Joyce Brown
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| Joyce Nicole Brown |
| First appearance Roomies! September 15, 1997 |
| DOB: May 5, 1979 [1] |
| Height: 5'4" |
| Weight: 125 lbs |
| Squadron(s): 128 |
| Abductee powers: Strength, durability, telekinetic control of her jetpack, immunity to The Sound of Music. |
Joyce Brown has been a main character of the strip ever since Roomies, when the focus was on Danny Wilcox - from those days she named her dog Daniel. Like the rest of the SEMME agents (except Jason Chesterfield) Joyce has the ability to control Alien technology with her mind. She seems to have a special affinity for a jetpack, which is hidden inside the back of her vest. When in a fight, she uses an extraordinarily large cannon, which she calls a giant pulsating gun [2], and keeps somewhere on her person. Strongly religious before joining SEMME, she is morally opposed to pornography or pre-marital sex, which she calls "Pre-marital hanky-panky." Joyce is often said to represent the strip's innocence and purity, a complement to David Walkerton's boundless energy.
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History
Early life
When she was an infant, Joyce was abducted by the Aliens. At this point, she was given a small amount of Martian DNA. She also had a trigger implanted in her mind, set to put her under the Head Alien's control when Year Zero arrived. This done, she was returned home.
At around the age of ten, she was reabducted for tests and met David Walkerton for the first time, while they were both clamped to tables. "Walky" freaked her out by telling her girls were full of spiders, then escaped by pulling his sweatshirt off. She begged him ("please please") to take her with him, and when the Head Alien turned up complaining, let her out and she followed him.
However, when she stopped, finding the Alien base "familiar, but... but in a bad way," wanting someone to hold her, she turned to find him gone. While he was surprised she wasn't following so he could pull her hair, and realising he liked her but not wanting to admit it, he found the Head Alien had caught her.
She yelled and begged Walky to help her while the Head Alien calmly threatened to kill her, but scared, he hid. Until, eventually, he snapped and beat the HA to a pulp, while Joyce sat, crying and scared, in the HA's Electro-Chair.
Nonetheless, the Aliens eventually managed to mindwipe them of the incident.
Still traumatized by the remnants of memory left by the event, Joyce's parents eventually bought her a dog, whom she named Walkies.
Student
Joyce orginally met Danny in college, when he sat next to her in calculus class. She wasted no time in labeling them a couple and following Danny back to his room, much to his surprise and embarrassment. When Danny attempted to explain that he already had a girlfriend, Joyce brushed it off.
It wasn't long after this that Joyce was reabducted again. Upon expressing her love of The Sound of Music, however, the Aliens called her the Antichrist and let her go.
Despite the troubles that Joyce had caused him in the past, Danny allowed Joyce to use the computer in his room. When Joe accidentally crushed Danny by wobbling the bunk until it fell on him, Joyce was unable to give Danny mouth-to-mouth to revive him because she kept giggling whenever she actually got close.
After Sal called to tell Danny that she was breaking up with him, Joyce saw her chance to win Danny's heart. When this failed due to Danny being unable to just give up on Sal, Joyce made it her mission to make Danny give up on Sal. In the meantime, though, she cried about the situation to Sarah, who had no sympathy.
At Joe's suggestion, Danny decided to try to forget about Sal and get comfy with Joyce. When he arrived at Joyce's room, however, he found that her parents were visiting, and that Joyce had told them that Danny had already proposed. Joyce used a very sad face to convince Danny to play along with the charade, culminating in an invitation to dinner from Joyce's parents, which Joyce accepted for him.
When Danny went to get ready for dinner, however, he was surprised to find Sal waiting for him in his room. When Joyce called up to let him know that she was waiting for him, Danny and Sal climbed out the window to escape her.
After the next year of college began, Joyce was slow to reapproach Danny, since, due to the events of the previous year, he now knew she was psycho. Sarah did her best to give Joyce some advice, and actually took Joyce to the library to find a hobby, in hopes of making Joyce more interesting so Danny would find her more attractive. This ended in failure after Joyce began looking up books on alien encounters.
Joyce, never one for giving up, went over to Danny's room to give him an ultimatum: either accept her, or she would leave forever. After Joe told her that Danny was out, she noticed Joe's toys and mentioned that they would clash with his macho image. Joe said that he hid them when girls came over, but Joyce hardly counted as a girl, so there was no reson to keep things hidden from her.
