#Loveday Byrd Uggerlimb

[jameshobart4life]

I made this picture of what I imagined LB to look like. I know she is never really described in RR ( except for the red Lipstick which I forgot here) but in my head she always looked like this…

[ao3feed-rubyredfort]

i gave my blood, sweat and tears for this

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by heart_that_shines_like_a_hobbits

It had been the worst week of Ruby’s life. She hadn’t been allowed to go home, sleeping instead in a small cot in one of the overnight rooms. That way she could be summoned at any time for her...training.

She didn’t know that she could ever go through that again.

Words: 2211, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Ruby Redfort Series - Lauren Child

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: Gen

Characters: Original Male Character(s), Ruby Redfort, LB | Loveday Byrd Uggerlimb, Miles Froghorn

Additional Tags: Torture, Aftermath of Torture, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Post-Canon, Just mentions of a lot of kinds of torture ig, Not a lot of details but be careful if torture is a trigger, Whipping, Branding, Electrocution, Caning, Poison, Drowning, Strangulation, Abuse, Scars

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[queer-cosette]

LB: Redfort, I'm curious. What do you see as the height of stupidity?

Ruby:

Ruby: How tall is Agent Froghorn?

[laniidae-passerine]

Okay, this may sound like a really weird au but imagine - a (platonic) Pushing Daisies au for Ruby Redfort.

Let me explain - if you don’t know, during 2007-2009, there was an amazing TV show called Pushing Daisies which was about a piemaker named Ned. Ned could bring things back to life for a minute just by touching them - if he didn’t touch them before the minute was up, they’d stay alive but somebody else in proximity would die in their place. A Private Investigator named Emerson Cod finds out about Ned’s ability by accident, and the two start working together - Ned using his abilities to revive the victim for a minute to ask who killed them/for clues and then touching them after the minute is up so they die again. Soon after, Ned revives his childhood sweetheart Chuck in order to solve her murder, but can’t bring himself to kill her, so he lets her live and hides her in his shop, the Pie Hole (as in, shut your). Another character is Olive Snook, Ned’s employee who is madly in love with him and deeply upset by the arrival of Chuck whom she presumes faked her death. Olive accidentally ends up befriending Chuck’s grieving aunts, Lily and Vivien. I’d really recommend watching the show if you can, but there is a fair amount of mild body horror and obviously talking corpses, although the aesthetic and charm of the show is fantastic! Anyway, I think in a PD!au for RR, the plot of the TV show wouldn’t really factor into the au nor would the characters really stay the same as it’s a platonic au - there might be romance, but not with the same ‘characters’ as in the show.  So here’s the idea - Ruby has the same powers as Ned and as a child realised the rules of her powers by testing them out (not through reviving one of her parents as in the show) and revived Bug, whom she can never touch again. Clancy is the only person to know about her powers as she confided in him as a child and her parents are absolutely unaware. One day, Ruby stumbles into what is most clearly a serious gunfight and watches in horror as a man gets shot in the chest and dies, his assailant running away with only a scarred eye. Ruby revives the man, who identifies himself as Hitch and while Ruby knows that she really shouldn’t let him live, he’s such a genuinely kind and nice person to her in that minute that she can’t bring herself to kill him - so she doesn’t (and one thieving Hogtrotter dies over in the alley nearby after robbing a jewelry store).  Hitch arrives at Ruby’s house after the Redforts have been robbed and pretends to be a butler, as he can’t go back to Spectrum without everyone finding out about Ruby’s powers. Unfortunately, Spectrum ends up scouting Ruby anyway and she has to work the case with them without anybody finding out that Hitch is still alive. Ultimaely, the plot would be the same as the books with only a few exceptions:

Spectrum doesn’t know Hitch is alive, so Ruby has to keep zipped about her zombie Butler/Agent while at work, occasionally slipping up and saying things that confuse LB and Blacker, things about Hitch that she couldn’t/shouldn’t know, e.g he plays clarinet to a Grade 7 degree.

