Ruby Ortiz

“
...We're a family, Don't you realize what you're throwing away?
”

—Ruby Ortiz, "One Last Mission"

**Ruby Ortiz** is a major supporting character of *Alpha Betas*. She is a young productive woman who works at The Energy Division as an In-Game Tech Advisor for Alpha Team.

## Appearance

### Body

She is shown to be a tall, slim and tan figure. She has light-brunette long hair wrapped in a ponytail.

### Clothing

She is seen to wear a light-cyan v-neck shirt with the sleeves rolled up. She also wears an long indigo skirt with black heels. She is also shown to wear square glasses.

## Personality

She is shown to be pretty strict and serious about her job. Even when she's having an attitude with everyone, she is nice to everyone, but dislike people who seem to annoy her and try to make a fast move on her.

## Background

### Early Life

Not much is known about her personal life or early life, but it is revealed that she's been wanting to work with the CIA ever since childhood, since then, she has worked hard throughout school and eventually graduated.

### Joining CIA

After graduating, its assumed that Ruby then applied to be at the CIA, after waiting eagerly for a posting, when she finally got one, she immediately was disappointed when she was assigned to be an in-game tech-advisor. It's assumed that she first met Allison and Stephen around the same time.

## Skills and Abilities

### Marksman

Not much is known about how well she can handle guns but she was involved in the stand-off with Alpha Team at the end of "One Last Mission" and used a gun as a defense weapon during security breaches, as shown in “One of Us is Getting Cancelled!”, This could likely imply she is good enough with handling them to be involved in serious situations.

## Relationships

*click here to view Ruby's relationships*

## Behind the scenes

### Name and basis

The name "Ruby" comes from English and Latin origins, the name derives from the Latin word "ruber," meaning "red".

The surname "Ortiz" is a Spanish-language patronymic surname meaning "son of Orti". "Orti" seems to be disputed in meaning, deriving from either Basque, Latin fortis meaning "brave, strong", or Latin fortunius meaning "fortunate".

### Debut

Ruby debuted in the series premiere, "This is Alpha Team".

## Trivia

* Ruby is one out of 5 characters who wear glasses in the entire show.
	+ Four others being Mason, Sammy, Stephen and Spunc.
* It was confirmed that during some point of pre-pilot and pre-18 months that Ruby had feelings for Eddie despite having had rejecting his advances in the past.
* In "Get to Know The Energy Division Documentary", Ruby is implied to be Latina, or at least from Hispanic/Latin descent.
	+ Her surname, "Ortiz" is a last name of Latine origin, as is the name “Ruby”.
	+ Her voice actress, Stephanie Beatriz, is also from hispanic descent, being born in Argentina.
* Ruby is implied to be Bisexual.
	+ This was hinted at in a now deleted post made by an official Alpha Betas account on OnlyFans where the post caption implied that she is willing to date a woman.
	+ Ruby has been shown to have attraction to multiple men.
	+ Her voice actress is also bisexual and is known for voicing queer characters in other works, therefore it could also play a part in Ruby being implied as bi as it is not uncommon for characters in Alpha Betas to be based off their actors to some degrees.