Joseph Starr/Universe 1

Mr. Starr

Mr. Blum

Information Analyst (Previously)

Intern (Previously)

1991 - Current (Tech Mogul)

1991 - Current (CEO)

Amelia Starr (Daughter)

Angelica Hale (Estranged Daughter)

High Power Pistol

**Joseph Starr** is a tech mogul and the current CEO/owner of Starr Co. He is the father of Corey Blume and Amelia Blume and the (assumed widowed) husband of (the assumed disappeared) Hazel Blum. He is currently the villain pulling the strings behind the Projects that are harassing Void.

## Appearance

Joseph, despite being almost 70 years old, still looks relatively young. He has short, well-groomed brown hair that is swept to the side. His eyes are a shocking green much like his son Corey, but he covers these with brown contact lenses. He tends to wear a black tuxedo suit with a white undershirt and a red tie. He wears black loafers and white socks as well, and is not seen wearing anything else.

## Personality

Joseph airs a façade of being nicer than he is in public. He supposedly pays lots of money to charity and is shown to be a very nice guy when in public. But the views we have of him in private could not be more antithetical to this view of him. He is shown to use very brutal and anti-democratic business practices in attempts to get more money from his workers. He shows to have very little appreciation for human life, not caring about the life of his subordinates and having no problems torturing his projects to get what he wants. He cares enough about his family to have an infinite amount of bodies for both Corey and Amelia to be revived into, and keeping his wife within a vat while he works on her.

## Biography

Joseph was born in 1957 and the son of two unknown parents with unknown jobs. He grew up as a smart kid and in the year 1979 at the age of 22 after graduating from College, he joined his friend John Sigma at his company SIGMACORP. He worked as an intern and eventually ascended to Head Information Analyst in the year 1981.

It's unknown exactly when, but sometime before the year 1984, Joseph started dating a florist named Hazel Blum. Because in the year 1984, Amelia Starr is born, his eldest child who he loves with all his heart.

In 1987 when John lost his arm and eye, he took up more responsibility in helping John around the company. It was in 1991 where John sold all of the assets to Joseph while still owning stock in the company, allowing Joseph to use the company for what he pleases as long as some money went to John's bank account. In 1991 was also when his second child, Corey Starr was born.

Joseph changed the name of the company to Starr Co and started working on new advancements in technology, eventually making one of the first major smart phones to go on the market, and making thousands of dollars off of it. As time went on, he continued making major strides in the field of technology.

It's unknown when he grew cold and bitter, but by the year 2000 he had gotten to that stage. Because in 2000 his third child Angelica Hale is born and given up to the other realm by Hazel which set him off. He took his wife and put her in suspended animation underneath his company building, codenaming her "Project: Amaryllis." He told his children that their mother was out on a business trip and then erased their memories of their mother.

In the year 2009, Amelia and Corey die in an unknown accident, causing him to grow even more bitter than he already was. He took their bodies and cloned them, creating "Project: Endgame" which would allow his children to never truly die, renaming his children "Project: Nova" and "Project: Reaper".

His tech company continued to grow wildly after this point and he continued to show himself as a good person with a sad backstory. It is unknown exactly when he bought a mental hospital to have more test subjects but when he did, he found plenty of test subjects.

He created both "Project: Overhaul" and "Project: Edge" from two mental patients and killed plenty more to try and create a perfect army of soldiers with magic similar to that of the other world. He has currently sent both Overhaul and Edge to fight the superhero Void to no avail.

## Abilities & Paraphernalia

### Abilities

* Joseph has no known connection to magic

### Paraphernalia

* **Starr Co. Smartphone:** A high-tech smartphone with the Starr Co. logo on the back, takes calls, texts and apps, seems to also have hologram technology and retinal scanners as well.
* **Starr Co. Briefcase:** A high-tech briefcase that has multiple security measures, including fingerprints and retinal scans, as well as a code system to stop the info from being stolen, it's unknown what he keeps within it however.
* **Silver Chrome High Power Pistol:** Joseph's main weapon is a custom Silver Chrome pistol based on the Browning Hi-Power, the pistol itself has a tactical laser sight on it and is customized to fire 10mm bullets instead of the typical 9mm bullets.

### Weaknesses

* **Human Biology:** Being a human, he has all the problems associated with being a human, organ failure, old age, disease, cancer and the like, as well as blood loss all being things that can kill him
* **Old Age:** Being almost 70, Joseph is old enough to have seriously physical problems, including muscular deterioration, which is why he is not shown as a physical threat.

## Trivia

* Joseph is a Hebrew name that means "He will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away"
* Elliot is a Hebrew name that means "the Lord is my God"
* Starr is a family name, originating from the pre-Modern English word starre or sterre, meaning "star".