Ah, since it’s the transgender day of visibility, I thought I should talk about my character Rubi. It’s something I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned, but it has always been the case.

Even back when she was a child, Rubi was never able to understand why she felt the way she did about her own body, and why the body she had made her assigned to play out specific roles that didn’t seem to quite fit her at all. At some point she stopped trying to fit in and just did what felt comfortable and natural to her, to the disapproval of her father. In her younger years, Rubi’s father tried many different things to “straighten” her out, so that she could become “a functioning grown man”, but that kind of thing never appealed to her. When she started to reject the things that her father tried to force upon her, her father started to become violent which made Rubi resent him. At some point in her adolescence, Rubi decided to leave home for good, and never looked back. She found comfort in her childhood friend Barry who she then began to stay with, due to the fact that they could accept her for who she was.