Rosemary Peony Walten

Rosemary was an extremely caring person who could be very intimidating whenever she wanted to. If she was bothered, she would let anyone know immediately. She deeply loved her children and was very supportive and protective of them. Rosemary has seemingly been a lovable person since her early years, being the most popular kid in school in her childhood.[16] In her early adult years, Rosemary seemed to struggle with her identity, almost like an existential crisis. She had a bad relationship with her family, going almost no contact with them, meaning she was essentially alone minus whatever friends she had. She wrote in her journal (diary) that she wished she had her own family to spend holidays with. On top of this, Rosemary was an artist who seemed to struggle with her artist footing, though she figured out this aspect of herself within college.[17] When Rose grew a family of her own, she finally seemed to be at peace. She loved her children and husband dearly, even quitting her journal for four years as she was so happy in life, she had nothing to write about.

After the deaths of Edd and Molly, and soon the disappearance of Jack, Rose fell into a deep, grief driven depression. Rosemary developed psychosis after her loss, suffering from hallucinations, panic attacks, and seemingly disassociation; Rosemary began writing in her journal again after her losses, making up an entire dinner with her family that never happened as Edd, Molly, and Jack were all missing. She lost all motivation to go on in her life. She found everything miserable, from pitiful stares people gave her to sunlight coming through her bedroom window.[18][19][20][21][22] To make things worse, Rose believed that her mental state was solely her responsibility, refusing therapy and compassion from others. She believed that it was her fault her family was dead as she failed to protect them; Rosemary was convinced she was a bad mother which struck her deeply as one of the things she wished to do before becoming a mother was to give her child the best childhood possible.

As a grief response, Rosemary began to obsessively work on her stop-motion film, "Faces of Grief" which was a retelling of her loss and grieving. This obsessive work ethic/mental state heavily affected her only living child, Sophie Walten as Rose began to push Sophie away, making her feel incredibly lonely and even afraid and unsafe around Rosemary at the sight of her crazy behavior. Rosemary feared that she was the "big, bad wolf" to her family and a bad mother to her children and unfortunately, she had become exactly that. Rose missed when her life was perfect with her family, so much that she was able to be convinced by "Bon", after seeing that her children and maybe even her husband found another life in Wonderland, to be brutally murdered and stuffed into an animatronic.

Rosemary blames herself for everything that went wrong post-May 1974. Because of the stigmatization of mental health in the 1970s, Rosemary believes it's her responsibility to deal with the entire situation; Rosemary was emotionally repressing herself, even from those she loved. When reached out to by her sister to work through the horrible situation together, she not only refuses but has a destructive reaction to the prospect of her call. With the context of the diary. Rosemary had a troubled childhood which cycled down to her parenting. She desperately seeked her own life, wanting to do better as a mother than her own but never got over her previous issues and insecurities. She began trying to work through her emotions with her art, something she wrote about somewhat helping. As well as obsessively working with her stop motion films, the scribbles, paintings, and all of these violent emotions drowning herself in her work and her projects and passing out at her work table. Rose's art being impacted by her mental state and losses, as she began painting gruesome artworks of her own family and Felix Kranken, who she entirely loathed for taking the lives of her "precious little angels." Rosemary's art was essentially a cry for help, as she notes in her journal about the "Faces of Grief" art film, "Jack doesn't say anything about it. I'd prefer if he did." Notably, Rosemary writes after the death of her mother, she was afraid of mentioning her numb reaction to the news to Jack as she didn't want him to see her differently. This mindset, along with her view on mental health and care, created a depression prison for herself. It should be noted, this behavior also seems to come from Rose herself as in Episode 5, when she hears Jack lashing out in his study, she chooses to not confront or comfort him, but instead turn off the lights and leave him alone. This could be seen as a good, or bad thing.

Connecting to the above sentence, Rosemary is (on her own part, due to the time, and due to actions of some others) emotionally alone.

