Reginald "Ruthless" Rankin, a small, weedy, and ugly resident of Seymour's at Wrykyn in Ruthless Reginald and An Affair of Boats, weighs seven stone three. His green eyes wear a chronic look of suspicion and secretiveness. His hobby is revenge. Fags for Rigby, on whose shelves he puts an array of Dr. Bohn's English Translations of the Classics for his uncle the Bishop to see. His adversary in An Affair of Boats is Shoeblossom Leather-Twigg.