Karren von Rosewald

Kanae von Rosewald (カナエ フォン ロゼヴァルト, Kanae fon Rozevaruto, sometimes also 叶, Kanae) is a Ghoul and the last survivor of the Rosewald family. After Matsuri Washuu led an extermination operation to destroy the Rosewalds, he was taken in as an employee of the Tsukiyama family.

After evidence reveals him as a surviving member of the Rosewalds, he is dubbed Rose ( ロゼ) and becomes the target of a major Investigation.

Appearance
Kanae appears to be a young man with a physical resemblance to Tsukiyama. He has violet hair, a haircut similar the one Tsukiyama wore when he was sixteen, and wears formal attire. He also seems to take a liking to roses and flowers in general, just like his counterpart.

Personality
Kanae has been shown in a state of distress, crying over Tsukiyama's catatonic state. He is also shown talking to a rose, and Chie has implied that he has made a habit of doing so. Like Tsukiyama, he has a habit of using foreign words in his sentences; specifically German. He also appears to be quite flamboyant and over-dramatic in his speech and gestures.

Kanae has also been shown to be possessive or jealous of Tsukiyama, and even resorts to "vulgar manners", trying to steal Mutsuki off the auction, to help his master recover and make him happy.

Past
Originally from Germany, Kanae was sent to Japan after Matsuri Washuu and other Investigators wiped out the Rosewald family. He was taken in by the mistress of the Tsukiyama family, an act seen by other servants as charity. During this time, he began to serve Shuu Tsukiyama and would become extremely loyal to him.

Torso Investigation
Kanae is seen in despair, crying about Tsukiyama's state and talking to a rose. Chie mocks him for this behavior, suggesting that he does it frequently. He is later seen standing outside a door, holding a large (person-sized) suitcase.

Nutcracker Investigation
Ulitmately, Kanae brings Sasaki's undershorts, retrieved by Chie, to Tsukiyama to let him identify its scent. While Tsukiyama reports that he is unable to feel anything in particular but faint sadness, as his ability to recognize smell has declined, Kanae tells Chie that he in fact did not feel anything at all. Chie sees through his lie to which Kanae threatens her with killing her. He seems to be jealous when she mentions that Tsukiyama would not be happy if something happened to her.



He next appears in a parking garage, hunting for victims suitable for his master. Having obtained a sprinter's thighs and the tongue of a Sommelier, he targets someone with rare RH negative blood. However, he determines that the scent of the blood is not suitable and rejects it. He broods over Tsukiyama's current situation, admiring his master's interest focus but blaming Kaneki for his downfall. Jealous and resentful, he decides that should Sasaki turn out to be Kaneki, he will secretly kill him so that Tsukiyama never finds out. He decides to attend the upcoming Auction, in hopes of finding his master a suitable meal.

Auction
Kanae attends the auction in the company of another servant, Matsumae. He makes note of the many cloaked Ghouls present at the event, correctly guessing that these are hired bodyguards. The first major "item" up for auction, a famous actor, triggers a bidding war between Big Madam and Croque Monsieur -- Kanae observes this with disdain, calling the actor past his prime. He is unimpressed with the merchandise, until Tooru Mutsuki is brought on stage and revealed to be a One-Eyed Ghoul. Deciding this is exactly what Tsukiyama needs, he engages in an unsuccessful bidding war before losing to Big Madam. Matsumae attempts to comfort him as he despairs at his failure.

Though he considers stealing beneath him, Kanae decides to take advantage of the chaos created by the appearance of Juuzou Suzuya. Intending to steal the auction's prize item, he goes in search of Mutsuki and corners the Investigator as he tries to make his escape. He decides that sampling is necessary, striking Mutsuki across the face with enough force to draw blood. He samples this, reacting with extreme motion to both the exceptional flavor and the thought of having finally found something to satisfy Tsukiyama. Before he can do more, however, he is ambushed and beaten by Karao Saeki. In the chaos, Mutsuki attempts to flee -- Kanae pierces him through the stomach with his kagune to prevent him from escaping.

While the ensuing struggle is not shown, later on he finishes beating Saeki as punishment for interrupting him and orders him to stay put until he can retrieve his prize. He goes in pursuit of a wounded Mutsuki, eventually catching up with him and noting the injuries had begun to heal. This delights him, and he charges in to attack, claiming that since his prey heals it won't matter if he injuries him further. The Quinx arrive on the scene, with Sasaki retrieving an injured Mutsuki while Kuki Urie and Ginshi Shirazu hold Kanae off. After a moment, he recognizes their leader's scent and flies into a blind rage at coming face to face with Sasaki.

