Character · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

Ruby

A changeling orphan girl with Compression Sickness — a birth defect of the changelings' new world that leaves her without arms and with a sunken head in human form — patted on the head by Juice Box while a god screams outside.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 2 — The Wasteland through a telescope
• Chapter 10 — Squeeze out the Juice Box
• Chapter 13 — Gerbils
• Chapter 15 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
• Chapter 28 — Emberus

Arc

Compression Sickness, which Mordecai has never heard of (ch. 10); flees the robot cat (ch. 13); one in four births, and sterile (ch. 15); patted on the head by Juice Box as the god screams outside (ch. 28).