Roxie Ruthless

Name: Roxanne Hartford, aka Roxie Ruthless

Creature Type: Changeling

Seeming/Kith: Wizened Soldier

Court: Summer (Former Queen)

Description: Roxie came of age in Chicago the 1940's, fending for herself and fighting for respect. She earned a name and a place for herself in an organized gang despite her sex, her youth, and her stature, and gained a reputation for being exceptionally fierce in a fight - not a gangster's moll, but a gangster in her own right. Apparently that reputation carried too far - one dark night, she was captured to fight in the Swift King's army.

Escaping after (subjectively) a year or so, she found herself in the late 1990's. Roxie's always been resilient, however, and it didn't take her too long to adjust. After determining what had happened to her, she followed her Fetch to Orlando, FL, where she found the old woman dozing in a nursing home. With no hesitation and no mercy, Roxie stabbed the Fetch to death, taking back the bit of her soul that had been stolen from her and vanishing into the nothingness of dreams.

Roxie hates Fetches, considering them at least as complicit as the Fae in stealing lives from Changelings. The best and most sympathetic of them, she believes, are only as likeable as they are because they possess stolen scraps of a human soul - kill them, and the "human" part of them lives on in the person who should have had those characteristics all along. The worst of them are unstable serial killers at best. Per the truce, she grudgingly accepts the right of fellow Changelings to decide the fate of their own Fetches, but privately she chafes, feeling that her Freehold-mates are denying their true potential by allowing these mockeries to walk around with pieces of their very being inside them. And in her time as Summer Queen, she's had to hunt down enough rogue Fetches to hold a very dim view of their ability to co-exist with humans and Changelings for a long period of time. She is the leader of the anti-Fetch movement within the Freehold.

Roxie was already a little person before her Durance; now, her Mask remains largely unchanged, but her Mien seems shrunken even further, her limbs attenuated until she resembles a twisted goblin out of folklore. She seems ok with this; although she prefers to act as an assassin, slipping in unseen to deliver the final blow, on the battlefield she's practically a ninja, dodging blows and throwing out knives too fast for the eye to see. In a Court that usually values size and physical strength, Roxie has made a name for herself on speed, agility, and sheer capacity for violence.

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