Andrew "Drew" Jovel

> *"You know, some of us don’t do soccer battles to the death when faced with a problem like this." - Season 1, Chapter 25*
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**Drew Jovel** is a student at Foxfield High and a main character of the story. He is the twin brother of Nevin Jovel.

## Appearance

Drew is a short fifteen year old boy with messy brown hair, tan skin and golden brown eyes. He has a scar on his left temple. After the explosion at Foxfield High School in Chapter 5 of Season 1, he was caught up in the incident and his left leg was broken, causing him to wear a green cast. He wore it until he healed his own leg in Chapter 4 of Season 2 when his powers awakened. The scar on Drew's temple was explained to have been acquired from this same explosion accident, but he explains in Chapter 6 of Season 2 that he already had a scar there from an accident he experienced when he was little.

At the Halloween Party in Season 2, Chapter 10, he was wearing a Luigi costume. Devastatingly, no one was wearing a matching Mario costume.

## Personality

When Drew was first introduced, he was shown to be friendly and a little timid. He is considered the 'opposite' of Nevin, while the latter scared people away (often on purpose or by accident), Drew was more inviting and open; and more well-liked by his peers. He is also easily intimidated by others, as seen with Edward when he threatened him about his powers (Drew was unaware at that time).

## History

Drew and his older twin brother Nevin Jovel were born in an unknown town in Arkansas. Their parents separated at one point–the two of them lived with their mother for a while before moving in with their father and stepmother in Chicago. After an ambiguous series of negative experiences, they ended up living with Grandma Jovel in Michigan before the three of them moved to Foxfield. Drew describes his memory of living with his mother as very cloudy, even though he remembers very clearly what the house looked like. He claims that when he tries to think about it, he gets headaches. Based on Chapter 3 of Season 2, Drew has strange nightmares about it even though he recalls them inarticulately.

Evidently, Nevin came out to Drew a couple years before the events of the story, but Drew accidentally outed Nevin to their grandmother.

Drew and Nevin had only been living in Foxfield for a few months before their debut.

### Drew's Powers

In Chapter 19 of Season 1, it was implied that he had empathetic senses like his twin elder brother, unbeknownst to him, and it was confirmed in the next chapter, though it is interpreted as Drew 'seeing' different colors that he can read as emotions.

In Chapter 3 of Season 2, Drew awakened healing powers that work on both others and himself whilst saving Autumn Orielle from a traffic accident. Branches emerge from his head when he uses them, but they disappear after a certain period of time. The branches hurt when you pull on them, but it hurts as much as pulling on hair does.

## Trivia

* Drew has a pet tortoise named Pedro. He is five years old.
* Unlike many of the other characters in IBVS, Drew's gender has been stated as male instead of cis male, implying that Drew may potentially identify under another gender identity in the future.
* He and Nevin were born in Arkansas.
	+ After moving out of Arkansas, they lived in Chicago and Michigan before settling in Foxfield.
* His sin is envy.
* His moral alignment is neutral good.
* Drew has been nicknamed Jesus by several characters in the story due to the way the branches on his head that grow when he uses his powers looks similar to the thorn crown that was forced on Jesus' head when he was crucified. This similarity is emphasized by the fact that Drew has healing powers.
* Their grandmother works at a restaurant called Ten Times.
* Drew has been stated to be pansexual, however this has yet to be revealed in the story.
	+ This would make him the third person to not have their sexualities outright confirmed in the story thus far, alongside Edward and Barry Price.
* Drew speaks fluent Spanish, alongside his brother and grandmother.
* His full name is Andrew Jovel, although everyone in the story calls him Drew. It is unknown the reasoning for this.