sofia
Ruby Hanshaw
Black best friend
Name Ruby Hanshaw
Films Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess
Shows Sofia the First: Royal Magic
Sofia the First
Gender Female
Age 8–11
Occupation Student of Dunwiddie School
Buttercup Scout
Dazzleballer of Dunwiddie Ducks
Alignment Good
Homeland Village of Dunwiddie
Race Human
Family Helen Hanshaw (mother)
Unnamed cousin
Friends Jade, Princess Sofia, Princess Clio, Princess Amber, Princess Vivian, Princess Hildegard, Meg and Peg
Enemies Vor
Likes Laughing, having fun, orange, red, go-carriage racing, her friends, Prince James
Dislikes Not having fun, bees, Sofia going behind her back
Voice Diamond White (shows)
Fiona Bishop (movie)

Ruby Hanshaw is one of the supporting characters alongside Jade in the Disney Jr. series Sofia the First: Royal Magic and Sofia the First. She is one of Sofia's best friends from before she became a princess, along with Jade. Despite this major change, they all remain close friends.

Physical appearance

Ruby is a young black girl with black hair, green eyes, and dark colored lips. She sports two red bows in her hair, a light orange shirt, a orange blouse, and a shin-length red skirt, and brown heeled shoes.

History

Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess

Ruby makes her debut appearance along with Jade when Sofia moves out of Dunwiddie Village to Enchancia Castle. She chases after the carriage and wishes Sofia good luck. Days later, Queen Miranda invites Ruby and Jade to the castle to cheer up Sofia, whose behavior has become increasingly odd and secretive. Sofia is happy to see her. Ruby is bombarding Sofia with questions when Prince James comes over. After James pours some tea into her cup Ruby squeals "Prince James poured me tea!" She is last seen watching James help Sofia get ready for her ball.

Sofia the First

As an old friend of Sofia's, Ruby is a major supporting character in the series.

Ruby makes her first major appearance in "The Big Sleepover". Ruby first appears at the castle with Jade for the Royal Sleepover Sofia invited her to. Ruby's delighted to see Sofia and meet Princess Amber, Hildegard and Clio. Ruby spends the night with Jade having a good time rapping with pinecones in her hair, dancing, doing her Mr. Happy Fan. She’s delighted to see James again and bombard Hildegard and Clio with questions. Her fun comes to an end when Sofia tells them to act like the Princesses which leaves her bored out of her wits. Sofia accidentally lets it slip they were being embarrassing which makes a hurt Ruby storm off with Jade, unaware that Sofia did not mean that and that she told her to act like a Princess because Amber was saying nasty things about her and Sofia was trying to stop her. Ruby's about to go home with Jade when Sofia arrives and apologizes for what she did. They then resume partying together.

It’s revealed in "The Buttercups" that Ruby, Jade, and Sofia are members of a Girl Scout troop called the Buttercups. It is also revealed that Ruby's mother Helen is the leader of the Troop. During a hike through Peppertree Forest, Ruby earns her Sunflower Pin and befriends the twins Meg and Peg.

In "Four's a Crowd", Ruby and Jade are invited by Sofia to be part of the Flylight Pageant to help decorate the coach. While decorating the coach, Ruby and Jade become friends with Sofia's sister, Princess Amber. She also tells Sofia how great she thinks Amber is unaware that instead of being happy that something she is always wanted has happened Sofia is feeling increasingly hurt. However, Ruby does notice Sofia's increasingly odd and erratic behavior and realizes that something is bothering her. When Sofia accidentally ruins the coach they were working on, Amber, Jade, and Ruby get the truth out of Sofia: That she is afraid of losing her friends to Amber. Ruby makes Sofia feel better and they fix the coach.

Ruby reveals in "King for a Day" that she sees James as infallible as shown when she didn't realize that he was getting carried away with his King of Fun ideas. However, she’s realistic enough to see when something is definitely a bad idea as shown when she tells James waking up a giant is a bad idea.

In "In a Tizzy", Ruby gets a Fairy Godmother named Tizzy and reveals it’s always been her dream to win the Dunwiddie Pedal Power race, a go-carriage competition. She tries to keep her Fairy Godmother a secret but she isn’t as good at keeping secrets as Sofia and the truth quickly gets out. Tizzy also proves to be overeager to the point where she insists on doing everything for her with her magic which, during the race, makes Ruby crash. Sofia brings the pair to their senses and Ruby ends up winning the race fair and square.

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