#ch: ruby

[warwickroyals]

Sunderland's Royal Jewel Vault (13/∞) ♛

↬ Queen Anne's Hanover Turquoise Tiara

Queen Anne, the grandmother of King Louis V, had an intriguing background. While being born into Sunderlandian aristocracy, she was also a descendant of King George III of the United Kingdom through her mother, a princess in both the United Kingdom and Germany, Marie of Hanover. It was through her mother that Anne inherited a good chunk of her jewelry, including a parure of turquoise and diamonds. The parure included a necklace, a pair of earrings, and several brooches, they were all given to Anne upon her marriage to George, Duke of Woobine in 1913. Anne was photographed wearing the set in her first official portrait as Princess of Danforth. Decades later, the now Queen Anne passed on the parure to the next Princess of Danforth, Ruby. During her brief stint as Queen-in-waiting, Ruby wore the tiara frequently, often pairing it with the parure's necklace and brooches. Ruby, known privately to be very shy, preferred the opaqueness of turquoise over the eye-catching glitz of other coloured gemstones including, ironically, rubies. Following her husband's assassination, Ruby continued to carry out duties in service of her brother-in-law and later nephew as the Princess Dowager. The parure continued to be worn throughout the 20th century. When Ruby died in 2006, a great number of her jewels were auctioned, but this turquoise parure has been unaccounted for decades. There’s been much speculation about its whereabouts. The most popular theory is that the tiara was returned to the royal vault upon its owner's passing. Hopefully someday it will be dusted off and worn once again by a new generation of royal women.

[lavampira]

if I must forsake myself to keep mine oath, then so be it.

[felicitykings]

MILLIE GIBSON as Ruby Sunday

DOCTOR WHO ↳ The Church on Ruby Road (2023)

[mxrvelouscreations]

@rubyvannevar

Nick's gaze lingered on the woman as she sat in front of him. While he was used to having someone come and join him, it was usually those that he would take home as a snack. This one however, he could tell from smell alone that she wasn't going to be that, which was why he had told her that he was used to being alone. At least, that was until she mentioned how her father would like to see him.

"And what exactly does you father wish to see me about?" He asked, sitting back against his seat and swirling the whiskey glass in his hand. He had been nursing it all night, his way of watching the bar while pretending to be a part of the atmosphere. "I'm not looking for a fight if that's what he's after."

“Sorry, I’m used to being alone.” (Nick; @mxrvelouscreations

Vague @mxrvelouscreations

"Mm-m. As most of your kind."

She didn't sound condescending as she sat down in front of the man at the bar. She knew exactly what he was as soon as she got close enough to him and got a whiff of his scent and noticed that he had no pulse. Her odd heartbeat - never in sync, slow and measured -, must've given her away, too, although dhampirs were very rare. She placed her glass of a rich, red wine in front of herself.

"I am Ruby Vannevar", she introduced herself calmly as she brushed her fire red hair over her shoulder, her equally red eyes watching him intently, "my father is the head of a clan which arrived here not long ago. They'd like to see you."

[yuseirra]

a family bigger than 4! part 26 Aratate Shrine visit(I've been looking into that place again a bit lately)

Where do gods pray to when they need to, I wonder

part 1 / part 2 / part 3 / part 4 / side story 1 / part 5 / part 6 / part 7 / part 8 / part 9 / side story 2-1 / 2-2 / 2-3 / 2-4 / part 10 / part 11 / part 12 / part 13 / part 14 / part 15 / part 16 / part 17 / part 18 / part 19 / part 20 / part 21 / part 22 / part 23 / part 24 / part 25

[kikyocaps]

[ask-spectrum-coding]

Your questions have been recieved, and will be answered the moment we're all on break. In the meantime... meet the team! And don't go spreading these files around just anywhere, buster. This is highly classified data.

[clownkiwi]

im glad tenna was pre-rendered 3d graphics as sprites. they need to make future deltarune antags like mixed media. i love the sprite art style from chapters 1 & 2 but they rlly need to be more experimental from this point onwards, just like tenna

[iobartach]

Muse edition: Pokemon Teams

And of course, given the jarring weakness to fire type this team has, I might as well throw in this as a bonus 🤣 ;

[nin-deer]

Ch 143

i mean i think we all knew deep down the kiss was gonna happen based on the flow of the story but i think this chap reveals a lot about gorou and sarina

(uh warning this got a little out of hand so its pretty long lmao)

so.

i dont think anyone's completely in the wrong, but i definitely don't think they're in the right either. (not that i condone incest; its just that their motivations led them to this specific point. would the story have been fine without it? hell yeah. please i actually prefer it that way. but this is the direction the author decided to take it, so we have to take it as it is as a point of learning more about the character's motivations)

