[ciswoman, she/her] Welcome to Aurora Bay, [ROXANNE āROXYā DEL ROSARIO]! I couldnāt help but notice you look an awful lot like [HAILEE STEINFELD]. You must be the[TWENTY-EIGHT] year old [COOK AT FOUR LEAF PUB]. Word is youāre [PASSIONATE] but can also be a bit [ANNOYING] and your favorite song is [SAVIOR COMPLEX BY PHOEBE BRIDGERS]. I also heard youāll be staying in [FISHERās COVE]. Iām sure youāll love it! **wc for Kalinaās step-sibling**
BASCIS:
Name: Roxanne del Rosario
Nicknames: Roxy, Ro, Rox, Ro Ro, Rosario
Age: 28
Faceclaim: Hailee Steinfeld
Gender: Ciswoman
Pronouns: She/her
FAMILY:
Father: Antonio del Rosario (deceased)
Mother: Cheyanne Slater
Step-Father: Michaƫl Slater
Step-sister: Kalina Slater-Horne
pet(s): Havana rabbit named Cookie
BIO:
Tw: cancer, parental death, depression, grief
Roxy grew up in a very loving home as an only child to a wonderful couple, Antonio and Cheyanne. Some of Roxyās earliest memories were laughing in the kitchen while she helped her mom clean vegetables for the dishes her father would make. Thatās where it seemed all their best memories were; in the kitchen cooking or in the dining room eating. It was something that brought her family close together, and Roxy often wondered why her father never became a chef.Ā
It didnāt take long for Roxy to be the one cooking herself. Her father had taught her everything she knew in the kitchen, and he loved teaching her about his culture through their love of food. With every Filipino dish she was taught, her father explained more about his culture over dinner, and those became her favorite nights. Of course, Roxy loved to experiment with different dishes and techniques, so those nights they had their Filipino dinners were special and far between.Ā
Life was good, but when Roxy was in middle school, Antonio was diagnosed with cancer. It was scary and hard on the family, emotionally and financially. With Antonio sick, Roxy took on making dinner as just a small way to help out. It was hard on her and she couldnāt bear the thought of losing her best friend. Antonio beat his battle of cancer, and he was doing well recovering so things were looking up for the family.Ā
High school was hard for Roxy. She made good grades so it wasnāt the academics that were difficult, it was difficult for her to make friends. She was a bit awkward and some thought she was too excitable, and she was poked fun at for wanting to be a chef, but Roxy would never stop being herself. She had dreams and ambitions. She wasnāt going to throw that away to fit in.Ā
In 10th grade, however, she made friends with a group of girls. One had invited her to sit with them at lunch and the rest was history. Some of those girls enjoyed playing video games, and although Roxy had never really played anything like that, they got her to try it. She was hooked. Roxy did odd jobs like cleaning houses in her neighborhood, dogsitting, and even babysitting so she could save up for her own PC. And when she finally had enough to buy one, she would play games throughout the night with her friends and even started making friends completely online.Ā
But the summer after finishing 11th grade, Roxy was told her father had cancer again. Except, heād been fighting it for much longer than she knew. It wasnāt until he was so sick he was in the hospital that she was told. It hurt her so deeply, but her father wanted to keep it a secret because he knew how much the first time upset her. This wasnāt like the first time though, this was much worse.Ā
Roxyās father got to watch her graduate but he passed away the summer after. She was lost and she felt like she lost her best friend. Roxy stopped cooking, didnāt go to college right away like sheād planned, and she couldnāt even get out of bed some mornings.Ā
It wasnāt that Cheyanne didnāt love Antonio, but she was doing exceptionally better than Roxy was. Sheād gone to therapy, she was working and thriving in life, while Roxy withered away, losing friends and hurting constantly. Roxy still gamed and she had plenty of friends on discord but real life friends were nonexistent now. Even those she played games with had slowly drifted away after moving off to college. She wasnāt sure what she could do to even help herself.
When Cheyanne started dating again, Roxy just became angry. But it was one night that Cheyanne was going to invite her new boyfriend and his daughter over for dinner when she asked Roxy to make one of her fatherās Filipino dishes for them. Instantly, Roxy felt tears fill her eyes. Because while Cheyanne was dating and it felt like she was replacing Roxyās father, Cheyanne still wanted to honor him the way they always honored him and his culture when they had special dinners.
Roxy agreed, made dinner for Cheyanneās boyfriend and daughter, and everything went well. Roxy was astonished by how close she felt to her father making that one dish, and she fell back in love with cooking. It was all she ever wanted to do. It helped her find some kind of closure with her fatherās death. In the meantime, she was trying to get out more and heal instead of hiding to wallow in her pain. It was after Cheyanne and Michael got married that Roxy really started to get to know Kalina. At first she was terrified to get to know her new step-sister, and at first it was a little bumpy. But it didnāt take long for them to become friends.Ā
Roxy and her mom moved to Aurora Bay with Kalina and Michael, and life has been much better. A year or so ago, Roxy got a job at Four Leaf Pub as a cook, where she tries to learn all she can about the restaurant business while sheās working and trying to save for culinary school. She hopes someday she can fulfill her dream of opening her own Filipino restaurant in town.
WANTED CONNECTIONS:
Friends
Co-workers (Four Leaf Pub)
Regulars at Four Leaf she's befriended
Online friends she used to game/still games with
Exes
Blind dates
People she can dogsit for (she's saving up for culinary school)
Houses she cleans regularly for extra cash (for culinary school lol)
I'd love to plot out more!
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