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OOC Information:
Name: kappy
Are you over 15? yup
Contact: message this journal.
IC Information:
Name: Roxy Lalonde before | Roxanne Kurosawa
Canon and medium: Homestuck (webcomic)
Age: 16 in both iterations
Preincarnation Species: Human
Preincarnation Appearance: ==>View Roxy.
Any differences: Roxy's eyes will not have been pink until her first echo.
Preincarnated History: Wiki link.
Homestuck’s reality is centered around a video game called Sburb. Sburb is responsible for the reproduction of universes: it selects several players from a planet, and demands that they escape into an alternate dimension called the Incipisphere before the game destroys their home planet with meteors. The ultimate goal of the game is to create a new universe by genetically experimenting on frogs to create the Genesis Frog, which goes on to embody the next iteration of the universe. In theory, the players will then enter the universe and rule over it as gods, but this has never successfully occurred. Homestuck “begins” (as much as any story dealing with time travel can really be said to begin) with a race of aliens called trolls. A group of twelve trolls were selected from the planet Beforus to play Sburb, led by the heir to the Beforan throne Meenah Peixes, but due to a glitch created by an immortal demon called Lord English, their session of Sburb was doomed to failure. So they activated the Scratch, a reset button which would swap them with their ancestors (the closest troll analogue to parents), which were bred by collecting genetic imprints from them using time travel, the method also used to create the original players. The next session was played by twelve trolls led by one Karkat Vantas, who grew up under a brutal Empire on the violent planet of Alternia. Karkat’s team, by nature of their more violent upbringing, succeeded at creating a universe (that of humanity), but would never enter it, attacked by a powerful NPC from Earth’s game session known as Jack Noir. Retreating from Jack Noir to a meteor lab in the Veil, an asteroid belt, the trolls came into contact with four humans who were playing their own session of Sburb. This contact was made possible by the fact that any given dimension is removed from the timeline of another - upon the creation of the universe, its inhabitants can be contacted at any point during their history. During this contact, several of the trolls would ensure Jack Noir’s rise to power and ultimately the events that forced them to retreat into the Veil in the first place, actions that would also render Earth’s first Sburb session unwinnable. Several would also kill each other as tensions began to run high.
The four humans, John, Jade, Rose, and Dave, would initiate their own session’s Scratch, and would personally escape the reset to travel to the post-Scratch human session. The effects of the Scratch would swap each player with his or her guardian - Dave with his Bro (actually the biological father of both him and Rose through time cloning), Rose with her Mom (who is also Dave’s biological mother), John with his grandmother (actually his biological mother, as well as Jade’s), and Jade with her grandfather (again, actually her biological father, along with John’s). John’s team, as well as the surviving trolls and several artifacts and locations from the Scratched session would travel to the new session in two groups over a period of three years.
However, this post-Scratch session differed highly from John’s own. While John’s session (referred to as the Beta session) had four players all born roughly within the same time frame, the post-Scratch session (referred to as the Alpha session) featured two players brought up in the “present” (a time period roughly equivalent to our own) and two brought up in the distant future, four hundred and thirteen years from now. However, the Alpha session did not go unnoticed by Lord English - he recruited the empress of Alternia, Her Imperial Condescension and the Alternian version of Meenah, to conquer Earth and prepare the human dimension for his arrival. The Empress arrived on Earth and assumed control of Crockercorp, gaining the nickname “Batterwitch” in the process. Sometime between the entry of the “current” players into the Medium and before the arrival of the “future” players, she killed most of the humans on the planet and replaced them with carapaces, a species of NPC from Sburb. It is in this future, on an Earth devoid of humanity ruled by an alien empress, that Roxy Lalonde grows up.
Roxy, the biological mother of Rose and Dave, lives in a colony in the remains of the Northeastern USA, on a floating colony otherwise populated by carapaces. During this time, she is put into contact with Dirk, the only other human alive in the future (and the biological father of Rose and Dave), as well as Jane and Jake, the “present” players and the parents of John and Jade.
