#art hitchen zachary

[katnisseverdeenlovesprim]

I’m just gonna say it.

Ruby redfort has an addiction.

To banana milk, like, it’s her lifesource.

[ao3feed-rubyredfort]

2003

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by nina_b

A story in the style in the play set 29 years after the incidents of BAYD, Clancy Crew is grown up with his own daughter called Penelope. Penelope has very similar characteristics to his former best friend Ruby, she's the smart all- American girl. She's sassy, and very very popular. Everyone has gone their own seperate ways, but they're all not entirely gone. Looking up to her Aunt Ruby, she finds out something that could have possibly gotten her into trouble. Inspired by how she always put two and two together, Penelope goes out on a wild journey with the help of Hitch, and her best friend, Henry Huxtable, to find out the real truth.

Words: 489, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Ruby Redfort Series - Lauren Child

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Multi

Characters: Clancy Crew, Ruby Redfort, Miles Froghorn, Blacker (mentioned), Mouse Huxtable, Del Lasco, Red Monroe, Vapona Begwell, Elliot Finch, Lorelei von Leyden, The Count von Viscount | Victor von Leyden, Mrs. Digby (Ruby Redfort), Bailey "Beetle" Roach, Hitch | Art Hitchen Zachery

Relationships: Clancy Crew/Elliot Finch, Blacker/Miles Froghorn, Art Hitchen Zachary/ Consuela Cruz, Red Monroe/Danny Jupiter, Bradley Baker/LB | Loveday Byrd Uggerlimb

Additional Tags: OC, they're all grown up, screenplay

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[rubyredfortncarnivorousplants]

You know what I want?? 

I want backstories on all the referenced adult Spectrum agents. I wanna know how they were recruited, why they were recruited, who recruited them, how they did on *the test,* I wanna know everything.

like, who recruited Harper?

how did Blacker find his way to L.B when he was first recruited?

what was Froghorn’s first day like?

why was hitch recruited?

I need answers pls someone write a fic ab this 😭

[loveday55]

Hitch, very hungover: Please tell me I'm imagining that I claimed I was the King of All Ducks

LB: I would, but then I'd be lying to the King of All Ducks

[deadartistwalking]

Big post of all the Ruby Redfort fanart that I've made (so far). Sir that's my emotional support children's book series

[ruby-ayano]

Ruby, recovering in the hospital: you call it a near death experience, I call it a vibe check from god

Hitch: [smacks her upside the head]

Blacker: [frantically going through Google to find out what a 'vibe check' is]

[laniidae-passerine]

Ruby: Hitch, do you support gay rights?

Hitch: I’m bisexual, you know this-

Clancy: He’s evading the question!

[ollierachnid]

i had to redraw some of my old art , ive redesigned frog somewhat

[cronch-monch]

can we just take a moment to think about how Hitch's legal first name is

"Art"

[unpredictably-ghostly]

hello and welcome to: not-technically-but-sort-of-liveblogging CHRYSALIS! made by @agentredfort link to game here

warning: definitely a long post

-  cool music! i like how this is set up

- FROGHORN?? SIR???????

-  my heart stopped reading “one casualty unavoidable”. oh no.

- froghorn wtf?? i don’t want to kill you???

- the fucking SIRENS HELP OH GOD

- i chose froghorn. the way the sirens just cut off- leaving you with a black screen and silence for a second. that’s such good design but also!! agony!!

- FUCK ANOTHER CASUALTY NO

- OH NOT A FAN OF THIS CHRIST

- HHHHHHHHH I TRSUT LB SORRY BUZZ

- ANOTHER ONE  (another one bites the dust and another one gone and another one gone)

- the way hitch and lb were talking, fighting to save each other and then trying to end on a good note no matter what 

(i picked to kill froghorn, buzz, hitch this round i will be playing again with other choices if i have to emotional stability to replay)

- oh shit. oh my god. lb. you set the fire? you killed these people? did- did not see that coming.

- IM SO INTRIGUED but god DAMN what a painful story

- playing through again bc got to solve the mystery! but holy shit these are still such emotionally taxing choices

Round Two: (froghorn, hitch)

- i killed hitch even though lb directly told me not to this is the WORST FEELING, i really really don’t want to see what she’ll say

- hh guess im doing a buzz route! i know she’s the mole but then she’s got to know something??

