Joki Bedrieger

Joki is the first introduced main character of Colorless and is one of the protagonists. He is currently 17 according to page 020. Joki lived with his mother before ending up in the city of Aisho.

Physical Traits
Joki is 5'11 and has dyed blue hair (his real hair colour is brown) and brown eyes. His skin tone is quite pale.

He appears to be quite thin. If he is physically toned or not is unknown. His skin also appears to be clear, but that could just be due to the art style.

On Page 17, Joki is shown removing his hospital gown. On his right shoulder is either a birthmark that is the same shape as the sparkles next to Joki in the .gif to the right. It has an unknown significance behind it, as stated here.

Outfit
So far, Joki has only been seen wearing one outfit (besides a blue hospital gown). This outfit consists of a plain orange shirt, a black hoodie and dark colored pants, and shoes that appear to be black and white low top converse. He also wears black stud earrings.

His shirt has long sleeves that end in cuffs about the same size as the hem at the bottom of his shirt. There is no design on his shirt. The collar, the hem at the bottom of his shirt, and the cuffs are all a darker shade of orange than the rest of the shirt. This shirt is also a bit baggy on him.

His hoodie is a solid black color and appears to be somewhat thin. The drawstrings and zipper of the hoodie are white.His shoes look to be a pair of low top converse with white laces and outsole, midsole, and sole.

Personality
"Joki’s a soft-spoken, reserved, 17-year-old boy who gets trapped in a mysterious city called Aisho. Despite his lonely personality, Joki can get easily flustered and awkward at times."- cast page.

Going by the Cast Section of the comic, Joki is quite soft-spoken, as well as reserved. Joki is easily flustered, and can even be awkward at moments, despite his lonely personality.

Biography
Joki's full name is Joki Bedrieger. He is of Finnish and Dutch descent.

He had been living with his mother until the world was supposedly destroyed and Aisho city was created. After waking up in Aisho, it appears that Joki seemed to have forgotten the events that occurred right before he ended up in a hospital in Aisho city.

Joki wakes up in a hospital bed and finds himself surrounded by alien-like nurses. He also notices that some information about him, such as his height and age, were recorded. He gets into his clothes, which were wet for an unknown reason, and starts to walk around the hospital, trying to figure out where he is. He confronts another animated at the front desk, who tells him that he had fainted due to a drop in blood pressure. The animated tells Joki to leave because they no longer have any responsibility of him. Confused, he looks around the hospital, expecting to see the animated nurses that had been behind him; however, they have mysteriously disappeared. He leaves the building and is yet again confused by the inhuman beings within the city. He is suddenly confronted by an animated - a giant goldfish with visible skulls in its translucent body. He is almost attacked by it until he is saved by Ace, who shoots the goldfish. Ace collects a card that the goldfish dropped and matter-of-factly tells Joki that most humans in this world are dead because the world ended. Ace then pulls him to his van.

In Ace's van, Joki starts to angrily demand answers and even accuses Ace of drugging him, but Ace manages to quiet Joki down. The two end up learning each others' names, and Ace shows Joki a book about Aisho that tells the reader about the city and the animated living within it. He tells Joki that, in order to leave the dangerous Aisho city, they must reach “The Garden.” However, this can only be done by defeating the queen animated that rule over each district in Aisho city. Ace then jokingly pretends to shoot Joki with a gun, which frightens him and makes him even more anxious. Just when Ace was about to drive off, Joki takes a knife from the wall of the van and tells him to pull over. He ends up stabbing Ace in the stomach, dragging him outside, and driving off to a nearby store.

In the store, he comes across TV screens and magazines for the animated in the city. In one particular page of a magazine, he sees an adoption ad and is saddened because he is reminded of his own mother. After quickly stuffing himself with some food he finds while reading these magazines, a grenade is suddenly thrown at his direction, injuring him. The people who threw the grenade were Ace and Jack - they accuse Joki of being an animated, and carry him to the van, where they tie him up. They then drive to "The Well,” with the intention to summon Andromeda (the first queen animated that they must defeat). Joki tries to convince them that he is human, but Jack and Ace do not believe him. He is thrown into the well, where he is met by Andromeda, the queen animated of district Lotus. Jack and Ace are thrilled, as they had tried to attract Andromeda several times in the past, but failed every time. Suddenly, however, Andromeda exclaims that she has found a human, which shocks Ace and Jack. Joki is pulled down the well by Andromeda.