The alpha players, through a convoluted series of events involving time travel, the politics of NPCs in Sburb, and teleportation devices, are eventually transported into the Medium, and Roxy is physically present with her friends for the first time in her life. However, their session is a unique type of session called a Void session - it is incapable of producing a genesis frog, and all signs point to being forced to wait for the arrival of the beta players and the surviving Alternian trolls. This would not take three years (as they entered their session towards the tail end of the Beta kids’ journey), but would still entail a full six months of waiting. During this time, the bonds among the Alpha kids would become tense, as Dirk and Jake’s relationship would begin to splinter the group, despite Roxy’s best efforts to keep them together. Eventually, Jane would discover a magic artifact known which triggered a transformation known as trickster mode, removing inhibitions from all of the characters except Dirk, who is “TOO FUCKING COOL FOR THIS!!!!!” Eventually, trickster mode wears off, and the characters find themselves on their quest beds, an artifact designed to boost player abilities by granting them access to the God Tiers. Ascension to the God Tiers is accomplished by dying upon one’s quest bed, and is accompanied by a boost to one’s own powers as well as a form of contractual immortality - after ascension, one can only die if the death is either Heroic or Just. The Alpha iteration of Jack Noir, possessed by Lord English, as well as Her Imperial Condescension, who takes the place of an NPC called the Black Queen, vaporize the players, and upon their deaths, each ascend to the God Tiers, just as the Beta kids, all of whom ascended to their own God Tiers in their session, arrive at the Alpha session. However, the Empress’s psychic powers allow her to take control of Jade and Jane, and Jade kidnaps Roxy and imprisons her. She forces Roxy to attempt to create the Matriorb, an egg which can spawn the Mother Grub, a troll analogue to a queen bee. The Empress can then restore the troll race under her rule. Roxy is theoretically able to do this because of her game class - as a Rogue of Void (one who steals nothing), she can rip the nothingness from an object and render it into reality. As of yet, however, she has been unable to.
Reincarnated History: Anything involving Rose Lalonde/Hikari Kurosawa has been worked out with the mun.
Roxy Kurosawa grew up in Canada as the child of Japanese-Canadian parents, the cousin of Hikari Kurosawa. While she lived a fairly easy life, her mother was distant. Roxy’s mother was constantly traveling, and she only ever knew her through her books. Roxy was close to her father, though, and spent her time as a child reading, playing video games, learning to code and hack, and playing with the many cats she and her father owned. Roxy loved her dad a lot, and he’s responsible for a good portion of her sense of humor and fun-loving nature.
When her father died during her teenage years of heart disease, her mother came back for a visit, but it was difficult to bond, and she soon left after. Roxy was homeschooled by her father, and did not have many friends. Initially, her mother tried to hire several caretakers to deal with Roxy, but the young girl drove most of them off by being whiny, throwing tantrums, and being generally unpleasant to deal with. Eventually, she called her mother and demanded to be left alone, snapping that she could take care of herself. Her mother, tired of having to search for people to replace the previous caretakers, agreed, and Roxy lived alone for the two years before she moved to Locke. Having few friends, no father, and an inability to bond with her caretakers, Roxy became remarkably lonely, and turned to alcohol in an attempt to cope. She has been regularly inebriated since.
Eventually, however, Roxy tired of living alone with no one to talk to. She eventually reached the conclusion that maybe attending a regular school might force her to be social. Having retained her remarkable intelligence, she managed to win a partial scholarship to the same school as Rose, although having covered most of the science and math with her father (and later online), she is only required to attend english and history courses. Her mother is tangentially aware of this, and approved the paperwork with a vague sense of “Oh good, my girl will finally make some friends.” Roxy has secured a small apartment near the school in Locke City through her mother, and, despite some nervousness, is approaching the move and new school optimistically, under the logic that even if it isn’t that much better, it can’t be all that worse the that big empty house back home, right? She also brought along one of her cats, Vodka Mutini, after making sure the others all went to good homes.
First Echo: I wasn’t quite sure whether you were unclear on the details of the Echo or didn’t believe the effect was related to the cause, so I’ve erred on the side of caution with regards to the information here. All Sburb players are granted a secondary body called a dreamself, which awakens when the player sleeps and is also capable of flight. Roxy’s dreamself, however, has not awakened, and when she sleeps, her dreamself sleep-floats into the void between sessions. Within this void, the dark gods known as the Horrorterrors have created dreambubbles in which the ghosts of the dead players and the dead versions of players from alternate timelines can interact, as well as those who dream without dreamselves and the meteor crew, who are physically passing through the bubbles. During one of Roxy’s sleep-floats, she enters a dreambubble and catches a glimpse of Rose as her (noticeably pink) eyes open. Her Earthself wakes up immediately afterwards.
Post-incarnation, Roxy catches a bleary glimpse of Hikari Kurosawa (post-incarnation Rose) in school, paralleling this encounter. This grants her pink eyes.
If your concern is that Roxy’s eye color seems unrelated to these events, my logic stems from the fact that she originally glimpsed Rose with pink eyes, and the near-opening of said eyes was very significant due to its link to the awakening of a dreamself.
If that doesn’t work, she can instead gain the memory of seeing God Tier Rose and waking up immediately afterwards.
