Jenna Sheppard

Jenna Sheppard is a who lives in Grat. She is the half-sister of Garrett Sheppard, full-sister to David Sheppard, and legally the niece of Aaron Sheppard. Her mother, Ellie, died when Jenna was seven. Since the tumultuous events of The Collapse, which resulted in the death of her father, Jenna has started actively engaging spiritual threats in an attempt to keep Grat safe. Whilst initially doing this without her brother's knowledge Garrett eventually conscripted Lloyd to train his sister when he rescued her during a attack. Jenna subsequently joined Kentaro Hiroshi's new Gotei 13 as an Onmitsu attached to the Grat cell of the Shinsengumi.

Appearance
Jenna is noted by Lloyd to closely resemble her mother. She has long brown-coloured hair, blue-coloured eyes, and an hour-glass figure.

Personality
Jenna appears to be highly responsible; she was often the one who reminded Garrett of his various appointments and part-time commitments. Tiffany Henderson notes that Garrett's siblings are highly inquisitive. Jenna especially likes poking fun at her older brother's expense, particularly regarding his attraction and later relationship with Tiffany. This attitude extends to Garrett's friends; she often insults Lloyd, whom she knows has a crush on her, but gets on well with him despite this. Despite poking fun at Garrett the two are very close; Garrett purposefully shielded Grat High-school from Ichiro's energy attack, suffering a bloody gash to his shoulder in the process, for he knew Jenna was inside the building. Once her boyfriend broke up with her Garrett made a point of staying up with her, where the two shared a tub of ice cream.

Following The Collapse Jenna was left to mourn the death of her biological father, who lost his life in the ensuing chaos. She began fighting Hollow secretly after this but was eventually discovered by Garrett, who ended up sending her off to Lloyd for Quincy training. Jenna initially showed disdain for the training, believing she did not need it, and was notably distraught at the prospect of Lloyd being her instructor.

History
Jenna, like her brothers, inherited spiritual powers from their mother. Jenna was seven years old when her mother died. From this point on she helped her older brother Garrett raise their younger brother David. Despite being the daughter of Paul, who was an Echt Quincy, Jenna received no training from her father. Jenna would later by Lloyd in both traditional Quincy techniques and the more specialised abilities passed down through his family.

Synopsis

 * Main article -- Bleach (Kenji Hiroshi).

Part IV

 * Main article -- Bleach: Cataclysm.

Investigating Grat arc

 * Day 1: Back to School
 * Day 13: Luckless (mentioned)

Peri-Collapse events

 * Into the Fire: Garrett's Conviction (unseen)

Rising arc

 * Back to Normality? (mentioned)
 * The Resolve to Fight
 * Birth of the Grat cell
 * Visit from the Slayer
 * Rising Shadows

Part V

 * Main article -- TBA.

Powers and Abilities




Spiritual Awareness: Jenna, like her brothers, possesses high innate levels of spiritual power and is knowledgeable regarding basic spiritual threats. As she meets the requirements Jenna has latent Fullbringer potential through her mother, and powers through her father.

Keen Aim: Jenna demonstrated highly accurate aiming skills, and was fit to shoot a Hollow out of the sky.

Spirit Weapon
Jenna has shown proficiency with a bow-type Spirit Weapon, specifically a longbow. Unlike the weapons used by Lloyd, which are solid in appearance, Jenna's Spirit Weapon is composed of pulsating blue-coloured spiritual energy.


 * : The primary means of attack for any Quincy. Jenna's arrows are strong enough to destroy lesser in one shot.

Behind the scenes

 * In the initial draft of the story Jenna's character was older than Garrett by a fair margin and essentially filled a supportive mother-like role. She was also completely lacking in spiritual powers of any kind. The changes that occurred in the story following the 2015 retcon drastically altered Jenna's character: she was changed to be slightly younger than Garrett, was changed into a Quincy, and generally played a larger role in the story.