Kimberly Bond

Name:	Kimberly Bond
Nickname/Alias:	Kim
Gender:	Female
Sexuality:	Asexual
Age:	21
Height:	6'00"
Ethnicity:	Unovan
Birthday:	12/21/1998
Attribute:	N/A
Trainer ID:	43347
Home:	Striaton City
Pokéform:	Popplio (subject to change)
Starter:	Paul
Status:	Alive

Appearance

Kimberly Bond is a 6'00" female Unovan with long dark brown hair and hazel eyes. She wears a lab coat-- a leftover from her job as a linguistic teacher/consultant in the Striaton City Trainer's School-- along with a white undershirt, blue jeans, and black shoes. On said lab coat is a 2112 pin, representing her love and adoration for the prog rock band [1]. She carries a purse that contains all of her things, among them her notebook, her multitude of Poke Balls, her cell phone, her cell phone charger, and plenty of albums from a multitude of artists and bands.

Biography

Kimberly Bond was born and raised in Striaton City and grew up with two main passions: music-- specifically the prog band Rush-- and linguistics, the latter of which came about as a result of her having grown up with language-loving parents. At the age of 19, she got a job as a linguistic consultant and teacher at the Striaton City Trainer's School, along with her first Pokemon-- a Caterpie which she named Paul, after Paul McCartney of the Beatles. She eventually decided to go off on her own Pokemon journey and decided to pursue Monese when Paul evolved into a Butterfree and Kim realized she couldn't understand him. After gaining the ability to understand Pokemon (see "History" below); she gave up her studies for herself and now seeks to teach other people Monese as well as teach herself the Japanese language.

Personality

In a word, Kim is... odd-- or, at the very least, that's how she may come across to other people. For the most part, she is stoic, serious, and treats everybody-- even other members of the J-Team and her closest friends-- like colleagues. She refers to people by their last name (unless they're Ian or someone whose last name she doesn't know), she is very insistent in regards to pronunciation, and she will often analyze everything around her in the heat of battle. That being said, however, she does have a soft spot for cute Pokemon, and can get excited by certain things-- she absolutely lost it the first time she turned into a Pokemon, and was ecstatic upon watching Sinatra evolve. Kim is very studious, and will take every opportunity she can to learn something about languages, music, or otherwise. She has a notebook which she keeps with her at all times. Despite her overtly serious nature, however, she gets along well with Ian and Colton-- and she idolizes the latter, though not to the point of overt excitability. She is also extremely polite and believes first impressions are everything, to the point of profusely apologizing if she believes she has made a bad first impression. Whenever she catches a new Pokemon, Kim will write a personality file about said Pokemon, so as to get a better idea of what they are like. In battle, she prefers to use status moves before anything else, though will use physical moves if absolutely necessary. In regards to her Pokemon, Kim absolutely loves them and treats them with all the respect and affection that they so deserve. All in all, she's a mess of contradictions- and fully aware of it.

History

In her quest to learn the Monese language, Kim decided to go to Viridian City, where she stumbled upon the Stormchaser airship and met Alexa Vogel-- her first interaction as a member of the J-Team-- along with Ian, whom she met shortly after getting a room on board the ship. Her and Ian quickly became fast friends due to the latter's love of the Japanese language and his willingness to help her learn Monese. That desire led her to Curtis Shunner- AKA Helmsman- which in turn led her to Kamui (then Amaterasu), who promptly gave her a choker that transformed her into her Pokeform-- a Popplio. Upon seeing her new form, Kim was ecstatic- perhaps too ecstatic, as her sudden realization combined with her gushing idolization of her J-Team idol Colton Kendall Rever-- AKA the author of the Prax Obscura, AKA one of Kim's favorite books of all time-- led to Kamui being somewhat blindsided. In turn, Kim quickly got disheartened, believing she had made a bad first impression, and went to go apologize; when she actually met Colton, she was much less excitable until she was forgiven by both him and Kamui.

