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[[edit] | [edit source]]
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. (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"]) Before getting on the stage, Ruby had playfully wrestled a tinsel scarf onto Trudy, causing Clark to laugh so much he smudged his David Bowie-style eyeliner. While Trudy took off the scarf, small bits remained in her hair. (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...{"name":"\"TCoRR3\"","chaptnum":"Three","1":"The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"}) 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...{"name":"\"TCoRR3\"","chaptnum":"Three","1":"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; she revealed she had found the disconnected plug. (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...{"page":"17-18","chaptnum":"Four","1":"The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"}) Trudy danced softly near her friend as she watched the Fifteenth Doctor energetically dance on the dancefloor below. Trudy accompanied Ruby and two friends home in a taxi, all laughing about Ruby's terrible lack of luck. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
Just before Ruby's death in an alternate timeline's 2091 from the words of a mysterious woman, she remembered Trudy as her whole life flashed before her. (PROSE: 73 Yards [+]Loading...["73 Yards (novelisation)"])
Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
There was a mention of Trudy and the band in the data files of the Doctor's TARDIS. (PROSE: TARDIS Data File: Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["TARDIS Data File: Ruby Sunday (feature)"])
Ruby played the piece of music she wrote for Trudy in an attempt to bring music back to the world in 1963, explaining to the Doctor its origin. Later, Maestro taunted the Fifteenth Doctor about she was hungry for Ruby's songs, mentioning how she had written them for "heartbroken lesbians." (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])
Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]
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)"])
Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]
Trudy had long brown "pin straight" hair. (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...{"chaptnum":"Three","1":"The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"})
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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. The script also states Trudy is twenty, placing her birth circa 2003.
- Additionally, Trudy fills the same dynamic in Ruby's friend group as Sally Salter does to Rose Tyler, one of many parallels between Season 1 and Russell T Davies's novelisation [+]Loading...{"noital":"1","1":"Rose (novelisation)","2":"novelisation"} of Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"].
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- ↑ Russell T Davies (14 February 2024). Christmas Special - The Church On Ruby Road (2023). BBC Writers Room. Archived from the original on 14 February 2024. Retrieved on 8 November 2024.
