Jody Mills

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Biography

### Jody Mills: 1979 - 1997

Jody was born and raised in Star City. She was the oldest of two girls. Though she was the more responsible and dutiful daughter, Jody was constantly upstaged for their parents' attention by her genius younger sister June. Tired of living in June's shadow, Jody bought a used car with money she saved up from her summer jobs and hit the road shortly after her graduation.

### Jody Mills: 1997 - 2003

Ending up in Smallville, Kansas after her car broke down, Jody spent the next four years working a number of assorted jobs — serving coffee, selling hardware, and answering phones for the local sheriff's office. It was the last job that got her interested in law enforcement. After thinking the matter over for a while, she decided to put in an application at a number of police departments and sheriff's offices.

### Jody Mills: 2003 - 2006

Hired by the Keystone City Police Department, Jody moved to the city and began her training in the police academy. She graduated at the top of her academy class. Though she was not particularly thrilled to literally be a "Keystone Cop", Jody took her oath seriously. As a sworn officer of the law, Jody wore her uniform with pride and did her best to protect and serve.

On the personal side of her life, Jody would marry Sean Mills, a local architect, in the summer of 2004. The two would celebrate the birth of their son Owen in 2006.

### Jody Mills: 2006 - Present

On Independence Day, 2006, shortly after returning from her maternity leave, Jody had her first encounter with Bobby Singer, responding to his salvage yard on reports of gunshots. She would later discover that two boys Bobby was watching had set off illegal fireworks, causing a fire in a nearby field and causing damage to the Singer residence. When she arrived on the scene, she found Singer in the midst of a heated argument with the boys' father. Though Jody was able to quell the argument long enough for the man and his sons to leave the property unharmed, Officer Mills had to takedown Singer and arrest him after he failed to calm down and became increasingly hostile. She released him from the holding cell early the next morning after he had cooled off.

Over the years, Officer Mills would become all too familiar with Bobby Singer, arresting him for everything from public intoxication, assaults, disorderly conduct, trespassing, breaking and entering, suspicions of stalking, and a slew of other charges. Most of the serious charges did not stick, but that only cemented Singer's permanent spot on Jody's radar. He was by no means her biggest headache, but the two had a lot of encounters in the course of Jody's official duties and she was all too familiar with hearing dispatch call out his address.

During the early days of the arrival of the Reach, Jody's son Owen would fall ill from a rare genetic condition. Though Jody pressed for her son to have more advanced and experimental medical treatments, Sean Mills insisted that their son be made as comfortable as possible and placed on a waiting list for the Reach's medical services. When the Reach were exposed as invaders, Owen's number would have been called within the next few days.

Owen died a month after the Reach fled, with modern medicine unable to save him as his condition had spread too far. After the burial, Jody poured herself into her job and decided to run in a special election for county sheriff after the last sheriff had been killed during the Reach's occupation. Sean and Jody's marriage disintegrated quickly, with Sean moving out of the house the day before the election, never even congratulating his wife on her victory.

Shortly before Jody took office, the Keystone City Council decided that the existing Keystone City Police Department would be incorporated into the Wyandotte County Sheriff's Office to cut down costs and avoid jurisdictional disputes that had arisen following the last sheriff's demise. Jody did not mind the extra work as she had stronger relations with the KCPD and was able to rely on those preexisting relationships to help her build the sort of workplace culture she wanted.

Though still in her first term as sheriff, Jody seems to be a shoe-in for winning reelection as she is well-liked and has lowered the crime in Keystone City and the surrounding rural areas of the county. She also has a strong friendship with the Missouri sheriff across the river in Central City, Sheriff Hanscum.

## Personality

As a law enforcement officer, Jody is strong, collected, and tough. However, she is also kind, compassionate and can be smoothly sarcastic when she needs to be. She sometimes acts motherly to persons less experienced or younger than her, occasionally bossing them around and using her "mother voice". She is very protective of her pupils or others she has "adopted" as part of her family (whether work family or extended circle of friends), though she fails somewhat in trusting their judgment and can come off as a little too strict as a result. Jody also prides herself as being an open-minded person and someone who favors doing the right thing no matter the cost or risk.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Police Training:** Jody is a skilled law enforcement officer.
	+ **Interrogation:** Jody is a skilled interrogator.
	+ **Investigation:** Jody is a highly skilled investigator, well-versed in police procedure, investigative methods, and competent in basic forensic science.
	+ **Marksmanship:** Jody is a skilled markswoman, with exceptional aim and familiarity with a number of firearms.
	+ **Martial Arts:** Jody is a capable martial artist, familiar with a number of restraint techniques, grappling maneuvers, pressure points, and joint holds. She is also trained in a number of basic and advanced hand and leg strikes.
	+ **Vehicle Operation:** Jody is trained in advanced driving techniques, including pursuit and takedown maneuvers.

### Weaknesses

* **Good Heart:** Despite her years as a police officer, Jody retains a positive outlook on life (usually) and wishes to see the best in people. This is offset to some degree by her good sense of character judgment, allowing her to know when she has to harden her heart to some degree. However, Jody has a record of choosing to avoid doing her duty in favor of doing what she feels is the right thing to do. Sometimes she is wrong.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Occult:** 0 — Abysmal / Nonexistent
* **Weaponry:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Expertise:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Range:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Strategy:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
	+ **TOTAL:** 32
	+ **RANKING:** Low Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* She first met Donna Hanscum while at a spa and soon became fast friends. When Jody explained she was running for sheriff, Donna decided she would do the same. The two gals bonded over their mutual hopes to improve their community's law enforcement paradigm. Donna and Jody even campaigned together a platform of bringing the two sister cities together against crime. Against all odds, the two lady cops won both elections, cementing their friendship and bringing added stability between the two cities.

### Notes

* Jody Mills is a character from the *Supernatural* TV series.
* Her appearance is based on the actress Kim Rhodes, who portrayed her in the show.
* Her address is also a reference to her actress.
* She is composited with Jody Robbins, an employee at Project Cadmus and fiancé to the super-powered OMAC in his alias as Kevin Kho.
* June Robbins is a member of the Challengers of the Unknown. In the comics she and Jody were cousins.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Jody Mills

1. ↑ NFX: Jody Mills
2. ↑ Network Files: Donna Hanscum