- can’t believe i’ll have to leave everyone the last one standing to get to the true end my heart can’t take it

- WAIT TWO CASUALTIES WHAT THAT’S NEW

- has lb done something?? to ensure buzz can’t survive??

- they just both died. fuck.

Round Three: (froghorn, buzz, lb)

- just hitch and lb again, will save hitch this time. 

- TURNS OUT KILLING LB ALSO FEELS TERRIBLE

- “your full name in art hitchen zachary? that’s a stupid name.” even in such horrible horrible circumstances i love their dynamic

Round ??: (hitch, froghorn, buzz)

- i know what i have to do but i dont know if i have the strength to do it (i’ve reached the point where in order to get new routes i have to kill hitch first and i really really really do NOT want to do that)

- i procrastinated. like i just left the room for a moment. still don’t want to do it

- tried to click it but went back to this tab to procrastinate more AUGH

- i killed him (i am suffering) why is froghorn still covering for lb though??

- how did he KNOW HER NAME

- lb saying “why should we live when hitch and miles had to die?”  has broken me. she knew she and buzz were both guilty- her setting the fire/murdering spectrum 4 agents, buzz being the mole, but in the end the two innocent people died first.

Round ??? (hitch, lb, froghorn)

- HOW DOES FROGHORN KNOW LB’S AND BUZZ’S NAMES??

- oh god get froghorn some immediate help? stop demanding ruby kill you,  please you do deserve to live!

- the TIMING OF THE CHAT LOCK DOWN AHHHH

- god im so sorry froghorn

- THERE’S A FUCKING TIME MACHINE IN THE BASEMENT

Final Round:

- last one left. froghorn’s turn. what a ride, holy shit.

- “i’ve been here before. five times i think.” oh god. 

- “i just wanted to die.” FROGHORN 

- “nothing ever works. i’m so tired.” im so close to genuinely crying this is awful 

Actually The Final Round: TRUTH

- people remember?? 

- NO CASUALTIES EXPECTED YES

- “SAVE THEM” YES IM MORE THAN HAPPY TO FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- ok i know plot stuff is going down but im so ridiculously happy about getting to choose “SAVE THEM” multiple times

- lb WHY ARE YOU AT THE CHRYSALIS ENTRANCE

- another timeline where everyone survived??

- bradley baker?

- oh lb

- true end has been reached. 

[nonbinaryfroghorn]

audio recording by miles froghorn, head archivist of the morgan institute, london

ok, i can't really take credit for this au. @agentredfort originally came up with with a tma au where ruby was the archivist, and then someone sent an ask suggesting blacker as martin which prompted her to suggest archivist!froghorn and now i can't stop thinking about it. also i started this post like 2 months ago and then forgot about it rip.

warning: this contains spoilers for seasons 1-4 of the magnus archives, and probably won’t make any sense if you haven’t listened to seasons 1-4 of the magnus archives.

so. the magnus morgan institute was founded in the 1800s by one casey morgan. it is also still in london bc america is just Too Big, i’m sorry.

in 2016, miles froghorn, previously a research worker at the institute, gets hired as the new head archivist after the former archivist bradley baker died in the line of action passesd away

is he qualified for this job? not really! the promotion almost certainly should have gone to his colleague art, also known as hitch, but because hitch would have seen through the bullshit almost immediately for reasons unknown, it goes to miles instead

yes, this puts hitch in sasha's role. i love pain and torture :)

speaking of roles, the other assistants hired to work in the archives!

ruby redfort worked in research with miles and they don't get on or like each other but also they do. no one understands it (tim)

art "hitch" hitchen zachary worked in artifact storage before transferring to research, and came to the archives at miles' request. this stings a little bit because everyone, miles included, knows that hitch probably should have the job, but he won't kick up a fuss. the archives pay slightly better than research and he likes his colleagues well enough. maybe he'll just quit, get a new job altogether. (sasha)

james blacker knows exactly what he’s doing and has all the relevant qualifications for this job, just please don’t look too closely at his resume. (martin)

ruby works at the institute because what genius 20-something wouldn’t want to spend their days investigating ghost stories?? ok, yeah, most of them are 100% bullshit, but occasionally you get something genuinely fascinating because, no matter what excuses froghorn pulls out of his ass, most books don’t light themselves on fire, boss, are you seeing this?? it’s literally on fire, and my hand isn’t getting burned. that’s wierd.

