Rose Walker is arguably one of the most important characters in both “The Sandman” comics and the show, especially given how she is unknowingly an Endless-destroying Vortex. However, her family history gets changed a bit for the show adaptation, particularly the impact her mother plays.

At the beginning of “The Doll’s House” comic arc, Rose Walker arrives with her mother, Miranda, to Sussex, England, to meet a previously-unknown family benefactor. However, when the time comes for the visit on the show, Rose is instead accompanied by her friend, Lyta. This is because, in the show’s timeline, Miranda Walker (Andi Osho) falls ill at some point beforehand and passes away, although her daughter tells her friend that she was quite excited about the trip when she was alive.

However, she ends up still being alive in a tragic way. She was reincarnated as Gault (Ann Ogbomo), a nightmare created by Dream that ends up escaping and attaching itself to Jed (Eddie Karanja), Rose’s young and abused brother. After Rose’s great-grandmother, Unity Kincaid (Sandra James-Young) sacrifices herself by harboring the Vortex, Jed is awoken from his imprisonment, and Dream is able to alter Gault into a dream rather than a nightmare.