Joel Bradshaw

Joel Bradley Bradshaw is a MYverse character and is part of the story called Wildside and he's one of the main characters. He is a bookish and nerdy teenager who studied in Miami-Dade High School and works with his girlfriend, Lexine and his other friends Brynn, Mitchell and Kailani to prevent the attacks of the Olympian monsters taking over the city from a portal that leads through a dark dimension called the Parallel.

## Biography

### Personality

Joel is shown to be optimistic, morally compassionate, and highly committed to his friends, usually going to great lengths to help them. His interest in *D&D* and how he always takes up the role of Dungeon Master in every game is proof that he is a creative thinker. Out of the four boys, he is the most emotionally open and rather gullible, being willing to accept fantastical explanations behind complex situations. After witnessing Lexine's psychic powers, Joel became faithful to the idea that she could help stop the monsters ruining the city, while at the same time, his friends were initially skeptical about her, he wholeheartedly trusted her to guide them and even developed a close relationship with her.

### Appeareance

Joel has short brown hair, brown eyes and he likes wearing colorful clothing.

## Story

### Early life

Not much is known about Joel's childhood, apart from his parents, Anthony and Caitlin Bradshaw, and his older brother, Daniel Bradshaw. His father is a big nerd and a board-game lover who introduced him to the world of D&D. He usually opens up a campaign with his childhood friends, neighbors and cousins, even family friends. His father also introduced him to the world of sci-fi and fantasy books, most of all, The Lord of the Rings. The family has a lot of memorabilia to the book and the movie series, and even gave some of them to Joel and his older brother. Apart from nerd memorabilia and board game, he is interested in collecting military knives as well. His grandfather has a huge military knife collection from WW1 to the Vietnam War. He proceeds to use the military knives just for Parallel emergences.

When he was in middle school, he was in the D&D club in his school and often plays the role of the Dungeon Master. Apart from D&D, he is shown to be skilled in music as well. He learned how to play the electric guitar at the age of 12 and formed a band with his friends now in high school, except for Lexine, who has no music skills.

## Abilities & Powers

Joel is a really smart, creative and logical thinker. He is considered a team leader because of the fact that he's Dungeon Master in every D&D game he played throughout his early years until now, and apart from that, he is smart enough to know when to use knives for Parallel emergences.

## Character Relationships

### Lexine Carver

Lexine is his girlfriend. When she first came to MDHS, Joel was a little bit weirded out by her, but a day later, he offered her a seat during lunchtime. Upon learning the fact that Lexine was once a lab rat and a survivor of child sexual abuse, he has more sympathy and respect towards her as he introduces her to the things that she had "missed out" on as she proceeds to learn more about the real world.

### Mitchell Benjamin

Despite Mitch being one of the most popular kids, they respect each other. But when the popular kids ditched Mitchell, he was sent back to the "Outcasts' Table" and has made a life-changing experience by being friends with them and Mitch prefers sitting on the "Outcasts' Table" compared to being with the popular kids.

### Brynn Ashworth and Kailani Kapoor

They are all best friends. They have maintained a good relationship and they all like to help Lex out when she struggles.

## Trivia

* His middle name and surname's a Top Gun reference.
* His favorite types of music are 1980s music and the Lord of the Rings soundtrack.
* He loves pepperoni pizza
* He despises coffee and is often seen drinking tea, such as chai, earl grey and matcha.
* Joel plans to be a historian one day.
* Joel, Lexine, Brynn and Mitchell are the ones who showed up to the MDHS Sophomore Halloween party as the Ghostbusters, days before the Thypon attacks.