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NAME: Emily
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CURRENT CHARACTERS: Lance Sweets (Bones), Kara Kent (Smallville)
CHARACTER NAME: Ruby “Stewart”
FANDOM: Supernatural
GRADE: … “Senior”
MOST LIKELY TO: Most likely to kill you for looking at her funny.
YEARBOOK QUOTE: “Who do I have to kill to get some French fries around here?”
PERSONALITY: Ruby is a demon. With being a demon comes a penchant for violence, blood, evil, et cetera. But Ruby’s not just your run of the mill demon who likes to indulge in senseless violence. She’s a game player. She thinks two steps ahead and isn’t afraid to do whatever it takes to get people to do what she wants, and usually in the least violent means possible. Not to say that she can’t be violent-Ruby can kick your ass into next week if you force her to, and she has no problem expressing her dislike for you through fists and kicks, but when she really wants you to something, when she needs you on her side, she can play the long game with the best of them, and isn’t afraid to go for the subtler, softer approach. She’s aware enough to be conscious of the person that she’s dealing with, and Sam and Dean are a great example. Sam is more cognitive, where Dean is more physical-Ruby responds to them both differently. With Sam she tries to play to his logic, to what he wants and what he knows is right. She tries to get under his skin in an emotional way. With Dean, however, she’s more likely to just kick his ass until she makes her point.
She’s also ruthless, and will do whatever it takes to get her job done. She didn’t just con humans, she conned her entire species into believing that she was one of the good guys. She’s almost sociopathic that way, disguised under the needs of the many over the lives of the few. Whether it’s slaughtering a virgin and sacrificing herself in order to kill all the demons in an area, or sleeping with Sam in order to gain his trust, she looks at both of those decisions equally, and values them in their priority to her mission. She’s a tactician, and doesn’t open her mouth unless she knows what she’s talking about. However, if you try to push a plan that isn’t hers and she knows won’t work? She won’t hesitate on calling you an idiot for it. She’s blunt and in your face, wanting to get to the point quickly, and not waste time waffling on the consequences. You do what needs to be done, or you lose-that’s her mentality.
Despite the demonic urges for violence and gore, she still remembers what it’s like to be human, and allows her to be a little more of a person than her demonic counterparts. Their reactions are purely visceral-they get angry and they lash out accordingly. They lie because they like to see pain, not because they want to get something, and they can’t do it long term. It’s as though you’re trying to measure varying degrees of crazy most demons are psychopaths, while Ruby is more of a sociopath-she doesn’t feel remorse or regret, but she has an idea of how they work. Ruby remembers how things feel when you’re human, and she uses that advantage to more easily get Sam and Dean to believe her when she says they’re on her side. The downside to that, however, is that if you remember how things feel, you start to feel things too, and when you’re a double agent, it’s often hard to keep perspective. I believe that in the end, she did have feeling for Sam, and is capable of developing them for people if given enough time with them.
The most humanizing aspect of Ruby as a demon, however, is her faith. Even in all that time with the Winchesters and getting close to Sam, she didn’t lose sight of the big picture, the fact that she was doing this to release her father, and that was more important that whatever feelings that she may have had for Sam. She did what she had to do to get the job done, and was willing to die for it-which, in the end, she wound up doing anyway. In essence, Ruby is the demonic version of a martyr, sacrificing everything around her, up to and including her life, for the release of her Savior.
She also knows a fairly large amount of pop culture references. Apparently demons like TV.
And she loves french fries.
[IF YOU ARE AGING YOUR CHARACTER DOWN] HOW WILL AGING YOUR CHARACTER DOWN AFFECT THEIR PERSONALITY? N/A-Ruby’s just possessing a teenage body, she’s not actually becoming a teenager.
AU HISTORY: Once upon a time, in a little hamlet far, far away, there was a girl named Ruby who wanted to be a witch. So she went to her local demon, and said “Hey, I wanna have the power to screw over everyone else around me, and in exchange, I’ll give you my bright and shiny human soul.”
Okay, that’s probably not what happened.
What actually did happen was that growing up in the thirteen hundreds is hard on a girl, and when praying to God doesn’t really help, you do whatever you can that will. Canon never made clear what those circumstances were-odds are she probably just wanted a better life than the one she had-and the idea of participating something that can give you real power can tempt anyone. Especially if it’s a time when the plague is big. Ruby was lured into the local coven, a small group of women that used magic to get them what they needed, all the time completely unaware of what this was costing them until it was too late. Magic like that always backfires, and it’s likely that it’s what got Ruby killed, because witches can only sell themselves out for so long before they either overdose on the magic, or a hunter catches on, and in the case of Ruby, it was more likely the latter. Odds are there wasn’t a dramatic burning at the stake, and more like a knife to the gut, but in the end, dead is still dead.
This is when the catch kicked in.
In order to become a witch, Ruby had to give her soul over to a demon, and in doing so, gets that soul sent to Hell upon her death. Once she was in Hell, she was tortured beyond recognition, torn into pieces, and forced to forget everything human about her. It didn’t work, not completely, but what little humanity was left clung to one of the most human aspects possible-faith. But, being Hell, her sense of faith was twisted an perverted, and turned into loyal worship of the only god that demons have-Lucifer, the being that created them.
