PMD-E In-Depth Bio: Jody the Bisharp

(Four moves? Haha, who needs four moves? Jody was able to get away with just two throughout the WHOLE STORY, and she’s still here!)

History:

Jody was born along with her five brothers and one sister in the middle of nowhere in Tao World. As per usual of such natural packs of Pawniard, they all had to battle to determine who would be the leader, and Jody almost won, but instead, her big brother Boscoe did, and eventually, he evolved early into a Bisharp. For the next 13 years, he helped their pack survive, and above all, tried to prevent Jody from getting strong enough to become the leader due to his worries upon how she’d react upon discovering what would happen if two Bisharp packs met.

Of course, ignorant Jody didn’t share his sentiment, and one day ran off to force herself to try to evolve early in secret. She’d smash her arm and leg bones, but because Pawniard bones heal in a day, she could do it day after day, making them a little longer each time. It wasn’t long before Karen suspected such a thing when Jody came back after a week (after realizing she needed to win a battle in order to evolve), and the two of them got into a fight. When Jody won, she had fulfilled the requirements to evolve into a Bisharp, and an enraged Boscoe attacked. Through sheer luck involving Boscoe being swept down a river, Jody won, and became the leader for the next two weeks.

Karen was angry and wanted revenge, so she evolved and challenged Jody to a battle. But she had the advantage since she could handle her new form way better than Jody, and Jody lost. As a result, Jody was brutally punished, banished from the pack, and left to fend for herself.

She wandered for several weeks, though likely due to her broken spirit, constant wild Pokémon attacks, and the harshness of Karen’s punishment, her armor could never recover from the damage it had taken. It wasn’t long before she collapsed on the ground and waited to die…when she met Rallen.

The Beheeyem was the one who told her to never give up, believing she could do better than that, and eventually convinced her that she could keep on living. He took her to his ship to help her recover while explaining that he came from a place called Planet Paion, and then made plans for the two of them to sign up to become a Rogue team at the nearby Tao Village—with the name Team SF-169 Fusion Bolt, named after his spaceship.

But it wasn’t easy. Jody was met with hostility and suspicion by the townspeople, who at the time believed that all Bisharp were murderers who worked in packs and only lived to plunder villages. To make matters worse, she didn’t understand the concept of money, families, houses, berries as the only food allowed, and many other things that people in the village took for granted. Eventually, sick of being denied the right to hunt for food for so long, she was at the end of her rope, and tried to hunt down a Seviper…with harsh consequences.

Well, it would have been even worse for her if it weren’t for Rallen, who fought off the Seviper and its Fighting-type friends. Jody then had no choice but to admit Rallen how hard it was for her living in Tao, and he said he had problems too, but it is for these reasons that they should both try to help each other adapt to the place. And so they did for the next two years.

They took on missions and brought prestige to the Rogues’ guild, and though they had to fix a lot of walls that Jody broke, it was clear that the more jobs Jody did, the more the people in town began to respect her and feel more comfortable around her. And it soon became apparent that even Rallen was starting to fall in love with her. One night, in the midst of a beautifully glowing flower field, he confessed his love to her, and she then realized that she might also like him back, but had no idea what this feeling was, and it was scaring her. He reassured her that it was nothing to be afraid of, and that he’d protect her no matter what. Little did they know that a very angry Karen happened to be overhearing from the shadows.

The next day, Karen and her pack apparently came to plunder Tao Village and issued a challenge to Rallen and Jody, angry that Jody’s heroic acts were pretty much changing the fearsome image of Bisharp everywhere in the eyes of the villagers. If the two of them could defeat her and her pack, she would leave them and their village alone, but if they lost, then Karen would publicly execute Jody and plunder the entire town. Throughout the battle, Jody almost lost thanks to Karen’s Guillotine, but with Rallen’s help just in time, the two of them won. As a result, Karen agreed to leave, and even allowed Sam and Swiss to stay with Jody while Steve and Spike went with her.

Several months later, Rallen finally decided that he loved Jody so much that he wanted to ask her if she wanted to marry him. To prove how serious he was, he was even willing to stay in Tao World and leave Planet Paion forever for her sake. Jody felt the same way too, especially since she didn’t have any place to return to, and agreed to marry him.

