneaking into Cid's room at night to sleep with him but was disappointed that he was absent. In actuality however, he was hiding on the ceiling asleep.

Upon arriving to Lindwurm, Rose gave Cid a tour when he bought a souvenir resembling the hero Olivier's sword encircled by Diablos' left arm and told him a fairy tale regarding the souvenir. She told him that the arm was cut off and sealed in the ruins known as the Sanctuary before bringing him to a book signing by her favorite author, Natsume Kafka. After getting a copy signed, she was puzzled his that was written uniquely, but wrote it off as interest to him.

In the game, Rose attended a pre-trial party and left Cid in their hotel room. Upon returning, she began to panic and was worried when she noticed that he wasn't in the room. When he came back, she was furious at him for wandering off and asked where did he go. Miraculously, she brought his fictitious excuse of going to the washroom.

At the Goddess' Trial, Rose was in the VIP seating with Alexia and Natsume next to the Acting Archbishop Jack Nelson. Prior to the event, she deliberately enrolled Cid to take the trial without his consent in order to show her his love struggle. Later at night when Cid's name was called as expected, she was aghast that Shadow appeared instead and summoned Aurora, the Witch of Calamity who was known as the strongest witch long ago.

In his trial, Jack almost withheld information about the witch from the two princesses when Natsume seduced him into doing otherwise. They were able to learn that she was called the most wicked woman in history. Despite firmly believing that she'll win, he grew impatient and demanded her to win to her losing in response. Rose and Jack were shocked to see her lose until Natsume pointed that a magical door appeared. When Jack tried to leave through the door, he was confronted by Shadow Garden.

The two princess saw Shadow Garden entering the Sanctuary, taking Jack with them. Rose tried reacting when Epsilon took Natsume as "hostage" to ensure they don't impede. Despite the Archbishop summoning Venom to finish the elven off, Epsilon executed him on spot and forced him into the facility. After they entered through the door, Alexia refused to stand idly and followed suit while Rose was forced to join her out of concern.

Inside, the second in command of the organization, Alpha guided the two princess and explained the dark history the Cult of Diablos covered up while revealing her lineage with Olivier after she revealed her face. After the revelation, she showed the two the truth through her ancestor's memories. They came to learn the connection recent events had with the two organizations and the truth about the Three Heroes, Demon Possession, as well as the Cult's origins and true objective. It was then the elven revealed Jack's true affiliation as the 11th Seat of the Round Knights as he confirmed them by revealing himself as the Avaricious as he tried separating the group through an ambush.

When Nelson tried fighting back with his cloning ability, Alpha ordered Delta to fight him. Rose was shocked to see how the Beastkin fought and noted that the way she fought was nothing like her peers as she fought with pure violence. She and Alexia pitied him as they saw a berserker with no technique slaughter dozens of his clones. By the time the defense system broke, Nelson was surprised that over hundred of his copies were defeated without breaking a sweat. Alpha retorted that despite being able to create a hundred copies, they share one brain and that he couldn't control them all that well. The Archbishop saw a statue of Olivier and called her to come out to his side. By the time Olivier was called to his side however, Epsilon regrouped with Alpha to report that they finished investigating. Despite the Archbishop's taunts, the group left the sanctuary as Alpha got what she wanted.

Upon returning outside, the three saw Shadow's magic annihilated the Sanctuary and Lindwurm being flooded. Concluding they were ignorant to the true battle even after learning the truth, Alexia proposed to form an alliance with Rose and the author in hopes of protecting what's most dear to them and swore friendship through networking. Unbeknownst to the three, they all had Cid in mind when they thought of what was most dear to them.

In the anime, Rose was seen practicing her sword in the rain. While contemplating on her life, her body began to feel strange when she noticed symptoms of Demonic Possession started appearing on her body.

Bushin Festival Tournament
After training, she received word that her father will be visiting her with the presumed intention of taking her home for an arranged engagement. At an unknown point she received information from Natsume of her father's condition and rumors of her assumed fiancé, Duke Doem's connection with the Cult.