After learning Monese and meeting Colton for the first time, Kim was unsure of what to do next, until she learned of the J-Team's defeat of Eternatus and- more importantly- of the Battle of the Bands. From there, she decided to capture a bunch of Pokemon in order to gain more team members for the Battle, and soon caught her first Pokemon in the form of a charismatic and snarky Sentret which she named Sinatra. From there, she caught an exciteable yet sensitive Gligar which she named Dio and a gluttonous Turtwig which she named Kaylan. Wanting to battle more with Kaylan, she went to Alola and entered a Battle Royale-- during which Evelyn's new Chimchar Hanuman activated Blaze. Terrified, Kim called on Sinatra to calm him down-- which he did in spectacular fashion, performing "My Way" by his namesake and evolving into a Furret in the process. Kim was absolutely ecstatic by this, having gained her first evolution, and subsequently traveled to the Alola region where she gained her last Pokemon of the "original five", a kindhearted, modest Popplio which she named Geddy. From there, she got news of the wedding between Umbra and Amaterasu that would be taking place in Postwick, and subsequently used that as an opportunity to travel to the Galar region and catch a ton of Pokemon.

At the wedding, Kim ran into a cheerful, battle-loving Scorbunny and his partner, an exceedingly panicky Sobble who believed that the phrase "taking someone as their lawfully wedded wife/husband" meant kidnapping. She caught both of them, gaining her first Galar mons in the process. The Scorbunny was named Elton and the Sobble was named Freddie. Soon after the wedding ended, she traveled to the Wild Area and caught her next Pokemon- a Newspeak-speaking Corphish named Orwell (making him the first Pokemon on Kim's team to not be named after a musician). The day before Orwell's capture, Kim used a Razor Fang she had gotten in Sinnoh to evolve Dio into a Gliscor. From there, a lot of things would happen to Kim- namely the death of Neil Peart of RUSH, which led to the group meeting with a philosophical yet mellow Quagsire. Said Quagsire followed Kim to the Battle of the Bands, and after a brief panic attack after experiencing Colton's Legendary Facepalm for the first time, Kim caught the Quagsire and named him Joel. By now, Kim had caught nine Pokemon, and this would be her team throughout the first round of the Battle of the Bands and the opening ceremony in Motostoke, which was happening at around the same time. Kim's band, New Dawn's Dreamers, put up a great fight against Colton's band Shadow Cast, but Kim would ultimately forfeit the first round after realizing there was no way her team could possibly top Kamui's rendition of Tool's "Jambi".

From there, her Gym Challenge would officially begin, but before going to face Milo in Turffield, Kim headed on to Route 5 and caught two more Pokemon in the process. The first was a slightly profane, strong, yet pacifistic Wooloo, and the second was a Rookiedee with a level of intelligence, strategy, and stoicness only matched by Kimberly Bond herself. Kim caught both of these Pokemon, bringing her total to eleven, and named the Wooloo Dave and the Rookiedee Ozzy. From there, she took her first Gym Challenge in Turffield against Milo. During the Gym Puzzle, she used a hyperactive Yamper to herd the Wooloo, and the Yamper became so attached to Kim that he followed her to the Gym Battle. During said Gym Battle, Ozzy used a Hone Claws/Power Trip strategy to knock out Milo's Gossifleur, but it was what happened against Milo's Eldegoss that was truly spectacular. Kim Dynamaxed her Scorbunny Elton, and after a long hard fight, he was hit by a critical hit Max Strike, lowering him down to just 14 HP. Refusing to give up, Elton challenged the Eldegoss, and proceeded to knock him out with a Max Knuckle. In the process, he evolved into a Raboot while still Dynamaxed, amazing Kim, Milo, Ian, and Evelyn and ultimately giving Kim the win and the Grass Badge. After the battle was over, Kim noticed the Yamper that had followed her and invited him to join her team, which he gladly accepted. She named him Dalt- her 12th Pokemon.

