Rankles The Otter (STCA)

Rankles is a double-agent who is very bad at his job. His character design and name are derived from a hoax which ran in the UK version of SEGA Magazine.

Early Life
Rankles was born in the middle of Lake Marneth, just five miles up from Spires Castle. Upon being born, his parents immediately deserted him, leaving him to learn English from other otters living nearby. However, he never learned it properly, resulting him to speak in a broken dialect (complete with using the noun "me" instead of the pronoun "I").

Rankles lived a simplistic life with little to no distraction from other people. Admittedly this is due to his inability to do anything else, as he was rejected by everyone and even isolated by the badniks. This took a toll on his intelligence, causing him to go from being fairly intelligent to downright stupid within a record time of three and a third minutes.

Early days of employment
Rankles, being the guy that he is, sought employment from Robotnik, as he thought the evil madman had the right initiative. That and he needed at least 300 Mobiums or the government would repossess his den. Robotnik wanted nothing to do with Rankles, and instead had the Otter work under the watchful eyes of Eggrobo 7. Deciding that the pay was bad, and due to his mistreatment by the Eggrobo inquestion, went behind Robotnik's back to seek a way of escape, which brought him into contact with Joe Sushi.

Encounter with Joe/meeting Sonic
Rankles ran into Joe Sushi, a friend of Team Sonic, who told Rankles the truth about Robotnik's organisation and how the fat man wanted to destroy everything the natives stood for. He then told Rankles about Sonic, Tails and Knuckles and how they wished to overthrow Robotnik. Rankles, interested, sought out Sonic during his lunch break, and told him the details of his job, and the location of one of the badnik bases Robotnik had set up on Angel Island. Intrigued, Sonic and Tails set off for the Floating Island to enlist the help of Knuckles and investigate.