〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: kappy
AGE: 17
JOURNAL: none.
IM / EMAIL: pseudosnymus@gmail.com
PLURK: kappycane
RETURNING: nope.

〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Roxy Lalonde
CHARACTER AGE: 16
SERIES: Homestuck
CHRONOLOGY: page 9183.
CLASS: Hero.
HOUSING: Randomized housing in Heropa.

BACKGROUND:

Wiki link.

Homestuck takes place and time in Paradox Space, a superset of universes governed by a supernatural video game. Known as SBURB to humanity and SGRUB to their precursors the trolls, the game generates and seeds a group of heroes among the universe’s primary sapient species. When these heroes reach sufficient maturity (read: become teenagers), the game invites an apocalypse upon their world, transports them to an alternate dimension, and charges them with playing the game, winning, and spawning the next iteration of the universe.

The game also contains a contingency plan, in case of disastrous failure on part of the players: the Scratch. When the game generates its champions, it also generates their biological parents, and the Scratch creates a universe where those parents, now teenagers themselves, must win their own iteration. Roxy Lalonde, biological mother of Dave Strider and Rose Lalonde, is one of these new heroes, charged with entering a new session and salvaging humanity’s session of the game.

Her childhood didn’t exactly resemble theirs. While the original champions grew up on a reasonably familiar Earth with fairly normal childhoods, Roxy’s Earth was marred by the presence of Her Imperious Condescension. The troll apocalypse was not complete, and their Empress escaped the destruction of the universe, fleeing to Roxy’s Earth, hiding behind the shell corporation of Betty Crocker, and vowing to renew her Empire. It went poorly, Insane Clown Posse became the twin presidents of America for a while, and then the Earth was flooded and humanity pretty much died. Thanks to time travel, two heroes could live before the alien queen arrived. Roxy, however, got the short end of the stick, and arrived on Earth after the flood.

Rose, who in this iteration of Earth served as Roxy’s guide and adoptive mother, had planned for this. She converted her house into a floating colony and left supplies behind. The Empress drew several of the game NPCs to live there after she killed all of humanity, presumably so she would have something left to rule. Roxy survived the apocalypse and the attacks of the Empress’ drones, growing from three months to the age of sixteen with mute aliens and the internet for company.

The internet, however, gave her access to the other heroes. Dirk Strider, who lived in an apartment above flooded Texas, knew as much as she did about what they were getting into. Jane Crocker and Jake English, on the other hand, lived in the 21st century, and never had any idea as to the true nature of the game they were going to play until it happened. She and her friends also befriended a mysterious alien known only by the handle uranianUmbra, and were occasionally harassed by her brother undyingUmbrage. uranianUmbra often provided insight into SBURB for Roxy and Dirk, explaining to Roxy that her game-granted title would be the Rogue of Void and that she would develop powers to match. Still, the internet is no substitute for real social interaction, and a lonely, motherless Roxy turned to alcohol to keep herself in good spirits.

Parallel to all this is the journey of the original players and several trolls, who escaped the Scratch and intend to combine pieces of Roxy’s session with their own in the hope of actually generating a new universe.

This is where Roxy’s story really begins.

As the date 11/11/11 approaches and the Empress plans to reveal herself in the 21st century, Roxy and Dirk begin to accelerate their plans to escape into SBURB and avoid the impending drone attack in their own era. Complicated shenanigans involving time and interdimensional travel, NPC politics, the whims of an omnipotent cat, and dreamselves eventually ensure Roxy’s entry into the medium, alongside her friends. uranianUmbra, actually named Calliope, asks Roxy to find a way to resurrect her shortly before being killed by her brother. Roxy, preparing for the arrival of the girl she believes to be her mother, resolves to go sober.

Six months pass, Roxy, Dirk, and Jake turn sixteen and interpersonal tensions magnify. Dirk and Jake are dating, but Dirk’s intensity and behavior are having an adverse effect on Jake. Jake turns to Jane to vent his feelings, but Jane’s crush on him and self-resentment for failing to confess, as well as a good deal of obliviousness on Jake’s part, keep tensions high, and Roxy is left to manage the resulting powder keg. She does a decent job of it, until Jake forgets Jane’s birthday and things boil over. Jane explodes at Jake and runs off, and Roxy, left with nowhere to go, is kidnapped by the omnipotent cat from before, knocked out, and planted in the Empress’ prison.

While unconscious, she dreams of Calliope, who exists as a ghost in the void between sessions. Calliope indicates that she’s hiding from her brother, who is trying to break the void and destroy the universe because he’s having a temper tantrum. She tells Roxy about the God Tiers, realms of power that grant a form of immortality if the death is neither Heroic nor Just. Roxy is then forcibly awoken.

The Empress makes a seemingly impossible demand of Roxy, the nature of which is unclear. Roxy rolls her eyes, shortly before being granted access to a ring which turns her invisible. She escapes prison and tries to contact her friends to resolve their issues, but is soundly ignored.

