Joel Coy-Young

**Joel Coy-Young** is a part of Devil Watch. He is the self-proclaimed leader of the team and the one that started the idea in the first place. Despite wanting to start a supernatural hunting show, he is very easily scared.

Joel's family moved from England to America when he was in high school. He was closeted for most of his life, married a woman, had a kid, then he finally reached the point where he cracked and came out.

He and his ex-wife are still on good terms.

## Appearance

Joel's design is made up of mostly triangles and angles. His color palette consists of blues, reds and browns.

Joel has an angled nose and round glasses with red eyes. His hair is naturally brown, but he dyed it all blue. He has short hair styled up.

Usually he wears a red coat with a blue turtleneck, brown dress pants, and brown boots.

## Personality

Joel is friendly, charismatic, caring, arrogant, short-tempered and argumentative. He's typically rather happy, and loves dad jokes and puns, he also participates in self-love humor. He fears what he doesn't understand, and that includes the supernatural. He likes being along, in silence. Ironically, he hates being in scary places. He gets upset when someone doesn't appreciate his work, and when there's nothing to do. He wants to prove the supernatural to his friends, and wants to be right. He keeps his pre-out past a secret, only his family and high school friends know out it.

## Skills

* Cooking
* Reading
* Guitar
* Piano

## Relationships

### Charlie Coy-Young

Charlie Coy-Young is Joel's younger brother. They had a fairly typical sibling relationship, they would get into fights, but when it was needed, they took care of each other. Charlie is constantly making fun of how scared Joel is of anything and everything, but Joel knows about his big fear of toasters and can use that knowledge against him at any time.

### Dax Sheppard

Dax Sheppard and Joel have been best friends since high school. Dax used to be his tutor and they grew close during those lessons. They find each other to be a good shoulder to cry on and someone they can rely on when overwhelmed or needing guidance.

### Lake Manivong

Lake Manivong and Joel dated after Joel left his wife, Lake being his first boyfriend. They broke it off after a long while, realizing that they're better as friends, but they still tease each other about the things they learned about each other while dating. He still takes care of him whenever he needs it, and he's the only one they'll allow to take care of them.

### Jay Kedves

Jay Kedves and Joel have been good friends since high school. While they drifted apart after college, they came back together for the ghost hunting show, which Jay isn't sure why he agreed to it.

### Yamila Acuna Zegarra

Yamila Acuna Zegarra and Joel became friends in college. They are fairly close, but Yamila is simply a very friendly and extroverted person, so she becomes friends with people very easily.

### Bindy Abney

Bindy Abney is a new friend of Joel's. They're really good friends, with how they seem to be able to riff off each other very well and they have a similar sense of humor.

## Trivia

* Joel has acrophobia (fear of heights).
* Joel's birthday is September 25.

## Gallery

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