Del is our Olive - the character who is in love with our Ned/Ruby and who is very suspicious of Hitch, this time not because of romantic rivalry (that would be weird and gross no thanks) but because she finds his whole backstory odd and his inability to touch Ruby - for example, he ‘refuses’ to rescue her from falling, his weird habit of saying ‘coming through’ when he enters a room with her in it, the fact that he sometimes wears a bell - is not normal, even for people who hate touch. Same with Olive however, she ends up befriending Chuck/Hitch’s family - meeting LB and Blacker and somehow becoming close to them - and believes that Hitch faked his death, a secret she only keeps for Ruby’s sake at first, although she warms up to the slightly eccentric butler. 

Ruby uses her powers to help solve the cases Spectrum is working on and often comes up with weird, complicated lies to explain to Del/LB and Blacker why she knows the things she knows, using her charm to get her out of tricky situations. 

A non Pushing Daisies plot point I want to add in is that LB actually isn’t that freaked out when she finds out about Ruby’s powers as Bradley Baker also had supernatural abilities. He recieved messages from animal objects that told him to do things like giving people objects back or going certain places, which he later realised were helping him solve Spectrum cases. When he and LB got together, he told her about it - side note, this is from Wonderfalls, another great TV program made by Bryan Fuller I recommend you watch!

That’s as much of the au as I have mapped out in my head, but I dunno, I think it’s pretty cute and I’m pretty fond of it! 

[jameshobart4life]

I was just sorting through my stuff and found this LB fanart I drew in English class when I was like 10 or smth…

I had memorised Lbs entire monologue from the “Trolly-Problem” scene 💀

[ao3feed-rubyredfort]

Like my mirror, years ago.

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by betterslightlysedated

Bradley felt strangely calm about all of this. Perhaps it was the matter of fact way they all talked, like this was nothing out of the ordinary, the spy agency and the plots and the plane crashes. Maybe it wasn't, for them, and that, if anything should've spiked panic, should've set alarm bells ringing. It didn't though. He wondered what that said about him.

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A collection of missing scenes from BAYD, starting with a direct continuation of the coffee shop scene on little mountain side.

Words: 2501, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Ruby Redfort Series - Lauren Child

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M, Gen

Characters: Bradley Baker (Ruby Redfort), LB | Loveday Byrd Uggerlimb

Relationships: Bradley Baker/LB | Loveday Byrd Uggerlimb

Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Missing Scene, idk how to tag this, so many emotions are being repressed

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[ao3feed-rubyredfort]

it's okay (we're the best of friends)

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by heart_that_shines_like_a_hobbits

He didn’t really know what to do next.

He wanted to continue on his walk—he had a lot to square with himself—but it didn’t feel right to simply walk away from someone like LB.

Words: 859, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Ruby Redfort Series - Lauren Child

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Clancy Crew, Ruby Redfort, LB | Loveday Byrd Uggerlimb

Relationships: Clancy Crew/Ruby Redfort, Clancy Crew & Ruby Redfort

Additional Tags: Unrequited Love, Pining, Light Angst, Conversations, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Self-Esteem Issues, Alternate Universe - Post-Canon

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[ao3feed-rubyredfort]

i no longer feel things i know i should

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by heart_that_shines_like_a_hobbits

She was numb to the world. Life seemed to have fallen as still as the night that surrounded her, and so she searched. Searched for answers in the void. Searched for meaning in the darkness. Searched for purpose in the calm.

Still, she found nothing.

Words: 1535, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of trolley problem

Fandoms: Ruby Redfort Series - Lauren Child

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: LB | Loveday Byrd Uggerlimb, Hitch | Art Hitchen Zachery, Ruby Redfort, Clancy Crew

Relationships: Clancy Crew & Ruby Redfort, Hitch | Art Hitchen Zachery & Ruby Redfort

Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Character Death, Hurt/Comfort, Suicidal Thoughts, blink and you miss it - Freeform, Depression

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[ao3feed-rubyredfort]

Spectrum Needs an HR Departement

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by Sivstar30

A five and one, telling the story of five agents who were greatly affected by hazing at Spectrum, and one who was not. Featuring, Ruby, Blacker, Froghorn, Hitch, LB, and Bradley.

