Crosby

***"Pleasure to meet you guys. Name's Crosby. If I could have a moment of your time, I'd like to take your things now."***

- Crosby, before attempting to mug the Hunters.

## Development

### Theme(s)

"Magic Shop""Jazzy Dreams"

**Crosby** is a boss and later a party member in *Sanguine Melancholia*. He is a Moonlight-Powered Automated Individual (M.P.A.I.) designed by Carter Alvarez to be used in a casino that was being built beyond the Precincts, where he would serve as a tourist attraction for poker players to challenge.

After the casino's destruction, he is left wandering with the sole directive of acquiring money. This leads him to try and mug the party.

*This article is about the version of the character that appears exclusively in Sanguine Melancholia. For his Better Days counterpart, see Winslow.*

## In-Game

Crosby is first encountered in Chapter Two, shortly before the party faces their first Archdemon. He tries to mug the Hunters of the Maelstrom which leads to a fight. Just as he's about to be defeated, he uses a battery pack to cheat and restore his strength, which Locke calls him out for. In doing so, he activates Crosby's old anti-cheating mechanism, putting him in standby mode for the next twenty minutes. The party leaves him behind.

He later shocks Adrien and Locke by showing up just before they fight Alvarez, but he's just as surprised to see them as they are to see him. Revealing that his reason for being there is actually to kill Carter, he asks Adrien and Locke to bury the hatchet and help him out. The two reluctantly agree, and fight Carter with Crosby's help. Crosby leaves shortly afterwards.

He meets the party once again in a desert after Locke is kidnapped, where he once again tries to mug the Hunters. Adrien points out that his eyes are blue during this confrontation, causing Crosby to confess that his eyes reflect his current emotional state, which in turn reveals that he has no real desire to steal from anyone. His greed is the result of a coding error by Alvarez, which is why he was so determined to kill his creator when they met earlier. He is convinced to join the party in hopes of finding a way to change who he truly is.

Crosby is ultimately the reason that the party is finally able to defeat Barton Price, risking his life in order to attack him. Though his attack doesn't land, Price's gun runs out of ammo, giving the Hunters time to jump in and defeat Price and leave him defenseless so that Sixteen can finish him off.

He succesfully escapes Abilsin's cathedral at the end of the game, and is still alive.

## Significant Relationships

### Carter Alvarez

> "*If you don't even realize why I'm here, then you don't deserve to know. I hope that Hell is real, so that you can spend an eternity in it wondering why I killed you without ever getting an answer."*
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While Carter recalls Crosby as being nothing more than a project that earned him a quick buck, Crosby harbors an extreme level of hatred towards Carter for the way he was programmed, leaving him capable of empathy but not emotional growth. This hatred leads him to assist Adrien and Locke in killing his creator, and Crosby takes it a step further by emulating the act of spitting on his corpse after he dies.

### Jeane Cairy

> *"...ah, what the hell. Guess I can try out this 'friend' thing, if you really want to."*
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> — Crosby to Jeane
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Crosby is known to flirt with Jeane often, usually referring to her as Violet due to the colour of her hair, though it's unknown whether this is due to his poor programming or not. Jeane is initially irritated by Crosby, often threatening to damage or destroy him when he pokes fun or makes threats at other members of the team. The two slowly warm up to each other, which leads to Crosby risking his life by rushing Price during his last stand, being shot four times in the process. This marks his first selfless act that defies his own programming, and proves that he is capable of change after all. Jeane warmly smiles at Crosby after this, saying that he "might've just saved [her] life" and calling him "a good friend." Crosby decides that he'll accept her friendship, straying even further from his programming.

## Voice Lines

Battle start:

* *"Let's make some money!"*
* *"I'll make it quick."* (two variants)

When attacking:

* *"Did that hurt?"*
* *"You'll feel **that** in the morning.”*

Leveling up:

* *"Is anyone surprised?"*
* *"What do you think, Violet?"*
* *"I've outdone myself!"*

When killed in battle:

* *"What a miserable end..."*

## Quotes

*"Counterpoint: I'm right, and you're wrong."*

— Crosby

## Trivia

* The developer's brother served as Crosby's voice actor, and was given the instruction to "sound as obnoxious as possible."
	+ One of Crosby's level-up voice lines *("What do you think, Violet?")* has an unused variant in the game files, labeled **cmbt\_crosby\_victory04**. It was left in intentionally by the developer for people to find while looking through the files, and is a recording of Mizz Akuji, Crosby's voice actor (and the developer's brother) saying the line while doing a Johnny Bravo impression before laughing and saying "let's just hear that, though." According to the developer, Mizz recorded this take completely out of the blue to surprise her, and she decided to leave it in the files as an easter egg.
* Crosby is one of three non-human party members in the game, the other two being Valerie and Iago.
* Crosby is the only unit in the game that can use Abilities with the Greed element by default. The only other units who can use Greed Abilities are the rest of the player's potential party members, who can learn the Cash In ability from Eivad's Ability Shop.
* Crosby's eyes do turn blue just before the first battle with him starts, hinting at his reluctance and leading Adrien to figure out his secret later on.