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Rose Tattoo (Prime Earth)

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May you find a girl with a crooked leg, may you find a girl with a crooked nose...but on the sake of your life, may you never find a girl named for the tattoo of a rose.
— Deathtrap src

Seraphine was the host for the Spirit of Murder, Rose Tattoo.

Seraphine was the second-in-command to Adam Reed of Horus International, a group established to dismantle inhumane governmental practices like the Suicide Squad program. However, "Horus International" was merely a front for the Fist of Cain.

El Diablo burned a gang hideout, killing everyone inside, including innocent women and children. He told Harley Quinn that the moment he did that, he saw red, "the red of a rose tattoo." Ever since then, he believed Rose Tattoo to have followed him.[1]

In an attempt to "steal" the Suicide Squad, Seraphine established a mole in Belle Reve to communicate with Deadshot and Harley Quinn. During a mission to save politician Chen Ho in Hong Kong, Seraphine staged a scenario where the Mercs would "kill" the Suicide Squad to avoid Amanda Waller detonating the explosives in their necks. Deadshot, Quinn, Cheetah, and El Diablo were whisked away to Germany where Seraphine greeted Adam Reed. However, Reed showed his true intentions by killing her with a poisoned pin, sacrificing her for his 'anti-messiah' Christian Fleischer.[2]

The spirit of murder inhabited Seraphine's body, drawn by the "smell of blood and homicide." After killing Hunky Punk, she moved to kill Harley Quinn, but Cheetah confronted and fought her. Sacrificing himself to stop Rose Tattoo, El Diablo used his powers to drag the demon back to Hell.

Powers

  • Spirit of Murder: Rose Tattoo is the living incarnation of Murder. Any sort of matter that can be contributed to the act of murder is in her arsenal. Rose normally takes to conventional means of guns and other weaponry to murder others however she has been known to use other means such as counteracting magics, drive others insane, project energies and as the Spirit of Murder normal conventions of murder cannot be applied to her.
    • Superhuman Strength: The Spirit of Murder is granted power enough to knock humans through walls and burst down doors. Most of her strength seems to be displayed through her creations.
    • Superhuman Stamina: The Spirit of Murder is given enough stamina to continue fighting many days at a time, she has theoretically been in every single war since the beginning of mankind and has participated in each for their entire duration.
    • Superhuman Speed: The Spirit of Murder is faster than the fastest human on the planet. Her trigger finger blasts bullets out of the cartridge faster than the fastest gunslinger at any point in time.
    • Superhuman Durability: The Spirit of Murder has been shot, burned, stabbed, pummeled, blasted, cut, maimed, overdosed, wrecked and lived through it all. She is not impossible to kill however her host bodies can take a considerable amount of punishment.
    • Enhanced Senses: The Spirit of Murder lives in each and every murder perpetrated throughout humankind. As such she can sense exactly how a murder occurred right down to outside influences and sense life and determine how much is needed to kill them.
    • Accelerated Healing: If the Spirit of Murder is hurt then her host bodies have increased cellular regeneration. She has regrown major tissue damage and recovered from ailments are remarkable speeds.
    • Energy Construct Creation: One of the main abilities of the Spirit of Murder is to create weapons of various degrees each of which is specifically used to kill her opponent. She's made everything from specific weakness seeking guns to blades that tap into incredible powers.
    • Energy Projection: Only shown in a minor occurrence where the Spirit of Murder had secreted poisonous substances through her body. Theoretically, she has the power to increase her weapon creation with added energies.
    • Resurrection: If the Spirit of Murder's host body is killed as it has been countless times then the Spirit of Murder will resurrect into a new host who is suitable for murder. In this way the Spirit of Murder can never die.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ New Suicide Squad #21
  2. ↑ New Suicide Squad #18


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