Let's first analyze sarina and gorou's relationship pre-reincarnation. I think I covered this in my last post where I rambled about onk, but gorou is doing a doctor thing where he "accepts" sarina's proposal just to make her happy. We learn in this new chapter that he basically catered to her every request, and that's what started that infatuation. we know from previous chapters that her bio family's shitty, so the only place she would get this love is from gorou. we also learn in this chapter that it's not actually a romantic love but a fanatic love, for lack of better terms. she sees him as her idol. does sarina even know what it feels to be romantically in love with someone? she spent her whole first life in a hospital, isolated from others her age. she spent her second life very curated and protected because of her mom and her future career; she couldn't really live a normal life. (we'll get back to this point later) all she knows about love is through her idols, so she's channeling it into (what she thinks is) romantic love for gorou.

gorou, on the other side of this, is an actual adult who had an actual life before all this, so he knows what a normal life is like. assuming sarina is one of his first patients, its obvious to see that he got attached, which is a very risky situation for scenarios like this. we see this attachment made her death worse, as he threw himself into following Ai to cope for her death. not gonna go too in depth about this here because, again, i made another post for this that i'll probably link at the end bc im referencing it more than i thought... continuing! he knows sarina doesnt have long left so he wants to do what he can for her, thus creating that "idol" persona sarina has for him.

we see in his regret in this new chap that he actually knows what he's doing and is aware of the consequences of his actions. ruby doesn't. she doesn't regret anything. as someone who reads a lot of isekai/reincarnation stories, its easy to joke that ruby and aqua are their old age + their new age, but that isn't necessarily true for ruby. sure, aqua is old and this could apply to him. but ruby? she didn't make it past 18 before she died. she's like,,, 13 times 2. double 13. she never fully developed in her first life, and she's developing in this current life. it's like a continue from where she left off. aqua actually was an adult, so he has all the knowledge and wisdom of an adult. why does this matter? shift your attention back to the concept of love for a bit. aqua knows what she's doing is bad and is trying to stop her, but the knowledge that she's sarina is making him automatically succumb to her wishes. a part of his brain, because of the trauma, still sees ruby as the sickly sarina he was caring for.

ruby is naïve. she doesnt know what love is. all the love she's ever been exposed to is whatever she saw online: idols. i dont even think she fully knows what the concept of family is. aqua is her brother? nope. aqua is the doctor she proposed to and now she has a chance to follow through like all the shows she's seen. she's closer than ever to him, so why give up the chance? even as ruby, she wasn't exposed to a lot of normalcy because of idol culture. she isn't able to learn about the difference between platonic love and fanatic love. we even see this with ai, who she sees more as an idol than her mom. the joy is in her idol being her mom, someone who's supposed to care for her. it's like shes living a fantasy made just for her. because aqua was so obsessed w revenge, he didn't have the chance to teach her anything, and it's not like he needed to learn bc he already knows. ruby doesn't.

aqua, as the one who understands these nuances, should have sat her down and explained things, but he didn't because of the trauma of sarina. ruby is ignorant and is treating things like a tv drama, now that her dreams as sarina can finally become true. aqua doesn't realize how serious ruby is about this because in his mind this is just a child playing house. ruby is like,,,, imagine you die and you wake up actually being sold to one direction. or whatever happens to you in your fav self-insert scenario/fanfic. idk a better analogy lmao but its like finally being able to play out your fantasies irl. she doesn't realize the real world impacts of her actions because, frankly, she doesn't care. she gets to live out her life as she wants. aqua was shocked after the first kiss with ruby because he realized then she was being serious, but he didn't speak out about it because, again, the trauma™. (we see him again uncomfy with the whole situation in the next page, but his lack of objection could be bc it's a scene in the documentary and he finds it more important to get revenge rn) ruby kissed him then because she purposefully created the mood like that so it would fit in the story she was writing in her mind.

so what does this mean? because of their shared pasts, aqua and ruby are put in this situation where ruby can do what she wants and aqua goes along with it. even if he knows its morally wrong, he can't bring himself to break ruby's immersion in all of this. BUT. big but. aqua shouldn't act like this. they're both capable of living out their lives as normal (barring the revenge and the whole idol stuff). he doesn't need to act like this anymore; ruby's not terminally ill. he's not a doctor. what he should have done was firmly deny her stuff he knows is wrong because then he can educate her about the reason why. as much as their personalities are inspired by their past lives, sarina and gorou are dead. they need to move on and live a aqua and ruby. (Harsh, I know, but because of this scenes like *gestures vaguely to the newest two chapters* happens. if aqua stood his ground and taught ruby about familial love and that what she's feeling is probably not romantic, i think this could have been avoided. but alas, we need it for the ~drama~)