Words: 7137, Chapters: 1/5, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of My Bad Things Happen Bingo, Part 13 of Ruby Redfort Oneshots

Fandoms: Ruby Redfort Series - Lauren Child

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: LB | Loveday Byrd Uggerlimb, Ruby Redfort, Blacker (Ruby Redfort), Hitch | Art Hitchen Zachery, Miles Froghorn

Relationships: Hitch | Art Hitchen Zachery & Ruby Redfort, Blacker & Ruby Redfort

Additional Tags: Bad Things Happen Bingo, Hazing

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[ao3feed-rubyredfort]

Spectrum Needs an HR Departement

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by Sivstar30

A five and one, telling the story of five agents who were greatly affected by hazing at Spectrum, and one who was not. Featuring, Ruby, Blacker, Froghorn, Hitch, LB, and Bradley.

Words: 7137, Chapters: 1/5, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of My Bad Things Happen Bingo, Part 13 of Ruby Redfort Oneshots

Fandoms: Ruby Redfort Series - Lauren Child

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: LB | Loveday Byrd Uggerlimb, Ruby Redfort, Blacker (Ruby Redfort), Hitch | Art Hitchen Zachery, Miles Froghorn

Relationships: Hitch | Art Hitchen Zachery & Ruby Redfort, Blacker & Ruby Redfort

Additional Tags: Bad Things Happen Bingo, Hazing

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[ao3feed-rubyredfort]

Spectrum Needs an HR Departement

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by Sivstar30

A five and one, telling the story of five agents who were greatly affected by hazing at Spectrum, and one who was not. Featuring, Ruby, Blacker, Froghorn, Hitch, LB, and Bradley.

Words: 7137, Chapters: 1/5, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of My Bad Things Happen Bingo, Part 13 of Ruby Redfort Oneshots

Fandoms: Ruby Redfort Series - Lauren Child

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: LB | Loveday Byrd Uggerlimb, Ruby Redfort, Blacker (Ruby Redfort), Hitch | Art Hitchen Zachery, Miles Froghorn

Relationships: Hitch | Art Hitchen Zachery & Ruby Redfort, Blacker & Ruby Redfort

Additional Tags: Bad Things Happen Bingo, Hazing

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[ao3feed-rubyredfort]

Spectrum Needs an HR Departement

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by Sivstar30

A five and one, telling the story of five agents who were greatly affected by hazing at Spectrum, and one who was not. Featuring, Ruby, Blacker, Froghorn, Hitch, LB, and Bradley.

Words: 7137, Chapters: 1/5, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of My Bad Things Happen Bingo, Part 13 of Ruby Redfort Oneshots

Fandoms: Ruby Redfort Series - Lauren Child

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: LB | Loveday Byrd Uggerlimb, Ruby Redfort, Blacker (Ruby Redfort), Hitch | Art Hitchen Zachery, Miles Froghorn

Relationships: Hitch | Art Hitchen Zachery & Ruby Redfort, Blacker & Ruby Redfort

Additional Tags: Bad Things Happen Bingo, Hazing

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[laniidae-passerine]

Okay.

Let’s try break down the timeline of the Ruby Redfort/Spectrum “universe” prior to Ruby being an agent.

We begin knowing some basic information about some of our agent’s ages and here’s where the spoilers! begin:

In 1938, we know that Casey Morgan aka Buzz is 8 years old. We also know from the flashback pages [173,184] in Blink and You Die, hereby abbreviated as BYD, that when Buzz is 8, Bradley is 13. And due to the Ghost Files saying so, and his age in ‘73 being 42, we know Hitch is 7. LB’s age is, to my knowledge, never given an exacting date, but I’d assume it’s somewhere between 10-13 in ‘38. Let’s say she’s 12.