After the Gym Battle, a few April Fools' Day shenanigans occurred, during which Evelyn and Ian temporarily went their separate ways in order for Evelyn to shake off the effects of hypnosis. Shortly after this event occurred, Kim decided to go off on her own for a little bit herself, and soon took all of her Pokemon to another dimension known as Ikoria for a vacation, along with Gale Knight and Des. She found that in Ikoria, mutant Pokemon attacked the area and Pokemon Trainers (or "Bonders") were not looked on very fondly. Deciding to find a city, she sent out Ozzy- and when he did find the city, he was stunned to find that the giant mutant Pokemon were attacking the city and hurting innocent people. Refusing to let innocents die, Ozzy spread his wings out in front of the city, fought off the mutant Pokemon, and raised giant Protect barriers- all while being a tiny 8-inch Rookiedee. Mere moments later, he saw Kim heading towards the city- and, refusing to let her get hurt, evolved into a Corvisquire to protect her. Kim missed the event, but was still very proud of Ozzy for having evolved and for protecting thousands of innocent people.

Kim, Des, and Gale proceeded to do some more exploration of Ikoria- during which Geddy gained more experience- and after her travels, Kim decided to return to the Wild Area once again. While there, she ran into an Abomasnow den which also had Colton in it, and Kim used Kaylan against the Abomasnow. With a combination of Sunny Day and Iron Tail the Abomasnow was quickly defeated, and Kim picked up a Leaf Storm TR which she gave to Kaylan. After the battle with the Abomasnow, Kim left the den-- only to run into a Hatterene carrying a knife chasing around a fellow J-Teamer. Not willing to let her die, Kim sent out Dave-- but Dave didn't have to do anything, as mere moments later, the Hatterene was knocked out by a Guillotine from a bloodthirsty Krabby. A seemingly bloodthirsty Krabby, it turned out, as shortly after the battle, said Krabby- who spoke fluent Nadsat- revealed himself to be rather goofy and fond of cookies when he wasn't grinding opponents to dust. Impressed, Kim decided to catch the Krabby and named him Peechee- from "peecheen," his Nadsat word for "cookie" (Peechee was a Krabby, after all).

After Peechee's capture, Kim trained with Peechee, Kaylan and Dalt for three days before she figured she had enough training and decided to reunite with Ian and Evelyn- and in the process, take on the Hulbury Gym. When she got there, she saw that Ian and Evelyn were already about to battle, and after watching said battle and reuniting with the two of them, Kim went into the Gym to take on Nessa herself. She completed the Gym Puzzle with a combination of Joel's Water Absorb ability, Ozzy's line of sight, and her affiliation for patterns, and the subsequent Gym Battle featured Joel beating Nessa's Toxapex into the ground with a combination of Yawn and Earthquake, Dalt defeating Nessa's Gigantimax Drednaw in two hits, and a double evolution. Against Nessa's Golisopod, Kaylan put up a good fight, but a few Swords Dances led to the Golisopod's Shadow Claw critting Kaylan and leaving him with 7 HP. Dalt, who was watching the fight, didn't want to see Kaylan get hurt, and just as the Golisopod was about to knock Kaylan out, both Kaylan and Dalt found a surge of power and simultaneously evolved into a Grotle and Boltund, respectively. Armed with a new form and a higher boost in power, Kaylan proved to be too much for the Golisopod, who gave up and let Kaylan knock him out with Leaf Storm, earning Kim her second Gym Badge and the TM for Whirlpool.

Shortly after Kim's Gym Battle and the double evolution, a short lesson in the Japanese language occurred between Dalt, Kaylan, and Ian's Froslass Yumi. During said lesson, Kim went outside to the Wild Area and caught a pacifistic, calm, lax Drednaw, who she named Gallag. Mere moments later, she got terrible news- her father, David Bond, was in the hospital after being mauled by a Krookodile. Terrified, she, Orwell, Peechee, Ian, and Evelyn all went to the hospital in Striaton City in Unova, and while there, Peechee noticed that Orwell believed battles to be torture. Wanting to get revenge on the Krookodile who mauled Kim's father, he decided to teach Orwell to become more comfortable with battling, and while Orwell did discover that he could use certain moves such as Protect and Bubble Beam, his fear never truly subsided. Eventually, it all came to a head when both Orwell and Peechee found the said Krookodile who mauled David, and both of them- though mostly Peechee- proceeded to beat the Krookodile to the point of fainting. In the process, Orwell learned Night Slash and, more importantly, evolved into a Crawdaunt- something that he had wanted to happen to him for a long time. The Krookodile was ultimately defeated, and just after Peechee brought the Krookodile down with Guillotine, he, too, evolved- into a Kingler, much to both his and Orwell's delight.

