Joana Coelho

**Joana Coelho** is a candidate in the 104th Process. Initially, she wanted to flee the Inland after accidentally killing Gerson's son. An orphan her whole life, she has to fake her ID to gain entrance into the Process.

## Personality

Joana isn't the one to back down when hardships arise. Being born to poverty and hardship she was forced to live off the streets as a young child and learned to be ruthless to survive. From the beginning, she made it clear that she could accomplish anything she wants, whenever she wants, without attachment to others. This is proven when she stole a coin in Chapter 02: Coins from someone she mingled with to keep herself in the Process.

Beneath all the facade, Joana is hidden intellect. A silent observer that quickly becomes some of the other candidates greatest ally. Repeatedly saving the day.

Unlike false identity Rafael, Joana hides her abilities and only uses it when deems necessary. Joana begins strong and stoic and gradually becomes more human and vulnerable by the end of the series.

## Background

Joana Coelho lived on the Inland for her entire life. She once mentioned that she had no one to take care of her and in turn was never registered for the Process. It hasn't been explained yet, but there is reason to believe she is related to the founding couples daughter, Tânia, founder of the cause.

She had an incident with Gerson and his people and was warned not to bother him again. Instead, she sneaked into his home and ended up accidentally killing his son. After this, she sought help from a friend to get a registration and flee to the Offshore.

## Season One

### "Chapter 01: Cubes"

Joana arrived at the process building with the others, watching Ezequiel's speech with the others. She was shown in the first interview to be antagonistic to the proctor whose first question was "When was the last time you washed your hair?" She responded that she wasn't in a position to waste water. The proctor told her she was the worst candidate he had ever interviewed and that she was extremely ungrateful, but Joana responded that the Offshore wasn't looking for beggars. Having impressed the proctor with her tough attitude, she passed the interview.

When Joana was in line to get her registration scanned, she confronted Rafael, saying that he was a naughty boy for having a fake registration. She pointed out that the registration scar leaves three marks, but he had more than that. After Rafael managed to make it past the scanners, Joana confronted him later in the lunchroom, blackmailing him in exchange for her silence.

During the cubes test, Joana successfully made the nine cubes needed to pass the test. After the proctor walked by to count her cubes, she revealed two other cubes behind her back, making a total of eleven cubes. In doing so, she eliminated more candidates than needed.

### "Chapter 02: Coins"

During the inductive reasoning trial, Joana was sorted with Michele, Fernando, and the others. She did nothing but sit on the couch at first, twirling a pen. Teo want to sit besides her after breaking the glass, remarking at how it was great that they could do nothing. When Rafael countered Fernando's claim that the dying woman was poisoned, Joana remarked that the reason the host was not reacting to the scene was because she was blind. She knew this because the host's husband had a desk lamp, while she did not. Marco was able to confirm this by finding a braille book in the woman's desk.

In between trials, Lucas flirted with Joana and the two decided to hook up, before moving on to the next trial.

During the coin trial, the candidates considered eliminating Joana. In the end, they decided to leave the choice up to chance, based on drawing several strips of fabric, with the shortest strand being the loser. They all put their coins in the bag, and would distribute them upon leaving. Joana received the shorted strand and was assumed to be the loser. However, when all but Lucas and her had left the room, it was revealed that Joana had only pretended to put her coin in the bag and so she was able to continue on with the trial.

### "Chapter 03: Corridor"

While twirling the coin from the previous test, Joana has a flashback to her life on the Inland. She grabbed a backpack from a pile of garbage in an unknown alleyway, but was stopped by a group of thugs. The thugs accused her of stealing from the gangster Gerson, taking the bag from her. They nearly beat her to death, but were stopped by an unknown voice. The thugs told her if they ever saw her again, she would regret it.

Joana was introduced to the next challenge by Denise who told the group that their goal was to get to the end of the tunnel in five minutes. Unbeknownst to the group, the tunnel was filled with an odorless gas that produced hallucinations. Joana was able to push her way to the end of the tunnel by sheer force of will, ignoring the hallucinations that were calling her a murderer. However, the proctors told her that the challenge was taken as a group - all of them were needed to pass. Joana went back into the tunnel and took them each to the end, one by one. After that, she entered the dormitories with the rest of the participants.

