[Basic Bio]
Category: Character Info

Birth Name ▶ Joseph Anthony Perry
Nicknames ▶ King of Cool, Italian Stallion, The Lightning, Cuppa Joe
Age ▶ 31
Sex ▶ Male
Birthdate ▶ September 10th, 1989
Birthplace ▶ Lawrence, Massachusetts
Species ▶ Human
Race ▶ Mediterranean-European
Ethnicity ▶ Italian-American
Relationship Status ▶ Single
Languages Spoken ▶ American English, Italian
Religion ▶ Progressive Judaism
Occupation ▶ Lead guitarist and founder of rock band, The Project
Residency ▶ Mobile, but owns a loft in Boston and a large isolated house out west in Lincoln an hour away.
Children ▶ Roman Anthony Perry (Son, age 5)
Pets ▶ A male grey tabby kitten named Scooter, and a male Chilean rose hair tarantula named Mocha
Hobbies ▶ Streaming his guitar jams, playing shows, hunting, fishing, camping, motocross racing, reading, writing, traveling the world
Orientation ▶ Bisexual with a romantic lean toward women. He typically avoids long-term relationships with men and will only date cisgender people.
Relationship Role ▶ Mostly independent with a bit of dominance over his partner, depending on their demeanor. Personally, he does not prefer to take the reins in a relationship entirely.
What He Seeks ▶ Joe seeks companionship in a soulmate, someone who can deal with his lifestyle as well as understands his admiration for performing around the world and making music. Anyone who cannot have a basic understanding and not appreciate that he is just doing what he loves he wants no business with. A person who has similar problems may be his ideal soulmate such as another rock musician. While he thrives mostly for a loving wife to have more children with, he does not see men as marriage material.
▶ Life Goals
- Find the right woman to marry.
- Father a brother for his son, Roman.
- Leave behind a fortune in his will for Roman and any other future children.
- Keep sober. Stay away from alcohol and hardcore drugs.
- Keep his career afloat.
Basic Physical Description ▶ Joe is an above-average height of five foot eleven with a small muscular ectomorph build weighing in at one hundred and sixty pounds. His skin is a warm ivory shade with a slight olive undertone. Warm black hair and chestnut brown eyes. Becoming a lover of tattoos, he has a basic lined Endless Knot tattoo on his right shoulder, two detailed koi fish on his left upper arm, musical notes inside of his left forearm, "Dad" with a feather below on the right side of his neck, and his son's name "Roman" and birthdate of "5-23-15" on the right side of his chiseled chest. Lastly, the left side of his neck has a tattoo of the Star of David. Veins running up and down his hands and arms, it clearly shows he is far from being out of shape.
Distinctive Features / Scars ▶ An oblong face, piercing eyes, aquiline nose, and chin. A faint scar across his right eyebrow from taking a knee in a brawl. Joe also has a faintly crooked nose from it being broken in the past.
Personality ▶ Joe is an all-around gentleman when he wants to be. He is passive-aggressive and good-tempered; difficult to truly anger. He can also be a wallflower and can grow socially anxious. If he believes someone is not worthy of his respect he will not respect them. He is most of the time uncompetitive, disliking most competition with others due to his selfless nature. But his generosity has been used against him. He does show a little bit of an ego when it comes to his guitar skills. But his compassion is one of his strongest points. Wealth nor fame concerns him.
Perry is a private person. Not much is openly known about him outside of his musical background. The media can pester him all they want- his sexualty, fatherhood, and the majority of his background stay exclusive to the knowledge of his friends and family.
A long history of exes and bad relationships, he is a hopeless romantic but feeling on the verge of giving up on looking for love and staying single and holding onto his paternal pride. He is loyal to the people he cares about and does not dare cheat on a partner, whether it be a lustful, or a serious relationship. He is quite the romantic and thoroughly enjoys any kind of rosy moments with a partner whether it be sexual or not. Unadmittedly, Joe can be a bit clingy and at times doubt his worth to them after having so many previous relationships fail because of lovers with high standards.
A sufferer of PTSD, he gets his night sweats and occasional jittery behavior. He dislikes his face and chest being touched after his years of enduring physical abuse and will flinch, or back away whenever these regions of his body come into contact.
Skills ▶ He is a master at the guitar, a great cook in the kitchen, trained in amateur boxing, wields an intermediate belt in taekwondo (also in the slow process of learning Brazilian jiu-jitsu) and is moderately skilled in automotive repair and takes part in local amateur motocross races in his spare time with no ambition in going pro.
[NSFW] ▶ Joe is well-endowed at 8.5 inches and is uncircumcised. He has been picked on in the boy’s gym shower room in high school for being intact and also has been rejected by potential partners. Aside from that, he isn’t exactly satisfied with his size, in fact wishing he were a bit smaller in terms of length.
Has a faint scar on his left testicle from being bit by a partner. 
His libido is high for his age. Having so much experience in the bedroom, he doesn’t have an issue making sure his partner is having as much of a good time as he is.
Joe’s reproductive health is normal and has no issue siring more children. Due to genetics, he has a higher chance of fathering sons. He aims for a vasectomy later in time.
In the bedroom, Joe is an experienced switch who more so gets off on his partner’s pleasure rather than his own. His endurance is rather impressive for his age due to his athletic lifestyle, lasting about an hour or more with short refractory periods. He is quite sensitive but able to control his climaxes to extend his duration.
Joe sometimes has a hard time controlling himself, especially around someone he is attracted to. Past partners excite him often when he’s with them.