In the meantime, Jane creates an artifact on Calliope’s instructions and activates trickster mode, which makes those engaged in it ridiculously happy at the expense of their impulse control. Also, it gives them neon clothing and hair and makes them look like candy. Jane converts Jake and then Roxy to trickster mode, at which point Roxy, robbed of her higher decision-making faculties, promptly reimbibes alcohol. They try to convert Dirk, but it has minimal effect.

Eventually, the four of them snap out of it, finding themselves on their quest beds. It is upon these beds they must die to ascend to the god tiers, but they take this moment to vent their interpersonal frustrations to each other instead, resolving very little because they can’t bring themselves to contact the actual people they have their issues with. None of them can bring themselves to kill anybody, but the Empress resolves the issue for them, blowing them up and allowing them to ascend.

This is all in service of her larger plan; almost immediately after Roxy and her friends reach the god tiers, the heroes from the session before the Scratch arrive in the current session. The Empress, harnessing the natural psychic abilities of trolls and mind-control technology, takes control of Jane and pre-Scratch player Jade Harley, and uses their enormous power to scatter the remaining players across the session. Roxy is once again imprisoned.

It is now that the task the Empress demanded of her is revealed; Roxy is to create a new egg for the troll Mother Grub, who serves a role in troll reproduction similar to that of an insect queen. Roxy’s powers as the Rogue of Void allow her to literally rob the nothingness from an object with sufficient practice, and so Jade demands she create it again, warning that she can track Roxy down if she attempts escape. Jade then leaves to further the Empress’ schemes.

Upon Jade’s disappearance pre-Scratch player John Egbert teleports into her prison. John and Roxy exchange information, explaining their stories to each other. John has the power to zap himself across time and space, ungoverned by the stable loops of time travel and able to alter the timeline however he wishes. He gives Roxy some advice on creating the egg and then leaves.

In the inter-session void, a troll named Aranea Serket becomes fed up. Disappointed with the turn of events as she sees them, she resolves to fix everything for everybody. She uses her psychic powers to erase Jake’s insecurities and activate his powers as the Page of Hope. His Hope field becomes so strong that it results in Jade’s death; Jane is forced to kill him to stop the field, trusting his god tier immortality to resurrect him. Before Jane can use her powers to resurrect Jade, she’s abducted by a pair of omnipotent dogs. The Empress, fed up with Aranea’s interference, arrives on the scene, and things go south. Aranea kills Jake again, this time Heroically, and Jane, Justly. The trolls descend into violence; Gamzee violently beats Terezi and kills Karkat, before being killed in turn by Kanaya. Kanaya is then vaporized by the Empress; Rose, Kanaya’s girlfriend, tries to kill the Empress in a fit of rage but is stabbed instead. Roxy snatches Rose away and disappears into the void, as John arrives back in the session after losing control of his teleportation powers. Aranea stabs Terezi before being killed by the Empress.

Roxy and John find a safe place only to witness Rose’s death, and Roxy breaks down crying. She and John talk, and she suggests surrendering, allowing themselves to die, and joining their friends as ghosts in the void. Terezi, who just barely survived her wounds, crash-lands at their location and slaps some sense into them, demanding that John use his powers to repair the broken timeline. John advises Roxy to visit her endgame boss; though technically an enemy, the boss is said to provide useful wisdom. John does the same, and masters his power, teleporting his planet into an extracanonical void separate from the ghost zone between sessions. Roxy, advised by her boss to visit John’s planet, accompanies him there. Roxy resolves to work on her creation ability while John sets off to repair the timeline according to Terezi’s instructions. Roxy buries her mother in a grave on John’s planet, marking it with a sword and the mask of her god tier outfit, and then hugs the ghost of her dead cat.

Then a machine from an alternate dimension teleports her to Heropa.

PERSONALITY:

Roxy is very much a product of a twenty-first century culture imposed upon the survivor of a flooded, nearly barren planet.

On the one hand, she appears very much a typical modern teenage girl. She types casually, in bright pink text rife with slang and abbreviations and with little regard for punctuation or spell-check. She never takes life very seriously. She roleplays with Jake, calls Jane a tightass, and writes journals full of wizard fanfiction. She flirts as often as she can, at least to start. She loves retro games, silly accents, and cats. She’s a blend of sharp sarcasm and silly antics, with a fair level of trope-savviness thrown in for good measure. (The antagonist of her wizard fic is named Grant Anonama because it’s an anagram for “not an anagram”.)

On the other, she grew up in a colony surrounded by chess aliens, and was ultimately raised by the Internet. That shapes a person in very specific ways, and it shows.

Roxy is, by and large, better at socialization through text than in person. She calls out Calliope’s lying nearly instantly and hones in on one of Dirk’s major flaws when texting them; later, she is barely able to confront her many issues with Dirk when they’re sitting next to each other on their quest beds, and has trouble catching onto John’s figurative language when they talk. In both cases, however, she’s remarkably blunt; her transitions are not subtle and she never keeps her opinions to herself.

She’s also extraordinarily pushy and self-assured; one of her (many) issues with Dirk is the unresolved nature of her flirtations. Dirk is not quite gay (he doesn’t identify as such, but is exclusively interested in other men), but that had never stopped Roxy until she’d gone sober, and she remains enormously guilty about it. When she thought Jane was too quick to trust Betty Crocker, she sent her a fake file rigged to blow up Jane’s computer. Entering the session has only made this worse; as her friends collapsed around her, she was forced to hold them together. As far as Roxy is concerned, Roxy knows best, and her session has only proved her right.

In spite of her flaws, Roxy is fundamentally a kind and caring person at heart. She absolutely loves her friends, unreservedly and wholeheartedly, and is remarkably selfless where they’re concerned. (She tends to wish they’d appreciate this about her more often, but hey.) She supported Jane through her disaster with Jake, and supported Jake when he finally woke up to the nature of Jane’s crush and how badly his relationship with Dirk had gone. It was her who kept her friends together during their session, mediating between every party and doing her best to prevent a total collapse, and she achieved remarkably success given how bad things were with the other three. She could barely bring herself to be angry at the NPCs in her colony, even when they tried to attack her for food, because she sympathized with their hunger.

She’s also remarkably intelligent. She’s a master hacker, able to break into alien wifi with little trouble, and familiar with genetics besides. She has an army of mutant cats, all cloned by her from the same template. She’s perceptive, too; while calling Calliope’s lies is perhaps easy, Dirk’s flaws are difficult to diagnose. Her writing, though marred by questionable grammar, is actually a fairly pointed satire on the nature of chosen-one stories.

No description of Roxy would be complete without addressing her alcoholism and its ties to her mother. It’s unclear exactly when she started, but at some point in her teenage years, Roxy discovered a stash of alcohol in the colony. Lonely, bored, and seeking a connection to her missing mom, she began to drink, and very slowly it became a problem. When Roxy is introduced, she is already an alcoholic, and her friends seem barely able to address it.

Upon entry to the session and in anticipation of her mother’s arrival, Roxy quits. The reason, she says, is so her mother won’t meet “a sloppy embarrassing mess of a daughter”. Despite her casual attitude towards it, Roxy is very much aware that her alcoholism is a problem, and though it takes enormous strength, she solves it, virtually instantaneously, for the sake of her mom. Breaking an addiction so suddenly is no mean feat; that Roxy can do so is indicative of enormous resolve.

Roxy’s relationship with her mother (and by extension, the wizards she writes about) is one of almost intense idolization and adoration. This universe’s Rose spent much of her life in rebellion against the Empress, and Roxy has collected the records and stories. She’s also read every single one of her mom’s books. She played SBURB primarily because the sparse data she had on the game implied that she’d get to meet her mom, and attributes her sobriety to trying not to disappoint the arriving figure.

Of course, the disaster that follows Rose’s arrival means that the meeting promptly goes south. Aside from the fact that Rose is actually Roxy’s daughter, she dies pretty much instantly, and Roxy breaks down in response. Enormous resolve does not mean infinite, and Roxy is capable of losing her way as much as anybody else. It takes the witnessing the death of all her friends alongside Rose’s, but Roxy has been pushed into surrender. Still, given a plan and enough push from an outside party, she can be motivated to start fixing things, even if she’s stubborn about getting started.

In the end, Roxy is still recognizably a teenager. Her issues are deep-seated and complex, but they are familiar and well-known struggles. Through the entirety of the dumb, tragic, ridiculous, hilarious, overcomplicated mess of a timeline that is her life, she remains the internet nerd she has always been.

POWER:

Rogue of Void (canon): As the Rogue of Void, Roxy is capable of turning both herself and anything or anyone she’s touching invisible and intangible, both partially and wholly. She also doesn't appear on surveillance equipment.

Strife specibus/sylladex (canon): Roxy has a video game inventory system which can stores items within abstract cards. Rifles, stored in a weapons inventory called riflekind, can be retrieved at will. Other objects, stored in a sylladex, must be retrieved through her Message in a Bottle Fetch Modus, where the card manifests as a gray bottle that must be smashed before she pulls the object out. (Roxy also has a fistkind strife specibus, although the necessity of this is unclear given that she can’t put away her fists.) Her current inventory consists of some clothes in her sylladex and a high octane LASER RIFLE in her strife specibus.

God tier (canon): Roxy can fly.

〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:

its mad fucked up how many ppl r on this version of earth
theres like millions in this state how do yall even deal
i s2g im gonna crash into motherfuckers just walking down the street
also people just like
buy betty crocker
like thats a thing u can do and its somehow not a terrible idea

anyway where do you get ur superhero outfits
kinda lost my old mask so i need new one if im gonna run around savin damsels or w/e

ALSO
im roxy i totally forgot 2 mention that

hi everybody!
v excited 2 meet u all

LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:

roxy and kanaya maryam on MoM test drive.

roxy types in bold pink courier. feel free to opt out if you'd like; i'll decolor it or stick to audio or video.


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