Rosie Ianni

Rosie can really warm up a room. And it's not just her personality – Rosie can REALLY warm up a room. When she's angry or excited, her pink skin gets redder and redder -- which makes the room get hotter and hotter. She's been known to accidentally set off sprinkler systems every once in awhile. Rosie comes from Mercury. She's well-liked among the Space Cases, although they sometimes find her unbelievably upbeat attitude a little annoying. But Rosie's got her reasons for being so cheerful all the time. Remember, if she gets upset, the rest of the Space Cases have to deal with all that heat radiating from her skin. Rosie is also the only Space Case who has become friends with Radu. Besides, SOMEBODY'S got to keep the morale up when they've got a bummer like Bova around.

Vital Statistics:

Height: 4'11 (Alien/Earth Standard)

Weight: 90 lbs (and the more she heats up, the lighter she becomes)

Birthday: 32nd day of You, in or around Earth Year 2248

Homeworld:

Mercury Colony. Mercurians rarely stroll around on the surface of their planet (which, at 1300 degrees Farenheit, is a bit toasty even for them). Instead, their domed cities are climate and gravity controlled.

Powers:

Rosie can absorb heat and release it, either in waves or concentrated blasts. Her body temperature is 200 degrees.

Interests:

Rosie loves animals: both real and stuffed. She has several stuffed animals that she found in the Christa's cargo hold. Back home on Mercury, she has two pets: Sunspot and Nimbus. She has on several occasions tried to make pets out of creatures she found. She is also interested in medicine, and thinks about becoming a doctor like her parents.

Relationships:

Rosie makes it a point to get along with everyone. The motto of Mercurians is "always look on the sunny side of the street" which is easy on Mercury (where both sides of the street are sunny).

Family:

Rosie's parents are doctors. Their names are Gunter and Dalia Ianni.

FYI:

Rosie always remains upbeat, because if she gets angry or upset, she tends to overheat. This could result in people near her getting burned, or the overhead sprinkler system coming on and dousing her.

Like everyone from Mercury, Rosie has no body hair at all, because her skin temperature is so hot that it burns right off. At the beginning of the crew's journey, Rosie usually wore either a regulator helmet or hood to contain her body heat (since heat tends to escape out of the top of people's heads), although we saw her head uncovered when she made the family-tree tape for class and when she ran out of the shower when Davenport was trapped in the computer. But as she's gotten older, she's become more skilled at containing her body heat, so she's ditched the hood much of the time in favor of a Mercurian "sweat band" which is usually all she needs now to regulate her heat.

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