While in the dorms, Joana had another flashback while walking through the halls. She hid in a pile of garbage, waiting for Gerson and his gang to leave his home. Sneaking in through a window, Joana took her backpack and a gun that she found in Gerson's office. However, on her way out, Joana was startled by a toy car and ended up shooting a little boy, Gerson's son. In the present, Joana hallucinated that Gerson's son was standing in front of her, and she apologized to him, saying she didn't mean to shoot him. Her apology was cut short when the figure was revealed to be Agata, who charged her and started trying to strangle her, screaming that Joana would try to kill all of them in their sleep. Rafael noticed the attack and intervened, calming Agata.

Continuing the flashback, Joana went to her friend Valeria, who had some medical skills. She told Valeria that she needed a registration so she could participate in the Process. Valeria asked her why she didn't have one already, which Joana replied that, being an orphan, no one had ever bothered to get her registered. Valeria was able to complete the procedure, but confronted her afterwards on why she was undergoing the process. She said that Joana had a bounty on her head by Gerson, and that she knew she had murdered his son, and that now she knew what kind of person she really was.

Back in the present, Rafael told Joana that Agata was back in the room, resting. Joana confided that she had seen a little boy in the tunnel. Rafael said it was probably just the gas, but Joana said she knew what she saw and what she did. In response, Rafael said she wasn't a bad person and suggested they form a non-blackmail alliance, especially since he knew that her registration was fake as well. He didn't care what she did or saw, but he thought that she was a good person.

The next day, Joana noticed that there was a new wall in the dorms. Fernando approached and the two realized that they were locked in. Joana noticed an air vent, considering it as a possible escape route.

### "Chapter 04: Gateway"

During the dormitory test, Joana assisted the other candidates in gaining food through the lever pushing. When the group devolved into chaos, Joana said she was leaving and that she had enough of the fighting in the Inland. Joanna took Agata's shoes and use them to gain a grip on an air vent, which she climbed to an exit. Ezequiel realized what was going on and told the proctors that he would handle it. When Joana reached the top, Ezequiel was there waiting for her. He offered her food, but said she would be disqualified if she ate it. Instead, he told her that she should go back into the test and try to make a difference, and that it had to be a candidate to stop the chaos. Ezequiel said she was strong and encouraged her to continue the Process. Joana did and was able to knock out a guard who was keeping the hostages trapped in a hallway. Together with the hostages, she was able to ambush Marco and his group, and they took him down. After this Joana continued in the Process with the other remaining candidates.

### "Chapter 06: Glass"

On passing the dormitory test, Joana and the rest of the candidates were given individual rooms. In the room, Joana was ambushed by a man who knocked her out and tied her to a chair. He told her the he was a henchman of Gerson's and that he was there to collect on the bounty. However, because the money they were offering was so much, he was willing to let her go if she agreed to pretend to be his family. At first, Joana nearly gave in to his demands, but she eventually resisted, saying she wanted to stay in the Process. The man revealed that he was actually an associate of Ezequiel's and they wanted to see if she was actually dedicated to staying in the Process. She passed and was allowed to move on.

### "Chapter 07: Capsule"

During the celebratory dinner, Joana socialized with the rest of the candidates. When Cesar was poisoned, she was shocked, but believed it to be another test. She knew that the Offshore members were great actors, so she figured it was a way to gauge their reaction to the situation. Joana was interrogated with the rest of the candidates and was found innocent, eventually being released to her room.

### "Chapter 08: Button"

The next day, Joana was woken up by a message congratulating her and telling her the merit was all hers. She proceeded to the purification garden, wearing Offshore clothing at last. When Joana arrived, Rafael approached and asked if she had seen Michele or Fernando, that he hadn't seen either of them since last night. Joana responded that she didn't know what he said to Fernando, but that he wouldn't have gotten past the individual test if it was up to her. Rafael said they needed to get along if they were going to live in the same community.

