Just in case you don’t know anything about who Red/Ruby Lucas is I am going to place three links for you to look through otherwise everything below this point is basically a footnote with my own version of her. First one is HERE and the second one is HERE. Red's canon book story line HERE.
Seeing how Ruby has had several different story lines depending on what madness A&E write out. I am just going to tell you what my version of Red is doing after some of her canon events, otherwise expect a very highly canon divergent after season two.
Red is a wolf unknowingly to her. She spent most of her childhood in a small village with her Granny, who gave her for her thirteenth birthday a red cloak. Granny told her “red repels wolves” (when really it only prevents her from turning every full moon). Red only developed the nickname “Red” after going to school with the red cloak. I am going to follow Red’s real name to be Rose (based on the stories of Snow White and Rose Red), but she drops her real name for the nickname, never once telling anyone outside the village her real name. Red has a long-time outstanding crush on Peter, the blacksmith’s son. They have plotted to move away from the village and go on adventures, but the wolf attacks become more frequent, since Red lost her mother’s golden cross necklace.
Following “Redhanded”, Snow shows up hiding in Red’s chicken cope, where Snow and Red become quick friends, Red wants to go kill the wolf that is killing people and live stalk in her village and drags Snow along with her. During this hunt in the daylight she learns the wolf is a man. The wolf tracks leading up to her window where Peter goes to steal kisses. Red assumes the wolf is Peter and she wants to help him. Snow hides as Red in her cloak when Granny comes to find Red that night she finds Snow, telling Snow that Red is the wolf and Peter is in grave danger. While the full moon rises, and Red has chained Peter to a tree she unknowingly becomes the wolf and eats him alive, only a sliver arrow takes her down long enough for Snow to wrap the cloak around her to become human again. Red wakes drowsy wondering what happened, when she sees Peter’s body, she is told she was the wolf and now she must run because the hunters are after her and she is in danger.
Her story is further told in “Child of the Moon”, Red and Snow are on the run, but wolf’s time has come back around. Red’s cloak is ripped while on the run, and Red fearing she will lose control and kill Snow asks her to go and they can meet up again once she is back to being human again. She agrees to meet Snow at their secret cabin, only to be found by Quinn, another wolf, he takes her to the pack den where she learns Anita, her mother is alive. Anita teaches Red how to learn control, just when things are going well in the pack, Snow finds Red in the den. Quinn gets killed by one of the Evil Queen’s men, and Anita wants Snow dead for her pack mate being killed. Red is told to make a choice, where in the end Red saves Snow at the expense of her mother’s death.
Once has strange fucked up story lines, not even going to down play this What I do see for my Red is during the times that she is not helping Snow she did return home to her village to help her grandmother, because though she wanted to see the world and go on her own adventures with Peter like they always talked about, losing Peter the way she did it brings up a bad memory. Even though Granny did lie about the wolf and Red’s parents being killed she wants to not break the only real tie to family she does have left.
Red wanting to feel like she doses belong somewhere, considering that she is the only wolf in her village and because Granny has a such a hatred towards wolves, she doesn’t feel exactly at home around her grandmother. Thus, Red trying to muster up the courage to find Anita’s broken pack. With the Evil Queen wanting to destroy Snow and Charming she becomes one of the head warriors on the battlefields. During the curse when everyone is assigned duties, Red is on the front battle lines fighting as the curse is sweeping over the land.
In Season Three when Emma and Hook are sent back in time she helps to get Snow out of the Evil Queen’s castle. All are different time lines and I don’t mind following any of those time lines, but just know time is not as it seems in Once Upon A Time.
Ruby Lucas while the curse is going on is a waitress at Granny’s Diner. She lives with Granny at Granny’s Bed & Breakfast, her room being up on the second floor and furthest from the bustle of the kitchen. Before the curse the book sets Red around 14ish but ran into Snow near six teen. I think several years had slipped by and her age is twenty-one in the cursed life. Ruby will flirt in and out of work, knowing that while at work flirting gets her money, and out of work flirting leads to a possible one-night stand. I firmly believe she has standards in the men she doses “date” in the show and doesn’t throw herself on every man that crosses her path, just ones that she knows she can gain something out of or from. Ruby can be promiscuous, but Granny exaggerates her granddaughter’s sex life. Ruby and Granny are constantly at each other’s throats over the fact of early morning shifts on Saturday’s. Ruby isn’t really the kind of girl to want a relationship, she works better being single and having one-night stands.
Ruby is best friends with Ashley Boyd. Ruby cares greatly for her friends, as she used Ashley’s boyfriend, Sean, as a diversion to get Emma off her trail so Ashley could use her car and leave. Ashley, Ruby, and Snow go out for a girl’s night out on Valentine’s Day where Ruby is trying to find a quick catch for the night, but then is seen happy about Ashley saying yes to marrying Sean. Once Emma shows up the underline wolf dose start to show especially in “Redhanded”. Ruby quits being a waitress after a fight with Granny and being embarrassed so she is later found with Henry looking for a job. Emma asks Ruby to work for her at the Sheriff’s office taking phone calls. Emma brings Ruby with her on a hunt for David where Ruby uses her wolf hearing (unknowingly) to find David in the woods. She uses her instinct to find the heart in the box that later is told to be Kathryn’s heart.
Even though her relationship with her grandmother is usually rocky, they become closer in “Redhanded” when Granny explains she wasn’t punishing Ruby by taking her Saturday nights away she was trying to get her to know the books more so one day she could take over the diner and Inn once Granny retires. Ruby also admits that she wasn’t ready to take responsibility, but she is now showing that Ruby is starting to grow up as a person. Ruby is seen not fighting with her grandmother in public like before and walking happily down the street before the curse is officially broken.
