Identity
- Full name
- Cassidy Barrett
- Location
- North Wales, PA
- Interests
- VR karaoke, video games, social media, art, comics, acting, costuming
- Occupation title
- Customer Service
- Species
- Cat
- Biography
Roxikat was created in 1995, and is the most-noted character and sometimes fursona of furry artist Cassidy Barrett. One of the earliest east-coast crossplay fursuits, Roxikat is a silly cat-brained female(?) and is a lot chattier in suit than out! In Cassidy's own artwork, Roxi speaks in the third person and punctuates many sentences with feline squeaks. From 1996-1999, Roxi appeared in the Furthest North Crew APAzine in a Trekky spoof comic story called Roxikat's Myah. Here they created their closer-to-life fursona (at the time) Johnnykat and had cameos of friends and other fanzine contributors.
They've commissioned several artists to interpret their art to build the Roxi fursuit in spandex, getting branded with the term “boobsuit” in the quest to make the cartoony character look like the bubbly source material.
Over the years, Cassidy has been published in Antarctic Press’ Gold Digger Annual, writing and drawing a graphic novel for Radio Comix called Gold Digger Edge Guard, along with homoerotic comic shorts in Genus Male and FurPlanet called Game Boys, about a raccoon and collie dog gay couple who played video games all through their relationship.
With the help of best friends, they decided to try to build a costume, and created Hossifer, a country-fried femmey canine/equine hybrid with long red hair. They made a new furry Roxikat head, but it was built on a mannequin head base that was too small. They gave up on recreating the fursuit.
Roxi hasn't fursuited in years. At age 46, Cassidy came out as openly trans, and began HRT to transition to a more non-binary person. In 2024, they got their name legally changed to Cassidy Barrett, (formerly John).
Roxi spends free time in VRChat with a face-tracked avatar of Roxikat. They've done acting, writing, and co-directing a VRChat sitcom of seven episodes, currently in the editing phase. Cleanup Crew will be released bi-weekly when the editing is complete!
Roxikat was a guest of honor at a few anime conventions, Camp Feral in 2003, FA: United in 2007, Condition in 2010, and Morphicon in 2011.
Links
- LiveJournal
- https://roxikat.livejournal.com/
- Tumblr
- http://roxikat.tumblr.com/
- deviantART account
- https://roxikat.deviantart.com/
- Fur Affinity account
- https://www.furaffinity.net/user/roxikat
- Inkbunny account
- https://inkbunny.net/roxikat
- Twitter account
- https://twitter.com/Roxikat
- VCL account
- http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/John-Barrett/
- WikiFur article
- https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Roxikat
- Facebook profile
- https://www.facebook.com/jbroxikat
- YouTube account
- https://www.youtube.com/user/roxikat/
- Furry 4 Life profile
- http://furry4life.org/profile/Roxikat
- Weasyl account
- https://www.weasyl.com/profile/roxikat
History
- Member for
- 9 years 23 weeks
- Twitter accounts
Rating averages
- Received on comments
- 5.00 (4 votes)
- Received on submissions
- 0.00 (0 votes)
| 5 stars: 100% (4) |