Roxy Cortez

**Roxy Juanita Cortez** is a main character on the series, The Special. Roxy is the second-born child of the late Justin Cortez, the younger sister of Roman Cortez, the older fraternal twin sister/best friend of Rafael Cortez, the granddaughter of Marie Cortez, the teammate of Lino Freeman, Kiara Tarron, Christian Garcia and Theo Caine.

After the death of her father, Roxy discovered she is a psychic, a human born with a connection to The Nexus, granting her access to supernatural abilities. Roxy is an extraordinarily powerful psychic who's psychic abilities are consistently growing. After the death of her father, her abilities awakened not only for her but also her brother, Rafael. The two discovered a group of other supernaturals and joined them to become member of the Guardians, in order to find the lost Stone of Dreams.

## Biography

### Motherless Childhood

Roxy Juanita Cortez was born in 2006 to an unnamed woman and Justin Cortez, alongside her younger twin brother, Rafael. She has an older brother who was born three years before her, Roman. Her mother walked out on her and her family before she could even walk. She grew up knowing she was of African-American, Brazilian and Valencian descent and became fluent in Spanish and Portuguese as a result.

## Physical Description

Roxy is a beautiful brown-skinned young woman with short stature. She has thick, long black and white braided dreadlocks that flow down to her waist. She has expressive bright green eyes that are usually accentuated with silver tinted eye shadow. Her facial features are complemented with a warm smile, and defined by her dimples. Roxy is the shortest among the Guardians, her friends and peers, standing at 5'2" tall. She frequently wears healed boots to accentuate her heights or outfits. Her attire consists of expensive taste in both jewelry and clothes, dominated by crop-tops with purple flannel with ripped jeans, or short skirts. For footwear, she mostly wears boots with heels or knee-high boots. She has slightly long white-painted nails. In most of her outfits, Roxy is seen wearing some shade of purple, whether it be her jacket or purple plaid. The clothing she wears is usually accompanied by her signature purple leather jacket, which she says was made to be "one of a kind". She has a confident personality that is reflected in her stance.

Her psychic energy is lilac purple, with a shade of white.

## Personality

Roxy is said to be a very confident and bold individual.

## Powers, Abilities & Weaknesses

### Powers

* **Psychic Physiology**: As the granddaughter of Marie Cortez, Roxy possesses a connection to The Nexus, a connection passed down throughout her family, granting her a variety of supernatural abilities. Because of the traumatic death of her father, Roxy accidentally sent out a psychic blast wave, which at the point of extreme emotional duress, awakened her psychic abilities.
	+ **Mental Manipulation**: Roxy inherited her grandmother's potential for the connection to the Nexus, granting her mental abilities. She is able to enter the minds of others to experience their thoughts and actions, "reading" their minds. When entering a person's mind, she enters a metaphysical plane of existence, the Mindscape, where she describes the experience as a "place where she has ultimate power", allowing her to make a suggestion and someone else's thought or memory would float away.
		- **Mind Influence**: When Roxy enters a person's mind, she is able to influence them into doing what she wants. She's stated that this ability isn't mind control, just influence since she can't make someone do something that they wouldn't be open to doing anyway.
		- **Memory Sharing**: When Roxy touched Lino's shoulder she accidentally shared her thoughts, which were also memories of the months she had experienced, since her father died. These images were distorted around the edges, yet clear in their intent and succeeded in bringing Lino up-to-date in a matter of seconds. This ability seems exclusive to Roxy, as her grandmother and brother has not yet exhibited this ability.
	+ **Psychic Intuition**: Roxy could sense when her brother or grandmother was within a certain proximity, as she can feel her through their shared telepathic and telekinetic abilities.
	+ **Psychic Communication**: Roxy and Rafael are able to communicate telepathically and sense each other, due to their sibling-hood as twins. When she was fourteen, Roxy unintentionally used this ability to release a psychic scream that alerted a weakened Justin.
* **Telekinesis**: Roxy is able to move objects around her with her mind, allowing her to push Rafael back with a telekinetic shove, while practicing their powers.