Canon • 
Dubiously Canon- For the pre-scratch version of this character, see Roxy Lalonde (pre-scratch).
Roxy Lalonde is the post-scratch incarnation of Rose's Mom. Jane frequently refers to them as “Ro-Lal” to mimic the way that Roxy refers to her friends; this also served to obscure Roxy's name until she was formally introduced to the reader.
Roxy's chumhandle is “tipsyGnostalgic” (“TG”), which relates to her alcoholic tendencies. Tipsy is a term used to describe a disoriented drunk. Gnostalgic also seems to be a combination of the words gnostic and nostalgic, or it could simply be a nod to her habit of misspelling things. It is also a possibility "gnostalgic" is referring to Gnostalgic Spirits Distillery. They use a slightly brighter shade of pink than Jaspersprite, which matches the color of her pre-scratch self's scarf. [S] Roxy: Sleepwalk
reveals that Roxy has eyes that match the color of her Pesterchum text, in line with the pattern established by the other kids. Their rendering in a symbolic manner is extremely similar to Rose's, with the exception of her shirt design, black stockings and hairstyle.
Roxy's Pesterchum icon and shirt feature a pink Mutie, reminiscent of Jade's Becquerel shirt. It is visually reminiscent of Jade's, just like Jake's is visually reminiscent of Rose's. Like the rest of the post-scratch kids, she share her chumhandle abbreviation with her corresponding pre-scratch kid's ectobiological sibling.
Roxy's denizen is Nix, the same as her web browser. Their aspect may be a reference to the commonly used "void" code in ~ATH as well as C/C++, a callback to her introduction as a skilled hacker.
When Roxy's full name is revealed, the two letters that were hidden (X and Y) were referred to as chromosomic, referring to the X and Y chromosomes. This could be a reference to her interest in biology, as she is shown immediately afterwards to be interested in ectobiology and esoteric sciences. This could also tie in to the fact that she is tasked to conjure a Matriorb, a item that is key to the biological reproduction of the Trolls. Additionally, it is implied in at least the dubiously canonical PXS comic Birds and Bees
that Rose's Mom, her pre-scratch self, was responsible for setting up the ectobiology component.
Throughout Homestuck, Roxy goes by she/her pronouns. During The Homestuck Epilogues, Roxy questions her gender identity, and in the "Meat" timeline switches to he/him pronouns. However, in the alternate "Candy" timeline, she continue to go by she/her pronouns. As these differing timelines conflict, and the entirety of the Epilogues are questionably Canon, this article currently refers to Roxy using gender-neutral she/them pronouns.
Biography
Roxy's meteor arrived on earth sometime during the 25th century, along with Dirk Strider. However, she is able to communicate with Jane and Jake (who are living around four centuries in the past) and establish Sburb connections with them by means of Trollian.
Sometime in the past, Roxy's mother was killed by the Batterwitch. They first began her investigations into Sburb after learning it had the possibility to resurrect her mother, which parallels Rose's motivation to resurrect her cat Jaspers.
Their dream self is an avid sleepwalker. Shortly after she is introduced, Roxy blacks out after sipping thoughtfully from a martini. In her ensuing dream, her dream self sleepwalks into a dream bubble and meets god tier Rose. They later confide to Dirk that she believed it to be her daughter and that it was a futuredream. This only ties with how Rose and Dave are ectobiogically the kids of Roxy and Dirk.
Roxy, along with Dirk and his Dersite dream self have an advanced insight to her session that neither Jane nor Jake know. So far Roxy has been attempting to convince Jane of the evils of the Batterwitch, and is frustrated at her unwillingness to believe. They go as far as rigging Jane's hacked Sburb copy to explode and framing the Batterwitch. However when Jane finally comes around to believing them, Roxy (unsuccessfully) tries to abort the fake assassination attempt.
Shortly before Roxy attempted to abort the explosion, Roxy demonstrated her handheld appearifier's abilities to Jane by teleporting Jane's unabridged copy of Colonel Sassacre's daunting literature into her own bedroom. However, God Cat spontaneously appears and taunts Roxy's cat into pouncing underneath the about-to-appearify book. Frigglish is sadly crushed to death.
This prompts Roxy to send him back to his previous owner, whom she believe to be her mother, but is actually pre-scratch Rose. Through a fenestrated wall Roxy reaches the machine she originally used to retrieve Frigglish, shown to be a transmaterializer, and it successfully sends it back to where he came from.
