Ruby Gillman

Ruby Gillman is the titular main protagonist of DreamWorks Animation’s 44th animated feature film .
She is a 16-year-old anthromorphic Kraken, who wants to become a normal teenager like everyone else and live peacefully with humanity. However she soon embraces her Kraken heritage to help people against her true enemy.
She is voiced by , who played Lara Jean in the franchise, Jubilee in the franchise and Koyomi in .
==Appearance==
In her normal human size form, Ruby has an aquamarine skin, along with dark blue shoulder-length tentacle hair and vibrant turquoise eyes. Her wardrobe has a green turtleneck sweater, purple high waisted jean short shorts, purple, dark grey, and white striped leggings, grey knitted socks, and dark purple boots with purplish blue laces.
In her Kraken form, she has glowing purple skin with small spots all around her body, 5 tentacles with 4 fingers (three of them serve as legs, while two serve as arms). Her hair is longer.
==Personality==
Ruby is portrayed as a quiet, shy, adorable, insertions and awkward student at Oceanside High who tries to fit in with students at school.
==Biography==
===Past===
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===Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken===
She is first seen waking up to prepare her routine of arriving Oceanside High School, where she sees a new transfer student named Chelsea gathering a huge amount of attention to her charm, the latter then sees Ruby and notices her true nature, leading to Ruby feeling anxious and leaves, next Ruby's friends see Conner and handed Ruby a confetti Cannon despite planning on proposing to him through a calculator, Upon the encounter she felt a bit overwhelmed due to Connor fondling with the cannon, resulting in himself accidentally being blasted into the ocean, Ruby in a quick retaliation then secretly transforms into her Kraken form and hurried Connor out of the Ocean and swam back to her Family's lighthouse to confront her mother Agatha Gillman about her powers after unintentionally scaring the librarian.
Upon returning home, Ruby became dismay over her mother shielding the secrets of her heritage, this would result in Ruby consulting her Grandmamah who sensed her presence and showed her the true history of her Mother, who once fought in the Sea battle against the mermaids, she succeeds and hid the powerful trident into the deepest pits of the Ocean, to prevent anyone from obtaining the power to rule the sea, Ruby became destined to confront her mother the truth about it, She was then briefly stopped by a Crazy Lighthouse fisherman named Gordon who accuses her of being a Kraken, which then Ruby innocently dumbfounds and dismisses it as she continues her walk home.
The next day at School, Ruby sees everyone on their phones to see her Kraken form destroying and fleeing the library, leading to Ruby hiding in the Girl bathroom stalls in fear of her abilities, there she meets Chelsea again talking to the other girls outside which Ruby notices and awkwardly shouts for her need, she then has a conversation with Chelsea over her powers, Chelsea then cheers Ruby up and ditches Oceanside High towards the ocean, where she reveals herself to be a mermaid and spends quality time with Ruby in her kraken form, where Chelsea reveals herself as Nerissa's "illegitimate" daughter during the Ocean War, which Ruby sympathizes with and was convinced to obtain the trident back for Chelsea to bring peace to both their kind, leading to Ruby arriving to meet with her Grandmamah to train fiercely with her abilities.
Ruby arrives as Prom began and had a conversation with her mother about being friends with a mermaid, Ruby later storms out of the house after calling her mother out for not telling her the truth sooner. Afterwards, Agatha confronts Grandmamah for trying to control her life through Ruby. As Agatha tells Grandmamah that Ruby made friends with a mermaid, Grandmamah reveals that Nerissa never had a daughter, much to Agatha's surprise as she realizes that Ruby's in trouble. Ruby was met by Chelsea again in the ocean who instructs her to obtain the Trident through the obstacles protecting the cursed object, Ruby successfully manages to bypass the unstable environment and gave Chelsea the Trident, the latter, in a sinister glow reveals her true motives, revealing herself to be Nerissa and attacks Ruby by kicking her into a rock, leaving her trapped underneath debre of rocks. Ruby was later found by her uncle, who gave her motivation as he realizes why Agatha renounced her title and left the ocean: She choose Ruby over the throne. Nerissa destroys a portion of a couple's house, Agatha appears, and is joined by Grandmamah to challenge Nerissa, but they're soon were overpowered due to the Trident. As Nerissa prepares to finish them off, Ruby emerges in determination and fights Nerissa. As both of them grappled for the trident, Ruby manages to block each of the trident's blows, but is tackled by Nerissa's fin and tumbles. Nerissa attempts to attack Ruby's father and brother, but was hit by the rest of Doug and Janice's house by Agatha. Ruby gets up and rushes towards