When this depressed Joyce into thinking that Danny hated her because she wasn't "appealing," Joe took the opportunity to list all of the other reasons Danny didn't date her. When Danny and Ruth got back, Joyce rushed out, shouting that she was dumb and Danny was perfect.
After Joyce recovered from that bout of depression, she continued to visit Danny, once showing up just in time to meet Ruth, who was also going to see Danny. When they arrived at the room at the same time, Danny was dismissive of Joyce, telling her to go home. Ruth, now annoyed, punched Danny for allowing Joyce to continue to stalk him. When Ruth described how Danny was tolerating Joyce because liked the attention, despite Danny's objections, Joyce got angry and stormed out. It only took her a few minutes after getting back to her room for Joyce to come to the conclusion that Sal had corrupted Danny, renewing her desire for Danny's attention.
Mindwipe
Upset at Ruth's death, Joyce listened to Joe, and began to tear up - until he ruined it by saying that he hadn't expected humanity from a "girl" and that he was most upset that Billie wouldn't "put out" now. At that moment, an Alien happened along looking for abductees - finding two in Joe and Joyce.
The Aliens put Joyce in an anti-gravity beam, and after the initial stinging passed, she found it fun. This passed very quickly when the Head Alien got bored and told "Fred" to "play pornos until her brain explode[d]." By the time SEMME Squadron 128 stopped the Aliens, her brain very nearly had, and she was left comatose. Sal then took her to SEMME HQ.
There, Walky saw her again, for the first time, as assistant to Professor Doc while Doc was arranging to fabricate her death as per most abductees. Later, Walky tripped around her bed, saying "D'OH!" as a result. Joyce, still comatose, abruptly followed with "...a deer..." Walky realised it was from The Sound of Music and followed with "Re", she went with "...a drop of golden sun." When they reached the end of the verse, she awoke, hugely depressed. She followed Walky through some air vents into a storage room where the Head Alien was being held in a tube.
Walky went across to try and open another vent, leaving Joyce within earshot of the Head Alien, who proceeded to convince her to "restore her innocence" by using a nearby mind-wiper. She proceeded to completely erase her memories. Walky found her shortly after, and was convinced by the Head Alien to take her back without telling anyone what had happened.
Agent of SEMME
After Joyce's training concluded, she was assigned to Squadron 128.
Year Zero
When Year Zero arrived, Joyce was one of the very few SEMME agents to not come under the Head Alien's mind control device, due to the fact that her mind had been wiped. She and Jason were unable to get in contact with SEMME, since HA had hacked into the main computer and set everything on complete lockdown. While looking around the apartment building to find someone else who wasn't unconcious, they ran into Walky, hanging upside down in the elevator. Even though he didn't want to be hero, Walky was charmed by Joyce's smile into bringing everyone to SEMME HQ.
At SEMME HQ, Joyce lobbied for Walky to be allowed to come help her, Jason, and Alan against the Alien army. Though this was initially refused, she eventually took him by force.
Alan flew everyone to the Alien base, only to be shot down upon arrival. While falling through the air clinging to Jason and Walky, she tried to activate her jetpack, which apparently malfunctioned. Fortunately, her weapon still worked, and firing it down provided enough kick back to slow them into a soft landing.
Upset over Alan's apparent death, she was forced to keep going when Aliens captured Walky. After he escaped from the mech, the three of them continued on towards the Alien base, where they were immediately held at gunpoint by every Alien in the building. Sal's arrival got them out of that mess, but destroyed the only means they had of ending the mind control.
Flying back to Washington, Joyce went into the White House to alert the Secret Service about what was going on. After some difficulty with the President attempting to hide her under his desk, she had a sudden flash of lost memory: she had first met Walky on the Alien ship, which meant Walky was an abductee. With this revelation, Walky stepped up and stopped all of the mind controlled abductees.
In the aftermath, as people tried to figure out what had happened and how they got there, Joe caught sight of Joyce. He tried to get her attention, but was carried off by Sal before he could.
Due to Tony's death and Beef's placement in the infirmery, Joyce and Walky joined Squadron 128 on a permanent basis and moved into the apartment.