Preincarnation Personality: Roxy Lalonde’s most prominent trait is that she is a recovering alcoholic. She claims that she began to drink alcohol as a way to get closer to her mother, who rebelled against the Batterwitch in the twenty-first century. It’s likely, however, that the loneliness of growing up with no other humans for company and sheer boredom were significant contributing factors, as gaming and coding only occupy so much time. Upon entering the Medium, she decided to go sober, so that her mother wouldn’t be forced “to meet a sloppy embarrassing mess of a daughter”.
Roxy is also hasty in contrast to Dirk’s carefully planned “machiavellian/heroic XTREME STRIDER BULLSHIT,” and she often doesn’t consider the consequences of her actions. For example, she sends a fake SBURB file to her friend Jane which is actually rigged to make her computer explode in order to convince her that the Batterwitch is actually out to get them. After learning that Jane has already suffered an assassination attempt that day, she tries to tell Jane not to open the file to no avail, and Jane suffers a second explosion that day (she gets better).
Roxy sincerely loves her friends, and is remarkably selfless where they are concerned. She spends much of the session trying to keep her friends together as Jake and Dirk’s relationship begins to move downhill and Jane and Jake’s friendship strains, and promises not to make any moves towards Jake when she learns Jane has a crush on him. She tries to be supportive of Jane when the latter finally reaches her breaking point with Jake. She also often helps to feed the carapaces who inhabit the colony she lives in. Despite this, she is fairly perceptive, noting that Calliope is "such a shitty liar" and being aware of the absurdity of Dirk's plans.
Roxy is also interested in science - her room is filled with mutated cats, both alive and frozen, from numerous ectobiology experiments, and she is also handy with her appearifier. She uses numerous fenestrated walls to navigate her house and colony, and is a skilled hacker besides, able to break the Batterwitch’s internet restrictions on Derse in order to contact her friends. She also enjoys retro games.
Roxy is very casual, fun-loving, and flirty, said to “nonseldomly employ a ROGUISH DEMEANOR toward the FELLAS.” In her first conversation with Jane, she notes that both Jake and Jane’s dad are attractive. She “flirtlarps” with Dirk’s Auto-responder AI, and pokes fun at Jane for being a “tightass”. She’s also pretty affectionate, going on at length about how great Calliope is when she receives the drawing the Calliope made of her.
When typing, Roxy occasionally drops her “g”s and uses chat shorthand (nvm, p cool, etc). When drunk, she also mistypes words and corrects them with asterisks. She also occasionally uses Alternian slang, referring to Jake’s birthday as his “wigglin day”
Roxy also maintains an interest in wizards, likely inspired by her mother, whom she idolizes. Roxy has read her mother’s entire book series, and is very impressed by the wizards she finds in her dream with Calliope. She played SBURB in the hopes of meeting her mother, despite her reservations about the Batterwitch using the game to further her own schemes (incidentally, something she was entirely right to suspect.)
Any differences: In her second life, Roxy is still regularly drunk, lacking the arrival of her mom and proximity to her friends as driving factors in her sobriety. The loneliness which she experienced in her past life has not been alleviated in her reincarnation, and so she turns to alcohol. It will be much harder to get her to go sober this time around, as in this life, the only person who she might go sober for out of sheer respect and desire to impress is her dad, and that’s out of the question for obvious reasons.
In addition, she does not idolize her mother, having met her several times and come away relatively unimpressed. Pre-incarnation Roxy grew up on stories of Alpha Rose’s brave rebellion against the Batterwitch, such as her books as subtle criticisms and her takedown of Guy Fieri, even taking up writing herself. Roxy Kurosawa, on the other grasping appendage, has a strong dislike bordering on hate for her mother. She’s also developed a strong dislike for writing by association.
Roxy is also less generally selfless. In her original incarnation, she helped the carapaces, going out of her way to avoid harming them even in situations where she’d be entirely justified in doing so. For example, at one point, she is attacked by several hungry carapaces in a Skaianet lab, but can’t bring herself to hurt them, knowing that all they want is food. Post-incarnation Roxy lacks the common enemy of the Batterwitch that she had with the NPCs, and would be much less concerned about hurting the carapaces in the same situation. Roxy Kurosawa is less likely to go out of her way to help people she doesn’t know or isn’t particularly fond of.
Reincarnated Roxy is much more familiar with loss than preincarnated Roxy, her father not having the several methods that Sburb provides to help people remain in the world of the living. Roxy Lalonde lived alone all her life, and this was lonely, yes, but it meant she had very little to lose. Roxy Kurosawa is much more familiar with what it means to lose someone close to you, or even to have someone be that close in the first place, as despite preincarnation Roxy’s stories of her mother, she’s never really had a parental figure.
