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PLAYER INFO.
✖ Handle: kappy
✖ Contact: kappycane
✖ Are You Over 16: yup.
✖ Other Characters Played in Consignment: Temeraire.

CHARACTER INFO.
✖ Character Name: Lalonde, Roxy
✖ Canon: Homestuck; page 8655.
✖ Character Appearance: here; the homestuck characters may be any race we choose, so Roxy is East Asian in appearance.
✖ Character Age: 16
✖ Pick A Number: 124, 084

✖ Canon Setting: The reality of Homestuck is governed by a supernatural video game.

Homestuck spans multiple universes, and each is tied to a session of the game, which, for Earth, is named SBURB. SBURB and its variants serve as the reproductive method for universes; when one is about to die, copies of SBURB are seeded on a planet with its chosen sapient species, and Heroes are selected to play out a session of the game, while the rest of the planet suffers a meteoric apocalypse. SBURB pulls its players into an alternate dimension called the Medium, populated by a series of planets: Lands, one assigned per Hero, Skaia, the center of the Medium’s “solar” system, Prospit, a planet which hosts the forces of good, and Derse, Prospit’s evil counterpart. SBURB is won when the player assigned the aspect of Space successfully breeds the Genesis Frog, which is then brought to Skaia to spawn the next iteration of the universe.

SBURB does not select its heroes at random; rather, through complexities involving self-cloning and time travel, it seeds both its Heroes and their guardians on the planet ahead of time. Each session of SBURB also contains a reset mechanism, designed to reset the universe with a switched choice of heroes. Hitting the reset button spawns a new subset of the original universe, but slightly different: the heroes are brought to the planet when their guardians would have been the first time, and vice versa. It is in the reset Earth that Roxy grows up.

This reset Earth, however, is nothing like the original, due primarily to the influence of Her Imperious Condescension. Condy was once the Empress of the trolls, the alien race who played the session which spawned Earth’s universe. After the destruction of the trolls’ home planet in the reset session, she entered into the service of a demon and gained the power to jump between universes. She entered Roxy’s earth in the early twenty-first century, and through control of the Betty Crocker corporation, rapidly destabilized American politics and took over the world. Insane Clown Posse served as dual Presidents of America. It was weird.

At the end of all things, the Earth was almost entirely flooded, except for a single apartment spire in Texas and a colony of buildings floating somewhere in the northeast of the USA. It is in the latter of these last remnants of human civilization that Roxy has grown up.

The post-apocalyptic Earth was not completely abandoned, however; Roxy had a friend in Dirk, the occupant of the apartment in the flooded Texas, and the carapaces; the civilians of Prospit and Derse, placed in Roxy’s colony in one last-ditch attempt by Betty Crocker to have subjects worth ruling. She also had a connection to the past, able to conduct online conversations into the past with two other friends, Jake and Jane. It is these four that would serve as the Heroes of the SBURB Alpha.

The SBURB Alpha was a disaster. After a month of doing nothing but waiting and failing to resolve interpersonal tensions, the kids were manipulated into ascending to the God Tiers by Betty Crocker. While this did maximize their game-granted abilities, it also allowed Betty Crocker to mind control Jane and one of the players from the original human session; with these two under her control, Betty Crocker began to cause chaos, presumably with the end goal of rebelling against her new master and restoring her dead race.

As if this wasn’t enough, a ghost of a long-dead player from the very first troll session named Aranea Serket managed to resurrect herself and begin to set about her plan to manipulate Jake to bring out his hidden potential and use him to combat the demon. It is in the midst of this chaos that Roxy is pulled into the CDC.


✖ Character History: Here.

✖ Character Personality: Above all else, and in spite of the fact that she grew up in a flooded post-apocalypse with no more than five friends, Roxy Lalonde is a fairly typical twenty-first century teenage girl.

She types casually, in bright pink, with plenty of abbreviations, no punctuation, and very little regard for spellcheck. She loves to have fun and be silly—she roleplays with Jake, and spends most of her time joking, very rarely trying to take things seriously. She loves wizards, and has an entire journal full of wizard fanfiction. She is known to “nonseldomly employ a ROGUISH DEMEANOR toward the FELLAS.”, flirting with Dirk’s auto-responder and trying (and mostly failing) to flirt with Dirk himself. She pokes fun at Jane for being a tightass. She types in bright pink. This can’t be overstated enough—Roxy types in bright pink, because above all else, she is a teenage girl.

