look into my eyes

Joseph Wake, 26, neutral. I've gone through tons of faces, numerous identities, but my goal is still the same. All I am is looking for something, and I've been searching for a damn long while Nothing's gonna stop me; remember that.

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Anyone there?

I have money I’d like to give to buy a drink, so if you could take it, that’d be great. 

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It’s near closing time, so Joseph’s taken to sitting in one of the booths all the way at the back of the cafe to chill. There’s no late night crowd, anyway, because nobody wants coffee or tea past 4 in the afternoon unless it’s Starbucks. And, seeing as this is nowhere near as mainstream or popular as Starbucks, Joseph figures he’s fine. Until the girl proves him wrong. Ugh. Alright, I’m comin’. He gets up and walks behind the counter, giving the girl a nod, I’ll gladly take your money, yeah. What would you like to order?

[joseph-wake-blog]

@Leo

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If one of those telepathic posties are around, no doubt they’d be able to hear Leo scream to himself. He knows stage fright happens– and hell, this is a rather big event– but he is not paid enough to be a broken record on top of a PR rep. He rubs his chin a bit since his hands are itching to do something other than hit himself in the head. “It’s just like we rehearsed. You go backstage, a stage hand will give you your remote to advance your power points, you give your speech, wow the audience, save humanity. Score or a date or two at the end, I don’t know.”

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Yeah, okay, alright, I'm ready. I can do this. Joseph knows jack shit about science. Okay, okay. He looks back in his "memory" again - Terry's memories - and gathers a vague gist of what he's supposed to be talking about. A few sentences per slide should be good enough as long as he doesn't try to go too far into the science of the research. Joseph shoots Leo a thumbs up and walks to go chat with the backstage people before his "big moment". The thing is, he has to find the confidence in him to actually act like Terry because, well, Terry isn't shy of speeches. And Joseph isn't either, but he doesn't exactly want to do them.

About five to ten minutes and a hopefully satisfied audience applause later (all time feels the same standing in front of a crowd), Joseph gets off of the stage and finds Leo again. He's finished his drink by now and just carrying around an empty can for the purpose of looking busy. Because busy means nobody approaches him. Joseph taps Leo on the shoulder, Hey, so, how'd I do?

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@Leo

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“You didn’t see me,” Leo repeats. His forehead crinkles along with the contortion of the rest of his face into his usual disbelief/cranky expression. The expression stays on his face for a touch too long but worrying about being judged something that ranks very high on his priorities today. –Especially given his list of responsibilities. “Okay,” he shrugs. “You all set and ready to go?”

[joseph-wake-blog]

Well, yeah, there was, Terry- no, no, Joseph (still getting used to it...) mumbles, shyly, and rubs his neck with his free hand, Someone cute that I saw... Nope. He just didn’t bother to look up. Uh, sure... Shit. What was he supposed to do again? Maybe you want to remind me exactly what I’m supposed to do, just so I make sure I have everything right. That was smooth enough, right?

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@Leo

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After spotting Terry in the crowd, Leo gestures for him to come over. This is usually where being a giant really helps him stick out in a crowd. Leo waves his arms in the air like an idiot next after his conspicuous wave failed to get Terry’s attention. He told Terry about signaling to him beforehand. He told him and yet here’s Leo flailing his arms around. “Hey, Terry!” He smiles tightly, veiling a small “Get your ass over here.”

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Aw, shit. Noooooooo. Terry- wait, Joseph grumbles to himself and dutifully makes his way over to Leo, squeezing his can of iced tea a bit too hard now. It dents in his grasp a little bit. He should’ve just stayed home and played with his cat. A cat makes better company than humans, anyway. Joseph makes his way through the crowd, faking polite “Excuse me”s the whole way and finally gets to Leo’s side. For a moment, he skims over Terry’s past interactions with Leo - which are, thankfully, minimal because Terry doesn’t work in Leo’s department all that much - then adopts a slightly lighter tone. Can’t do anything about his sullen posture, though. Sorry, I didn’t see you waving at me. Got a bit distracted. He shrugs and cracks a fake grin. So, what’s up?

