SCP-1504’s name isn’t “Joe”. People just call him that because he doesn’t give them his name so they picked Joe for him. He doesn’t mind it!
Joe is in his early to mid-30s.
Joe didn’t have powers when he was born and didn’t gain any of his anomalous abilities till his 20s, in the interview he did with the Foundation, he had only had his powers for between 5-10 years at that point.
His childhood was fairly normal before his powers, he was an orphan, with his parents dying when he was 5 in a car crash. He grew up in the system and didn’t have much faith in his future. He quit school at 16 and got a (legal) job the same year.
When his abilities appeared, he was ecstatic to use them. He did reckless things after discovering he was invincible and could manipulate technology. He was drinking and doing enough drugs to get all of NYC high. He jumped off buildings for the fun of it. He even jumped into a volcano just to see what it would be like.
He became an excellent thief shortly after his power’s appeared. He honestly thought he was the world’s greatest thief and criminal with how no one suspected him for his crimes. Until one day he got caught he KNEW he was caught but the person who saw him didn’t seem to care or mind him stealing and chalked it up to him being lost in the building. Joe was stunned and slowly he realized that nobody could see or even hear him.
Joe wanted to lie to himself and say that it was better that way, he was always a lone wolf and he didn’t need anyone else! But as he tested the extent of his abilities, each time someone ignored him, the harder it was to lie to himself. The isolation was getting to him, he was in a crowd of people and no matter how much he screamed, no one noticed. He ended having a nervous breakdown in the middle of the street.
He wanted to die. He wanted to get noticed. He wanted to be heard by someone. He really wanted to die but no matter what he did, he never even got a scratch.
It was truly a punishment maybe from god. He never believed but after that breakdown, he went to church and prayed for answers. If no humans could see or hear him, surely god can… right? But just like the humans around him, he never got a answer. That truly sent him spiraling into the man we presently know: a man that nukes himself, killing hundreds of people, just to see what would happen.
Before nuking the SCP site, Joe was actually really excited to see if MAYBE in the hundreds of intergalactic, mythological monsters and scientists, that MAYBE he could be heard. So he tried everything, writing to the scientists, yelling at them, escaping his cell, stealing things. Anything to get their attention! He even tried talking to a few humanoid SCPs, maybe their anomalies would be able to see him. But by the time we see his interview, he’s lost hope again. No matter what he did, no one saw him…
He even visited “God” SCP-343, even he didn’t even notice anything wrong with Joe. With even God-in-the-flesh not hearing what hes saying, this solidifies his plan to nuke the site.
After the nuke he did what he did before, walking around aimlessly in the hellish limbo that is his life.
