The curious case of Rose Dawson, my OC

 This is my OC, Rosalind "Rose" Ursel DeWitt Bukater-Dawson:

(click the image to go to the original picrew!)

Oh wait, you say, that name sounds familiar.
Well yeah, that's basically the name of this character:

So, you continue, why do you consider this already existing character your own??

Let me explain.

First of all, I do acknowledge my own Rose is not entirely original. In fact, she takes heavy inspiration from her source material. I basically just took the original character, put her in our current world (so it's effectively a modern AU - or "Alternate Universe"), and gave her a whole new backstory and personality that better fits the new world she's in.

I don't know how or even why I got personally invested in the original character in the first place, maybe it could just be chalked up to finding a "comfort character". 
But whatever the case, little Maddy saw the 1997 film "Titanic" for the first time in theaters back in 2012 (I remember that because 2012 marked the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, they re-released the original movie in like, 3D or something idk).
At that moment, I was hooked.

perhaps because it also kick-started my crush on leonardo dicaprio who's hotter than the sun itself

I had a friend at the time (who I'm still friends with to this day) and I introduced them to this film and its

✨ beautiful one true pairing that are totally star-crossed couple goals~ ✨

And because we were really into the cutesy romantic couples in Disney and My Little Pony, what better thing to do than live-action role-play as Rose and her partner, Jack, themselves?
What started as imagined scenarios where Jack didn't die like he did in the movie (oop, spoiler) turned into fully-fledged character and even story revamps, many of which contradicted the original time period when the film took place (the Edwardian Era? I mean, the exact year - 1912 - is certain). Both Jack and Rose were turned into a prince and princess, were given their own magical powers, and dressed/behaved in ways they couldn't theoretically get away with given the time period (unless they were, like, time travelers from the future, or something).

As my friend and I grew up, we gradually realized that our versions of Jack and Rose were utterly overpowered and made no sense at all. We even "deep-dived" into the original film occasionally, and while we continue to hold it in pretty high regard, there were some parts of the plot that we kind of-sort of didn't really like (I won't go too in depth into what the exact gripes were in this post out of personal preference).
Today, our AU Jack and Rose are still together, happily married and the parents of two children. We find it a lot easier now to tweak their personalities and storylines now that they live in our current age.
Again, leave it to the two being comfort characters as the reason why we're somehow so attached to these characters. I don't know if there's a strong Titanic "fandom" out there, but this film, to this this day, is probably the only piece of media we have been so emotionally invested in. By this point, we have revamped Jack and Rose so much that they could potentially just stand on their own as actual original characters different from their source material.

If anything in this post still makes little sense to you, then, I don't know, just chalk this up as a "AU where Titanic characters live in the modern age with a little bit of magic involved", I guess. Honestly, this post is just here as some kind of explanation that I'll be able to link to people out there who are wondering whether my own characters are related to those of the same name from the original movie.
If, even after all of this, you still have an issue with this AU, then just block me by this point, I don't know. Or I'll block you. Cringe culture is toxic. I'm not planning to monetize or do anything serious with this AU, anyway - it's all just for fun and it isn't hurting anyone. 💕