Dio

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Dio is Kimberly Bond's Gliscor, and the third Pokemon she acquired on her journey.

Appearance

In his Pokemon form, Dio resembles a normal Gliscor, save for the scar going through his right eye as a result of his old Trainer slashing him across the face. He is often seen with his tongue lolling out of his mouth, especially when he is trying to cheer someone up or entertain them with a rock performance.

In his human form (Ronnie James Brando), Dio appears as a young man in his late teens, with spiky purple hair going in all directions and two purple horns coming out of his head. His scar from his Pokemon form still remains. He wears a light purple undershirt with a darker purple suit over it that is always unbuttoned, along with a pair of ripped jeans, white socks, and purple shoes. He also has a spiky collar around his neck and is sometimes seen carrying around a guitar. He is also sometimes seen with wings and fangs, though this is more common in his gijinka form.

Personality and characteristics

Dio is, by far and away, the most excitable, emotional, and fun-loving member of Kim's team. He has a tendency to be overly exciteable- he types fully in caps-lock and often screams his face off- but has an absolute lust for life and a desire to make people around him happy. Dio absolutely loves rock music, and was the most excited to join the Battle of the Bands out of all of Kim's team members; he can often be found sticking out his tongue and waggling it around with delight. Dio is very curious and loves to battle more than anything else in the world; he can often be seen cheering on other opponents during Gym Battles or the like. During his own battles, he mainly relies on making sure the opponent can't hit him, and relies almost entirely on dealing hard-hitting supereffective damage in whatever way he can. He especially enjoys battling against Poison-type Pokemon, as it gives him a chance to make use of his ability Poison Heal to great effect. He has an immense desire to not learn any new moves via TM or TR, as he believes it to be too easy. Instead, he prefers to learn a move the old-fashioned way: via teaching and lots and lots of practice, which is how he learned Dark Pulse courtesy of Pentigan. He also is perfectly okay with learning moves naturally, which was how he learned Stone Edge, Earthquake, Guillotine, and Poison Jab. Dio can sometimes have a splotchy memory- he needed a mnemonic in order to learn Piku-chan's name- and has a rash streak, sometimes doing things without thinking.

Despite his fun-loving exterior, however, Dio is secretly one of the most tragic members of Kim's team and has crippling self-esteem issues that resulted from his old Trainer slashing him across the face with a knife and gaslighting him for not being able to battle well. Likely as a result of his crippling self-esteem, Dio desires more than anything to please his Trainer and make her proud of him. As such, he does not take losing particularly well, and has been seen bursting into tears during both of his major losses- against Ian and Hoops (the latter of whom has a similar problem regarding losses). During the latter loss in particular, Dio was so upset (largely due to him believing that his loss came as a direct result of him trusting Cof without thinking) that he dropped his typing quirk for the first time in the RP, something that instantly alerted and shocked Kaylan and Joel. He also gets very excited about the possibility of things happening to him, such as evolution, Dynamaxing, learning a new move, or turning into a human- both that and his evolution had him gushing with delight upon realizing that those things had happened to him. He was also extremely delighted upon realizing that he had finally learned a Ground-type move in the form of Earthquake. Learning Dark Pulse seems to have improved his battling strategies, but Dio still can't fly very well, even after evolving into a Gliscor. While he does know Guillotine, he will only save it as an absolute last resort, unlike Peechee. Post-evolution, Dio's personality remains exactly the same as he was when he was a Gligar: he's still relatively emotional, loves sticking his tongue out and waggling it around, and still has an immense enjoyment for life and for rock and roll music. As a reference to (one of) his namesakes (Dio Brando from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure), Dio will usually express his excitement with an intense cry of "WRYYYYYYYYYYYYY--!", as he did post-evolution and post-capture and later on during his victory against Marnie. He also has a desire to drop steamrollers from the sky and freeze time, both of which are things he cannot do... yet.

Kim's personality file on him reads as follows:

"NEW POKEMON CAUGHT: DIO THE GLIGAR. SEEMS EXCITEABLE AT FIRST GLANCE, BUT DUE TO HIS PAST IS ACTUALLY QUITE SENSITIVE. ACCORDING TO THE POKEDEX, HE HAS A RASH STREAK. MAKES SENSE, GIVEN WHO HE'S NAMED AFTER. HE DOES NOT FLY VERY WELL AND HAS A SCAR ON HIS RIGHT EYE FROM HIS OLD ABUSIVE TRAINER. HE DOES NOT KNOW ANY DARK-TYPE MOVES. I FIND THIS SOMEWHAT ODD. WONDER IF MAYBE HE WANTS TO LEARN FAINT ATTACK...

