child of the moon

The askouacrp's Ruby Lucas. Adored by Rachel

[askadinergirl]

have you found your true love yet?

How does one even “find” their true love? I’m perfectly content in the life that I’m living right now. I don’t need a true love. But I do like the idea of having someone to come home to so I hope my true love is out there.

[askadinergirl]

thoughts on everything going on?

There is a lot happening in town as usual. My thoughts are simple though. Don’t mess with time travel or really any magic you don’t get. And also, we gotta figure out who made the snow monster before other snow beings come or worse, we have a perpetual winter or something. And I’ll do my best to help figure out who the person with the ice magic is but really I’ve been happier staying out of the town drama and just focusing on diner work and working on controlling my wolf.

[askadinergirl]

what would you do to fix this mess?

I honestly have no idea. I guess probably what I would do in any situation. Be welcoming to new people and try my best to help Marian adjust to life here. It’s a big difference in Storybrooke compared to the Enchanted Forest. And maybe check in on Regina every once in a while if I can to make sure she’s not full evil queen again. But really besides all of that, there’s not much else anyone can really do. 

[askadinergirl]

are you early bird or night owl?

I am very much a night owl. It has nothing to do with my wolf - even though she too is a night owl. But I’d much rather be able to be out all night than have to get up in the morning. Granny, is an early bird and has tried to force me into becoming an early bird by constantly scheduling me for opening shifts, especially after a late night out. But jokes on her, I’ll just come to work after not sleeping or hungover and be miserable and tired all day and then still stay out all night.

[askadinergirl]

Are you ever going to tell Snow your big secret?

Yes, of course! That's been my plan since we first saw one another all those months ago. But being a forager of hard to get magical items does mean that I’m never around and that I may even have to leave at a moment’s notice at times. I want to tell her, I just hadn’t had a moment to do so yet. But it’ll happen soon! This is starting to sound like my mom who keeps pestering me to just tell her already.

[askadinergirl]

I heard it through the grapevine that there's something sapphic going on between you and Snow Blanchard. Yay or nay?

Yes in my dreams. This is news to me. We used to be together when we were kids but that was so long ago. Maybe that's where the rumor came from?

[askadinergirl]

Would you rather be a metamophagmus or animagus?

A metamophagmus. Turning into an animal isn't all that it's cracked up to be.

[askadinergirl]

Now that you've gotten settled, how does it feel to be at Hogwarts?

You know, maybe it’s because I didn’t grow up in the magic community or didn’t go to school here or anything like that, but it’s not as emotional for me to be here. Maybe it’s because I used to see the castle from my cabin just outside of Hogsmeade. Sure, I never thought I’d see it open and thriving, let alone working for the school, but really it’s better than I could imagine.  Even if I can’t seem to tell a certain Brunette how I still feel about her or that I’m a werewolf...

[askadinergirl]

For too many months now, Ruby had been putting off the biggest conversation she needed to have with Snow. To tell the woman she still loved that she was a werewolf. It wasn’t an easy thing for Ruby to live with and she could only imagine what the other was going to think. She definitely wouldn’t want for anyone to have to deal with this, let alone Snow. The two of them hadn’t talked as much as Ruby would have liked, with her needing to keep leaving to get something else for Hogwarts. But on the other hand, she could keep putting this conversation off.

On their last meeting, Ruby promised Snow that they would talk. If they had any chance of rekindling whatever relationship they once had - as Ruby realized she wanted - Ruby needed to let Snow exactly who Ruby had become in their years apart. 

She took a deep breath and approached Snow’s office. At least the one advantage of being a werewolf was the heightened sense of smell. Of always knowing where people were just on how they smelled like - not that she had Snow’s scent memorized or anything like that. She knocked before she could go down the rabbit hole of why this was a bad idea and convincing herself to walk away and avoid this conversation yet again. “Snow? Are you there?” She called out then. Now there was no avoiding this conversation.

@ask-snow

[askadinergirl]

CHARACTER NAME: Ruby Lucas AGE: 35 FACECLAIM: Meghan Ory OCCUPATION: Caretaker of Magical Creatures at Hogwarts (occasionally), Hogsmeade Shop Owner & Forager for Hogwarts HOME SCHOOL: Ilvermorny ILVERMORNY HOUSE: Thunderbird RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Still secretly Pinning Over Snow Blanchard Single IMPORTANT CONNECTIONS: Snow Blanchard, ex-lover & best friend from Ilvermorny

The day that Ruby Lucas got her acceptance letter from Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, was the day that Ruby’s life would forever change. It meant she could leave her tiny little town where she had to hide her magic because she and her mother were one the only ones around that had magic. Previously she had only used her magic when her mother took her far away to practice. She never felt like she was herself. Then she would meet her roommate : Snow Blanchard, and slowly she grew into her self and started to become more and more comfortable in her own skin.

