Ruth

* S2: Reality
* S10: WotW

Ruth is a contestant on Total Drama Reality and Total Drama: Worst of the Worst.

## Biography

Ruth is a daydreamer. She loves thinking about the next thing or person she would like to draw or paint. Once she reaches the end product in her mind she begins painting, drawing, or sculpting on rare occasions. Usually this process takes her all day, the entire school day, in fact. Once she returns home she begins working on her next project, often ready to tune out her parents scolding her after receiving a phone call that she wasn't paying attention in school. Her parents really want her to take her schoolwork seriously and get her head out of the clouds. Ruth doesn't like being told that, and claims that her parents are just trying to stifle her creativity.

## Total Drama: Worst of the Worst

Ruth arrived and viewed the cast as having potential for inspiration. Frederick quickly offered to fund an art project for her. After she mentioned her girlfriend back home appreciating his gesture, he quickly seemed to lose interest. When she saw former teammate, Brent huddled on the dock, he begged for help. Ruth rummaged through her things and sketched him, commending his tear as a nice touch.

After Jerome started critiquing his fellow competitor’s clothing, comparing Ruth’s underwear for floss. Ruth clapped back, asking if his stubble was from a can, and saying he was dressed like a ‘golf dad’. After he got serious, the two laughed together, appearing to have bonded before walking off together.

After learning that she was on an all woman team, Ruth admitted to liking the team dynamic. When deciding on a mascot for their team, Ruth observed Grace checking out LeVar, a younger man. Ruth then suggested cougars as their team symbol.

In getting to know Tamira, Ruth asked what her husband did for work. Ruth mistook the strip club he worked at, The Junk Yard, as an actual junk yard and offered to check it out, and throw a few dollars his way for parts for an installation piece. In the second challenge, Ruth was one of the contestants that stood in awe of Herman’s impressive animatronic red dragon, admiring its artistry.

Ruth and Grace were interrupted by Yuko who screamed for Grace to watch out when someone with a chainsaw was near her. In actuality, the masked person was Ruth, who was simply making a sculpture from a stump with Grace as her model. Grace commented that the sculpture still looked like Brent, her muse from a previous season.

During the dunk tank challenge, Ruth was part of the team in charge of assembling the dunk tank. Ruth was the only one that seemed to have any skill or motivation in building. Ruth glared at Grace, who lied about her qualifications to avoid being part of a less desirable task, when she insisted she was better at slide puzzles. In the end, The Black Swans won the challenge.

During the runway challenge, Zoe encouraged Ruth to take the lead in designing outfits for the team after looking at her sketchbook. Ruth expressed some trepidation in taking the lead in the challenge in confessional, commenting that it reminded her of the Mission Catwalk challenge from her original season that sent her home. Ruth suspected The Black Swans of trying to sabotage her. In the end, Ruth was successful in creating a cohesive collection, though the designs did seem oddly familiar. After evidence that Hae Won sabotaged the challenge in The Black Swan’s favor surfaced, the women lost the challenge.

In the middle of the night, Zoe found Ruth gathering clay. Ruth enlisted Zoe’s help in carrying the material back to their cabin. After complimenting Zoe’s strength, and witnessing Anders carrying some of his team members, Zoe took it upon herself to carry Ruth and her bags on her shoulders. Around then, the episode pauses to reveal that two officers were viewing the episode in order to gather evidence about a certain incident involving Evan. Ruth later supported Zoe in taking the lead in the challenge that required someone to carry their teammates across a bridge. Zoe kissed Ruth after escaping serious harm when the structure collapsed.

As Ruth worked on making clay figures, Zoe mistook one of herself for an octopus. When she mistook a refrigerator for Blair’s figure, Ruth brought up that she was bothered by Zoe’s comments on other people’s weights, and pointed out that Blair was one of their best competitors in challenges. Ruth said she liked Zoe, but could not pursue a relationship unless Zoe changed. During the challenge, where guest Hedda revealed shocking secrets about everyone, a censored video was displayed of Ruth streaking, which she was proud of. It was noted by team members that Ruth and Zoe were seeming close, and this fear led to both of their being eliminated in a surprise four person elimination. Ruth noted that Zoe was putting forth effort in changing, and she was to a relationship with her.

## Trivia

* Ruth’s character image for Worst of the Worst was inspired by Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
* The melting clock on Ruth’s character model is a reference to surrealist painter Salvador Dali.
* Ruth is the first official lesbian contestant from my stories. I focused more on gay male characters during my original story due to less positive representation of gay men in mainstream media at the time.
* Ruth mentions having a girlfriend at home in order to deter Frederick from flirting with her. I intended for this to be the truth, until deciding to pair her with Zoe later on in the story.
* In the image featuring the red dragon, Ruth is meant to represent Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones.
* Ruth and Zoe’s relationship was decided on to give both characters more of a presence.
* I also chose to have Ruth still unconsciously have Brent as her muse, as shown when she made a wooden sculpture that looked like him, as well his original outfit being the inspiration for her runway collection.
* I intended for Ruth to make the merge, but decided there were characters that added more to the story, be it plot wise or personality wise, and she was more expendable.
* Ruth was a character I always felt I slighted in her first story in order to have a surprising elimination, not that I don’t think she made an impact. I wanted her to make it further than she did the first time in Worst of the Worst. She didn’t have much to do early on, but that was to give more focus on other plots while her time to be a focus came later.

## Gallery

Ruth in her Momma o’ Dragons costume.Zoe carrying Ruth.