After several more months, they had their first child, who was just an egg at the time. Unfortunately, shortly after the egg was laid, Rallen collapsed due to an unknown illness, and no matter what berries Jody tried, nothing seemed to be able to cure him. She desperately called out for help on his communication device, only to find that his former commanders answered the call and wanted to take him back for good.

She didn’t want this to happen, but they had already developed technology to simulate the effects of Fighting-type moves on her body, and wanted to take her and her son with them for experimentation. Rallen then made a deal in which they would agree to leave Jody and their son alone if he never came back to this planet, and they grudgingly accepted. Though Jody still tried to stop them, they only dropped her into the ground for her efforts.

Though the people at Tao Village could repair her armor, there was nothing they could do for her broken heart, and they even began to suspect her as being the one to make her husband suddenly disappear. She stopped taking jobs and even began to lose the will to live. Just as she was about to take her own life, however, her son Joe hatched from his egg, and she remembered that there was still someone she had to live for—him.

For the next 16 years, everything she did was for Joe’s sake. She helped teach him how to read and write, to adapt to life in Tao Village from the get-go, and most importantly of all, to not discriminate against others nor give up against others that discriminated against them both. It wasn’t easy, especially due to Jody’s reputation in the village, but they did the best they could.

Eventually, after having looked up to his mom for being a great member of the Rogues’ guild and wanting to be just like her, Joe was old and experienced enough where his mom felt like he could join and do well on his own in case she never came back, and let him do so while she went to “travel the world.” But she wasn’t travelling the world just to see it—she would do whatever it took to find a way to get to Rallen’s home planet and take him back, even if it meant costing her very life.

She faced many difficulties, including being refused into Steel City, the most technologically advanced city in Tao World, but with a Xatu’s help, managed to find another way: The Legendary Pokémon Deoxys. Or rather, one named Charlie. He claimed she needed to prove herself in her endeavor to get Rallen back, but in reality, he was so bored from being stuck in a space rock the whole time that he agreed after only a short battle against her.

He took her to Planet Paion, and there, they fought through the planet’s defenses in an attempt to get to where Rallen was, finding out along the way that he was in a maximum security prison. Jody succeeded in finding and freeing Rallen, but all three of them were gassed and captured aboard a ship shortly thereafter. They found that they were on the fleet that was supposed to help move much of the population of Planet Paion to Tao World, but that thanks to Rallen’s former commanders, it had become an invasion fleet. The three of them worked together to smash all the laser cannons, get to the commanders, and stop their dastardly scheme by punching them all the way to the moon once and for all.

The Deoxys took them back and returned to the space rock while they made their way back to Tao Village…only to find it destroyed thanks to Sorbet the Kyurem’s rampage in Mission 5. Luckily, the cave in Tao Woods that they lived in was still intact, but unluckily for them, two people found them and knocked them out before bringing them aboard the main flagship, where they found that High Commanders Blune and Psyme were both still alive, but now holding them on trial.

During the trial, however, they found that the people who knocked them out again were Rallen’s sister Zita, and—surprise, surprise—Jody’s big brother Boscoe! The two of them explained how they met not too long ago, as well as what they learned from being friends with each other and why Boscoe didn’t want Jody to evolve way back then. Blune and Psyme agreed that since times have changed, they should pardon Rallen and Jody for once.

And thus, Rallen and Jody returned home to live in peace, where eventually, they got so bored they decided to have two more eggs. And then one day, Joe came back, and began to live with them again, where they told their epic story to him, his friends, and later, to his new girlfriend Tori. Their story soon inspired Amy and friends, who, after the guilds stopped giving out crazy missions, decided to move to Planet Paion to help make sure no one ever suffers like Rallen and Jody did, and the two of them waved them off as they set off for Planet Paion.

Rallen and Jody continue to live at their home with their family today.

Current Personality:

There are two most prominent sides to Jody’s personality that you’re most likely to encounter. One is her serious, no-nonsense side, which was her default personality back in her days with her pack, while the other is her warm, inviting, sometimes silly side, which was developed during her days from living in Tao Village, and as such, it’s the one that most new people are likely to see. That being said, though, she’s too serious for pranks; instead, being the type who’d complete missions and jobs when she says she would.

Having lived quite a while (32 years!) with lots of perspective changes on life, she completely understands what it’s like for other people who are used to hunting others for food and are struggling to get used to the new herbivorous diet in Tao Village, as well as comprehending the concept of “money.” As a result, she likes to help those sorts of people out by explaining to them the reasons behind why Tao Village is the way it is, as well as trying to help them work through it.

