Disclaimer: I do not own The Nightmare Before Christmas. Everything (besides Rose) is the property of Tim Burton and Touchstone Pictures.
Intro
In the most dreary place any human could ever dream of, the town colors consisting mostly of depressing blacks and grays, there was a lot of commotion. It was quite ironic that the dead were being so active, but this was no ordinary town at all. This was Halloween Town, and you could find just about every kind of monster that lurks in the night: vampires, witches, ghosts, living corpses, and just about every other thing that goes bump in the night. But the king of Halloween Town was the most fearsome of all the residents. He was Jack Skellington, a.k.a. the Pumpkin King and he could easily scare the bravest souls off their feet with barely an effort.
The reason why all of the citizens of Halloween Town were in a hurry for everything was of course Halloween is just around the corner and the townspeople wanted this year to be better than the year before. This would be difficult because last year was very successful, and Jack would certainly need a hand this year. Luckily for him, there was that certain someone lurking around town.
She was a hybrid of a bat and a human by the name of Rose. While she bore somewhat of a resemblance to a human, what set her apart were her unique bat wings, which were charcoal black, as soft as silk, and as delicate as feathers. Her hazel colored was stretched all the way to about halfway down to her arms, and she had black eyes that could easily tell people what kind of mood she was in. Rose wore a sleeveless black button-down shirt accompanied by a gray and salmon pink plaid skirt that reached down to her thighs, showing off her supposedly good looking legs (she didn't bother doing anything about this because nobody ever told her why her legs were so different from anybody else's).
Why was everyone depending on her to make this year's Halloween so frightening? Despite being the newest member of Halloween Town, her being part human has helped create fantastic ideas to make Halloween terrifying, since she was the expert in town on knowing what could scare people the most. This has also been a big disadvantage because Rose has to try her best to keep the secret of her being a hybrid. If anyone found out about this, she would surely be kicked out of Halloween Town and never be able to come back. Rose had already fled from the human world, due to the fact that humans weren't used to a girl having wings (and she was never treated with kindness by anyone, even before she became a hybrid). If she were to be kicked out of this world too, there would be no place for her to go, so she was desperate to keep the secret.
Besides from planning ideas for Halloween, Rose enjoys drawing, listening to soft rock, and cleaning. She is extremely shy, but will easily aid anybody who comes to her with a problem and tries to steer everybody in the right direction, so Lock, Shock, and Barrel, the trouble making trick-or-treaters, constantly keep Rose busy. Ever since she came to Halloween Town, the townspeople don't need to worry so much about the trio creating a hindrance, since Rose always cleans up after their messes and scolds them, but deep in their minds they still had to wonder: was Oogie Boogie really annihilated or were the children that were formally his devious henchmen trying to resurrect him?