In an unspecified month during 1938, Buzz applies for the Larvae programme, is accepted and two months later is introduced to Bradley Baker. She decides to kill Baker after being angered by his perfectness, and pushes him into a river, as well as throwing Hitch to the crocodiles.

This occurs in an unspecified area of Australia, so I can’t use the concept of a frozen river to say if this is in summer or winter but it’s irrelevant what season it is. I care though so, from my research on crocodiles in Australia, since the crocodile experience was so traumatic for Hitch that he blocked the memories out, it’s more likely that they were saltwater/estuarine crocodiles (known for being more aggressive). I can’t determine exactly where this occurred (and thus where LB lived) but saltwater crocs live in the Sundaland region of Australia, so this was somewhere in Northern Australia.

Skip to approx 1942. LB is stated by Blacker as having joined Spectrum “a few years on” after the Australia incident [page 355, BYD] so we can assume she’s around 16 when she becomes the first female agent. Hitch is now 11.

From the picture seen in LB’s office of Hitch pulling faces at an animatronic crocodile at Disneyland [Look Into My Eyes (LIME) page 128, BYD page 291] that he “could only have been about twenty or so in the picture”. For Hitch to be 20, the Disneyland trip must have occurred in 1951. LB is 25ish, Bradley is 26. (Unimportant fact but there’s no way two 25 year olds (who are dating) agreed to go on a trip with just one other person who was 20 at the time, so there must have been other people on the trip. Was this an annual Disneyland Spectrum visit? Do they do that?)

Detour from our Spectrum workers - Ruby Redfort is born in 1960!  This we know from the fact that the books occur in 1973 (see below) and her age from the dust jacket of the LIME book, which states “What would you do if you were a thirteen year-old kid and a secret agency asked you to become their ace code-cracker?” [obviously no page number, but it cost me £12.99 if you wanna know. I’ve written my name in invisible ink on the front page but heat has made it a little less invisible, because it’s been knocking around since 2011]

Bradley says he’s been “dead for eleven years” [BYD, page 351] in 1973, meaning he was killed by LB in 1962. This leaves a strange margin of error in the Hitch-Bradley department, as Hitch openly states that “we (he and Bradley) worked in the same department for about seven years straight” [BYD, page 337] and it’s canon Hitch has been friends with LB and likely Baker since 1951. However, I guess you don’t have to work with someone to be friends with them.

In the same year as Bradley’s ‘death’, 1962 is the year Homer Pinkerton’s dog is stolen and Ruby finds the Larvae badge. This is shown by the beginning of LIME stating “It was a crisp October day in Cedarwood Drive and a two year old girl was standing on a high stool...” [page 8] and “(Ruby, age 2) found a small tin badge embossed with an image of something.” [page 10]

The rest of the period of time between 1962 and 1973, the year of all the books occurring as signified by the 1974 New Year Eye Ball Party - “Clancy opened his eyes. ‘Happy new year, Mrs Redfort,’ he groaned.” and “‘How jolly!’ cried Sabrina. ‘How tout à fait joyeux! Our own little party! What a way to welcome in 1974!’” [BYD, page 522].

So, maybe this giant wall of text is making your brain hurt. So here’s a handy little timeline, although it’s blurry as all hell so you’ll have to click on it and it;’s much more simplified:

[laniidae-passerine]

LB: Bradley and I don’t have pet names for each other

Hitch: Uh huh. Hey, LB, what do bees make?

LB: Honey?

Bradley, from the coding room: Yes, dear?

Hitch: Don’t lie to my face ever again

[laniidae-passerine]

Me reading the chapter where Ruby is upset throughout Christmas because she thinks Hitch is dead and she won’t see him again:

Me realising that LB probably celebrated Christmas with Hitch after Bradley’s death, as he was her closest friend, and she’s spending Christmas thinking the two most important people in her life are dead for good and now she’ll spend every Christmas alone:

[laniidae-passerine]

maybe I will fuck around tonight and fall in love with everyone at Spectrum...