Post-Year Zero
Joyce had some trouble fitting into the apartment with the other members of Squad 128. Between issues with trying to get Jason to lighten up on Walky and trying not to get kicked out of her room by Sal, Joyce began to feel a little lonely. She countered this by getting a puppy, which she named Daniel. Mike wasted no time in torturing her with threats to the dog.
On Joyce's 21st birthday, Jason took her to a pub to celebrate. Unfortunately, she didn't really understand what it meant to go to a pub. Despite her protestations of drinking as evil, Jason did manage to get her inside the building. She didn't drink anything, though.
When summer rolled around, Joyce did her best to make do, despite not having a coast around for miles. When Walky was placed in charge of the squad to go investigate the island that the Alien base had been on, Joyce manged to convince Walky to give them some time to play on the beach.
Following this, Walky began to pay a lot more attention to Joyce, in hopes of getting her to pay attention to him. Though he put a lot of effort into his attempts to woo Joyce, she remained oblivious. This did not stop him from trying to spend time around her, and he made a point of going into town with her in her quest to collect Hello Kitty toys from McDonalds. On the way back to the apartment, Joyce did open up to him a little more. Joyce's mention of old friends also convinced Walky to try to find out who these old friends had been.
Hurricane Joyce
While Walky was gone, Joyce and the rest of Squad 128 went to put a stop to another Alien threat. However, she was incapacitated, and the group was captured by the Head Alien.
When HA weakened SEMME agents with The Sound of Music and began killing them off to recover data he had imprinted in their brains, Sal realized Joyce's immunity to the movie made her the strongest one there. Sal deperately tried to get Joyce to do something, but called called her worthless when she refused. This finally made Joyce very angry.
With one movement, she broke her restraints. All the frustration of being the odd one out was released at Sal, who was quick to remind her to direct her anger at the Head Alien. Joyce attacked HA and began to beat him to a pulp, before finally throwing him into the computer to stop the deadly extraction of information from the abductees. Still held captive, Sal and Jason could only watch as the little things they had said to Joyce took their toll on her, driving her to nearly destroy the Head Alien. He saved himself at the last second by revealing to Joyce that she had been the one to wipe her own mind. With this break, HA decided to retreat.
In the end, Walky's attempts to console Joyce after hearing about what happened made Joyce decide that not all her memories from her past were bad.
Back to Normal
Joyce largely went back to the way she had been before her emotional explosion. She continued watching cartoons, and Jason's attempts to join her (at Sal's suggestion), made him realize that Joyce knew nothing about sex. He and Sal took it upon themselves to explain everything to her, though it did take some work.
After Walky decided to eat vast sums of mexican food to celebrate his anniversary of becoming a SEMME agent, he was forced to hole up in the bathroom, and began to lie to Joyce about why he was doing so. When Joyce realized it felt like Walky was hiding something, she began to question her feelings for him. However, when she asked him if he liked her, Walky panicked and shouted no. Disappointed, but quick to bounce back, Joyce tried to attach herself to Jason, with little success. However, a drunken Mike began expressing his "feelings" for Joyce, which made Walky very angry, until Mike coughed up the alcohol in his system.
Anti-Joyce
When Joyce was hit with the Dup-O-Matic during a crossover with Melonpool, it created Anti-Joyce, who would be the cause of Joyce's change into Joyce-Neutral.
See Anti-Joyce.
Recent events
She's been engaged to David Walkerton. In 2007, Walky's highschool crush Dorothy Keener moved in their neiborhood. When Joyce started to feel like her and Walky were never meant to be, he walked in and said, "Let's Elope".
Near future
At some point in the near future, Joyce will kill Walky during a domestic violence incident.
Trivia
- Joyce has five brothers [3].
- It has been decided that Joyce is beautiful, smart, and queen of ponies [4].
- Joyce has had a plush made of her [5]
- If the cameo of one of the plushies in Shortpacked! counts, Joyce is the first of two characters to make appearances in all four series that take place in the Walkyverse, the second being Ultra Car, if his appearances as a plain old SUV count.
- Psychologically, she associates love with dogs, having unknowingly named dogs after Danny and Walky.
- The recoil of her weapon of choice originally knocked her flat on her ass.
