Carla Sunday
Carla Sunday was the adoptive mother of Ruby Sunday.
Biography
Early life
Carla worked as a foster mother, having fostered thirty-three children by 2023 at some point or another. According to Ruby, she still kept in touch with them, though only Ruby remained with her into adulthood, living with Carla in Manchester. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
Carla had a girlfriend, Carla, by 2014. When Ruby would return from school they'd play Carla's collection of albums by The Beatles. (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])
Carla, Ruby and Cherry lived through the pandemic, and the recession. (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"])
In 2023, Carla and Ruby moved into a flat in 3 Minto Road after they had moved to London to take care of Carla's ailing mother, Cherry. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) Shortly after the November 2023 UFO incident, (PROSE: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (novelisation)"]) Carla and her family lived through the Giggle. (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"])
Secretly plagued by Goblins
When Ruby was due to be interviewed by Davina McCall for her television programme about foundlings on 1 December, Carla told Ruby to not let anyone tell her story for her, as it belonged to her. (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"]) The interview was ultimatly cut short due to sabotage caused by Goblins.
On Christmas Eve, Carla was given a baby named Lulubelle to foster for a few days by Ruth Lyons. Carla left her in Ruby's care as she went to the shop to get supplies for Lulubelle. Upon returning, she saw Ruby with the Fifteenth Doctor, who claimed to be there to check on Lulubelle as "a routine visit". Concerned, Carla demanded to learn why, leading to Ruby revealing Davina McCall had rang to say she couldn't find Ruby's parents. Understanding, Carla hugged Ruby, proclaiming she was glad, because it meant Ruby could stay with her. Suddenly, cracks formed across the roof in their flat and the Doctor vanished. When he returned, he remarked on many confusing things like goblins and time travel. Carla dismissed him as "crazy", but Ruby ran after him, bidding Carla goodbye. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
Returning to normal life
She received a weird phonecall from Ruby after she had just ran out of the Door. Later on Christmas Day, she was calling a friend moaning that Ruby had disappeared, when the Doctor landed his TARDIS in her kitchen for them to celebrate the day together. (TV: Space Babies [+]Loading...["Space Babies (TV story)"])
Other realities
Cracked timeline
A cracked timeline was created when a group of Goblins travelled back in time and abducted Ruby Sunday when she was a baby.
By 2023, Carla Sunday was struggling for money, and — at £800 per child — would foster children to boost her income. She claimed to have fostered "about five or six kids", though she had never adopted or had any children of her own. She lived in her flat on Minto Road with her mother. She was with Lulu on Christmas Eve, who she was fostering for a couple of days. She stated she would struggle to have a child full time, referring to Lulu as a "little brat" who had ruined her holiday. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