He begins to fight with the team, managing to knock Urie and Shirazu aside before turning on the target of his rage. Cursing him, Kanae recalls a happier time when he played music with his master, laying all the blame for Tsukiyama's depression on Sasaki. The three members of the Quinx manage to overwhelm and wound him, but he is rescued by Matsumae. She seals the hallway with her kagune, taking a wounded Kanae and fleeing.

In the aftermath of the Auction, he regroups with his master, Mirumo Tsukiyama, and the group resolve to continue looking for "ingredients" elsewhere.

Post Auction
While watering flowers at the Tsukiyama estate, Kanae thinks back to his childhood when he was taken in as a new servant after his family was eliminated. He cries as he overhears the other servants talk about their concerns about the master taking him in. He's then approached by Shuu who regards him cheerfully and is impressed by his name as it means "Forest of Roses" in German.

Shuu takes Kanae to the Tsukiyama family garden where he shows him a high-class German rose and asks Kanae to live as beautifully as the flower.

In the present, Kanae silently weeps for Shuu at his bedside as his master suffers unable to think about how pitiful he's become.

Rosewald Investigation
Months later, Kanae is still distressed, especially as Shuu's father is equally at a loss at what to do for his son.

As the Investigative team begin working on the case, Chie Hori visits him at the estate and warns him. Since the CCG are closing in on him, she suggests that he should abandon the Tsukiyamas and serve a different family. Kanae is outraged by this suggestion, crying as he screams that only Shuu matters. The human girl compares his situation to Shuu's own despair, noting that neither of them will be happy unless they have exactly what they want. She asks him whether he would be willing to abandon the Tsukiyama Family for Shuu's sake.

Mirumo asks him to bring Tsukiyama wine, to which he thinks back when Tsukiyama was still in high school. Mirumo asks the young Kanae to bring his son, who is singing outside in the rain, an umbrella. He gladly does so, but then spots Chie Hori with his young master. He tightly grasps the umbrella and stops in his motion, feeling jealous, as Tsukiyama is as nice to her, a human, as he is to him.



The flashback is disrupted by Tsukiyama losing control over his kagune and attacking servants. Kanae sends Aliza, whom he was informed by, to immediately inform Mirumo over the events and then rushes to his master's room. He apologizes for having to use his kagune against him and puts up an effort to stop his master and becomes injured by him in the process. The servants use the fight to restrain their master and feed him a substance, which seems to make him calm down. Bringing Tsukiyama back to bed, his master seems to have forgotten the previous event and asks what everyone is doing in his room. Kanae lies to him, witholding the fact that he had just lost control. Tsukiyama apologizes and caresses his face, asking him to take care of his family from now on. Kanae begins to cry but accepts the requests, leaning into the touch.

Soon after he is seen running outside,  willingly hitting his head against a tree repeatedly. He falls to the ground, still crying thinking about how he resents Chie and Kaneki/Haise Sasaki, but also, how he resents his loyality to the Tsukiyama family.

Kanae is later asked by Hori whether he could give up the entire Tsukiyama family for Shuu himself, to which he stalls the reply and consults Matsumae the same question. After being told that the two options are one and the same, he approaches Hori for help and is given a set of photographs revolving around Sasaki/Kaneki which Hori instructs him to show Tsukiyama one each time when she tells him to. With Hori's plan, Tsukiyama regains composure in an astounding rate, albeit still confused initially when Sasaki did not recognize him at all. After some time, Tsukiyama becomes distraught as even though he needs time to talk to Sasaki without rush in order to bring back his memories, the Quinx squad members keep getting in his way.

Yearning to provide his master with the time he needs, Kanae hires Aogiri hitmen to exterminate all the Quinx members aside from Sasaki. Leaving Sasaki, Saiko, and Mutsuki to the hitmen, he attempts to eliminate Urie and Shirazu by himself. He loses his advantage soon after disabling Shirazu though, as he did not anticipate Urie's fast ability growth over half an year and is overpowered by the investigator before escaping with his rinkaku kagune.

While brooding over his defeat, Kanae is approached by Eto and taunted until he attacks her in a rage. However, he immediately finds himself overwhelmed by her abnormal kagune and left completely at her mercy. She begins to wax philosophical, discussing the Garden of Eden and the story of the Fruit of Knowledge while toying with an apple. Revealing herself as a One-Eyed Ghoul, she questions him about his religious beliefs and idea of what "God" is. Eto then begins to dissect his actions and the motivations behind them, confronting him about his feelings towards Tsukiyama and stating that he will never be loved in return. She suggests all of his actions have ultimately been selfish, to control his beloved master and to make Sasaki suffer. As Kanae begins to weep and break down under the contrast barrage of words, Eto looms over him and promises to become his new "God". Later on, Tsukiyama expresses concern when told that Kanae never returned to the manor and remains missing. Kanae and the missing Aliza are suspected of leaking information on the Tsukiyama family when the household noticed investigators cornering them with the two servants still missing.

