Rose the Hat

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Near Pure Evil
Full Name	Rose O'Hara
Alias	Rose the Hat The Woman in the Hat Irish Rose Queen Bitch of Castle Hell Queen Bitch Rosie
Origin	Doctor Sleep
Allies	Barry the Chink Crow Daddy Grandpa Flick Snakebite Andi Silent Sarey
Powers / Skills	Telepathy Black magic Possession Charisma Astral projection High intelligence
Goals	Maintain her quasi-immortality by feeding off of other telepaths' "Steam" which allows them to "Shine". Capture Abra Stone to use as a "Steam" cow for years.
Moral Event Horizon	Torturing innumerable children to death to feed off their steam in order to gain immortality.
Kill Count	Hundreds or Thousands
Crimes	Malefic Torture Serial child murder Brainwashing Kidnapping
Type of Villain	Supernatural Sorceress

“	Yes, you run, dear. And then I will find you, and you will scream for years until you die.	„
	~ Rose the Hat.

Rose O'Hara, better known by her alias Rose the Hat, is the main antagonist of the 2013 horror thriller novel, Doctor Sleep and its 2019 film adaptation.

She is the leader of the True Knot, a group of quasi-demonic, vampiric psychics who seek out children to torture to death, feeding off their psychic "steam" essence to gain power and live forever.

She was portrayed by Rebecca Ferguson.

History

This section is too long. Visit here for more details: Rose the Hat's Synopsis on the Villains Wiki.

Her Evil Ranking

What Makes Her Close to Being Pure Evil?

• For centuries, Rose along with the True Knot has been abducting children and excruciatingly torturing them to death, in order to feed off the "steam" that their pain purifies to remain all but immortal. She has likely tortured hundreds if not thousands of children to death over the centuries, and has no remorse at all.
• Targeting the child Abra as a new source of steam, Rose discovered that Abra was by far the most psychically-powerful child she'd ever come across, and she came up with the idea for the Knot to kidnap Abra and keep her alive for years to be excessively tortured over and over for her excessive steam.
• It is also made clear that Rose hates the idea of there being someone out there who has more power than her, which was another one of her reasons to kill Abra for her steam, just to remain powerful.
• Rose tried to have Abra kidnapped a few times, and one of the members of the True Knot even ended up killing her father.
• Film Version Only: After tracking Dan and Abra down to the Overlook Hotel, Rose fatally wounded Dan when he rejected her offer to become part of a new True Knot with her. And upon realizing that Dan was exceptionally powerful like Abra, Rose forewent the True Knot's usual restriction against consuming "polluted" adults' psychic Steam in order to gleefully feed on Dan's as she tortured him by pressing her thumb into his leg wound.

What Prevents Her from Being Pure Evil?

• As horrible as she is, she expresses love for the other members of the True Knot; being in love with at least one member, comforting Grandpa Flick as he died of starvation and old age, and showing horror, grief and rage when each of the rest of the Knot are killed by Dan, Abra and their allies. However, despite this, the rest of the True Knot were as involved as Rose in serial child tortures and murders to maintain their quasi-immortality - furthermore, in the movie version, Rose didn't show any compunctions against offering for Dan (one of her loved ones' including her lover's primary killers, which she acknowledged minutes prior there) to become part of a new True Knot with her; making it more of a minor prevention.

Trivia

• Rose the Hat is one of two villains in The Shining duology to be Near Pure Evil, alongside the Overlook Hotel.

External Link

• Rose the Hat on the Villains Wiki.