History ▶ Trigger warnings: Abuse, neglect, substance use
Joe was born a healthy boy on the cold morning of September 10th, 1989. His mother, who had been struggling to pay rent ever since her husband was deployed overseas, moved into a shelter for military mothers to give birth to her child. Mary fell in love with her son the moment she saw him, giving him the name Joseph after the favorite son of the Biblical figure, Jacob. She had Joe baptized at her local Catholic church but refused to have him circumcised after she witnessed a friend's baby go through it in squealing agony.

Mary lounged her little Joey around the North End district of Boston in search of work. Finding a decent-paying job as a seamstress, she was able to support her newborn son and herself until her husband’s return. Moving to a house on the beach of Cape Cod, the Perry family had expanded once Tony arrived back home. Making up for lost time with his son, Tony wasted no time.

When Joe was two years old, his sister, Annebeth was born. Their rivalry began not too long after she began to speak full sentences, highly despising how Joe was the golden child of the family. Aside from the drama between him and his only sibling, Joe’s childhood was full of nature exploration and was pretty disconnected from the artificial world when he wasn’t in school.

Joe spent his childhood in a house on the beach of Cape Cod. His father schooled him on hunting, shooting guns, and survivalist skills. His mother, a physical education teacher, taught her two children how to swim at a very young age. Joe spent time as a Boy Scout to further his passion for nature.

Little Joe was a loner in his early years in school and was bullied for his big teeth and his jutting nose. Once his sister was in school with him, she encouraged Joe’s classroom tyrants throughout the years. He was very shy of strangers and often ran away and isolated himself. He would swim in the ocean often as a gateway from his troubles and spend time with his childhood chocolate labrador, Cocoa. She would pass away in his late teenage years when the family moved to Joe’s town of birth for a few years, unable to care for the boathouse any longer on a budget. 

Picking up boxing in his late childhood as his parents suggested to him, Joe had the potential to be a middleweight boxing champion someday from his great performance in amateur bouts as he had outstanding punching power for a small frame. But he blew it all away when he discovered he wanted to pursue a life in music in his later teen years instead of amateur boxing, which he continued until he was eighteen as a way to control his inner aggression.

His life didn't start to reach its dramatic peak until his teen years. Hitting puberty at the age of twelve and trying to identify himself, Joe wasn't all that good with the girls and would often question his orientation. But he had no knowledge of any sexuality other than what was considered “normal.” Joe was picked on by other kids in school for acting like a boy in the closet, which he was, keeping his feelings bottled up from others, even his own parents. 

Joe's musical inspirations came from the cassette and vinyl collections his parents owned. Hard rock intrigued him the most, which would later become his most played genre in his dream music career. Getting his first guitar at fourteen after a year of begging his mother and father for one, Joe focused on his personal guitar lessons rather than his homework, making his careening grades less of a concern to him. 

When Joe was fifteen the family moved back down south into the suburbs of Boston, hoping to find a better school for their children that was close by and a walking distance. Buying a ticket to a local band called Fahrenheit, it would be then that Joe would meet its lead guitarist and vocalist Charlie Fahren, who would later become his close friend and the rhythm guitarist of Joe’s band. Charlie’s girlfriend, Simone, was once a girl Joe had taken a romantic interest in, but she brushed him off. It was only the starter of his insecurity when it came to love. As his social anxiety continued to haunt him, Joe dropped out of school at the beginning of 12th grade when he was eighteen, displeasing his parents and receiving toxic criticism from his younger sister who was never impressed by her older brother. 

Since the age of consent in Massachusetts is sixteen, without a doubt he couldn't go without being harassed for his long-lasting virginity and not getting himself intimately involved with women at all. Having not known of any other orientation than heterosexual, the young man was lost, falling into a great depression about his sexual identity as his hormones began their course. Once he discovered other teenagers who were in the closet, Joe learned to accept himself. But he kept it from his family.

Joe was a slight late riser in terms of beginning his sex life; and wouldn't lose his virginity until he was twenty-one to his first-ever relationship with a girl his age named Elissa Benson. She ogled Joe through his last year in high school and developed an unhealthy obsession with the young man before finding the courage to speak to him and express her feelings. 

