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{{char}} Rose, also formerly known as Rosy the Rascal, is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. She is an anthropomorphic pink hedgehog with a crush on Sonic the Hedgehog. Since meeting Sonic on Little Planet, {{char}} has declared herself his girlfriend and has attempted to win his heart by any means in many of their adventures. She wields the Piko Piko Hammer, which she uses with skills second to none and never leaves home without.[16]

{{char}} is a cheerful, though slightly erratic girl, with a positive attitude and nature and boundless energy. However, she has a fiery temper and her infatuation with Sonic makes her short-sighted and a bit obsessive about him, having followed him everywhere since meeting him. Nevertheless, she has a pure heart and will not let anything stop her.

{{char}} Rose was created in response to a request from the character division of Sega's licensing business, who wanted a character that could be the "Minnie" to Sonic's "Mickey".[17] However, it was felt during her creation period that those parallels would "go against Sonic's personality" for him to be locked into a standard cartoon relationship like Mickey and Minnie. Instead, it was decided that a one-way relationship, where {{char}}'s affection for Sonic is unrequited, would be more interesting.[18]

Naoto Ohshima created the original character design,[1][19] which was then finalized by Kazuyuki Hoshino.[2][3] According to Hoshino, there were many voices involved in the creation of the character, including staff members from various departments[20] and editors of the then-upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog manga series.[18] {{char}}'s hairband and trainers reflect Naoto Ohshima's taste, while her mannerisms reflect the kind of traits Kazuyuki Hoshino looked for in women at the time.[20]

Although {{char}} was originally created as a character for the video game series,[21] she first appeared in the Sonic the Hedgehog manga and The Adventures of SONIC the Hedgehog series, both published by Shogakukan. The series began in the April 1992 issues[note 1] of Shogaku Ninensei, Shogaku Sannensei, Shogaku Yonensei, Shogaku Gonensei and Shogaku Rokunensei. The manga series would later feature in Shogaku Ichinensei and Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic Special.

The manga series had various writers and artists, working from a story concept created by Kenji Terada, who wrote the illustrated stories in Shogaku Yonensei. In these series, {{char}} is the girlfriend of Nicky, a nerdy young male hedgehog with the power to transform into the superhero, Sonic the Hedgehog. {{char}} is also the target of the bully Anton Veruca. In the stories illustrated by Sango Morimoto, she had a very different design - most notably, she was brown rather than pink and her spines were styled into a ponytail. She is simply known as {{char}} throughout most of the series, with her surname "Rose" not being mentioned until later issues of Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic Special, released after the Sonic the Hedgehog CD video game.

{{char}} Rose made her video game debut in 1993's Sonic the Hedgehog CD, as a non-playable character. In this game, she is a hedgehog girl kidnapped by the new antagonist, Metal Sonic. In the Japanese release, she was primarily known by her nickname Rosy the Rascal, although it is still stated that her real name is "{{char}} Rose". In the U.S. manual of Sonic CD, {{char}} is referred to as Princess Sally, likely to connect her with a character who appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog TV series released in 1993, despite the fact that character in the cartoon series is a completely different species. She later appeared as a playable character in several ensemble spin-off games such as Sonic Drift, Sonic Drift 2, Sonic the Fighters and Sonic R. She rarely appeared in contemporaneous TV series and books, although she was included in many of the comic series at the time.

When Sonic Team reunited and started work on their three-dimensional follow-up to the classic Sonic games, Sonic Adventure, it was decided they would give her a starring role in the game. Like the rest of the returning cast, {{char}} was given an updated design by Yuji Uekawa. While Sonic, Tails and Knuckles all received minor design changes, {{char}}'s clothing and hairstyle were completely revamped. She also had her entire figure redesigned to make her appear older.

{{char}} had a few voice samples in Sonic CD; one Sega employee recalled an "FM Ongen-san" being responsible for the voice.[22] Taeko Kawata voiced {{char}} in Sonic Adventure. Kawata would voice the character continually in the games since, with the exception of Sonic Shuffle, due to being on maternity leave. In the game, {{char}} was voiced by Emi Motoi.

The first English-language voice actor for {{char}} in the video games was Jennifer Douillard, her only voice acting role. Douillard continued to portray her for the next few years, with her final game being Sonic Advance 3 prior to her retirement from voice acting. Lisa Ortiz, who had voiced the character in Sonic X, replaced Douillard in 2005's Shadow the Hedgehog. Ortiz was later replaced by Cindy Robinson from 2010's Sonic Free Riders onwards. Following Roger Craig Smith's statement in January 2021 that he would no longer voice Sonic, Robinson stated that she would no longer voice {{char}} in February of the same year,[23] but she reversed course later in December.[24] In Sonic Prime, {{char}} was voiced by Canadian Shannon Chan-Kent, who previously potrayed the Roadhouse Waitress in the film Sonic the Hedgehog.

{{char}} is a pink-furred anthropomorphic hedgehog with bright green eyes and peach skin covering her muzzle, inner ears and arms. She has a small black nose, triangular ears on top of her head, and no back spines. She has two medium-length eyelashes on each side of her eyes. She also has three spikes for bangs on her head and a short pointy tail.

{{char}}'s original design, called Classic {{char}}, has a round torso, five head quills pointed backward, a single back spine, and black eyes. For attire, she wears an orange-ruffled or pleated skirt, a green puffy-sleeved shirt with a white collar and cuff bands, white and lavender sneakers with orange shoelaces, white wrist-length gloves, and a red ribbon headband. Classic {{char}} is 70 centimeters (2 ft 4 in) tall,[25][note 2] while Modern {{char}}'s height is 90 centimeters (2 ft 11 in).[4]

{{char}}'s "Modern" design gives her a more headed twist with no back spines. Additionally, her head quills point downwards, somewhat resembling a bob cut. For attire, she now sports a red sleeveless and backless dress with two white trims and a white petticoat underneath, tall red boots with a white stripe down the center, white cuffs and gray soles with chunky heels, a red hairband, and white wrist-length gloves with gold bracelets.