Editing Quest:Ruby Quest/Theories (section)

===Theories Concerning Ace===
====Ace is Hostile====
'''LIKELY'''

He chased us through the facility with a weapon. It's still possible he may not have wanted to do any serious harm either Ruby or Tom, but that's only a distant possibility.

It was hinted by Weaver in the chat that he doubted hugging Ace would be a good idea. <citation here> Ruby also has an 'unfriendly feeling' towards him, and he is the one who locked her in the initial locker, according to Ruby's memories. All in all, we don't trust him.

However, this does not mean that Ace intends permanent harm. He may believe himself to be acting in the best interests of the facility, and even in the patients' best interests.

NEW EVIDENCE: Filbert said that Ace no longer takes orders from him, and that Ace will "get" Ruby. The figure on the monitor tells Ruby that it cannot call Ace off either.

NEW NEW EVIDENCE: Ace has been completely transformed by the monster in cold storage he is not to be trusted AT ALL (also PSYCHO RAAAAGE)

====Ace is Ruby's Secret Lover====
'''RIDICULOUS'''

Ruby and Ace were passionate lovers prior to the accident. Ace is pursuing Ruby not out of hostility, but out of love. That is why he is no longer responding to orders--he is too blinded by his single-minded infatuation with Ruby.

Because Ace was part of the staff, he was not allowed to fraternize with the patients, so their love affair had to proceed in secret. Ruby killed Stitches because he discovered their affair. Fearing that Stitches had told Red, she later attempted to silence Red by cutting open his mouth. Later still, she killed Tom to stave off his unwanted advances, so that she could be together with Ace.

This also means Ace is likely the one who smashed the monitor when Tom and Ruby kissed. He happened to be near Red's room because he was looking for him.

 [18:11]	<TG_Weaver>	On the topic of who Filbert meant when he said "HER"
 [18:11]	<TG_Weaver>	"Ace won't listen to his orders anymore. 
 [18:11]	<TG_Weaver>	He won't even listen to HER."
 [18:11]	<DubiousGrimoire> Yeah, but Ruby presumably knew Ace. They could have even been close friends.
 [18:12]	<TG_Weaver>	I thought I made it pretty clear that Ruby and Ace were lovers 
 [18:12]	<TG_Weaver>	before things went to hell, so to speak

 [18:12]	<TG_Weaver>	hahaha
 [18:12]	<TG_Weaver>	"IS HE JOKING?"
 [18:12]	<TG_Weaver>	haha
 [18:12]	<TG_Weaver>	okay

God damn it, Weaver.

====Ace is an Android, or Some Form of Bio-Mechanical Construct====
'''PLAUSIBLE'''

<s>He still goes as the only person in the entire facility, apart from the late Red, who has not shown a single evidence of being infected or mutated, even though supposedly being staff, he would have been ordered with the same medication the rest of the facility inhabitants were on.</s> '''RULED OUT BY TENTACLE FACE'''

First and foremost, he would be bound by the classic Three Laws of Robotics: By rule 1, he took Ruby's body and made her well again, at the first opportunity went at Red's corpse to see if he could have been helped, and he has never actually physically harmed anyone, nor allowed anyone to come to harm. By rule 2, he is following somebody's orders, though it is not known whose, and cannot seem to function properly without being ordered. And by rule 3, he escaped after being seriously injured, in a form of self-preservation.

When Tom stabbed him with a crowbar, his "blood" was black - though it was red when speared by a hook, implying that he does have some biological parts - and he did not seem very inconvenienced about it, pursuing Ruby and Tom with similar ferocity - under somebody's orders, most likely. Those orders would have involved about him bringing one or both of them alive to his superior(s), but the harpoon went against it: Perhaps his commander had invoked the Rule Zero in him, allowing him to break the rule 1 and kill someone, if it would help the entire mankind? Perhaps, to stop the spreading of the infection, Ruby and Tom, as well as everyone else inside, must be gotten rid of?

...Or perhaps Ruby and Tom were the primary targets, being the only ones left inside who were both infected, and still had enough sense in them to actively try and escape, spreading the disease to the rest of the population? They must be destroyed! Or at least destroyed enough to mutate them and drive them mad, so that they wouldn't try to escape anymore!

''Ehh, seems a bit far-fetched, but I put it here anyway.''