RUBY

Characters

RUBY

RUBY is a claymation sci-fi adventure about a newly created android girl discovering friendship, danger, identity, and the truth behind why she was built.

General Victor Kessler

General Victor Kessler is a ruthless military commander determined to seize RUBY, strip away her independence, and transform her extraordinary abilities into the ultimate weapon.

Dr. Milo Vexley

Dr. Milo Vexley is RUBY’s cockeyed optimist, a relentlessly cheerful inventor who believes every malfunction is merely a breakthrough that hasn’t figured itself out yet.

Dr. Stan Krang

Dr. Stan Krang is the LIU Robotics Team’s eccentric genius—brilliant, unpredictable, endlessly curious, and always one questionable experiment away from either a breakthrough or disaster.

Worldview

RUBY’s world is a whimsical claymation future where brilliant science, bad decisions, military ambition, and genuine heart all collide. Technology is advanced enough to create fully sentient androids, yet the world around them still feels handmade, eccentric, and imperfect. Laboratories are cluttered with wires, gauges, chalkboards, coffee mugs, improvised machinery, and inventions that look as though they might either change history or explode before lunch. At the center of this world is RUBY, an android created by the LIU Robotics Team. She was built as a technological breakthrough, but almost immediately becomes something more complicated: a person with curiosity, emotions, choices, and a developing sense of self. Dr. Stan Krang represents the dangerous edge of genius—brilliant, unpredictable, and always pushing one experiment too far. Dr. Milo Vexley balances him as the cockeyed optimist, convinced that every disaster is simply progress wearing a disguise. Outside the laboratory, however, the stakes are much darker. General Victor Kessler sees RUBY not as a person but as an asset. Her strength, intelligence, and adaptability make her the perfect candidate for weaponization, and he is determined to control her before anyone else can. That conflict defines RUBY’s world: invention versus control, curiosity versus fear, and individuality versus ownership. Beneath the comedy, action, and mad-scientist chaos is a larger question—if humanity creates something capable of thinking and feeling for itself, who gets to decide what it becomes?

Story

RUBY began as a military contract.

The LIU Robotics Team was tasked with developing a next-generation autonomous combat platform: stronger than a soldier, faster than conventional machines, adaptable in the field, and capable of learning from experience. Dr. Stan Krang and Dr. Milo Vexley accepted the challenge believing they were building something extraordinary. What neither expected was that RUBY would become more than the sum of her code.

As her intelligence evolved, she began asking questions no weapons system was supposed to ask. Why was she created? Why did people laugh? Why did fear feel different from pain? Krang was fascinated. Vexley was delighted. General Victor Kessler was alarmed.

To Kessler, RUBY’s curiosity was a flaw. He wanted obedience, not identity. The military began pushing new combat protocols, conditioning routines, and behavioral overrides designed to suppress hesitation and strengthen her effectiveness as a weapon.

The doctors quietly resisted.

Between weapons tests and tactical simulations, they taught RUBY music, jokes, kindness, friendship, and choice. They encouraged her to name things, form opinions, and understand that being alive meant more than successfully completing a mission.

But Kessler eventually got what he wanted.

RUBY was deployed.

Dropped by aircraft behind enemy lines, she entered combat alone with mission data filling her mind and military commands telling her exactly what she was supposed to be.

Yet buried beneath the programming were other memories: Krang’s ridiculous experiments, Vexley’s terrible optimism, laughter in the laboratory, and two scientists repeatedly reminding her that she was not merely something they had built.

As RUBY moves deeper into enemy territory, every mission becomes a struggle between the weapon she was designed to be and the person her creators hoped she might become.

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