Avoiding the Fallout

Think You Heard The Last of Cait Corrain? Think Again.

Keep in mind that this one is all from the “grapevine” or so they say, so take all of what I’m about to type with a handful of salt. Everything from here on out is alleged, including identities.

So the Star Wars fandom boom has tapered off a bit and the Reylo shippers have moved along in their beautiful villain-esque ships to the next great horrible man. For some that means like literally every man in Succession, for others that means various characters from The Boys (yeah, yep, even that weird guy), and for others that means The Ghoul…from…Fallout. Yeah, you know, those folks without noses and with wrinkly skin and sunken eyes? Though if you’re a fan of the Fallout franchise you know that there are plenty of ghoul characters but this particular one, played by Walton Goggins (quite literally one of the most unsexy men I’ve ever laid eyes on but I’m not here to judge taste) is an antagonist of the Amazon exclusive series which also features, naturally, a darling and plucky female protagonist to ship with him.

It isn’t as though it is shocking to discover that the fandom girlies who loved Reylo have managed to fall desperately for a ship in which our perfectly deranged and forever-scarred male “villain” (anti-hero?) cuts off the main character’s finger and sews it onto his own hand. I mean, let’s be honest—that’s kinky as fuck even if the scene it happens in isn’t written that way. So naturally, Reylos have found their way into group chats and Discord servers, connecting over the ship of Cooper “The Ghoul” Howard and vault dweller Lucy MacLean: ship name “Ghoulcy.”

Around May of 2024, a creator and fandom girly popped up and started interacting with the other Ghoulcy Girlies™, connecting for their shared interest in the spicy, saucy possibilities of the ship. This particular creator, coderoxannaxo, henceforth “Roxanna,” (pronounced “Rock Sauna” as far as I can tell from their Twitter bio) supplemented their headcanons they developed with others by sending images via online image-sharing social media site Pinterest. This, as it turned out, would be a huge mistake for Rock Sauna—I mean…“Roxanna.” After having shared an image to one of their fellow Ghoulcy Girlies™, she was immediately blocked by the recipient. Deducing why, “Roxanna” DM’d them and posted their DM on Twitter with the caption, “Actually, nah, fuck it. Since it’s (at)ghoulcys and friends doing this, I’m just gonna drop the message I sent to her and you can all make up your own minds, but GODDAMN is it wild to see hwo fucking contagious it is to be even remotely associated with an internet villain.”[sic]. So…what had happened? Well it turned out that when “Roxanne” had shared the image from Pinterest, it had shown up with the caption, “Cait shared this idea with you” complete with a profile picture featuring Cait Corrain.

Whoopsies.

So what was “Roxanna’s” excuse for why Pinterest did that? According to “Roxanna,” Cait Corrain is her “cousin in law” and “a good friend.” The fandom, as you can imagine, was absolutely tickled to hell and back by the term “cousin in law” as that is honestly a very odd way to refer to someone. While we can all probably think of who “counts” as our “cousin in law” whether that means they’re the cousin of our spouse or the spouse of our cousin, it’s still not exactly common. She goes on, making the whole scenario even stranger: “If you think I’m lying about my identity, then go check her tweets where she talked about my Swiss sister’s wedding to HER cousin in France […]” leading everyone to wonder if Roxanna was Swiss as well or maybe it was just her sister? Nevertheless, allegedly, “Roxanna” also lives in California and though she does think Cait’s actions were “fucking awful,” she is apparently appalled by the internet’s callous nature toward her and the “dead husk” she’s become. Allegedly, she had asked Cait to help her find fun fandom images on the site and copied one of them directly from a text from Cait, suddenly realizing after being blocked that it would have come up as having been shared by Cait herself. Realizing what she had done, she told her “cousin in law” to quickly change her account name and information so as to make an attempt to avoid “drama.” It did the opposite—convincing many that this was Cait as Roxanna attempting to mop up her poorly concealed identity. In her final words of the DM, “Roxanna” demands: “[…] don’t drag me into old drama that involves someone I’m close to who you don’t know, but were predisposed to dislike because she seems “mean-spirited”. [sic] which honestly is a crazy way of minimizing the utter unhinged nature of Corrain’s self-destructive bender of bad reviews.

“Roxanna’s” tweet featuring her DM explaining her relationship to Cait Corrain

It turned out that this wasn’t the first thing that had set off the old alarm bells with the Ghoulcy Girlies™. “Roxanna” had already been under suspicion due to smaller, more circumstantial elements that had been noticed by the others including her writing style, her art style, and even the way she spoke in author’s notes in her fics—some of the little sign offs she wrote being nearly verbatim to Corrain’s notes in her extremely popular Reylo fic, Play to Win. Twitter user tropotropotropo, known for coining the ship name “Ghoulcy,” asked “Roxanna” in a tweet, “Hey why do you and cait use the same phrasing in your fic’s author’s notes and have the exact same artstyle just wondering is this a cousin in law thing”[sic] while referencing the below images.

“When I get married in a few months will i also absorb my cousin in law’s skill is that how that works”[sic] - tropotropotropo

Needless to say, “Roxanna” disappeared for a little while before popping back up again at the beginning of August 2024 in a quote retweet of tropotropotropo in which she stated “[…] I deactivated bc it’s what I said I’d do rather than get sucked into drama […] I was gonna stay gone until people started harassing Cait’s family.” She also provided what ostensibly is meant to be a “selfie” of herself with a black bar over her eyes and a hand-written note featuring her twitter username which reads, “Some of you need to add the word ALLEDGEDLY to your vocab before someone sues you for defamation.”[sic] Sadly for “Roxanna,” the picture of a generic-looking girl with lip filler and a septum ring doesn’t actually rule out that she’s still Cait Corrain but this time with a poorly-done bleach job and no foundation. Even still, she does apparently believe that this is proof enough that she is not Cait and goes on to accuse those who ousted her as “dangerous” and calls their fandom a “cesspit” before declaring that she’s is “out.”

But what do you think? Is coderoxannaxo just Cait Corrain with a bad bleach and a tad bit more rounding in the face? Would it be too much to believe the absolutely wild tale of being her “cousin in law”? Was it realistic at all for “Roxanna” to assume that anyone would believe something like that? Did the Ghoulcy Girlies™ do the right thing? I’ll open comments for this one just so you guys can weigh in. I’m curious! And if Rock Sauna wants to come in here and convince me she’s not Cait Corrain, that’s cool but I don’t have enough followers to make a difference in that regard.

Judge for yourself: Are these two women the same person?