The Bad Guys {SUDS}

[Death's Spook]

We've been talking about this for a fair bit: two reserves please!

Name: Ruqayyah Hussein Abdur-Rahman
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Appearance: At not even 5 feet, 2 inches, Ruqayyah does not cut an impressive figure. Furthermore, she’s all angles with ropy muscle, with a gymnast’s figure more than anything else. Her darker olive skin contrasts with bright green eyes, and her nose is long, aquiline, and bent as though it’s been broken a couple times. Her facial expression is usually carefully neutral, and it can be difficult to tell what she’s thinking. Her hair is tied up and hidden under a two piece headscarf, designed to be worn with minimal fuss. She wears long slacks loose enough for moving around comfortably, and in most circumstances would go for a hoodie on top, creating something of an incongruous image. However, she has conceded to the weather, and instead of a sweater, she wears a long sleeved but thin navy shirt more appropriate for not baking in the heat. She perpetually has a backpack on her, sturdy and designed take punishment while keeping its contents intact, and her sneakers are designed to be both durable and give practical support for active pursuits.

Personality: Ruqayyah is pretty quiet… but only when she notices some jerk that she needs to teach a lesson, since she can lure them into a false sense of security. Most of the time, though, Ruqayyah is direct, blunt, and a little arrogant. Despite her small stature, she is an excellent trainer with a team that has both raw strength and strategic acumen, and she knows it. In part because of this, she can occasionally flaunt her power at times that may not call for it. Ultimately, however, she suffers from an an inability to be quiet when she sees something wrong happening: she’s brash and easily angered and a bit egotistical, but she will always interfere to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. This especially applies if her little sister is somehow caught in a situation; since their father died, Sukainah has become Ruqayyah's top priority, and their move to Alola from Unova was made in large part for Sukainah's sake.

History:

Ruqayyah grew up in the Unova region to a technology CEO and his doctor wife. She was their only child for about 9 years, whereupon her mother grew pregnant again. However, the delivery of her second child was complicated, and though they were able to save the baby, Ruqayyah's mother passed away.

To say that both Ruqayyah and her father took this death very hard was an understatement. While Ruqayyah's father buried himself in work, Ruqayyah herself found the most comfort in taking care of her little sister: Sukainah technically had nannies, but Ruqayyah frequently brushed them aside and fed and changed her sister herself. However, Ruqayyah started working herself into the ground trying to care for her sister. Eventually, her dad started to notice, and after a bit of a conflict between the two, Hussein Abdur-Rahman gave his daughter her first pokemon, a Cottonee, and sent her on a journey to challenge the Unova Pokémon League, with Ruqayyah informing him that she was going to call to check in on Sukainah every day.

Ruqayyah was a bit reluctant to travel at first, but eventually took to training very well. She was a natural at raising and commanding Pokémon, with both an acute strategic mind and a gift for keeping Pokémon coordinated and happy. Within 8 months, she had caught five other Pokémon and beaten 8 gyms. She had no concrete plans to challenge the league, though she did have plans to come back home for Sukainah's first birthday.

But then Sukainah got kidnapped.

The kidnappers were demanding a ransom for the one year old, but Ruqayyah was beside herself in sheer anger. However, she was able to figure out where they were holding her sister. Ruqayyah calmly walked in and, in a quiet tone of voice, ordered her Zweilous to use Draco Meteor on the first idiot to threaten her. And that pretty much set the tone for Ruqayyah getting her sister back.

It did not take long for Sukainah to be safe in her big sister's arms and for the undercover International Police agent to give her his information with a job offer.

Ruqayyah took a day to make her decision, though she informed him a week later to take care of her sister. And so Agent Looker of the International Police took her under his wing.

For the next decade, Ruqayyah split her time doing work for Interpol and looking after Sukainah (after a second argument with her dad). She did good work, her sharp mind and sheer will making her both a good detective and good older sister (albeit one insistent that Sukainah eats her vegetables, much to the then toddler's chagrin).

But then, tragedy struck when Ruqayyah's dad suddenly died, and the complex circumstances around his death deprived Ruqayyah and Sukainah of most of their father's wealth. Ruqayyah did get legal custody of Sukainah immediately, and the sisters were not left poorly off because of Ruqayyah's steady paycheck from Interpol, but they were certainly left significantly less rich than before. Ruqayyah applied for paid leave, and it was accepted.