She’s also not as pushy as her preincarnation, unlikely to flirt with someone off limits like she did with Dirk as Roxy Lalonde. Roxy was much more secure in her friendships the first time around, perhaps out of a sense of predestination, but this time, she’s much more careful about her friendships. After all, she has no guarantee that they’ll have a crazy video game and an alien sea queen to tie them together, so she’s more afraid to compromise those friendships.
Abilities: Roxy Lalonde was equipped with a sylladex with a message-in-a-bottle fetch modus, a form of hammerspace inventory accessed through alcohol bottles stored in a liquor cabinet. She also had two strife specibi, riflekind and fistkind, hammerspace inventories specifically designated to carry weapons. She had a “high octane laser gun” and was presumably skilled in unarmed combat. She is also shown to have a fenestrated wall rifle, capable of firing two connected fenestrated walls through which items and people can be transported.
As a God Tier Rogue of Void, Roxy naturally causes all surveillance devices watching her to black out, although this ability functions less well when she is drunk. Roxy is also able to tear the void from objects and cause them to exist, although she does not have the skill to create anything more than a perfectly generic object. Roxy may yet develop more abilities related to her class and aspect. Having ascended to the God Tiers, she is contractually immortal - as long as her death is neither Heroic nor Just, she will regenerate and come back to life if killed. She is also a skilled hacker.
Roleplay Sample - Third Person: Roxy is halfway to drunk, idly playing with a bottle, when she finally decides to consider Hikari.
She’d seen the girl earlier in school today, and it had triggered - something - she doesn’t know what, but these number won’t leave her head, and to top it all off, she had pink eyes when she got home from school and looked in the mirror. It’d been really cool to discover someone else who was into wizards, but at the latest reunion, Hikari seemed kind of disdainful.
She pours another drink for herself, and takes a sip.
Pink eyes weren’t genetically possible, were they? Maybe in theory, but you had to be born with them, they didn’t just suddenly appear, that wasn’t a thing that could happen. And the numbers - she’d tried running them through an entire twenty different common ciphers she’d learned about from Dad before -
- before -
- okay, fine, she didn’t really need to think about that right now. The point of the drink was to calm down, she tells herself. No need to open old wounds on purpose.
Anyway, she ran them through like twenty different ciphers, and nothing. Seriously, she may as well have put them into google.
The thing about alcohol is that “put the mystery numbers that magically appeared in your head into google” is a much less silly proposal once you drink some. And it’s not like Roxy Kurosawa needs much convincing to act on silly ideas anyway.
So she puts the numbers into google, and finds the network, and reads down for a bit, and picks up the FAQ from someone else’s first post and holy shit.
Holy shit this is monsters and magic and fuck, someone died, god, even when her dad had the heart attack he didn’t, it wasn’t like this, oh god, she is not prepared for this she needs another drink like right now. She shakes as she pours the next glass and drinks it slowly. She has been this scared in her life once, and that was years ago when dad collapsed on the floor, telling her to call an ambulance.
Her nerves calm somewhat after the second drink, and she’s able to think in a direction nearer to straight than her previously panicked mind was capable of. She looks over the network a bit more, and it strikes her how many people seem to have no idea what they’ve discovered, as if the concept of “lurk moar, noob” was completely foreign to them. It was kind of stupid how they all seemed to be completely out of touch with scrolling down on forums. Come one, this was like Internet 101.
It’s in that moment that Roxy Kurosawa has an absolutely terrible idea, and the alcohol silences the voice of common sense, the one that tells her “Roxy, no, this is a terrible idea.” Without it, Roxy is left only with the opportunity for some fun, and damned if she isn’t going to exploit it.
So Roxy implements her terrible idea, giggling all the while, and somewhere beyond the mortal planes, a god of chaos snickers childishly.
Roleplay Sample - Network: [The post begins with a large black screen. It is ominously blank for a few seconds, and then lines of code begin to fill it. The text begins to take up more and more of the screen, and it begins to speed up, until finally flashing green text boldly proclaims:
YOU HAVE BEEN HACKED. YOUR SYSTEMS ARE NOTHING BEFORE ME. PREPARE TO BE TERMINATED.
It stays there for a few seconds, before it disappears, and is replaced with the following text.]
ok so
be honest
how maby of u fell for that
*many
like for real
i wanna kno how gullibe u guys r
bc i dont want 2 be stuck with no idiots
if we have to save the earth or some dumb fuckin shit like that
from all these ALIEN INCADERS
*invaders
so yeah
also i have pink eyes now is taht normal
*that
p sure that aint possible
like
geneitcallly
i dont think thats a thing
Any Questions? does your milkshake bring all the boys to the yard? are they like "it's better than yours"? are they damn right, it's better than yours? could you teach me, but you'd have to charge?
