Rose Futaba

Rose Futaba is a character from the Climax Theater quest "School of the Heart" in the PSP release of Persona 2: Innocent Sin. She appears as a student of Class 2-3, but appears to know what is going on behind the class. She squeals when she talks.

Appearances

 * Persona 2: Innocent Sin: Climax Theater character

Persona 2: Innocent Sin
Rose first appears when Maya Amano and her party arrive at the classroom to do an article on Naozumi Kariyazaki and begin asking around about Ambrosia. She warns them not to get involved and notes that the students are refusing to let "her" spirit rest. After Maya and her party are sent to the "Netherworld" by Kariyazaki, Rose attempts to fight to save the spirit of Akari Torikiri on her own.

After Maya and her party returned to defeat Kariyazaki and Persephone, the demon form of Akari's spirit, Rose reveals that he is actually the spirit of a boar who Akari tended for when she was alive, and blamed himself for her suicide, as he refused to let her rub his belly that day. Because of this, he sought to save her spirit from the torment of being used for Ambrosia, taking the form of her in infiltrate the class. After being assured that he had nothing to do with Akari's death, he passed onto the afterlife.

Etymology

 * Rose's surname Futaba means "pair, set" (双) (futa) and "leaf, plane, lobe, needle, blade, spear, counter for flat things, fragment, piece" (葉) (ha/ba), which literally means "bud, sprout, two leaf/twin leaf" altogether.