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anstaar on Plurk
E-mail: perola1882@gmail.com
Other Characters: Nico, Fitz Kreiner
Character Name: Joshua Foley
Series: X-Men 616
Age: somewhere between 19 and 21 (age uncertain because of comics time and various time spent dead)
From When?: Around Uncanny X-Men (vol 5) #11 where it appears that most of the X-Men have been killed
Warden:
Josh is a healer. He has his powers because he’s a mutant, but he uses them as he does because he wants to help people. He wants to do good, and he knows how complicated that seemingly simple statement can be. He’s spent years trying to figure out what that means in a world that’s constantly trying to kill him and calls for compromises. He’s made choices he’s regretted and then worked to make up for them, making him a strong believer in second chances. He’s in possession of astonishing powers that can cause great harm as well as heal and tries not to do harm.
Item:
A pager
Abilities/Powers:
Josh is an extremely powerful healer. He can control the biological structure of his own and other people’s bodies down to the genetic level. He can bring people back from the dead. He can be killed but can resurrect himself. He can detect life-force, sensing when someone is dying, and manipulate it, moving it from one person to another. He can detect abnormalities in living beings, from techno-organic cells to magic influences.
Josh can also use his abilities to harm others. He can cause various types of illness, organ failures or simply cause death with his touch. He’s strong enough that he can use his abilities to harm even people with rapid regeneration or invulnerability.
Personality:
Josh likes people, and he wants people to like him. This hasn’t always had the best results. Coming from a family that hated mutants, he tried to deny his abilities and joined a group dedicated to anti-mutant activity. But when it came down to it, he couldn’t actually let someone be hurt when he could save them with his mutation, even though it did cost him his family and the life he’d known before. Despite this past, Josh was able to make new friends and rebuild himself, as he’d have to do again and again through the various disasters that befall mutants. Through it all, he remains drawn to people, and can draw them in with his generally friendly nature. Though his habit of trying to be what people around him want him to be doesn’t always hurt in making friends, even if it’s not the wisest choice.
Josh tries to be nice but doesn’t always succeed. He can be arrogant. He tends to talk without thinking about what he’s saying. More dangerously, he has a poor temper. He lashes out in times of stress, both verbally and physically. While not a great coping mechanism for anyone, it has greater dimensions for someone who can kill with a touch.
Josh has gone through many tragedies. As a healer he feels an extra responsible for all the people who have died, the ones he wasn’t able to save. He’s tried to work on his anger to stop himself from hurting others, but that doesn’t mean he’s actually dealt with the causes. He lost a lot of people. He’s used his powers to hurt and kill. He’s died and been resurrected while others remain gone. It’s a lot to deal with so he mostly doesn’t. Josh has tied most of his self-worth to his healing abilities and when he can’t heal, he tends to break down.
At his core, Josh has a kind heart. He likes helping people. He likes having the power to help people, even if he’s often not comfortable with the full extent of his mutation. He wants to make other people’s lives better. In dangerous situations, he rushes in to help. He’s screwed up, and he’s more than willing to forgive others for doing the same, when he was the one hurt by what they did. He’s gone to extremes for revenge or become lost the depths of his powers, but he always pulls himself out – often without much support – in order to try again to heal. At times he tries to retreat from the world, but he can never really stay back when there’s a chance to do something.
After years that have seen the depowering of most mutants, the death of large numbers of his friends (as well as his own) and viruses devised to destroy mutants, Josh has had to adapt. He’s outgrown a lot of his immaturity, but sometimes feels like the good parts of who he used to be were lost too. He wants to live a non-violent life, but has accepted that as something he can’t have. For the sake of the survival of his friend and his species, he’s made compromises with his conscience and learned to work with anyone. However lost he can sometimes feel, he holds on to saving others.