Forming his band when he was twenty-two, Joe finally came out of his shell and began to make friends with other guys his age that shared the same interests in music. Around this time Joe had gotten his first tattoo, the musical notes inside of his left forearm. Despite being a leftie, Joe normally plays right-handed.

Touring New York with his band The Joe Perry Project and breaking up with Elissa, Joe thought long-term relationships weren’t for him and focused more on music. But as the years went by it was all crazy sex, drugs and rock n roll. Through many sexual escapades and drug-fueled parties, it began to slowly kill the band. Joe was one day arrested for marijuana possession and imprisoned for a month until he was released due to the lack of evidence. While Joe did try to be strong as an inmate, the others could sniff out his weakness so he was ganged up on and beaten. It was then Joe would experience his first time getting raped; by a prison guard as well as a rival inmate. After a while, Joe had a tough time bonding with the same sex in an intimate manner, struck by sexual trauma.

Struggling with a job as a forklift operator once his charges were dropped and so was his criminal record, Joe's band officially hit rock bottom and broke up after Joe would get so wasted he couldn't perform at gigs. Still shaken from being molested in jail, his drug addictions and drinking all worsened. In time, he would begin to use sex as a coping skill. 

Getting desperate for bread, Joe participated in illegal underground fights to brush up his self-defense skills, winning bare-knuckle brawls to put a little extra cash in his pocket as he revived his childhood boxing skills he never necessarily let go of as well as pick up some brawling techniques. Sadly, the money was not used for essential things, but drugs and alcohol instead.

Prostituting himself for extra money, Joe was in his mid-twenties and finally cementing his bisexuality that took years to uncover even after all of the wild sex with both women and men he had through his short career. It was then after not paying his rent, Joe was evicted onto the streets and living in his father's old car. Still taking part in underground brawls for a little cash for whatever food he could get his hands on, Joe suffered for nearly two years in the most impoverished parts of Boston trying to survive with only a car roof over his head. At times, he would play his broken acoustic for spare cash at local parks. Nearly getting killed for provisions and the little cash he had on him, Joe had no choice but to kill two bums out of survival instinct. Feeling reckless for what he did, that stuck to him for a good while but through time, he felt his actions were justified. Once nearly getting beaten to death in an alleyway by a local gang of crooks, a bloody and battered-up Joe was beginning to find it near impossible to survive on the streets any longer.

After long periods of unprotected sex during this period in his life, Joe began to develop the slowly emerging symptoms of syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection that he could do nothing to get treatment for as a homeless man who couldn’t even afford a gallon of gas most of the time let alone a doctor’s visit and a prescription. His self-diagnosis had given him the explanation for his physical weakness he had been experiencing.  As Joe grew iller, he knew he needed to get help for his condition or it would be too late for him to be cured. His poor diet and lack of sleep allowed the bacterial infection invading his body to develop quicker than normal as death crept closer.

Hiding his life from his parents as he fought to be more independently stubborn, Joe had no choice but to move into the apartment of his ex, Elissa Benson after a year of eating at the soup kitchen and showering at a local church as his syphilis worsened, developing sores across his chest and groin along with rashes across his body. Anything for a place to sleep and shower. One of the few good things she had done for Joe, she had him taken to a doctor for a penicillin shot that would eradicate him of his illness within a month. Luckily for him, he didn’t sexually contract anything serious such as HIV after a blood test returned negative for any incurable STDs.

Luring Joe into her lair, she pampered him with whiskey and cheap cocaine as she worked her daytime job as a bagger at a grocery store, giving little about what truly happened to him. Elissa's behavior against Joe did not improve. Since they had last seen each other she was just as addicted to cocaine as Joe, if not worse. Knowing Joe was afraid to be alone, Elissa had coaxed him into staying with domestic abuse that was disguised as rough love. The abuse was mostly one-sided as Joe couldn't do much to fight her back, being as physically weak as he was. Getting pregnant from Joe a month after he had moved in and only to get a miscarriage eight weeks in, this only damaged Elissa more as she was one to pin her problems out on anyone else but herself. Heavily in denial that her drug addiction killed their baby, she entirely blamed Joe for it and worsened her abuse towards him, physically and sexually.

Getting pregnant from Joe one last time with their son Roman a few months prior, Elissa had moved out to be with her family to get sober and take care of herself so she could have the baby, intentionally leaving the father out of the picture to break him. Barely carrying himself along to get clean, Joe did the best he could to kick his addictions in hopes of becoming sober for his first child. With Elissa threatening to abort only to mess with his sanity, Joe did his best to brush it off and no longer fall for her mind games towards him. When their son, Roman was born on May 25th of 2015, it was one of if not the best day of Joe's life. Despite not seeing his son being born due to Joe's late arrival, it was love at first sight at the maternity ward. Becoming a father at twenty-seven years old, it was a drastic life change that was for the best.

