History
Joel didn’t have the best start in life. His mother, an omega, left not too long after his fourth birthday after the consistent abuse from her alpha husband got too much. Unfortunately, she didn’t take her son with her, leaving him with a man who had already begun to transfer his abuse to the child anyway. Joel grew up around a violent, aggressive alcoholic with a hair-trigger temper. He lashed out for no reason, often for things Joel couldn’t control, and even though there was no way that the four year old was anywhere near ready to present, he was considered a worthless omega already.He first met Carter Brown when he was in first grade, when Carter stopped a set of bullies stuffing sand into his face, holding him in place. Joel had never fitted in properly: he was quiet and delicate with typically ‘feminine’ traits and habits, something that had his father labelling him as a ‘queer’ and various other derogatory names for a homosexual. That stretched even to kids at school, nervous and different and jittery, clearly already traumatised, Joel was pretty much a magnet for bullies, at least until Carter came into his life and declared himself Joel’s protector.
The two of them immediately became inseparable, spending every moment at school together and Joel often being invited over after school to hang out. It didn’t take long for Carter’s parents to start seeing that something wasn’t quite right with Joel, trademarks of the trauma of an abused child. They couldn’t get anything out of him, though, not for lack of trying over the next few years. Things changed a few years later, not long after Carter and Joel turned nine: it was after he was absent from school for four days — effectively awol as the staff didn’t know where he was either — that Shawn went to Joel’s place for a welfare check and found him shivering and sick with a serious fever, left alone, arm clearly broken and bent at an unnatural angle. He was covered in bruises and very sick. Shawn rushed him to the hospital and immediately got CPS involved.
It took another gruelling year before they were able to get Joel taken away from his father for good. During that time, Shawn and Jess had gone through the motions to get themselves registered as official foster careers and adopters meaning that before Joel was sent into the system they intervened and took him into their home permanently.
Things for Joel looked up after that, even if he jumped every time Shawn came near him for another two years (and everyone cried the first time Joel called him ‘dad’ after he’d run into his birth father following his release from prison and Joel had spiralled into a panic attack that had him nearly passing out), and the damage that had been done was — in some ways — irreparable. He presented two weeks before Carter did, as an omega, which also threw him into a panic because he knew what that meant for him, his father had pretty much instilled that in him and he knew that made him weak and he knew that meant he— that everyone would hate him, that Shawn would hate him again, that he’d lose everything. He’d barely calmed down when Carter presented and ended up needing to spent a month with a beta family member until Carter’s pheromones calmed down and Joel’s own pheromones and panic levels receded because the sound and smell of a panicked omega set off both alpha pheromones to make them want to protect and help him which just made things worse for him.
After that month he came home, on suppressants to minimise his own scent and methods to try and control his inner omega, Joel’s life progressed as normal. Or mostly as normal. He graduated high school with his siblings and though college wasn’t for him he didn’t want to travel like Carter, preferring to stay close to home. He spent six months on and then six off suppressants, but always took some when his heat was due to hit in order to avoid that nonsense, thank you very much. When he was twenty, nearly twenty one, Carter called home to say he’d been attacked and that he was... different and that he wouldn’t be home for a number of years until he had a better handle on himself. It took them a while to get their heads around what that meant but this was Carter so ultimately it didn’t matter, and as soon as he was ready to come home, they embraced him the same way they always had.
Joel had moved into his own place, not too far from the family home, and worked various odd jobs, not able to hold anything steady down due to generally being a human mess of anxiety and issues, so when Carter said he’d managed to find somewhere steady that he liked and was settling down in — at least for a while — Joel began to make plans to go and stay with Carter. It took him a while, but he’s finally ready and rolling into Canton Lake to stay. For a bit, at least.
Things
- Constantly can be found with something in his hands or mouth: Joel has somewhat of an anxious oral fixation and though he finally stopped biting his nails, this has been replaced with chewing on anything he has in his hands instead
- Joel never sits with his back to the door in a public space
- Wears glasses, sometimes wears contact lenses, can’t always be bothered to do either so sometimes he’s squinting his way through life. Prefers comfortable clothes over style. Has his ears pierced but doesn’t wear earrings anymore, has a scar on his lip from where he had his lip pierced. Does still have his left nipple pierced and has a barbell in it.
- Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful - Paloma Faith || Everybody’s Fool - Evanescence || Ocean - Tonight Alive || The Ballad of Mona Lisa - Panic! At the Disco || The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance ||
- Normal: Sea Breeze, Vanilla, Lemon || Heat: Bergamot, Orange Blossom, Lemon || Upset/Stressed: bitter apple, sharp vinegar
Kinks
- Yes: D/s (sub), vanilla sex, praise, emotional sex, edging, orgasm denial/control, exhibitionism, praise, anal (both, receiving preferred), body worship (both), aftercare, kissing, cuddling, non-sexual intimacy, oral
- Maybe: multiple partners, overstimulation, role play, non-sexual domination
- No: verbal or physical degradation/humiliation, spanking, restraints, aggressive/rough sex, pain, fisting, vore, gore, dub/non con, breath play, impact play, sensory deprivation, DD/lg, forced feminisation, cheating, gagging, sadomasochism
Note: Some of Joel’s ‘no’ list may move to ‘maybe’ with the right partner who can work on building his confidence and trust
Lines Wanted
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