Joanne Moscovich

Joanne Moscovich is one of the 16 actors in **Mephisto Manor 5: Catharsis.** Her title is the Speedrunner.

## Personality

Joanne, on the surface, is an optimistic woman with a laid-back yet dependable attitude. She generally gets along well with most people and is difficult to anger, although she'll sometimes slip back into her former habits of rude sarcasm on rare occasions.

When streaming, she tends to be excitable, rambunctious, and even impulsive at times, finding comfort on being in front of the camera and interacting with her community, although she's able to quiet down and focus when need be.

Off camera, Joanne still retains her unique persona, but is noticeably more mellow and anxious. She's quick to worry, and her extreme fear of failure works as both a motivator to keep her determined and use unconventional, out-of-the-box methods to solve problems, and a hinderance that causes her to overwork herself to the point of exhaustion.

The events of MM5 led her to becoming much more anxious than before, though her determination has only grown stronger as a result. She also visits the human world on an almost constant basis.

## Background

Born with a rare disease that rendered her completely blind in her left eye and a mother who died only minutes after her birth, Joanne did not start off with the luckiest of circumstances. She’s lived with her older sister and her grandparents her entire life, who cared for her deeply but struggled due to a lack of medical access. Because of this, Joanne struggled with her eyesight for much of her early life.

On her 8th birthday, her sister gifted them their first pair of glasses and an old SNES. Ever since that day, Joanne has been completely and utterly obsessed with video games. She’d spend hours at a time in front of the tv, finishing the games she played in near record time only to start from the beginning and continue the cycle. At the age of 14, with the help of her grandfather's tech smarts and her sister's computer, Joanne started uploading her gameplay to speedrunning websites. She quickly gained a following as she topped the leaderboards of every game she played with ease.

When her sister left to go to college, they took her place as a helping hand at their grandfather's auto shop. In turn, Joanne now had something she’d never had before; disposable income.

Collecting more games, buying more consoles, and recording more videos. Her fanbase only grew, and her name quickly spread across the community. A few years into her endeavor, her grandmother passed due to natural causes, forcing Joanne to try out streaming in hopes that it would provide more income for her and her grandfather. Fortunately, she soon found out that she found comfort in being on camera, and slowly devoted more and more of her time to streaming.

Now, she still lives with her grandfather and her two dogs, working as often as she can at the auto shop to help him out and streaming in her spare time.

## Trivia

* Her birthday is a reference to the release date of Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES in North America.
* Her service dog is named Bowser.
* She currently holds world records in over 20 different games, and has achieved close to 350 world records in various games and categories during her time as a speedrunner.