one final epilogue theory for the road

some facts:

• the only strider-lalonde not to achieve ‘ultimate self’ by the end of the epilogues is roxy
• candy is marked by the egbert-harleys being active [john deciding not to go back, jade pushing her relationship, jane starting the war, jake leaving jane] and the strider-lalondes being passive [dirk does what dirk does, roxy allows jane to become the type of dictator they fought against as a teen & spends their whole relationship with john being agreeable to a fault, dave lets jade push the direction of his life entirely, rose goes along with kanaya and revels in her narrative irrelevance]
• by contrast, meat is marked by the egbert-harleys being passive [john doing what rose tells him to, jade gets possessed, jane lets dirk handle everything, jake is a political tool whose personality ultimately gets physically overwritten] and the strider-lalondes being active [dirk does what dirk does, dave incites karkat’s campaign, rose’s pushing results in john’s decision to go back]
• except roxy. meat roxy has not gotten a moment of significant narrative agency. Yet
• roxy is explicitly dear to both dirk and alternate calliope for different reasons
• roxy and calliope presented the choice with clear ulterior motives that have yet to be revealed
• roxy is the only character dirk cannot see into the mind of at all, and roxy & calliope’s relationship to each other and to alt calliope has been shown entirely through passing remarks and is very, very under the radar
• with the death of john, roxy is the only person in the world of meat to have come from a different canon, meaning he is the only one in a story abt the value of narrative crossover and transformative work to have an actual narrative crossover
• roxy’s dealings with gender and the way they connect to their body in candy arguable constitute an exact opposite of the ultimate self - a complete comfort in who a person is, right now, without worrying abt what could be

conclusion:

• roxy lalonde is gonna fuck some shit UP