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sorry that went on way longer than i thought lmao. i think i covered everything i wanted to say but im too lazy to read back so fingers crossed

if you made it this far and are curious about the other post i mentioned in the beginning, its here. i just think its some context to my thought process but not necessary to understand this post

[warwickroyals]

Wikipedia Snippets (2/∞): Ruby

Transcript under the cut - HQ images [1] [2]

Ruby, Princess of Danforth, GCW, RGO, GSK, GCLII (born Ruby Dewitt Claypoole; April 13, 1916 - August 30, 2006), was a member of the Sunderlandian royal family. She was the wife of Prince George, Prince of Danforth, the eldest son of King George II and Queen Anne. Ruby was thus Princess of Danfroth from her marriage in 1939 until her husband’s assassination.

Ruby was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Wall Street stockbroker Isadore Collins Claypoole and his socialite wife Gladys Cecile Dewitt. Ruby spent her early childhood divided between Manhattan and her maternal grandparents’ country estate in New Haven, Connecticut. Precocious by nature, Ruby was educated at Spence School in New York and later went on to study art history at Barnard College. While a student at Barnard, Ruby met her future husband at a dinner party in Manhattan. The following year, Ruby and George began a low-profile relationship during which she earned the affection of George‘s parents and siblings. George originally proposed to Ruby in 1936, but the couple didn’t announce their engagement until after Ruby graduated in 1938. The match was initially controversial in Sunderland for multiple reasons, mainly Ruby’s American nationality and her Jewish heritage. However, Ruby gradually endeared herself to the public with her intellect, love of children, and her interest in Sunderlandian history, culture and arts. Her fluency in foreign languages made her very popular abroad as well.

As Princess of Danforth, Ruby planned to accompany her husband on diplomatic tours to Europe, but these plans were halted following the outbreak of the Second World War. During the war, the prince and princess became vocal in their condemnation of Nazi Germany, with Ruby drawing the ire of Adolf Hitler on several occasions. Following the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, George was instrumental in Sunderland revoking their formal neutrality and mobilizing against the Axis powers, but he was assassinated the following year by a member of the National Socialists Union of Sunderland.

Ruby and George had no children, and following George’s funeral Ruby withdrew from public view, taking up residence at Woodbine Castle. After the war, Ruby slowly reemerged in the public, becoming an avid photographer and globetrotter. The Princess Dowager as she was widely known, remained a popular figure, consistently carrying out public duties during the reign of King James II and later that of her nephew, Louis V. Ruby died in her sleep at the age of 90 on August 30, 2006, with her last public appearance being at the 4th birthday party of her grand-nephew, Prince Alexander of Danforth, two months prior.

[mrshiraethsworld]

CURSE OF THE RUBY ━ james norrington ⎈

you are cursed lass

THE RAREST TREASURE TALE read here: wattpad

tag family: @arrthurpendragon, @eddysocs, @darth-caillic, @dancingsunflowers-ocs, @kmc1989, @ocappreciation, @ocs-supporting-ocs if you want to be added to my family, all you have to do is ask!

[felicitykings]

NCUTI GATWA as The Doctor

DOCTOR WHO ↳ The Church on Ruby Road (2023)

[oscarisaacss-wp]

12 DAYS OF GIFMAS… DAY 12, your OCs + representation.

Ruby Otters from Black Magic — Bisexual. (ft. Savannah Consuelos)

Graham Peregrine from Kiss With A Fist — Gay. (ft. Elle Davies)

Gertrude Liu from Strangeness & Charm — Lesbian & Demisexual. (ft. Dolores Umbridge)

Radha Patil from Kiss With A Fist — Lesbian. (ft. Cami Eberhard)

Celeste Mulligan from Lover to Lover — Bisexual. (ft. Florine Reynard)

[kaizokucujoh]

ruby hoshino icons • like/reblog if you save or use

[dxsole]

🗃️ OFFICE JOCKEY TO THE RESCUE | @genrcsavvy

He's sipping whiskey with a straw, holding a hand up to stop them from speaking. "You didn't get this from me." He says pointedly, immediately shaking his head when they nod in understanding.

"No, you need to repeat it; you've never seen this file before in your life. If you're found with it, you found it on a park bench or something." Eyes widen, head tilts; you pick up what he's putting down?

"This is sensitive. And I am deciding against all better judgement to trust you." He would also like to go on and say that he could be killed if it's revealed he made a copy of an old dossier, but they won't kill him. They've had every opportunity. "That being said— what the fuuuck do you even need this for? How deep are you into this?"