After this is done, Roxy is assailed by several Derse exiles, forcing them to abscond back through the fenestrated plane. However, GCat warps her exit window away, to Dirk's house, leaving Roxy trapped in the void between the two planes. They are then attacked by a ghost, who chokes them with a 2x3dent. Roxy is able to escape suffocation by punching Meenah in the face, and somehow leaps all the way up through the top window. Roxy absconds from the exiles yet again to the door of the lab, where a ladder appears. They climb up the ladder, revealing to live in the future post-scratch Earth.
Roxy prepares to fight drones that have approached her house. The drones, however, set the town on fire and Roxy flees. They run around the city without a particular direction, finding Carapicians who were scattered in the drone attack. Dirk's AR tells them to head back to her house and get ready to play the game.
While Roxy prepares to enter the Medium, Caliborn points out that nobody can escape the Miles. True enough, the recently-arrived Miles break into her house and stab them in the stomach. The lamps on LOCAH confirm Roxy's death as her lantern goes out.
Their dream self is still sleepwalking in a dream bubble where Rose, Dave, and the trolls are talking to Aranea and Meenah. Dirk, who appears when his dream self is knocked out, manages to push them out of the Bubble and onward to Derse before he kisses her dead body and wakes them up. Roxy is reluctant to kiss Jane to revive her before Dirk boots them off and does it himself, where she then ride off to the Frog Temple in the Veil on his rocket board and wait in the time capsule. They pick up Jane and Roxy watches in amazement as Jake revives Dirk and she enters the game.
Half a year after entering the Medium, Roxy is no longer an alcoholic and is seen exploring her planet along with Jane. There, she prepare a birthday party to Jane that goes wrong after some “teen drama”. After Jane leaves she then turn to GCAT and asks him if he will behave. He warps Roxy above Derse in response to this, and the Condesce is seen standing over them, who was knocked out from the fall.
In her dreams, Roxy is contacted by Calliope, who is typing in morse code. After a while, Roxy looks out her window to see two things: A crack in the void caused by Lord English destroying a dream bubble, and Twinkly Herbert. "Herbert" is quickly revealed to be Calliope in disguise. After explaining that Caliborn plans to destroy her soul, she lead Roxy to a safe location where she will be able to speak freely. Calliope, disguised as her trollsona, warns them a big battle will begin the next day and how the kids can ascend to god tier, only to be interrupted by Rose's arrival. Concerned that the presence of a Hero of Light will attract English, Calliope wakes them up with her anti-sleeping majyyk dust.
Roxy then wakes up in a Derse Holding Cell, where she find a sparkly confidential file from the Condesce detailing an unknown task Roxy deems stupid and impossible. They are then left a ring by the Courtyard Droll by order of the Condesce, which she use to render themself invisible and escape. They attempt to contact her friends, who all are too distracted to answer. Later, Jane and Jake arrive in Trickster Mode, quickly finding Roxy despite her invisibility and convert them. The three tricksters head off to Dirk's planet where Roxy tries to convince him to 
with them. After Arquiusprite tells Dirk to go for it, she commence to kiss.
After some Trickster shenanigans, the four finally snap out of it and reluctantly drag themselves to her quest beds. Their pestering is cut short when the Condesce uses her powers to explode Derse, causing Dirk and Roxy to ascend to god tier. Dirk then lunges at the Condesce, and fails in his attack after being teleported away by a mind-controlled Jade, who then drags Roxy to the Condesce.
Pre-retcon
Roxy gets put back in a Derse Jail where she is instructed to make a Matriorb for the Condesce by Jade, who explains that as a Rogue of Void, she can steal the nothingness out of an object, therefore letting them create an object out of nothing. Because these skills have not been developed, she make a perfectly generic object instead of the Matriorb. They are later seen to have made a pyramid fort out of generic objects which she was inside of so as to concentrate, as well as a few pumpkins. John appears in her jail cell, having been sent to find them by his future self. John explains to them a bit about paradox clones and her own orgins. After Roxy mentions Calliope and the fact that she is a ghost, John suggests using his ring to bring them back to life, saying he'll get it to them eventually. John then leaves and Roxy tries to materialize the Matriorb again, but instead creates a combination of a perfectly generic object and a Matriorb.
After Aranea's healing of Jake causes a massive explosion on Derse, Roxy is prompted to escape her cell. They witnesses the scuffle between Jane, Jade and Aranea as Jade switches Derse's place in the incipisphere with LOFAF's. Later, Roxy questions Aranea's reasons for using the Ring of Life and Aranea proceeds to put them to sleep. When Rose reaches the scene, Brain Ghost Dirk asks them to “GET [ROXY] THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!” and Rose takes them to a safe distance.