Cassia approached Joana and said that it would take some time to purify them all. In the meantime, Ezequiel wanted to speak to her. When Joana asked why Cassia said it was just a routine chat. Joana asked why she was the only one who needed a confirmation and Cassia said it was a privilege, not unlike one she had had when she was hired as the security chief.

Ezequiel arrived and told Joanna that she would undergo a test of her total abilities. He believed that she had the trajectory of a warrior. He brought in one of Gerson's gangsters, who had nearly killed her before. Ezequiel said that a model citizen can't have any feelings towards the 97%. All she had to do was push the button and confirm that she was really one of the Offshore. The button would kill him. Despite the immense pressure to push the button, she resisted, saying that she wasn't a killer. Ezequiel said that he should have never put his faith in her, that she was too weak, nothing. Joana laughed at him, saying that he couldn't change everybody's minds. Joana said that the Process was just a way for people like him to feel superior, and that he was the one who was trash. With that, she left, taking her old clothes back.

At the gate, Fernando approached her, asking if she had seen Michele. Joana said that Michele must have passed, because they only wanted the worst of the worst. She said that no one on that side cared about anyone on the Inland. Fernando said he wouldn't leave until Michele came out, but Joana said that wouldn't happen and the pair left together.

## Season Two

### Chapter 01: Mirror

Joana, back in the Inland, tried to convince Fernando to join the Cause, but he refused. So she went to join herself, but had to prove herself to Silas, the leader, before she was allowed in. She and another woman were given 30 minutes to make six poison capsules out of toxic frogs. She made her three while the other woman failed, but was surprised to learn they both failed because Joana didn't help the other woman. Joana then offered information to Silas to get him to let her in. She took him to a place where she'd seen the Cause symbol as a child. They found a letter there from the Old Man, which included instructions to build a bomb. To do so, they had to steal fertilizer from Gerson's house. Joana narrowly avoided capture with the fertilizer. Silas then said that they would plant the bomb during the Process, but Joana opposed that plan, as it involved bombing innocent people.

### Chapter 02: Toaster

Joana told Silas she disagreed with this plan, but he said she had to go along with it unless she had a better plan to share. She went to Fernando, asking him for ideas to avoid having to use a bomb.

### "Chapter 03: Static"

Joana went to Fernando again after speaking to members of the Cause about the bomb plan. Fernando had the idea to erase all the Process data so they couldn't hold the Process. Fernando was able to decode Michele's message into coordinates and followed them to a place where Michele was waiting. Meanwhile, Silas decided to go after the infiltrators, Rafael and Michele, and kill them, believing them disloyal to the Cause. Joana tried to get Fernando to leave before Silas arrived and started shooting.

### "Chapter 04: Napkin"

There was a confrontation, where each Michele and Rafael proclaimed themselves loyal and the other the traitor. Joana and Ivana interrogated them. When the Division arrived, on a rescue mission to retrieve Rafael, Joana and Michele fled then watched from above as Rafael shot and killed Ivana, unaware that he did so at her insistence.

### "Chapter 05: Lamp"

Joana and Michele ran to a hideout, where Ezequiel found them. He made them, and Silas line up and said he was there to save the Cause. He revealed that he was with the Cause in his youth and joined the Process as an infiltrator over the old man's objections. He revealed that he replaced the letter the old man left and the bomb was actually his own plan. Ezequiel told them how he had things planned, including training Michele and Joana for this purpose. But as he and Michele went to enact the plan, Marcela, who had overheard their prior conversation, intercepted them and killed Ezequiel, a death she then framed the Cause for.

### Chapter 06: Bottles

Joana told Fernando the truth about Ezequiel's death, that the Cause wasn't at fault. Fernando suggested telling everyone about the force sterilization in the Offshore. They didn't know how they could tell people, so Michele and Joana went to find out where Silas had planted the bomb. They retrieved the bomb together, but then Michele took it and left with it. Later, Gerson found Joana and took her.

### Chapter 07: Fog

Joana was being by Gerson and his men. The militia planned to kill her the next day, but she escaped. As she fled, she came face-to-face with Marco, whom she had believed to be dead.