Sometime after the Bushin Festival had started, She ran into Cid who bought several Tuna King sandwiches and told him that she made friends with Alexia and Natsume. She confided to him that she'll be meeting her father and fiancé later and explained that her selfish behavior had disappointed and betrayed many when she picked up a sword. She implored him that if anything happens to her, she hopes he'll continue to believe in her. Before they parted ways, Cid gave her one of his sandwiches to cheer up.

Following her conversation, Rose went to her father in an attempt to convince him to approve her engagement with Cid. Instead, she saw her father's extremely pale face with a hollow stare and knew something was wrong when she saw Doem and his civil servant's grim smiles. Realizing the information Natsume gave was true, she found out firsthand that Doem was brainwashing her father in an attempt to take over her kingdom.

Horrified by the revelation, Rose was unable to think straight and tried lunging at Doem. Doem easily dodged her and he along with his servant's declared that she had gone mad while they called for guards. Unable to stop the machination, Rose was forced to escape and go into hiding while Doem threaten her to turn herself in before the end of the Bushin Festival or else he'll have her father kill Klaus Midgar, causing war between the two kingdoms. Because of her actions, she became a fugitive after nearly causing an international incident.

To avoid apprehension, Rose fled into the underground tunnels of the capital while being pursued by the Cult. After escaping them, she began to doubt whether her choice was right and whether it could've been dealt with without involving other countries. She knew that even after killing Doem, the Cult's presence within her kingdom will remain.

Remembering his words, Rose pondered whether surrendering is the best course of action, but recalled her memories of Cid. As her symptoms were deteriorating, Rose had heard someone playing the "Moonlight Sonata". Following the tune, she reached an abandon cathedral and found Shadow playing the piece. As he finished playing, Shadow asked her what she'll do to which she was shocked that he seemingly saw everything she's done to this point. She answered that she wanted to protect her kingdom and bring a better but was too weak. In response, he asked if it meant that her fight was over and offered her his power when her pursuers found her. With no choice, Rose took up his offer and began to understand him when he gave her a piece of his power. Slaughtering off her pursuers, Alexia and Natsume found her surrounded by their corpses. Alexia, who wanted to know her side of the situation, confronted her on what had happened as the two princess fought. Despite their skill differences in the past, Rose overwhelmed her with her newly obtained magic and power. Before leaving, Natsume wished good luck on her future endeavors and left her confused.

After sneaking into the Bushin Festival's VIP area, Rose killed her father to stop their kingdom from becoming the Cult's puppet with his last words forgiving her. After killing her father, Rose was prepared to take her own life when Shadow intervened to save her once more. His intervention allowed her to escape to a forest where she was found by Alpha who gave her with two choices: fight alone or join them. Reminiscing Shadow's determination to thwart evil, she entrusted herself and her kingdom's into the organization and joined.

In the anime, she was taken to Alexandria to be introduced to it's headquarters. It was there she was renamed to No.666 and trained. In the manga, she joined at the end of the Bushin Festival and was already a Number before the Red Moon Incident.

Red Moon Incident
Under the codename No. 666, Rose alongside her squad leader No. 664 and teammate No. 665 were assigned her first field mission to research Demonic Possession and Progenitor's blood through utilizing the vast library beneath the Crimson Tower under Beta's command. While at the underground library, she met Cid's sister Claire and the ancient vampire Hunter, Mary. Upon hearing from Claire that her brother was "kidnapped", she panicked and asked her confirmation. Despite worrying for his safety, she was ordered by Beta to step down. After they departed with the duo, she was immediately reprimanded by Beta and her squad for stepping out of line.

Sometime later, she alongside her squad and Beta stepped into battle against the Blood Queen, Elisabeth. Despite putting a valiant effort with the two other monarchs' collaboration, Rose and her squad were overpowered by the revived vampire and was knocked unconscious. Later awoken by Beta, Rose noticed that all her wounds were healed and that the Crimson Tower was annihilated to mere rubble. Following the Elven's orders, she returned to headquarters with her squad.

