Happy Asexual Awareness Week! While I have been working on new ace-spec items to share with you, I thought I’d lead things off with Ace Ruby!





I have pretty much always seen Ruby as asexual; while this is just a headcanon, I believe there is enough evidence in canon to support my theory. Unlike all of her peers who have any reasonable amount of screen time as well as a decent portion of the adults, Ruby has shown zero interest in romance or dating, even when a sizable chunk of Volume 2 was centered around the pursuit of romance. She isn’t simply too young, either (as I thought I was when I was her age). 15 is a normal age to express interest in dating, even if those feelings must go unrequited. Also, at a panel I attended at Wizard World Chicago last year, Lindsay (I am 90% sure it was her–I couldn’t see because I was in line) said she liked Nuts & Dolts because she saw Ruby and Penny as “asexual beings that could just be happy together.” Again, none of this is canon, but as an asexual woman myself, it’s nice to have these sorts of things kind of validated. ;) I’ve also met many asexual Ruby cosplayers during my time in the FNDM.





With all that background, it was inevitable that I generate a piece like this. So that she would fit the ace palette, I swapped out her red for purples and her cream for white, added some grey accents, and retained the black. Ruby is still Ruby, though, so I left her hair and Crescent Rose alone.





The quote says “While you were busy experiencing sexual attraction, I studied the blade.” It comes from a shirt @s33ingspad3s showed me around the time I drew the pencil sketch.