Name: kappy
Are you over 15? yup
Contact: message this journal.
IC Information:
Name: Roxy Lalonde before | Roxanne Kurosawa
Canon and medium: Homestuck (webcomic)
Age: 16 in both iterations
Preincarnation Species: Human
Preincarnation Appearance: ==>View Roxy.
Any differences: Roxy's eyes will not have been pink until her first echo.
Preincarnated History: Wiki link.
Homestuck’s reality is centered around a video game called Sburb. Sburb is responsible for the reproduction of universes: it selects several players from a planet, and demands that they escape into an alternate dimension called the Incipisphere before the game destroys their home planet with meteors. The ultimate goal of the game is to create a new universe by genetically experimenting on frogs to create the Genesis Frog, which goes on to embody the next iteration of the universe. In theory, the players will then enter the universe and rule over it as gods, but this has never successfully occurred. Homestuck “begins” (as much as any story dealing with time travel can really be said to begin) with a race of aliens called trolls. A group of twelve trolls were selected from the planet Beforus to play Sburb, led by the heir to the Beforan throne Meenah Peixes, but due to a glitch created by an immortal demon called Lord English, their session of Sburb was doomed to failure. So they activated the Scratch, a reset button which would swap them with their ancestors (the closest troll analogue to parents), which were bred by collecting genetic imprints from them using time travel, the method also used to create the original players. The next session was played by twelve trolls led by one Karkat Vantas, who grew up under a brutal Empire on the violent planet of Alternia. Karkat’s team, by nature of their more violent upbringing, succeeded at creating a universe (that of humanity), but would never enter it, attacked by a powerful NPC from Earth’s game session known as Jack Noir. Retreating from Jack Noir to a meteor lab in the Veil, an asteroid belt, the trolls came into contact with four humans who were playing their own session of Sburb. This contact was made possible by the fact that any given dimension is removed from the timeline of another - upon the creation of the universe, its inhabitants can be contacted at any point during their history. During this contact, several of the trolls would ensure Jack Noir’s rise to power and ultimately the events that forced them to retreat into the Veil in the first place, actions that would also render Earth’s first Sburb session unwinnable. Several would also kill each other as tensions began to run high.
The four humans, John, Jade, Rose, and Dave, would initiate their own session’s Scratch, and would personally escape the reset to travel to the post-Scratch human session. The effects of the Scratch would swap each player with his or her guardian - Dave with his Bro (actually the biological father of both him and Rose through time cloning), Rose with her Mom (who is also Dave’s biological mother), John with his grandmother (actually his biological mother, as well as Jade’s), and Jade with her grandfather (again, actually her biological father, along with John’s). John’s team, as well as the surviving trolls and several artifacts and locations from the Scratched session would travel to the new session in two groups over a period of three years.
However, this post-Scratch session differed highly from John’s own. While John’s session (referred to as the Beta session) had four players all born roughly within the same time frame, the post-Scratch session (referred to as the Alpha session) featured two players brought up in the “present” (a time period roughly equivalent to our own) and two brought up in the distant future, four hundred and thirteen years from now. However, the Alpha session did not go unnoticed by Lord English - he recruited the empress of Alternia, Her Imperial Condescension and the Alternian version of Meenah, to conquer Earth and prepare the human dimension for his arrival. The Empress arrived on Earth and assumed control of Crockercorp, gaining the nickname “Batterwitch” in the process. Sometime between the entry of the “current” players into the Medium and before the arrival of the “future” players, she killed most of the humans on the planet and replaced them with carapaces, a species of NPC from Sburb. It is in this future, on an Earth devoid of humanity ruled by an alien empress, that Roxy Lalonde grows up.
Roxy, the biological mother of Rose and Dave, lives in a colony in the remains of the Northeastern USA, on a floating colony otherwise populated by carapaces. During this time, she is put into contact with Dirk, the only other human alive in the future (and the biological father of Rose and Dave), as well as Jane and Jake, the “present” players and the parents of John and Jade.
