Roxanne Vandelay

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"*...I think you know yourself, that you are special. Making the most of what was handed to you, and making a difference. I think that's the kind of attitude we need here right now.*"
―Roxanne Vandelay

**Roxanne Vandelay** is the former CEO of Vandelay Technologies in Hi-Fi Rush. She "retired" from her poistion, allowing her son, Kale Vandelay, to take over the company.

## Appearance

Roxanne is a slim, older woman with tanned-skin and light hair. Her hair is styled in a sharp bob cut, and she also has green eyes as well as a small pair of glasses on the bridge of her nose. She appears to have a robotic implant on her collarbone and markings on the base of her neck. Their purpose and whether they were there before Spectra is unknown.

Her outfit consists of a blue and white dress with sharp shoulder pads and long sleeves, along with gold, hoop earrings. There's a gold and brown belt around her waist, and the right half of her dress is longer than the left. Roxanne also wears black tights, and black and gold heels.

## Personality

Roxanne is a kind and generous individual, using her company to help make the world a better place. Her presence in the game is minimal, so what she was like behind closed doors isn't really known; but her character profile states her separation of her work life and family life led to her neglecting the latter despite her philantrophic acts. However, everyone talks about her positively, from Macaron to Peppermint to the older staff robots. The only character to talk about Roxanne in any notable, negative way is Kale.

## History

Originally named “Vandelay Solutions”, Roxanne founded Vandelay Technologies, designing chips and robotics in her garage and selling them out of her car. Within 3 years, the company became the world's largest suppliers of robotics. Through her brilliant designs, Roxanne managed to expand the company and solved a global energy crisis, as well as aiding in the cleanup of ecological disasters, one of which Korsica bared witness to. She retired in recent times under mysterious circumstances.

Roxanne has two children: Kale Vandelay and Peppermint. According to Macaron, Roxanne was very adamant on keeping her work life and personal life separate. This was probably to keep her family from having to experience invasions of their privacy due to fame. Kale is more than a decade older than Peppermint, and it is unknown why this is. At some point, Peppermint suffered an accident and lost her right leg, and Roxanne used her knowledge of robotics to build an advanced prosthetic for her daughter.

Kale states that he was “never mommy's favorite” and Peppermint ran away a few years before the events of the game, so it's presumed that things may have been rocky at home. Roxanne probably always had the best intentions for her children, as she encouraged Peppermint to do things her own way, but both interpreted them in a negative way.

Unknown to the public and other Vandelay employees, Roxanne never retired; instead, Kale installed SPECTRA on her implants, using the mind control to stage a passing of the torch. Though the older employees still looked up to her, Mimosa's propaganda set out to diminish her achievements, propping up Kale as the true genius of the family.

## Trivia

* Roxanne has artificial indents on her skin similar to Roquefort, connecting to an apparatus on her clavicle. Though this indicates she has implants like other characters, it's never specified what they are for.
* By using Photo Mode on the reconstruction of her garage workshop, one can see that one of her first robotic units was O5-KAR.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Hi-Fi-RUSH/