Joel

## Symbol

**Joel** is a student of Hope's Peak Academy Brazilian's Branch's Class 1-A and a participant of the Killing School Challenge featured in Dangan Ronpa: Arcane's Temptation. His title is **Ultimate Mechanic** (Mecânico de Nível Super Estudantil lit. *Super Student Level Mechanic*).

## Official Bio

*Joel is a regular person born into a strictly religious family, bothered by the limitations set upon his life, he succumbed to tinkering with machines as a past-time that his parents wouldn't criticize him for having. The car-loving Joel wouldn't expect to one day be the **Ultimate Mechanic**, but his newfound talent might just be what he needed to escape his boring and controlling family and taste what freedom is like: he may be somewhat lukewarm about the bible, but he is more than happy to be indulged in alcohol. Screw his parents, he wants fun.*

## Appearance

Joel is an overweight, dark olive skinned teenager with dark brown almond-shaped eyes. He has short hair styled in a small curled toupee and a small beard stubble over his chin. He wears a grey-green shirt with a small rose print on it, dark blue baggy jean pants and dark blue shoes.

On his pajamas, he goes shirtless and barefoot, wearing nothing but small sleeping shorts with red-shaded stripes.

## Personality

Exceptionally little is known of Joel, since he has a diminished role and rarely talks about himself. What is known is that he is a exceptionally kind and cheery person and, perhaps, the most normal or uncharacteristic among the other characters. From what is shown of him, he appears to be generally pleasant, never really picking on any fights and being on Caio's side during the initial discussion in the prologue, but he often prefers to keep it to himself and is mostly quiet during most of the endeavors of his classmates.

A trait that can be observed is that, above all, he seems to avoid conflict and settles for what is good for everyone else. He comforts Caio about his talent pursue and gives him valuable advice and has demonstrated constant respect and a easygoing attitude with his fellow classmates. When confronted with major issues, he still avoids major involvement and is willing to forgive and forget even when the wrongdoings against him are senseless and devoid of reason.

Out of his classmates, he has demonstrated a exceptionally average intelligence: He has little intent to think outside of the box and confront the flaws of the Student Council, contributes little to the trial besides asking simple questions and lacks any type of panic when bad things happen. While not as scatterbrained as some, he never really shines particularly and mostly relies on his kindness to keep up with everyone else's standards.

A hidden trait of him is that he's likely and alcoholic, as he jumps easily on Evangelista's idea of producing a drug on school's grounds and has alcohol listed as his like. Nevertheless, this rarely is mentioned.

## Talents and Abilities

### Ultimate Mechanic

Due to him not being specially focused on, the true extents of his skills as the Ultimate Mechanic are unknown, however, he's skilled enough to be trusted in by the Student Council to deal with machinery during their party and appears to be skilled enough with it to not get lost on thought as he thinkers with André.

He's skilled with car's engineering and appears to significantly enjoy this area of mechanics.

## History

### Prior to Killing School Challenge

Joel spent his middle school years in **Clear Rivers Academy**, it's confirmed that he was found and scouted to Hope's Peak somewhere around his time here.

### Killing School Challenge

#### **Prologue**

Joel is introduced along with Evangelista in the Chem Lab. At first, he struggles to hide an unknown mixture from Caio and Ian and eventually succeeds once both of them doesn't seem to care enough and accept his faux claim of doing a "test drive" on the lab.

He is later present along with everyone else on the class' dinner at the same day, and shyly reprimands everyone else about how they're acting towards Caio. Later, he is present in the classroom when Monokuma announces the killing game, but is quiet during the whole ordeal.

#### **Chapter 1**

During the first morning after Monokuma's appearance, he arrives in the cafeteria along with the group "that constitutes the most common class of highschoolers, with a normal sense of time", where he reveals the bed he slept in was just good enough for him to not sleep immediately. He is quick and eager to accept the newly formed Student Council's leadership once they announce it. After the rules are announced, he agrees they're easy to follow and asks to Amanda if Jordan is a goth when he storms off the cafeteria.

During the first day with the motive, he is unfairly accused by Thay of breaking the Council's rules and is forced by Junior into one of the stage's dressing rooms as a punishment. He is only released after Letícia's body is found, and seems to be relatively fine after his time trapped there.

He is relatively talkative during the trial, asking simple questions and following the logic rather easily, but not really helping in any significant way. When the drug that was forged by Evangelista is linked to the crime, he's cornered and nervously forced to admit that Evangelista was the one that made it, proving he was the killer. After the execution, he's shocked and gaps audibly.

#### **Chapter 2**

He's assigned to check out the storage by the Student Council along with Amanda and Matheus and is eager to do so. While he is fond of exploring it, and so does Amanda, they both get on a discussion with Matheus about the Student Council where Joel reveals to him that he never truly broke the rules and was unfairly thrown into punishment, but still seems loyal to them and prefers not to rebel against their authority, much to Matheus' insatisfaction.

When everyone is called to the ballroom's floor, he is the first one to voice his amazement and compares the ballroom to a shopping due to it's size. He is assigned to take care of the technical details of the party along with André.

When Caio visits the backdoor of the ballroom, he seems to be awed by the advanced technology present in Hope's Peak and, later, comforts Caio about his talent angst, saying to him that he will find himself even if it takes time and offering to teach him about mechanics, but is unsuccessful due to the lucky student's low esteem.

During the party itself, he shares a table with Amanda, Brenda and Bárbara and comments about how André didn't need his help so he went for the party to get some food. After Kariza and Victória's show, he asks to go to the bathroom and, unfortunately, is the victim of the murder plan that was happening that night. He is killed during the blackout and his body is found lifeless in one of the bathroom's cabins.

After the trial, his killer is revealed to be Nayla and she admits she picked her victim randomly, with it being the first person to ask and go to the bathroom break.

#### **Post-Mortem**

His portrait appears in all trials after his death.

## Relationships

### Evangelista

* **Comrade**

Joel and Evangelista are introduced together and seemingly bond over Evangelista's drug manufacturing skills. However, they likely had no close bond and Joel was quick, albeit a bit reluctant, to throw Evangelista under the bus during the trial.

### Amanda

* **Comrade**

They pair up during one of the Student Council's assignments and appears to be on good terms, having some fun while checking over stuff for their future party. After Joel's death, Amanda is one of the few people to be visibly shocked.

### André

* **Comrade**

They're both paired up during the party to deal with technical stuff. They appear to bond very quickly over electronics and André is taken aback slightly by his death.

### Matheus

* **Mutual annoyance**

While they only interact once directly, Matheus seems to be annoyed by how Joel is loyal to the Student Council and Joel is annoyed by how Matheus is rebellious and unwilling to cooperate with it. They both try to frame each other, but neither take any action over it.

### Student Council

Joel is one the most loyal to the Student Council, always sucking up to their rules and never bothering to go against them. Even when he is wrongly convicted to punishment by them, he doesn't appear bothered and easily forgives them for what they did. Curiously, he is killed by the leader of the council.

## Free Time Events

The links below are full transcripts for Joel's route in Free Time Events.

## Quotes

*Dangan Ronpa: Arcane's Temptation*

## Trivia

* The flowers on his death portrait are anthuriums, flowers that means "hospitality, happiness and abundance" in reference to his kind personality.