Ruby & Agatha

Ruby & Agatha is the family ship between Ruby Gillman and Agatha Gillman from the Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken fandom.

Canon
At some point when Ruby was a baby and her mother has not long hidden the trident, to keep the evil mermaid queen from reclaiming it, Agatha brought Ruby and her husband to the surface. To start a new life as "humans," so Ruby wouldn't be forced to fight like her mother did to her. Agatha didn't want her and Ruby to fall into a similar pattern with Ruby resenting her mother, and for them to be come. She fought hard to ensure they and their family have a life on land, where Ruby can pick her own path and life, without the Kraken Queen deciding things for her granddaughter. Knowing that sea water awakens the giant kraken transformation and how it could draw the attention of the many evil sea creatures, as well as her fighting loving mother, Agatha made it her number one rule for Ruby to stay away from the ocean. Despite the fact that they reside in a town by the sea and knows a lot more about it than the humans do.

Ruby couldn't help but wonder about life under the sea and since her mother wouldn't tell her much about it, Ruby is forced to read about it from books that humans wrote on the ocean. Even though Agatha has told Ruby not to trust those facts. Although Agatha and the rest of their family have left their mark on land, while making everyone believe that their blue skin is due to them being "Canadian," Ruby wasn't satisfied with being a mathleat from having trouble fitting in at school and hates lying about herself to others.

Agatha's "stay away from the ocean" rule ends up affecting Ruby's friends, as they miss out on a lot of fun events and activities near the ocean to support Ruby. When it was time for prom, that was being hosted on a ship surrounded by ocean, Ruby tries to convince her mother to make an exception, but Agatha refused to the take risk. She was impressed with Ruby's presentation, but her over protective motherly instincts had her tell Ruby no. Ruby was content with the backup plan she had her friends had set of that was the chance, but after hearing them say that prom wasn't an event they want to miss out on because of Agatha, Ruby felt trapped of wanting to remain her mother's good girl and wanting to please her friends. Leading to the suggestion of Ruby going to prom behind her mother's back.

After Ruby dived into the sea to save Connor and her wet body having her transform into a giant kraken again, Agatha spies her frightened daughter and rushed to her aid. Knowing that Ruby will need her and wants to bring her back home before anyone else sees her. Ruby was worried that she had became a monster and asked her mother to stay away so she wouldn't get hurt. Agatha reassures Ruby that everything will be alright and will stay with her until she reverts back to normal. To help Ruby calm herself Agatha brings up the time Ruby helped a beached whale and how they couldn't keep him, before he went back into the sea. Although Ruby was able to shrink back to her normal size, like Agatha said she would, she was still shocked about it and had no idea who the stranger in her mother's car is, while Agatha focused on getting Ruby home where she plans to explain things.

Growing up in a town that sees giant krakens as monsters, Ruby didn't take the news of her being one very well. As well as her being pretty angry at Agatha for keeping it a secret from her. Agatha tries to sympathize with Ruby, as she tells her that she too has become a giant kraken and knows what she is going through, but Ruby was too upset with her mother to listen. Knowing that she is still keeping things from her and decides to go behind Agatha's back to get her answers. Leading to her meeting the Kraken Queen who is her granddaughter. Shocking Ruby that Agatha never told them that they are royalty or of the epic battle she had with the evil mermaid queen, Nerissa. Before she left to live on land. Not wanting to be a kraken warrior or princess and didn't feel like going to her mother about it, she began to pull away from her.

After their fight and knowing how things turned out with her and her mother, Agatha became worried that Ruby would either run away or resent her. Arthur tries to help Agatha with her fears, but the two spying Ruby trying to sneak her way to school, so she wouldn't have to talk with her mother, didn't help. Agatha began to long for the days she and Ruby were close and after passing a dress shop, where she spies a mother and daughter getting a prom dress, she remembered Ruby asking her about it and decides to let her attend prom after all. To help mend their damaged bond.

When Ruby was tricked into training herself in order to fetch the trident from where Agatha hidden it, the final optical forced Ruby's mind to see images of the hurt and betrayed she felt about Agatha. Keeping her from reaching the trident she and "Chelsea" plan to use as a symbol of peace between krakens and mermaids. Wanting to escape the plans her grandmother has for her forcing Ruby to ask Agatha for help, hoping that her mother seeing her friendship with Chelsea would convince her to help them. Agatha, however, was shocked that Ruby befriended a mermaid and tries to warn her that mermaids cannot be trusted. Filling Ruby with rage has she hears Agatha being distrustful of her friend and refusing to hear her out. After Ruby's rage turns her into a kraken and left, Agatha knew that she has to face her mother if she is to help Ruby.

Agatha confronts her mother on how Ruby is still a sweet kid, who shouldn't be forced to fight before bringing up the matter at hand. Once the Kraken Queen informs Agatha that Nerissa never had a daughter, she realises that Ruby is in far worse danger than she had originally feared. At first she was worried when Nerissa informed Agatha that she and Ruby had "said their goodbyes," until Ruby emerged out of the water to aid her mother and grandmother. Bril had helped to get Ruby to get back onto her feet by telling her the lengths Agatha fought hard for so they could have a life on land, resorting Ruby's respective for her and herself. In order to destroy the trident, despite Agatha saying that it can't be done and that was why she hide it, Ruby convinces her and her grandmother to combined their laser eyes. Knowing that together they can defeat Nerissa and keep the trident out of her reach for good.

Once the battle was won and the three krakens had a group, Agatha tells Ruby that there is still time for her to attend prom. Filling Ruby with joy, as their broken bond begins to heal. While Agatha continues her life on land with the rest of the Gillman clan, Ruby embraces her new ocean protecting duties as a kraken warrior. As Agatha convinces her mother to let Ruby take her time and to not force everything on her at once, making things a bit easier for her daughter.

Fanon
Fans of the 2023 DreamWorks film have noticed that Ruby and Agatha's daughter-mother relationship has a similar theme to the one of Meilin and Ming Lee from Pixar's Turning Red. The two possessing a unique transformation-like ability that has been passed down within the women of their family, and Agatha being over protective of Ruby had her keep that fact a secret from her. After Ruby found out about it Agatha sympathize with her to let Ruby know that she isn't alone and understands what she is going through, along with the two drifting apart before becoming again.

Fandom

 * WIKI
 * https://rubygillman.fandom.com/wiki/Ruby_Gillman#Agatha_Gillman
 * https://rubygillman.fandom.com/wiki/Agatha_Gillman#Ruby_Gillman