Great Trading Company Conflict
Under Alpha and Gamma's orders, Rose and her squad investigated the origin of counterfeit bills. While investigating, she was chided by 664 for being distracted. Upon arriving at the warehouse where the counterfeits originated, Rose quickly noticed magic steel threads around them and warned her teammates to stop.

It was then they encountered a mysterious figure named John Smith and fought. Rose and her squad were immediately subdued by his steel threads and were immobilized at his mercy. With a long pause, John sparred them and ordered that they pass a message to Alpha not get involved. With no further recourse, 664 ordered the group to withdraw and report to Alpha. Despite warning the elven leader of the mysterious figure and imploring her for another chance, 664 argued with Rose for acting out while 665 mediated the two. Alpha thanked the squad for the report and clarified the she did not plan to punish them for the failure before dismissing them.

Oriana's "Black Rose" Civil War Wedding
Rose and her team's next assignment was to travel to her kingdom, Oriana and aided No. 559 to the recover the "Ring" which is the key to the Black Rose which was hidden within Fort First. Upon arriving at the fort, Rose was shocked to see her mother amongst the Cult members. Before she could comprehend, Victoria leapt in and started slaughtering them mercilessly until she targeted Reina. It was then Rose intervened to protect her mother from her superior and asked for clarity as she wasn't properly debriefed on the mission. Seeing it as an opportunity, one of the Cult's member, Kouadoi took both Rose and her mother hostage and took them back to the capital.

With her mother hostage, Rose was forced marry Doem. In her room, she believed that Shadow Garden was mad at her for disobeying Victoria and wonder where she went wrong. When she remembered her times with Cid, she began lamenting until he snuck into the balcony of her room. He asked her about the marriage with her tearfully dissuading him that she's marrying out her own will in hopes of him living peacefully. Cid saw through however, retorting that she needed to honest as he was like her with a dream nobody supported. Their conversation was abruptly stopped when Doem barged in after learning that she was talking to someone to only find her. He slapped her as a threat that her mother's life is dependent on her cooperation. Unbeknownst to them however, Cid overheard the conversation and confirmed that she was coerced into the marriage.

Later in the night after Margaret served her tea, Rose opened her windows believing it to be Cid but instead was greeted by Shadow. Shadow brought her to where her mother was at and learned that she was never hostage and that she was conspiring with Doem in taking over her kingdom. Shocked by this revelation, she lost consciousness and found herself in her room. She heard the Moonlight of Sonata was playing and saw Cid. Despite having to pushed him away, she believed that he was an illusion until he gave her a heartfelt speech.

Cid told her that he gave everything up for the one thing he cherished most and that the world had become too bright to the point she'll lose sight of the things she cared for and that she's going through this. He told her that these lights lead people astray so instead of desperately trying not to lose sight of everything she sees, she should sit under a quiet moonlight and gaze at the one thing she cherishes most before asking her what was the thing she cherishes most. Deeply touched by his speech, Rose tearfully answered that he was the thing she cherished most before noticing that he disappeared. After he left, she found a "ring" she believed he wanted to use to propose to her. Now realizing what she loved most was Cid, Rose's determination and resolve to save her kingdom was reignited.

When the wedding ceremony began, Rose declared in front of the masses that she refused to marry Perv. Rose revealed the ring which activated and unveiled a recording of King Oriana who exposed Perv's crimes and entrusted leadership of the the Oriana kingdom to his daughter. Rose then clashed against Perv and easily defeated him but this victory didn't last when Mordred arrived, killing Perv and Reina Oriana much to Rose's horror.

Rose would defend her kingdom from the magical beasts summoned by Mordred through the "Black Rose" and to her surprise and relief, Shadow Garden arrived to turn the tide in Oriana's favor.

Rose watched Shadow and Beta enter the Black Rose before finding the ring Cid gave her, now broken.

The Academy Disappearances
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