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[neondreams-rp]

[ ♫ ] “ I’ve been talking to the voice in my head, making me second guess. Making me think I’m not good enough, making me think I’m not like the rest. ”

Name: Ruby Maddox

Age: Twenty-Four

Face Claim: Sophie Skelton

Affiliate: The Devils Playhouse/Crimson Cobras

Occupation: Bar Manager/Dancer at the Devil's Playhouse, Queen of the Cobras

Availability: Taken

“I wish you would have slept in the guest room. Cause maybe I'd still feel alive without you. I’m pretty sure that all of this was my fault, I'm the one who kissed you first and took my clothes off”  [ ♪ ]

Positive: Determined, Feisty, Silver-Tongued.

Negative: Stubborn, Defensive, Gulliable.

CHAOS IS THE LAW OF NATURE, ORDER IS THE DREAM OF MAN

To start this story, you need to go back to the day Ruby Maddox was born. Which will be hard because Ruby Maddox doesn’t exist. Olivia Maddox, however, does. Which is what Ruby’s name was before she moved away from her small town of Blackwell, Texas. A population of 310, it was the type of town where everyone knew everyone and that was something that Ruby hated. Growing up, she had a normal life, a normal family and basically everything about her was normal. Another thing Ruby hated. Her life revolved around her family’s farm, a small cattle farm that provided their town with their meat and milk. She was a farm girl, despite wanting to be more. At the age of seventeen, the young girl went on a trip to Austin, three hours from her hometown, with her school. It was there that she was approached by a talent agent. Frederick Grigson, or Fred as he liked to be called, claimed to be a big time model scout looking for fresh, young faces to represent a popular California clothing brand. Handing his card to the young ginger haired girl, he told her that she was perfect for the role and that this was an opportunity she could not pass up. A chance at becoming someone important, which is exactly what Ruby wanted. Unfortunately, it wasn’t exactly what Ruby had hoped it would be.

With determination, later that day she went home, sat her parents down and said she was moving out. Having saved up a little bit of money from chores around the house and her part time job, she had enough to get started and much to her parents dismay, she packed her bags and left. Catching the first bus available to Los Angeles. After a day of travelling, the wide eyed girl had finally arrived to Los Angeles, checking in the nearest motel, she prepared herself for the day she had ahead of her. A phone call was made to Fred, confirming a time for her to come meet him and the rest of the people that mattered and that night, she slept with a smile on her face. This was it, this was her time to shine. The next day she awoke early, she showered, she changed into appropriate clothing and put her makeup on and counted down the hours, the minutes until she was to meet up with Fred. The meeting--however, wasn’t what she thought it was and instead, she was thrown straight into a photoshoot. The popular clothing brand? Lingerie. This was red flag number one for Ruby. Time passed, photos were taken and Ruby had never felt more uncomfortable then she did during the photoshoot. She was sexualised, she was poked and prodded, she was bare skinned in places that not even her mother had seen for a long time and that woman changed her diapers. Ruby was demoralised. But Ruby stuck through it. This was her shot at being anything but normal, so she continued to be torn down.

Months passed and things were looking up for Ruby. She was starting to get a some jobs, some for underwear, some for actual clothing ranges. She had made enough money to find herself a small, shitty apartment, somewhere to lay her head after a long day. She was doing okay, and that’s what she’d tell her brother each week when he called to check on her. Her parents would never talk to her, no matter how many times Jamie, her brother, would ask them to, but that was fine with Ruby. She preferred it that way. She considered herself lucky of sorts. She was doing something that mattered to her, didn’t make her feel like a nobody. But unfortunately, her luck would soon run out. A year after her first job, her anniversary of becoming a somebody, she booked a job. It seemed pretty straightforward, another shot for lingerie. Little did she knew, the manager and everyone involved had ulterior motives. The job was what they said it would be, a simple lingerie shot, it was what followed afterwards that was the trouble. An after party full of drugs and alcohol and everything that an eighteen year old shouldn’t be around. They wanted to take advantage of the innocent little girl, as Fred put it. Show her that you have to get used to being used in order to get what you want. That night, Ruby Maddox lost all sense of virtue and respect she had for herself. Not to mention her ability to trust others.