Further Details

Debut: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12971269370a74820100&page=22472

Starter: Paul, her Butterfree (though Kaylan, her Grotle, was her first "legitimate" starter Pokemon)

Pokeform: Popplio, though she is thinking of changing it

Likes: Her Pokemon, Ian, Evelyn, Colton, traveling, battles, languages, studying languages, translating languages, music, the band RUSH, her parents, efficiency

Dislikes: Bullies, anyone who dares hurt her Pokemon, anyone who dares hurt Ian, Evelyn, or Colton, making a bad first impression on people, making mistakes

Pokémon

The Original Five

Paul

Sinatra

Dio

Kaylan

Geddy

Galarian Newcomers

Elton

Freddie

Orwell

Joel

Dave

Ozzy

Dalt

Peechee

Gallag

Trivia

• Excluding Orwell and Peechee, every single one of Kimberly Bond's Pokemon was named after a famous musician. In order of capture:
  • Paul the Butterfree is named after The Beatles' Paul McCartney, a pun on account of Paul being a Bug/Flying type. His human name, Judas McCartney, derives from the Beatles song "Hey Jude" and Paul McCartney.
  • Sinatra the Furret is named after Frank Sinatra, due to his love of his namesake's music and his snarky yet charismatic personality. His human name, Artanis "Art" Francis, comes from "Sinatra" spelled backwards, with the "Francis" part deriving from "Frank."
  • Dio the Gliscor is named after Ronnie James Dio and Dio Brando from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, due to him being a vampire bat Pokemon with an exciteable and emotional personality. His human name, Ronnie James Brando, is a combination of both of his namesakes.
  • Kaylan the Grotle is named after Howard Kaylan, lead singer of the Turtles.
  • Geddy the Popplio is named after Rush's Geddy Lee, due to his love of their music, his modest personality, and most notably the fact that Kim herself considers male Primarina to be the Pokemon equivalent of Geddy Lee.
  • Elton the Raboot was named after Elton John on account of him being a foil to Freddie the Sobble (Freddie Mercury and Elton John were two of the biggest gay rock artists of the 1970's-1980's and had their respective biopic movies, Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman, released within a year of each other).
  • Freddie the Sobble was named after Freddie Mercury, due to Kim considering Intelleon to be his Pokemon equivalent as well as due to being a foil to Elton.
  • Joel the Quagsire was named after Billy Joel due to his love of his music and due to his mellow personality.
  • Dave the Wooloo was named after Dave King, lead singer of Flogging Molly, due to sheep frequently populating Ireland, where Dave King is from. He was also named on account of his headstrong and stubborn yet pacifistic personality.
  • Ozzy the Corvisquire was named after Ozzy Osbourne, lead singer of Black Sabbath and the so-called "Prince of Metal", due to evolving into the Flying/Steel type Corviknight. His human name, Johnathon Sabbath, comes from Osbourne's real name- John Michael Osbourne- and Black Sabbath.
  • Dalt the Boltund was named after Roger Daltrey, lead singer of the Who, as an ode to their song "Dogs."
  • Gallag the Drednaw was named after the Gallagher brothers from Oasis, due to his staunch pacifism.
• Orwell and Peechee were respectively named after George Orwell (author of 1984, which debuted Newspeak) and "peecheen," the (invented) Nadsat word for "cookie" (on account of Peechee being a Kingler, whose anime cry sounds like "cookie cookie"). The word "peecheen" itself comes from the Russian word pechen'ye, meaning "cookie".