Joel Vane
The drowned brotherAGE 36Presumed deadunknown
CORE PSYCHOLOGY
WANTStay dead — the town's grief is the only cover he has left.
FEARThe raise; a hull keeps a secret, a salvage crew does not.
FALSE BELIEFHis family was safer grieving him than knowing him.
SHAMEHe let his mother bury an empty coffin and watched the procession from the tree line.
DEFENSEDistance, night buses, and other men's names.
MORAL LINEHe never spends the death — no insurance money, no inheritance touched.
CONTRADICTIONStayed away to protect them and became the thing that endangers them.
CHARACTER ARC
GHOST
→RUMOR
→RETURNED
TALK TO JOEL VANE
ANSWERS FROM CANON AS OF E03S22WHAT THEY DON'T KNOW, THEY HONESTLY DON'T KNOW — THAT'S THE TEST
DIALOGUE VOICE
Says almost nothing; answers a question with a smaller question.Nine years of other people's names have flattened his accent.