Roxy later wakes up, only to find that a massive battle between everyone on LOFAF is taking place. They witness Rose being fatally stabbed by the Condesce's trident, but manages to fly over and save her from being incinerated by the Condesce's psiioniics using some form of Void powers to make her intangible or something similar. Roxy and Rose reappear in the aftermath, only to find that almost nothing remains. Roxy takes a dying Rose to LOPAN, unknowingly being followed by John. Coming to rest on the planet's surface, John approaches Roxy in time for Rose to say her last words. Rose directs the sentiments about her mother towards Roxy, and then dies a Heroic death.
As John tries to comfort Roxy, he informs them of the ambiguous fate of Dirk Strider, and suggests using his power to undo all the damage thus far. However Roxy refuses, believing this to be a doomed timeline, and argues that she should just resign to her fate and rejoin with her friends and loved ones in the afterlife. They are soon distracted when a wounded Terezi crashes onto the planet, walks over to John, headbutts him and demands he change things back to the way she was. While John and Terezi talk, Roxy gazes at a statue of Nix and interrupts the conversation to ask John if he had ever seen his denizen. The two of them ultimately agree to see her respective denizens, in an attempt to undo the damage made.
Canon limbo
Post-retcon
The Roxy from the new timeline saved Rose by taking her place in a fatal forking from a mind-controlled Jane, dying a heroic death and later being replaced by her post-retcon version.
After arriving into the Victory platform where everyone else is, Roxy quickly flies over to Rose, and talks to her and Kanaya, and then to Dave. When Vriska allows everyone to choose teams to deal with the threats, Roxy and Rose volunteer to take on the Condesce, and John joins them as well.
Roxy's victory dance after creating the Matriorb.
They travel into the Furthest Ring and locates Calliope with her powers, bringing Calliope back with the Ring of Life. They introduce everyone to Calliope and talks to them in private, and then manages to, at long last, successfully create a Matriorb. They give it to Kanaya and then takes her back to the victory platform, who joins Roxy's team.
Roxy retrieved Bro's sword, as Rose became part of a sprite and “why let a cool sword go to waste??”. Along with her team, Roxy fights the Condesce on Derse. She eventually overpowers the kids, however Roxy is able to stealth impale her, ending the fight. Their universe is created, and in Earth C Roxy rules the Carapacian kingdom with Calliope, Rose and Kanaya.Caliborn's Masterpiece
Years in the future but not many Roxy and the kids finally confront Caliborn after he gets his reward. The beta kids are sucked into his Juju, but after a harsh fight she succeed trapping Caliborn into Lil Cal. Roxy uses her powers to hide Cal into the Furthest Ring, not knowing this fulfilled the loop for Lord English's existence.
Personality and Traits
Roxy seems to be more casual and fun-loving than Rose. Roxy is also more sociable and open to interactions with friends. They do not shy away from cursing, and use sexual terms often. Roxy is very sneaky, a trait which she and Rose share. The presence of these traits may or may not be a result of her frequent inebriation pre-session. They also seem to share Rose's interest in wizards, although she like things that are more lighthearted. This interest reflects upon her pre-scratch self's love of wizards, suggesting that it was genuine, rather than an ironic mockery as Rose had believed. Their preferred method of travel is to use Fenestrated Planes that lie around her home as interdimensional shortcuts through rooms.
Roxy loves cats, having adopted Jaspers as a pet when she was brought to them through weird plot shit; when he was killed due to an accident involving an unabridged copy of Colonel Sassacre's Daunting Text of Magical Frivolity and Practical Japery, Roxy was very upset. As with her interest in Wizards, this implies that Rose's Mom may have been genuinely sad over Jaspers' death.
Roxy is a deeply caring individual, who always has her friends' best interests at heart. This kindness extends to strangers and non-humans, as shown through her appearifying Pumpkins to feed the hungry Carapicians around her house. Roxy is a very good listener, and often helps her friends work through internal (and external) issues she is struggling with. They will go to great lengths to protect her friends—sometimes to an extent that ends up inflicting more harm than good, such as when she gave Jane a fake Sburb file set to explode. Nonetheless, she rise to the role of leader in her session, though “not in name or in spirit or in function”; rather, she was “more of an emotional leader, who would selflessly try to hold everyone together.” Roxy's friends hold them in high regard, especially Dirk, who remarks that “If that isn't a leader, [he doesn't] know what is.”