Still, there is a great deal more to Roxy than that. Despite the fact that she is largely a product of twenty-first century culture, since that’s where Earth was before everyone died, she did still grow up in a post-apocalypse. Roxy is incredibly resourceful, very intelligent, and remarkably perceptive. She is well aware of the ridiculous absurdity that constitutes any of Dirk’s plans, and tells Calliope to her face that she is “such a shitty liar.” She’s a skilled hacker, something that requires a great deal of mental ability, and she spawned most of the mutant cats herself.

Roxy loves her friends, almost out of necessity: there’s no one else to talk to, after all. She is enormously selfless where they are concerned, willing to surrender any romantic attempts on Jake for Jane’s sake, and makes attempts to feed the carapaces who inhabit her colony. As Dirk and Jake’s relationship collapses and Jane and Jake’s friendship begins to strain, it is Roxy who struggles to keep the group together in some vague semblance of functionality, mediating between the others as best she can. Yet this is in part to address her own needs to be recognized; Roxy is enormously and incredibly lonely, and wants tremendously to be acknowledged by her friends, and has never hesitated to point out that they are all disasters and what would they do without her. As far as Roxy is concerned, she knows best, and damned if anyone will tell her otherwise. This isn’t to say she’s wrong, as she generally gives good advice; the only problem is that she intersperses it with things like sending Jane a fake SBURB file designed to blow up her computer to convince her that SBURB is a Betty Crocker trap.

Roxy diverges yet again from the model of the typical teenage girl yet again with her alcohol problem. In part a method to connect to her long dead mother figure, who left the alcohol there, (and likely to deal with the loneliness of the flooded world as well), Roxy took to drinking some time in her teenage years, caring little for time of day or strain upon her friendships. Upon entering her SBURB session, though, she promptly quit, managing to go sober for a month (she did relapse, but she was under the influence of magic candy at the time, which she did not choose to take, so the question of whether it counts is a difficult one to answer). Roxy has enormous willpower; an addiction is a difficult thing to break, and that she was able to do it so suddenly for thirty days is no small feat.

Roxy’s willingness to break off her addiction so quickly and suddenly stems significantly from her not-quite-relationship with her mother (actually her biological daughter), the famous author who rebelled against Betty Crocker during the end times of Earth. Roxy idolizes her mother, or whatever remnants she has in the post-apocalyptic Earth, and played the game in the hopes of resurrecting her and getting the chance to meet her. She sobered up because she didn’t want her mom “to meet a sloppy embarrassing mess of a daughter”. Her interest in wizards is also inspired by her mother; she has a satirical novel poking fun at Harry Potter and its derivatives.

In spite of her ability to confront her own problems, Roxy has difficulty being direct about her relationships with other people and their problems; she tends to mask her issues with sarcasm and pointed jabs, rather than confronting issues directly ("TG: what a surprise another mysfery for you to keep to yourself an overly cerebralize"). It is precisely this tendency that contributes to the disaster that was the Alpha session; this tendency, multiplied by four, and applied to hormonal teenagers, three-fourths of whom have grown up in complete isolation, is a fair recipe for disaster. Even immediately before the group ascends into the God Tiers, the farthest any of them get is venting about their interpersonal issues to third parties. The Alpha kids' friendships are genuine, but also tenuous even at the best of times; Roxy, like the others, has plenty of her own issues simply waiting to boil over.

Roxy’s sense of humor is based significantly in satire, sarcasm, and poking fun at things. She’s sarcastic, silly, and trope-savvy; the antagonist of her Harry Potter parody, Grant Anonama, is named for an anagram of the phrase “not an anagram”. She is also enormously blunt, a master of "hey let's talk about something else" transitions and tactless statements of her opinions. She loves old games, Jake’s old-style, twentieth-century British diction, and cats. She is an eclectic person, to be sure, but for all her supernatural circumstances she remains at heart a teenage girl, like any other you might meet today.

✖ Character Powers & Skills:

• Fistkind strife specibus: Roxy is skilled in hand-to-hand combat.


• Marksmanship: Roxy is a good shot, primarily with rifles.