The next morning Ruby woke up, disorientated, alone and naked in a stranger's bed. Confused and hurt, she stumbled, now fully clothed, out of the room and into a lounge room full of people. They all stared and laughed and Ruby felt tears pool in her eyes. She was humiliated. She ran from the house, somehow found her way home and cleaned herself up. She was taken advantage of, she was used and she couldn’t see herself getting through this. Thoughts had ran through her head, one being to go to the police, but part of her knew that wouldn’t work. They wouldn’t believe her. So instead, she went to the closest bar. Having a fake ID was her brothers idea. He had gotten it for her back home when she had turned sixteen. Of course, coming from a small town, using an fake ID wasn’t exactly easy as everyone knew of the red-haired Maddox daughter. In surrounding towns, however, it worked like a charm. So there she was, downing shot after shot until she could no longer walk. A horrible situation to get yourself into after having gone through what she did. Thankfully, nothing happened because that’s when Norah Harris found the young girl. Barely able to talk or walk, the young brunette picked her up and helped her out of the bar. Still to this day, Ruby has no idea what compelled the other woman to help her, and no matter how many times she’d ask why, Norah would never really respond. But several hours later, after sleeping off the worse of the alcohol, Ruby awoke in yet another unfamiliar room. She started to panic, her breathing laboured as she looked around the room. She scrambled up and out of the bed and started to race out of the room. Only when she walked out the door, she collided with Norah. It was then that Norah explained the situation that Ruby was in. That she couldn’t leave the young girl there to be taken advantage of. Ruby calmed down and the two talked. Ruby had learned that Norah was a dancer at the Devil’s Playhouse, a place that Fred, her former boss had mentioned wanting to go to quite a few times. Norah had offered her a place to stay if she didn’t want to be alone, which Ruby had gratefully accepted. It was that day she met Andrea Hallstorm. An elegant woman who owned the club that Norah worked at. For some reason, Ruby found herself being able to trust the older woman. So she told her everything and when she finished, the older woman just looked to the girl. Andrea gave Ruby a place at the Devil’s Playhouse, going over her own rules of not allowing anyone under the age of twenty-five to work at the club, she allowed Ruby to work there as a dishwasher.

Six years later, Ruby Maddox now works as a full time dancer for Andrea. Being the youngest dancer there, she was considered the baby of the unusual family but they were a family nonetheless. Ruby pushed her past to the back of her mind, never forgetting about it but not dwelling on it. At least, not until she met Tarik Deveroux. At the time, she had no idea who he was or what he was involved in and it was on one of the daily runs that she had actually met him. But from the moment she had met him, she was enthralled by him. There was something about him that intrigued her and she wanted to know more about him. It didn’t take long before she found out about his past and his present. About his life with the Crimson Cobras and at first, she steered clear of him. But with a connection this intense, the two floated back to each other every time they tried to stay away from each other. They were one hundred percent perfect for each other. They leveled each other out. With her fiery, feisty temperament and his calm and collected one, these two were invincible together. That was how Ruby Maddox became the Queen of the Crimson Cobras and a force to be reckoned with.

& FORTUNATELY, CHAOS IS A FRIEND OF MINE.

Tarik Deveroux - Lover

From the moment they met, there was this indescribable pull to Tarik that Ruby could not deny. No matter how hard she tried to fight it and even after she found out his involvement with the Crimson Cobras, she couldn’t stay away. Their chemistry was too strong to ignore. The two of them were absolutely perfect for each other. Completely balancing one another out. She was feisty and silver-tongued, he was calm and collected. She was the perfect Queen the Cobras needed and King is nothing without his Queen.

Norah Harris - Bestfriend

Norah is the person who found her that day in the bar, completely unable to make a coherent word and drowning herself in liquor. If it wasn’t for Norah, Ruby would have no idea where she’d be right now. If she’d be alive or dead in a ditch somewhere. Ruby and Norah became fast friends and the young girl could not imagine her life without her.

Andrea Wallstorm - Boss/Mentor

Andrea gave Ruby a chance when she didn’t think she’d deserve it. Humiliated and ashamed to even be living, Ruby was found by Norah, who took her under her wing and introduced her to Andrea. Andrea is one of the only two people that know what happened to Ruby that night and thus, Andrea took Ruby under her wing. Giving her a job at The Devil’s Playhouse as a dishwasher until she was old enough in Drea’s eyes to dance for her.

Elise Harris - Goddaughter

When Ruby met Elise Harris for the first time, the two bonded really quickly. She was only four years old when they first met but their bond was strong. Norah had asked Ruby to be Elise’s godmother a year after they met which Ruby graciously accepted and now Ruby spends as much time as possible with the young girl.