Leona and Ruggie (pt5)

Ruggie says, “Leona runs me ragged, but he does at least reward me for my efforts. It’s give-and-take,” and he has several lines about doing chores for Leona.

Jack says that Ruggie wakes Leona up every morning, though Ruggie himself says, “with how heavy of a sleeper he is, my success rate is only around 60 or 70 percent.” 

It seems that Ruggie will also remind Leona to go to class and cook for him, saying, “When it comes to cooking, all I can do is throw together whatever’s on hand, but it seems like Leona doesn’t care as long as it’s edible.”

This seems in contrast to Leona complaining about the quality of the food at STYX (“I’ve got a refined palate, you know”) and his being one of the strictest judges in Master Chef, on par with Vil, where we will rate food a 4 that Ruggie rates as 8.

While it is possible that, as a prince, Leona actually does prefer finer foods and simply refuses to complain about Ruggie’s cooking, he does not balk at the idea of eating bats, rats or frogs during NBC, so Ruggie might be correct about Leona being willing to eat whatever he is offered as long as it is not vegetables (more here ▶︎).

Leona hires Ruggie to protect him the opposite team during Beanfest in exchange for a week of lunch specials from the cafeteria (Ruggie fails in his task), and has him “round up” potential spelldrive club members in exchange for doughnuts.

It seems that Ruggie is also in charge of cleaning Leona’s room, which is maybe the task we hear him complain about the most, with Leona paying for Ruggie’s laundry provided that he has their clothes cleaned together.

We have never seen Leona argue with the prices Ruggie charges for his services (such as ten thaumarks (1,000 madol) an hour during Fairy Gala) and he has also provided Ruggie with his old school uniform, possibly due to Ruggie being unable to afford one himself.

Ruggie also buys his outfit for Vargas Camp with Leona’s money.