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 the Butterfree
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 [McCartney] of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles%7Cthe 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 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 Amaterasu 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 Amaterasu. From then on, she and Colton have more or less had a pretty good relationship with one another.

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 Haruman activated Blaze. Terrified, Kim called on Sinatra to calm him down--