However, Sukainah was getting ready to go on her own journey, and neither sister wanted Sukainah to go on her journey in Unova, where their father's death was raw and still controversial. So Ruqayyah bought herself and her sister tickets to the Alola region, with the intent that Sukainah starts her journey there, instead. But there's reason to suspect Ruqayyah has another reason to go to Alola...

Pokemon:
Meep the Whimsicott (F)
Imp the Yanmega (F)
Poisson the Tentacruel (F)
Lumen the Chandelure (M)
Mika’il the Metagross
Jibra’il the Hydreigon (M)

Other:

Name: Sukainah Hussein Abdur-Rahman
Age: 11
Gender: Female
Appearance: Sukainah's build is a study of contrasts with her sister: the former is already almost ready to overtake the latter's height, being five feet even. Furthermore, where Ruqayyah has angles, Sukainah has soft curves, making her look more gentle than her older sister. Their skin tone and eye color are identical, and even their choice in headwear is quite similar, but Sukainah's nose, while long like Ruqayyah's, does not display any signs of having been broken in the past. Sukainah also has dimples and defaults to a genuinely cheerful smile, especially when meeting new people. Her clothes, however, display a practicality that's much more similar to Ruqayyah's than one might first assume, with jeans and shirt designed to withstand dirt and grime and the rigors of going on trials. She also has a similarly sturdy backpack, although hers holds her very grumpy Eevee, Natalia. It is also rare to see her not holding her Mimikyu, Rafiqi, and quite recently her Wishiwashi has taken to sitting on her head.

Personality:

If there was a niceness competition, Sukainah would win it without question for all time and ever until she was disqualified for making it unfair. People's first reaction to her is "Oh my Tapu she's so nice!", but upon closer examination... nope, that's exactly what she is. Sukainah's inner nature is that of someone who goes around, making people's lives easier because she wants to, and her deeply altruistic nature and advanced skill in empathy tends to make her liked and trusted very quickly. Furthermore, she's quite sharp, especially when it comes to people, and so despite her relatively young age, she's quite wise. But because of her kind nature, she finds it difficult to be mean when it is necessary, and she can be walked over if she's not careful. However, there are hints that she can develop her sister's spine, though only time will tell if she can manage it.

History:

When Ruqayyah first picked up her sister and took her to Alola, Sukainah was only mildly upset: she was sad that she would be leaving her friends behind, but she was looking forward to the island trials and the new friends she would make. Furthermore, the sisters were fresh from the grief of their father's death, and going somewhere else to get some distance from it seemed ideal. When they got to Alola, Sukainah even went for a walk to take in the new environment.

Of course, that's about when she saw the clearly beaten chained Eevee and the Mimikyu desperately tending to her.

Sukainah immediately dragged Ruqayyah over and basically demanded that the "trainer" who kept the two be arrested for "everything." Ruqayyah couldn't make any arrests since she was on leave and the trainer wasn't around, but Sukainah's older sister did make some calls to figure out what was going on, only to discover that the trainer in question had already been arrested and his other Pokémon seized. The Eevee and Mimikyu were supposed to be taken too, but the police did not find them.

Upon finding this out, Sukainah begged her sister to let her tend to the Pokémon. Ruqayyah was not immediately enthused, but acquiesced. And for about a month, Sukainah did everything in her power to nurse the Pokémon, keeping them fed, warm, and loved. Natalia the Eevee already had a name according to Ruqayyah's Metagross, but it was Sukainah who named the Mimikyu Rafiqi. And when Rafiqi had a night terror, or when Natalia threw a tantrum out of fear, it was Sukainah who comforted and calmed them.

Unbeknowest to Sukainah, Ruqayyah covertly arranged for paperwork to go through to allow Sukainah to keep the two permanently, registering them as Sukainah's starters. And when the paperwork went through, Ruqayyah surprised her sister with it.

Sukainah's scream of delight could practically be heard in Kanto, and she packed immediately to go on her journey. Ruqayyah asked to tag along out of worry, given the increasingly tense climate in Alola, and Sukainah was even more glad to have her "best big sister in the world" along.

Sukainah moved through the Melemele trial and grand trial pretty quickly, and currently just finished the water trial on Akala Island and caught a Wishiwashi soon thereafter. She is currently preparing to go to the fire trial, but has started to become concerned because her sister seems increasingly distracted and worried as time goes on...

Pokemon:

Natalia the Eevee (F)
Rafiqi the Mimikyu (M)
Ghaseel the Wishiwashi (M)

Other: