Rhodo Lax

* 28 years old
* 43 years old
* 12 years old

**Rhodo Lax** was a male Human member of the Dawns, a group of privateers and freedom fighters who fought against tyranny and corruption throughout the Cassiopeia Galaxy. Originally from the planet Cassiopeia Prime, Lax later lived on the Solitude Plaza space station for a considerable amount of time, alongside the rest of his team and friends. Lax was the husband of Asher Kardia, a fellow member of the Dawns. He was the adopted son of Bonito and Jyothi Lax and thus the adoptive sibling of Ferru, Gineuma, and Dendron Lax.

Later in life, Rhodo and Asher were fathers to four children: Heath, Rosemary, Elliott, and Erica Lax.

## Biography

### Early Life

In 5929 ASA, Rhodo Lax was born on the planet Cassiopeia Prime, which was the shining urban capital of the United Cassiopeian Republic. He was the biological son of a chef, but this was the extent of Lax's knowledge on his biological parents. He was adopted by a Selachian and Melliferan couple, Bonito and Jyothi Lax, as an infant. He was the second youngest of four adopted children, with his older brother Ferru being five years older, his older sister Gineuma being three years older, and his younger brother Dendron being four years younger.

The Lax family lived and grew up in District CCVI, a section of the planet located a few layers below the surface. While his neighborhood was far from the wealthiest, Lax made many friends around his area and grew to have a strong sense of community, a feeling shared by his parents, who ran a traveling food shuttle that would make runs around the other nearby districts. It was his family's food shuttle service that sparked Rhodo's love for cooking.

#### Getting His Pink Hair

As a child, Rhodo attended a public school in District CCVI, the same district he lived in. There, he met Ortylia Crimisa, an Aetherian girl whose parents wanted to cut costs by having her attend a school in the lower levels of the planet.

One day during recess, Ortylia accidentally used a magic spell to alter Rhodo's naturally brown hair into a vibrant pink. Although startled at first, Rhodo came to like his new hair color over his natural brunet hair. The spell wore off at the end of the day—much to the relief of his parents—but this eventually encouraged Rhodo to dye his hair pink himself.

### Meeting the Dawns

In 5949 ASA, 20-year-old Rhodo was in the middle of hefty food delivery, working for a diner in the upper levels of Cassiopeia Prime at the time. While delivering a good number of boxes by foot, the bounty hunter Perin Zistah bumped into Lax while on the run. Boxes of food fell over Zistah and rendered him immobile just long enough for four women from a small group called the Dawns to apprehend the bounty hunter.

With this unexpectedly exciting experience, Rhodo introduced himself to the Dawns, and the Dawns introduced themselves to him: Annesidora, Moon, Sirius, and Lilian Larimarias. The Dawns informed Rhodo of Perin Zistah's notorious bounty hunting background and explained that Zistah was hired to assassinate a Republic senator.

While their meeting was brief, the Dawns thanked Rhodo for inadvertently stopping Zistah and compensated him for the food lost in the encounter with the bounty hunter. Rhodo would not forget this encounter with the Dawns, and neither would they.

### Adventures with the Dawns

As a member of the Dawns, Rhodo went on many different adventures. These took the form of anything from small odd jobs to fighting for the freedoms of people in need, all around the galaxy.

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## Personality and Traits

### Physical Appearance

Rhodo was a Human man with slightly tanned skin, maroon-colored eyes, and brown hair. He was relatively taller than a good number of his other Human and humanoid colleagues, standing at 6 feet for most of his adulthood.

After a fun incident with magic at age 12, Rhodo kept his hair dyed pink for the majority of his life.

### Personality

Many considered Rhodo, throughout all of his life, to be a rather relaxed person. He loved the nice little things about life and would always to take things easy, never wanting to stress himself out too much. That being said, Rhodo enjoyed spending his free time doing things like playing video games or cooking. Rhodo had a deep passion for cooking that he maintained ever since childhood. He eventually grew to become a rather skilled home cook, sharing his skills with his friends and his partner Asher.

Despite his easygoing nature, Rhodo was very much capable of taking a situation seriously. He knew when an enemy was a threat and when they needed to go down. He was sentimental, remembering past teammates and friends throughout his life very fondly. And like all of the Dawns, he had a selflessness to him, willing to help anyone in need without asking for anything in return—although a reward was icing on the cake for him. He often enjoyed celebrating any major accomplishments and victories made by the Dawns with his cooking, as he believed any occasion that could lift up the team's spirit was worthy of celebrating with food.

## Skills and Abilities

While a great cook through and through, Rhodo was also well-equipped to handle himself in hand-to-hand combat. When paired up with the Dremirians of the team, like Ann and Moon, Rhodo often used the crystal weapons crafted by them via magic to great degree.

## Trivia

* Rhodo was originally named Rhodochrosite as a former *Steven Universe* fan character. As rhodochrosite is a pink-colored mineral, this quality was translated into his *Conjuring Cosmos* character as dyed, vivid pink hair and throughout his entire color scheme.
	+ His siblings' names were derived from *Rhododendron ferrugineum*, also called alpenrose, which is a species of flowering, woody rhododendron plants.