Rose Thomas/2003 Anime

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This article is about a character known as Holy Mother in the 2003 anime. For the episode of the same name, see Episode 41: Holy Mother (2003 series).

Rose Thomas
Names and Titles
Full Name	Rose Thomas Rose Thomas Rose
Japanese Written Name	ロゼ・トーマス
Aliases	Holy Mother
Personal Details
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Age	17-18[citation needed]
Nationality	Amestrian
Residence	Reole, Amestris Rockbell Automail, Resembool, Amestris (Ending)
Characteristics
Family	Parents (deceased) Cain (Boyfriend, deceased) Infant son 2 adopted children
Affiliations	Church of Leto (formerly) Cornello (formerly) Ed and Al Winry Rockbell (ending)
Occupation	Saint
Unique Trait	Pink bangs
Goal	To rebuild her town.
Series Information
Debut	Episode 1
Voice Actor	Colleen Clinkenbeard
Seiyū	Houko Kuwashima

2003 anime

Rose in the 2003 anime series.

In the 2003 anime series, Rose's part begins similarly, but expands differently as the two plots diverge. Rose first appears in Episode 1 of the 2003 anime, she was a young girl living by herself in her hometown, inferring that her parents died sometime when she was a child. When she becomes older, she has a boyfriend who she cared for deeply, but then died in an accident. When Cornello arrives in their desert town claiming he is a prophet of the Sun God, Leto, he fills Rose with false hope telling her that he'll bring her dead boyfriend back. She then becomes a dedicated and faithful believer in the new church of Letoism, hoping that if she does good, it will increase her chances of bringing him back. When the Elric brothers arrive in town, they help her open her eyes to the fact that Cornello is a fraud using alchemy to do his miracles, lying to the town about being the son of Leto. Distraught by this, Rose doesn't know what to do, and Ed just promptly tells her that the only thing she can do is keep moving forward because she has two perfectly good legs to stand on.

Rose as the Holy Mother.

Near the end of the series as a major role, Rose returns again, this time as the holy mother of her town. During the genocide in Reole, many of her people were slaughtered and she was captured by the military and assaulted and raped by a soldier. Due to the trauma of those experiences, she became mute and some time later gave birth to a son, who is implied to be born of that rape. She deeply cared for her baby and often carried him around with her, even when she was kidnapped and put into a trance by Dante, who was inside the body of her student Lyra and planned on transferring her soul into Rose's body. Throughout all of these experiences, she keeps hold of her memories of Ed. When she meets Ed again, they ballroom dance, and she finally confesses that she loves him. After Ed is killed by the Homunculus Envy, who is revealed to be Ed and Al's half-brother as well as the very first Homunculus, she mourns him with a pain-filled heart. Ed's death manages to shock Rose out of Dante's control. At the end, when Al sacrificed himself to revive Ed and sent Envy to the Gate after failing to stop him, Rose had been watching and had to fill Edward in on the grim news about his brother. After that, Edward tells Rose to leave the hidden city and take Wrath with her. When Ed wondered how to bring Al back, she told him, like he told her at the beginning, to stand up and keep moving forward because he had two strong legs to walk on now, due to the fact of his limbs being returned.

In the end, when Al is returned as a human, and Ed has disappeared to the other world, Rose and her baby are seen with the Elrics' friend Winry Rockbell sitting on a hill in Edward and Alphonse's hometown Resembool, her baby a few months older.

Conqueror of Shamballa

Rose's three children that appear in Conqueror of Shamballa.

Rose appears in the movie, Conqueror of Shamballa. When Al makes his first appearance in the movie, Rose is amazed because he looks just like Ed, and because he has become so skilled with alchemy. She is seen protecting and giving commands to the townspeople, back in her own town in the desert. When the strange robots invading the town begin to float away, Al tries to grab them and hold them back, but Rose grabs him and pulls him away saying, "Don't go, you'll disappear too!"

Rose's counterpart, Noah.

At the end of the movie, Rose is seen outside in Resembool once again near Winry and Pinako Rockbell's house residence along with Lt. Colonel Alex Louis Armstrong and Pinako with three children now, her baby from the series and two orphans.

Also, in the parallel world, Ed meets a Romani woman named Noah who looks very similar to Rose.