Reverend Joel

Reverend Joel is the radical Guardian of Water of Universe 23 and he'll make sure you know that! With his hip fashion and surfing skills, he rules the water in style! 
== Appearance ==
=== Reverend Joel ===
Reverend Joel is black with long blonde hair and a big smile. His right arm is permanently paralysed in the "rock on" gesture and he wears blue swimming trunks. Around his neck is a vicar's collar and his blue Guardian robe. He is permanently affixed to his surfboard.
=== Pokemon Pearl Joel ===
Reverend Joel wears Platinum's hat from Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum.
=== Penguin Joel ===
Joel appears as a cyan penguin with a orange beak and white belly.
== History ==
=== Merry Christmas, Whippersnappers! ===
One Christmas Eve in Reverend Joel's house, Santa Claus visited Reverend Joel with his gift - an electric guitar. Joel, being awake to anticipate this gift, could not contain his excitement and released it as a blast of water that flooded the room, drowning Santa. Joel remembered that the Guardian of Ice's job was to take over as Santa in the case of emergency, so he headed to Google Arctic and filled Reverend Jack in on the situation. The two got into Santa's sleigh and delivered presents across the world.
Reverend Joel was using a specially designed tracker to keep note of the quantity of presents delivered. However, upon delivering all the presents, the tracker remained at 1%. Jack explained that Santa was a god and therefore had to deliver presents to every universe, and planned to travel to these universes with the help of Palkia from Pokemon Pearl. After Hecate intervened purely to promote her and The Three Witches' new song, Joel and Jack leaped into Universe 11 through Pokemon pearl to catch Palkia. Joel was tasked with finding a method to catch such a powerful Pokemon, and eventually landed upon the Master Ball. His trusty Pikachu located it, and he sent it over via mobile to Reverend Jack, who was able to successfully catch Palkia.
Using the power of Palkia to travel the Multiverse, Reverend Jack and Joel traveled to every universe, including but not limited to Universe 1, Universe 6, Universe 8, Universe 10, Universe 13, Universe 14, Universe 15, Universe 16, Universe 17, Universe 19, Universe 20, Universe 24, and Universe ???, delivering presents to trillions of people, including Pavel, Sid,Inspector Goole, Madeline, Captain Voldemort, Scottish Batman, Zangeif, Jangoh Fett, Jangoe Fett, Mario, P10106863,Robbie Rotten, Mr Johnstone, Mrs Johnstone, Vyvyan, John Wick, Thane of Cawdor, Sheila, Gerald, Jekyll, Utterson, Bear Grylls, Bear Grylls the second, Sunny, Demoman and several Prisoners. They realised they had one present left, a red microwave for a man named Reverend James in Universe 23. They delivered it, and Reverend Joel had a "radical" feeling that he would one day meet James and Laurence again.
=== Reverend James Episode 5: Succulent Seas! ===
24 hours later, Reverend Joel was surfing around in the Radical Irish Sea when he saw Reverend James and Laurence drowning. He rescued them and took them surfing, until he crashed into Reverend Vincent's cruise ship. Hearing of Vincent's plan to kill everybody with his Power Machine, he challenged him to a battle, using his radical water powers. However, the legend foretold that Vincent was only killable when all four Guardians were present, so Joel lost. In the aftermath, Joel and Laurence decided to go search for the rest of the Guardians, while Reverend James went off on his own to defeat Vincent.
=== Reverend James Episode 6: Bear Brawl! ===
Reverend Joel, remembering his time with Reverend Jack, took Laurence to the Arctic in hopes of finding him. Instead, they were met by Bear, who bore a resistance to Joel's water powers. Luckily, Jack appeared in time to crush Bear with his ice powers, and Joel convinced him to join their team.
=== Reverend James Episode 7: Violent Volcano! ===
Jack recalled where the next Guardian, Reverend Jade was, and Joel hopped on the rocket with him and Laurence. They arrived at the sun, where Joel was particularly scared that his water would evaporate, but their expedition was fruitful, managing to recruit Jade. Laurence suddenly sensed that James was in danger and everyone began the flight back to Earth.
=== Reverend James Episode 8: Dynamic Destiny! ===
Joel prevented Vincent's escape from the other Guardians' attack. Vincent simply laughed, saying that he had killed Reverend James and simultaneously took Joel, Jack, Jade and Laurence on in battle.
=== Reverend James Episode 9: Terrible Tragedy! ===
Reverend James fused with the Legendary Microwave to unleash his Guardian of Fire powers, completing the quadrilogy. Joel made a stand against Vincent, beside his fellow Guardians.
=== Reverend James Episode 10: Jungle Jumble! ===
Reverend Joel commented on how radical Laurence's search team was.
=== Reverend James Episode 11: Temple Trouble! ===
The Guardians searched through the Temple of Repairs. Reverend Joel suggested finding a map, and Jade located one, which brought them to the Repairing Hole. Joel offered to sacrifice himself, but Laurence took his place and lept down with the Legendary Microwave, returning as one being.
=== Reverend James Episode 12: Climactic Climax! ===
During the Guardians' final stand against Reverend Vincent where he transformed into Pure Vincent, Reverend Joel was knocked aside by Pure Vincent, but perservered and combined his water powers with Jack's ice powers to contain Pure Vincent, allowing Jade and James to go for the kill and finally vanquish Vincent once and for all.
== Abilities ==
=== Guardian Abilities ===
==== Standard Abilities ====
Reverend Joel possesses the standard abilities of all Guardians in Universe 23, including:
* Enhanced speed and strength
* Fusion capability
* Creation of elements
==== Specialised Abilities ====
Reverend Joel, being the Guardian of Water, has some abilities unique to him:
===== Water creation =====
Reverend Joel can create atoms of dihydrogen monoxide out of nothing.
===== Water manipulation =====
Reverend Joel can alter the speed and trajectory of anything composed of dihydrogen monoxide.
===== Radical boost =====
Reverend Joel, when on the surface of water, can travel at great speeds, taking on a blue hue. He can also pass this power to others provided they are on his surfboard. So much speed can be gained by doing this that he can momentarily fly through the air freely.
=== Surfing ===
Reverend Joel is so skilled at surfing he can surf through land.
== Equipment ==
=== Surfboard ===
Joel has a blue surfboard which he travels around on - even on land!
=== Electric Guitar ===
The last present Santa Claus ever delivered, Reverend Joel shreds out songs with this across the Multiverse.
=== Master Ball ===
Joel possessed a Master Ball, a Pokeball which could catch any Pokemon. He caught Palkia with it.
=== Reverend Joel's house ===
Joel indeed lives in a house (with his surfboard).
== Pokemon ==
=== Caught ===
==== Piplup/Prinplup/Empoleon ====
Joel successfully stole this from Professor Rowan before being swarmed by Bidoof.
==== Gastrodon (East sea) ====
Joel caught this in a Lure Ball at Lake Acuity probably.
==== Pikachu ====
Caught offscreen, this fellow located a Master Ball to catch Palkia with. Its mere existence scared Hecate herself.
=== Received ===
==== Clefairy ====
Joel traded Pikachu for this to send the Master Ball to Jack.
== Equivalents ==
=== Equivalents ===
==== Drill Dude - Universe 14 ====
These two both say the word "radical" far more frequently than any sane human.
== Trivia ==
* I had an exact idea of what I wanted Joel to be like from his conception, as did LDthebadman. His design brief was "long blonde hair" and asking to wear his robe like a towel over his shoulders. My design brief was "blue".
* Joel is the youngest Guardian.
* Continuing the theme of the Guardians being inspired by Pokemon trainers, Joel's appearance is inspired by Marlon.