Ruby Sunday
Ruby Sunday is a female television character who features in Doctor Who.
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Biography
Ruby Sunday was a female human born on Earth in the modern age as the daughter Louise Miller and William Benjamin Garnet who were both 15 years old when Louise got pregnant. Within the next few hours, her mother travelled to the church on Ruby Road, abandoning her outside in the snow, presumably to protect Ruby due to Louise's abusive stepfather. (Episode: Empire of Death) The Fifteenth Doctor then arrived in his TARDIS, having travelled back from 2023 to negate a cracked timeline where the Goblins stole Ruby before she could be found and ate her. The Doctor was successful in saving her, and left Ruby to be found by the vicar, restoring the original timeline. (Episode: The Church on Ruby Road) She was named 'Ruby' after the road the church was located on, a name that was chosen by Louise before she left, although Ruby believed that it was either the social workers or the paramedics who had named her. (Episode: Empire of Death) Ruby was raised in Manchester and fostered by Carla Sunday, who often took in other children to simultaneously foster, but Ruby would be the only one she adopted. Ruby did her A levels, but her results were negatively affected by moving from Manchester to London, into the flat belonging to Cherry Sunday because of her declining health and refusal to move to Manchester. Ruby considered the move to have been 'tricky' and 'expensive'. (Episode: The Church on Ruby Road)
On 1 December 2023, Ruby, having wanted to find the truth about her parentage, ended up on a television series presented by Davina McCall which attempted to reunite 'foundlings' like Ruby with their families. While an interview for the show was being filmed, Davina told Ruby about how there was no guarantee her family could be found and Ruby told her about her adoptive family. However, filming was cut short when a heavy studio light nearly fell on Ruby and an electrical plug ricocheted against the back of Davina's head, as the Goblins began to weave bad luck into Ruby's life, having sensed a 'chance of coincidence'. Following the interview, Ruby was befell by a long series of bad luck, such as Bobby McGeever asking her out, causing Ruby to believe she was the centre of 'a whirlwind of bad luck'. On 22 December, while playing in her band, her musical keyboard stopped working, halting their performance. The next day, she nearly dropped her drink at a nightclub, only for the Fifteenth Doctor to arrive and catch it for her. She later left the club in a taxi, where her friends playfully called her a jinx. (Episode: The Church on Ruby Road)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Ruby Sunday was a young human woman of around nineteen years when she began traveling with the Doctor. She had dyed blond hair and green eyes. On screen she tended to wear modern, casual clothing, often layered and with an urban flavor—jackets, boots, everyday wear—rather than flamboyant sci-fi costumes. Her aesthetic reflected her origins as someone grounded on Earth, with little to mark her initially as anything other than ordinary.
Ruby was optimistic, kind, and selfless. She showed natural empathy—protecting Lulubelle even when danger loomed, consoling others, and pressing on with her search for identity in spite of not knowing who her birth mother was. She had a strong moral compass and often acted for the underdog. At the same time, Ruby carried emotional weight from her past abandonment and experiences on Doctor Who adventures, which introduced vulnerability and occasional moments of doubt.
Powers and abilities
Ruby was born an ordinary human being and did not possess any special or unique powers.
Notes
- Ruby Sunday was created by Russell T Davies and portrayed by actress Millie Gibson where she featured in the setting of Doctor Who starting from the episode "The Church on Ruby Road" (2023).
Appearances
- Doctor Who: "The Church on Ruby Road" (2023)
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