Journal

* S2E13+
* S2E13+ (muddy)
* S2E12 (muddy)
* S2E12
* S2E6-11
* S2E4-5
* S2E3
* S2E2
* S2E1
* Pre-debut

**Pages**

* Base
* Stuck-out paper

> "*I have a feeling he's up to something and I want to stop him. No one else I've told believes me, they think it's just some big joke!*"
> ― Don't Press It!
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**Journal** is a male contestant on Paper Puppets Take 2. He debuted since the first episode of the second season through a portal and was placed in Team 47.

## Appearance

He appears to be a personal hardcover journal with a darker green square around the upper center. He is mainly lime green in color with his pages being white. His initial design was supposed to resemble to spiral book with black rings as the spine, Journal also had a darker shade of green and a blank cover design at the time. His design changed in Culinary Catastrophe, where he no long has his spiral bindings and gained a label box in his design, along with a lighter color palette.

Seen in Dungeons & Dimwits, Journal has a messier appearance after being pushed into the mud from the previous episode. Several stains are visible on both of his front and back covers and his pages became disorganized, as seen with few of them sticking out of the ream. He remains to have this form in the following episodes.

### Campaign appearance (Dungeons & Dimwits)

While having to participate Battle Dungeon Ultra as a challenge, his assigned character was **an alchemist**. He donned a brown bag with black shoulder straps on his back and a pair of goggles with green lenses.

Originally, his bag was supposed to have a singular pocket on his left side, but the detail likely got scrapped in the final cut

## Personality

Just like Post-It Note, Journal is one of the smartest contestants in the show. Ever since his encounter with Mr. Hand, he slowly became workaholic, not caring much about his well-being. He is presumably reserved regarding the topic of it, as he was seen to hide anything related to what he had seen from most people, ever since people have brushed him off about it.

Journal used to have positive relations with his peers. However as of recent, his paranoia and stress had took over due to his obsession with stopping Mr. Hand, turning him more bitter and irritable towards those who he had once good terms with. This resulted in straining his relationships and isolating from everyone for the sake of work, as well as causing harm to both his physical and mental health.

## Coverage

### Episode 1: Show On The Road

He was teleported to the show grounds along with the other new contestants. His first impression was expressing his facsincation towards the portal until being silenced by Gold Ingot. During the challenge, he hid behind the bushes before discovering the waterfall next to him and explored inside. Coming accross something shocking, he went out of the cave to hide the enterance with extra bushes. Unfortunately, he was caught by Ace with a paintball and lost the challenge.

### Episode 3: Blue Nightmares

He goes along with the rest of Team 47 to wander around the laboratory. Upon discovering a hole below, Journal willingly volunteers and descends inside with a rope. Discovering a pair of blue glowing eyes coming after him, he attempts to alert Treasure Chest through the walkie-talkie, only for the signal to be cut off.

He then wakes up in a room, where he & Mr. Hand talk, & Mr. Hand says he’s gonna come back. Journal saves his team by getting 4 more bags.

### Episode 4:

At the opening of Ep. 4: The Paper Pelican , Treasure chest asks Journal what happened after he got separated from the others in episode 3. Journal says he doesn't recall what happened, but he did remember waking up in a strange, messy, dark room with broken monitors and boxes everywhere. His eyes widen in fear as he states that one of the monitors turned on which revealed Mr. Hand. Treasure Chest, Chainsaw, Malachite, and Basketball all stare at Journal blankly for moment, then start snickering and laughing at him. Chainsaw remarks that there's no possible way for that to be possible since Mr. Hand is trapped in another dimension. The four start walking away from Journal as he claims, "Wait, I'm not making it up!" he then sighs loudly.

During the challenge, Ukulele comes up with the idea to form a 'human tower' to be able to reach the top of the tower where Chainsaw is. Journal seems excited as he adds on to her plan. (This shows that Ukulele and Journal are on good-terms.) He says If they go heaviest to lightest, the human tower will be stable enough. Journal tells Treasure chest to go first, Treasure chest looks at him with an angry, disbelieved expression and asks if he was trying to imply something. Journal answers with "Uhh.." in such the awkward moment.

### Episode 5:

In Ep. 5: Subordinate Solvers , Journal has no audible lines. Although he can be seem smiling when Loaf announces that Team 47 have won the challenge first again.

### Episode 6:

In Ep. 6: Don't Press It!, Journal tells himself that he *needs* to find a way past Platinum, Bronze, and Silver so he could finish his work. The three were blocking the way so that contestants can't walk away from the competition. Journal starts to walk away, Post-it Note notices this and decides to follow him to see what he was doing. Journal remarks to Platinum that his 'shoe laces' were tied which made Platinum ask, "They are?" and look down at his feet while Journal escaped. Journal's action made Bronze get upset with Platinum and calls him an 'idiot' because of how dim-witted he is falling for Journal's trick since none of them wear shoes. The two of them continue to argue.

The scene right after shows Journal hiding behind some bushes right next to Mr. Hand's Laboratory with caution, he makes sure no one can see him while he clicks a button to reveal a secret room. Post-it note watched Journal from a distance while also hiding in a bush, he wonders 'what on earth is he up to'

### Episode 9: Picture Perfect

Before the opening, when Malachite was about to see the waterfall, he stopped when Journal stood in front of him with a displeased expression. He asked where was Malachite going, to which the latter answered the elimination area. Journal responded in a flat tone before walking away.

After the opening, Journal and his teammates were already seated for elimination. When Silver brought out a tray of cupcakes as an elimination prize, he was seen excited along with the rest of the team. Journal was the first announced safe with only 538 dislikes against him. Upon hearing Malachite getting eliminated due to Treasure Chest's Immunity Token, Journal called Treasure Chest out in anger, claiming his action as a 'selfish move' and doubting his role as team captain for eliminating a team member. When Journal heard Malachite's parting words, he was saddened before turning into a more angry expression when he faced Treasure Chest while leaving the elimination area. When Gold Ingot told the contestants to pick a pair for the challenge, Journal asked to partner up with Ukulele until the latter partnered up with Bubble Wrap instead. He was left no choice but to be with Treasure Chest, much to the former's displeasure.

### Episode 12:

He was never seen on-screen after the episode until his reappearance in Episode 14.

### Episode 13: Living on the Edge

Despite his absence, Journal have earned 2,629 likes, however Treasure Chest had more likes than him. He is later announced eliminated with 3,152 dislikes against him.

## Deaths

### Non-Canon

* Paper Puppets Take 2 - Market Mode: Dies in the explosion when his shirt cannon explodes.

## Votes

#### Season 2

* "Picture Perfect": 1,658 votes (1,120 likes, 538 dislikes)
* "Living on the Edge": 5,781 votes (2,629 likes, 3,152 dislikes)

## Trivia

* He was often compared to Post-It Note by the viewers in terms of intelligence. However, the way they expressed their knowledge differs;
	+ Post-it Note is transparent about what he knows and used to be talkative about it (hence his "According to my calculations" catchphrase in Season 1), whilst Journal was nowhere near vocal about his.
	+ Additionally, Journal is implied to have a specific interest such as portals.
* Journal and Ace are the 2 eliminated contestants to not be eliminated by going into the Dark Pit of Despair.
* He never smiled on-screen throughout the entirety of Dungeons & Dimwits.