Her real name isn’t Rosa Cossette D’Elise and she likes Osea!
That’s right, in this episode of the Ace Combat lore we will be talking about the story
behind everyone’s favourite waifu, the princess of Erusea, and how she went from an ordinary
person to become part of the Erusian royal family and entrusted her country into another war.
This video will cover the events mentioned in the Aces at War book which is primarily
focused in the events prior to Ace Combat 7 - with that said let’s dive into the lore.
Throughout the 20th century, Erusea was kingdom known for its brutality, war and expansionist
policies in the Usean continent.
Erusea was able to conquer the Duchy of Shilage, the Republic of Voslage and some other territories
in Usea - essentially making Erusea the Belka of Usea, except with less radiation.
Now the king of Erusea was ruling like if he was going for a domination victory in Civilization,
his warmonger penalty was so high that when he was losing a war his own people started
a revolution that took down the monarchy.
Now you may see a lot of similarities between Erusea and France, specially by the name of
the people, but the members of the Erusian royal family were able to keep their heads
if you know what I mean.
And so the king and his children went to the civilian life apparently did really well as businessmen.
By the way, the Aces at War book doesn’t say when Erusea lost this war but it would
be probably be somewhere in the 70s or 80s - I say that in order to match with old man
Mihaly’s age because he was almost certainly involved in that war as I mentioned in the
previous episode on Mihaly’s backstory that you can find right here.
In the end, the Erusians removed the monarchy and made Erusea into a Federal Republic and
so everyone thought from thereon everything would be a sea of Roses.
Well, it turns out there was this space boi called Ulysses 1994XF04 asteroid that was
bound to hit Strangereal including Erusea.
Although there were some successful attempts of intercepting the fragments of the asteroid,
some of them slipped through and Erusea got hit pretty hard.
How hard?
Probably worse than the seven Belkan nukes because this time actual cities were hit including
Yellow 13’s hometown which implies all his family died in a blink of an eye.
Several asteroid craters can still be seen in Erusea today but by far the most famous
of them all is the Laker crater located in downtown Farbanti, the capital of Erusea.
During the fall of the asteroids in 1999 the Erusian royal palace together with its gardens
which were centuries old were destroyed in the process.
Because of the total destruction of the royal buildings and the flooding of the city centre,
a skyscraper that was not damaged temporarily became the royal palace.
Years later, construction of a new royal palace began in the outskirts of Farbanti which was
remarkable by its red tile roofs and lots of greenery - by the way, I flew like crazy
in free flight and didn’t find this new royal palace.
The citizens of Farbanti thought the new royal palace was funny because it was remarkably
similar to Osean theme parks, thus imply Osea has its own version of Disneyland.
So with the destruction caused by the fragments of Ulysses, thousands of refugees started
pouring into Erusea in the early 2000s.
The neighbouring countries forced Erusea to take more refugees when Erusean wasn’t feeling like it.
It was around this time, in 2001, that Rosa was born.
With the neighbouring countries threatening economic sanctions if Erusea did not take
in more refugees the Erusean government turned full fascist and started the whole blitzkrieg
thing taking the asteroid-intercepting railgun Stonehenge, flying Sukhoi jets because they’re
obviously evil and storing them in tunnels before it was cool - that was the beginning
of the continental war, the one from Ace Combat 04.
Erusea’s war effort was going really well until its enemy coalition, ISAF drew a pentagram
with its arrowblades and invoked the Lord and Saviour of Strangereal: Mobius 1 who used
0.118% percent of his power to defeat Erusea.
The war officially ended in 2005 when ISAF forces captured the city of Farbanti and the
Erusean forces surrendered.
In the aftermatch the fascist government lost its legitimacy and was replaced by the monarchy
in the hopes the monarchy would bring prosperity and peace.
By this time that warmonger of a king had passed away and the new king of Erusea was
one of his grandchildren, a wealthy businessman that according to the accounts didn’t really
look like a king.
This king ended up dying, but he didn’t have any children so his younger brother took the throne.
At least he had plenty of children so the Erusean people didn’t worry too much if
he died because the royal family could continue on - and no, Rosa was not the daughter of this king.
Speaking of Rosa, this is the setting on how her side story in the Aces at War book begins,
but the story is actually narrated by Rosa’s school friend Ionela, who was Mihaly’s granddaughter.
Now believe it or not, but at school Rosa went by with a different name ‘Rosie’.
She preferred that nickname because she really enjoyed Osean movies and so wanted to be called
by an Osean name.
And by the way, Rosa’s official full name at that time when she was still a pleb was
Rosa Cossette Falcinelli.
She apparently had a good life, she lived close to the Memorial Peace Park, her father
was a tailor who made the suits to the Erusian king so they were presumably in good financial
position and most importantly, Rosa already had her doggo.
As I mentioned before, she really enjoyed watching the Osean movies and then one day
she had the idea to make chorus club at her school with her friends, specially Ionela,
because Rosa, I mean, Rosie really liked singing - probably due to the subversive Osean propaganda
through movies like High School Musical: Chanting All Belkan War Crimes.
The next time she went to school she went to the teacher’s office to request the music room and a piano.
At that moment the vice principal yelled at her with a different name, calling her ‘Rosa
Cossette D’Élise’ and telling her to go home immediately.
Rosa was initially confused as to why people switched her last name Falcinelli with D’Élise.
Turns out that the TV in the teacher’s room was turned on and all news stations were showing
the same news: royal family dies in a car accident.
And when I say royal family, it was everyone: the king, the queen and all the children.
This was when Ionela finally realized why Rosa’s father made the suits for the Erusian
king, it wasn’t because he was the best tailor in the country, but because rosa’s
father was the cousin of the Erusian king and by that logic he would be the next person
assume the throne and thus making Rosie the next person in the line of succession.
Now obviously you can’t have someone in the royal family going with a foreign sounding
name so that’s when Rosa’s Osean nickname died and when the adopted the royal surname D’Élise.
After learning the news the vice principal got his car and gave Rosa a ride to her house.
Rosa and Ionela didn’t talk for a long time because Rosa stopped attending school to learn
and perform all her duties as she was part of the royal family now.
Although Rosa grew up to lead her country she and presumably her father, the king, didn’t
have much political power or support in Erusea.
The royal family was manipulated into declaring war against Osea because a certain faction
of the Erusian military was very angry due to Osea’s military presence in the continent,
the construction of the international space elevator and at the same time they were very
confident on their new mass produced drones powered by Belkan technology.
During the early stages of the war, Osea bombed the school that Rosa used to attend and at
the same time killed several of her school friends.
Due to these Osean strikes, the government leaders fled to the city outskirts while the
new royal palace that was being built was destroyed by Osean bombing.
In order to eliminate the little opposition that the royal family still had against the
war a revolutionary army also known as the radicals plotted the assassination of the
royal family and the rest is what you see in Ace Combat 7.
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