Moving into a better place with some money from her parents, Elissa lured Joe into another one of her traps once she let him move in so he could be with their son full time. Her abuse grew worse to points where Joe had to knock her out just so he could escape her attacks on him. Now sober with no lack of judgment, it was bad news for her and good news for him that he was clean and able to defend himself from her ferocious abuse. Successfully forcing him into sexual intercourse several times through drugging him with sleeping pills, Elissa believed she had control over her son's father and did anything to keep him away from Roman, even if it included reporting him to the police for domestic violence and rape to get him locked away and out of her life so she could make a run for it with their child.

Obtaining custody of twelve-month year old Roman after a grueling time in court, Joe's mother Mary aided him with parenting and with his settlement money he got himself a loft outside of downtown Boston and a new car for himself. Elissa got fifteen years for domestic abuse.

To remember the day he had won over Elissa, he got the endless knot Karma tattoo on his right shoulder. Trying to fight through his pain in his own was proven difficult as he refused therapy for his diagnosed PTSD from being raped and beaten. Going through many relationships some months after Elissa, Joe found it increasingly difficult to seek out love again or even develop trust in anyone to be his better half. His mild fear of sexual contact did not help with this.

Shortly after reuniting his band, Joe's father Tony passed away only a few months later from small-cell lung cancer. Broken and devastated at the time of his father's military funeral that he never attended out of severe grief, Joe knew it was time to harden up and move in through life without his father, for Roman’s future as well as his own. Getting his third tattoo of "Dad" and a feather below it on his neck, he knew his father would always be with him even after death. It was this point in Joe's life where secrets could no longer be held. Feeling the need to explore his sexuality, Joe began leaning towards other men. Dating a man and falling in love with one for the first time, Cole was Joe's only true boyfriend he had. But the relationship only turned his mother onto her bad side as she disapproved of Joe's homosexual relationship and wanted her son to find a mother for Roman, not a “second father”. Leading up to their breakup, Joe had never seen Cole ever again after he lost his mind and was nearly killed in a car accident after a screaming match he got into with Joe’s mother. Last seeing Cole near death in a hospital bed, Joe had not heard from him since and his fate remains a mystery.  

Meeting Melanie Zacharias through a blind dating app when he was thirty years old, Joe had met her in person and felt something he never felt before and it was true love. Finally, someone who appreciated having him and accepted him as perfect. Wanting to help her financially; Joe had fired David Hul as his bassist and had Melanie replace him for the time being. Feeling like an outcast compared to the others in the band Melanie accepted it anyway. 

Falling asleep behind the wheel whilst driving home after an early night date with Melanie, Joe had nearly gotten himself and his own son killed in an accident that resulted in him skidding off the road and colliding into a parked car. Soaring out the window and suffering from a concussion, three year old Roman was silent no more as he got out of the vehicle and cried out on his father, thinking he was dead. Resulting in his band breaking up once more Joe had joined a prospect thrash metal band known as Dethlok, where one of the greatest rivalries in his career would start. Axl Morel and Lionel Falk of Dethlok got the bigger part of the pay which Joe was unhappy about. Things only progressed to get worse as Joe and Melanie officially had broken up their two month long relationship as Joe’s conflict with his sexuality continued which turned her away from him. Despite being short, Joe's relationship with Melanie reminded him of what it was really like to be in love besides his relationship with Cole. With Melanie moving back to her hometown of Anaheim, California clear across the country, it would be a while Joe and Melanie would meet each other face to face again. 

Working at Tanino's, an Italian restaurant in downtown Boston as a side job, Joe had worked their part-time in hopes of a little extra money and the fact he loved to cook anyway, doing a job he actually loved instead of moving crates all day in a motorized vehicle. Pulling his weight there for a few months he had befriended Ray Martinez, one of the chefs at his job and also had a brief sexual relationship with his boss Maria just for a raise and a promotion. Though Ray was gay and had a huge crush on Joe, the two didn't get any further than friends with benefits until no longer seeing each other once Joe quit and continued to progress in his music career.

Sticking with Dethlok until he got some kind of popularity in the band, Joe eventually left the growing supergroup and phoned up his old bandmates Charlie, David and Ronnie to resurrect The Project. Forgiving Joe they had come back, rebuilding the band from the ground up and coming out stronger than ever. Starting to become an independent and strong man, Joe did his best to get somewhere, and it would pay off in the months to come once the band toured New England yet again, making money all through it. 

Releasing their first official album after receiving a record deal, Joe's childhood dream was coming true as he put his past behind him, touring all fifty states and soon after, Asia and Australia. After he finishes his world tour, he has a two year break in mind for rest, though it might not go as he had anticipated.