Joyce (Hoosier Anchorwoman!)

Joyce
Hoosier Anchorwoman! and Queen of the Willis character
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First appearance	"Pilot" (Hoosier Anchorwoman, 2010) "The Girls Are Back in Quillsville" (Queen of the Willis, 2020)
Created by	Ava Zinn Tracia Matthewson Karly Ryder
Voiced by	Ava Zinn
Information
Aliases	List Kendra's Aunt Joyce Angie O'Chat Veronica Numerous other unnamed
Species	cattle/cow
Gender	Female
Occupation	Various (depending on alias)

Joyce is a fictional character in the adult animated sitcom Hoosier Anchorwoman! and Queen of the Willis, voiced by Ava Zinn. The character was created and designed by Ava Zinn. Joyce is a centuries-old greyish white cow living with the Kendall family, around whom the show revolves. Having lived in Indiana since crashing in Niles, Michigan in 1897, Joyce came to live with the Kendalls after rescuing main character Kendra Kendall at a farm four years prior to the beginning of Hoosier Anchorwoman.

Joyce began the series as a sensitive pushover who is often taken advantage of, cheated, and ridiculed. Over time, the character has become a sociopath, exhibiting increasingly cruel, selfish, devious, and depraved behavior, although the Kendall family are curiously oblivious to his nature despite being her most frequent victims, with the sole exception of Kendra, who is the only Kendall family member aware of Joyce's malicious nature. In early episodes of Hoosier Anchorwoman, Joyce is disallowed from leaving the Kendall house in order to conceal her being a cow. This restriction is soon abandoned and Joyce begins adopting disguises and fictitious personas in order to have a life outside the house.

Joyce's personas have become a major plot device, with her myriad alter egos frequently being the subject or facilitator of a main story or subplot. This also helps to amplify her pansexuality and androgynous nature, which varies dependent on the plot situation and persona she has adopted. Aside from catalyzing the plot or subplot with her various personas, and despite her increasingly evident self-interest, she often serves to counsel Hoosier Anchorwoman's main characters, by humorously affirming or bluntly disregarding their opinions.

When voicing the character, Joyce speaks in a swish accent intended to resemble Jenna Fischer (who played Pam in The Office).

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