Trudy (The Church on Ruby Road)
Trudy was one of Ruby Sunday's friends, and also the singer in the band they were both members of.
Biography
Trudy once had her heart broken by a girl. Ruby Sunday then wrote an emotional piece of music for her. (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])
On 22 December 2023, Trudy and the band played a small gig at (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) the King's Arms. The band performed "One More Sleep" (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"]) and "Winter Wonderland" until a Goblin pulled the plug on their instruments. A woman told them to give it some "welly" before requesting Trudy to sing "Gaudete", but she was unfamiliar with the song (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) and she also told the woman that the band didn't take requests. (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"])
The next day, she, Big Jim, Clark and Ruby Sunday went to a nightclub and discussed what happened the previous day. (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...{"page":"17-18","chaptnum":"Four","1":"The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"}) Trudy accompanied Ruby and another friend home in a taxi. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
Personality
Ruby Sunday endearingly considered Trudy to be the "mouthy one" in their band. (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"]) She was seemingly lesbian, at least according to Maestro. (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])
Behind the scenes
Although explicitly noted in the stage direction of The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]'s script that Trudy was transgender,[1] this fact is ambiguous in the final cut of the episode. The novelisation also doesn't comment on the subject.