### "Chapter 08: Frogs"

Marco tied Joana up and taunted her until Rafael came to retrieve her, saying she was important to the Division. He went to get her but found her and Marco both missing. Marco allowed Joana to flee and then Fernando told her to go to the frog basement, where Rafael would retrieve her. In the frog basement, she got into a struggle with Silas and they both ended up in the frog pit. Silas died, but Rafael was able to pull Joana out, though her hand was injured. Once she was free, Rafael treated her hand.

### "Chapter 09: Necklace"

Joana, Rafael, and Fernando learned that there were two copies of the Process data, so they'd have to be deleted at the same time. To get access, Rafael smuggled Joana into the Process building in a refrigeration box. Once he got her inside, she climbed through the vents to get to the room where the data was stored.

### "Chapter 10: Blood"

Fernando disabled the cameras so Joana was able to move through the building without detection. She found the data room, but the militia found her and forced her to flee, where she became trapped in the maze test Michele designed, forcing Fernando to delete the data on his own. In the maze, she ended up face-to-face with Marco, who tried to strangle her. She was able to escape and entered the data room, where she found Fernando passed out from blood loss after using his blood to corrupt the data. She got him back into his wheelchair and then fled with him. She later learned that Michele had transferred the other set of data, instead of just deleting it.

## Season Three

After the Cause dissolves Joana decides to go to the Shell even though she doesn't like it and is in bad terms with Michele, because after some research she believes she can use the energy from the Shell’s generator to blow up the Offshore’s power plant so they would have no technology, just like the Founding Couple did to the Inland in the past.

While in the Shell Joana is seen closer to Xavier and the former members of the Cause, including Natália, and in constant conflict with Michele and Marco.

When the sandstorm hits the Shell and supposedly destroys the collector, Michele decides to make a Selection for the residents of the Shell and Joana ends up saving her life after Otavio, who was disqualified in the second test, cut her throat.

Despite this, their relationship worsen and soon Joana is eliminated in the third test (for Michele's disappointment, who would like her to stay) and is forced to leave the Shell, but not before discovering that Michele denied Marcela's proposal to offer the resources that the Shell needed in exchange for Offshore being able to control it.

Joana returns to the Inland with Natália and, as the two try to recruit more people who were disqualified in the Shell’s Selection so they could get their generator, she ends up revealing Michele’s secret to Glória, which culminates in the *coup* of Glória and Marco to the Shell, as they intend to accept the Offshore’s offer.

As Joana and Natália decide not to support the *coup*, they are declared traitors by the Shell's disqualified residents and, as they can't return to the Inland either (they were are also sought there because their past as members of the Cause), they begin to wander through the desert, where they find the remains of the Collector and discover that it was not destroyed by the sandstorm but sabotaged.

They soon conclude that someone from the Offshore was infiltrated in the Shell, but Joana argues with Natália because she no longer wants to try to help neither the people of the Inland or the Shell after what they did to them and the two end up separating.

Later, Joana finds Michele, who was running from the people who returned to the Shell, and as she tells her about the sabotage she is convinced by Michele to help them.

The two try to go back inside the Shell to find stronger evidence of the sabotage, and Michele gives it in in order to create a 'smoke screen' and Joana could enter the Shell through a secret trapdoor.

Joana then meets Elisa, who takes her to Rafael (Tiago), and the two begin to think who could have sabotaged the Shell. They suspect that the infiltrator was Xavier, but when they confront him, he alleges innocence and thinks of an alternative to find the culprit, using the images recorded by a Gardrone. The images end up revealing that the person who had sabotaged the Collector was Rafael (Tiago), but Joana quickly discovers that he only did that because he was programmed by Marcela through his registration.

Joana and Rafael (Tiago) then decide to tell Marco and Glória the truth in the hope that they will tell it to all the residents of the Shell, but at first the two refuse to do it and Marco takes Joana's recording proof. Later, Marco decides to tell the truth about his mother, returning the recording to Joana, who reproduces it for everyone in Shell, causing a riot that expels the Offshore's soldiers and makes Marcela a prisoner in the Shell.

