When asked what is most important to him Ruggie responds “money”, but then follows up with a “warthog bank” that he found “abandoned on the ground outside some rich people’s house”.
He says that he decided to keep it after he couldn’t get anything for it from pawn shops, but now he is kind of attached to it and is thinking of buying a meerkat version from the same toy line so that it will have a buddy. (This coin bank is mentioned again in Book 3, a Chat, and the Cloudcalling event.)
Ruggie auditions for the VDC in Book 5 for the prize money (rejected for having poor singing and dancing skills).
He offers the prefect help with stitching on their clothes “for a price, of course”, and to do their laundry for “only 50 thaumarks per load.” Ruggie tells the prefect that if they are willing to drink expensive coffee at a museum cafe, he will make coffee for them so they can pay him, instead.
Ruggie says that, for his birthday, he went with members of the spelldrive club to a cafe. He says that while it was the kind of place he would usually never go near (“Every drink there was like 10 thaumarks at least”) he got a blended café au lait drink with whipped cream, since he wasn’t the one paying.
Ruggie says, “I’d never buy somethin’ like that for myself. Hopefully I can get someone to treat me to it again one day.”
Ruggie says that he would never be found in an art museum (“Gotta pay to get in and there isn’t even any food!”), but he does end up in one for his fifth birthday vignette, much to his surprise.
Ruggie refuses to help Leona and Jack during Phantom Bride and Silver in a vignette because he has no interest in doing thing when there is nothing in it for himself.
When called in to help for Fairy Gala Ruggie tells Leona, “If you want me in, give me at least ten thaumarks an hour for my time. Then we can talk.”
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