Rōzu Lilith Thorne

"There are so many choices that could lead you to different paths in the Future. What you need to do is make the right one"

- Rōzu to Carl

Rōzu Lilith Thorne is the main protagonist of The Path Ahead, a member of Rick's group, the owner of Ace, and a survivor of the outbreak. She originally part of a community she thought was safe until she found out they were 'psychopathic cannibals'. She released the survivors they kidnapped for food but was caught in the process. She managed to escape and became a lone wolf until she ran into Carl Grimes, who later becomes her boyfriend.

Personality
Rōzu was mentioned to be a soft-spoken, timid girl when it all started but matured and toughen as she grew up. She’s not afraid to speak her mind and isn’t afraid to threaten people’s life to get what she’s after. It is shown to have trust issues caused by people betraying her and the community she was in so she would usually make up lies about her past and who she was. But when she warmed up to the group, she revealed she was kind, loyal and hopeful but is sassy and hot-tempered. She is very bold and daring, shown when she grabbed a one-armed walker and threw it at Duncan (a member of the community that’s after her) in order to escape. Rōzu has a soft side for her loved one and children shown that Judith was the only one she was being nice to when she was captured by the group. Rōzu is also self-sacrificing shown that she risked her life and title in the community to free the survivors they captured but almost got captured and eaten herself.

Pre-Apocalypse
Rōzu was the 12-year old child of a mall security guard and a house wife, also having a cop as an uncle. She lived in a country side in Georgia, not far from Woodbury. She lived a happy life- having BBQs with her family, having good friends, and going to a great school. Her dad would sometimes come home with new things for her and her mom, yet, trying not spoil his daughter.

Post-Apocalypse
Her mother was visiting a friend's house so Rōzu was home alone with her dad, her mom calls and tells them to get out of town but the phone was dropped before she can explained what's going on. Her dad then drives Rōzu to her uncle's house to pick him up and they tried to escaped but crashed after trying to hit a person (a walker). Rōzu was the only survivor and ran away, quickly learning about the dead coming alive. A group then found her and takes her in, learning out to survive and how to use weapons. When she becomes 14 years old, her group was ambushed by bandits and she escaped without knowing what happened to her group. She joined another group but was left to die by them during a run. She then finds a community who welcomes her in, she then found a German Shepard and managed to him to trust her, being named Ace. During her stay, she soon became suspense of the leader and his closer workers and became paranoid for a while. She snuck into the building that the citizens were forbidden to enter to find out they were feeding her and the other people other survivors. Rōzu managed to exit without getting caught but found out where they kept the prisoners. Later that night, she sneaks into the private areas of the community and freed all of the captured survivors but got caught. They planned to cut her up for food but she escaped, she soon became rouge and wanted by the community (who fears that she'll warn survivors about them). She soon meets Enid, who she convinced to help her find ways for survivors to not go into the Community and they become good friends but a herd of walkers caused them to get separated.

The Path Ahead
Rōzu is first seen by Carl, who was a on a run, on top of the roofs and alerted the supply run patrol. A groups of walker came and caused Carl to get separated from the group and lose his gun. She is then seen again running around before finding Carl's gun and plans to take it for herself but she gets attacks by Carl. They fought over the gun until Carl banged her unconscious with his gun. Rōzu is then seen in at one of the houses in a neighborhood, wearing Carl's hat and eating a can of chunked pineapples. This shows that she stole Carl's hat during the fight.

She is then found and confronted by Rick, who asked where she got the hat but she lies, saying A fair trade a gun for this hat but Carl comes and tells Rick what really happened. She managed to kick Rick's gun out of his hand and ran but managed to get caught by Daryl and Glenn. Ace came and attacked Glenn but he hit him with a stick which caused him to run off. Rōzu was then taken prisoner.

Carol tried to give her food but she kept asking what kind of food and whenever Carol answers, she kicked it back to her, claiming she's lying. Morgan keeps an eye on her and asks Rick what are they planning to do to her, Rick tries to friendly but Rōzu claims they are psychopathic lunatics and will kill her soon. Glenn then suggested Maggie to talk to Rōzu and Maggie managed to convinced her eat.

She is seen the next day when she sees Carl with Judith and was shocked to see a infant alive. She tried to get up to get a better of the baby but was too quick and accidentally tripped over her foot, getting Carl's attention. Rōzu then joked about his hat, referring to when she stole it earlier and Carl ignored her until Rōzu finally said her name Rōzu Lilith Thorne. Carl then asked her the three questions (How many walkers did you kill, how many people did you kill, why) and turns out she barely kills yet killed people and walkers who threatened her. Soon some walkers managed to get into the building and Rōzu used this opportunity until Judith started crying, getting some walkers' attentions. Rōzu, not wanting to see an infant get eaten alive, attacks the walkers and killed them (stabbing one in the head by a broken broom stick and pushing one out the window that was broken during the fight). The fallen walker got the group's attention and they ran to see Rōzu, holding a broken stick with a walker stabbed into it with a crying Judith next to her. Rick was quick to realize that she saved Judith and thanked her but she didn't say anything, glaring at them.

Rick and Rōzu are then seen talking as Rick tries to convince her to join the group and almost failed until Rōzu saw Judith in Carol's arms and she gave in, claiming she's only doing this because she doesn't want to have another baby die. Rick told Carl to show her around (which they were both not happy about). She and Carl soon became friends after talking about their life before the apocalypse. She is then seeing bonding with Carol, who later becomes her foster mother and she goes on a hunt with Daryl who becomes impressed with her hunting skills (later teaches her how to use an bow-n-arrows). Rōzu helps Glenn on a run when they run into a member of the community, threatening to kill her if she doesn't come with him but gets stabbed by Glenn. They return and Glenn goes to talk to Rick while Rōzu goes to Judith's room to find Carl and they chat some more. Carl then asks Rōzu to get some medicine and bandage so he can clean his eye but she volunteers and cleans his eyes, bandaging it with clean bandage. Carl thanks and they soon get into an emotional talk before kissing but it was cut short when Judith waved her arms, accidentally hitting Rōzu which causes her to break the kiss and laughs. Rick then asks her about the guy and Rōzu then warns them about the cannibalize community. More will come

Killed Victims

 * Numerous counts of zombies.
 * Numerous counts of people.

Relationships
Axel- former best friend and possibly ex-boyfriend Enid- friend Carol Peletier- Foster Mother Daryl Dixon- Fatherly Figure Glen Rhee- Brother Figure Maggie Greene- Best Friend Sasha Williams- Friend Rosita Espinosa- Friend Rick Grimes- Friend Michonne- Best Friend/Sisterly Figure Carl Grimes- Best Friends later boyfriend Morgan Jones- friend Ace- Dog Angelfire- Horse

Trivia

 * Rōzu means rose in Japanese
 * Rōzu was the given the last name 'Thorne' as a reference to one of Night-Rose's favorite Youtuber, Adande Thorne a.k.a sWooZie who is hinted to be a Walking Dead fan.
 * Rōzu wore Carl's hat twice: when she stole it from him and when he supposedly died and the hat was the only thing (besides his gun) they found after his disappearance.
 * She knew Enid but they got separated and she was jealous of Carl's feelings for her but kept that a secret.