Rosso the Crimson

'''This is not FF7 canon. Well, some of it is. Most of it is not. This is mostly me trying to keep my notes straight. Spoilers abound.'''

Born January 29, 1970

With Hojo’s “Sephiroth Project” still ongoing and nine kinds of classified, and Hollander’s “Project Gillian” also still under wraps and underway, a slightly different method was used to bring about Rosso. Perhaps because she was already formed before she received any mako or Jenova in-utero, she was the first successful female SOLDIER. However, there were significant trade offs. Rosso is completely sterile. While she developed an adult female body, she produces no eggs, and she does not menstruate. The same goes for all female SOLDIERs in Deepground.

More seriously, she cannot feel pain. Indeed, her tactile sensation in general is severely limited. At this stage of her life, she knows enough not to accidentally injure herself, but she does not understand why people scream, or cry, or even display affection (not that she’s seen terribly much of the latter). She is not evil so much as she lacks the necessary empathy to appreciate the physical and emotional state of those around her. (It would actually be easy to completely undo her with just a hug.)

She is, however, very attached to her "family" of Weiss, Nero, Azul, and to a lesser extent Argento. Azul is something of a father or older brother to her, and Argento the closest thing to a maternal figure Deepground has to offer. She was raised and trained with both Weiss and Nero and consequently sees them as her brothers. Although Weiss and Nero share blood ties, Rosso is not related to either one of them. As such, when Weiss asked if he could sleep with her, she just kinda went with it. She'd been assaulted by other soldiers already (she walked away from the incidents unscathed, the same can not be said for her attackers), so she was touched that he'd asked. It isn't romantic or even terribly sexual, not for her anyway. Because her tactile sensation is limited, Rosso doesn't get much out of it, and views the whole thing as being on the same level as giving Weiss a shoulder rub or scratching a spot on his back for him that he can't reach himself. Azul just tries not to think about it.

Rosso’s weapon of choice is a variation on a gunblade known as a “razor bolt”. It consists of two single-edged blades (“Fire” and “Ice”) each with a materia slot that link together pommel-to-pommel. When connected, she can fire bolts of magic utilizing materia. She can also wield the blades joined together as a sharp-edged bo staff, or individually like a pair of machetes.