When it comes to parenting, she seems to play with Gimi a little more than Dari, having been way more used to boys due to both her brothers while she was growing up, and of course, raising Joe for quite a while, too. She also likes to spar with other people who want to keep their skills up for missions and whatnot, to help keep their skills sharp.

That said, she has quite the iron will, and Rallen wasn’t kidding when he said that she has one of the strongest he’s ever seen. If she believes in something, she will absolutely NOT BACK DOWN and support it no matter what, even if it means she’d die for it. It probably helps that she has the Defiant ability, too. She’s the type of person who absolutely REFUSES to let people disrespect and insult her or the ones she loves, and will go to whatever lengths possible to punish them until they change their ways, leave, or be banished otherwise. If they’re outside of Tao Village, well, she certainly wouldn’t hesitate to kill them either. There’s already enough gratuitous meanness in the world, anyway, and she’s not going to let guys like Team Skull be around her if she can help it. Though she usually respects authority, she also thinks that they can’t hold the answers to everything, and has few qualms about breaking a few rules if it means getting the job done better than they ever can.

For those who get on her good side, you’re in luck! She can even be a little goofy at times when chatting with people and having fun, though she’s more of the battling type, and as such, is very poor when it comes to anything artistic, such as drawing, singing, dancing, and especially poetry writing. In fact, she actually admires people who are proficient at such things.

The concept of “girlyness” is more or less lost on her, and is something she feels is more optional than anything else. In terms of fashion, she could really care less…but if it’s maid outfits, you’d better get out of town, because she hates those things with a burning passion. In fact, there are three things in the world that she hates above all else (besides bad people, of course): Maid outfits, people with the Magnet Pull ability who use it on her, and whenever she’s called a “big fat metal butt.”

It’s also a given that she really loves Rallen and likes to use him as a snuggle pillow at times~. Though she’s also relatively poor when it comes to technological things, Rallen has taught her how to operate certain alien devices, so she’s not as bad as she used to be at them. She also likes to eat a lot of food at once; sometimes an absurd amount, in order to counteract for the fact that she was regularly denied food back when she was in her pack before she evolved.

Hobbies and Skills:

Punching bad guys through walls. While Rogue leader Devonshire disapproves of the vast amounts of property damage such a ridiculous hobby causes, this has become one of Jody’s defining characteristics; one that her son was only too happy to emulate.

Shredding maid outfits. Ever since a particularly bad experience infiltrating Merlot’s castle, Jody has developed such a hatred of them that even the SIGHT of one would make her go, “Maid outfits!? KILL!!” And then she’d go shred it to pieces. People who regularly carry maid outfits around with them: You have been warned!

Rollerblading. Though it took her a while to get used to those “roller skate extensions” added to her feet thanks to Rallen’s suggestion, Jody finds that she can move a lot faster whenever she kicks out these optional extensions. Also, they’re really fun to perform tricks on and have people wonder how they can get such things, too!

Being very bad at coming up with names. If she was planning on naming her first child after herself, then that pretty much says it all. Luckily, Rallen is a lot better at this and helps her out.

Singing very horribly with Metal Sound. Jody might be bad at poetry, but she’s ten times worse at singing, and the effects from her Metal Sound when she uses it don’t help at all! Despite this, she sometimes likes to try it as a “battle tactic”, or to be used as punishment for her kids when they do bad things. Expect it to be ten times worse for actual bad people.

Physical challenges. Usually, Jody prefers traditional combat training, though in it, she very rarely uses actual moves except for Metal Sound, as her arm blades and roller blades are powerful weapons in and of themselves. She does, however, like to try out new things such as surfing, snowboarding, and whatever else requires feats of amazing physical prowess.

Life Goals:

Now that Rallen’s back, all she wants is to raise her next two kids properly with him. Also, to make sure Joe and Tori are doing okay too, and to teach people all the lessons to be learned from her life story; most especially, to never discriminate against each other no matter what.

Trivia:

Jody’s name was inspired by Jody Summer from the F-Zero series. Her personality, to a small extent, was also somewhat based off of the character’s tough, no-nonsense attitude.

Besides Amy the Jigglypuff, she is definitely the most developed PMD-E character I have. She’s even more in-depth than Joe sometimes!

Both she and Rallen ended up with an exact equal mix of what could arguably be seen as “masculine” and “feminine” character traits.