The girls were always close and from the first time they met,  Ruby knew that she was head over heels in love with Snow. When Snow admitted to having similar feelings towards Ruby, they started to date. Soon enough they were Ilvermony’s “it” couple and Ruby knew one day that they would spend the rest of their lives together. And then they graduated from school and discovered that real life is much harder on a relationship in the real world. While they still loved one another (Ruby would probably always love Snow), love wasn’t enough to keep them together. Their breakup happened not long before the Battle of Hogwarts. Ruby would with her mother, would go to the UK to fight in the battle. During the battle, she’d be attacked (and later turned) by one of Voldemort’s werewolves. Once the battle was over, Ruby disappeared from everyone for a few years to figure out what her new identity as a werewolf would be. With how werewolves were deemed in the magical community, Ruby decided to stay away from Snow entirely and away from anyone else she may have hurt. She was scared of turning one of her loved ones (or worse) and she didn’t want them to have to deal with the stigma that came with being friends with a werewolf. In fact, Ruby tried to hide the fact that she was a werewolf from everyone she’d meet because she was scared of how they would react towards her.

She did eventually open up her own little shop about three years after the battle was over, in Hogsmeade. It’s a shop she runs with her mother, but still felt the need to hide her wolf - not many know she is a werewolf especially not Snow whom she hasn’t seen in almost ten years. The feelings she had for Snow were still there even as she tried to date other people and move on with her life.

When Hogwarts started to reopen, Ruby thought about fleeing but had been stopped by Headmistress Minerva McGonagall. McGonagall had promised that werewolves weren’t seen as outcasts as much due to the change at the Ministery of Magic and that she needed Ruby to get hard to get supplies for the students. Ruby had only reluctantly agreed to the position after learning that Snow was going to become a professor of Hogwarts. McGonagall had also promised that the students would be protected from Ruby and that no one would ever find out about her being a werewolf and that she’d have access to the Wolfsbane potion so that she’d still be herself whenever she turned into a werewolf. 

[askadinergirl]

Have you asked Granny about your dad? Has she told you anything about him?

I used to ask my Granny about him all the time when I was a kid and teenager. Her answer was always the same. He was a lowlife who got my mom pregnant and ran away. Not worth mentioning or talking about. You try and reason with her. She's the most stubborn person in this town. So after a while, I just stopped asking about him, even though I still have so many questions about him. Maybe Granny is right, maybe it’s just better I don’t know anything about him.

[askadinergirl]

Who are the people you'd miss the most if you got sent to another place or time?

Obviously, Snow, David, Granny, Henry and Emma. And Prince Neal too of course. But even though I’d miss them, I’d probably not spend as much time as I should trying to get back to them. Instead I think I’d have my adventure and see where life took me. It’s like Charming and Snow have taught me, we’ll find one another again if we get separated at some point in time if we’re meant to. Because that’s what friends and family do.

[askadinergirl]

Do you have a place in the world where you belong?

Technically, yes. Everyone I’ve ever loved is here in town. This has become home. But sometimes I don’t feel like my friends really understand me or understand what being a werewolf in this town is like. There is almost like a piece of me that’s missing and it’s hard to explain, but I’m not even sure that I’d find that part of myself here in town.... I dunno, I keep a magic bean in my pocket as a just in case I need to leave and get out of this town. But for now, I’m still hoping to make this place work for me and my needs.

[askadinergirl]

Would you rather go back in time and watch your parents fall in love or have to save your parents from being killed?

Well considering I’ve never met my dad and I was the one to kill my mom, to save Snow.. I’m actually not sure. My mom’s death played a role in my life and who I am today, who Snow is today even. Undoing her death could change all of that and that would be a lot to put on my shoulders, especially if I remembered this other version of events. So I think I’d rather watch my parents fall in love. It would be nice to see who my dad even is and why he left. Maybe my parents weren’t even in love, but I wouldn’t know unless I saw it for myself.

[askadinergirl]

What does the word 'home' mean to you?

It’s something that people say to express that they have somewhere or someone to return to. I myself have never really felt that or even understood the concept, so maybe that’s just because I’ve never had someone to belong to? My friends are incredible and great and all these things, but because of the stolen year and the curse and everything, we’ve drifted apart some and that’s okay. They are off living these great lives and I just need to figure out what I want out of my life. Of where I belong and who I am. Maybe once I find that, I’ll be home too.

[askadinergirl]

Do you believe Emma will return to New York with Henry?

I really hope she doesn’t! Henry and Emma both belong here in town with Snow and David and everyone. And at the coronation she seemed different. I don’t usually like to pry, but I did overhear her say that she wasn’t leaving and I’d like to believe that she won’t change her mind and leave after that. I can only imagine what that would do to Snow... so I’m going to say that that means she’s going to stay here in Storybrooke, but you should ask her to be sure.

[askadinergirl]

Have you learned the name of the baby yet?

I was there at the coronation, so yeah of course I did! Though, I will admit it. I was trying to get Snow to tell me his name before the rest of the town, but tradition is tradition and she wouldn’t budge.