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Individual
Character's full name:Ruby Anne Lupin
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: Electricfox (lab name), Ruby Doo, Sparky and Kit (nicknames from family)
Gender: Female
Age:16
Date of Birth: (02/22/1996)
Nationality/ Ethnicity:All-American Mutt
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin:Small island off the East coast of Florida
Appearance
Hair color and style:
Eyes: Green
Height:5’2” (not getting any taller)
Build: Small, light weight, child- like
Visible mutation:Ruby has red fox ears and a bushy red fox tail that she keeps very well groomed.
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings:Ruby has several old scars from her experiences at the labs. None of these are as prominent as her older sister's, but she does have a small scar across the bridge of her nose and a circular scar from the camp's “special made” collar. Ruby also has a scar on her shoulder from where she had the lab’s bar code tattoo removed. Ruby also has a scar across the bridge of her nose.
Other features: Ruby is very small and is not very threatening looking. She looks very young for her age and is often thought of a lot younger than she is.
Everyday clothing style: Ruby is sort of conservative with her clothing, more often than not wearing clothes that are too big for her. She loves wearing overalls, and they are a personal favorite of hers to wear, especially when she is working. Most of the time, the young fox girl will wear some oversized clothes or graphic tees with cool designs on them. Emerald has convinced her to wear some prominent brands from surf companies back home, but Ruby really loves her comfy big clothes and her graphic tees. Also, she thinks that wearing lightning-bolt sneakers are a must for any outfit. Ruby has a small Shark Tooth Necklace that Emerald gave her as well, that she wears more often than not.
Uniform: None
Sleepwear: Ruby will often wear large, comfy, long-sleeved t-shirts to bed. She is also more prone to wear her “hand me downs” from her older sisters to bed as well.
Miscellaneous clothing:
Character
Personality: Ruby is sometimes touted as one-of-a-kind by her family members for various reasons. The most prominent one is the fact that she is sort of naïve to how the world works. She believes that, in general, (with a few exceptions) people are good, that they will always listen to reason and feelings; she will always try to talk something out before she has to resort to violence because to her, violence should always be the last resort. While she has figured out the hard way that this isn’t true for everyone, this doesn’t deter the optimistic young woman’s outlook on life.
This of course doesn’t meant that Ruby is opposed to vigilante justice. On the contrary, she encourages it. Ruby has a strong- rooted belief – no doubt influenced by Emerald - that good people should be stopping bad people. Ruby believes in this strongly and will be more than willing to help someone stop the bad guy if need be, no matter what it takes.
The young fox girl is a little immature for her age, acting childish at times to get her way.
She didn't socialize with kids her age very much, and associated more with adults who marveled at her intellect, but treated her like a child. Because of that, Ruby does tend to act younger than she is, to not only feel more comfortable, but also so adults will view her as adorable and childish. While she is immature, she isn’t as innocent as she sometimes looks, and Ruby knows how to manipulate the system to get what she wants… just not in a mean way.
Ruby is a very smart kid with a lot of talents, being a robotics genius and all. Many people find themselves wondering, “What can't little Ruby do?” Well, Ruby is a bit socially awkward. While she is bright, sunny, cheerful, and easily the most caring of her sisters when it comes to the common man, Ruby can be painfully shy. She can greet people, but when it comes to talking about subjects she is unfamiliar with, Ruby is just awkward. She also has a habit of being confused when people actually want to be her friend and will often sound a little harsher than she means to be. Ruby can also be a little judgmental when it comes to subjects she thinks are morally wrong, which causes confrontations with others.
She is not very skilled when it comes to philosophy or creative writing. Ruby can write a scientific essay, but if she was ever told to write it in a less- formatted way, she probably wouldn’t do very well. When it comes to creative writing, Ruby is pretty terrible. She is more than willing to learn how to get better and is very open to new techniques, though at times she seems to be stuck in her old ways. She also isn’t great at biology or any study of living things, preferring to stick with her books rather than going field hunting. The fact that she is scared of various animals from the wild doesn’t help matters either. She is rather good at first aide but that’s only because Emerald has gotten hurt enough times that she was forced to learn it so her sister wouldn’t die. She would never want to be a doctor due to her sensitive nature. Ruby also has bad anxiety problems at times, which causes her to be easily startled and confused.
Ruby has quite a temper, but it takes a good deal to unveil how vicious she can be if someone, for example, insults her family or someone she cares about. It takes a lot to really get under the fox girl’s skin but if someone succeeds at doing so, they might not want to see what happens next.