Roxy appears to be a capable hacker, having pirated a copy of the Sburb Alpha directly from Betty Crocker's databases. However, this may be facetious; the Batterwitch presumably wanted them to play the game and accordingly left the files completely unsecured, a fact which does not escape Roxy's notice: “was like shit yes i ALL KINDS of know how to use my web browser to download serveral files.”
Roxy is a major fan of video games, considering the collection of pink consoles in the corner of her room.
Being a Rogue with an Appearifier, Roxy has a penchant for minor acts of thievery. They are responsible for the mysterious disappearance of several of Jake and Jane's pumpkins, although it has been revealed that she had another motive for taking the pumpkins, which makes them “bascially robin hood”. The first non-gourd item she took, Jake's diary, she appearified without even expecting it to work, and felt immensely guilty afterwards.
Relationships
Post-Scratch Kids
Roxy and Dirk are very close, though her friendship has often been strained. Roxy had a considerable crush on Dirk, and in the Derse crypts, she discuss the depths of her remorse of how she treated Dirk—pre-session and while under the Trickster Juju—with Jane and Jake, knowing that her constant advances on him were “pissing him off or messing with his head” and that it “wasnt what he wanted to hear from a friend”. They admit to loving Dirk, but lament the experience of being in love altogether, telling Jake he “aint missin much”. Though Roxy fears Dirk is disappointed in them, nothing could be further from the truth, as Dirk considers Roxy to be “the most amazing person [he] ever knew.” They have always mutually protected and cared for eachother—prior to, during, and after the session—and hold one another in the highest regards. It is funny that Roxy often fantasized about having kids with Dirk, for those kids do indeed exist, in the forms of Rose and Dave—though she wasn't quite conceived in the method Roxy had imagined.
Roxy and Jake are close as well, having a genuine feelings jam post-Trickster Mode in her respective crypts. Prior to playing, Roxy had fleeting romantic interest in Jake, but never acted on these thoughts for the sake of respecting Jane's feelings. They talk at-length with Jake about many things, mostly concerning romance, as Jake feels that Roxy is the only one he can come to about such topics, especially post-Trickster. Roxy affectionately refers to him as “j”, and are comfortable joking around with him during her heartfelt conversation, despite the otherwise somber mood. On arrival to the new timeline, Roxy is elated to see Jake again.
Roxy and Jane are BFFSIES 4EVERZ, although her relationship had been made difficult by Jane's doubts about Roxy's theories on the Batterwitch. After Jane resolves to be less skeptical, she promises to start taking Roxy at her word, which improves her relationship.
Calliope
Trickster Roxy, as drawn by Calliope.
Roxy has exhibited a substantial affection towards Calliope, considering them to be so important that she planned to use the Ring of Life to revive them for a long time after Calliope's death. It is suggested that Roxy had some sort of meaningful moment with Calliope, left ambiguous as whatever she do occurs during a zoom-out to the area in which Jade's house and the Forge reside. In the "post-canon" Snapchat content, she is shown to be the rulers of the Carapace Kingdom, along with Rose and Kanaya, and are consistently shown together. They trick-or-treat together along with Jane and Jade, and are also shown holding hands and embracing. In one of the Snapchat updates posted since the credits, Calliope and Roxy appear to be eating together at a restaurant while she exchange Snaps with Jane.
Roxy's Mom
They, like Rose, appeared to maintain a passive-aggressive feud with her mother. Their mother (post-scratch Rose) stocked the cabinets with alcohol, yet Roxy has stated that she doubt that her mother has had a single drop of alcohol in her life. (Evidenced by the line: “so why else is she puttin it there, it was like a passive aggrassive dare for me,”). However, it was revealed that Roxy's mother had been dead for years before the meteor bearing Roxy arrived on earth, and so she never really had the chance to know her.
Rose
Roxy's relationship with Rose appears to be very sibling-like, and after finally meeting, she quickly bond over her respective maternal figures, past-alcoholism and mutual alt-motherhood. They both find comfort in her similarities and clearly see her connection as means to connect and put aside her respective baggage towards her long-deceased mother-figures. Both of them, especially Roxy have been shown to be willing to put her life on the line for the other, through her respective alternate selves. Roxy is very pleased to discover Rose's great similarity to Dirk in terms of verbosity and demeanor, calling her a “girl dirk”.