"OH, AND I'M PRETTY SURE HE KNOWS ZERO [JAPANESE.] WELL, THEN. I'LL EITHER HAVE TO TEACH HIM WHAT I KNOW OR GET REVER, HIKARI, OR IAN TO TEACH HIM.

"GIVEN HIS SPLOTCHY MEMORY HE'LL NEED A MNEMONIC FOR PARTICLES... I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF THOSE EXIST.

"NO, HE CAN'T DROP STEAMROLLERS FROM THE SKY OR FREEZE TIME. YET."

Background

Prior to meeting Kimberly Bond, Dio was owned by another Trainer-- a twenty-something year old man whose name is currently unknown. At first he seemed pretty nice, but eventually revealed his true colors as a sadistic, psychopathic perfectionist who wanted nothing more than for Dio to win every battle he participated in and who delighted in seeing Dio in physical and mental pain. He would constantly criticize him for not being able to fly well, despite the fact that gliding was something that Dio's species was known for doing, and would also physically and mentally punish him for losing battles, all the while laughing at him whenever he cried. Dio desperately tried to connect with his Trainer through their shared love of rock music, but his Trainer would often push him away, leading Dio to turn to rock music as his one form of solace and hide his feelings of inadequacy behind a mask of cheerfulness. Eventually, it all came to a head after Dio tried to call his Trainer out for his abusive behavior, but his Trainer's lack of Monese knowledge had him believe that Dio was being a bad Pokemon. In response, Dio's Trainer took out a sharp knife and slashed him across the face, giving him the scar on his right eye that he has today. He then promptly released Dio and kicked him onto the tall grass, telling him he was insane for not being able to fly or battle and telling him to see a psychiatrist. The experience led Dio to try his best to prove his worth to his second Trainer, as well as made his original Trainer his biggest fear.

Details

• Met: Goldenrod City, Route 22
• Birthday: July 10th (shared with his namesake)
• Ability: Poison Heal
• Held Item: Razor Fang (consumed upon evolution)
• Favorite Move: Dark Pulse
• Nature: Rash
• Characteristic: Likes to thrash about
• Ball: Poke
• Likes: His Trainer, his friends, battling, learning new moves, rock and roll music, all rock and metal artists, playing the guitar, New Dawn's Dreamers, winning battles, proving his worth to his Trainer, having fun, making people and Pokemon happy, seeing other people and Pokemon happy, his Poison Heal ability, the game shows Don't Forget the Lyrics! and Never Mind the Buzzcocks
• Dislikes: Losing battles, his original Trainer, being reminded of his original Trainer, seeing his Trainer or friends hurt, seeing his Trainer or friends sad, mind control, gaslighting, abuse, Jigsaw, not being able to fly, feeling guilty, feeling sad, learning new moves via TMs and TRs, being mocked for his scar, having his Poison Heal ability neutralized
• Evolves in: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12971269370a74820100&page=22586
• Hasslemon typing quirk: TYPES IN ALL CAPS, AND WILL USE MULTIPLE EXCLAMATION POINTS WHENEVER HE GETS PARTICULARLY EXCITED.

A prospective fullbody Dio gijinka, as done by Goldenheart388.

Known Moves

• Dark Pulse, Night Slash
• Fury Cutter, X-Scissor
• Slash, Quick Attack, Guillotine
• Stone Edge
• Earthquake
• : Poison Jab

Trivia

• Dio is named after Ronnie James Dio and after Dio Brando from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, on account of him being a vampire bat Pokemon and due to his rash, fun-loving, boisterous personality.
• Dio's human form is named Ronnie James Brando, a combination of the names of his two namesakes.
• Dio's handle is RonnieJamesBrando, and he types in all-caps. His Hasslemon chat handle, according to Goldenheart388, is holyGlider (HG), a pun on the Dio song "Holy Diver", and he types with the same quirk.
• According to Goldenheart388, Dio's character theme is "Rainbow in the Dark" by Dio, his Broadway character theme is "Good Kid" from Lightning Thief: The Musical, and his headcanon voice is Alex Brightman as Dewey Finn from the musical adaptation of School of Rock.
• Dio's birthday, July 10th, is shared with that of his namesake Ronnie James Dio. This holds true for all mons on Kimberly Bond's team save for Orwell, Peechee, and Boseman.