Nerissa, but is thrown into the ocean, generating a massive wave slowly heading towards Gordon and the students of Oceanside High. Ruby gets back up, sees the giant wave, and quickly lifts the boat out of the wave's path at the last second, much to everyone's surprise and appreciation. After gently putting the boat down, Ruby is then knocked and pinned down by Nerissa who attempts to impale her while taunting her of being a "monster", Ruby slowly corrects her and uses her laser eyes to blast the trident away. Ruby then hurries to Agatha and Grandmamah, and tells them they all need to shoot the trident together by a formula called the "Exponential Growth Formula", Nerissa then attempts to impale the three Krakens again, but is pushed back by Ruby's laser eyes. Ruby tries to convince hwe to give up her lust for power, but Nerissa refuses. Ruby joins hands with Agatha and Grandmamah, and they completely eradicate the Trident with their laser eyes, turning Nerissa back into her small mermaid form, as she flies away and lands in the ocean, where she is captured by Gordon Lighthouse and his pet crab, Davey, who pinches her on the nose despite her pleas. Afterwards Ruby, Agatha, and Grandmamah stand victorious as everyone cheers for them, Agatha apologizes to Ruby for omitting the truth, and promises to never keep secrets from her again. Ruby and Agatha reconcile by sharing a hug, and then Ruby swims to the prom boat and changes her outfit into a prom dress. She apologizes to her friends, but they brush it off due to her heroism, and they hug her. Ruby then sees Connor and confesses her invitation to dance, to which Connor replies by forming quadratic graphs to spell out "Yes," much to her surprise. They dance together, while Grandmamah meets Sam. Ruby sees her parents watching and waves at them. The following day, Ruby walks down to her high school with Connor, who is now her boyfriend. As Gordon's boat stops by, Brill pops out his head to warn Ruby about a devil whale heading to the Kraken Kingdom. Ruby responds by handing her friends her stuff as she determinedly rushes towards the ocean bay, turns into her giant form, and she swims away while Grandmamah narrates the closing of the movie. 
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==Powers and Abilities==
===Kraken form===
*Kraken physiology: Ruby can transform into a giant kraken.
**Laser eyes: Ruby can shoot energy beams from her eyeballs.
**Superhuman strength: In her size form, Ruby possesses high-level superhuman strength.
**Superspeed swimming : Ruby can swim at a very fast rate.
**Bioluminescence: Like every kraken, Ruby can make her body glow.
**Boneless structure: Ruby's limbs are bendy and stretchy, suggesting those of a mollusk, with a reach twice as long as a human of the same size in humanoid form, her leg-tentacles having a reach of a few hundred feet in true kraken form. Whether she or any other kraken truly has no endoskeleton or spine is not stated, but if not, she has no trouble standing upright; she does have human-like teeth.
**Body armor: Ruby can make her body hard to resist attacks. She can use this to her advantage when in battle.
===Abilities===
*High Intelligence: Ruby is a well trained mathlete from her time shown notably in the movie, greatly skilled on memorizing formulas that she uses to her advantage to lead her Kraken Family to defeat Nerissa.
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==Trivia==
*Ruby Gillman is DreamWorks Animation's seventh female protagonist, following Ginger from , Susan Murphy/Ginormica from , Eep Crood from , Queen Poppy from , Yi from , and Lucky Prescott from .
*Ruby is also DreamWorks Animation's first female protagonist to be a titular character and the seventh overall, following Shrek, Sinbad, Megamind, Puss in Boots, Turbo, Mr. Peabody, and Sherman. 
*She may be a heroic parody of Ursula from Disney's The Little Mermaid. 
**Coincidentally, both Ruby and Chelsea became memes due to being morally swapped Ariel and Ursula.
**It also helps that the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid was released in the same year as Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken did.
*In the Menchie's Frozen Yogurt promotion, she has a raspberry sorbet named after her.Ruby Gillman's Vegan Blue Raspberry Sorbet on Menchie's Frozen Yogurt
*In the original concept, she was initially going to be an only child and not have a grandmother.
*She wears a retainer in bed.
*Her blue hair almost gives her a resemblance to Coraline Jones from Coraline. 
*She reads books about Geology of the sea and Marine Biology.
*She is very similar to Mei Lee from Pixar's Turning Red. Both teenage girls initially had problems with each of their shapeshifting heritages (kraken for Ruby; red panda for Mei), as they conflict with their respective normal lives. Such personal issues of theirs were then increased with their respective mothers (Agatha for Ruby; Ming for Mei) being worried about each of their daughters. But in the end, not only they got used to their respective heritages, but have also managed to reconcile with their mothers.
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