Joey Romano (Dimension-232)

Joey Romano, known to most as Uncle Joey is a legendary figure who rose to power after moving to Poglandia, and taking advantage of the middle-class. Joey established himself as a powerful person who drove a divide throughout the residents of Poglandia. He continued to seek power, until his greed and ego came back to bite him, resulting in him losing his friends, girlfriend, and his own self-worth. 
He would eventually move away from Old Poglandia, and create an enhancement serum, that would backfire, splitting his mind, and creating the alternative personality named Penid Goblin. 
==History==
===Early Life===
Joey was born to a rather poor family, living in New Jersey with his parents and brother Frank. Joey didn't get to grow a strong relationship with Frank, as by the time Joey had grown up, Frank was already moved out of the house, and living elsewhere. Joey did see Frank every other Christmas, or whenever he needed money, which was often. When he did see his brother, he always looked up to him. Frank was Joey's role model, but Frank was most certainly not someone to look up to, but since Joey was only a kid, he didn't know better. 
As Joey grew up, his parents always tried to usher him in a better direction than where Frank went. They wanted Joey to go to college, and find a real profession. When Joey got older, he applied to several different colleges, but was rejected from all of them except for one, The City College of New York. Here, Joey would excel in all of his classes, as he had always been a smart student. The only problem was, he didn't feel fulfilled. He was convinced to drop out after a senior student, Daniel, told him he could be doing much more if he wasn't restricted by his schooling.
Together, Danny and Joey took a gap year, where they would spend this time trying to come up with their next million dollar idea. They spent the next years of their lives together, trying to make it big, but never could. Danny and Joey eventually split ways, when Danny was called up by some old pals of his, claiming they could make him rich.
Joey would spend the next years of his life, trying (and failing) to make it big, in anyway he could. In 2019, he couldn't pay his rent, so he moved back in with his parents, where, oddly enough, Frank was also living. For the next couple of months, Joey and Frank were able to grow closer as brothers, and talk about how life had been hard for them recently. It was in the summer of 2020, when Frank told Joey about this company, which was hiring people to move to an uncharted location, and help start a society. Frank told Joey he should join it, since he was always a good leader, and it could be his chance to finally do something worth while. Joey agreed, and was hired to join the group, which would be sent out to the new land at the end of the summer.
===Early Life in Poglandia===
The first to establish cities throughout Poglandia were Uncle Joey, CJ and Lizz. Joey set up shop and began building his house, while CJ and Lizz went out far away from Joey. Joey worked on casual things, such as installing a fish tank, building a second story to his home, and finding nice animals to have as pets.
It was soon after this, that Joey met his girlfriend. She only visited Joey's home every so often, but when she did, Joey was at his happiest. 
===Time Slipping===
During CJ's time at Mecca, Uncle Joey was busy forming what he thought could become a working time machine. He made it, so he would be able to sell it to those who lived around him, and he would earn a handsome profit. But something went horribly wrong while working on it, and Joey was sent to the future, where he saw what would come of the land he lived in now, to him and to all of those he would eventually meet. This frightened Joey, and kept him up at nights. This all changed however, when CUM Industries offered to buy Joey's home from him. Joey quickly agreed, as he wanted to be as far away from that land as possible.
Joey ended up moving locations after selling his house, but not by far. He was given a large plot of land by CUM Industries, and he began from square one. He built his house and installed another fish tank, but he wanted more. He began to chop down all of the trees around his home, but he wouldn't stop there. He built a fence around his land to keep everyone out, and he cut down every tree within his property lines. And this was only the beginning for Joey's empire.
=== A Message From CUM Industries ===
After this, a message was sent out to both Mecca, and Joey's land, which he had recently named 'The Homeland'. This message explained that there was a creature from another dimension, a dragon, that would be making it's way to this world soon. CUM Industries asked Mecca and Joey to band together and take the creature down. They would be paid for their efforts as well. The citizens of Mecca all agreed to help, while Joey gave them no answer.
=== Biggering the Empire===
While Mecca was busy taking down an interdimensional beast, Joey was fixated on biggering his corporate size. He had built several resturants within the Homeland. He also built stores, monuments and even a machine that would create iron for him, which was virtually just a money printing machine. Whilst others were trying to save the world, Joey was gaining a monopoly on anything he could. His power and wealth grew so large, he ended up buying CUM Industries. His first act as the new owner and CEO, was to fire everyone, including Cum-Lord.
