#she also calls jiu “president” sometimes

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dramatic ass jiu from the VC video

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𝐒𝐎𝐊𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍 '𝐒𝐔𝐊𝐈' 𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐈𝐍 --  why  are  you  full  of  rage  ? 

(  fivel stewart  /  cis woman  /  she and her  ). introducing  sokanon ‘suki’ rankin , the host for the crimson. they’ll be eighteen years old, and joined the rogues one month ago. you’ll always see a baseball bat around wherever she is. 

𝙰𝙻𝙻 𝙾𝙵 𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝙵𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚂 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙵𝙸𝚁𝙴𝚂 

full name : sokanon tamaki rankin 

nickname : suki 

name meaning : origin, native american . meaning , rain

age : eighteen 

gender / pronouns : cis woman / she/her

date of birth : april seventh 

location of birth :  ridgeway , pennsylvania  

past residence : newark , deleware  

current affiliation : the rogues 

moral alignment : neutral evil 

family : calian rankin ( twin brother ) , david rankin ( father ) , joanna hardin ( step - mother ) , mae tamaki ( mother ) 

aesthetics : 

playlist : wasteland baby ! - hozier , thunder - imagine dragons , human - rag n bone man , way down we go -kaleo , renegades - x ambassadors 

character inspiration : 

𝙾𝙵 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙴𝙽𝙳 𝙾𝙵 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙻𝙳

on the evening of april the seventh , two little babies took their very first breath of earthly air . willka rankin , name meaning sun -- symbolic for power and strength . a little boy who cried and cried and only stopped when his twin sister was finally beside him . sokanon rankin , name meaning rain --  the life - blood of every living being or the foreshadowing of an ominous event . * trigger warning : death * kimi rankin only survived to see her children cry . she kissed their foreheads and used her last breath to give them their names . * end trigger warning *

growing up without a mother was difficult , their father did tried his best , loved them with all his heart . but mothers were needed . they provided a certain love that one would be incomplete without -- at least that’s how sokanon felt . her whole life , she felt that something was missing . and she scavenged through everything to find it . first when she was younger it was sport -- track and field was what she excelled at , a natural sprinter and with a little bit of training she truly could go pro . she was young and ambitious and wore herself out with training and races and doing everything one could possibly do to excel . but it wasn’t enough . there was still something missing . 

then she tried love , romantic love that is . just turned fifteen , saw the ( in her own words ) cutest boy in the whole wide world . but he was her best friend’s crush first . and a fundamental rule that the two of them established way back when , finders keepers . but suki was in - love , truly , truly in love ( at least she thought it was ) .  and so why would she let anything get in the way of that ?  so suki chose love over friendship and her best friend never forgave her for that -- little girls could be so petty sometimes . that was what they were after all , just little girls who thought they had found love . 

fate was quick to teach them the opposite . at sixteen , almost a whole year with the supposed love of her life , her first kiss , first love , first everything , including , her first heartbreak . her best friend got her revenge , kissed him at a party before stealing his heart . that was painful . she isolated herself from everyone and everything , she was filled with a certain sort of grief , an untameable anger . and the only thing that could numb her pain were acts of recklessness -- partying high . driving drunk , shoplifting , graffiti , anything that made her forget that she was so fucking empty . 

her father was quick to let her know what a disappointment she had become , with his passive aggressiveness and endless comparisons with her perfect brother . why can’t you be more like your brother ?  universities are already offering him scholarships, he’s on track of graduating valedictorian , he’s class president . blah , blah , blah , eventually ending in , you are a failure sokanon . but his words only fuelled her fire , amplified her desires to forget everything . and she found herself in juvenile detention centre for underage drinking violations and joyriding a car . 

by seventeen , nothing was better . except that she had ( re ) discovered  sex . and the town was quick to add slut to her never - ending list of labels , next to bitch , rebel , criminal and of course , by special contribution of her father , failure . what’s worse was that her brother , her twin brother , left her alone through it all -- though she supposes that he didn’t know how to reach out to her , she didn’t make it particularly easy , always only responding with glares , mumbles and slamming of doors . but nonetheless she was alone .  to push her even further towards the outskirts of their family , her father remarried , to a woman five years his senior , named joanna hrdin , a psychologist and part - time jiu - jitsu teacher . 

joanna , of course , tried to fix her -- even though suki hated it , she respected her for it , no - one else bothered to try . and in joanna’s attempt to fix her hanging-by-a-thinning-thread of a relationship with her brother , she suggested that two of them go on a trip . where it was just the two of them , bonding and enhancing their ‘ unique and extremely special connection of being born as twins .’ her brother instantly agreed and suki was hesitant at first but the opportunity to get away from town became her motivation -- her last hoorah before graduation . they had set of for delaware just as the news aired about pollenation . 

a four and half hour drive of pure silence . it was torture . she felt sorry for her brother , having to put up with all her teenage angst and human complexes but she was angry , she’s been angry for so long she doesn’t know how to stop or what it even felt like to be at peace , with your family , with yourself .  and that was something he would never understand . so they continued the drive in silence , background music of sufjan stevens and hozer just slightly dulling the tension .  

they made it do newark , deleware ( recommended by joan , apparently the parks there were great stimulants for deep reflection ) and settled into a motel . and the next morning they had heard news of borders closing . calian started freaking out , calling their father , pacing the room and sweating excessively and suki only sat on the bed , snacking on licorice and hot cheetos as she watched re - runs of old cartoons . 

independence day , july 4 2019 , that was when the realities of it all truly hit her . the world descended into utter chaos . and calian , sweet , sweet calian who’s never been exposed to such horrific scenes and much less to the the savagery of human nature , found himself staining his sister’s shirt with a torrent of tears . his vulnerability , that was her ultimate trigger . that was when suki armoured up , made plans , she was going to protect him no matter what . 

but , like in most things she does , suki failed . they were together for months , running , fighting , they got both stronger and tougher and got closer as siblings ( and would you look at that , joanna was right . delware did help them become closer ) . but it wasn’t enough , suki’s protection , her teachings , her strategies for survival , it wasn’t enough . * trigger warning : death * she’s not quite sure how it happened , they were scouting out a house for food and supplies and she heard a scream . she found her brother outside with a monster devouring his flesh . and she ran . despite her screams for help , for mercy , she ran . * end trigger warning * 

she was alone for months before finally finding the rogues a month ago . 

𝚆𝙰𝚂𝚃𝙴𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙱𝙰𝙱𝚈 !

she keeps to herself but always has a scowl on her face . she doesn’t get involved in group discussions , doesn’t really care what happens  , will do whatever job she’s been asked to do . she’s detached to every emotion except anger and grief . she has a really short fuse , unlike my other chara , she will go hulk - smash like that * clicks fingers * 

she carries a baseball bat , it was her brother’s weapon . they had gone to delaware partly to see their universities and calian had thought he could show the scouts a bit of his batting skills  ( idk how american universities work ???? ) and they were going to be there for a few weeks so he wanted to keep practicing . but she took it when she ran away . 

she can’t sleep , she has nightmares and is usually up at night either keeping watch or just wandering .  one time she had a really bad nightmare and she screamed and she was really embarrassed about it and she was scared that the group saw it as a weakness so she’s never let herself really sleep since then . 

she’s pretty good at running , can sprint really well and she’s got a pretty good arm . she also knows a bit of martial arts , partially from just learning to defend herself and also partially from her step - mother who was a jiu - jitsu teacher in her free time . 

she doesn’t trust people so she doesn’t try to make friends and she is brutally honest and will call you out when she wants to and she likes to antagonise people and annoy them a lot by bringing up their past or mentioning their mistakes 🙈

𝙸'𝙼 𝙸𝙽 𝙻𝙾𝚅𝙴 𝚆𝙸𝚃𝙷 𝚈𝙾𝚄

up for brainstorming but sooomee ideas are : 

a bit of a flrtiationships may haps ??? 

a love / hate relationship -- suki being mostly the ‘hate’ part 

a mentor / mentee -- since she’s only eighteen and is very reckless and has no control over her emotions , needs some guidance 

people from her town ??? 

a fellow nomad that she and her brother had encountered ??? 

someone who helps her sleep and / or stays up with her when she can’t sleep ??

confidant ??? someone she talks to a lot for some reason ?? 

a good influence -- uh someone who helps her be goodi

bad influence -- someone she is helping to become more ‘bad-ass’ (her words)

TLDR 

a sad , angry , brutally honest girl who’s been told she’s a failure her whole life , carrying the guilt of her brother’s death ,  isn’t afraid to put herself first  !