Dave
Dave clearly sees Roxy as a potential maternal figure, something he never had when growing up. Roxy doesn't appear to mind Dave's odd Freudian slips and awkward outbursts, finding them hilarious and adorable. The two share a very similar sense of humor and appear to ramble in a very similar fashion, especially so when she interact. Rose finds her conversations to be absolutely fascinating. Roxy is very amused by Dave's psychobabble, reminding them greatly of Dirk.
John
It was hinted that John might have been a romantic interest. Mirroring her pre-scratch self's attraction to John's dad, she immediately make a note to mack on John upon meeting him, and Terezi declares that she display “P41NFULLY 3V1D3NT ROM4NT1C T3NS1ON”. They have compared him to Jake (who she is also known to have had romantic interest in) several times, and stated that it isn't fair that she was a baby or sleeping the first two times she met John. They are visibly very happy to see John returning to his planet after finishing the mission Terezi gave him, and hold his hand as she zap into the new timeline. John may feel similarly towards Roxy, describing them as nice, easy to talk to, and his interactions with them have made him feel like he's known Roxy for a very long time. He also refers to them as a "babe" twice in this flash, but corrects himself after the second time.
Kanaya
Their limited interactions show that she get along. Kanaya shows interest in Roxy's wizard stories, as well as Roxy's mom's completed Complacency of the Learned books. Upon meeting them for the first time, Kanaya compliments Roxy by saying she finds Roxy “Aesthetically Appealing”, largely due to her great physical similarity to Rose. Roxy later assists Kanaya by restoring her long-destroyed Matriorb through use of her Void powers, a gesture Kanaya is overwhelmed and touched by. Roxy approves of her relationship with Rose.
Others
Roxy has an apparent attraction to Jane's Dad, which likely relates to her pre-scratch self having had a romantic interest in John's dad before both were killed in the pre-scratch session.
They had a good relationship with her previous sprite until “poor, sweet, dear, precious” fefetasploding. Roxy seemed to like her talkative personality and shipping habits.
Roxy considers Aranea absolutely insufferable and unbelievably smug, During a long outburst of frustration towards the elder Serket, Aranea erroneously believe that Roxy is black-flirting with her.
Roxy finds Terezi to be very grumpy and very hilarious, similar to John's relationship with Karkat.
In her brief interactions during Roxy's imprisonment, Roxy appears to find Jade's attempts at appearing menacing very silly. Although her initial interactions were generally rocky (due to Jade's grimbark-ness), Roxy states that she and Jade were practically destined to be friends.
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Trivia
- They are confirmed to be, like her ecto-daughter, a natural blonde
. - Their bedroom has fenestrated walls where windows might be expected, a reference to Problem Sleuth.
- On January 18, 2012, the command "Roxy: Black Out" led to a page protesting the bill SOPA after an animation of them passing out. This was part of a widespread Internet protest.
- Their love for felines and tendency towards (flirt) roleplaying are reminiscent of Nepeta Leijon, and her interest in technology is reminiscent of Equius Zahhak, similarly to Dirk's connection to both characters. This is interesting, since these players were also players of Void and Heart, except the aspects assigned to the players' roles have been swapped in regard to sex.
- Based upon her birthday, aspect, and lunar sway, Roxy's Extended Zodiac sign is (True) Sagittarius, the Engineer, further referencing Equius.
- Roxy is the only post-scratch kid whose typing style does not include proper capitalization at the start of her sentences. This is in a contrast to Rose, the only pre-scratch kid whose style does.
- Their name, being a short form of the name "Roxanne", and her "Message in a Bottle" modus are in combination a reference to two hit singles from the band The Police. This also coincides with her drinking habit, as there is a popular drinking game that goes with the song "Roxanne". Roxy's habit of sleepwalking across the moon of Derse (among other locations) may be a reference to the song "Walking on the Moon", also by The Police.
- Their name is both Persian and Greek for "star", "bright", and "dawn", opposing her aspect, Void, which has to deal with the dark and nothingness.
- They are the only kid introduced with no monosyllabic first name.
- In response to a question on tumblr, Andrew stated Roxy's favorite games are EarthBound and Pikmin.
- Roxy's introduction page foreshadows her classpect. The phrases "ROGUISH DEMEANOR" and "fill this VOID in your life" reference her role as a Rogue of Void.
- The foreshadowing of her class can also be seen when she use hacking to get copies of Sburb Alpha, which she then distribute to her friends, since the powers of a Rogue are said to involve stealing things and then redistributing said stolen things to her team.
