woru:

PKMN TRNR RUBY !!

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ishimarusan:

★

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-plusle:

MY BOY RUBY

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misvirtuous:

shebrew asked you:

Draw Ruby, please. :)

goddessofanubis answered: PokeSpec Ruby?? :D Just, anything with him? <3

here is the sweet prince in his princelyness!

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terracave:

スペらくがき。

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elementalhero:

kiyotakamine:

kiyotakamine:

“FANCY A WEIRDO LIKE ME”!!!

I want to talk about this panel again

because keeping in mind that this is Ruby, the biggest egotistical shitsack of this series

and here he is calling himself a weirdo

so it really is that his whole loudmouthed attitude isn’t really what he thinks of himself, but it’s his way to push himself forward more than anything

absolutely

because deep down ruby’s whole arc is learning to truly accept himself for who he is

him learning that true beauty lies in the heart isn’t just a lesson for him to take away on how to treat other people—it’s in the way he views and treats himself as well.  for as many times as ruby talks himself up and aggandizes himself, he also puts himself down, acts more clueless than he is, pretends that he isn’t good enough to save hoenn and why is that his responsibility anyway, doesn’t open up and reveal how he really feels

ruby’s poor relationship with his father is played off for laughs for the first two volumes in the arc (fetal position with wally, anyone?) until he and norman actually meet up—and then you are pressing a hand to your mouth when norman physically punches him down a flight of stairs, because that’s not funny.  that’s when ruby gets serious.  that’s when he, for the first time, asks someone not to watch him, asks to not be seen.  then we see his anger.  then we see his hurt, and rage, and capability for violence in a way that was up until that point not seen in the protag trainers.  ruby doesn’t enjoy battling because he’s too good at it—he hammers his father into a corner with mud shot to the point where onlookers determine that their lives are in danger. but this is in retaliation for being struck, choked, and dangled off a building by his own father, a man he both loves and hates, wants to not be like and yet whose approval he craves more than anyone else’s.  this is the violence that has dominated ruby’s life and childhood, the way his father expresses his love for him, through teaching him pokemon battling.  not to enjoy battling for its communicative capabilities, like the other dex holders, but how to win at all costs.  it’s the tension between that violence being modeled for him at such a formative age, and seeing the real-world results of it: sapphire crying in shock at seeing him fight that salamence, because of the sheer brutality.

ruby has internalized both demand-of-perfection-at-all-costs as a form of love/acceptable actions in a relationship (demonstrated when he drives mimi away with verbal violence), and abhorrence of the same (interpreting sapphire’s fear/shock as a reaction to him as a person capable of those actions).  his drive towards beauty and perfection therein is his way of dealing with these two contradictory impulses—he is still enabled to model the competitive drive instilled in him by his father, but in a nominally nonviolent way.  and also, by telling himself that beauty is an indicator of personal worth, he can assert his own value as a human being.  i’m beautiful, my pokemon win contests, i am a good coordinator, i am Someone, i am Worthy.

it doesn’t surprise me at all that we catch ruby in an unguarded moment calling himself a weirdo in his own head, since it’s pretty clear that he doesn’t have a good self-image at all to begin with, and it probably has something to do with suffering literal child abuse and abandonment at formative points in his life

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pokepi:

ずずさんと

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