(hitch is the only one who knows about the disappearance of her best friend clancy, and her determination to find out what happened to him.)

we know nothing about blacker’s backstory in canon, so it’s free real estate! and yeah, he might have zero relevant qualifications, but he’s kind of a genius, so no one has called him out yet. and he only lied on his resume because he was about to be kicked out of his apartment, and something has to pay the bills.

plus, he’s just so nice?? hitch and ruby are pretty sure he has no idea what he’s doing, but he’s clearly really smart and no one wants to snitch on the guy who brings in donuts every friday.

ok listen, i’m not particularly original so this would follow the plot of tma almost to a t. i cant think of a rr antagonist who particularly fits the hive off the top of my head, so the archives get attacked by jane prentiss. miles is forced to admit that yes, all the tape statements are creepy as hell, obviously this stuff is real ruby stop looking so smug about it we’re being attacked by a woman made of worms.

as much as i love the jonmartin bonding during the prentiss attack, and this au would feature miles/blacker eventually, it’s actually blacker who dashes off to warn hitch because he just reacts faster than ruby, and miles has just had a corkscrew dug into his leg to dig out a worm. ruby and froghorn manage to find the secret tunnels that are apparently under the institute, but whilst down there they get separated for a while and eventually ruby comes back shrieking about bradley baker’s body being down here??? what the fuck????? and then the two of them manage to make it out of the tunnels, already traumatised, only to be immediately attacked by worms. they’re really not having a good day. and thus, the archivist gets his first mark.

meanwhile, hitch and blacker have barricaded themselves in the breakroom. they make a plan: hitch will try and find victor von leyden, head of the morgan institute, and james will try and find ruby and miles again. they have varying degrees of success. hitch manages to find victor, who is normally pretty ominous and generally unhelpful, but at least he sets off the alarm to evacuate the building. unfortunately there are worms fucking everywhere, and hitch also gets separated from victor near artifact storage. he hates this place, but dashes in anyway in the hopes that it will be worm free. and it is. no worms in sight. there is, however, a table with a wierd spiral pattern on top. and - is something moving inside the table??

“hey, froghorn,” he hisses into the tape recorder that he somehow didn’t lose. “figured you’d want a recording of this. remember that table that was delivered a few weeks ago? i’m stuck in artifact storage, worst luck, and it looks like there’s something moving inside it.” his calm tone quickly descends into genuine fear, which is rare to hear from cool, collected hitch, as he realises that something is climbing out of the table and coming towards him, and - when he walks out of the institute building when the attack is over, he asks people to call him art, instead.

if you know nothing about the magnus archives, i’m so sorry. this post is all over the place and only makes sense if you know the plot of the original podcast. i might try and make a more coherent post about it at some point, because this concept lives in my mind rent-free. also, this only covers season 1, so i might make equally-nonsensical posts about the later seasons too. 

[katnisseverdeenlovesprim]

Hitch: Hey kid, where are you?

Ruby: [Currently dangling from a roof beam whilst eating a cookie] Up here!

Hitch:

Hitch: [In his head] This kid is gonna kill herself one day I swear

[queer-cosette]

Tagged by @nattikay 's open invitation 🌟 list ten different favourite characters from ten different things

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III - HTTYD

James 'Jim' Lake Jr - Tales of Arcadia

Marinette Dupain-Cheng - Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir

Art Zachary 'Hitch' Hitchen - Ruby Redfort

Olivia Kidney - Olivia Kidney

Euphrasie 'Cosette' Fauchelevent - Les Misérables

Daphne Anne Blake - Scooby-Doo

Draculaura - Monster High

Kathryn Howard - SIX

Sunset Shimmer - Equestria Girls

Tagging: @star-collapse @alousette @allenginsbergkinnie @scouts-mockingbird @lesmiserablol @oofmilk @rlv29

[rubyredfortncarnivorousplants]

hitch was born in 1931 what-

[loveday55]

Hitch: Ruby is mad at me, so I tightened the lids on all of the jars so she has to get help from me

*glass breaking in the background*

Hitch: it hasn't worked yet but it'll happen.

[agentredfort]

Would Hitch die for Ruby? Would Blacker die for Ruby? Would Ruby die for Hitch? Would Ruby die for Blacker? Would Hitch die for Blacker? Would Blacker die for Hitch? I NEED TO KNOW HOW MUCH THESE 3 LOVE EACH OTHER.

