Ruen Ashwell

## Family

### Family

Kite Tomms (adoptive sister), Will Ashwell, Solfy Avely, Lene Endriuen (found family), Artemis (twin sibling)

### Spouse

Violet Sokolov (former, ex-wife), Elora Danes (girlfriend)

### Romances

Andrea Birley (former), Violet Sokolov (former, ex-wife), Elora Danes (current)

### Other relations

Sapphire Faux (friend), Eve Everyrest (friend)

## Skills and powers

### Powers

Time Travel, Invisibility, Intangibility, DImension-hopping

**Ruen Ashwell**, formerly known as **Ruen Percival**, is a known participant in both Resistance's against the Crown's Loyalty Act. In the reality they used to reside in, Ruen became a figure-head for a revolution and is known as the face which sparked change. And in the reality they currently reside in, they're known as one who helped reform the EveSMP in Project Rockrose.

Ruen's life has never been still, due to their abilities as a time traveller and they're emotional instability, Ruen has resided in multiple realities across the multiverse in their time on Earth. And even when managing to stay in one reality, Ruen has never managed to stay in one place for too long due to their place as a revolutionary and fugitive. Their current residence is Fortuna, Astoria, where they live with their girlfriend Elora Danes, where they have finally learnt to manage their own abilities and is currently recovering in therapy.

## Appearance

Ruen is a fallen time angel, though they have no differentiating characteristics from other human-beings on the surface. Though, their eyes have been a light shade of grey since their revival, formerly being green, which is their only strange characteristic on the surface. They are fair-skinned with freckles, curious, expressive eyes, and medium length, fluffy brown hair. Their physique has been getting progressively healthier throughout the months since escaping poverty, though they're still described as quite light and fragile by those close to them. Despite this, they're quite physically strong and muscular, easily able to keep themselves steady in a physical fight. Ruen is 5'7 (170cm).

On their shoulders, Ruen carries two light burn scars, and more, darker, burn-like scars run down their right arm. They have no other prominent physical scars other than faint, light scratches and scarring from battles.

Ruen is most commonly seen wearing neutral shades, blues, and greens. They avoid the colour white whenever they can. They used to be seen only wearing long-sleeved, baggy clothes, but since an uplift in their self-esteem and acceptance of themselves, they're much happier wearing t-shirts and tank-tops. However, a jacket is commonly paired with those clothes.

## Personality

Ruen is a light-hearted, curious, and excitable person. They're focused largely on other people and the world around them, always curious to see and know more than they already do. A dream of theirs has always been to see it all, to see the world around them and cherish everything in it. They want to be happy in the world they're in, and they want the same for everyone around them. They tend to equate other people's happiness with their own, partially due to issues with self esteem in the past.

Due to their background, where they constantly faced discrimination and poverty, Ruen has grown to be someone who's excitable and easily pleased. Ruen never takes anything they have for granted, using their past as a learning and growing point, and often feeling twinges of guilt whenever they feel they've taken a period of their life for granted. Ruen tries to be the best person they possibly can be, focusing their life around helping others and helping them reach their potential. Seeing others in awful mental states, states which they used to be in, makes them feel like they have an obligation to pull the other out of it. They're a highly compassionate and kind person, though they often face awkwardness and discomfort at sudden bursts of emotion, especially when they don't know how to help the person.

Ruen is highly perceptive and a quick-thinker, always looking for solutions and ways to solve problems. Their quick-thinking often comes in handy in life-threatening situations. They try to remain impartial in decision making and tense situations, never wanting to be the problem or the failure in a situation. In addition, they're focused on keeping group morale high, often feigning an optimistic outlook, even when they commonly think otherwise.

They're a highly moral person and never afraid to stand up for others, though, Ruen tends to have trouble standing up for themselves when nobody else is involved. Low self esteem and a negativistic outlook on themselves due to neglect in childhood has left Ruen focused on other people to a fatal extent, and they often neglect their own needs for others. Ruen stands up for what they believe in when there's a greater cause, a country or a group of people at stake, but when there's only themselves, they have trouble.