Rosemary has a hatred for Felix after the accident as one would expect, feeling intense rage at the mere sight of him such as when an ad featuring him played on the television, Rosemary stared at it in hate while seeing red. As mentioned previously, her paintings depicted Felix dying in gorey, brutal manners. Rose admitted to Chris Esterino that she wishes she didn't mean such horrible art and that it was just an outlet for her emotions, but she does mean it. In her Faces of Grief film, she depicts her and her family as sheep and Felix as the Big Bad Wolf who kills her lambs (Edd and Molly) before Rose (as a sheep) brutally stabs the wolf to death. As she says herself, she hates the wolf.

Elaborating on a previous line, Rosemary loves sheep. They are her favorite thing to paint and seem to be her favorite animal. When Jack proposed to Rosemary, he took her to a field with sheep, meaning that in the years he knew her, he had learned that she loved the animal. Rosemary's favorite Showstopper she designed was Sha, designing the character as a self-insert. As joked by The Walten Files Team, Rosemary was one of the first furries,[23] meaning Sha was essentially Rose's fursona. This is disturbingly ironic as Rosemary was stuffed into the Sha animatronic after being murdered by "Bon", with even "Bon" calling Rosemary a sheep. She'd probably like the nickname "Sheepmary."[24]

Relationships:

• The Walten Family

Rosemary was a caring mother and loving wife to her family, falling into an emotional downfall after the loss of her children and husband. Rose loved to participate in her children's interests. Rose possibly made a cardboard rocket for Molly to play in due to her interest in Outer Space and (along possibly along with Jack) buying her a space-themed LEGO set (even if Molly was over space by then). When Rocket was built, Rose, along with Jack, recorded voicelines for him in an audio player similar to a build-a-bear stuffie. After Edd and Molly's death, Rose fell into a deep depression, ceasing all self-care. Rosemary would still be depressed, though, even with the comfort of Jack trying to keep it together for the sake of the family. After Jack disappeared, Rose became very protective of Sophie. Rose would put up missing posters for Jack, even going to Bon's Burgers every day in hopes of new information on his possible whereabouts. Rose was a loving mother whose family meant the world to her, hence why her life was shattered when her world was taken from her. Despite being intelligent enough that she is hurting Sophie, though she can't stop doing it. Before the tragedy, she wanted to become a mother. Desperately not wanting to become a bad mother and not to be similar as her. Despite marrying Jack who genuinely loved her, and went on to have a happy family life of her own. her previous insecurities and personal issues remained unresolved. Becoming consumed by her grief, lack opportunities besides Jack being the only support until his disappearance.

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• The Peony Family

Rosemary's side of the family has not been expanded on and apparently will never be. Rose has a bad relationship with her family, not being on speaking terms with her mother or sister, explicitly being stated that Rose has a bad relationship with her sister.[29][42] Rose created a life separate from the Peony family, but that did not resolve her relationship with them. And beacuse her sister long ago didn't reach out when their Mother died, then being sympathetic now after everything enraged her.[43]

Appearance: Rosemary wears a yellow, baggy, turtleneck sweater with two buttons on the chest and two buttons on each shoulder and the sweater's long sleeves rolled up,[12] a long red skirt, long white socks and brown ugg-like boots. She has long, curly, dark brown (essentially black) hair and a slim facial appearance, with blue eyes. In most depictions, the shoulder buttons have seemingly been retconned or overall ignored. After the deaths of Edd and Molly, or more specifically after the disappearance of Jack Walten, her appearance began to look more filthy with her physique becoming more skinnier and lankier, her hair growing messier and longer. She has a slightly different clothing near the end of her life, wearing a green sweater instead of her yellow one and her red skirt being replaced by a grey one, and her outfit as a whole becoming more damp-looking. She has tear marks on her face, very noticeable eye bags, and dirtied skin. There's also a long smear on the left of her mouth that might just be smeared makeup.