Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20130728185452/@comment-10390252-20130825073801

@ WC-83,

Currently, my "ultimate fate" for Ruby goes something like this:

The pain of the loss of so many friends during The Great War and the exposure of such a virulent undercurrent of evil and corruption in society has shaken her to her core. Blake notes that her friend had become increasingly pensive after graduation and was frustrated at how little she could do to fix the world's underlying problems.

Ruby goes AWOL from her official posting and rapidly transitions into something of an Urban Legend. As far as her friends and the authorities can tell, she is drifting from place to place, seemingly at random. Whereever she goes, great evil and corruption always meets justice and a start is made at healing social divisions.

Ultimately, Ruby turns up in the Faunus' lands and begins helping them clear away all the cruel overseers and other abusers of their rights. She becomes something of a mythologised legend, "The Scarlet Huntress". Adam, when quizzed by Blake, confirmes that he knows where Ruby's base of operations (and presumed home) was in the Tribal Lands but that he was going to respect Ruby's wish that, for now, she wished to be alone with her Mission and the grief she still felt for all the losses of The Great War.

For the next few years, all the survivors hear from Ruby is the occasional letter and repeated groups of evil-doers, delivered to the gates of the fort operated by peacekeeping group of Hunters and Huntresses (led by Blake) in the Tribal Lands; "A gift from the Scarlet Huntress," is all the Faunus deputies are able to say as they hand over sheaths of documentary evidence.

Nearly a decade after the end of the Great War, Adam is appointed the Ambassador of the Faunus Tribal Council to the Senate of City-States and returns to Vale... with Ruby, whom he introduces as his wife and the cutest pair of Faunus toddlers you could ever hope to meet. Ruby apologises to her friends for her long absence but explains that 'she had a lot of stuff to get straight in her head'. She remains stubbornly uncommunicative about what happened in the intervening ten years beyond a very dry Journal of the Hunt (basically a collection of her daily reports and investigation logs). Although she does promise the others that she will tell them the full story about her and Adam (with certain details left out to protect innocent ears and Yang's desire not to hear about her baby sister's sex life). Ruby invites a fuming Glynda to dismiss her from the rolls if she isn't satisfied that Ruby has kept her oath as a Huntress to oppose the wicked, protect the innocent and destroy any monsters she should encounter. Ten years have gone by, but the legend of Ruby Rose has not died away. Indeed, VNN's delighted reporting of the legend of The Scarlet Huntress over the years has only gilded it. It is thus politically impossible to dismiss her and she returns to her official posting in Vale City.

Cut to my epilogue above.