This faith caught the attention of Lilith, the first demon, and she recruited Ruby for a very special project. Eventually, when the time came, Lilith would need her to make sure that the Boy King was prepared to kill her and release their father, bringing about the Apocalypse in his wake. Believing that this was Lucifer giving demons the land that should have always been theirs, Ruby agreed, even if it meant convincing the rest of the underworld that she was fighting for the other side. She clawed her way topside, found herself a nice body, and went to work. After spending some quality time with Samuel Colt, teaching him how to build a gun that could kill anything, she took her own, personal, demon killing knife, and started to go to down on the rest of her kind. It didn’t make her a whole lot of friends, to say the least. She got bounced back and forth between Earth and Hell a couple of times, but usually managed to claw her way to the surface again, probably with Lilith’s help.
In one of these trips to the surface, she happened to stumble across an angel of the Lord who was on his last legs. Trapped in a seventeen year-old body, but looking to kill himself by overdosing on all the hallucinogens the world had to offer. After she made sure he wasn’t going to exorcise her on sight, she started to wiggle her way in closer to him, and eventually convinced him to let her show him the world from a human perspective. A slightly skewed human perspective, full of a lot of sin and decadence, but really-it’s not like he was going back to Heaven. How else was he going to enjoy it? They did this for about a year, until Castiel decided to resettle back in New Mexico, where his vessel’s mother lived, and Ruby had to go back to making herself look like a demon for the force of good.
She still pops into New Mexico every once in a while, just to check on her pet angel and make sure he hasn’t overdosed yet. And now, she’s hopped the meat of a teenager from the next town over, because Cas says he wants to take her to prom. And really, how can a girl say no to an invitation like that?
*** Cas mentioned with permission of Christina.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: Canon prompt, set around 420: The Rapture
FIRST-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: Ruby meets Buffy. Also, see Ruby and Dean actually having a civil conversation. *GASP*
Revisions
Once upon a time, in a little hamlet far, far away, there was a girl named Ruby who wanted to be a witch. So she went to her local demon, and said “Hey, I wanna have the power to screw over everyone else around me, and in exchange, I’ll give you my bright and shiny human soul.”
Okay, that’s probably not what happened.
What actually did happen was that growing up in the thirteen hundreds is hard on a girl, and when praying to God doesn’t really help, you do whatever you can that will. Canon never made clear what those circumstances were-odds are she probably just wanted a better life than the one she had-and the idea of participating something that can give you real power can tempt anyone. Especially if it’s a time when the plague is big. Ruby was lured into the local coven, a small group of women that used magic to get them what they needed, all the time completely unaware of what this was costing them until it was too late. Magic like that always backfires, and it’s likely that it’s what got Ruby killed, because witches can only sell themselves out for so long before they either overdose on the magic, or a hunter catches on, and in the case of Ruby, it was more likely the latter. Odds are there wasn’t a dramatic burning at the stake, and more like a knife to the gut, but in the end, dead is still dead.
This is when the catch kicked in.
In order to become a witch, Ruby had to give her soul over to a demon, and in doing so, gets that soul sent to Hell upon her death. Once she was in Hell, she was tortured beyond recognition, torn into pieces, and forced to forget everything human about her. It didn’t work, not completely, but what little humanity was left clung to one of the most human aspects possible-faith. But, being Hell, her sense of faith was twisted an perverted, and turned into loyal worship of the only god that demons have-Lucifer, the being that created them.
This faith caught the attention of Lilith, the first demon, and she recruited Ruby for a very special project. Eventually, when the time came, Lilith would need her to make sure that the Boy King was prepared to kill her and release their father, bringing about the Apocalypse in his wake. Believing that this was Lucifer giving demons the land that should have always been theirs, Ruby agreed, even if it meant convincing the rest of the underworld that she was fighting for the other side. She clawed her way topside, found herself a nice body, and went to work. After spending some quality time with Samuel Colt, teaching him how to build a gun that could kill anything, she took her own, personal, demon killing knife, and started to go to down on the rest of her kind. It didn’t make her a whole lot of friends, to say the least. She got bounced back and forth between Earth and Hell a couple of times, but usually managed to claw her way to the surface again, probably with Lilith’s help.
Whenever she happened to make her way to the surface, she would make the point to look in on Sam and Dean-especially Sam. She needed to make sure he was ready to do his thing when the time came, and when that time came, she would know how to get him to do it. The problem with making the rest of Hell believe you’re against them, however, is that all the other demons who are keeping an eye on Sam didn’t let you get very close without leaving a trail of dead demons in her wake. Not that she didn’t enjoy her demon killing moments, but eventually they were going to attract too much attention. She needed another in to get closer to the Winchesters, and in the end, she found it in the form of Cas, an odd stoner who always seemed to be hanging around when she happened to check in. At first she thought he was another demon, but a closer look debunked that theory-as far as she could see he was mostly human, emphasis on the mostly. There was something about him that had her curious, and he could get closer than she did, so she tried to use him to get information that she couldn’t normally get.
Emphasis on the tried.
Cas seemed to be aware that her aims weren’t good ones and seemed to enjoy frustrating her more often than not. At first Ruby was ready to blow him off-he was planning on being a giant waste of her time-until she found out that he used to be an angel and suddenly he became a lot more interesting. They still continued to give each other nothing at all, but Ruby wanted to know what he knew about the future-whether or not she and Heaven were working for the same means (she doubted it) and whether or not they were planning to intercept. Cas seemed to just want to spend most of the time getting stoned, and speaking cryptically, but she kept hoping that one of these days, she’ll catch him saying something worth knowing.
She bounced in and out of New Mexico over the years, keeping an eye on Cas when she could, and when she happened to notice that Dean Winchester was going to be attending the local Prom, she returned to her favorite fallen angel, hoping that he would get her an in to get close. When he jokingly asked her prom … she accepted. And then didn’t let him take it back.
She had to get herself in the door somehow, after all.