Ruby Daly

Green

Ruby Tuesday

Tangerine

Leader

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Darlin'

Boo

Medusa

Suzume Kimura

Children's League

Jude

Vida

Cole Stewart

Samantha Dahl

Nico

Lucas Ofero

Mason

US government

*"Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark."*
*-*Ruby Daly in Darkest Minds.

**Ruby Elizabeth Daly** is a orange woman who played a major factor in the fall of the rehabilitation camps and was the one of the two creators of Haven. She also played a large factor in rebuilding the United States.

## Biography

### Early On

Ruby Elizabeth Daly was born on January 13th, in Charlottesville, Virginia but raised in Salem, Virginia and had an average early childhood and was an average child. She was eight or nine years old when Michael Everhart died of IAAN, and the disease became a prevalent threat. She was not aware of how badly things were going on in her country since her mother refused to allow a television into the house and she had no siblings or cousins to watch die around her. The school also kept it covered up, but it was blown when Grace Somerfield died. A month after Grace's death, half of the fourth grade class was dead and she was the only kid on her block.

The night before Ruby's tenth birthday, her parents got into an argument about her birthday celebration, which her father made her mother cancel. Oblivious to the tense atmosphere, Ruby asked if death would be painless, which ended up in another argument, which escalated quickly, scaring Ruby enough that she retreated into her room. That night, Ruby went into her parents' room and kissed them on the head as a way of apologizing, however she unknowingly erased all their memories of her.

When she woke up the next morning she quickly realizes that her parents no longer remember her. Out of fear, her mother then locked her in the garage and her dad contacted the police, however the Psi Special Forces got there first, taking her with them. They bring her to Thurmond, the first and largest rehabilitation camp.

As Ruby is being unloaded from her bus, she notices the kids who were there before her, and she notices how all of the kids are treated by the colored 'X' on their backs. Ruby watches as one of the older boys on her bus uses his orange abilities to force a PSF woman shoot herself in the head and creates an opportunity for escape, but she does not take it. He and all other children are quickly restrained and are sent into a testing center in order to determine their color classification. As she is waiting to be tested, she befriends a girl named Samantha Dahl. She is eventually brought into the testing room, and is quickly tested by the doctor. She is discovered to be an orange.

The doctor moved to restrain her, but she quickly latches onto his arm and she peers into the mans mind. Using his memories to figure out the color classification and which ability went along with each color. Upon figuring out that she was an orange, Ruby instinctively uses her powers and forces the man to change her classification to green. The doctor follows her order and changes her color classification. He puts her down as a green with an enhanced intelligence. Ruby is placed into Cabin 27, which is the first empty cabin for female greens. Ruby was ironically very lucky, since she was a part of the second group of collected kids. The first group was placed in the experimentation group, and were used to find information and potentially a cure for the psi's abilities.

Ruby quickly becomes best friends with Samantha Dahl, the green girl with a perfect memory placed in her cabin. The pair are best friends until an argument breaks out between the pair and Ruby accidentally removes Sam's memories of Ruby. Sam becomes best friends with another girl in her cabin, Vanessa, and Ruby goes on to not speak for eight months. The girls in cabin 27 do not figure out what happened to Sam, or what Ruby really is, until the end of the Afterlight.

Ruby gets sick two times at Thurmond. Once when she got the stomach flu and dehydration after what Sam called her Gut Puking Spectacular and the second time was for a sprained wrist.

### The Darkest Minds

Ruby is picking weeds with the rest of her cabin in the garden when without warning the White Noise (or Calm Control) blares over the loudspeakers. This particular case of white noise was not because of some incident with an individual person or building, but a test by the Children's League to find reds, oranges and yellows hidden in the camp. Since one of the frequencies was an orange specific one it caused Ruby to be knocked unconscious and caused her nose to bleed.

She wakes up sometime later in the infirmary, where her hands are velcroed to the bed. Catherine "Cate" Connor is sitting next to her. When Ruby wakes up, Cate removes her handcuffs, and cleans her face of blood. Cate tells Ruby to call her Cate and skip the doctor business. Catherine then flat out asks about how Ruby's color selection process went. Ruby becomes worried that Thurmond knows that she's actually orange, not a green. After Cate leaves Ruby's room, Ruby discovers a note telling her that her bad reaction to the calm control means that the PSF's know she isn't green and is going to execute her tomorrow. Under the note is a package of two pills that Ruby slips in her bra. She then shoves the note in her mouth.

Ruby then goes back to her cabin and takes the two pills before bed, which causes her to have seizure-like symptoms. The girls in her cabin press the emergency button and Infirmary workers come to pick her up. She is immediately taken to the infirmary. Cate and Sarah instantly take custody of her, and dress her in nurse scrubs. Cate ties up her friend and is able to drag Ruby out of the infirmary. A PSF joins them and helps them to their car and they pull away from the parking lot at 2:45 am.