The fox girl is also desperately trying to prove that she can fight to her family. The young teen is trying to improve herself through learning self- defense and training to fight. She doesn’t want to be saved anymore, at least not as much, as she wants to be the hero now.
Around her friends and family, Ruby is a little kindhearted cuddle ball. Ruby is always more than willing to do anything to make everyone she loves happy, no matter what it takes. She has been known for using her cute, innocent appearance to manipulate her older friends and family, however, as she is a crafty little trickster and has been known to pull pranks. She is a fox, after all.
Hobbies/ Interests: *Building Robots
*Reading books
*Building toys
*Taking electronics apart for fun and to see how they work
*Training with her big sister or her mother
*Fixing Up certain vehicles with help from her books (Emerald rides her motorcycle to death so she needs someone with the patience to fix it)
* Fixing mechanical problems in things, as long as she has a big Manuel to figure out how it works and what it’s supposed to do. She’s a genius, not a miracle worker.
*RollerBlading
*Archery
*Skate Boarding
Job or part- time job and description: Toy Builder: Ruby buys cheap toys from local shops or takes what she finds that people don’t need any more and builds nice toys to sell on the internet for reasonable prices. She has a website called Sparking Shop, where she sells all her items.
Fears/ phobias/ concerns:
*Crabs
*Has a fear of being alone or abandoned
*The dark
*Monsters
*Constantly worried for her sisters and family, is a bit of a worry- wart and can be prone to crying even when she knows everything is all right.
*Has PTSD associated with the camps, not as extreme as her sisters, but Ruby has a lot of natural anxiety stemming from this and other things
Special talents: A big special talent Ruby is her intelligence. Ruby is, in short, a genius. The girl excels in math and many types of science, by far being one of the most brilliant little girls you will ever meet. Ruby can make robots: not fully functioning, walking, talking, breathing robots, but robots that can do simple tasks like retrieve things, do certain jobs and the like. Ruby’s specialty is toy robots, those toy robots you see on television are something Ruby can build, repair and - with relative ease – modify toy robots, which is why she opened up her toy shop. Modifications are easier for her, of course because she has the plans for the bots before hand and only has to make minor adjustments to change performance. Ruby tends to do better when she has a good idea of what she is supposed to do or make the robot do, which is why building certain toy robots require help or a lot of research and book work. When it comes to other sort of robots, the best she can do is build a cleaning robot like a Roomba, from scratch. Which is fairly complex in itself. Otherwise, she would need extensive help. This girl doesn’t have enough experience to build something like a fully working highly advanced robotic arm on her own. There is a lot she doesn’t know. None of her robots are so advanced that they might take over the world. (Unless you want a robot to annoy you to death by shooting little foam discs at you, or vacuum your floor... to death.) Ruby needs a lot more time before they get to that level – like, twenty more years - but the fact that she has the potential to reach that level shows the girl's intelligence.
She also is very skilled with computer programs and this includes a little bit of illegal hacking she might do due to her intense curiosity and thirst for knowledge. Ruby has a very good memory for someone her age and can see the tiniest details in things, letting her be a good person to work on machines as well as she does. She also has a very active imagination, which means she loves to imagine different things her robots can do and attempt to recreate them. While a lot of her attempts fail because she is in no way experienced enough to think of a robot from complete scratch, if she has something to build on or a general base of something, she can do it. Or she can make a horrifying hybrid of a few toys, she’s done that before and had nightmares for weeks, but she can still do it.
Morality
Good/ bad/ neutral/ other: Ruby is neutral-to-good, as she is very much of a good girl no matter what she does. But this doesn’t mean she always follows the law; she will go above or beyond it in order to see good done, but she isn't as aggressive about it as her sister is. Ruby is naturally kindhearted, so she is more prone to helping someone, rather than hurting them.
Mutations
Mutation description: Fox Shifting
Ruby, like her older sister, has the ability to turn into an animal. Unlike Emerald, she shifts into a fox, not a wolf. Ruby's red fox form is 13 inches tall and 29 inches long, from the tip of her snout to the tip of her exceedingly bushy tail. Her fur color is mainly normal for the red fox, though there it a more brownish red color around her head, representing her hair color. Her eyes are the same green as usual, and they are pretty close to the eye color of most red foxes. There is a small, discolored yellow part of her fur that resembles a lightning-bolt on her left and right side.
