Joseph Sullivan

**Joseph Sullivan** is the foster father of Rod and a successful German-American ice cream maker.

> No. Rod! You can never eat those special ice creams!
>
> Joseph Sullivan

## Joseph Sullivan

### Aliases

* Rod's Father
* Ice Cream Man
* Greedy old man
* Rod's Foster Father

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

He wears his signature mascot mask, which looks like an ice cream sundae with a cheerful face, a hat, and a mustache attached to it, covering his face; a sky blue suit with slightly darker blue stripes; white shirt inside with red bow tie; blue apron; a pair of gold trousers; a pair of black boots; and a pair of white gloves. His clothes are clean and neatly ironed.

Joseph appears to be a middle-aged man. He wears his signature mascot mask, which looks like an ice cream sundae with a cheerful face, a hat, and a mustache attached to it, covering his face; a sky blue suit with slightly darker blue stripes; white shirt inside with red bow tie; blue apron; a pair of gold trousers; a pair of black boots; and a pair of white gloves. His clothes are clean and neatly ironed, unlike Rod's, which are quite dirty and stained.

## Story

Joseph came from a life of poverty. He spent most of his life living in an industrial shack in the outskirts of an abandoned park. No one in Joseph's town ever expected him to be successful and famous, which indicated the severity of the living conditions Joseph had to go through, it is also known that Joseph was born in Germany, but he somehow ended in America. When he started his job as an ice cream man, he used a motorcycle to deliver ice creams and look for customers which meant that he didn’t have much money at that time. On December 31, 1940, he has an important role, he will distract Sister Enda, his common customer and a close friend who calls him all the time for his ice creams, William will have to take advantage over Joseph's distraction in order to retrieve the keys which is tied around Sister Enda's waist, you will have to scare her by breaking the bulbs using the lever in the Attic. He's pretty familiar with Sister Enda and knows her well, this is proved when Joseph comes with the ice cream Sister Enda wants, he can be seen shaking his head slightly when he takes the box, probably sort of fed up being called constantly, however, he doesn't seem to say anything back. When he opened his first Ice Cream Parlor, he became famous that People loved his ice creams and came to him themselves, hence, Joseph didn’t have really much on his motorcycle anymore. In 1944, he got a child to adopt from the Nuns called Rod since the boy's mother, Sister Madeline, "did not take good care of him", joseph also saw all the research pages from sister Madeline at a Secret Ingredient and took it and her book for himself, when he started using the secret ingredient in his ice creams to make them extra delicious, many people liked him, and Joseph became the most popular ice cream man in the world by the end of the 1940's. In April 1953, as Joseph prepares to go to work, he sees Rod sitting in the dining table, he tells him that he ate most of his food and Joseph compliments him that eating well is how he'll become a big and strong man when he grows up. Rod gets excited and tells him that he'll become a strong man and have a good job like his friends, and be a genius ice cream man like him. Joseph encourages Rod saying that he is right but it never meant that he didn't need to work hard enough. Joseph also get anxious when Rod asks him about the special ice creams locked in the freezer, he tells him in a rather nervous yet firm tone that he can never eat the 'special' ice creams, and tries to change the subject to distract him by telling him to get dressed to go to school. Then he takes the red key meant for the locked crate of ice creams before leaving for work, leaving a disappointed Rod behind. Later, it looks like Joseph had accidentally dropped the key which he always carries to prevent Rod from eating the special ice creams. As a result, Rod found the key on the ground when he was singing outside and that allowed him to access the crate of the special ice creams which slowly, but eventually made him fat. It is unknown when Joseph had got his factory, which now belongs to Rod after his death, but it is confirmed that Joseph bought the land for the factory when he became famous since he will have a lot of customers from many parts of his own country and other places, He also built his house near his factory, Joseph also made a tower in a place behind his factory so that it can power the Generator in his house, Joseph was also smart and made many inventions, his most special one was a Prototype Mini Rod made in the early 1950's when he learned to make robots, which will become the Mini Rods when Rod takes over his father's place. When Joseph successfully made his prototype, he slowly started firing his human workers. Joseph even won a lot of trophies over the 1940's and 1950's. On December 31, 1955, Joseph was killed by Sister Philippa in the middle of the main road in the town when he was thanking a few people for their compliments for his world record. Sister Philippa runs him over with her van under Sister Madeline’s command due to his world record. He died 9 months after making the world's largest, edible ice cream scoop as a world record.

## Interesting Facts

* Despite being Rod's foster father, often said to be Rod's actual father.
* Keplerians confirmed that Joseph and Sister Enda are close friends and featured them in their official poster for International Ice Cream Day.
* Joseph's notebook, which is possibly Sister Madeline's ritual book was, is missing, the glass case meant for keeping the book safe is broken and a fallen signboard which says "Replica of Joseph Sullivan's notebook" indicated that someone stole it after his death.