Excellent questions. I’m not sure if you want to hear the answers.

Would Blacker die for Ruby?

Lockdowns are never fun. Lockdowns that are actually serious, and not just an accidentally tripped alarm or yet another tedious unending drills are, of course, even worse. The lights are off, the door's locked, they're huddled behind a cabinet at the far end of the room, waiting for the all-clear to let them know that intruders have left the building. Blacker can see Ruby's hunched over form dimly in the darkness. She looks tense and furious. She wants to do something to stop this, but can't, and that scares her more than anything.

Footsteps, outside. The door rattles once, twice, and then shatters open. The splintering noise makes both of them flinch, and they exchange glances that say more than words ever could. Blacker stops breathing. The footsteps are inside, now, and they're heavy and purposeful. The person who's just broken down the door comes to a stop in the middle of the room, and there's a moment of silence.

"I know you're in here," says the guy. He sounds more amused than anything.

He looks at the reflection in the cabinet, and sees that the guy standing in the middle of the room, visible in distorted chrome, is wearing all black and is carrying a dangerous-looking gun. He looks back at Ruby, and realizes that this guy only knows that someone's in this room - he certainly can't have predicted that there's two of them, and if he gets up right now before the guy can notice Ruby -

Ruby seems to have come to the same conclusion, because she grabs his arm, her grip surprisingly strong. "No," she says, barely moving her lips - the word just a slight exhale of air. "No." 

"Stay down," he tells her, keeping his voice low.

"He'll kill you," she hisses, desperate and wild. "He'll kill you and you'll die and I can't deal with that, no, no, no -"

"I can hear you breathing," calls the man with the gun, and there's an ominous click, and there's a grin in his voice as he says, "don't make me come and find you!"

There's no time for all the things he wants to say. He prises her hand off his arm, ruffles her hair lightly, affectionately; and stands - and hopes to god that she won't end up being as traumatized by what comes next as he knows she will be.

Would Hitch die for Blacker?

"Got the handcuffs off yet?" Blacker asks, trying to twist around to see - they're bound back-to-back, of course - but ultimately failing.

"Getting there," says Hitch, grunting. Another few seconds pass - clink, clink, insert swearing here - and then he says, "again, sorry for getting you into this mess."

"No prob, kinda comes with the job description. Now, if we don't get back to HQ before lunch, well - then I might get mad."

He feels rather than hears Hitch laugh, and then then the clicking and rustling and swearing starts up again. Within five minutes, Hitch's handcuffs are off, and he's working on Blacker's.

"Any idea who these guys are?" Blacker wonders, watching the other man work.

Hitch offers a half-slope of his shoulders in response, a quick shrug. "None. Hang on -" and click, the handcuffs are off.

Blacker stretches his arms briefly, shakes his wrists out. "Okay," he says. "Let's get out of here."

"If anybody shows up," Hitch says, seriously, "just run. I'll hold them off as best as I can, but - you know, just look for an exit, try to get out, get help. We don't know what they're capable of."

Blacker pauses, thinks for a second about stating the obvious - but that's basically suicide, no matter how well you can handle yourself - and then realizes how pointless it is.

"Got it," he says instead, nodding, and they head out of the room without a word.

 Would Ruby die for Hitch?

Sometimes time is measured in hours, and sometimes it is measured in days, and sometimes it's measured in split-second freezeframes, captured one after another in a frantic rush that can only be processed properly when the action has ceased.

Click. Rooftop fight. Fantastic. On the bright side: three goons already taken out between them (Ruby got lucky with a kick below the waist and a punch to the head, and the other two were a team effort) and there's only one left. One the not-so-bright side: Hitch is weaponless, the guy's got a gun, and she's got maybe five ten twelve seconds before Hitch beefs it because this guy does NOT look like he's up for conversation.

Click. She scans the rooftop. No options but to take the gun-wielding man down herself. There's only one way to a girl Ruby's size to stop a guy that size and oh boy she doesn't like it but Hitch Hitch Hitch.

Click. She might survive this. She might. She's survived worse before. Maybe.

Click. Rugby tackles are undignified but sometimes you gotta work with what you have. The man never saw it coming. Who expects to be tackled at point-blank range by an terrified angry teenager, especially so close to the roof edge? It's a stupid thing to do.

