History
The original Officer Jenny was born in 1870, in Catallia City,
Johto, under the name Jennifer Meris,
she was seemingly destined to fill the roles traditional to women of the
era, one surprise event changed her life forever.
In 1887, she was attacked by an armed assailant, who demanded all the
money she was carrying with her. The story goes that when the thief tried
to steal a ring (which had belonged to her mother) as well, she dropped
the ring to the ground. As the thief reached down to grab it, he left an
opening- Jennifer sank her fingernails into the wrist holding the knife,
and with her free hand took the knife and threw it away. The criminal,
blinded by pain, was not in a very good angle to retaliate, and Jennifer
was able to pull him around in a circle while he flailed his free hand
wildly. This continued until the police arrived to capture the thief. It's
unknown if dropping the ring was deliberate or not, but it provided the
basis for her style of crime fighting- to distract a dangerous criminal
with his own vice in order to create an opening.
It turned out that this particular thief was already wanted for six counts
of mugging, and three murders. The police chief of Catallia was surprised
that a young woman had succeeded where his men had failed in the past, by
incapacitating and apprehending this villain. He said that he could use
someone like her on his police force, and after a year's training, she had
become a full-fledged member of the police force, Officer Jenny. She
eventually took on a
Spinarak as her Pokémon partner, helping her take
down criminals who were too strong for her to put handcuffs on.
She became a legend in part due to the works of her most famous rival, the
Black Arachnid. A
Meowth-training cat burglar, he proved immune to her
tactics of distraction, and despite his non-violent nature, he was
difficult to catch. In fact, the Black Arachnid himself was a master of
distraction, using his Meowth's
Pay Day to distract his pursuers. The
noise of several dozen coins clattering to the ground would invariably
make it more difficult to hear the direction in which the Arachnid was
running, and light glares from as many coins would make it difficult to
focus one's eyes on anything else in particular.
It was with great difficulty, and her Spinarak's aid, that Jenny caught up
to, and captured the Arachnid. Unmasking the phantom thief, however, she
was shocked to discover the face of Marcos Therian- a man she had known
since her teenage years. She could not believe he'd done such a thing, and
his motives continued to bother her for the next few years.
When asked about the location of his treasure stash, he eventually
revealed that there wasn't one- the treasures he'd stolen as the Black
Arachnid were hidden in the very buildings they were stolen from. In dumb
waiter shafts, between wall panels, anywhere that they could be stuffed
without people noticing. As this claim began to be proven true, it became
clear profit was not his motive. Since these treasures had never truly
left the grounds of their owners, and their locations was so readily
revealed, Marcos received the minimum punishment the law would allow.
After his release, Jenny needled him for days on why he'd done it, and
each time, he could only look away in shame. It was only through his
brother that she discovered the truth- Marcos was in love with Jenny. He'd
always been a shy sort, however, and couldn't bring himself to tell her.
By the time he had the courage to, her move towards becoming a police
officer had made it nearly impossible for him to find an opportunity.
His disappointment eventually led to jealousy towards the criminals- even
they got more attention from her than he did. He eventually reached the
conclusion that the only way he'd ever get her attention was to become a
criminal himself. So he did.
The revelation wasn't easy to believe, or to swallow. While at first she
couldn't believe she would unintentionally cause but it did eventually led
to Jenny finally forgiving her friend and adversary. The rest is history-
most of the Therians on the police force today, almost a third of whom are
current Officer Jennies, are descended from the original Officer Jenny and
her arch-rival, the Black Arachnid.
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Adoption of
the Mass Identity
Following the success of the Pokémon Centers run by the
Joy family of
medics, the police forces of Johto sought to replicate this effect. A
massive number of identical female police officers who would serve as a
symbol of the police force, especially for the sake of young travelling
trainers. Children who'd come to trust the lady officer of one town would
instantly come to trust the lady officer of every other town.
Because there was no other family with a clone-like genetic quirk akin to
that of the Joys, this effect would have to be produced with makeup and
wigs. Eventually, voice-changers were implemented as well, but these were
not present when the concept was first used.
Since several of the best women in the police force at the time were of
the Therian bloodline, and therefore looked similar already, it made sense
to ask them to serve as the first to employ this concept. Their
grandmother, the original Jenny, became the basis for their new look.
Despite some initial scepticism among these women, the experiment worked,
and similar-looking women from more and more police forces eventually took
on the face and name of the legendary Officer Jenny.
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There has known to
be vicious rivalries between descendants of the original
Officer Jenny, and unrelated force members.
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