25-02-13 That was uncalled for

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25-02-13 That was uncalled for

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Okay, that night gown might be a hint at her (at least surface) nature... :))

Edit: Snippy, but able to recognize that she's being so and apologizing... she could be an interesting character...
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Oh Ruby...a gal after me own heart ;)
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Guess who's gonna fall head over heels for her sister's roomie soon as she meets him? :))
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or for her sister's roomie's BF

and by tone of sentence by Amber, looks like she meant "NOOOOO problem there; even if he was straight"
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Well, she has already kinda met them...
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and Dill said "I am in the arms of my date" basically

so unless she has a bad memory............

she will know he is either gay or bi
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I get the feeling that there is going to be some drama when Dillon returns from his date. And just because Ruby doesn't like men doesn't mean she's gay or even bi. There are already too many bi and gay characters in the Ma3/SDB universe so I'm hoping that Ruby is straight. Maybe she just had bad luck with men in high school and/or college.

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I think it is more of a "I am not a wild girl" type of person, and not a "I hate men"
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Hello, grandma! =))

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Ruby, a woman who dresses more substantially in bed than when out and about in Montreal in September. Okay, that's confused at some level. Several levels.
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That blazer looks kind of like a school uniform on Ruby.

Hmm. Glasses + red hair + school uniform-style... Oh, dear.

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dresses very conservative at bed because she equals "cute" as sex, but dresses have to be what is "in, elegant and popular", but not because she wants to be sensual
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"Pervy man-hands", huh ? And this grandma night gown... Ooook, I suppose we have a prudish character for a change. Well, it will be good comedy material I think. Wearing a short skirt does'nt make her non-prudish, the blazer makes for it. I wonder... are these Ruby's casual clothes ? I'd like to see what she looks like in a more relaxed outfit. Oh yeah... the nightgown. 8-|
According to her body language, Ruby seems uptight. A potential arc of "corrupt the prude one" ? :p

Interesting conversation here. Sisters do love each other, but Ruby's bitterness seems to get the best of her easily. She acknowledges it and even apologize. Wow, Ruby appears quite well-rounded for now. Hope it will last and she won't fall victim of flanderization.

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Ruby is the smart, academic one. In comics world, that can mean that she's had no time for a love life, and she probably regards the idea as an unacceptable distraction from her work. Not all smart, academic types are like that in reality, of course - but not all smart, academic types are like that in this setting either. (Ref. Kiley.) However, Ruby may have been ever so slightly screwed up by having Amber as an older sister.

If that's right, the problem would be that Amber is the vivacious, cute one of the family, with the active love life from way back (as Ruby probably knew even if their doting parents didn't). Ruby, quieter and smarter, may have ended up defining herself as the Not Amber. Her measure of self-worth is being good at her studies; Amber was distracted from that by her love life, so Ruby doesn't go for a love life. She's written herself into the part of Amber's opposite in this comic.

I must admit that I know about being the (very slightly) more academically successful younger sibling, so I started out with a bias in favour of Ruby. But Ruby is being written as the annoying younger sister (and I know a bit about those, too - yeah, large family, though some of us manage to get that stuff sorted out before we get out of our teens), so I may have to accept that she's a bit of an antagonist figure until she changes somewhat. On the other hand again, the apology today is presumably intended to show that she isn't totally unsympathetic.

I think that the point here will be that Amber does a lot to rub Ruby up the wrong way, and the fact that she doesn't mean to do so doesn't change the fact. And not only have their parents given Ruby the impression that Amber is their favourite (and it doesn't matter if that isn't true, they should have recognised the problem and done something about it), but Amber has lumbered Ruby with having to keep Amber's career as a porn star secret from those parents - which for someone who's a bit desperate for parental approval, must be really quite painful.

I can't see the problem going away just because Ruby might happen to get herself a love life - as it stands, she'd have to find someone who either shares her view of Amber, or was very good at diplomatically negotiating the point, and God help Amber if Ruby's partner ever admitted to finding Amber attractive. I think that it'll only get better if and after Amber tells their parents about her porn work - and even then, if their parents are as forgiving as Ruby predicted, that may not be the end of it. Ruby needs to get a job, too, and one she likes - as it stands, her approach to life is looking less successful than Amber's, which is going to hurt like hell.

I'll also be interested to see what happens if Ruby bumps into Zii. I assume that they know each other from their home town, and I'll bet that they can't stand each other. Zii represents everything Ruby dislikes or has put aside, and unlike Amber, she's not family, so Ruby doesn't have to be polite to her; Zii in turn isn't the sort to let Ruby's hostility roll off her, and has a bit of a fragile ego at times, and I'll bet that Ruby's digs will get right through to her.
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