It was around this time, that Joey's old business friend came back, Uncle Danny. Danny had heard about Joey's wealth and wanted to see if it were true. Joey was glad to see his old pal again, and the two became close again. They would often to illegal trades to one another, to help the other with financial gain. During Danny's visit, he explained about a village right near his house, that had recently grown in size, This town he was referring to, was Mecca. Joey wasn't a fan of this, and decided to investigate himself. Joey spent little to no time at Mecca, as the sight of the lower class town made him feel weird.
===A New Chapter ===
Not long after this, Joey's girlfriend came back to visit, with good news. She was going to be moving to Poglandia, and building a home right near the Homeland. Before she began construction on her house, she stayed with Joey, in his large log cabin in the Homeland. After some time spent there, she began work on her house. It took her several days, but eventually, she had a nice dwelling started. It wouldn't be long after, that she also had a farm, and a couple of animals too. Joey was very proud of what she had done, and having her near him kept him at peace, for the time being. 
===A Schism Grows===
While Joey continued his growth, he began to get more insider information from Danny, who told him about how trading worked in Mecca. You see, Joey wanted to expand his empire and own more of Mecca, because technically, Joey owned twelve percent of the land once he bought CUM Industries. But Danny explained to Joey that the people of Mecca would never buy anything he sells, and that the people of Mecca don't believe in consuming, but sharing instead. This made Joey furious, as he needed to expand his empire to the farthest reaches of the world.
At the same time, Mecca became more and more aware of Joey's rule, as he imposed his new "Flag For Ownership" rule, which stated that 'To officially claim something as your own, you must put a flag/insigna somewhere near or on the object/place'. Normally, Mecca wouldn't have followed this rule, but since they were 12% owned by Joey, they had to listen. This made the new owner of Mecca, Calien, annoyed. He didn't like the new rule, and also didn't like Joey. And ever since Joey bought CUM Industries, Cum-Lord hadn't showed up again. Calien started to suspect that Joey wasn't much of a good guy, and his distrust towards the man grew.
===Sinking Further===
Soon after this, Joey saw something that made his blood boil. When he went to go and visit Danny at his home, he saw the citizens of Mecca inside, as they all shared a nice meal. This was Joey's final straw in keeping peace with Mecca, from here on out he would do anything in his power to corrupt it from the inside. He started by contacting one of the citizens of Mecca, Lizz. Joey convinced them to become a part of the Homeland officially, and Lizz agreed to do so, while still living in Mecca. Next, while Calien was out working on a shed, Joey snuck into Mecca, and kidnapped Jod, the city's symbol and protector. He took Jod out of the city, and hid him in a cave. This was going to be the extent of Joey's inside corruption, but then he learned something new. Mecca's Experience Farm worked better then his. Joey couldn't handle this, and began to scheme against Mecca even further. 
But Joey's girlfriend caught wind of this, as she had noticed the change in Joey's personality, and had been growing increasingly worried about him. She eventually worked up the nerve to ask him if he was okay, but this didn't go as planned. Joey lashed out at her, and berated her with insults, all the while raving on about how Mecca would pay for their insolence. This frightened Joey's girlfriend, and caused her to call him a dictator. Joey didn't like hearing this word, and was about to go off on her, but then he saw the fear in her eyes, and Joey realized his mistake. He began to apologize to her, claiming it was another part of him, growing over the true Joey, but she didn't care. She didn't believe him, no matter how hard he tried to convince her it wasn't truly him. In a final act of trying to save their relationship, Joey told his girlfriend about a cabin he owns, and how he had been planning to take them there, to live together, away from all of the chaos and insanity of the world. This made his girlfriend feel slightly better, but this wouldn't last long, as she gave him an ultimatum: Mecca or her. And unfortunately, Joey picked Mecca. He lost his girl that day, and instead of feeling bad about it, Joey used this anger and frustration against Mecca.
He told Lizz that they needed to do something major, and Lizz came up with a plan. During the night, Joey and Lizz moved Jod through a dimensional rift, which led to a different part of Earth. This rift led to a tundra, with the small cabin where Joey's great grandfather used to live, the same one Joey was going to live in with his girlfriend. Underneath the house, was a large basement, where Joey had set up a cage to put Jod in. Joey's plan, once Calien had noticed Jod had gone missing, was to lead him to the house, show Jod in the basement, and then tell Calien that he wanted full control over everything or else Jod would die. What Calien wouldn't know, was that if he even attempted to get Jod out, the ceiling would pull away, and burning lava would flow onto Jod, melting him.