Click. Ruby is the undisputed queen of stupid decisions.

Click. Distant shout, 'kid NO' from the rooftop above, she's already falling. So's the other guy, so task accomplished, Hitch'll be fine at least.

Click. Maybe she'll catch onto a windowframe before she hits the ground. That'd be nice, she thinks, and convenient too. Maybe, maybe, maybe.

Click.

Would Blacker die for Hitch? 

"Which of you is the man known as Art Hitchen Zachary?" the woman in dark blue asks, and there's an unpleasant glint in her eye which Blacker really doesn't like, so that's what makes him stand up in response before he's even aware he's doing it.

"I am," he says, "it's me."

Blacker never really pictured himself as a heroic kind of guy, but he always liked to think of himself as a fundamentally good one.

Hitch, next to him, makes a little choked horrified noise that Blacker could literally not have got out of him in any other circumstances, and says, "wait -" but Blacker just shakes his head, pre-empting that.

"He's just trying to save me," he says, inwardly admiring how steady he's got his voice to sound. "Guys, it's fine. Ignore him. I'm Hitch. What do you want?"

"Uh-huh," says the woman in blue, eyeing him. "I take it you know exactly what you've done to make our organization... displeased with you."

"Yes," Blacker says, forcing himself to channel Hitch, to stay calm. No. I have no idea what you're talking about. But that's fine. He's disposable - Spectrum can easily find another coding expert, or Ruby or Miles can take over (they're both good enough, or working together they could accomplish anything if they just stopped arguing) - but Hitch is not. LB needs him, Ruby needs him - Spectrum needs him.

"I see," says the woman, and her face curls up into a horrible little grin, promising all manner of dreadful, nasty things. "In that case - Mr Zachary, do feel free to come with me. We have a lot to talk about."

 Would Ruby die for Blacker?

It takes her less than a second to realize what's wrong with the scene she can see through the window set into the door in the coding room they've been using - only milliseconds to figure out that there's something majorly wrong with the way that the pens on the table are set out. Too neat, too perfect - too conveniently covering one blind spot. It takes her less than a second to work this out, but it inevitably will take longer than that to communicate all this, because words are unwieldly and not as razor-sharp and well-polished as her thoughts and deductions are. Blacker could have probably worked it out himself, but she moves faster with leaps of logic like this and he's distracted and there's just no time.

Blacker is talking about some new advance in technology, something inconsequential and light, and he's grinning at her over the steam that's curling up over his coffee cup, and he's yet to notice the way her expression's changed to completely serious, so that means he doesn't have time to stop her when she elbows him out of the way just as he's opening the door, and forces herself into the room first.

“Ruby, what -"

For a moment she thinks she must've overreacted - and that would be embarrassing but fine because it means that Blacker would be all right and so would she - but as it turns out, she was right, because it's about that point that the hidden mechanism goes off and the dart or whatever it is shoots right into her neck, and she has about enough time to swear in some very age-inappropriate terms before she's down on the ground and the coffee mug's been dropped and shattered and Blacker's yelling out the door for help and pulling her upright to (for the first time that she can actually remember him doing) scold her about her terrible, dreadful life choices (which, fair, but.).

"Next time," he tells her fiercely, "just let me take the damn dart. I'm not worth this, Ruby, I'm really not."

She grins at him kind of, sideways, and says, "thought there was something wrong with the room. Got it right again."

He sighs, lets out of a desperate half-laugh, and says, "yeah, and it sucks. Hold on, Rube. Help's on the way. I'll shut up and let Doctor Harper chew you out for this, huh?"

"Yeah," she breathes. "Yeah." She reaches up, fumbles for his hand, and squeezes it hard. He squeezes back, just as hard, and she thinks about telling him what a cool person he is and how glad she is that he's her friend, but it's kind of hard to talk and she's feeling super cold so she just holds his hand for a while and waits waits waits.

 Would Hitch die for Ruby?  

He's taken bullets for older people, and certainly less trustworthy people - and definitely people that he's liked a lot less. He's taken a lot of bullets, really. What's one more? You never really get to the point where you enjoy taking a bullet for someone, but this time, he thinks he might have gotten pretty damn close. Better him than the kid, after all. Better him than the kid.

It's not complicated, of course, but it doesn't need to be.

Love is a powerful motivator, of course.

It always is.