The alpha players, through a convoluted series of events involving time travel, the politics of NPCs in Sburb, and teleportation devices, are eventually transported into the Medium, and Roxy is physically present with her friends for the first time in her life. However, their session is a unique type of session called a Void session - it is incapable of producing a genesis frog, and all signs point to being forced to wait for the arrival of the beta players and the surviving Alternian trolls. This would not take three years (as they entered their session towards the tail end of the Beta kids’ journey), but would still entail a full six months of waiting. During this time, the bonds among the Alpha kids would become tense, as Dirk and Jake’s relationship would begin to splinter the group, despite Roxy’s best efforts to keep them together. Eventually, Jane would discover a magic artifact known which triggered a transformation known as trickster mode, removing inhibitions from all of the characters except Dirk, who is “TOO FUCKING COOL FOR THIS!!!!!” Eventually, trickster mode wears off, and the characters find themselves on their quest beds, an artifact designed to boost player abilities by granting them access to the God Tiers. Ascension to the God Tiers is accomplished by dying upon one’s quest bed, and is accompanied by a boost to one’s own powers as well as a form of contractual immortality - after ascension, one can only die if the death is either Heroic or Just. The Alpha iteration of Jack Noir, possessed by Lord English, as well as Her Imperial Condescension, who takes the place of an NPC called the Black Queen, vaporize the players, and upon their deaths, each ascend to the God Tiers, just as the Beta kids, all of whom ascended to their own God Tiers in their session, arrive at the Alpha session. However, the Empress’s psychic powers allow her to take control of Jade and Jane, and Jade kidnaps Roxy and imprisons her. She forces Roxy to attempt to create the Matriorb, an egg which can spawn the Mother Grub, a troll analogue to a queen bee. The Empress can then restore the troll race under her rule. Roxy is theoretically able to do this because of her game class - as a Rogue of Void (one who steals nothing), she can rip the nothingness from an object and render it into reality. As of yet, however, she has been unable to.
Reincarnated History: Anything involving Rose Lalonde/Hikari Kurosawa has been worked out with the mun.
Roxy Kurosawa grew up in Canada as the child of Japanese-Canadian parents, the cousin of Hikari Kurosawa. While she lived a fairly easy life, her mother was distant. Roxy’s mother was constantly traveling, and she only ever knew her through her books. Roxy was close to her father, though, and spent her time as a child reading, playing video games, learning to code and hack, and playing with the many cats she and her father owned. Roxy loved her dad a lot, and he’s responsible for a good portion of her sense of humor and fun-loving nature.
When her father died during her teenage years of heart disease, her mother came back for a visit, but it was difficult to bond, and she soon left after. Roxy was homeschooled by her father, and did not have many friends. Initially, her mother tried to hire several caretakers to deal with Roxy, but the young girl drove most of them off by being whiny, throwing tantrums, and being generally unpleasant to deal with. Eventually, she called her mother and demanded to be left alone, snapping that she could take care of herself. Her mother, tired of having to search for people to replace the previous caretakers, agreed, and Roxy lived alone for the two years before she moved to Locke. Having few friends, no father, and an inability to bond with her caretakers, Roxy became remarkably lonely, and turned to alcohol in an attempt to cope. She has been regularly inebriated since.
Eventually, however, Roxy tired of living alone with no one to talk to. She eventually reached the conclusion that maybe attending a regular school might force her to be social. Having retained her remarkable intelligence, she managed to win a partial scholarship to the same school as Rose, although having covered most of the science and math with her father (and later online), she is only required to attend english and history courses. Her mother is tangentially aware of this, and approved the paperwork with a vague sense of “Oh good, my girl will finally make some friends.” Roxy has secured a small apartment near the school in Locke City through her mother, and, despite some nervousness, is approaching the move and new school optimistically, under the logic that even if it isn’t that much better, it can’t be all that worse the that big empty house back home, right? She also brought along one of her cats, Vodka Mutini, after making sure the others all went to good homes.
First Echo: I wasn’t quite sure whether you were unclear on the details of the Echo or didn’t believe the effect was related to the cause, so I’ve erred on the side of caution with regards to the information here. All Sburb players are granted a secondary body called a dreamself, which awakens when the player sleeps and is also capable of flight. Roxy’s dreamself, however, has not awakened, and when she sleeps, her dreamself sleep-floats into the void between sessions. Within this void, the dark gods known as the Horrorterrors have created dreambubbles in which the ghosts of the dead players and the dead versions of players from alternate timelines can interact, as well as those who dream without dreamselves and the meteor crew, who are physically passing through the bubbles. During one of Roxy’s sleep-floats, she enters a dreambubble and catches a glimpse of Rose as her (noticeably pink) eyes open. Her Earthself wakes up immediately afterwards.
Post-incarnation, Roxy catches a bleary glimpse of Hikari Kurosawa (post-incarnation Rose) in school, paralleling this encounter. This grants her pink eyes.
If your concern is that Roxy’s eye color seems unrelated to these events, my logic stems from the fact that she originally glimpsed Rose with pink eyes, and the near-opening of said eyes was very significant due to its link to the awakening of a dreamself.
If that doesn’t work, she can instead gain the memory of seeing God Tier Rose and waking up immediately afterwards.