[joseph-wake-blog]

@Leo

Now that he’s here, Joseph... really doesn’t remember why he thought it was a good idea to come. Not that, like, it’s a bad idea in terms of “Oh, I’m going to get in trouble”, but a bad idea in terms of “There is nothing to do here...” He’s a whole three inches shorter, and that’s probably the worst part of shapeshifting for Joseph. He hates getting shorter. Really don’t wanna be here right now, he huffs out under his breath, holding his can of Brisk a little tighter. Not that that’s how his identity would act, but.

[joseph-wake-blog]

Event Headcanon: #Empowered

Okay, so, Joseph has a friend in Nexus (not Jacob/Adam, unfortunately u_u) who he might have just, you know, stolen the identity of like how friends normally do. So, Joseph will be attending the event under the guise of Terrance “Terry” McGinnis, one of Nexus’ engineers. Which, honestly, might not be the greatest idea ever since Terry’s research for implementing space suits with post-human-like lung adaptation capabilities is being showcased at the Nexpo. But, you know. We’ll see.

[joseph-wake-blog]

ooc: plot post

Okay, so during my long hiatus, I didn’t really think about what my characters would be doing while I was gone. But, really, they don’t do anything completely drastic.

Joseph hasn’t been doing much except work, really. Uhm, I’m mostly going to be utilizing him for the first time, like truly, at the event, so. Yep.

Plotting stuff:

Joseph’s plotting stuff… kinda rides on how he’ll interact with people at the event… more on that later. |:

Besides that, after the event, he’ll be back to work at some hole in the wall hipster cafe. So. |:


And, like, you know, Wake family stuff.

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As a questionable law-abiding citizen of the United States of America, Joseph feels like he has the obligation to obnoxiously poke the guy on the shoulder. He frowns and waits for the dude to take off his headphones. You’re singing. Loudly. Joseph raises his eyebrows and shakes his head, Arctic Monkeys, though? Really?

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The sudden tap on his shoulder did stop his singing, and admittingly to himself, he was a tad bit annoyed. Ronnie proceeds to take off his headphones and turns around. ‘‘I thought I was the only one in here’’ he says, in an unapologetic way. An eyebrow is raised after picking up a hint of judgement coming from the other person. ‘‘What, you don’t like Arctic Monkeys? You must be absolutely fun at parties.’’

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What’s not to dislike? They're up there with Arcade Fire and The Strokes with the whole garage-rock revival business that lasted half a decade at most. The whole retro anti-new-music revolution is worth an eyeroll, honestly. Joseph gestures to himself and raises an eyebrow, Me? I'm an absolute killer at parties, I dunno what you're talking about.

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This weather blows. She’s grown up in the North East, and hasn’t exactly ever had the money to get to go anywhere else. Marches come roaring in, and even though the month’s over halfway over, the temperature still isn’t getting all that warm. She buries one of her hands in the pocket of her coat and thumbs over the few loose bills she has in there - either she warms up with a coffee, or takes the bus. One option sounds better, but is much less practical. Holding in a sigh, she falls in place at the bus stop. It sure doesn’t feel like spring’s starting this week.

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Joseph sips at his cup of coffee and jiggles his leg impatiently as he waits for the bus. He’s not normally jittery - really still, actually, and great at sitting still and waiting. Coffee makes him active, though, which is… obvious. He huffs and glances up at the girl’s voice. What, you feelin' cold? Oh, well, duh. He’s the one with the hot coffee; she just has a coat. He looks her over again and shrugs, holding out his cup, You want some?

[lionsroaring]

Ronnie’s headphones played on a volume that perhaps was a bit too loud, loud enough to be heard from the outside. It had been raining all day and it only aided the gloom. The grey wall did not help either. But despite this, he smiles brightly as he loudly sings along to his favorite part of the song, thinking he’s alone.

‘‘The late afternoon, the ghost in your room that you always thought didn’t approve of you knocking boots, never stopped you letting me get hold of the sweet spot by the scruff of your knee socks!!’’ 

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As a questionable law-abiding citizen of the United States of America, Joseph feels like he has the obligation to obnoxiously poke the guy on the shoulder. He frowns and waits for the dude to take off his headphones. You're singing. Loudly. Joseph raises his eyebrows and shakes his head, Arctic Monkeys, though? Really?