It is later revealed that Kanae has been held in captivity by Eto where he is kept in a room with a large collection of different alarm clocks and physically tortured by the former with both his eyes and his mouth sewn shut

Sometime later amid CCG operation to exterminate the ghouls from Tsukiyama associates, a ghoul who resembling Kanae has appeared in a hallway donning an attire of that Noro from Aogiri Tree. He engage with the squad of Shimoguchi'. When the First-Class tries to engage the Rosewald, he proceeds to cut off Shimoguchi's arm and later decapitate him after killing his subordinates and then in morbid fascination he remarking Shimoguchi's severed head as beautiful rose, signifying that his mentality was twisted now. Later on he climbs the building wall in an attempt to find Shuu Tsukiyama.

Shuu Tsukiyama
Kanae is an employee and relative of the Tsukiyama family, and deeply devoted to his master/cousin, Shuu. He shows jealousy towards others especially Chie, so it is probable that he craves his masters attention. Besides caring for him and running errands, he imitates both Tsukiyama's manner of dress and odd behaviors.

Later it is revealed that the Tsukiyama family took him in after Matsuri Washuu erased his family. Tsukiyama tries to cheer him up by showing him the family's rose garden and giving him encouraging words. Kanae seems to have taken this to heart, as he still carries a rose with him for comfort. He is also shown to have played the violin alongside his master in the past.

According to Eto, his true feelings are both romantic in nature and dangerously possessive. When confronted about this, he breaks down.

Chie Hori
Chie addresses Kanae by the japanese honorific "-kun". Although both Chie and Kanae are in close relation to Tsukiyama, they are not on good terms with each other. Kanae looks down on this human girl and refers to her with rude names like "stray rat", "guinea pig", or profanities in German. It appears that Kanae is extremely jealous of Chie's relationship with Tsukiyama. Although she has been helping Tsukiyama during his severe depression, Kanae is not grateful to her and even threatens to kill her. However, Chie sees through his intentions and out smarts him easily, adding to his resentment towards her.

Later in the series, Kanae's attitude toward Chie changed when Tsukiyama's health and mental state continued to deteriorate. Out of desperation, he consulted Chie for advice and finally agrees to cooperate with her plans. He begins to acknowledge her intellect and respects her as Tsukiyama's trust-worthy friend.

Ken Kaneki
Kanae holds a deep hatred and resentment towards Kaneki, blaming him for Tsukiyama's current condition. He believes the obvious solution is to kill him in secret, believing that what his master needs is simply quality food and not to learn that the person he has been mourning has survived.

Tooru Mutsuki
Kanae is thrilled to discover another One-Eyed Ghoul, and hopes that giving Mutsuki to his master will bring him out of his long depression. He treats Mutsuki with arrogance, looking down on him and insulting him, however impressed by his beautiful eyes and unique taste. Despite thinking lowly of him, he kept himself from calling him "trash", as it would imply giving Tsukiyama such to eat.

Mirumo Tsukiyama
Their relationship is currently unexplored, though Mirumo was the one who took Kanae in as a child. Kanae responds directly to Mirumo, keeping him up to date with Shuu.

Matsumae
Their relationship is currently unexplored, though they seem to have a positive, professional relationship. Having been the one to save Kanae during the Auction mopping up operation, she seems to look out for him. Likewise, Kanae seems to be worried about her well-being after she returns injured from the encounter with the CCG, and even asks her for advice.

Eto
Kanae seems to have gained her interest, and she seeks him out to confront him about his true feelings. His initial rage fades into terror and denial, as she breaks him down. It is unknown what she wants from him, or what Kanae will do with the knowledge she forces him to accept.

Powers and Abilities

 * Rinkaku Kagune: Kanae is able to create up to 6 whip-like tentacles, with a ribbon-like shape that wraps around itself like a vine. He seems to be a moderately powerful Ghoul, easily defeating the A-rated Karao Saeki in battle and rapidly healing from his injuries. Besides that, he is shown to be a trained martial artist and uses the same technique as Tsukiyama to wield his kagune like a sword in battle.

Quotes

 * (About Tsukiyama): "Together to the end of the world...Glorreich (master Shuu)."

Trivia

 * It was believed that in Chapter 14, Matsuri Washuu eliminated the "Rosenwald" family instead of the "Rosewald" family, making it seem like Kanae changed his name. This is false, the confusion resulting from a typo in the Young Jump issue.
 * His surname means "Forest of Roses" in German.
 * He is a member of the German branch of the Tsukiyama family, and related to the main family through his grandfather.
 * In Tokyo Ghoul Trump, he is featured as the "Jack of Hearts".