• Surveillance equipment: Roxy automatically blacks out any surveillance equipment in her vicinity; this power has an extensive enough range to prevent observation of her entire SBURB session.


• Hacking: Roxy is a skilled hacker, able to break Betty Crocker’s wifi security with little trouble.


• Immortality: Roxy’s God Tier abilities make her conditionally immortal; her death will not be permanent unless it is considered heroic or just.


• Flight: Roxy can fly and hover.


• Intangibility: As the Rogue of Void, Roxy is capable of becoming intangible, and by extension invisible.


• Creation: “Rogue of Void” parses roughly as “one who steals nothing”; Roxy is thus capable of creating objects by stealing the nothingness from their constituent concepts. This ability requires practice, however, of which she currently has little. (as of Selena VII, this ability is capped at synthetic wigs, regular glitter pens, phillips screwdrivers, 500 mL bottled water, and 3 oz. pink silly string - the amount of which is limited to half the number of current characters in game.)


• Genetics: Roxy is reasonably familiar with genetics and genetics equipment, having made significant use of the ectobiology equipment in her house.


• Morse code: Roxy is fluent in it, for some reason.

CHARACTER SAMPLES.
✖ First Person POV:

• Master Chief


• Edward Elric


• Dirk Strider


• Dave Strider


• Nathan Young


• Commander Shepard


• Noble Six


• Caliborn


• Optimus Prime

✖ Third Person POV:

“So this dream bubble is kinda shit,” Roxy says aloud.

No one is around to hear her, of course. That is one of the many reasons this dream bubble is kinda shit. It’s established itself as an extremely boring version of her home colony, because again, it’s kind of shit, especially given that it’s the first one she’s ever actually been awake for.

“And of course there ain’t nobody around to hear me,” she grumps, before sitting down and sighing.

Then a voice sounds from behind her, and she reflexively slams her elbow back into the owner’s face.

“Ow!” Roxy whirls up onto her feet, and in front of her stands a hunched-over troll in a white t-shirt.

“Fuck!” the troll cries. “You don’t gotta be like that, chief, I was agreein’ with you!”

“Don’t sneak up on me like that,” Roxy warns, and takes note of the shifting dream bubble. It’s now part-forest. Probably the other dude. “Who are you, anyway?”

The troll, who doesn't seem to have any significant injuries, grins. “Glad you asked, chief! I’m Cornus Ambora, and it’s a pleasure to meet you! We’re all big fans out here of you four, ‘specially you.” He winks. “You’re the hot one, after all.”

“Thanks,” Roxy says dryly. “So what, where’s everyone else?”

“See, that’s just it,” Cornus explains. “Why’re you out here at all?”

“ ‘Cuz of Spiderbitch.” She blinks. “You trying to avoid her?”

“Got it in one, chief!” His grin widens, and he runs a hand through his hair. “Bet you’d like to be far away from her too, huh?”

“Damn fuckin’ straight,” Roxy confirms, grinning back. “Seriously, who the fuck does she think she is, talking about how Jake wanted to make out with—”

She stops abruptly, and takes note of the significant new fact that everything is now on fire and there are giant walking mountains in the distance.

Back in the dream bubble, the CDC recruiter known for like ten seconds as Cornus Ambora shifts out of her troll shape and hums a catchy tune. Pay raise!


CHARACTER ITEMS.
✖ Pick a Team: Red.
✖ Reason for Joining the CDC: Roxy does not like Aranea much; she will affirm that she would like to be “far away” from her, and Ajna is pretty far away.
✖ Mission Freebie: Her mutant cat, Vodka Mutini.
✖ Personal Item or Weapon: Her Sylladex.

✖ Character Inventory:

• God Tier Rogue of Void outfit


• several cats frozen in blocks of ice (confiscated)


• Crockercorp Appearifier Rifle (confiscated)


• probably several game constructs such as assorted health pickups (confiscated)


• high-octane laser rifle (confiscated)


• Riflekind strife specibus: a hammerspace inventory which can store any and all rifles (confiscated)


• Sylladex (Message in a Bottle fetch modus): a hammerspace inventory which stores items in cards, which then manifest as bottles in a gray liquor cabinet which can be summoned at will; items are released by smashing the bottles.