As far back as the Strix family history could be traced, every family member has been in the business of serving others. On the outside it sounds so noble, but it’s only noble in the eyes of the people their family is currently serving. This of course often boils down to whom has the most money to pay for their extraordinary skills in combat, stealth, reconnaissance, infiltration, assassination, and protection. Over the years the black of hair and blue of eyes family line has served many different people and had strict rules on every aspect of their lives, even as far as being told whom they would marry to bring forth the best skills within their genes. Roxana never got a clear answer on when it happened but at some point in their family history they ended up working for a special organization and even serving as members of its council. It was of course expected of Roxana, her older brother, and older sister to work for this organization as soon as possible.

Training began at the age of five with nothing but the best expected of Roxana and her siblings from their training to their school work. In the beginning the siblings always had each other’s backs, helping one another with their school work and putting in even extra training with one another with their busy schedule. It was necessary to make it, due to failure leading to an unpleasant punishment every time because nothing but the best was expected and allowed. The bonds were tested and eventually broken as Roxana’s older siblings started to come into their powers, eventually leaving her behind to be the disappointment as she had yet to come into her powers. Her training got stricter; those around her grew colder to the point that she was alone. She was given far more dangerous jobs to complete for “The Employers”; as Rox would start to call them, given she was deemed not worth to officially meet them.

It was not until one full moon night; at the age of fifteen, when Roxana’s powers activated after having received her punishment for letting her emotions get the better of her and ended the life of someone she had been tasked with protecting. Crystals overtook her home, covering everything and even large pillars of crystals broke from various parts of the home. By the time her power had completed covering her entire home, her hair had gone from black to light blonde. Since that day every day of a full moon her hair turns black and she is unable to use her powers at all. When she came into her powers her family was living in Romania at the time so she ended up going to St. Cadou, not even waiting for the recruiters to come get her and instead her family dropping her off given they had done the same for her older two siblings before. There she trained hard every day, learning every aspect of her power, her strength, and weakness ad of course handling her school life.

During her time at St. Cadou she didn’t really have to do much work for “The Employers” until she turned eighteen years old and instead of getting to start her 12th grade year there, she was transferred to Bellefonte Academy with a special job. There she was to look after and protect a select few of students, along with report back on them along with other information about the school. As it was her job, she did what she was told and “protected” those she was assigned to. During that time much happened that caused her to change ever so slightly from not really caring about others to sort of growing to care for them as time went on. Of course that didn’t change the fact she was still reporting on them and the school, but she did hesitate on certain orders she had been given.

Yet time went on, mutants were found out, people were not happy, certain humans and mutants made poor decisions, and in the end things ended up how they are now. Granted when Bellefonte was taken over, well Rox knew it was coming. Not that she could do anything to stop it and in a way some could say that it was her info that allowed the school to fall so quickly. Some could say that, but of course not just anyone could prove it. Not that it mattered. The world was the way it was now and Roxana already had a place among the Guardians with her family still working for “The Employers” who have their own goals of course and reasoning for supporting capturing mutants. Not that it matters to Rox, she just does as she is told and expected for her. For the most part; after all, her years at Bellefonte didn’t mean nothing to her.

CRYSTAL MANIPULATION
The power to create and control crystals on many different levels; it falls into a specific form of elemental manipulation of earth manipulation. Rox can control the crystals shape, sharpness, size, density, and color of the crystals; even making it glow in the dark. She can generate crystals from the left, right, or both hands. It takes two hands to manipulate existing crystals and to cover large object. Roxana has the ability to create crystal daggers in each hand ranging from 7 to 12 inches; of course she can make them smaller. With one hand she can make something as a little bit larger than her fist when it comes to in terms of circumference around the crystal. In terms of density she can make the crystal hollow on the inside, full of tiny crystals, or even layers of crystals within one another. With already existing crystals she can manipulate it as well, but it requires two hands and whatever changes she makes to existing crystals remains forever.

Crystal objects that she has created or are already in existence can be repaired by her, but it requires more energy than just creating a new one on her own. Changing how sharp, dull, or smooth a crystal object is only requires one hand and take only a few seconds to do. While making it larger, changing its color, or changing it density requires two hands and takes a bit longer. With this ability she can also cover things in crystals, from random object to living creatures; this includes humans. Of course with living objects it’s a bit more difficult and depends what part she is covering effects how long it takes to pull off and how long its effects last. With the addition ability to coat herself in a layer of crystal for protection, she is ideal for both offensive and defensive capabilities. Her crystal spread the longer she has contact and is focused on them doing so; they don’t just keep spreading if she is not actually putting forth some amount of thought or effect into it. The color of the crystals she creates tends to be of a white/clear color, but she is able to turn them into pretty much any color possible she wants.

LIMITATIONS
-The crystal daggers she creates and uses as a weapon can only be thrown as fast as she can 'humanly' throw them at. (so no sadly she can’t throw them hard or fast enough that they will puncture steal or an armored vehicle, but a body in the right amount of distance will make a nice Swiss cheese target)
-Can only create/control with her hands
-Needs to use two hands to manipulate already existing crystals when wanting to change its density, color, or size and it uses a lot more energy
-Repairing existing crystals requires two hands and uses more energy
-Certain sound waves/frequency can cause the crystal to crack and really high ones make it difficult for her to form crystals at all
-Those who are Earth Manipulators can have a small amount of control over her crystals for a very short amount of time before they just turn to dirt
-The Crystallization part of her power only last a certain amount of time, the smaller the object the longer it last, whereas the bigger the object the less it last. The time for covering living objects is also affected by the size scale but cut in half due to the living creature’s body in constant movement. When the time limit is up for how long the crystal covering said body or object, the crystals turn to dried mud which is a thin layer so easy to brush and break off.(Example being she could cover a rock in crystals and it would stay like that for a a couple of hours, where as if she covered a living 8” Bull Frog it would remain like that for thirty minutes at max; now if it was dead it would last an hour)
-Crystal she create that do not cover anything can last for 24 hours or less depending on how big they are and how Rox makes them, when their time limit is up they turn into something akin to dried mud or something something like dust
-If she wants any crystal she makes to last, she has to implement at least a little bit of crystal that already is natural into what she is creating

SIDE-EFFECTS
-Can’t use her powers at all for the 24 hours on the day of a full moon (her hair turns black/brown)
-The longer she uses her power her hair starts to turn black/brown, and when it is fully black/brown and she can’t use her powers for a full 24 hours in which her hair will start to turn back to its blonde color
-When covering herself with crystals for armor, it still has the same limit rule for remaining on her body; however, unlike when it is on others it does not turn into dry mud but instead shatters, which often results in her getting some cuts on her body
-Her power causes her to have really smooth skin, especially on her hands because of the skin losing layers when she uses her power
-Occasional hand cramping and joint pain on her fingers
-When changing the color of crystals from a natural clear or see-through, it leaves the inside of her hands a slightly different tinted color for a few minutes
-One the day and night of a full moon when she can’t use her power she feels very, having headaches, nose bleeds, and nausea