As soon as they clear the gate Ruby passes out, and wakes up at 4:30 am. She notices Martin in the back and that Cate had changed clothes. She answers Ruby's many questions and says that there were less than two hundred and fifty thousand children under the age of eighteen in the United States and that there were few cases of IAAN affected kids outside of the states. This fact sickens Ruby since she never knew of how bad things were until this moment.

Eventually Martin wakes up and messes with Ruby for awhile before the group quieted down. The three reached the cities edges of Marlinton at seven in the morning and watched as a red semi truck passed by them headed towards Thurmond. Cate decided at this moment to ask how the kids escaped, and both answered honestly. Ruby ended up being disgusted by Martin changed his way of escaping death.

Not long after they meet Cate's boyfriend Rob at a gas station. Ruby accidentally brushes up against Rob's hand, and finds out that he murdered two high level psi children that he had found hiding in a camp. Rob sends the two kids into the gas station to change. While Martin is in the bathroom, Ruby spots Zu taking food from the shelves and pursues her to a van called Black Betty. Zu lets Ruby into the van after some begging. After a minute, two boys appear and start the van and they all drive away, unaware that Ruby is hiding in the van.

Ruby learns that the two boys names are Liam and Chubs. Liam drives, while Chubs sits in the passenger seat. Ruby still hidden in the back of the van, under a sheet jumps up when she hears a gunshot fired at the van. Ruby knew it was Cate and Rob. Shocked, Liam stopped the car. Ruby reveals herself and since Ruby had been hiding in the back of the van, Liam almost crashes the van when she reveals herself. When the league agents finally catch up to Zu and her companions, Liam throws a tree in front of their vehicle so they could no longer keep up the group.

As the group is driving away from the crash site, she learns that her companions had been from a camp, Caledonia, Ohio. Zu had been there for two years, Chubs was there for a year and a half, and Liam had been there for a year. She is surprised with how little time they had spent at the camp, and how long she had been in Thurmond. Ruby passes out and when she wakes back up they are near Kingwood, West Virginia, and Chubs claimed she had slept for twenty four hours. The group had stopped at East River Camping Grounds, to find East River, though it was not the real one. After some exploring, Ruby and Zu stumble into a camper, Ruby finds a security camera and hits it with. a coffee pot and Zu uses her powers to destroy it.

They quickly leave, and on the drive Ruby finds out about Jack and how the government read everything posted online. After traveling for a little while, Ruby realizes that there is about to be a white noise attack and she switches the radio as loud as she could, but she was unable to stop the attack. All four kids are dragged from the van, and Liam is positively ID. Ruby, who is mostly used to the White Noise, is able to use her powers to send the group away. She grabs everyone and drives away, realizing that Zu had murdered a person on accident, and crashed two cars.

When the others wake up, Ruby is upset when they tell they had never heard White noise. Eventually the group stops at a motel for the night and Ruby learns about what really happens at Caledonia because Ruby accidentally uses her powers to see into the girls dream. She wakes up scared, before Liam is able to calm her down. Eventually they get up and start moving East, eventually stopping at a Walmart. Ruby and Liam went in first to check out the store, but were attacked by one of Clancy Grey's tribes who were using the store as a hide out.

The four kids give some detail about what life was like at East River, and make remarks that set everyone off, so while Chubs and Liam talk with the kids, Ruby and Zu track down supplies that hadn't been lotted. Later that night as Zu and Liam sleep, Ruby and Chubs talk some about their lives, and Ruby figures out that the code "EDO" that they managed to get out of the tribe meant the 540 radio station. Ruby grabs a radio and the pair listen to a recorded message that would instruct any psi listening the location of East River. Both are excited about finding the location, so they grab their friends and start heading towards East River.

Their excitement is short lived when they hear over the news about two children, most likely from Caledonia were captured and resent to a rehabilitation camp. Liam gets upset by the news, and stops the van. He leaves and Ruby follows after him, and she is able to calm him down before both return to the van.

When they get to the camp, they make the discovery that the Slip Kid is Clancy Gray. As they spend time in the camp, Zu, Ruby, and Liam get sucked into the magical fantasy of the camp, however Chubs, is less unconvinced. Ruby spends her time being trained by Clancy on the ways of an Orange and Liam on being one of the protectors of the camp. Later on, Zu leaves with her cousin and others. Towards the end of their stay Ruby and Liam begin falling for each other.

Eventually, the group come to realised that Clancy is not on their side and is really the leader of various governmental facilities. Ruby, Liam and Chubs try to escape but are caught by an old friends' father. In an attempt to protect her friends Ruby calls the Children's League. Towards the end of the book, Ruby erases all of Liam's memories of her. She does this because she fails to see any other way to make him willingly leave her and the clutches of the Children's League. He walks away from Ruby, who is now a stranger to him.

