Red Riding Hood

Ruby Lucas, also known as Red Riding Hood, or shortly known as Red, is a supporting character in Once Upon a Time in Middle-Earth.

Background
As a baby, Ruby's mother Anita and Ruby's grandmother fight on how to raise Ruby. While Granny wants to raise Red as a human, Anita wants to raise Ruby with the ways of hte wolf. Granny later takes Red as a baby and raises her granddaughter herself. When Red is thirteen years old, she begins inheriting her maternal relatives' instincts of the wolf, so her grandmother keeps her in the dark and gives her a red cloak enchanted by a wizard, which Granny makes her wear at all time.

Powers and abilities

 * Shapeshifting: Red is known to have the ability to shapeshift from a woman to a wolf without her cloak.

Weaknesses

 * Silver: Red can only be brought down by silver, but it can wound her or kill her.

Trivia

 * Red is based on Red Riding Hood from the fairytale of the same name as well as a wolf from the same fairytale.
 * Red also alludes to Rose-Red from the fairytale "Snow-White and Rose-Red".
 * Red and Whale were planned to become a couple, but Red's actress Meghan Ory went to star on a short-lived TV series. However, Red does find love with Dorothy Gale, who is her true love. The fans call them Ruby Slippers after the episode it first appears.