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[tipsygnostalgia]

Your name is ROXY.

God DAMN do you love WIZARDS.

You wish and hope they are REAL, and that so too is their MAJYYKS AND STUFF. You enjoy writing FANPROSE FOR SAID MAGICAL MEN, but you think maybe it's NOT SO GREAT. You are however QUITE GREAT at the esoteric sciences, such as ECTOBIOLOGY, DARK FENESTROLOGY, and the delicate art of APPEARIFICATION. You have tended to accrue dead preserved SPECIMENS from your experiments, little to none of which AREN'T FELINE.

You aren't one to shy from A BIT OF GAMING, particularly the sort WELL PAST ITS PRIME; you have a real soft spot for OLD SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY. It is fair to say most of your leanings are governed by a BENT FOR NOSTALGIA. Your coding cred is totes ridic, basically making you the HOTTEST SHIT HAXXOR BITCH YOU EVER KNEW, as deadaly* to the grid ass* she is beatuiful*. You are known to nonseldomly employ a ROGUISH DEMEANOR toward the FELLAS, a habit not especially jeopardized by your noninfrequent INEBRIATION.

Which is to say, against the better judgment of one your age, you like to DIP INTO THE SAUCE now and then. Unless your MOM is looking, which happens to be virtually NEVER. And considering she has been known by the knowledgeable to be in possession of VISION OMNIFOLD, this strikes you as a particularly STUNNING LAPSE IN PARENTAL DILIGENCE. But you have good friends and many distractions to fill this VOID in your life.

What will you do?

Name: Draggy / Sarah
Personal Journal: draggy
Contact: draggycakes@gmail.com
Other Characters Played: Sai (Naruto)
Are you 18 or over? Yes

Canon: Homestuck
Character: Roxy Lalonde
Timeline: Act 6- safe for now from punky looking fish aliens and cat hungry chess bandits Damn you GCat

Personality:Roxy comes across as a fairly open, fun loving girl who is always up for chatting and socializing with her friends. There are times where she jokes or pokes fun at them but if you look past that it is obvious that she cares a lot about all of her friends and has their best interests at heart. It should also be noted that more often than not, she is drunk.
There are times when she comes off as being silly or immature, using curse words just for the sake of it and starting drunken rants but she has also shown her serious side. One of her major concerns is that entering the game will put them all in dangerous situation, inevitably playing into the Condesce’s hands. It is something that she has given a lot of thought to, weight the pros against the cons before eventually agreeing to take part- wishing to be reunited with her mother is the main driving force behind Roxy playing the Sburb Alpha.

Roxy is in love with the idea of wizards and magic, largely inspired by her mother Rose who wrote a series of best-selling novels based on the genre. She has poster art on the walls of her room relating to these books and also named her cat after one of its characters. She keeps journals too where she enjoys to write her own stories, usually wizard-based fan-fiction, but seems to be embarrassed by them, probably because she looks on them as rubbish in comparison to the work of her mother as well as the fact that she is often drunk when writing them. She holds her deceased mother in high regard and seems to really look up to her, which is a harsh comparison to the beta universe when the two of them seemed to have a very strained relationship, at least from Rose’s point of view.

She also shows a major interest in science, especially that of an “esoteric” nature. She built the fenestrated planes that allow her to transport from one place to another and has likely built several other mechanical and technological devices.
She has also spent a good deal of time dabbling in ectobiology. Roxy has a love for cats and using the DNA of her cat Frigglish she made multiple clones. The shelf on her room contains mutated specimens that went wrong- presumably from when she first started out and wasn’t any good at it.
Carrying on the technological theme, Roxy’s other interests delve into the subject of computers and gaming. A lover of “old school technology” her favorite games are more retro ones such as Earthbound and her room is filled with various gaming consoles, all pink in colour. Skilled when it comes to computers she is also a very capable programmer and hacker. She sent a file to Jane’s laptop which caused it to explode and decided to steal the Sburb files from the Crocker Corporation- the process was so easy she became convinced that playing was exactly what the Condesce wanted them to do.
Both Roxy and Dirk seem to have decent knowledge on Alternian culture, which neither Jane nor Jake understand. Roxy often uses phrases associated with troll culture such as calling birthdays “wriggling days” and describing herself as a “pale friend to all”. It is unknown currently how she gained this information- whether it is due to Alternian or Condesce influence on earth or whether she gained the knowledge via her Dream self or through her chats with the troll UU.