Preincarnation Personality: Roxy Lalonde’s most prominent trait is that she is a recovering alcoholic. She claims that she began to drink alcohol as a way to get closer to her mother, who rebelled against the Batterwitch in the twenty-first century. It’s likely, however, that the loneliness of growing up with no other humans for company and sheer boredom were significant contributing factors, as gaming and coding only occupy so much time. Upon entering the Medium, she decided to go sober, so that her mother wouldn’t be forced “to meet a sloppy embarrassing mess of a daughter”.
Roxy is also hasty in contrast to Dirk’s carefully planned “machiavellian/heroic XTREME STRIDER BULLSHIT,” and she often doesn’t consider the consequences of her actions. For example, she sends a fake SBURB file to her friend Jane which is actually rigged to make her computer explode in order to convince her that the Batterwitch is actually out to get them. After learning that Jane has already suffered an assassination attempt that day, she tries to tell Jane not to open the file to no avail, and Jane suffers a second explosion that day (she gets better).
Roxy sincerely loves her friends, and is remarkably selfless where they are concerned. She spends much of the session trying to keep her friends together as Jake and Dirk’s relationship begins to move downhill and Jane and Jake’s friendship strains, and promises not to make any moves towards Jake when she learns Jane has a crush on him. She tries to be supportive of Jane when the latter finally reaches her breaking point with Jake. She also often helps to feed the carapaces who inhabit the colony she lives in. Despite this, she is fairly perceptive, noting that Calliope is "such a shitty liar" and being aware of the absurdity of Dirk's plans.
Roxy is also interested in science - her room is filled with mutated cats, both alive and frozen, from numerous ectobiology experiments, and she is also handy with her appearifier. She uses numerous fenestrated walls to navigate her house and colony, and is a skilled hacker besides, able to break the Batterwitch’s internet restrictions on Derse in order to contact her friends. She also enjoys retro games.
Roxy is very casual, fun-loving, and flirty, said to “nonseldomly employ a ROGUISH DEMEANOR toward the FELLAS.” In her first conversation with Jane, she notes that both Jake and Jane’s dad are attractive. She “flirtlarps” with Dirk’s Auto-responder AI, and pokes fun at Jane for being a “tightass”. She’s also pretty affectionate, going on at length about how great Calliope is when she receives the drawing the Calliope made of her.
When typing, Roxy occasionally drops her “g”s and uses chat shorthand (nvm, p cool, etc). When drunk, she also mistypes words and corrects them with asterisks. She also occasionally uses Alternian slang, referring to Jake’s birthday as his “wigglin day”
Roxy also maintains an interest in wizards, likely inspired by her mother, whom she idolizes. Roxy has read her mother’s entire book series, and is very impressed by the wizards she finds in her dream with Calliope. She played SBURB in the hopes of meeting her mother, despite her reservations about the Batterwitch using the game to further her own schemes (incidentally, something she was entirely right to suspect.)
Any differences: In her second life, Roxy is still regularly drunk, lacking the arrival of her mom and proximity to her friends as driving factors in her sobriety. The loneliness which she experienced in her past life has not been alleviated in her reincarnation, and so she turns to alcohol. It will be much harder to get her to go sober this time around, as in this life, the only person who she might go sober for out of sheer respect and desire to impress is her dad, and that’s out of the question for obvious reasons.
In addition, she does not idolize her mother, having met her several times and come away relatively unimpressed. Pre-incarnation Roxy grew up on stories of Alpha Rose’s brave rebellion against the Batterwitch, such as her books as subtle criticisms and her takedown of Guy Fieri, even taking up writing herself. Roxy Kurosawa, on the other grasping appendage, has a strong dislike bordering on hate for her mother. She’s also developed a strong dislike for writing by association.
Roxy is also less generally selfless. In her original incarnation, she helped the carapaces, going out of her way to avoid harming them even in situations where she’d be entirely justified in doing so. For example, at one point, she is attacked by several hungry carapaces in a Skaianet lab, but can’t bring herself to hurt them, knowing that all they want is food. Post-incarnation Roxy lacks the common enemy of the Batterwitch that she had with the NPCs, and would be much less concerned about hurting the carapaces in the same situation. Roxy Kurosawa is less likely to go out of her way to help people she doesn’t know or isn’t particularly fond of.
Reincarnated Roxy is much more familiar with loss than preincarnated Roxy, her father not having the several methods that Sburb provides to help people remain in the world of the living. Roxy Lalonde lived alone all her life, and this was lonely, yes, but it meant she had very little to lose. Roxy Kurosawa is much more familiar with what it means to lose someone close to you, or even to have someone be that close in the first place, as despite preincarnation Roxy’s stories of her mother, she’s never really had a parental figure.