Ruen despises boredom, always searching for new activities and things to do, though they often find themselves honing in on one particular activity or hyperfixation, whether it be as large as studying their own abilities to learn to control them or something as small as researching cacti, Ruen always finds something to latch themselves onto. Without it, they feel rather empty.

They're rather clingy with relationships, and though their abandonment issues never shine through on the surface, they're quite terrible. Ruen has a firm belief that if they aren't helping someone in some way, if they aren't proving that they are someone, then they will be abandoned. This leads to a compulsive urge to help, often putting them in the role of the 'therapist friend' in times of crises with many people. It rarely bothers them, though it can lead to episodes of apathy and self-pity.

Ruen enjoys the rush of adrenaline, in their teen years they slipped into kleptomaniac-like tendencies and often found themselves running from authorities and using their newly discovered abilities to evade people. They love new experiences and they love the thrill that comes with the chase, which often leads to smaller behaviours such as compulsive lying and it fuels their hatred for boredom. If Ruen isn't doing something, if they aren't moving or they don't have something to achieve, they feel useless and hopeless.

Even though they're one for high levels of compassion and excitability, Ruen is one who's rather prone to apathy and apathetic episodes, especially when facing depression. Ruen can be seen as rather indifferent at their worst times, going from high levels of impulsivity and restlessness to complete apathy. During these times, Ruen is quieter and more blunt with their words, indifferent to others problems and rather trapped within pity for themselves.

## Early-life History

Ruen was never 'born' as such, they appeared in the mist as a child appearing around five years of age, this is due to their origins as a time angel. They were found by Kite Tomms, who discovered them disorientated and confused and convinced her mother, Juliet, to take them in. Ruen faced neglect in their childhood from their now adoptive-mother, who spiralled into drug addiction shortly after Ruen's arrival. Because of this, Kite became a paternal figure to Ruen, and they often accidentally referred to Kite as 'mom' whenever she would do things a parent would do. This broke Kite's heart. In their early childhood, Kite was their entire world. Ruen clung to Kite and focused most of their life on her, they looked up to her and always felt safe around her.

They were a strange child. Ruen would often mention angels, time or about somebody watching over them and then go onto forget only moments later, though these comments were commonly ignored as they were only a child. Ruen had plenty of memory problems, they were assumed to have some sort of amnesia as they would forget events which hurt them greatly, or any events surrounding their abilities.

Ruen's abilities were not controlled in their childhood. In times of stress, they'd feel a strong tension in their chest and sparks would emit from their hands, and in rare occasions, small portals. Kite would try her best to calm them down, she would lull them to sleep or hold them until they stopped crying so the portals would go away, and she would remain the only one to know about their abilities for a long, long time. Ruen would always forget these events when they woke up, along with the trigger, and it'd be like it never happened for anybody except Kite.

At eleven years old, Ruen's abilities spiralled far out of control, and they were separated from Kite by a portal of their own creation. Ruen ended up in an entirely different century and continent at only eleven years old, confused and disorientated without their one life anchor. Ruen ended up in the 17th century. They were found by three siblings, Alistair, Elizabeth, and Edith Percival, in a field nearby their rural town. They found Ruen dressed in a muddy hoodie with burnt singes, crying and screaming for their sister, and they decided to take them home and take them in.

Ruen was mute for the first two months of living with the Percival's, and during this time, they were delirious, confused, and scared. They forgot almost everything about their past life, only managing to remember the name Kite and the fact that she was their sister, nothing more. After a while, they were near to forgetting Kite entirely. They couldn't remember her face.

They bonded with their siblings in this time, though their parents were anything but kind to them. Their father neglected and ignored their existence almost entirely, and their mother used them as a trophy for her own fake-kindness. With their mother, they would get affection only when others were around, only to be discarded the minute guests or friends were gone. This confused Ruen, it gave them an extreme lack of self worth and a sense of no belonging. In addition, Ruen's guilt spiked when they found their family descending into poverty because of a new child to take care of, which was something they couldn't handle. All of this added up lead Ruen to the route of crime.