===The Fall of an Empire===
The day came shortly, where Calien noticed that Jod was gone, and instantly blamed Joey, who had coincidentally just showed up too. He told Calien that he knew where Jod was, and everyone made their way to the cabin. Once they entered the basement, Joey made his speech about wanting all of the power. Calien didn't care what Joey had to say, and began to break Jod out, which activated the lava trap, melting Jod into nothing. Joey was enraged that his plan didn't work, and he stormed out of the cabin with Lizz, preparing an all out war.
Lizz and Joey rushed back to the Homeland, as Danny and Calien went to Mecca. Each team gathered their respective weaponry, and prepared to fight. When they were ready, Joey and Lizz made their way to Mecca, where they saw Danny and Calien over at Danny's house, with no sort of weaponry, or armour. The two explained that they didn't want to fight, and would rather settle things over food. Joey didn't buy it, but Lizz did, and they set their weapons down. Joey and Lizz sat down with Danny and Calien. As the meal began, Joey could hear something from under the ground, a faint hissing. As he heard this, he saw Danny and Calien put their armour back on. Before he could process this, the ground beneath them exploded, and sent everyone and everything flying. Lizz was killed instantly, as they did not have their armour on. Danny was injured badly, while Calien and Joey were only had minor injuries. As the dust faded, Joey saw the crater where the house used to lie. He looked around to see if he could spot anyone else, but he only saw the wreckage of what once used to be his friend's home.
===An Empty World===
Joey went home after this event, and dwelled on everything that had happened. Joey felt he lost everyone, as he had no idea that Calien or Danny survived. After a short time contemplating what had happened, Joey decided it would be for the best, if he packed his things, and left the Homeland. 
He would eventually make his way to the cabin that he planned on moving into with his ex, and decided this would be the location he would spend the rest of his days at. He set up the little amount of things he took with him, and got ready to face the rest of his life alone. But something continued to nag at him. His urge for power wasn't gone. Despite watching his friends die in front of him, and his girlfriend leave him due to his greed, he still felt the urge to gain more power, in anyway he could. That's when Joey realized what power he was missing, power inside of himself. He now owned all of Old Poglandia, had the strongest weapons and armour in the land, but without all of that, he was still just a man. 
So Joey began his research, and started to develop an enhancement serum, that would put his body at peak physical performance. Months went by, as Joey worked on this serum, and at the end of Summer 2021, Joey had completed his serum. Using the pod he created to infuse himself with the serum, he took the enhancement serum, which increased his strength to superhuman levels, but at a cost. He began to develope an alternate identity, which manifested in the chaotically sadistic psychopath known as Penid Goblin. This other person living in Joey's head, seemed to be all of Joey's thoughts, only amplified to a much more extreme measure. The Goblin became the center for all of Joey's greed and disgust for the world around him. After realizing what happened to him, Joey's lust for power decreased, as he began to grow increasingly worried about what could happen to him, with the Goblin living in his head.
Only two weeks later, Joey's fears would come to life. He heard the news that the same company that sent him and his friends out to Old Poglandia, would soon be sending a new group out to do the same thing. This made Joey fear for what could happen to that innocent group of people. Joey wanted to warn them, about repeating the same mistakes he made, but he couldn't bring himself out of hiding. That's where the Goblin stepped in, fronting, and beginning to design a suit of armour, stronger than Joey's. One that would hide Joey and Goblin's true identity, while also being able to dismantle this new group, before they even have a chance to become anything. Three weeks later, Goblin had his armour and glider ready, but needed a form of weapon. The Goblin wanted bombs, that he could throw at the citizens of this new land, as a warning of what could come if they continued what they were doing. Goblin decided that once the new group moved to Poglandia, that he would take a visit and see if he could make himself known early on, by buying from one of the members of the group.
=== First Encounter ===
One night, as Bumbo was cleaning up his Pumpkin Shop, he heard something, laughter. He looked to the sky, and saw a figure, riding what looked like some sort of glider. It landed next to him, and hoped off. The man, who was covered in a golden armour, looked at Bumbo's pumpkin store, and then to Bumbo. Bumbo asked what the masked man wanted, and the man spoke to Bumbo, in a raspy voice, telling him he was only there to purchase some of his pumpkins. This shocked Bumbo, as when he told his neighbors about the pumpkin store, they all told him it was a dumb idea. Bumbo asked the man how many he wanted, and the man told him he would take as many as he could buy. Bumbo gave him seven pumpkins, and the man asked how much he had to pay. Bumbo wasn't sure, since he had never sold any yet, and the man told him to name any price, and he could pay it. The man ended up paying Bumbo fifty three diamonds for the pumpkins, and after he paid, he hoped onto this glider and turned to Bumbo, telling him, "No good deed goes unpunished."
The man flew off, and saw Joline working on her farm. The man flew down to Joline's house, as she went back inside. He landed, and knocked on the door. When Joline didn't answer, the man decided to throw down the door with his superhuman strength. He entered, as Joline looked on, panicked. He threw Joline over, and shouted at her, telling her to stop building the Dollar Tree, and that everyone in New Poglandia needed to leave, and not repeat the mistakes of Old Poglandia. He told her that if she didn't listen, then terrible things would happen. The man hoped back onto his glider, and Joline asked what the man's name was. He turned to her, and told her to call him the Penid Goblin. And with that, the Goblin flew off, cackling as he did. This encounter frightened Joline, but not enough to deter her from continuing her construction.
About a week later, after a trip to find sand, Bumbo and Joline returned home. As they began to get settled in their homes, Bumbo could hear loud booming coming from right outside his room. He ran to the window to see the Penid Goblin flying around on his glider, throwing bombs at the side of the mountain. Bumbo was horrified, but even more so when he saw what the bombs were made out of, pumpkins. The same pumpkins that Bumbo had sold to the Goblin only weeks before hand. The Goblin finished his bombing and flew off. 
=== Making a Monster and Being Discovered ===
Right after Frank had finished giving his first tour of the Tally Hall, he decided to take an old-man-nap. While naping, Penid Goblin broke in and knocked Frank out. Then, the Penid Goblin got on his glider and flew over to the Dollar Tree, just as Joline opened it's doors. Penid Goblin flew above the group and laughed, as he tossed several of his Pumpkin Bombs into the store, destroying it. When the dust settled, there was nothing left but a crater where the store once was. Not only that, but the Goblin also bombed the community Nether portal, which was nearby. As everyone stood up and tried to understand what just happened, the Goblin flew back over to the group, and revealed that Bumbo was the one who supplied him with the pumpkins for the bombs. With that final message, Penid Goblin flew off.
Later, the New Poglandia crew made their way to the cabin that Joey had been living in, and discovered that Joey was the Penid Goblin. They didn't make it far before they were stopped by the owner of the house, Uncle Joey. He had just come home from gathering more firewood, and caught the group trying to leave his house. When they were caught, they didn't know what to do, as they thought that Joey would kill them, but he didn't, he explained to them what happened after Old Poglandia, and how he became the Goblin. In his ramblings, he mentioned the name Frank, which sparked Percy to ask who Frank was. Joey explained that he had a brother named Frank, and that was when the group finally put it together that Frank was related to Joey. Joey then asked the group if he could come back to New Poglandia with them, as he was worried what could happen if he stayed in the cabin any longer. Each member of the group had a different answer: Percy didn't trust Joey and didn't want him to come back with them, Bumbo thought the opposite, thinking that Joey needs their help, and Joline, who wasn't even thinking about what to do with Joey. She was thinking about something else, her past. When they ran into Joey, he told Joline that he had never met her before, which confused Joline, since she certainly remembers living in Old Poglandia with Joey and the rest of the crew. While the rest of the group talked about what to do with Joey, Joline decided to go into the Nether portal, and run away. Bumbo and Percy were unable to stop her, and finally agreed to let Joey come back with them.
By the next day, the group, now including Joey, made it back to New Poglandia. Bumbo brought Joey to the Tally Hall, where he was able to reunited with his brother, Frank. The two had a lenghty reunion, talking about what the other person had been up to in the last year. Joey admitted to Frank that he was the Penid Goblin, and Frank accepted this. After Joey had moved in with Frank, Joey noticed the museum, and asked Frank to take it down, telling him it was "insensitive to those who lived and died in Old Poglandia." 
=== Trouble Arises ===
On the first day of the new year, the Paragon Corp sent out a member of their scientist team, Lambda Vance, to look into the Penid Goblin and the disappearance of Joline. She sets up her Lab just down the road from the Tally Hall, which begins to worry Frank, since he is currently allowing the Penid Goblin to live in his home. The residents of New Poglandia (besides Harvey) all get together, and make an agreement to not out Joey as the Goblin to Lambda, since it would get Joey in big trouble. Worried that Lambda will take advantage of the almost empty Tally Hall, Percy and Bumbo sneak into the Tally Hall to try to find if Frank is hiding anything, to make sure Lambda can't find it. While they snooped around the Hall, they were spotted by Joey, who agreed to help them search for things that could get Frank in trouble. While they searched, they ended up stumbling upon a hidden door, which led to a staircase. Following the staircase down, led to an elevator, which when taken, led to a long hallway, full of oddities. This was Frank's hidden bunker, where he had been building an Aether portal. Frank had been building this machine, as he thought that after Old Poglandia, Joey had gone to the Aether to hide from the public, and Frank was going to try and rescue his brother. Obviously this wasn't the case, but it didn't matter, as the machine was still completed and sitting in Frank's basement. The three found several other things in the bunker, such as a copy of Joline's diary, Bumbo's power suit, and several contraband items.
Once done in the bunker, the trio headed back upstairs, and realized they needed to keep the bunker hidden from Lambda. So the next day, Uncle Joey hired Gil to renovate more of the Tally Hall, making the place more of a maze, and making it harder to find hidden locations. And not too long after this, Joey hired Gil once more, to work on the biggest project he had ever worked on before, building Joey a mansion. Joey was getting tired of living in the basement of his brother's house, and wanted a way to show off his wealth a bit, so he hired Gil to build a mansion on the hill right behind the Town Hall. Gil took the job, and very quickly got to work.
During this, the Penid Goblin continued his work, dismantling the group from the inside. He began visiting Joline in her new home, filling her head with ideas about where she was really from, and that she was from a different universe. He would visit her every week, checking on her progress, seeing how close she was to getting home. The two started to form a very toxic friendship together. Soon after, Lambda snuck into the Tally Hall, and while she searched she ended up finding the hidden door which led to the underground bunker, but before she could open it, she was stopped by Joey, who was moving the last of his stuff out of the basement. Joey questioned what she was doing, to which Lambda tried to explain that she was just looking for a wither skull, and continued to open the hidden door. Knowing he couldn't let Lambda enter the bunker, Joey pulled out his sword and held it out at Lambda, threatening her. Lambda realized she must have found something big, and slowly closed the door, and left the house.
Later that same night, Joey tried to sleep in his almost completed mansion, but couldn't keep the voice of the Penid Goblin out of his head. The voice of the Goblin got so bad, that Joey ended up texting Percy and asking if he could stay the night at his house. Percy let him stay the night, as long as he slept on the couch.
=== Tensions Rise ===
After a couple of days of debating it, Frank and Joey agreed they should tell Quinn about Penid Goblin, since he seems trustworthy and might be the only person in New Poglandia who could help Joey. The two invited Quinn over to the Tally Hall, and told him that Joey was Penid Goblin, while also showing Quinn the underground bunker. Quinn was astonished, and agreed to attempt to cure Joey. Later that same night, as Lambda worked in the Mob Museum, she was approached by Penid Goblin, who knew that she was trying to pry deeper into the Romano's business, which he didn't like. He threatened Lambda, and told her to stop searching for him. A day later, Joey's mansion is finished being built, and Joey officially moves into Romano Manor. He notices the file missing from his private study, and talks to Frank about it, and Frank mentions that his key was stolen.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
*Artificially Enhanced Physiology
**Superhuman Strength
**Superhuman Durability
**Superhuman Agility
**Superhuman Stamina
===Abilities===
*Keen Intellect
*Expert Combatant
*Expert Businessman
===Equipment===
*Netherite Armour
*The Cranberry Swing
*Only A Spoonful
*The Darksaber
*Pumpkin Bombs (As Penid Goblin)
*Glider (As Penid Goblin)
==Trivia==
*Uncle Joey and Mugman are variants of each other.
*Joey has a variant in Dimension-96283.
*Joey listens to Frank Sinatra, Michael Buble and Johnny Cash.
*Penid Goblin listens to Lemon Demon.
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