Barge Reactions:
Josh has spent years associated with the X-Men and lives in a world of superheroes and world-shaking events. The strangest thing about the barge will be the lack of mobs trying to kill him. He’s dealt with mutants, superheroes, aliens, time travelers, rulers, and godlike beings. He’s died and come back to life multiple times, traveled into an apocalyptic future, gone to alternate realities, and dealt with various instances of mind control. His threshold for what counts as weird has pretty much completely disappeared.
Deal:
For all the mutants who have been killed since he turned sixteen to be brought back to life.
History:
History
Sample Journal Entry:
Hi. I’m Joshua Foley. Uh, Josh. [This is so embarrassing, he’s pretty sure he used to be good at meeting new people. He would say it’s like a first day at a new school, but he’s done that without sounding like a weirdo.]
I just came on board a couple weeks ago, before that detour into alternate versions of ourselves? Or whatever that was. I don’t know the usual policy here, but I wanted to offer a general apology. I definitely can’t say I’m never a dick, but the government agent thing is not my usual speed. Sort of the opposite, really. Not the point.
I’m sorry to anyone that version of me hurt.
Sample RP:
Josh usually makes a concerted effort to spend time in the infirmary. He usually has a few books on medicine with him, the mental crash course gave him a lot of information, but it could use some grounding. He tries to get through them with only minimal doodling. And without spending the whole time spinning around on chairs. Or playing with rubber-band balls. Or talking too much. He’s not great at sitting still when there isn’t someone to help immediately.
He’s happy to offer his healing services outside of the infirmary, anyone who needs help who doesn’t want to make the trip or doesn’t like the infirmary only needs to be near him. Though he tries his hardest not to do anything before asking if it’s okay and offering a brief explanation of his powers. Even if it’s difficult not to help.
Today, though, hasn’t been a good day. Instead of the infirmary, Josh has spent the last few hours in the gym, making countless shots with the basketball. He misses more shots than he would’ve a few years before, and every miss makes him tense further. He can momentarily lose himself in the exertion, but there’s no distracting ache when he pauses, nothing that can let him forget who and what he is.
Special Notes:
User DW:
anstaar on PlurkE-mail: perola1882@gmail.com
Other Characters: Nico, Fitz Kreiner
Character Name: Joshua Foley
Series: X-Men 616
Age: somewhere between 19 and 21 (age uncertain because of comics time and various time spent dead)
From When?: Around Uncanny X-Men (vol 5) #11 where it appears that most of the X-Men have been killed
Warden:
Josh is a healer. He has his powers because he’s a mutant, but he uses them as he does because he wants to help people. He wants to do good, and he knows how complicated that seemingly simple statement can be. He’s spent years trying to figure out what that means in a world that’s constantly trying to kill him and calls for compromises. He’s made choices he’s regretted and then worked to make up for them, making him a strong believer in second chances. He’s in possession of astonishing powers that can cause great harm as well as heal and tries not to do harm.
Item:
A pager
Abilities/Powers:
Josh is an extremely powerful healer. He can control the biological structure of his own and other people’s bodies down to the genetic level. He can bring people back from the dead. He can be killed but can resurrect himself. He can detect life-force, sensing when someone is dying, and manipulate it, moving it from one person to another. He can detect abnormalities in living beings, from techno-organic cells to magic influences.
Josh can also use his abilities to harm others. He can cause various types of illness, organ failures or simply cause death with his touch. He’s strong enough that he can use his abilities to harm even people with rapid regeneration or invulnerability.
Personality:
Josh likes people, and he wants people to like him. This hasn’t always had the best results. Coming from a family that hated mutants, he tried to deny his abilities and joined a group dedicated to anti-mutant activity. But when it came down to it, he couldn’t actually let someone be hurt when he could save them with his mutation, even though it did cost him his family and the life he’d known before. Despite this past, Josh was able to make new friends and rebuild himself, as he’d have to do again and again through the various disasters that befall mutants. Through it all, he remains drawn to people, and can draw them in with his generally friendly nature. Though his habit of trying to be what people around him want him to be doesn’t always hurt in making friends, even if it’s not the wisest choice.