She’s also not as pushy as her preincarnation, unlikely to flirt with someone off limits like she did with Dirk as Roxy Lalonde. Roxy was much more secure in her friendships the first time around, perhaps out of a sense of predestination, but this time, she’s much more careful about her friendships. After all, she has no guarantee that they’ll have a crazy video game and an alien sea queen to tie them together, so she’s more afraid to compromise those friendships.
Abilities: Roxy Lalonde was equipped with a sylladex with a message-in-a-bottle fetch modus, a form of hammerspace inventory accessed through alcohol bottles stored in a liquor cabinet. She also had two strife specibi, riflekind and fistkind, hammerspace inventories specifically designated to carry weapons. She had a “high octane laser gun” and was presumably skilled in unarmed combat. She is also shown to have a fenestrated wall rifle, capable of firing two connected fenestrated walls through which items and people can be transported.
As a God Tier Rogue of Void, Roxy naturally causes all surveillance devices watching her to black out, although this ability functions less well when she is drunk. Roxy is also able to tear the void from objects and cause them to exist, although she does not have the skill to create anything more than a perfectly generic object. Roxy may yet develop more abilities related to her class and aspect. Having ascended to the God Tiers, she is contractually immortal - as long as her death is neither Heroic nor Just, she will regenerate and come back to life if killed. She is also a skilled hacker.
Roleplay Sample - Third Person: Roxy is halfway to drunk, idly playing with a bottle, when she finally decides to consider Hikari.
She’d seen the girl earlier in school today, and it had triggered - something - she doesn’t know what, but these number won’t leave her head, and to top it all off, she had pink eyes when she got home from school and looked in the mirror. It’d been really cool to discover someone else who was into wizards, but at the latest reunion, Hikari seemed kind of disdainful.
She pours another drink for herself, and takes a sip.
Pink eyes weren’t genetically possible, were they? Maybe in theory, but you had to be born with them, they didn’t just suddenly appear, that wasn’t a thing that could happen. And the numbers - she’d tried running them through an entire twenty different common ciphers she’d learned about from Dad before -
- before -
- okay, fine, she didn’t really need to think about that right now. The point of the drink was to calm down, she tells herself. No need to open old wounds on purpose.
Anyway, she ran them through like twenty different ciphers, and nothing. Seriously, she may as well have put them into google.
The thing about alcohol is that “put the mystery numbers that magically appeared in your head into google” is a much less silly proposal once you drink some. And it’s not like Roxy Kurosawa needs much convincing to act on silly ideas anyway.
So she puts the numbers into google, and finds the network, and reads down for a bit, and picks up the FAQ from someone else’s first post and holy shit.
Holy shit this is monsters and magic and fuck, someone died, god, even when her dad had the heart attack he didn’t, it wasn’t like this, oh god, she is not prepared for this she needs another drink like right now. She shakes as she pours the next glass and drinks it slowly. She has been this scared in her life once, and that was years ago when dad collapsed on the floor, telling her to call an ambulance.
Her nerves calm somewhat after the second drink, and she’s able to think in a direction nearer to straight than her previously panicked mind was capable of. She looks over the network a bit more, and it strikes her how many people seem to have no idea what they’ve discovered, as if the concept of “lurk moar, noob” was completely foreign to them. It was kind of stupid how they all seemed to be completely out of touch with scrolling down on forums. Come one, this was like Internet 101.
It’s in that moment that Roxy Kurosawa has an absolutely terrible idea, and the alcohol silences the voice of common sense, the one that tells her “Roxy, no, this is a terrible idea.” Without it, Roxy is left only with the opportunity for some fun, and damned if she isn’t going to exploit it.
So Roxy implements her terrible idea, giggling all the while, and somewhere beyond the mortal planes, a god of chaos snickers childishly.
Roleplay Sample - Network: [The post begins with a large black screen. It is ominously blank for a few seconds, and then lines of code begin to fill it. The text begins to take up more and more of the screen, and it begins to speed up, until finally flashing green text boldly proclaims:
YOU HAVE BEEN HACKED. YOUR SYSTEMS ARE NOTHING BEFORE ME. PREPARE TO BE TERMINATED.
It stays there for a few seconds, before it disappears, and is replaced with the following text.]
ok so
be honest
how maby of u fell for that
*many
like for real
i wanna kno how gullibe u guys r
bc i dont want 2 be stuck with no idiots
if we have to save the earth or some dumb fuckin shit like that
from all these ALIEN INCADERS
*invaders
so yeah
also i have pink eyes now is taht normal
*that
p sure that aint possible
like
geneitcallly
i dont think thats a thing
Any Questions? does your milkshake bring all the boys to the yard? are they like "it's better than yours"? are they damn right, it's better than yours? could you teach me, but you'd have to charge?