Have I explained my phantom ruby lore or do I gotta make some paragraphs about it now.
OK so. Paragraph time!
So, in the lore, Chaos energy runs through every bit of life. All within different wave-lengths. Not every person is born the same. Some have low amounts of Chaos energy, others have high amounts. This affects how each living thing, well, lives. If you have low amounts of it, then you’re more prone to getting sicks. If you have high amounts of it, then you are less likely to get sick. In rare cases, some have dangerously low amounts of it, causing terminal illness (such as the case for Maria).
If you have a lot of Chaos energy, you might be able to unlock powers such as Super Speed, Psychokinesis, Teleportation, ect. However, that’s only prevalent in Mobians has they are most in-tune with Chaos energy.
Humans don’t get much out of Chaos energy naturally. They have to harness it through artificial means. Throughout history, Humans with high levels of chaos energy could do magic. However, because it is extremely rare for a human to wield that much energy, almost no one knows about it and it gets passed on through fairy tales.
And as well all know, Chaos is a god. A sentient god. Chaos can see the world through the energy in every living thing so technically it can see everything all at once (if it desires to).
So, with that out of the way. The Phantom Ruby is actually sentient. It’s an energy force much like Chaos Energy. However, unlike Chaos Energy, Phantom Ruby energy is extremely lethal to any life it comes in contact with. The tiniest fraction of it could kill you. The Phantom Ruby is a god like Chaos, for now we’ll call it Ruby. Unlike Chaos though, Ruby cannot see the world whenever it desires. It is nowhere in the world, since if it was a free energy, it would destroy every living thing it came in contact with. So, Ruby is sealed within the Phantom Ruby. All of its power in the precious gem.
Ruby always longed to see what life was like, but due to its nature, it couldn’t.
Until Eggman comes along and FUCKS SHIT UP!!!
So Eggman finds the Ruby, decides to make several prototypes of a replica of the Ruby, and then a full Replica which he placed into a Jackal. The replica is designed to mimic the real thing almost exactly, except it needs a power source to do so (a big one at that) and also it wasn’t as strong as the real thing, of course. Eggman also designed it to not kill the Jackal with the lethal energy, and instead decided to take advantage of the Rubys alteration of reality abilities, and have the replica slowly change the Jackal energy needs and adapt his body.
Basically, Infinite slowly loses chaos energy the longer the replica stays in him, and it is slowly replaced with Phantom Ruby energy. It does this by using it’s reality warping ability to modify him to the needs of the replica (and by extension, Eggman). Eggman made the replica, so he also made it bend to his will so he can control Infinite whenever necessary. (<- pov ur infinite and you didn’t know shit about this lmfao)
Eggman originally wanted Infinite be the new Ruby. Harnessing the power organically seemed to be stronger than harnessing it artificially through the actual gemstone itself. That’s why he only used Infinite’s replica during the 6 month war. Because it was stronger and more consistent than what his machines could do. If he got Infinite’s body to adapt to the Phantom Ruby energy, then he could place the real deal into him and have full power of the Ruby and also be able to control it’s maximum output through Infinite.
Meanwhile Ruby is just sitting there like “I hope this solves itself eventually.” since if it were to break free and actively stop Eggman, it would destroy the planet.
Doesn’t matter since in the final fight against Eggman, the real Phantom Ruby is shattered, releasing all of that energy into the world. Now the planet doesn’t die immediately but the affects are defiantly noticeable. Disease’s are spreading like crazy, the fields of grass are wilting, the whole shebang.
Chaos is fighting to protect the damn planet from Ruby whilst Ruby is like “IDK WTF IS GOING ON also damn this place is pretty.” Ruby isn’t actively trying to harm the planet, it’s just a byproduct of the thing it was sealed in, breaking, and it involuntary releasing. If it is kept around though, half the population will probably die at the very least.
Meanwhile Infinite’s still around with the replica in his chest. He doesn’t know what the fuck is going either. What a man.
Eggman is like “Oh shit. We need to track that mf down and break that replica so he can be the new seal.” (<- he’s working with Sonic since this whole thing also affects Eggman and he wants to live). Since the replica isn’t 1-1 with the actual Phantom Ruby, it’s actually preventing him from being a seal.
So they track that bitch down, break the replica, and with that Ruby notices and seizes the opportunity to go into a new seal since it doesn’t wanna destroy the planet and now Infinite has a god inside him. Kind of.
Ruby wants to see the planet since it’s never seen anything before, but it also knows not to give too much of its power to Infinite since he’s an asshole. So Ruby gives Infinite the absolute bare minimum of its power. Infinite still needs to eat and sleep and do all of that organic shit. BUT! He can’t die! Ruby won’t let him.
Infinite and Ruby can talk to one another but Infinite is again, an asshole. And what do you do with assholes? put them on mute. So basically Ruby doesn’t talk to Infinite at all at first.
Infinite is taken by GUN so that they can make a new seal for Ruby. In the meantime they lock Infinite up and Ruby is like “NUH UH” and GUN is like “fym nuh uh?” and so Ruby takes control over Infinite using it’s full power in order to break out of the cell. tells GUN that it doesn’t want a new seal and wants to experience life through an organics eyes. And then fucking goes away, giving Infinite his body back.
This affects Infinite’s body and self issues in so many ways. But hey at least he has a super form of his own! Wildly inconsistent but hey it’s there.
GUN assigns Team Dark to look over Infinite since he doesn’t seem to have a full grasp of even a fraction of Ruby’s power so he should be OK. But he needs to be put on parole lmfao war criminal.
ANYWAYS this is getting really long so he’s the short of it.
Ruby kinda falls in love with Infinite and his life, and because this is me, it also falls in love with Infinite lover Shadow. Since Shadow is immortal, Ruby makes Infinite immortal as well to keep being with Shadow for as long as possible. Ruby learns ways of organics it never would have even imagined and is quite happy.
And then maybe Ruby forms a crush on Chaos idk.
ALSO BRIEF ANALYSIS:
Since you need Chaos energy in you to be able to teleport or be teleported by someone, Shadow can’t teleport Infinite anywhere since Infinite is the absence of Chaos energy. This goes vice versa for Infinite! He can’t teleport anyone with him since Phantom Ruby energy is lethal to all life forms. It wont kill Shadow since he’s immortal but it will make him quite sick for a little bit and he doesn’t want any of that.
Also something about Infinite being the ultimate weapon and being absent of the thing that goes through all life. Blah blah blah who cares.
Thinking about this again. Having a god who was originally sealed inside of a rock, now be sealed inside of you, defiantly contributes a lot to Infintes constant objectification of his body ever since he gave it up to the replica. Being a constant reminder of his trauma and thinking that he’s not longer a person and more of just a vessel for the ruby.
And that’s all true and he’ll have to get over that himself. But I wanna introduce a bit of comedic potential.
Whenever Shadow and Infinite have hot nasty gay sex with each other for the first time. From that moment onwards, Ruby will chime in to talk to Infinite syaing “this is boring you should have gay sex with Shadow” at random times. Ruby will be the “gay gay homosexual gay” ghost to Infinite.