Josh tries to be nice but doesn’t always succeed. He can be arrogant. He tends to talk without thinking about what he’s saying. More dangerously, he has a poor temper. He lashes out in times of stress, both verbally and physically. While not a great coping mechanism for anyone, it has greater dimensions for someone who can kill with a touch.
Josh has gone through many tragedies. As a healer he feels an extra responsible for all the people who have died, the ones he wasn’t able to save. He’s tried to work on his anger to stop himself from hurting others, but that doesn’t mean he’s actually dealt with the causes. He lost a lot of people. He’s used his powers to hurt and kill. He’s died and been resurrected while others remain gone. It’s a lot to deal with so he mostly doesn’t. Josh has tied most of his self-worth to his healing abilities and when he can’t heal, he tends to break down.
At his core, Josh has a kind heart. He likes helping people. He likes having the power to help people, even if he’s often not comfortable with the full extent of his mutation. He wants to make other people’s lives better. In dangerous situations, he rushes in to help. He’s screwed up, and he’s more than willing to forgive others for doing the same, when he was the one hurt by what they did. He’s gone to extremes for revenge or become lost the depths of his powers, but he always pulls himself out – often without much support – in order to try again to heal. At times he tries to retreat from the world, but he can never really stay back when there’s a chance to do something.
After years that have seen the depowering of most mutants, the death of large numbers of his friends (as well as his own) and viruses devised to destroy mutants, Josh has had to adapt. He’s outgrown a lot of his immaturity, but sometimes feels like the good parts of who he used to be were lost too. He wants to live a non-violent life, but has accepted that as something he can’t have. For the sake of the survival of his friend and his species, he’s made compromises with his conscience and learned to work with anyone. However lost he can sometimes feel, he holds on to saving others.
Barge Reactions:
Josh has spent years associated with the X-Men and lives in a world of superheroes and world-shaking events. The strangest thing about the barge will be the lack of mobs trying to kill him. He’s dealt with mutants, superheroes, aliens, time travelers, rulers, and godlike beings. He’s died and come back to life multiple times, traveled into an apocalyptic future, gone to alternate realities, and dealt with various instances of mind control. His threshold for what counts as weird has pretty much completely disappeared.
Deal:
For all the mutants who have been killed since he turned sixteen to be brought back to life.
History:
History
Sample Journal Entry:
Hi. I’m Joshua Foley. Uh, Josh. [This is so embarrassing, he’s pretty sure he used to be good at meeting new people. He would say it’s like a first day at a new school, but he’s done that without sounding like a weirdo.]
I just came on board a couple weeks ago, before that detour into alternate versions of ourselves? Or whatever that was. I don’t know the usual policy here, but I wanted to offer a general apology. I definitely can’t say I’m never a dick, but the government agent thing is not my usual speed. Sort of the opposite, really. Not the point.
I’m sorry to anyone that version of me hurt.
Sample RP:
Josh usually makes a concerted effort to spend time in the infirmary. He usually has a few books on medicine with him, the mental crash course gave him a lot of information, but it could use some grounding. He tries to get through them with only minimal doodling. And without spending the whole time spinning around on chairs. Or playing with rubber-band balls. Or talking too much. He’s not great at sitting still when there isn’t someone to help immediately.
He’s happy to offer his healing services outside of the infirmary, anyone who needs help who doesn’t want to make the trip or doesn’t like the infirmary only needs to be near him. Though he tries his hardest not to do anything before asking if it’s okay and offering a brief explanation of his powers. Even if it’s difficult not to help.
Today, though, hasn’t been a good day. Instead of the infirmary, Josh has spent the last few hours in the gym, making countless shots with the basketball. He misses more shots than he would’ve a few years before, and every miss makes him tense further. He can momentarily lose himself in the exertion, but there’s no distracting ache when he pauses, nothing that can let him forget who and what he is.
Special Notes:
