Joelson "Joel" Kaufmann Jr.

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**Joelson "Joel" Kaufmann Jr.** is an NPC Character in Milly's backstory. A Transmutation wizard with some Artificer experience, who went to the same academy as Milly. He was one of three members of the friend group to survive after the Orrery explosion, however he currently remains in a coma.

## **Role in the Game**

Milly’s oldest friend, she’d known him since they were 5 years old. Had a crush on him for the longest time, it never went anywhere. Overall he’s a very laid back fella, polite, will defend Milly and Cassia with his life, probably the smartest one from the group who prefers to think twice about things instead of rushing straight into danger (unlike Etty and Anja). Joel is a transmutation wizard with some artificer experience.

## **Personality**

Joel is highly intelligent, but very laid back.

## **Abilities**

**Wizard**

## **History**

### **Memory Books**

It is 4am. They’ve been up for the last two days trying to figure it out. How and where the worlds should be placed on the Orrery. They had been back and forth to the museum several times to look at the one designed to show the movements of the planets around the sun of this world, but trying to figure out the places of other worlds in relation to each other was much more difficult. For a start there were no books on it. Sure there were writings about Shadowfell and the other Fae realms, but they were considered to be theoretical and ancient beyond modern use.

“So we’re putting Fracture and my world on different rings.” Joel sighed as he went through the notes again with Saracen, ignoring him in cat form as he toyed with a mouse that had found its way into the room. “Then Ceros, that one that mirrors Fracture, together but spinning around each other to show that they’re closely related. Ixalan is on the ring outside of Fracture, Arcadia…and Ravika…its not really like any of the others, should that go- Sara. Sara are you listening?”

Cat-Saracen flicked an ear in his direction. Irritated, Joel threw a pillow at him.

“Pay attention.”

The cat wild-shaped back to a human form as Saracen sat pouting at him, holding the mouse in his mouth by its tail. Joel threw a book at him this time to make him drop the mouse.

“Cut that out.”

“I’ll cut it out when you stop going round in circles. Just stop already.”

“I’m trying to help you with this.”

“I know but I don’t get why you wont just ask Milly or Cassia for help on it. They’re much better at theory than you. You get stuck with the mechanical side and get upset when it doesn’t make sense.”

Joel looked offended for a moment but Saracen just stared hard at him until he gave in.

“Sure. I’ll ask them.”

“You should also ask her out to the Cinema.”

“Who?”

“Milly.” Saracen grinned. “Come on. She likes you, just give her a chance.”

“We’re friends. Why wouldn’t she like me if we weren’t friends.”

“Yes, because  what friends stare longingly at one another and when they’re sleeping start murmuring each other’s names and-” He dodged another incoming book wild-shaping into a micro-raptor to hop up onto the edge of the desk before turning back and sitting down in front of Joel with a mischievous grin. “Just give her a chance my dude.”

“I regret teaching you that phrase.”

“Bro.”

“No. Stop.”

“That’s not very baja blast of you bruh.”

“Sara, stop. I will not hesitate to throw you into oncoming traffic.”

“I’ll stop for either the low-low cost of one million gold or when you admit you like her.”

Joel goes to whack him again with another book, but for a stick thin young man, Saracen is surprisingly strong and able to catch his arm easily. There’s no winning when wrestling Saracen, the man is too slippery and wild-shapes too quickly. A scorpion, a gorilla, a strange dome headded dinosaur that nearly breaks his ribs, a cat once more, it’s hard to either keep hold of him or pin him down when he doesn’t stay in one place. He was sincerely regretting taking Saracen to the zoo. Slapping his hand on the ground Joel gives in as Saracen has wild-shaped into a large constrictor boa that has him in a bind.

Wild-shaping back and letting him go.

“When did you become able to wildshape so much and so fast?” Joel asks breathlessly. Saracen’s grin drops.

“Oh… uh…” He slowly looks at his hand and raises it. “After I found out that I could do this.”

Joel stares as Saracen’s arm turns black with scales, nails becoming claws, and he strikes through the air to open up a new glitch.

“That’s…new.”

“Yeah. It feels weird. Have you had anything like this happen with you?” He smirks but he’s concerned and staring at Joel. Joel takes a deep breath as the two stare at each other, then with a gulp. He points to the potted plant in the corner.

“I can do this.” He focused on the cells in the plant, and they watched as what was once a fern twisted and reshaped, re-evolved into something different something new. Saracen’s eyes went wide and the two remained silent for a moment, eyes darting between the plant and the clawed arm.

“Okay.” Saracen said, clearing his throat with an awkward laugh. “Maybe we should be using stabilisers when fucking around with glitches from now on.”