Ms. Sweetruby

"*Would you rather I send you back into the streets? Where are you gonna go? Back to your parents? Oh, wait, that's right, you don't even know where they are, and you know why? Because they sent you away. Face it, honey, you're nothin' without me. (a pause; she chuckles dryly) Glad we could have this conversation. Get the fuck back in your cage.*"
— Ms. Sweetruby to a young Loona.

**Ms. Sweetruby** is a minor character in *Hazbin Hotel: Journey to the Light*.

She serves as a flashback character in Season 4.

She was a caretaker at the Hellhound Adoption Foundation orphanage that Loona grew up in. Beneath her kindly disposition, she ran her orphanage like a sweatshop and correctional facility, and showed no affection whatsoever for the pups under her care.

## Biography

### Background

At some point in time, Ms. Sweetruby became the headmaster of a Hellhound Adoption Foundation orphanage. On the surface, she was a dedicated and kind, if apathetic Hellhound devoted to finding loving homes for abandoned Hellhounds. In secret, however, she what was essentially a sweatshop and pound, forcing kidnapped pups to do hard labor to "straighten them out", and subjecting them to beatings and solitary confinement for missteps.

When an imp known as Blitzø arrived at the orphanage in search of a Hellhound, Ms. Sweetruby attempted to dissuade him from adopting Loona by making disparaging comments, since she was months away from being euthanized at the age of 18, but Blitzø put his foot down and insisted that he have Loona as his daughter, to the complete shock and Sweetruby and even Loona herself. With no other choice, she signed Loona over to Blitzø.

### Season 4

After Karen's destruction, all shock collars around Hellhounds and Scavenger Units shut down, due to Karen being the source of providing them with power, which leads to many hellhounds across Sloth ring to revolt and fight back against their persecutors, including the ones who are alien Sloth ring using Elevator 666. Which led to many foundation's bases being destroyed by the enraged Hellhounds as an act of vengeance for everything they have done to their species and freeing the pups within the foundations. It is unknown if Ms. Sweetruby survived their rampage when they were destroying the foundation's bases as nothing indicates that demons who partake the oppression of Hellhounds died during the Hellhounds' revolution.

## Personality

Ms. Sweetruby is a cruel, smug, emotionally abusive, and passive-aggressive woman who hides her true nature under the guise of a kindly old woman. Despite running a Hellhound orphanage, she despises both children and Hellhounds, with it being implied that she uses her position simply to torture the pups within. All of the horrific evils that occur within her orphanage, such as hard labor, solitary confinement, beatings, and the execution of pups who are not adopted by the age of 18, are all committed under her supervision.

She employs emotionally abusive tactics on any pup who defies her, telling certain pups they will never be adopted, and reminding Loona that she would die alone on the streets if she left the Hellhound Adoption Foundation since it is the only "home" she had, since her parents "gave her up". When Blitzø expressed his desire to adopt Loona, Sweetruby attempted to convince the imp on settling for another Hellhound by saying that Loona would never amount to anything, and when Blitzø insisted on having Loona as his "daughter", Sweetruby's jaw practically dropped to the floor, stunned that anyone could be capable of loving a Hellhound.

## Appearance

Ms. Sweetruby is an elderly female hellhound who resembles a plus-sized, anthropomorphic bulldog with grey fur and white hair on her head. She has red eyes with white sclera. She wears glasses, a dark grey sweater with a black skirt, a pearl necklace, and black heels.