Rudy

### Relatives

Unnamed motherUnnamed father
Unnamed brothers
Aiden Acharya (cousin)
Takshaka (paternal grandfather)
Queen Uloopi (Great-grandmother)

### Affiliation

The Otherworld
The Potatoes

## Appearance

###  Appears in

*Aru Shah and the End of Time*
*Aru Shah and the Song of Death*
*Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes*
*Aru Shah and the City of Gold*

**Prince Rudra of Naga-Loka**, commonly know as **Rudy,** is a naga prince in the Pandava Quintet. He is a minor character in *Aru Shah and the Song of Death*, and a major character in *Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes* and *Aru Shah and the City of Gold*. He is a descendant of Queen Uloopi and Aiden Acharya's cousin, and a potential love interest for Mini Kapoor-Mercado-Lopez. His full royal title is Prince Rudra of Naga-Loka, Heir of the Jewel-Strewn Seas.

## History

### Early Life

Rudy grew up with his parents and siblings in Naga Loka as the kingdom's next prince. He was somewhat looked down upon and treated differently because of his color-blindness, and the way he performed magic. It is implied that he never visited the mortal realm.

## The Pandava Quintet

### Aru Shah and the End of Time

Rudy walks out of an Otherworld Costco and winks at Mini. Mini, in response, walks into a telephone pole.

### Aru Shah and the Song of Death

Rudy saves Aru Shah, Brynne Rao and Aiden from Takshaka by playing bhangra music to distract him. After Takshaka is subdued, he asks Aru for her phone number so he could call in a favor. At the end of the book, he texts Aru, telling her he would call in his favor soon. Sometime after that, off-screen, Rudy's mom wanted him to have some human cultural experience, so she sent him off to live with Aiden.

### Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes

After the Pandavas and Aiden fail from preventing an important prophecy from reaching the Sleeper's ears, they are asked to step aside. Instead, the four go on an unofficial quest to find Kalpavriksha. Rudy finds out about their quest by reading Aiden's texts, and, after some convincing, the four allow Rudy to go with them. Together, they encounter new demons and gods on their journey, and eventually discover the location of Kalpavriksha.

### Aru Shah and the City of Gold

In *Aru Shah and the City of Gold*, Rudy meets up with the Potatoes half way through their quest after they complete Kubera’s second trial. He helps them get to their 3rd trial using his parents’ Anywhere Elevator, and accompanies them the rest of the way, meeting manipulative gods and fighting dangerous battles.

## Appearance

Rudy is an attractive naga boy. He is around Aru's age. Rudy can assume the form of a snake, half-snake, or human. In his human form, he has a strange scale-like pattern across his right temple that appears to be a birthmark at first glance. He also has the same patterns on his arms. In his snake form, he has a red tail with yellow markings, and can shoot up to 6 feet in height.

When Rudy meets Aru in *Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes*, he is wearing a pair of sunglasses perched on his head and a bright eyesore of a tie-dyed denim jacket over dark jeans. Later, he dons a blinding all-white outfit, then, pajamas that look like glittering snakeskin with music notes on them.

## Personality

It often takes Rudy a bit to understand things others find evident. This is because of both the culture shock of being raised a naga prince and thrown into the human realm, and because of his natural personality. Despite being entirely out of his depth in the human world, Rudy often puts forth a confident, charming, and exuberant personality, where he flirts with girls, boasts about how he makes girls disoriented when they see him, and annoys his cousin with glee.

## Relationships

### **AIDEN ACHARYA** (friend, cousin)

Rudy and Aiden have a slightly rough relationship, where Aiden is often annoyed by the sheer difference of Rudy and himself, but Rudy seems to like Aiden and teases him.

### **ARU SHAH** (friend)

Aru first sees Rudy in *Aru Shah and the End of Time*, where Rudy winks and smiles at Mini, causing Mini to walk straight into a pole.

They didn't formally meet until *Aru Shah and the Song of Death*, when Rudy saves Aru and the Pandavas from his grandfather, Takshaka. He tells Aru that she owes him, and asks for her number. At the end of the book, while all her friends are asleep at the end of her thirteenth birthday party, Rudy texts Aru, saying he wants to call in the favor now.

Throughout *Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes*, it is hinted that Rudy has a crush on Aru, such as when he invites her to his castle. Another instance is when he says that Aru must hate Home Depot, to which Aru responds saying she doesn't. As Aru is walking away towards the other girls, Aru overhears him tell Aiden, saying "I thought she would hate this place." Aiden responds by saying, "Then I guess you don't really know her." Aru does not hear the rest of their conversation, as she has now run to catch up with the other girls.

In *Aru Shah and the City of Gold*, Rudy meets up with the Potatoes half way through their quest and Aru is somewhat glad to see him, although he occasionally annoys her throughout the book. By the end of the book, it appears that Rudy no longer has a crush on Aru.

### **MINI KAPOOR-MERCADO-LOPEZ** (friend, possible love interest)

Mini and Rudy first met in *Aru Shah and the End of Time*, where Rudy winks and smiles at Mini, causing Mini to walk straight into a pole.

They didn't formally meet until *Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes*, when Rudy requested to go on the unofficial quest with them. Mini acts awkward around Rudy, because "she hasn't mastered the art of the boy yet". Whenever she talks to Rudy, it usually makes Rudy uncomfortable, disgusted, or disturbed. She also is shown to be quite sad when Rudy openly flirts with Aru in front of her. Aru initially feels excited when Rudy invites her to his castle, as she has never been invited anywhere with a boy before. However, when she sees how sad Mini looks, she immediately regrets her excitement, as Mini has a crush on Rudy.

In *Aru Shah and the City of Gold*, Rudy continues his streak of ignoring Mini until she finally stands up to him using her Death Danda. After this, Rudy seems to be more aware of Mini and addresses her directly, instead of acting like she doesn't exist. He smiles and winks at Mini throughout the second half of the book.

### **BRYNNE RAO** (formerly antagonistic, friend)

Brynne sometimes speaks harshly to Rudy, but she doesn't dislike him as much as she acts like she does. They have a friendly relationship, with Brynne sometimes getting annoyed at Rudy.

### **TAKSHAKA** (grandfather)

Takshaka despises Rudy and calls him a disgrace. This could possibly be because of Rudy's colorblindness.

## Powers

### **Naga Magic**

Due to him being colorblind, Rudy finds it difficult to use magic in the traditional sense, and instead listens to the 'music' of gemstones. That allows him to mess around with them and create magical charms and spells that can do things such as get you hyped up, calm you down, or make you tired.

### **Snake Form**

Rudy can transform into a snake, into a human, or into someone with the lower body of a snake and the torso-up of a human.

## Trivia

* Rudy has never kissed a girl
* Rudy has deuteranomaly, the most common form of color blindness, which he describes as yellow and green looking kind of reddish to him, and blue and purple looking like the same color.
* According to Roshani Chokshi's Instagram Stories, his favorite celebrity is the Rock and he is a double Gemini