Dio

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

Personality

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, even if he hasn't yet been used in an official Gym Battle. 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. Learning Dark Pulse seems to have improved his battling strategies, but Dio still can't fly very well, even after evolving into a Gliscor.

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."

Details

• Met: Goldenrod City, Route 22
• Ability: Poison Heal
• Held Item: Razor Fang (consumed upon evolution)
• Favorite Move: Dark Pulse
• Nature: Rash
• Ball: Poke
• Evolves in: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12971269370a74820100&page=22586

Known Moves

• Dark Pulse
• Fury Cutter
• Slash, Quick Attack

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.
• According to Goldenheart388, Dio's character theme is "Rainbow in the Dark" by Dio, his Broadway character theme is "Proud of Your Boy" from Disney's Aladdin, and his headcanon voice is Ben Diskin as Numbuh Two from Codename: Kids Next Door.