Strengths: When in this form, Ruby is given the same senses and abilities as the red fox. For instance, she has acute auditory perception (hearing), and she can hear a bird roughly 600 paces (steps) away. Her sense of hearing is keen and it does pass over to her human form, just not completely. Ruby’s hearing is effectively cut in half when in human form, but her hearing is still stronger than all of her other senses. Ruby also has enhanced speed in human form because of this, in the same sense that her older sister Emerald has enhanced strength. Ruby in her human form is a good deal faster than the average human, due to a combonation of her training from back in the labs as well as her family and a small transference in her fox form Ruby can get up to the speeds of a lower ranking Olympic runner. But she isn’t old enough yet to develop her speed fully, but she knows that she is a lot faster than both of her sisters.In her fox form, Ruby’s top clocked speed was 40 miles per hour, but most of the time she can go about 35-39.
Weaknesses: Ruby isn’t exactly durable in this form, and, while she can take more hits in her fox form than in her human form, she is still pretty small and can’t take all that many hits. She is sensitive to high pitched noises, knockout gasses will affect her more quickly, and she needs to eat a good amount of food to have the energy to shift. If she burns a lot of her energy while running or doing other things, Ruby will be unable to shift and will be more or less helpless. In order for Ruby to reach max speeds she also has to be fully feed, just like Emerald has to be to use the extent of her strength, Ruby goes through a lot of energy to do what she does and a good diet is almost essential for her to shift and be able to work at full potential. This means that if she spends a night eating nothing but Sweets and no fruits or any other food groups, she is as good as done. It is sort of like someone who has blood sugar problems, the sugar can sustain Ruby for a time, but if she’s hungry she needs to eat something to sustain her and help her powers stay energized.
Secondary mutation description: Electricity absorption and discharge
This is where things get a little strange for young Ruby. Like her eldest sister, Sapphire, she has an elemental ability. Unlike Sapphire, Ruby's element is electricity.
In human or fox form, Ruby's body generates electricity. This is a passive process that happens constantly, and the electricity in her body builds up, slowly, over time. Over the course of three days, Ruby can build one solid electric shock of 400 volts (which is enough to knock out or temporarily paralyze a full grown adult, depending on where it hits. If it hits in a wave, it will knock them back. A bolt will paralyze, and direct skin to fur contact through the hest or head will be a knock out blow.) She may also let out two shocks at 200 volts etc. However, Ruby may only discharge this electricity in her fox form. The more electricity builds up, the more she needs to let it out, or else it can get out of control, causing her to accidentally shock things around her. If she uses up the electricity that she's built up, and she immediately needs to use more, Ruby is capable of absorbing any amount of electricity from a nearby source – no matter her form – and is then able to discharge it when in her fox form.
Ruby can discharge the electrical energy in a few ways. She usually discharges accidentally, by touching a doorknob, or being touched by someone. This way doesn't often produce very large shocks, just smaller static shocks that are more surprising than anything else. If she focuses, she is able to send her electricity at someone in an arc from up to 200 feet away. The further she is from her target, the less potent the shock is, as some of the energy dissipates into the air. (If she fires the charge her full 200 feet, the voltage is reduced by one half (½) its original voltage.) Another method that she can use is to purposefully let the charge run through her body, so that anyone who touches her on contact receives a shock. Normally, she can only keep such a charge going for about 5 minutes until her energy is depleted.
Strengths: Ruby cannot be hurt by sources of electricity unless she runs out of her own electricity. (However, complications can arise if she is overloaded.) She is capable of releasing very powerful electrical shocks, under the right circumstances. Her shocks allow her to easily stun (or potentially kill, but she wouldn't!) enemies. She has a fairly good range for her attacks, and at close range, she is quite powerful.
If the fox-girl runs out of energy, she feels ill and disoriented, leaving her at a reduced capacity until she recharges, either naturally, or with an outside energy source. If left to recharge naturally, she won't feel normal until after a day or two have passed.
Weaknesses: Electrical exhaustion is what Ruby likes to call it when she runs out of electrical energy. If she discharges too much at a time, leaving her depleted, she feels ill and disoriented. She operates at a reduced capacity, much like a normal human would if they had a bad cold. If left to recharge naturally, she won't feel better until about a day or two has passed. If she overexerts herself (discharging all of her electricity at once multiple times in a short period of time), she can drive herself to passing out.
If Ruby runs out of electrical charge, she has to either let herself recharge naturally, or absorb energy from an outside source, leaving her open to attack. If she absorbs too much energy, or lets herself go too long without discharging, to keep herself at a normal level, her powers can get out of control. She will shock things without meaning to, and it can leave her feeling disoriented. The fox-girl is only capable of discharging her electricity in her smaller, more vulnerable fox form.