After the Shell's victory, Joana talks to Natália and the two kiss.

Joana then join a kind of Shell's Council together with Michele, Rafael (Tiago), Marco, Gloria, etc., where she officially presents her plan to destroy the Offshore’s power plant using the Shell's generator.

## Season 4

### "Chapter 01: Moon"

Joana was a part of a group from the Shell that went to the Offshore on a diplomatic meeting. Before they left, the made a plan to take and send what they needed to shut down all the technology in the Offshore, just as they'd done to the Inland.

Once in the Offshore, Joana was haunted by memories of her childhood, including what she thought might be her mother using her real name: Luana. This made her wonder if her mother was in the Offshore.

Due to concerns that the Offshore was spying on them, the group met out in the middle of the water to talk about executing their plan. They had to break into the Offshore medical center in order to get the final piece they needed to make the blast. However, when they checked the fridges, they found that the turbine hadn't made the journey as planned.

Joana was then summoned to a meeting with the Council.

### "Chapter 02: Shock"

The Council told Joana their one goal was to take down André, but they needed Joana's help. they couldn't enter the RTC because their implants would paralyze them, but the Shell group didn't have implants, meaning they were safe. Joana suggested they cut out their own implants, knowing they didn't want to do that and lose out on the privileges of the Offshore. Then she said she'd only help if they ended the Process forever. When they were silent, she left.

She told Natália about the Council's request and she said they should take it to the others to decide. After speaking with Verônica about their request, Joana went back to the group and said she trusted Verônica.

### "Chapter 03: Fire"

The Shell group helped the Council free the prisoners in the RTC, but on their way, they ran into guards. With Rafael's help, they escaped. Joana then learned that Verônica was not her mother as she had suspected.

### "Chapter 04: Submarine"

After the rescue, the Shell group realized the Council was never really intending to help them end the process. The Council then tried to arrest them, but Rafael activated a device that disabled them through their implants, giving them the time they needed to run. They fled to the hatch, where Joana used Marco's cane to get them in. They found a submarine that was there for the Founding Trio's use. They initially planned to use it to flee, but Joana proposed that they use it to generate the pulse instead. Just as the guards found them, they activated the pulse, shutting everything on the Offshore down.

### "Chapter 05: Painting"

Joana and the rest of the group were arrested and led back. When they arrived, they saw that in addition to the pulse shutting down the technology, it caused a radiation leak when it damaged their power plant. All the residents raced for the submarines to escape. Joana and the rest were led to a submarine themselves.

### "Chapter 06: Buttons"

Upon arrival at the Process building, André refused to let anyone leave the submarines, refusing to acknowledge that the Offshore was over. Finally, André allowed the four of them to exit, then he strapped them to chairs as a final test for four candidates with promise, including Xavier, who had entered the Process at Michele's request. Each of them had to push a button which would electrocute one of the four prisoners. Each of them passed this final test, leaving Joana and the others appearing dead. However, shortly afterward, they woke up and learned that Glória had lowered the voltage in order to allow them to survive. They then all climbed through the vents to escape the building while Michele stayed behind to announce the end of the Offshore.

### "Chapter 07: Sun"

Joana and Natália decided to look for the missing item Tânia, the Founding Couple's daughter, had talked about, which had belonged to her mother. They found a small device and realized it was a test Laís developed. She took it and told everyone else that it required six candidates. The winning candidate would decide how the Inland was run moving forward. She would be one. Xavier, Verônica, Marcela, and Rafael quickly joined her. Finally, Joana convinced André to take the final spot, though she didn't know the the ordered Pedro to start shooting if things went south. They all competed against each other. One by one, candidates were eliminated until it came down to Joana and André. Joana spoke of her plan for a meeting where everyone had a voice and all weapons were destroyed, then made her final guess. Before André could be officially eliminated, Pedro fired into the group and broke the device, causing chaos. Despite this, the fighting didn't start at dusk as planned.

The next morning, things remained peaceful and everyone gathered in the Process building for their meeting.