Roxy

**Roxy Cotter** is a supporting character in Beacon Pines. She is the older sister of Rolo Cotter.

## Info

### Relatives

Rolo Cotter (*Younger brother*)
"Pa" (*Father*)

## Profile

### Appearance

#### Development

During development, in addition to her normal appearance, Roxy also possessed a design where she wore a pink dress with white flower patterns on it, her hair is untied and curled by hair rollers, and she's wearing platform shoes. According to the notes on this design in the Beacon Pines official Artbook, this is meant to be her attire for trying to fit in or for nights out with dates/friends.

#### Final Design

Roxy Cotter is the older sister to Rolo Cotter. Roxy looks similar to Rolo (since they're both ligers), sharing their orange/white fur covered bodies, striped tails and black-tipped ears with poofs of white fur coming out of it. She towers over him height-wise (initially), however, and is also much slimmer and has long, red hair with a ponytail,

She wears a light red t-shirt with white accents on the collar and rolled-up sleeves, and has a brown belt with a yellow buckle holding blue denim jeans. For footwear, she has dark red shoes and light gray socks with a red rings at the top (though this detail isn't present in her sprite, and is out of sight in her portraits).

### Personality

Roxy serves as an authority figure for Rolo and his friends, taking charge in serious situations and making sure her brother doesn't get into trouble and does his chores. She acts stern most of the time, though can be compassionate when the time calls for it, as seen when characters like Rolo and Luka get upset.

### Background

Prior to the events of the game, her family's farm was one of the most heavily impacted by the Foul Harvest. Even after Perennial Harvest performed their deep scrub of the town, a lot of what they dug up was either rotten or small in size. This had caused her and her family to redouble their efforts, trying to make up for their misfortunate with more work.

Her younger brother, Rolo, often gets into trouble. This has caused her to also get reprimanded by her parents due to being the one watching over him, and has made her less tolerant towards his antics.

## Story

### Chapter 2: Welcome to Beacon Pines

While on his way to the abandoned Valentine warehouse, Luka runs into Roxy, who asks him if he had seen her brother recently, since he had left before breakfast. Luka lies, and when Roxy replied skeptically, Rolo catches up to Luka, revealing the fib. He also, whilst warning Luka about her sister and unaware of her presence, insults her repeatedly, though Luka’s warnings eventually make him realize she’s right around the corner.

The boy approaches Roxy, who brings up how he didn’t eat his breakfast and didn’t do his morning chores. Rolo expresses how tired he is digging up carrots when they’re always either rotten or miniscule, though Roxy argues that this makes it even more important to put in the work. Her brother then tries to leave, which angers her further. She then stipulates that he can either go home himself, or she can haul him there, and starts to approach him whilst cracking her knuckles.

### If “Change” Was Chosen at “Rendezvous with Roxy”

Trying to reason with Roxy, Luka brings up how it’s the first day of summer, and that Rolo can leave the chores for tomorrow, This ultimately fails, though, and the Cotter siblings head home.

### If “Shit” Was Chosen at “Rendezvous with Roxy”

Luka runs up to Roxy and kicks her, which lets the boys book it to the warehouse. Roxy is stunned that Luka did this, and shouts after the boys that they’ll have to come home eventually.

The next day, in Chapter 3: Finding A Friend, Roxy goes to Luka’s house to look for Rolo, as he hadn’t returned home yet. She asks him twice if he was there, and after denying it both times, she explains the situation, and wants to know where he saw last Rolo. Answering Weed Wood, she then requests any other information that can help her find him. Luka’s unable to provide any, and so she heads out to inform people to check the woods, but not before telling him to check the Library.

She later meets up with Zariel, Lumi and Fitz outside of the Early Bean Café. While Lumi’s hesitant to believe Rolo’s disappearance is cause for much alarm due to his propensity for getting into trouble, Roxy remarks that this time feels different. They agree that, while her and Fitz checks the woods (something the adults aren’t doing), Zariel and Lumi will make posters to help with the search. After she agrees to come back later, Roxy and Fitz depart for Fitz’s house, as her father might have a map of Weep Wood.

