Joel Shinonome

 Joel (Tagalog) means God will be willing 

Ryu (竜; Japanese) means Dragon 

Shinonome (東雲; Japanese) means Dawn 

• He is trilingual, speaking Japanese, English (not well) and Tagalog 

• • Mainly, Joel uses Tagalog to argue with Jose and Ethan. 

  • Joel's Favorite foods are Pancakes and Cheesecake. His least favourite food is Sushi

    • He loves the smell of Pancakes, so he uses lotion that typically smells of baked goods.

• The highlights in his hair are dyed, and his hair is naturally fluffy.

  • Between the two twins, Joel has more freckles along his body (Across his face, down his back and down his legs) 

• mainly, Joel plays Halo and Call of Duty if he favours a game, but he plays Animal Crossing with Jose.

• Joel is an avid My Little Pony (mainly gen 4) watcher

  • He doesn't even know why he watches so much, but something about the show feels unnaturally comforting. So he continues to watch

    • His favourites are Sunset Shimmer and Rainbow Dash 

• as a child, he had braces (they did not work) 

• During middle school, He learnt to play a couple of songs on the guitar

  •  The first song, and the song he plays the most on guitar is Tokyo Teddy Bear. 

    • His talent on guitar got him noticed by Ashley and Nia, whom he met through Alyssa

• Jose taught Joel how to draw when the two were younger, so Joel is generally good at drawing and sketching small things

  • During classes, Joel likes to doodle small things on paper to pass the time

• Joel had a cat plushie he promptly named Oreo when he was a child. He still goes to sleep with it

• Canonically, Joel is deemed to be model-type attractive. Although he doesn't agree with those claims himself

• Animals seem to gravitate to him, as seen with Ethan's Cats. 

• He loves to take pictures and keep memories of people, his phone has over 4k photos containing him and his friends.

  • This is also why in his Dreamscape, There are a bunch of pictures across the walls of his family cottage

    • He tries to cut off his face from almost every picture he can due to his hate for his appearance. Going so far as to block his face out of his physical photos.

      • The only Photos he has with his face visible are an old picture of Jose and His mother, and a picture of Ethan on their first date. Which was upon Ethan's Request to keep himself in it.

• Due to his association with orange, Joel has a certain disdain for the colour. Preferring the colour blue over it.

• Bro is clearly the favourite

Creation Trivia 

• Joel and Jose's real birthdays are October 9th, but Meowica miscalculated and drew them something for November 7th rather than October 7th. She decided to keep his birthday that way.

• Grace initially chose Akito to be the multiverse character for Joel. Both she and Meowica wanted him to be a man so Ethan would get mad at them for shipping him with a guy

  • Joel being Pansexual is derivative from Grace's headcanons of Akito being Pansexual and Toya being Gay

    • This was also recuperated by Meko who also seconded Joel being Pansexual. 

• by pure accident, his personality developed into something similar to Meowica's. eventually leading him to become a part of her personality

  • Meowica thinks of him and Alyssa as two sides of the same coin. Joel is the person who keeps going, and Alyssa is the part that gives up. 

    • she also sees Joel as the person she wants to be and Alyssa as the person she is right now.

• Joel is frequently represented by the motif of Loyalty

  • The sunflowers that he is frequently seen with represent this Loyalty and admiration.

    • Three animal symbolisms have been used for him, Foxes, Dogs and A Pheonix.

https://namesfolder.com/filipino-boy-name/joel 

https://japanese-names.info/first-name/ryuuga/ 

 https://projectsekai.fandom.com/wiki/Shinonome_Akito#Etymology 

 https://colourrepublic.com/blog/what-does-the-sunbelievable-sunflower-symbolize