Randy Jones

Randy Jones is a Fullbringer living in Grat and an understudy of Kusaka Kori's during the latter's recuperation. He is one of Garrett Sheppard's oldest friends and regularly helps him combat spiritual threats to Grat's peace. He is a good friend of the Lloyd and views him as a brother. As the story progresses Randy becmes a key supporting member of the Grat cell of Onmitsu attached to the Shinsengumi of the new Gotei 13.

Appearance
Randy is a tall and muscular young man for his age, standing at a full-height of six-foot and four-inches. Garrett claims that he is built like an NFL quarterback. Randy sports short-cut brown hair with go-faster-stripes cut into the sides.

Personality
Randy is described as a "walking boner" by Garrett who also claims that he "would ride a cracked plate", suggesting that he is something of a womaniser. Only after a few conversations with him Tiffany seemingly agreed with this view. She saved him in her phone's contact list as Randy "cracked plate" Jones, seemingly in reference to Garrett's earlier jibe. Regardless he is one of Garrett's closet friends and happily dropped everything when he heard from Tiffany that Garrett was in trouble. In addition he is one of the few to know of the circumstances surrounding the death of Garrett's mother and the departure of his father Aaron Sheppard. Randy was noticeably worried at the prospect of Garrett fighting his father.

Randy is a confident young man who does not give up easily, even when he is clearly at a disadvantage. Ries Nohr almost snapped his neck during their battle at the Arena Beatdown, though Ries healed him of his injuries immediately following the fight. Perhaps because of this Randy and Ries would go onto become good friends in the immediate wake of this fight. Randy also learned from this fight. He consciously noticed the similarities between Ries and Hitoshi's fighting style, allowing him to quickly adapt. Randy also shares a particularly strong bond with Lloyd and although the two bicker near constantly, the respect they have for one another is undeniable. He willingly placed himself in harms way to save Lloyd from what would have been a fatal strike from a Hollow, taking further injuries in the process to save his friend. He views Lloyd as a brother, remarking that he shared the sentiment completely when Lloyd reprimanded Hitoshi for threatening his family. Lloyd is notably Randy's strongest bond.

Synopsis

 * Main article -- Bleach (Kenji Hiroshi).

Part IV

 * Main article -- Bleach: Cataclysm.

Investigating Grat arc

 * Day 1: Back to School
 * Day 13: Luckless
 * Day 19: Ghosts of Yesterday
 * Day 20: The Beatdown
 * Day 20: The Beatdown Part II
 * Day 20: The Beatdown Part III
 * Day 21: New Perspectives (mentioned only)
 * Day 28: Grat Runs Red
 * Day 29: Deserved Rest

Peri-Collapse Events

 * Second Battle of Grat: Prelude
 * Into the Fire: Tiffany's Resolve
 * Into the Fire: Brotherly Bond
 * Into the Fire: Shinrei's Sacrifice
 * Second Battle of Grat: Aftermath

Rising arc

 * Back to Normality?
 * The Resolve to Fight
 * Tracking Kentaro!? (mentioned only)
 * Garrett's Vengeance (unseen)
 * Birth of the Grat cell (mentioned only)
 * Clash over Grat
 * Visit from the Slayer

Part V

 * Main article -- TBA.

Powers and Abilities
He possess enough spiritual energy to compete with various spiritually aware Humans as a frequent contender of the Arena Beatdown. After stealing the Fullbring of Hitoshi, Lloyd observed Randy's spiritual energy to have grown significantly stronger. The same occurred once more when Garrett and he where granted access to Kusaka's Fullbring.

Hand-to-Hand Expertise: Randy appears to favour direct punches and kicks which emphasis, with particular focus on applications. His skills also enabled him to momentarily hold his own against the more skilled Ries, albeit he ended up losing. After his brief exposure to Ries's fighting style, Randy unconsciously adopted many of his techniques and movements, which enabled him to outmanoeuvre Hitoshi who utilised the same style of Hakuda.

Growth-rate: Randy possesses the ability to quickly grasp various combat-related techniques which he has either seen or fought against. He managed to mimic some of Ries Nohr's fighting skills, without prior training, which later allowed him to gain the upper-hand against Hitoshi.

Enhanced Strength: Randy was capable of causing a deep depression in the ground with a single punch, which created a shock-wave powerful enough to dispatch three simultaneously. When employing similar strikes with his Fullbring, Randy is capable of significantly cratering the ground.

Bringer Light (完現光 (ブリンガーライト), Buringā Raito; lit. "Full Manifestation Light"): Randy arrived at the scene of Garrett's battle with a Hollow at roughly the same time as Tiffany, suggesting he can perform high-speed movement. When moving at his maximum speed he was briefly fit to catch Ries unaware during their battle. He was fit to keep pace with Hitoshi throughout their fight, despite the latter's training under Rōjin.

Fullbring
Randy's Fullbring is classified as a weapon-type, for its power is centred on his fingerless gloves. After stealing Hitoshi's Fullbring the shape of Randy's glove changed. Instead of remaining traditional run-of-the-mill gloves, Randy's gloves now appear skeletal in appearance. After being granted access to the powers of Kusaka's Fullbring, Randy's own was noted to grow much stronger.


 * Fullbring Special Ability: Randy's Fullbring provides him both a primary and secondary affect. The primary allows him to bypass the defences of his opponent and land an attack without any form of mitigation, which has the effect of reducing what he hits to dust. The secondary allows him to explosively charge inanimate objects, causing them to violently explode after a short delay. This explosive quality has led news reporters to mistake Randy's intentions, for they once claimed that Grat's factory district was overrun with terrorists.

Behind the Scenes

 * In the original draft Randy was a boxer who possessed Quincy powers. His personality was quiet and reserved compared to his new womanising and confident character. He was also designed to be Garrett's primary rival, but this was dropped, and in the new draft he is merely one of Garrett's closest friends.