They turned to stealing around the age of 13, stealing food and other supplies at first and trying their best to target the richer people of their town. This stealing developed into a coping mechanism and addiction, and when their efforts proved to be useless, they kept going and going and robbing more like jewellery and other gifts in order to feel equal to their siblings. It never worked. As they grew older, Ruen became targeted by authorities, and after discovering their abilities they found it rather easy to run. They grew to enjoy the thrill, enjoy being outside and away from it all, because this way they were garnering attention and were away from their parents. Ruen was arrested a few times, though they always managed to escape. They never realised how it affected their mental state, though, developing claustrophobia and issues with paranoia and anxiety. They thought they were being chased all of the time.

Despite all of this, Ruen's siblings still loved them dearly and showed them plenty of affection. Alistair had traditional beliefs, though he still allowed Ruen to do things which weren't exactly 'feminine' simply because they enjoyed it (this helped Ruen's growing dysphoria greatly). Elizabeth would cut their hair for them, and Edith would teach them how to argue and get away with things which weren't accepted here. Though they felt safe around these people, Ruen was still hesitant to mention their struggles with sexuality and gender. Ruen loved them all, but everything crashed down when their father died.

Ruen grew older and around the age of 18, they finally began to bond with their father, and things felt like they were amending themselves slowly, like all of Ruen's hard work was paying off. But then, their father died. Ruen couldn't handle the grief, the family slowly began to fall apart, and Ruen slipped into their delirious state. In this state, they confronted Alistair and ended up coming out as a lesbian, believing themselves to be safe in the hands of the person they loved most. Alistair did not accept. Ruen was verbally abused and kicked out of their home for being gay, and they were left homeless for over a month.

During this time, Ruen was hunted by the authorities after they learnt about Ruen's new status as homeless, they survived on scraps and lost all will to live. Ruen lost one of their lives from an arrow to the chest, and this is when they experienced a psychotic break. Shortly after, a portal opened against their will, and Ruen was forced out of their reality and into the EveSMP, on May 18th, 2021.

## Abilities

* PORTAL-JUMPING: Summoning a portal to travel through space and time across the multiverse.
* INVISIBILITY: The power to render oneself unseen at will.
* INTANGIBILITY: The power to phase through solid objects at will.
* DIMENSION-JUMPING: Using reflective surfaces (e.g mirrors) to travel through the pockets of the multiverse. (These pocket dimensions are referred to as 'The Inbetween'.)
* PORTAL-ENERGY, SUBCATEGORY ONE: Energy emitted from the hand, usually used to create portals but can be used in combat. Sparks, highly explosive with strong knockback abilities. Uses less physical and mental energy than Subcategory Two.
* PORTAL-ENERGY, SUBCATEGORY TWO: Energy emitted from the hand, usually used to create portals but can be used in combat. Wisps, or embers, eats everything it latches onto. Looks like the object it's latched onto is withering or burning away. This is much more likely to exhaust the user, but is both more painful and powerful.

## Trivia

* The closest they have to biological family is Artemis, who they share abilities, appearance, and voice with. The both of them often refer to each other as their 'twin', though cover it up with trying to keep their supernatural life away from casual conversation.
* Ruen is scared of toasters, they have been since they first saw one. The noise of microwaves also scares them on occasion.
* Their favourite animal are capybaras, which they are currently hyperfixated on.
* They own a pet cat, Audre, with their girlfriend, though they previously owned Audre along with their ex-wife, Vienna.
* They tend to mumble in their sleep, mostly in nightmares.
* Their favourite colour is blue because it reminds them of their loved ones.
* Ruen despises rich people, and often goes out of their way to steal from them.
* They know the exact hexcodes for the colours for the lesbian flag.
* No matter how many times it's explained, they don't understand the difference between microwaves, ovens, and toasters.
* They cut their hair using knives over scissors up until Fortuna, where they were forced into going to a hairdressers or doing nothing at all.
* They stutter and stumble over their words when nervous or embarrassed.
* Ruen never knew their birthday until near the end of last year, and so they assumed their birthday to be April 4th, which was the day they met their former siblings (Alistair, Elizabeth, and Edith).