Joki is dreaming. One scene is a childhood memory with his mother on the beach. In this memory, he was looking for a starfish on the shore, but was unsuccessful, so his mother secretly took a white, store-bought starfish from her bag and placed it on the rocks. After finding it, Joki made a wish: to be able to make everyone happy and to rid his mother of her “bad thoughts”. His mother began crying, exclaiming that Joki shouldn’t have to endure anything for her. Joki is worried by his mother’s behavior, and insisted that they should call his father. His mother refused this offer, claiming that everything was fine, and embraced Joki. However, her state only worsened, as she began to repeat phrases that she had already said in previous pages. Suddenly, Joki’s mother disappears, dropping her purse, as well as the bottles of medicine inside of it. In her place, a white bathtub full of blue flowers appears. Inside is Meri and current-day Joki. In this scene, Joki asks Meri if they know each other, as she looks very familiar. They are also both aware of each other’s full names. He then wakes up in Andromeda's chamber, and Andromeda tries to get Joki to talk, but he is unable to do so because he is still in a dream-like trance. He slips back into the dream with Meri in it. Meri then tells Joki that he is losing his sense of reality; however, she also tells him that his mother is still alive, and that there is a way to get back home. Joki is intrigued, but Meri moves on and starts talking to him about how she knows everything about him - every emotion, memory, and desire that he has ever felt. Joki hazily tries to deny that Meri knows all these things about him. Suddenly, Joki slips into a different dream - he is in an empty bathtub with a pink-haired girl named Russu. Although the two exchange words about how they've missed each other and are seemingly close to each other, Russu starts to act hostile towards Joki. Joki had somehow broken her heart while they knew each other, and she starts to call him "fake" and that she would never miss him after what he had done to her, even telling him that she never wanted to see his face again. Joki is then shown drowning in a river, and starts talking to Meri. He no longer seems to show fear, and even sarcastically quips that Meri’s comprehensive knowledge about his personal life is “fantastic.” Meri encourages Joki to go back and make things right, and Joki is sent back to his past: he watches himself go through events of his life before, such as his childhood friendship with Russu, his mother comforting him as a child, and things that happened to him as a teen.

Nurse Secretary
Joki and the Nurse Secretary had a brief conversation in the hospital's main room. She/it tells Joki that his reason for being in the hospital is because he fainted. The Nurse Secretary says that the cause of fainting was most likely a blood pressure drop, or by a small mild mental illness (aka "mental indisposition"). Joki then asks about the Nurses' "costumes", which seems to offend the Nurse Secretary. She says that "this is a serious hospital", before urging Joki to go home and never come back.

Ace
Ace was originally introduced as the first "savior" to Joki, having saved him from the giant skull goldfish and briefly explaining the situation. However, after the incident in which Joki stabbed him due to being panicked from Ace's gun action, they're seen as protagonist-and-antagonist as of now.

Jack
Much like Ace, he and Joki has an enemy outlook on each other.

Joki's Mother
Joki and his mother seem to care about each other very much, and had been living together until he was transported to Aisho.

Trivia

 * His associated element is water. (Maybe that's why his clothes were wet, also his card has some water motif?)
 * Joki's name is very likely associated with the Joker playing card.
 * Joki is Finnish for "River" (Because of this and the fact that he calls his mother "äiti", which is Finnish for "mother", fans assume him to be of Finnish descent).
 * The creator of Colorless agreed that they headcanon Joki's voice as soft and quiet.
 * Joki alludes to the Joker card.
 * His card, "The Joker" represents the first/last tarot card, "The Fool". It was named that way due to aesthetic reasons.
 * After the 10/11/2019 update, Joki was removed from the cast.
 * It's been mentioned by the creator in the Colorless tumblr page that Joki likes milk.