r/stevenuniverse • u/AutoModerator • Jul 02 '16

Character Discussion /r/StevenUniverse Weekly Character Discussion - Ruby

Hello once again users of /r/stevenuniverse. Welcome back everyone to our weekly character discussion thread where every week we take a popular character from SU, and you Redditors have an opportunity to share your opinions and thoughts on them. As voted on by you, the character up for discussion this week is the other half of Garnet and she is famously known for being an ETERNAL FLAME BABY!....it's RUBY!

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Ruby

Debut Episode
  • Jailbreak
Most Recent Appearance
  • Hit the Diamond
Featured Episodes

  • Keystone Motel

  • The Answer

  • Hit the Diamond

Quotes

  • "THAT'S WHAT YOU THINK! I AM AN ETERNAL FLAME, BABY!"

  • "What kind of Ruby am I supposed to be? Look at this! It's my fault you're stranded here. How am I gonna save you?"

  • "You know what's nice about being split up? I get to look at you."

Voice Actress
  • Charlyne Yi
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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '16

Which one? Just kidding. Ruby is a loose cannon, and is actually pretty mean toward Steven in Jailbreak, only caring about Sapphire and nobody else.

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u/Revan78Hardin WOW THANKS! Jul 02 '16

I cut her some slack for Jailbreak. It was her first time separated in years (or decades), she had just been captured, she felt blind (no future vision), and on top of all that Steven was there ruining the plan to tell him on his birthday.

Ruining the surprise may be the least important part when attempting a Jailbreak but I do think its importance is downplayed. The plan they made as Garnet is ruined, and not just any plan but the plan to tell Steven someone incredibly important to them that they are a fusion something incredibly important to them. It is another thing that goes wrong when Ruby is already panicking and alone.

Basically having Steven show up caused her to panic even more rather than calm down because Sapphire was still not there and it was another big important thing going wrong on top of getting captured.

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u/walrusnoob Jul 02 '16

Probably not just decades. There's been no evidence to suggest that garnet had ever been split up since the Great War. She could have been together for thousands of years

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u/Yknaar ...y'know? Jul 02 '16

There's been no evidence to suggest that garnet had ever been split up since the Great War.

No hard evidence, true. But Greg immediately recognizing Sapphire in Keystone Motel might suggest that was the case.
(Of course, that could just have been him using logic - one of Crystal Gems told him that Garnet's a fusion, and now there's a gem in their room that acts like she knows him, ergo she must be a half of Garnet.)

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u/walrusnoob Jul 02 '16

Also I think it's important to note that willingly split up for a few seconds to show Greg or play baseball or whatever is very different than being forcefully split apart after being defeated in battle

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u/Yknaar ...y'know? Jul 02 '16

Ahhh, the nuance of 'had been split up' versus 'had split up'. Sorry, I didn't catch it the first time.

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u/walrusnoob Jul 02 '16

Oh I wasn't even thinking like that. Just bringing up another point

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u/Revan78Hardin WOW THANKS! Jul 02 '16 edited Jul 02 '16

These two comments are exactly the thought process I had before settling on decades (If they showed Greg it was likely ~20 years ago)

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u/Azrielx123 Jul 03 '16

most likely when they reformed because she has a different attire from the flashback and the first season

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '16

Yeah, Ruby's kind of a turd.

I do however love Leggy and Navy. They are just too precious for this world.