Goodbye Ruby Tuesday

The Basics:

Name:  Ruby Gale Austin

Face Claim: Billie Lourd

Age:  32

Birthdate:  August 11, 1990

Neighborhood: Downtown

Occupation: Head Chef at Nancy's Bar and Grill

Pronouns: She/Her

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Relationship Status: Single

More Facts:

Nicknames: Rubes, Roo, Ruby Boobie

Positive Personality Traits: Fun-loving, Motherly, Protective, Loyal, Hard worker

Negative Personality Traits: Flaky, Impulsive, Bossy

Likes: Red wine, shopping, books, girls nights out, bad reality shows

Dislikes: Her ex, high heels, early mornings, rude customers

Hobbies and Interests:  Avid reader, dabbles in writing, bingeing shows and movies, baking and decorating cakes

Family:  Lewis Austin (father) Carla Austin (mother) Daniel Austin (brother - deceased) Nancy Thompson (aunt) Frank Thompson (uncle) Ricky Thompson (cousin) Renee Thompson (cousin)

Other Relationships: Paul Nelson (ex-husband)

Pets: several tropical fish

Physical Appearance:

Height:  5'4

Hair color: Light brown, blonde streaks

Eye color: Hazel

Nationality/Heritage: American born, of mixed European descent

Tattoos of piercings:  purple lilies on shoulder, a shooting star with her brother's name on her back

Distinguishable Traits:  Her laugh, blondish, wavy hair.

quick run down:

Trigger warnings: Abortion, Abandonment, Drug use, Death, Drowning, Divorce, Infertility

Born in East Haven, had a brother named Daniel who was five years younger

Parents divorced when Ruby was twelve. Her mother moved to Hawaii and re-married. She eventually lost touch with her children

Her father basically ignored her and was focused on her brother and his football scholarship which caused her to act out. At eighteen she got pregnant by what she presumed was her close friend who she had a one night stand with, but out of fear she decided to get an abortion.

After she graduated her brother died while participating in a fraternity hazing gone wrong. She had a fight with her father at his funeral and has barely spoken to him since. After Daniel passed she became depressed and started partying and drinking more frequently.

Eventually studied culinary arts and worked in a restaurant in Mount Auston. She got married to a man she met there but didn't tell him everything about her past. When they began thinking about having kids they discovered that it was not possible for Ruby and he ended up filing for divorce.

Is currently working at her Aunt Nancy's pub and looking into starting her own business.

Wanted Connections:

Male friend from high school who she was once very close to and was likely the father of the baby she decided to abort

Close female friends who could be neighbors, old friends from high school, etc.

Friends from work - could be from her current job at Nancy's Bar and Grill or her former job at Rivera in Mount Aston

People she studied with at culinary art school

Friends she goes to clubs or parties with

Hookups or friends with benefits from the past

Full Bio:

Trigger warnings: Abortion, Abandonment, Drug use, Death, Drowning, Divorce, Infertility

Ruby Gale Austin was born in East Haven, to Carla and Lewis Austin. She was their first born child, followed by her younger brother, Daniel, born five years later. Unfortunately, Lewis took after his own father in many ways, doting on Daniel as the boy in the family and often treating Ruby as an after thought. Despite the occasional rivalry between them, Ruby loved her brother deeply and was very protective and maternal towards him, as well as her younger cousins, Ricky and Renee, since they were babies. As she got older, the relationship between her parents was becoming strained as Carla seemed unhappy with the life they had built and Lewis's overly structured ways. When Ruby was twelve the ended up getting divorced. Her mother went on a retreat in O'hau, Hawaii to find herself. Instead she found new love in a local man and decided to move there. Her visits with her children became few and far between, and were soon reduced to the odd phone call or birthday card, and then nothing at all.

Without a mother figure, and with her father becoming hyper-focused on Daniel and him getting a state football scholarship, Ruby was left to her own devices. She often sought guidance from her Aunt Nancy, the only positive female influence in her life, but she still managed to spin out of control. She began acting out, bouncing from relationship to relationship, staying out all night partying and experimenting with drugs and it seemed like no matter what she did her father didn't notice her. When she was eighteen, she discovered she was pregnant with a child who's father was unknown, after a few one night stands she had around the same time. She reasoned that the most likely candidate was a close male friend of hers whom she had known since high school, and had feelings for, but since she didn't know for sure she was afraid to approach him in case she was wrong. Because of her young age, and because of fear of how her father would react to the news going public, she approached her Aunt Nancy who supported her while she went through with an abortion.

A year later, her brother Daniel had been attending East Haven University on an athletic scholarship and playing university football, making her father and grandfather exceedingly proud. There was buzz of Daniel potentially being scouted to play for the NFL. By this time Ruby had gotten use to living in the shadow of her younger brother and being forgotten. She was busy trying to build her own life and forget about her past, although she too was proud of Daniel. It was his second year in a fraternity when he was taking part in a party by the lake during which his fraternity was hazing some pledges by making them swim from one end of the bay to the other. Daniel, under the influence of alcohol and wanting to show off to his brothers and the girls present at the party decided to try it himself. However, he didn't make it to the other side, and the party went on without him for hours before anyone realized he was missing. The next day, a search and rescue team found his body in the lake tangled in some weeds.

Ruby was working when she got the phone call from her father telling her what happened. She mourned her little brother privately, but did attend the funeral where her father made some very cold and thinly veiled comments implying he wished it was her he was burying instead. She stormed out and refused to answer when he later called to apologize. The loss of Daniel was particularly hard. She felt overwhelmed with grief and guilt for having resented her brother and feeling jealous of him when he was alive. She coped by behaving recklessly. Partying with friends and going home with strangers which soon became drinking alone to try and forget. For several months she was in a dark place and it seemed like no one could reach her. It wasn't until years later when her little cousin Ricky got into an accident as well and they almost lost him. It was then that she realized that she needed to be there for those of her family and the people in her life who still mattered.

Ruby decided to study culinary arts at the local college and finally do something productive with her life. It turned out that all of those years of cooking for her dad and brother had come in handy, and Ruby had dreams of opening her own restaurant while she worked in one located in Mount Aston. It was there that a man she cooked a steak for asked to compliment her dish himself. He was twenty years older, handsome, and established and it didn't take much for a romance to blossom between the two.