hi this is for the ruby redfort ask game if you’re still doing it
hitch - 2, 7, 11, 21, 24
the silent g - 1, 9, 15, 18
ms drisco - 8, 13, 19
thank you!!
Hitch:
2) When I think I truly started to like them (or dislike them, if you've sent me a character I don't like) I think I always liked him. What can I say, he's a charming man.
7) A quote of them that you remember: Telling Clanyc not to be a church boy :)
11) What’s the first thing you think about when thinking about the character? This man who LIVES in suits just being the coolest ever. Like, a straight up comic book hero kinda guy. Sorta cliche but it works becuase HE'S SO COOL
21) When do you think they were at their happiest? Not sure honestly. I like to imagine he's very happy when he's working in the field, doing what he loves yk
24) What do you think is a secret they have that they never told anyone? He actually might've said this (oops) but as much as he loves Ruby he'd love to be relocated and work as a field agent again
The silent g (i like that lol):
My first impression of them: Evil, ngl. Maybe this is becuase I read the book for the first time when I was like, eight, but I thought he was gonna turn out to be actually bad.
9) Your least favorite outfit of them: All of them, I don't think he's style is that good tbh 😭 just plain brown 70s suits. Maybe tweed idk
15) Worst storyline they had: Being a dick
18) How do you think they were as a kid? (Like, were they shy, noisy, wild, etc): Very prim, very proper, very annoying. A total suck up to his teachers, but he secretly hated them and just wanted to be on their good side. Very sneaky, obviously, very smart and a massive show off who no one could stand :)
Mrs Drisco:
8) Your favorite outfit of them: All of then #grandmacore
13) Your favorite friendship they have: Her + her cats ofc
19) The most random ship you've seen people have with them: None, thank god 😭
20 and 16 for hitch?
hi!! v sorry this took so long
16) A childhood headcanon: Strikes me as a very nature oriented kid. Probably obsessed with the Amazon and all it's little bugs and birds yk? Probably wanted to be a naturalist. That kinda thing
20) A weird headcanon: Meticulous manners. Especially as far as table manners go, with cutlery and stuff like that. This makes sense, becuase he's a butler and all, but I mean people are actually shocked by how polite he has the capacity to be
OH and Hitch rr asks 22!
damn, again.
22) When do you think they were at their lowest? hmm. probably also in ftf tbh, it was a bad time for everyone. mans was STRESSED ab ruby constantly, more than usual. but also, hitch is kinda like a sad character yk, he doesn't have many friends (that we know of), much of a backstory, no moments where he stands out as being particulary 'happy'
rr asks- 3 & 5 hitch
3) A song that reminds me of them: I think Rootless, by Marina. He doesn't have that many continual connections to people, and he mentions he doesn't usually stay in one place for very long. we also know so little of his backstory, he really is rootless lol. it's also a super good song, and I love this question :)
5) My favorite ship of them: idk, I can't think of heaps of other characters to ship him with tbh. maybe blacker, since hitch is pretty well organised and put together, while blacker is just not, I think it would be fun, like an opposites attract thing
hi!! for the character ask game, how about 28 + 11 for ruby, and/or 7 + 26 for hitch?
ahh yay!!
ruby:
11) What’s the first thing you think about when thinking about the character? a very stereotypically 70s looking ruby smartassing everyone she encounters. her doing everything she possibly can, all the time. banana milk
28) The most unnecessary thing they ever did? I mean if we're speaking literally then everything she did tbh, she was just going out of her way to do exactly what she was told to NOT do, but specifically?? maybe when she took Archie out with her to like, fight crime. like either leave the lemon at home or wait an hour its not that hard 😭
hitch:
7) A quote of them that you remember: i had to get my books out for this lol, i'm bad at remembering quotes. probably when he tells clancy to 'cut the churchboy act,' or something like in look into my eyes, when clancy is trying so hard to not ray ruby out. idk i just think its funny.
26) When do you think they were being "themselves" the most? I think when he's protecting ruby. like obviously he's pissed at her bc she's being stupid again, but he also like, cares for her?? he's a caring person and you can really see it in these moments, with these different aspects of his personality getting all wrapped up yk
hitch was born in 1931 what-
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 😭
PLEASE
having. having thoughts about a post-bayd fic that basically forms an imaginary seventh novel because like. pretty sure the count is still out there. i could easily justify lorelei still being on the warpath. new villains would arise to fill the power vacuum casey morgan left. i actually need hitch to demonstrate some vulnerability. older ruby and co. past hitch/lb/baker (i don’t know if there’s Any demand for that but I Like It so). current Budding hitch/miles/blacker. maybe a Bit of del/ruby if i feel like it. more explorations of the fact that no one in ruby’s friend group can possibly be cisgender heterosexual. ruby actually gets comeuppance for stealing from hal so many times (because i think it would be funny). thoughts, thoughts, many thoughts
scrolling through the rr tag and found this post and it made me remember..
I always wondered what the story was gonna be when those employers got BACK??
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR THREE YEARS IS UP HITCH?? THEN WHAT??
Just started re-reading the Ruby Redfort books and Hitch the professional spy shows up with the cover story “oh yeah, previous employers? They’re uh, traveling India. By elephant. Yep. Long trip,” and I’m like come on Hitch, LB isn’t paying you for this
thoroughly agree
one of my favourite things in the rr books is hitch in books 1-4 going from ‘this child is annoying as hell’ to i will look after this kid’ but then in book 5 he just goes full dad mode like he was one of the only people checking up on her & he was always trying to make sure she was the least stressed as possible and I just think that deserves a post
can someone please tell me if there's a backstory on how hitch got recruited into spectrum? i feel like there should be but i can’t think of any and its been a minute since i’ve read the books
if there isn’t please tell me theories i must know
i feel like everyone at Spectrum would sorta band together to like...help care fro ruby. they’d all sorta help out hitch and mrs digby best they could. alos mrs digby would get EXTREMELY protective of ruby. like would not let the girl out of her sight, hitch actually had to step in at one point
very sad post but i lowkey want to know what would’ve happened if Brant and Sabina died after the pirate attacks. like Ruby and Hitch and Mrs Digby just thinking about it was so sad to read but what if……