What happened to Willie's "fiance"?

[Garth Blackwood]

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Remember around episode #955 or so when Willie comes back to town announcing that he's engaged to a woman
named Roxanne. He decided to stay in town to help Barnabas fight the Leviathans, and says that "Roxanne will have to adjust, that's all". Guess what? We never heard from her again. I guess, either a) She left him when he said they were going to live in Collinsport, b) They continued to see each other and we just never heard about it, or c) She was lonely Willie's imaginary friend.
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[IluvBarnabas]

I like to think that it was b, that they went on seeing each other, even with all the weird stuff still going on at the time. I like to think Willie winded up finding some kind of happiness.

Of course, we don't know how much Willie may have told his ladylove about Barnabas either.

[Gerard]

Maybe she was Pansy Faye's ghost and Willie didn't know any better.  Well, if she was, at least she was a cheap date - didn't have to worry about her ordering the steak dinner.

Gerard

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Honestly, I like C.    After all, an argument could be made that Willie had an imaginary romance with Maggie, so why not take the next step and have a completely imaginary fiancee? 

Seriously, though, we barely see Willie after Leviathans, so B could be a possibility. Though I suppose we'd just have to assume that he and Barnabas discussed off screen how funny it was that the woman they were each involved with was named Roxanne...

[Lydia]

My problem with C is the cute phone call that Willie apparently had with Roxanne.  I'm not sure he would go so far as to smooch a dial tone...but then, Willie could be kind of strange.

[Janet the Wicked]

Don't know if "Summer's Son" by Mary Overstreet is still available for purchase, but here's the link:  http://members.aol.com/williehl/index.htm. You'll find it in the fanzine section of the Willie tribute site.

It's the "untold" story of Willie and Rozanne. And it's REALLY good!

[Doug]

Well I was thinking that maybe right after Barnabas and Julia returned from 1840, Willie finally left Collinwood
with Roxanne and they got married and settle else someplace else.

[arashi]

I thought I recalled Willie saying in an episode that she decided to split, not wanting to wait around. Perhaps I'm mistaken?

[sallycollins]

I don't recall if Willie's mention of "Roxanne" was before, during, or after the introduction of Roxanne Drew. You would think the writers could come up with a different name.

Sally

[Garth Blackwood]

It was before the introduction of Roxanne Drew.

[sallycollins]

Thanks, Garth. I wonder if they just decided to use the name of someone they realized would never be in the show.

[ProfStokes]

Long before the I saw the Leviathan arc, I had heard references to the pairing of Barnabas and Roxanne on different fan forums and I'd seen photo stills of the characters together.  So when I was watching the episodes for the first time and learned about Willie's Roxanne, I was under the impression that Barnabas somehow took Roxanne away from Willie! I remember being so curious to see how that would play out, and how Willie would react (would he step aside for his old 'friend' Barnabas? Would he fight for his girl? What tension!) only to later find that the two Roxannes were completely different and unrelated characters.   

ProfStokes

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I was under the impression that Barnabas somehow took Roxanne away from Willie! I remember being so curious to see how that would play out, and how Willie would react (would he step aside for his old 'friend' Barnabas? Would he fight for his girl? What tension!) only to later find that the two Roxannes were completely different and unrelated characters.   

Who knows - perhaps the original plan was indeed for something like that to happen - for Barnabas to return from PT (and 1995) to discover that the RT counterpart to PT Roxanne was involved with Willie. It could have been quite fascinating to see how things played out. But if it was, obviously something changed along the way. However, it is quite odd and it doesn't seem coincidental that Willie would have a Roxanne in his life and that Barnabas would also become involved with a Roxanne in 1970PT. If the plan originally was for them to fight over RT Roxanne, but that plan was dropped, it would certainly explain why we never actually saw Willie's Roxanne during Leviathans and why there's never a reference to her after Leviathans...

[MagnusTrask]

After seeing 1968, I now realize how rare (unique maybe) that moment was between Barnabas and Willie when they were trying to get him to guard the coffin again during Leviathans.     They seemed to have mutual respect and concern for each other.    I wouldn't have wanted to see that go.     

[GooberCollins]

My explanation:

Barnabas, fed up with Willie spending too much time on Roxanne and not enough on helping him, kidnapped Roxanne and chased her around Collinwood. She escaped via the Stairway Through Time into... oh, let's say 1954. She married a man by the last name of Drew and had a daughter, also named Roxanne. I'm positive the writers had all this in mind.

All kidding aside, I think the writers just forgot about her. They completely forgot about Angelique pulling a Josette and Jeremiah on Maggie and Quentin, too, and that was around the same time, no?