Ruby’s immunity to Electricity has its weaknesses as wells as it’s strengths. Ruby can absorb up to 1,000 volts of electricity, which may seem like a lot, but in the grand scheme of Electricity, it really isn’t. The 400 volts of electricity she can discharge is what Ruby has dubbed her active electricity, electricity that she can easily discharge at a moments notice if in the proper form. The rest of her electricity is her stored electricity. Electricity that she can not use yet, unless she spends her 400 volts. If Ruby starts using her stored electricity, exhaustion starts hitting her far harder, and she will be likely to pass out or get horribly ill.
If Ruby absorbs more than her maximum amount of electricity without discharging, she will not only shock others, but she will also begin to shock and weaken herself. If Ruby doesn’t manage to successfully discharge the excess absorbed electricity, she will be in a constant state of twitching pain which will take its toll on her, no matter how she might hide it. Burns will gradually show up from where the electricity is trying to escape her body and Ruby will become severely ill to the point of having a fever up to 105.7 degrees. (The height of the fever grows with the amount of excess electricity in her body.) Luckily, the maxiumum she has stored, thus far, has only been up to 1,500 volts total. (Meaning 500 more volts than normal.) This has resulted in the aforementioned 105.7 degree fever, and the young girl really does not want to find out what will happen if she absorbs any more than that.
Because she is easily startled, Ruby is prone to accidentally letting off shocks if surprised. She is easily scared, and tends to shift into her fox form and discharge electricity as a defense mechanism. Her electrical powers cannot electrify insulators – rocks, rubber, anything that does not conduct electricity. Any method of blocking or rerouting electricity can make one invulnerable or less affected by her attacks.
Fighting Style
Explanation: Speed Fighting: During her time at the labs, Ruby has been trained for speed and evasion, continuing the process of training herself with this by habit as she has gotten older. She is adapted for fleeing and evading moves rather than fighting, but she has gotten training in the past 4 years on how to fight hand to hand. Ruby’s mother and her older sister Emerald have been her instructors.
Pros for fighting style: When Ruby is forced to fight, she will always go for disabling blows first to try and end the fight as quickly as possible She is fast and speedy and can make her blows swiftly and quickly with fairly good accuracy. She also has a lot of endurance due to her treatment from the labs. So, unless she keeps discharging her electricity in fox form she will be able to stay up for a while.
Cons for fighting style:In comparison to the devastating blows of her older sisters, Ruby can not destroy people in one hit like they can. Her fighting style, while she is light on her feet, does not mean she can give people devastating blows. It will take her many hits to take someone down. She also does not have great endurance when it comes to taking hits; she cannot take multiple hard hits without being taken out.
Faction Allegiance
Unaffiliated at the moment.
History Of Your CharacterCharacter
The youngest Lupin sister’s history is similar to her older sisters'. She grew up on a small island off the east coast of Florida, with loving parents and a loving family. Ruby loves her older sisters and looks up to them, especially Emerald. Ruby was born with her fox ears and tail, so her mutation was obvious, but with a father that is a human and mother that is a mutant Ruby was very much accepted into her family.
One day, everything changed. She and her sisters were kidnapped by a man named Dr. Fusion,known later as Fusionist to his experiments who supposedly killed their parents in the process. Ruby, unlike her two sisters, wasn’t old enough to fight, yet, nor did she pass the many tests that would have forced her to do so as she got older. So, he tried to enhance her powers through experiments. However, he gave up on her, because she refused to kill anyone, and would therefore be of no use to him. However, Emerald and Sapphire struck a deal with him, and she was kept alive.
Instead of fighting, Ruby was often used as bait for some of the larger experiments. She was forced her to run through dangerous situations and simulations, though she was always saved at the last moment. In between these sorts of training sessions, out of either humor or pure insanity, Fusionist educated the girl, himself, teaching her things she should have been learning in grade school with friends. He didn’t view her or her abilities as a threat, so gifting the child with knowledge seemed like a good idea. The madman also pandered to the young girl’s interest in robotics, building, and technology and taught her many things about them. She faced dire consequences if she didn’t figure things out the first time.
While Fusionist tried to play as a father figure to the young girl, Ruby wasn’t buying it. She remembered her family, and she missed them. The occasional visits from her sister weren’t enough, and after a time, Ruby decided to try to devise ways she could escape. She managed to trick the guards, outwit some of the others, but in the end, she was always caught and punished severely for it.
At 11, Ruby did manage to get out of the labs once, and thanks to the X-men and her older sister, Emerald, she was able to stay out and rebuild her life with a new family to live and love. She bonded with her new family and began to transition back to normal, or as normal as life could get. Her oldest sister, Sapphire, had changed, but then again so had Emerald. Still, she tried desperately to make the two of them get along so that she could have her family back, but, alas, it was not to be.
