Hey, all! I did these a while back, but waited to post them here because I wanted to space things out a bit. But, yeah, I redesigned Rosalyn a bit, with her main outfit on the left (it's already appeared before) and her fightin' outfit on the right!

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Once again, meet Rosalyn Mary Williams (nee Croft)!

BACKGROUND:
Born on August 17, 19XX, Rosalyn is the second-born child and only daughter of Mary Croft and the younger sister of Alatar Croft (her father's identity remains unknown). Growing up in Neon City, she had developed a fervent interest in martial arts from a rather young age and tried to mimic the movements, but was unpolished and self-trained until she started training officially at around age 10. At some point during her late teen years after her family moved, Rosalyn left home to become an adventurer and archaeologist for several more years. She's gone on all sorts of daring expeditions and met many friends and foes, all while recording her adventures in a journal that she keeps to this day. However, after becoming pregnant and giving birth to her firstborn child, Rosalyn retired from the life of an adventurer and has moved to Goodspell to focus on raising her family in a house built by her grandfather long ago. She is a mother of four daughters - namely, Sabrina (“Dizzy”), Abella (“Aly”), Nicole, and finally Penny - and now works as a geography teacher, using her experience with traveling the world to her advantage to educate her students. However, she also works as an instructor at a martial arts dojo, continuing to follow her passion.

PERSONALITY:
Once a cocky and hotheaded show-off in her youth, Rosalyn's years of experience and many brushes with life-or-death situations have caused her to grow smarter, wiser, more mature, and more patient, exhibiting far greater self-control than she once had. Quick-witted, observant, and flexible, she can adapt to just about any situation and nearly always seems to maintain a cool head, remaining calm and confident in situations where others would be completely undone and preferring to work smarter rather than harder. Rosalyn, like her second-youngest daughter, is rather cheerful, gregarious, kindhearted, and sympathetic toward others. However, she also still has her feisty and hot-blooded side from her younger years, and while she dislikes needless violence, she is still a fighter at heart. She acts as a mentor figure to not just Nicole and her sisters, but to Xavier, Aaron, and the rest of the gang as well, though her style is considered slightly unorthodox: she prefers to have them figure out the lesson for themselves rather than simply spelling it out for them, as she wants them to develop independent mindsets and believes that just telling them what they should learn wouldn't help anyone learn anything.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
However, don't think for a second that she's lost her spark. While Rosalyn may not be magically-inclined like her daughter and quite a few other characters, she is no ordinary woman and is a true jack-of-all-trades. Even years after retiring from a life of adventure, she is a physical powerhouse, able to perform feats of strength and athleticism that not many people can equal - for a few examples, she can lift all four of her daughters at once with ease, split entire trees in half with one kick (which she does as a training exercise), run up the sides of buildings, etc. In short bursts, she can even move so fast that she seems to teleport from a normal person's perspective. Additionally, due to her years of training, Rosalyn is a highly skilled and accomplished martial artist, able to fend off multiple opponents at once, match and overwhelm superpowered foes, and even strike opponents with potentially lethal force (though she only does this in particularly desperate or pressing situations). (Perhaps we'll get to see her in action someday...)

To complement her skills, Rosalyn has learned and mastered the art of qigong. With this, she can use her own ki (life-force energy) to enhance her physical attributes even further, to the point where she can, for example, deflect elemental/energy-based attacks. She can even emit her ki as an aura - one so powerful that it can create gusts of wind that can push people back and even shake the ground. However, using ki excessively eats away at the user's stamina, and if she overdoes it, she'll be unable to use it for a set period of time until it replenishes.

Aside from her fighting skills, Rosalyn also has well-developed skills as a survivor, being highly skilled at hunting, tracking, fishing, setting traps, fishing, cooking, swimming, and climbing. She also has some medical knowledge, as she would often patch up her own injuries after battles and knows how to use plants to formulate effective medicines. She's also pretty smart (albeit not as much as people like Dr. Plasma), having spent many years studying different aspects of archaeological and anthropological fields. Rosalyn has a vast array of knowledge of ancient history, mythology, and culture, as well as having some skill with technology and chemical engineering.

With that said, while her abilities are still quite impressive today, Rosalyn herself claims that she's not as strong as she used to be in her prime.

Fighting Style: Rosalyn's fighting style mostly resembles Goju-Ryu Karate, but she is also well-versed in several other forms of martial arts, including kickboxing, Savate, Judo, Aikido, Muay Thai, and several forms of Kung Fu. She combines hard strikes such as kicks, punches, and chops with soft, open-hand techniques for attacking, blocking, and controlling her opponents, including joint-locks, grapples, takedowns and throws, all while disabling her opponents when the opportunity presents itself using sweep kicks and blows to weaker areas. When on defense, she uses a counter-heavy style where she opts to dodge, evade, block, or parry her opponents’ attacks and then retaliate with a strike or throw whenever the opportunity presents itself. While primarily a hand-to-hand fighter, Rosalyn is also able to improvise in fights by using objects in her environment as weapons, and in fights with multiple opponents, she's been known to employ tactics such as tricking her foes into hitting each other with a well-timed dodge.

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