A pretty red rose. Seems too beautiful to be real.
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— Game Description
The Red Rose is a rose in the game Ib. The Red Rose symbolizes Ib's life in the Fabricated World. Unlike Garry's Blue Rose, Ib's full rose consists of five petals. If the Red Rose loses all of its petals, Ib will die. The rose's color may be based on the color theme of Ib's appearance, as well as her courageous and kind personality, shown by her actions towards Garry.
The Red Rose is located in a vase in front of a green door, in the right hallway past the stairs that led from Ib's entrance through the Abyss of the Deep. When Ib retrieves the rose, it will have only three petals. After taking the rose from its vase, the word "thief" appears in red letters across the walls and floor of the hallway.
In the Yellow Area, a painting was based from the Red Rose, located in the Materials Storehouse along the north wall. It depicts the rose with some petals falling, against a black background inside a light blue frame.
Trivia
Since Ib is younger than Garry, and her rose can only have half the number of petals, it may be linked to the character's age-based stage in life.
