Bendowin Kumakia

Bendowin Kumakia is a female blastoise Suppressor of the Explorers of the Order Legion. She is one of the Core members of rejects called The Utelgi Ten and was the first to unite the group. Along with her team, she battled both the Cults and the Machina across the old world.

Bendowin was born into the small industrial town of Arnets, Home to the largest factory of the Iron tide, responsible for manufacturing and creating massive steel clad ships that sail out to the rough seas ahead. The Squirtle became interested in the wide world of mechanics, looking through books and watching these gigantic impossibly vast ships sail to the horizon. Her favorite actively involved her father, Nivel Kumakia who worked in the Iron Tide Factory. The Very few times Bendowin was allowed in the sprawling dock, she loved every moment of it. Watching, admiring and even heling out her father during tough shifts assembling the vessels piece by piece. The two shared an unbreakable bond between father and daughter. Growing up she also participated in *(relatively legal)* firearms and weapons crafting contests in secret, honing in her engineering skills. Once she grew old enough she finally got her dream job working in the factory. assigned to jobs with the nickname of "Chainlink". Bendowin befriended many others who shared their common love for mechanics and engineering, amongst one of them was a Garganacl by the name of Eire Penhpom. The two grew a bond between each other after being assigned to work on a carrier ship for the emerging Order of the Crusaders. Both also had a knack for crafting weaponry. In the off days, Bendowin and Eire would compete with creating weapons and trading it to each other as a sign of respect for their craft and of friendship.

Nivel, Bendowin's father grew old and frail. His age never stopped him from his life work, but his determination couldn't fight his old age. Bendowin had suggested that he should finally retire and live peacefully, but he would refuse. In his last few days, Nivel would be assigned to build a speedboat with a mounted chain cannon as his last project before the Iron tide would let him go, but he would never leave the factory that day. For three days straight, 72 hours of nonstop building, wielding, forging and crafting the vessel. He felt ill and sick, but he never stopped. Bendowin and her friends could only watch, in a mix of somberness and respect. Only until the last piece, the chain cannon was lowered and finally attached to the boat did Nivel rest. Dying doing what he had loved, and hoping that his daughter could follow.

Bendowin was distraught after this, but she quickly found acceptance, coming to terms that that was how her father would have wanted to end. She continued her passion in the art of engineering and mechanics. her bonds with her fellow Forge workers growing ever tighter. She considered Eire the Gargancl her closest friend, but she would begin to notice strange occurrences to him. Markings of red and black on his arms covered with bandages. She had even questioned it to her friend, concerned for his health. Eire disregarded it, claiming it was just a "injury" he had sustained at work. Time passed, Bendowin started to notice strange events around the facility. workers disappearing and suddenly reappearing, shipments of materials being stolen from, and even a alleged poisoning of a coworker. On one particular day, she grew ever so suspicious of her close friend Eire. Witnessing him heaving a box of unlabeled material to a out of limits basement.

her curiosity led her inside the abandoned and forgotten basement level. At first, nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary. Piled of untouched scrap and boxed dotted the vast level, except for one peculiar far off red light. She trekked deeper and deeper into the vast dusty sublevel before finally reaching a open chamber. Sketches and blueprints stacked onto top of the tables. Markings and squares of the Giratina cults were basked in the red light and in the middle of the chamber was a large hanging contraption. The sketches and pans on ther workbench showed that thic metal device would be powerful enough to destroy the facility. a Bomb capable of leveling a city, merely hanging in a forgotten basement.

Bendowin, in shock ran back to the entrance and to the surface, Where Eire and several others were waiting for her. Eire turned the event onto her, accusing her of building the weapon and a conspirer with a cultist still inside. She adamantly denied any of this but it was of little use, Law enforcers were already heaving her away to prison when it finally hit her. Her friend was the Cultist, and he was going to destroy the facility if it weren't for her discovering the device. The law would convict and send her off to a prison. However, a suspiciously timed prison riot gave her the opportunity to escape her long confinement, She and another reject by the name of Armanda Hest escaped from the facility. Only for her to be kidnapped by The Holt Intelligence Agency long after her escape and was finally given to the Explorers of the Order where she would meet her accomplice Armanda once again...