When not talking about world-ending disasters and assassination attempts, Roxy is pretty much a typical teenage girl. She seems to constantly be on the lookout for a relationship. After learning that Dirk’s interests lay elsewhere and that Jane had an interest in Jake, she seems to wallow in the fact that she is destined to be best friend to all yet girlfriend to none.
However this does not stop her from flirting with any of them even though usually she is doing it for fun and it is not meant to be taken seriously. She also likes to roleplay at times, especially those of a flirty nature. Most of these take place with Dirk’s AI, the auto responder. When Dirk and the responder are discussing the matter, AR tells dirk that Roxy is “a lonely hacker teen who just wants a boyfriend” and that it can “give her what he can’t” which leads one to assume that these flirt RP sessions get pretty steamy.

Text-wise Roxy goes by the handle of tipsyGnostalgic. She types in a bright pink font which matches both the colour of her eyes and the pink cat on her clothes. Hey typing contains several spelling errors due to her drunkenness as well as the odd Freudian slip. She curses often and occasionally makes humorous corrections to her spelling errors.
TG: * horbible
TG: * whore bible
TG: ^ bullseye
Her use of punctuation is inconstant and so is any capitalization unless for EMPHASIS. She also uses a lot of internet slang such as “lol” “lmao” as well as smiley faces :3


Background: Trying to explain the events of the original session would end up very longwinded and probably only confuse people including myself. Plus most of it isn’t exactly relevant to current events so I will only go into details of the post-scratch universe.

Upon finding out their game was unwinnable, the only option left for the kids playing the SBURB Beta session (John, Dave, Rose and Jade) was to scratch the disk, effectively causing a hard reboot not only of the game but the entire universe. Unlike the previous session this one takes place a few years later- Sburb Beta began in April 2009 whereas Sburb Alpha is beginning in November 2011. Rather than being 13 years old the kids are 15 or almost 16. Not only are they older and more mature but it seems as though they have spent a long time preparing themselves for the challenges the game will provide.

In this post-scratch universe, the roles between children and guardian have been switched. The guardians of the original session now make up the group of kids preparing to play the SBURB game (Jane, Jake, Dirk and Roxy) while the beta group play the role of their guardians or grandparents. John is the grandfather of Jane, Jade grandmother to Jake whilst Dave is now the elder brother of Dirk and Rose mother to Roxy.

Roxy has grown up in the same house that Rose lived in during the beta universe. Her mother Rose was a famous author- her best selling series “Complacency of the Learned” meant that the family was very well off yet Rose is apparently no longer alive after being killed by the “Batterwitch”, otherwise known as the Condesce. In the past Roxy had attempted to explain to her best friend Jane that her mother was no longer alive, yet Jane did not believe her. Instead of continuing the argument she seemed to just accept that Jane would not believe it- instead just going along with stories about how her mother would fill the alcohol cupboard or continuing their passive-aggressive feud when in reality she lived alone.

Dirk however, not only understood but sympathized with Roxy. With Dave dead, also assassinated by the Condesce, the main reason for Dirk and Roxy showing interest in the game was because they had been told that upon entering they could resurrect and be reunited with their dead guardians. The two of them make up the Derse dreamers for this session and have both been awake for some time even though that have not yet entered the game. Dirk is able to stay awake on Earth and on Derse simultaneously whereas Roxy’s dream self is prone to sleepwalking and wandering the void.

Although she wanted to see her mother, Roxy was very unsure about playing the game, convinced that by doing so they would be playing right into the Batterwitch’s hands and helping her plans advance. She even went as far as to sent a bogus file to Jane’s computer to stop her friend from playing the game. Although she later changed her mind and agreed to play, Jane ran the file before Roxy had a chance to stop her, which resulted in the explosion of Jane’s computer.

Shortly before this happened, a failed assassination attempt on Jane and memories of her dream-self waking on Prospit caused the girl to begin believing what Roxy had been trying to tell her all along in regards to the dangers of the game and of the Condesce. Roxy is certain that (and all evidence points to) the Condesce’s alternate identity being “Betty Crocker”, icon and leader of the Crocker empire that Jane will inherit once she reaches adulthood.
Jane wants to believe what Roxy has been telling her all along. In order to try and prove it, Roxy uses her appearifier to transport her friend’s Colonel Sassacre’s book from Jane’s room to her own. Unfortunately once it materialized it ended up dropping onto Roxy’s cat Frigglish and killing it. Revealing that the cat did not originally belong to her- it appeared after she had messed around with a machine in the basement. Roxy decides that she should send the cat back to its original owner so they know what happened to it, even if it is dead. Roxy believes that owner to be her mother, although in actuality it was pre-scratch Rose.

Using one of her fenestrated planes Roxy makes her way through the basement. making her way through all the cloned cats that have used the area as a breeding ground,  she comes across the transmaterializer and before sending the cat back she uses the machine to try and appearify the person that the machine is locked in to- believing it to be her mother. It creates a paradox clone of Rose (or rather Paradox slime) which Roxy captchalogues, putting on the scarf that appeared with it before she heads over to the appearifier/sendificater and transports the dead Frigglish back to his original home
Once a tribe of hungry looking creatures appear she uses the fenestrated window to escape - only for GCat to knock out the other end and transport it to Dirk's house. This resulted in Roxy being stuck in the void between the two. An unknown troll wearing the Pisces symbol appears and attacks her, but roxy is able to escape back out of the window she had used to enter. She escapes from the "cat hunting chess bandits" And locks herself inside a room . This is the canon point she has been taken from.


Abilities/Additional Notes:

Sylladex: As with all the characters of Homestuck, Roxy can use a fetch modus which is basically a storage system. Her personal modus is the “message in a bottle” – items are stored in an empty bottle which she smashes open when she wishes to retrieve the item. It will explode once she tries to use it in Adstring but she will keep the items stored in it. These include her gun, journals, and miscelanious crap such alcohol and perhaps a frozen, dead, mutant cat. Yeah.

Riflekind/Fistkind: She holds both a gun kind and fist kind specibus, meaning that she can fight both with a weapon (a gun) and in hand to hand combat.

Rogue of Void: She also possesses abilities due to being a hero of the Void. Her powers, although unintentional, are most likely the cause as to why UU’s screen is constantly blacked out when she tries to view the kids and their timelines. These will not be accessible to her in Adstring

Sleepwalking: When asleep on Derse her dream self was able to travel into the void itself, entering dream bubbles inhabited by dead trolls as well as the sleeping beta kids. Of course this will not happen in Adstring as there are no dreamselves present.  

Drinking: She can probably drink you under a table, literally :|

Hacking: When it comes to computers and related technology, Roxy is the best in the group. it will take her no time at all to figure out the workings of the PCDs and people will have no chance of breaking through her security filters unless they are as skilled as she is (not likely) or she just plain fucked up when drunk and did it wrong (more likely)

Texting: When making text posts Roxy uses a pink courier font and often misspells wrods* due to her frequesnt* inebriation so of course I will have a permissions post up enabling people to opt out of her using it in their threads if they wish.

Sample Journal Post:

[After awakening in this unknown land and getting some sort of bearings, the fist thing Roxy had done was to fully explore the communicator she found herself with. She scanned recent network messages, findind none that made any sense or more importantly- ones sent out by her friends. Changing the settings to represent her default pink text, she sent out one of her own, hoping for a reply.]

woooah wtf
where the f am i
i passed out and woke up in the begingning of some zombie film or some shit
*beginning
no serioiusly whats with the stormy skies and gloomy broken buildings
u know this is more jakes kinda deal instead of mine right i feel like i should be running from the undead or velociraptors or some shit

anyways this is TG repouting in
*reporting
this piece of technological shit doesnt even run persterchum so jane jake dirk if you read this
hit me back so i know ur ok
btw my sylladex exploded so be careful
ok Ro Lal out

Sample RP:

Roxy had an abrupt wakening, a loud thud resonating as her impact with the ground stirred her from unconsciousness. She blinks hazily before suddenly scrambling to her feet, wide eyes now processing the view- an unfamiliar setting with no recollection of how she got there. She didn't remember blacking out but it would hardly be the first time- nor the last she fears- that it happened. Perhaps her friends were right and she really should cut back on the drinking, especially at such an important time.

Pulling herself up and onto her feet, she takes a quick look around. It's quiet- perhaps too quiet, it would be unsafe to travel anywhere unarmed. Pulling out her sylladex in order to retrieve her gun, the blonde is suddenly knocked back to the ground, a flash of light before her. Af first she doesn't understand what happened, until the contents of the destroyed sylladex come raining down on her- alcohol, machine parts, journals and a dead cat.

"Woah what the crap.." Shielding herself from the falling objects, she takes a look around her. Thank god the alcohol bottles didn't smash!

Reaching to grab one, her attention is diverted to the mystery device beside her foot.  Picking it up from the ground she begins to inspect it. It appears to be some sort of communication tool- taking a minute to explore its interface she quickly gains knowledge of its basic functions and changes the default text setting to her familiar pink- it at least gave her a little bit of control back in this situation, besides if there are any enemies in this place she doubts she can stay hidden from them for long.

She quickly types out a message to the network addressed to her friends before wandering out into the empty street as she waits on a reply. Where was she? This didn't feel as if it had anything to do with the game- if it did then there was no reason for the sylladex to break and she would have a way of contacting the others. Was this some sort of trap?