## Never Fade

Catherine "Cate" Connor takes Ruby to the Los Angeles Base, which was the main headquarters of the Children's League after The Ranch was closed. She introduces her to Vida Bautista, Nicolas Ramirez, and Jude, the three psi that Cate is assigned to mentor. The team is the only Children's League team that is allowed to have more than one color, since Vida is a blue, Nico is a green with increased intelligence, Jude is a yellow, and Ruby is an orange who can manipulate memories. It takes Ruby six months of training to be trusted enough to be sent on a mission to find Cole Stewart, a Children's League agent who had been captured by the government and held in a Pennsylvania location. She is able to successfully able to get him out, despite an explosion caused by Rob Meadows.

Ruby is surprised that Cole Stewart is Liam's older brother. Cole meets with Ruby and sends Ruby on a dangerous mission with Jude, to find a valuable flash drive which Liam unknowingly took in his brothers jacket. This flash drive contains knowledge about the cause of IAAN, which is needed to stop Rob Meadow's plan to destroy the camps through children being sent as suicide bombers.

While in the midst of another mission Ruby and Jude escape from Rob Meadows. Ruby exposes Rob via her headset to the Children's League. Jude and Ruby are now on the run desperate to find Liam they almost are captured by PSF's and then encounter Vida however they escape her and find Andy a train driver who offers to take them to their location.

While looking at Liam's house, they find Chubs there, also searching for Liam and Ruby. He is completely OK. He saves them from some PSFs, and then joins them on their hunt for Liam.

They find Liam at a fake East River, and he is very sick. Ruby and the others manage to get him out of there, and then start heading back to the Children's League to meet up with Cole. Along the way, Clancy arranges a meeting with Ruby by hacking into Vida's Chatter, and they end up taking him hostage with them. When they arrive at the Children's League, they find it was overthrown by corrupted agents. They find Nicolas Ramirez there with a bunch of other League kids, and they tell them that Cate, Cole, and all the other good agents are coming back for them.

After they overthrow the corrupted agents and Cate and some other agents go off with the flash drive, the HQ is bombed, and Jude is killed in the bombing. The story ends with Ruby and the others stranded in the city, with Clancy properly locked up and everyone OK except Jude.

## In the Afterlight

Ruby gets everyone out of Los Angeles with a couple dozen psi agents, Anabel Cruz and Clancy Gray. They head towards the Ranch. Ruby goes with Clancy Gray to make sure that he can't use his abilities to escape. On their travel, they run into Zu, Kylie, Lucy and Hina, as well as nine other psi.

From there they begin working on how to free the camps, and even run a test run on a small camp called the Oasis. This succeeds, giving them new recruits and saving kids. After Cole dies and Clancy tells her that it was actually her fault, she goes cold and goes in herself to free Thurmond. After this succeeds, Ruby is hurt and taken into the hospital and unconscious for days, but wakes up. In the end of the stories, all the rehab camps had been released, and psi kids were finally aloud to live life again. Clancy ended up getting his Orange ability removed, and Ruby erased his memories of it.

## The Darkest Legacy

Ruby is in hiding after her father is shot in an attempt for her. She makes a place she calls Haven with Liam, and helps other kids like her, especially Reds. It is revealed by Owen, a quiet Red at Haven that Ruby talked to a lot that Ruby was sad and troubled before she left and mysteriously disappeared. Later in the book, we find out that Ruby was kidnapped on a mission. They find out Ruby had been taken into Leda Corp, and si being tested on there. Zu and the others are successful in rescuing her, and she is in a coma when they get her out. But at the end of the book she wakes up.

## Personality and Looks

### Personality

During her time at Thurmond, Ruby is quiet and scared, fearing that the PSFs would find out that she is an Orange. She even doesn't speak a word for nearly a year. But her violent and angry side shows when she gets pissed at Martin and yells at Liam for making her drive the car as soon as she got out of Thurmond. In East River, Clancy tells her that people viewed her as "overly empathetic" and won't do anything if it meant hurting others. And he proved it to be true. But she is quick thinking and doesn't get panicked in harsh situations. Yet she is flawed by the dangerous power she possesses, and fears that she is going to erase the memories of all she loves around her, so she's stays somewhat far away from everyone. But this habit goes away by the end of the series, and a stronger Ruby pulls through.

### Looks

Ruby has brown hair that's tangled and knotty, and tanned skin to match it off. Her eyes are pale green and hardened. She has thick eyebrows and full lips, and stands at an average height for people her age. She is described as somewhat skinny due to her years at Thurmond, but grows muscle at the League. It is said by Sam in Through The Dark that Ruby had noticeably changed during her time outside of Thurmond, not just personality-wise.