### If “Strange” Was Chosen at “Hazardous Hectoring”

While spending their entire day exploring the woods, Roxy and Fitz witness a kid with gray hair run past them, looking panicked. Soon after, she is also shocked to see Luka in Weep Wood and demands an explanation for both him being there as well as what happened with Beck. The boy gives a vague answer, and Roxy becomes the most furious Luka had ever seen her and tells him to start telling her the full truth.

Breaking down into tears, he tells her every that had happened at the warehouse, and blames himself for Rolo’s disappearance, and how he may never come back. While still angry, Roxy softens and tells him that it wasn’t his fault, promising him that Rolo would be okay, and that Luka should go home. He refuses, and despite her warnings of the danger he would be in, wishes to help, not being able to sit idly by while his friend is in danger. She eventually tells him to stay in the treehouse[[ he and Rolo built in case he comes by, and thanks him for telling her the truth.

After Luka leaves, Fitz questions if they can really believe his story. Roxy points out that they don’t have any other option, and muses that things have been strange recently during the lead up to Perennial Harvest’s Festival. As her friend comments that her father had been acting weird recently, Roxy wonders why it was cold in the woods.

### If “Rumble” Was Chosen at “Whether Weather”

Roxy meets Luka whilst the boy was travelling to the Perennial Harvest Festival to find Rolo, and (reluctantly) informs him of a riddle her brother wrote that would disclose where he is if he could solve it. Luka was hesitant to participate, though is urged by Roxy to resolve what happened between the two of them, since while she finds Rolo annoying, she hates the idea that he could lose his best friend.

She can later be found talking with Fitz at the festival, where she ridicules the event due to the town still being in an unfortunate state, calling it “corporate pandering”. Fitz agrees with each of the points she makes, though still wants to visit the lemonade stand due to it looking delicious, which Roxy is let down by.

### If “Hard” Was Chosen at “A Beginner’s Guide to Hostile Interrogation”

During William Kerr's speech, Roxy is seen in the crowd and gets trapped in ice along with the rest of the residents of Beacon Pines (a fate that most likely befalls her whenever the town becomes frozen in other endings).

### If “Hum” Was Chosen at “Fire and Ice”

Roxy is seen in the crowd when Sharper Valentine makes his return.

### If “Malice” Was Chosen at “Windows to The Soul”

Rolo returns home, and after a lengthy confession, manages to get Roxy and Fitz to help with a plan to infiltrate Perennial Harvest HQ. Whilst Rolo and Beck rescue Nelly, her and Fitz would also break in and draw attention away from them, starting a chase with Kerr and The Clipboards tailing them. They eventually get caught in a dead end, though in a similar manner to what Luka did to her earlier in the story, she kicks an approaching Kerr in the shins and manages to slip past their pursuers, continuing what Rolo calls “a wild goose chase”.

The two eventually lose their pursuers when they find Rolo, Beck and Nelly escaping, and so the two exit the building. She is later found in the crowd of Sharper’s speech and witnesses his ultimate fate.

### If “Change” Was Chosen at “The Vile Vial”

During the space between Chapter 8 and Epilogue, she gains an internship at Nelly and Ilona's shop, which greatly enjoys it. The summer following the downfall of Perennial Harvest, Luka and Roxy talk for the final time in the game. She brings up Rolo and Luka expanding the treehouse, as well as her internship and expresses her hope that she’ll be able to attend the School of Agriculture north of the State. She also brings up her worry of leaving Rolo, though his growth as a person (not referring to his consumption of Tempus Liquamine) lessens it. While she would never say it to his face, Roxy tells Luka that she’s really proud of her brother, to which he replies that Rolo likely feels the same, but is too proud to inform her.

## Trivia

* Despite her sprites depicting her with brown tips at the end of her ears (similar to Rolo's black tips), her portraits and concept art lack this feature.

## References

2. ↑ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2141050/Beacon\_Pines\_Artbook/ Beacon Pines Artbook, page 38
3. ↑ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2103234672/beacon-pines Beacon Pines Artbook, page 141