Post by hatty on Sept 18, 2012 10:25:08 GMT -5
Ruby Elizabeth Carrington
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Name: Ruby Elizabeth Carrington
Nickname: Red - but not one she likes
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Sexuality: Straight
Fairytale: Little Red Riding Hood
Year: 3rd Year Uni
Face Claim: Emmy Rossum
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Personality: Spunky. That's the word that her grandmother would use to describe her. Ruby is curious and interested in learning as much as she can in regards to whatever has caught her interest at that moment. She has a temper that sometimes gets the best of her despite her attempts to breathe and count to ten. She can be rather hard headed at times and has no problem getting into a heated argument to prove her point and win the fight. She likes to consider herself fearless and willing to run head first into any battle that may come her way, that...more often than not ends up just getting her in sticky situations and in trouble. She is utterly and totally devoted to her friends and the people that she is close too. Often putting them before herself if they need help.
Appearance: Ruby has naturally curly brown hair that except for one ugly time when she was sixteen and she died it red; hence the ugly nickname of red that she just can't shake. She tends to wear her hair long and loose. Her eyes a deep brown and she is rather tall at 5'6 but loves her height and considers it one of her best assets.
History: Ruby's father was killed when she was just six, he was attacked on a hunt by a wolf and died. Her mother was heartbroken and since her young daughter looked so much like her father, all her mother saw was her now deceased husband looking back. Unable to handle the life without him, she left Ruby with her mother in law and left. To this day, Ruby has never heard from or seen her mother. She doesn't know if she is alive or dead.
Ruby was instead raised by her grandmother and is very close to her and was in no way shape or form lacking for love in their home. Ruby's father was all around them and she has memories and happy thoughts of him but has no memory or recollection of her mother. Her grandmother loved to call her a tomboy and that was very true growing up. Ruby loved to run out and climb and explore and get dirty, who wanted to sit around and do 'girly' things when there was exploring to do and trouble to get into.
It was when Ruby hit her teen years that she discovered being a girl, wasn't all that bad at all. Boys of all forms started to sniffing around and it wasn't to ask her to come out and climbs a tree. One day while she was going through boxes in her grandmothers house that she found one of her father's old coats. And old red one that with some sewing and adjustments was tailored into a perfect red coat for her, she had enough material to add a hood to the jacket as well and soon she was rarely seen without it.
One day while coming home she heard strange noises from cabin and upon checking on the inside she screamed when she saw a wolf trying to eat her grandmother. Immediately Ruby started trying to attack the beast and called for help when the son of one the neighbors came running in and helped. He shot the wolf, so she thought and they were able to save her grandmother. Days later after things had calmed down, she found out that it wasn't just a regular normal wolf but a werewolf. That had been some person attacking her grandmother.
Wondering if that was the same wolf that had killed her father, she vowed to protect her grandmother from the wolf. Grabbing her coat she ran off into the woods with, the neighbor's son chasing after her, to try and track down the wolf. Not realizing till after the fact that they had run right into a new world through a portal they hadn't even noticed.
Other: Dreams do come true......for five dollars
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Ruby could feel the cold air against her cheek as she ran, she knew that her cheek were going to be bright flaming red when she finally managed to stop but she didn't care. All that mattered was find that bastard wolf. Was he the one that killed her father? Who the hell had he managed to get IN he house in the first place? She was not going to lose her grandmother too. No....she was out for vengeance and if she happened to get some new wolf fur to line her jacket with....then bonus.
She could hear the sounds of someone running behind her but didn't bother to turn back and just assumed that it was that boy from next door that helped her out when her grandmother was being attacked. All that mattered was finding where that wolf was and doing whatever she needed to stop him. Jumping over a small fallen log she tripped a little but didn't let it stop her. No, she had a mission.
Then she spotted it. The flash of fur. The howl came next and Ruby reached down inside of her and pushed her feet faster. She needed to catch it. Focusing only on the prize in front of her she never noticed the change, the shift if you will, when it happened. Not at least, until it was done and over. Things were different here. Coming to a stop when the forest suddenly ended, Ruby looked around. What the hell? Where was she? What was this place in front of her, Tintagel?
What was a Tintagel?