Rose Arvale

Rose Arvale is a main character in "The Messengers". She is portrayed by Anna Diop.

Biography
Rose is a nurse who is shot, leaving her in a coma for seven years. When she wakes she tasks herself with assembling the five newly christened Angels of the Apocalypse, The Messengers.

She then becomes their new leader until Rose is revealed to be the Horseman of Death in 1.09 Death Becomes Her. Rose uses her knowledge as a Horseman to deceive the Messengers. For example, she told the other Messengers that her unique gift was understanding (being able to read and speak any language known to man including computer code).

Before she became a Horseman, she was a nurse who treated soldiers in Afghanistan and there was a day when a soldier asked her to mercy kill him and she did. After returning to the states, she had a job at Houston Memorial Hospital and killed a few elderly patients as mercy.

Unfortunately, Rose's downfall came when it is shown that she had an affair with Dr. Hart and he broke it off after his wife got in a terrible accident and he wanted to become a better husband. Rose decides to kill her and that's when her seal was broken. It was also revealed that she was approached by the Man, but she refused him. In return, he had a drug addict to shoot her. But the shooting was not fatal as in God decided to put her in a coma instead.

Physical Appearance
Rose is tall and slender. She has short, black hair and brown eyes. She has a dark complexion and is of slim build.

When she is a Horseman, she has red eyes and red wings.