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As a girl, I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books. Someone who fought for what was right and protected people who couldn't protect themselves!

Character Basis
Ruby Rose alludes to the character Little Red Riding Hood from the fairy tale of the same name, which follows Team RWBY's theme of fairy tale allusions. This allusion has had the following influences on the character and show:


 * Ruby wears a red, hooded cape, much like Little Red Riding Hood.


 * The "Red" Trailer, which introduced Ruby, features her walking through a forest and being attacked by a pack of Beowolves.


 * Little Red Riding Hood's association with the color red may have led to Ruby's name alluding to the color red, as per the Color Naming Rule.


 * Roman Torchwick's nickname for her is "Red".

Emblem
Ruby's emblem is a rose blossom, commonly in her her color, which Monty Oum described as a "scattering" rose. She shares this emblem shape with her mother, Summer Rose. This emblem appears on some of Ruby's possessions:


 * Battle outfit - her belt buckle in silver.


 * The ear pieces of her headphones in red.


 * The cover of her journal, seen in "The Shining Beacon, Pt.2" in red.


 * "Slayer" alternate outfit - on her skirt in black.


 * On her wallet in red

Image Gallery
In RWBY Chibi Ruby has a stylized version of her original rose blossom emblem.

Battle Outfit
Ruby's main appearance changed multiple times during development, and three of the previous versions of her normal "battle outfit" have been shown to the public.

Volume 2 Production Diary 2 showed a colored version of a piece of concept art that had been previously released. In this art, her hair is a dark, dull red, and she is wearing a light gray (off-white?) long-sleeved shirt with thin red ribbons around the wrists. She wears a black waist cincher that has shoulder straps that cross in the back, and the front middle of it is red with black criss-crossing laces. Her cape is attached at the shoulders by cross-shaped clips and appears to have a hood. (Around her neck is some kind of black collar thing.) She is wearing an ammo belt diagonally across her torso. Hanging from her skirt are a few chains on her left side and two metal crosses in the front toward her right. Her boots lack any laces whatsoever.

The lower half of an early 3D model Monty made is almost identical to the final version. Overall, the black color of her clothing and hair appears to be lighter than the final version, and there doesn't appear to be any red coloring in her hair. She wears a black blouse with some sort of thin horizontal strip of red fabric on the chest, possibly the top edge of a pocket. (Something about the way the ends of the sleeves flay out and stuff.) The top portion of her cape encircles her neck, resembling a thick scarf, and it appears to have a hood.

In the "Red" Trailer, she is wearing the same outfit as her final version with only two differences:


 * The metal buckle on her belt is a cross instead of her scatter rose emblem.


 * The top of her cape encircles her neck, narrowing in the front. In the final version, her cape attaches at the shoulders with cross pins.

Ruby's portrait in the end card of the "Red" Trailer, and the subsequent trailers, uses a design that appears to be a mix of her appearance in the "Red" Trailer and her old concept art. Most of the outfit is the same as in the "Red" Trailer, but it has the following aspects of her old concept art:


 * Her cape is attached at the shoulders by cross-shaped clips


 * The middle of the front of her waist cincher is red with black laces

Childhood
A piece of concept art of Ruby and Yang's childhood appearances gives us a clearer view of Ruby's outfit from the flashback in "Burning the Candle".

Ruby is depicted wearing a red, hooded, zip-up, sleeveless jacket that has a pair of wide pockets. There is a short, red cape hanging from the back of her jacket. Under the jacket, she appears to be wearing a white sleeveless shirt. She is wearing a short black skirt and a pair of small black shoes.

This childhood outfit bears similarities to Ruby's battle outfit, most notably the color scheme of red and black, the red cape, the hood, and the black skirt.

Pajamas
Concept art of three different designs for Ruby's pajamas has also been released.

The first design features Ruby wearing a light pink, short-sleeved, hooded sweater with three large, white buttons down the middle and a pair of small, triangle-shaped ears on the hood. For her bottoms, she is wearing a pair of short, black shorts, and she wears a pair of thigh-high light pink and white striped socks with black patches on the heels and the tips of the toes. With this outfit, she is carrying a Beowolf pillow.

The second design more closely resembles the design that made it into the show, with only one difference:


 * Instead of the light pink roses in the final version, her pajama pants have light pink hearts and heart-shaped Beowolf heads.

The third design is a pale pink onesie with three large black buttons down the middle, a pair of pockets that each have a black button, and a hood that has a large, white poof ball on top. The onesie has a pattern of light pink clouds, pink scythes, and yellow lightning bolts. On her feet is a pair of dark pink slippers, each of which has a small, white poof ball on top.

It appears that one possibility that was considered, was for Ruby to simply wear an over-sized short-sleeved shirt.

Production

 * Monty confirmed that Ruby is left-handed. However, she is seen wielding her weapon with her right hand just as easily. Monty has stated that it is "common to switch both hands while fighting, especially to make it interesting."


 * Early designs for Ruby were set aside and later used for Miltiades Malachite, one of Yang's foes in the "Yellow" Trailer.


 * Ruby's lines in the "Yellow" Trailer were recorded after her lines in "Ruby Rose". Her voice sounds different in the "Yellow" Trailer because of the way Lindsay Jones delivered the lines.


 * In order to get into character before recording lines, her voice actress, Lindsay Jones, often yells Yang Xiao Long's name in Ruby's voice multiple times. She also stands in the recording booth barefoot.


 * In the original Volume 1 Opening storyboard, Ruby is first shown in the beginning, walking alone in a forest. She is then shown again at the end, walking in front of a full moon, then looking up to see Weiss, Yang, and Blake, before taking Yang's hand.