Where Is She Now: As hinted by an official artwork of Rose holding Bison’s hat, Rose, with Bison’s soul
(which is her soul too since they share the same soul), took over control of Shadowloo and led it until
Shadowloo scientists were finally able to construct a new body for Bison, which his soul was able to
migrate to. Course, then Akuma in SF2 sent Bison’s soul to hell via the Shun Goku Satsu and Rose’s went
along with it [Official]. …that’s a terrible way for a character to go, IMHO O_o
Bison and Rose share the same soul. Actually, they ARE the same soul. The reason Bison is so ‘hes
evil’ is because Rose is supposed to be the good side who somewhere along the line split off from him
without him realizing it as he got more and more into the negative energy powers of psycho power. Thing
is, Bison really was never a very nice guy in the first place so when Rose came along, she was more
morally apathetic than good, but she still had the whole “Kill Bison!” thing going on. She didn’t
realize it all her life until Alpha when she finally began to hear about and meet Bison though. That’s
also why Bison’s older than Rose (Bison is probably at least 45 years old. He killed T Hawk’s father 30
years before SFA3 Oo). Basically, if Bison got Psycho Power around then which he probably did to kill
T Hawk’s father, Rose would be around 25 to 35 or so which seems about right. In Rose’s SFA3 ending as
well as that Freudian official art where Bison’s holding her, that’s actually supposed to represent
Bison finally taking over her mind and merging with her again or something. Or at least planting the
seeds for it. Basically, after Charlie finally killed Bison by blowing up the psycho drives… well,
Bison’s soul had to go SOMEWHERE while Shadowloo scientists constructed him a new body for SF2…
So, as it turns out, the reason Rose is twirling around Bison’s hat in the official art that came after
the official art with Bison dominating her is because in between that interval between SFA3 and SF2, she
really DID get to be the High Lady of Shadowlaw. Of course, by then, it could be argued that that
wasn’t Rose… or maybe it could be argued that it was because she and Bison’s soul are one and the
same.
That artwork is from SFA2 (or possibly earlier, but probably not). It does not imply that Rose and Bison shared the same body. Thus, the best inference that could be made from the picture would be that Rose had defeated Bison, as she thought she had done in her SFA2 ending.
How Bison and Rose have the same soul is sort of unexplainable. It’s just one of those weird cosmic things. Like the opposite of a “soul mate,” in the romantic way.
What’s weird is that they don’t seem to be able to directly kill each other. Doesn’t work for Rose in A1, and even disregarding that ending, she can’t get it done in A2, and they both fail at the same time in A3.
The problem with the A3 storyline was that it wasn’t created with the intent of SF2 to follow it. A3 is a fan-service game, which is why it had all of the Alpha and SSF2 characters in it. Likewise, in terms of story it was meant to be an ending to the SF2 timeline, and not a compliment. Bison dies in A3. He literally dies in every ending but two. Sometimes twice. That’s a hint. And while that doesn’t make sense if you’re trying to fit all of the SF games together (because then you’d either have to merge A3 and SF2 together, or disregard SF2 entirely and replace it with A3), it does make sense if you look at the SFA games inside their own continuum, or even just as games by themselves.
All about Capcom Fighting Games 1987~2000 (majority of the info from here)
All About Street Fighter Zero 3
Official Street Fighter 2 Fanbook
Official Street Fighter Zero 3 Fanbook
Street Fighter 3: New Generation Bible
Street Fighter Eternal Challenge
Capcom’s official webpage (http://www.capcom.com)
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