## Relationships

### Liam Stewart

Liam and Ruby meet when Ruby reveals herself in the back of their van. At first he is skepitcal about her, but when he sees that she's running from the League he lets her stay, due to his time at the League. When Ruby cries in a bathroom at a hotel they're staying at, she says that somehow Liam knew that she wasn't OK, even when she hadn't said anything. Later in the story, Ruby comes to see that they are each other's "safe place" where they can say anything and everything to each other.

Liam and Ruby have a fun, good humored relationship. Ruby describes Liam as charming and in a loving way. She lies about being a Green to them, so that they won't throw her out, but when she inevitably reveals her true abilities Liam does nothing but love her more. Even after she tells him about how she wiped her parents' memories of her, and might accidentally do the same to him. But he tells her that he will never forget her.

When Clancy sexually assaults Ruby, Liam is infuriated and demands that they leave. When Clancy gets into Liam's mind and shows him what he did to Ruby, he attacks Clancy only to be beat up by Hayes. But they manage to escape, and Ruby is forced to erase Liam's memories of her so that he won't come back to her while she's with the League. This damages their relationship when he regains his memories.

Throughout In the Afterlight, Liam is jealous of how close Cole and Ruby are getting, but they end up kissing and making out many times. Liam is the one to rescue Ruby when she's at Thurmond and getting beat. It is said by Ruby's grandma that Liam had visited many times when she was unconscious.

### Chubs

Chubs is extremely cold and rude to Ruby when she first joins up with them, and votes to kick her out when they take a vote, stating that she could be a psychopath who kills them in their sleep. But their relationship visibly grows throughout the book, and Chubs is the one to save Ruby from Clancy when he intends to take her with them after everyone else is taken by PSFs.

Chubs also saved Ruby and her League friends from some PSFs lurking around Liam's house, by pretending to be a Skip Tracer and lying to them that she was a Green and the only psi kid there. He showed his affection for her when they twisted her shoulder and he yells at them. Ruby and Chubs come to good terms despite their rocky start, and Ruby gains a massive respect for him.

### Zu

Zu was the one to let Ruby in the van when she saw Ruby was going to risk her chances with the League to save her, and lets her in. Zu is shown to love Ruby like an older sister, and dress her up for her own satisfaction. Ruby did all of this willingly because of her love for Zu. When Zu left with her cousin Hina, Ruby was disappointed but understood and was not angry. Throughout the whole series Ruby cares deeply for Zu and protects her fiercely.

### Cole Stewart

Cole and Ruby have a strong relationship, since they both possess dangerous powers (cole is a red) and they often train together. Cole was the one to send Ruby on the mission for Liam, and also saved her from an agent after he knocked her out with White Noise. They have a mutual trusting of each other, and Ruby is deeply scarred by his death. Especially when Clancy reveals to her that he controlled her and assured of his death. Ruby hears and feels his confidence and bravery during difficult moments, and he guides her even after death.

### Vida

Vida is very cold to Ruby at first, and uses her Blue abilities to throw Ruby backwards after Ruby is made Team Leader. But after Jude's death, Vida and Ruby share an emotional moment, and then come together through all of their recent arguments. Vida is shown to be fiercely protective of those she loves and cares about, including Ruby after a while.

### Jude

Jude is cheerful and happy constantly, and always is there to comfort Ruby, even when she wants to be left alone. Ruby is the one to get him out of the League when it becomes clear they want to kill him, and is very protective of him. His death hurts her greatly, but provides an anchor for her and is a reason for her to fight longer and not give up. Her and Vida share an emotional moment about him.

### Clancy Gray

When Clancy and Ruby meet, Clancy states her full name and recites a large portion of her childhood. Him and Ruby grow a close relationship, but he goes too far looking into her mind and sees that she is in love with Liam. This results in him getting angry, and yells at Ruby when she wakes up. When they are attempting to escape, Clancy gets into her mind and speaks to her. Luckily, Chubs manages to get them out.

Later in the series, Clancy uses Ruby as his puppet without her knowledge, and sends emails to people through her, ensuring his breakout. Ruby ends up erasing his memories of his Orange abilities, but it is stated in The Darkest Legacy that Clancy begins to regain them and plays a part in her capture.

### Owen

Owen is a red that Ruby rescued after the camp system closed.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Orange ability.**Ruby is an Orange meaning she can control other's minds. Unlike Clancy's abilities, where he can control people's thoughts, or Martin's where he controls feelings, Ruby has the ability to manipulate other's memories, which can mean erasing them or placing new ones. She can use this ability to help people with damaged minds (such as Lillian Gray when Clancy ruined her mind) and regain their stableness.
* **Fighting Techniques.**Ruby is also trained by the Children's League to be able to fight well, giving her knowledge of fighting techniques and the ability to break holds. She was trained by Instructor Johnson, who was said to be harsh to Ruby when they sparred, yet trained her well.