[joseph-wake-blog]

Headcanon ♙ Character Sheet (Volume III)

Name

Character Name: Joseph Abraham Wake

Nickname: Joey, Joe

Alias: Several false identities

Age: 26

Gender: Bigender (he/him, they/them)

Birthdate: April 30th

Place of birth: Unknown

Hometown: Unknown

Current Residence: New York City

Current Employer: Cafe Grumpy

Appearance

Height: 5’11”

Weight: 171 lbs

Hair color: Black

Hair length: Short

Eye Color: Blue

Jewelry: A set of bracelets on his left wrist, a multi-charm necklace, another necklace, these rings on his right hand, [different] [sets] [of] [00] [ear] [plugs]

Tattoos: A non-binary flag between his shoulder blades, an aromantic flag underneath, an asexual flag underneath that

Family

Mother: tba

Father: tba

Siblings: Adam Wake, Mary Wake

Relationship with family: Joseph hasn’t talked to either of his siblings in years. He’s kinda bitter, tbh, but he’s always a little grump. A near six-feet-tall grump. But, when it comes down to it, he loves his family, and he'll whack anyone who tries to touch them.

Key relatives: -

Pets: Cadmus - Egyptian Mau

Relations

Best friend: tba

Key friend(s): tba

Relationship with friends: He’ll make an effort to be civil with his friends (like, more civil than the frowny face emoji), and if he starts recommending you Youtube artists because you look like you need some good music in your life, then you’re definitely down with him. After that, it’s just a bunch of slow, subtle Joseph throwing his interests at you because he just wants you to know him as him.

Enemies: Rogues and anyone who looks at his siblings wrong tbh

Romance

Relationship history: Had several relationships during the course of his moving around with his family (2005-?); was in a queerplatonic relationship with Terrance McGinnis for a year (2016-2017)

Romantic interest: People who are interested in the same things he is, for the most part. Joseph hasn’t really given himself a lot of room to explore his romantic likes and dislikes, actually. It’s not too important to him.

Turn ons: Nah (but he'll generally be interested in interacting with anyone who shares his views)

Turn offs: Nah (but he'll generally take automatic dislike to anyone who butts heads with him off the bat)

Importance in love: Idk, Joseph’s generally confused by the concept of love and how it’s supposed to factor into his life. It irritates him, basically. He doesn’t see much difference between his “romantic” relationships and his friendships, so he views them all as pretty much the same thing.

Longest relationship: Two years.

Background

Educational history: High school diploma, community college degree (AA in Psychology)

Work history: Various jobs under false identities as a game store employee, a waiter, a stock clerk, and a grocery store cashier, currently a barista at Cafe Grumpy

Key childhood events: Starting off his childhood switching identities constantly once his powers developed would be the most prominent and impacting event in his childhood, I would think.

Key teenaged events: Adjusting to the way his family lived and actually becoming used to it, trying to differentiate between his identities and who he was

Key adult events: Watching Adam get involved with the Rogues, arguing with Adam and planning their getaway, getting separated from his brother (which leads to the start of his search to reunite with his siblings), getting back in contact with Mary once before setting off on his solo revenge/search journey

Sexual background: He’s sex-repulsed asexual. Tried to fool around a few times and just lost interest halfway through.

Personality

Skills: Acting (comes with the background tbh), intermediate Brazilian jiu-jitsu, playing a guitar

Phobia: Losing his sense of identity, never finding or re-establishing contact with Adam and Mary

Bad habits/vices: Excessively exercises and goes to the gym, bites his nails

Religious views: Pantheism

Quirks/nervous ticks: Clicks his pen too much, fiddles with his jewelry

Best qualities: Charming, loyal, determined

Worst qualities: Loner, doesn’t trust easily, unforgiving

Personal goals: Find Adam and Mary ;~;

Career goals: Hmmm, unsure.

Romantic goals: Right now, Joseph doesn’t desire any deep emotional connections with anyone. He’s just chilling, pretty content with what he has.

Favorites

Favorite food: Vegetables |: he’s a weirdo

Favorite music: YouTube covers, indie singer-songwriter

Favorite movie: Jupiter Ascending, Kill Your Darlings

Favorite book: On The Road

Favorite animal: Cats

Favorite place: His current place of employment, Cafe Grumpy, surprisingly

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