Now that Ruby has her memories of Red, her character as well as the reviling outfits start to take a change. Red is more toned down and doesn’t flirt like she uses to as her other self. She has also tried to take a more authoritative presents in the group while Snow and Emma are gone. When Billy asks Ruby out, she turns him down with an excuse that her and Belle are having a girl’s night, though in the episode she looks completely closed off to romance. Part of this being fear to lose control and turn into a wolf, the other part now that the curse is lifted she is remembering Peter and still his death is a fresh wound.
Red is scared that she doesn’t have control over the wolf, which in “Child of the moon” she becomes the hunted when King George kills Billy, the mechanic that has a huge crush on Red, saying she killed him as a wolf. Ruby even is prepared to give the angry mob herself. Granny and Charming stop the mob from killing Red and reviles that King George is the one that caused all this madness. Red still feels guilty for Peter’s death and even though she remembers herself she is still wary in the aspects of a relationship. Her role as warrior soon starts to slip away as she sees her friends becoming more and more capable of handling thigs on their own. You see her through the rest of the series start to be the advice that no one really listens to or left behind and out of the way when danger happens. Ruby admits that she wishes she still had the cursed memories instead of her real one’s back because of the amount of pain in remembering all the things she did, not only Peter but her mother.
SECOND CURSE AND NO MEMORIES:
Ruby agrees to go along with Snow to help Regina find a way back but is not going to feel sorry for someone who had put them all through so much hell, even if Regina was trying to get back to Henry. Red decides to cut away from the group at this point and go on her own adventure, leading Granny back home to their village. She then begins to start searching for her mother's lost pack. Red feels she needs to mend what was broken, just because her mother had views on people didn’t mean everyone in the pack did. Red ultimately wants to belong somewhere and she feels in a pack of other wolves she will belong the most in.
Just as Red gets closer to finding where her pack maybe hiding the second curse hits it brings her back to Storybrooke as Ruby once again. She doesn’t remember the time she had in the Enchanted forest but remembers the first curse but not why they are back in Storybrooke. After the second curse is broken. Red remembers what she was doing. She tells Snow she feels out of place here in Storybrooke and takes the only magic bean to go back home. To try and find a life of her own.
“The Bear King” Ruby is in search of her pack, but when she asks a witch for help the witch seals Red in her wolf form to guard her hut. Mulan figures out that the wolf was once human and helps Red remember who she was, Red agrees to help Merida and Mulan with Merida’s problems before wanting to hit the trail and find her pack again. In the end Mulan agrees to accompany Red in finding her long lost pack.
“Ruby Slippers” canon wise she goes to the Underworld because she believes that Dorothy was sent there by Zelena. There is a lot that happens in Ruby Slippers in The EF and Underworld. To sum it up quickly and easily. Ruby develops a crush on Dorothy and then she figures out it is true love by the end of it all. Dorothy wasn’t sent to the Underworld, instead she was cursed by the sleeping curse, Zelena thinking she could never be loved by anyone so it was unbreakable. Ruby meanwhile in the underworld is helped by her friends and Zelana agrees to give the slippers back to Regina so Ruby can go help her “friend” Thinking True love’s kiss is Auntie Em, the hero’s go find her only for Hades to kill her and dash what seems like all hope. That is until Snow calls Red out about being in love with Dorothy. Red and Snow go back to Oz with new found hope about Red waking her with true love’s kiss. Red kisses Dorothy and wakes her. Episode ends.
Now, although this is canon and I am down with the ship. I would like more background story behind it so that would be open to plotting. I have not watched the newest season, so I have no freaking clue what is going on in ONCE. I do know that I am not going to follow this whole Ruby Slippers plot, even though I am more than willing to rp it. I have a subplot that before Rumple sacrifices himself in Season three for the town Ruby has been long gone by that point. My AU version places Red at the town line and making the cross over into our world, but even though she no longer has her memories of the EF, the wolf still lurks under her skin. Crawling out and wreaking havoc every full moon, and Ruby is unaware of the danger that lurks with in. Just because Storybrooke has magic doesn't mean there isn’t magic outside Storybrooke.
I have not watched season seven yet. I will watch it and I will come back to write a part in this bio for Ruby’s story.
FULL NAME: Rose Lucas Ruby Lucas.
NICKNAMES: Red
HOMETOWN: Granny’s House, Enchanted Forest
OCCUPATION: Waitress (Cursed Self) Snow’s Warrior (Enchanted Forest before Curse) Alpha of Lucas Pack
AGE: Looks 21 (100+ years)
DATE OF BIRTH: Late November
NATIONALITY: Enchanted Forest
GENDER: Female
ORIENTATION: Bisexual
RELIGION: Old Gods
ZODIAC: Aries
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Storybrooke, Maine
LANGUAGES: English
SOCIAL CLASS: Low/ Middle Class
HEIGHT: 5' 8"
EYE COLOR: Green
HAIR COLOR: Dark Black Hair
ACCENT + INTENSITY: N/A
TATTOOS: Debatable
SCARS: Scar on belly where she was shot by a sliver arrow. Various other small scars.
PIERCINGS: Ears
PARENT FATHER: Wolf (From 10th Kingdom)
PARENT MOTHER: Anita Lucas
FACE CLAIM: Meghan Ory
CHILD FACE CLAIM: Lilla Crawford