Ruby

### Goal

To guide Junior in attempt to help him train to become stronger, in the form of Garnet.

## Media

### Music Theme

"Lava Scarves and Red Hot Blargss"

―Ruby, to Boom Boom, "Frozen Future" | ”

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**Ruby** is a member of the Speedstars and is one of the gems that make up the fusion Garnet in the group. She first meets Bowser. Jr when he and Steven saved her in the Boiling Mouth from Cirrocumulus. Ruby is a hot-headed and temperamental, who serves as extra muscle in the group when unfused.

## **Background**

### **Distinctive features**

Ruby has bright scarlet skin, burgundy irises, and dark burgundy, dark red eyes, and square-shaped hair. She is shorter than Steven and has a thick build. Her gemstone is located in the palm of her left hand. Ruby continues to wear a maroon tank top, but the top part of her tank top is now brown. Along with that, she wears long, brown pants and her headband is now golden-bronze and shiny.

### **Personality and traits**

A short-tempered, irascible gem that makes half of Garnet's fusion and wields a singular gauntlet. She is very impulsive and tends to act out before thinking, and can be sometimes dim. Ruby mainly embodies Garnet's strength and courage. She is extremely passionate and emotional, known to be very hot-headed and temperamental, and often irritable. She has violent ways of exhibiting her anger.

Ruby has no sense of what's going on around her and can only focus on one thing only at the expense of all things. She appears to be a bad conversationalist, occasionally speaking in somewhat unintelligible mumbles, a trait which she carries onto Garnet. She is also seen to be bad at lying under pressure, as she could be seen hesitating and accidentally unravelling secrets which should be remained unspoken of. Though Ruby can't focus on what's going on around her, she is thoughtful and introspective.

In Worlds Collide, Ruby was first seen as a loud and crass gem who demanded to find Sapphire. As in "Frozen Future", she went off on her own to find her as she was too impatient to wait for Junior and Steven, this soon backfired on her when she gets trapped in ice. In the animation series, Ruby is a very hyperactive and still has a short fuse. In "The Good Egg", Ruby becomes somewhat irritated by Spinel's incongruous jokes and behaviour, as becomes exceptionally angry when Spinel saves the egg for herself and leaves the others hungry.

## **Powers and abilities**

### Skillset

* **Gauntlet Proficiency**: Through sheer anger and feeling the need to release it through violence, Ruby can summon a gauntlet like Garnet's. Although only seen once, it is clear that Ruby possesses some knowledge of how to use it.
* **Superhuman Strength**: Ruby seems to possess great strength, as she was able to shake the walls of her prison with a single punch, lift Sapphire with little effort, and flip a diner booth table with relative ease in Ruby is dense enough to walk underwater.
* **Superhuman Agility**: She repeatedly proved to be extremely agile and acrobatic. In "Frozen Future" and "Rescuing Ruby!", Ruby appears to overtake Steven and Junior quickly when she impatiently looks for Sapphire.
* **Musical Ability**: Greg taught Ruby how to play the acoustic guitar. Within ten minutes, she was skilled enough to improvise a song about her current experiences.

### Unique Abilities

* **Heat Generation/Pyrokinesis**: Ruby can increase the temperature and generate heat. This is shown in "Keystone Motel" when her body gets so hot that it begins burning the carpet of the motel room and boils the pool to nothing but steam in a very short amount of time. It is shown to be related to Ruby's emotional state, as the ability manifested itself when she got furious in the aforementioned episode and when she felt infatuated, as she set the grass beneath her ablaze when Sapphire thanked her. When fused as Garnet, Ruby's pyrokinesis fuses with Sapphire's cryokinesis and forms Garnet's electrokinesis, as thunderstorms can result from the formation of masses of cold and warm air.
	+ **Pyrokinetic Touch**: This ability allows Ruby to set fire to whatever she touches. As shown in "The Answer" and "Keystone Motel", she accidentally sets fire to the grass beneath her the minute she got flustered and the carpet when she became angry, respectively. The same occurred in "Reunited" when she excitedly walked down the stairs. In "The Question", Ruby proved she can use her pyrokinetic touch at will and while in a neutral state of mind to make a fire.
	+ **Fire Dash**: Ruby can move at high speed by forming a fireball around herself, as shown during "Reunited".
	+ **Heat Resistance**: Ruby has not demonstrated this ability, but it was confirmed that the only reason Garnet can swim in lava is by Ruby. She shares this power with Bismuth.