Redheads: Rose Red
Rose Red is a character in the DC Vertigo series Fables written by Bill Willingham. She is the sister of Snow-White. Her character is loosely based on the fairy tale “Snow-White and Rose-Red”, though in the Fables series the Snow-White from that fairy tale is the same Snow-White from the more commonly known story, and Rose Red has grown up quite a bit differently.
Rose Red is rambunctious, a party girl, and embarrassing to the more demure and professional Snow-White. It seems she has always had to live in her sister’s better-known shadow. Though Rose matures in the series, she always seems to retain a bit of that wild-child.
(Amusingly, when I was younger and reading all the fairy tales, I always imagined that Rose Red had her own story somewhere, just like Snow White did, if only I knew where to find it…)