Just before the mutant registration acts, Ruby found her parents' island and discovered that they had survived the attack. When the registration acts happened, Ruby and her sister were both forced into the mutant camps where they were imprisoned for several months. Ruby was, at first, immune to the shock collar, but once they found this out, they gave her a prototype color that burned, rather than shocked, causing the fox girl great physical pain more often than not. While inside the camps, Ruby fell ill and was taken care of by her bunk mates who mysteriously started disappearing over the course of her time in the camps. On the last day, before the liberation, Ruby found out what was happening to them. Through a series of events, the young fox girl found out that there were more evil things in the world than she originally thought, and that affected her more than she liked to admit.
After returning from the camps, Ruby found it a little more nerve racking to stay at the mansion than she would like to admit, so she asked to be sent home for a while to learn how to fight better and to learn more about robotics (about which her father would teach her.) Ruby is now returning to the mansion with more knowledge and physical prowess than she used to have. She has calmed down a little but is still a very anxiety- filled fox-girl. Maybe once she gets used to being around people and makes a few friends, she will come out of her shell a little more.
Roleplay
Where did you learn about this site?: Been here for a while, 5 years so I suppose myself
Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who: Emerald and Sapphire
Sample RP:
They say curiosity killed the cat, but in that ancient saying, they never mentioned anything about curiosity killing foxes, did they? With a playful twitch of the ears, Ruby Lupin sat at her workbench in her dad’s work shed, looking closely at the small gears of a toy lizard. The shed was cluttered with dozens of parts and was settled in a very palm tree populated area of the island, close enough to the water for any emergency “incidents”, but far enough away just in case any of the storms came. The distant roar of the generator outside was drowned out by the sound of the sea as well as the sound of the power drill that Ruby was working with. Ruby had taken the lizard completely apart in order to fix a small flaw that she had noticed when it walked. The lizard had been limping, as of late, and she wondered if it was a wiring problem in its front legs.
With a look of concentration on her face, the young fox girl managed to undo the final bits of the lizard's front legs and placed the screws in a smartly placed jar that was labeled “Leg Screws.” Ruby smiled a little once she saw that she had been right the whole time: a blue wire and a red wire had managed to loosen themselves just enough so they didn’t generate enough power to the lizard's legs, causing the slight limp.
“Don’t worry, Liz. I’ll fix you up. Don’t you worry about a thing, old friend,” Ruby stated with confidence in her voice as well as a fondness for an old friend.
Liz was a childhood toy of hers that her father had made a long time ago. The toy was as old as she was, but since he was built by her father, who put as much love and care into his toys as he did everything else in his life, the little toy would last for a long time. Liz had been programed to walk around and stick his tongue out - normal lizard things. Ruby, herself, was able to program Liz fairly easily because of how simple his design was, but when it came to the much more complex robotic monkey named Reginald that her father had made, Ruby was way out of her league.
Even the small toy robot kitten, Mims, was difficult for Ruby due to its complex programing, but the good thing was that both of those toys weren’t hers, and while she was more than willing to help her father fix them, she was much more interested in giving the TLC to Liz than any of the other toys; she was actually able to fix him on her own.
Ruby’s short brown hair was pulled back in a tight bun, but she still had sweat pooling on her forehead. She hated the fact that her mother wouldn’t let her and her father work on the robots inside, but once Vincent Lupin had destroyed the living room one too many times with his experiments, Jade had to kick him out to someplace safer.
With a quick wipe of the sweat off her brow, Ruby carefully picked up the tweezers from the table and grasped the two wires in its tiny little pincers. The fox girl took in a deep breath and carefully situated the wires just right so they were plugged into the little creatures leg joint fully. She wasn't going to take any chances of them wiggling out of place, again. With a happy swish of her tail and a twitch of her ears, Ruby began reassembling her friend, more than happy that the stressful part of the little surgery was over.
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About an hour or so later, Liz was doing his normal lizard thing, walking around and sticking out his surpisingly soft robotic tongue with no limp in sight. Ruby beamed at her little friend in pride and placed him in the front pocket of her overalls. She felt him curl up as soon as he found the warm spot next to her chest. The little guy did have a sleep mode, and since he was supposed to simulate a cold blooded critter, he tended to curl up and sleep whenever Ruby put him in her front pocket.
“Ruby! Come on in! We need to pack you up, if you’re really going back to New York!” Jade’s voice called out.
“Coming, Mom!” Ruby called back, the biggest grin on her face. As much as she loved being close to her parents once again and bonding with them, she knew deep down, she felt like New York needed her.
Or at least Emerald did.
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Welcome back, Emerald!
