<div class="floatleft">(https://66.media.tumblr.com/97fdd665d67eb650c21c9237b4607bca/tumblr_obiskwLUmq1v7qsymo1_400.png)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Basics</span></span><br/><strong>Character name:</strong>Joshua "Josh" Foley<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>Elixir<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Male<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Homosexual<br/><strong>Status:</strong>Single<br/><strong>Age:</strong>17<br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'9"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>145<br/><strong>Hair color:</strong>Blonde<br/><strong>Eye color:</strong>Blue<br/><strong>Hometown/Place of birth:</strong>New York City (Queens), New York<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">More Personal</span></span><br/><strong>Family:</strong>Joshua was legally orphaned by his parents upon discovery of his mutant abilities.  His blood relatives include his biological father Howard Foley, his biological mother Grace Foley, and two older brothers, Nathan and Kevin Foley.  Joshua has no home other than the Institute, and Henry "Hank" "Beast" McCoy has legal guardianship of him.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>It has been difficult to get a good read of Joshua's personality since arriving at the Institute, as his life has been in a state of tremendous flux.  His coy, even shy beginnings were revealed by Julian Keller -- quite publicly -- to truly  be his own self-shame for formerly being a member of an anti-mutant criminal organization with goals of killing mutants, particularly James "Logan" Howlett.  The fact that many of the students -- as well as some of the staff -- ostracized Joshua due to Julian's revelation only encouraged him to cloister his personality away in favor of remaining off of everyone's radar.  Quite simply: If no one noticed him, no one was punishing him for his origins.  Joshua slowly began to warm up some once his past stop becoming recent news, and revealed a slightly impulsive, yet artistic temperament that was equally prone to moments of elation, anger, and depression.  Joshua has taken active strides to get his moods under control, however, which has greatly helped his in studies and progress.   More recently, he's been particularly sullen due to the attacks on the Institute.  With Hank McCoy's discovery of Josh's potential, Josh has placed a self-imposed responsibility of being both important and protective of the team with his abilities.  Unfortunately, potential and present power level are two very different things, and Josh has ended up only over-extending himself to the point of mental and physical exhaustion trying to help.<br/><br/><strong>Hobbies:</strong>Writing, Art, Meditation, Tennis, Tai Chi, Swimming, Brain Teasers<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Josh Foley was born to a family of militant anti-mutant activists, known as the Reavers, in New York City.  From an early age he was taught that mutants were an abomination to humanity, a threat to his existence, and needed to be destroyed.  While as a large organization the criminal group that composed the Reavers may have had a much more complicated mission, Joshua's perception in it was starkly clear:  There was a war going on, humans were either destined to kill or be killed by the mutants, and if he valued the safety of himself and his loved one he would take up arms against them.<br/><br/>Joshua lacked anything that resembled a conventional childhood: being part of a strictly militant family he was provided with little social opportunities outside his brothers, he rarely lived in the same place or kept the same identity for long, and was taught to violently distrust anyone that was not part of the Reaver organization.  While Joshua never did develop or demonstrate much aptitude for direct combat, he worked as support for his older brothers and parents to develop weapons, create distractions, and assist in both the unwarranted arrest and death of several mutants.  In truth, he was simply too young still to be making much of a moral decision about his actions:  the existence and reality he knew was set by his parents, and he was deliberately kept from any competing ideas or thoughts.<br/><br/>Joshua's life would change forever when, as a young teenager, his family along with a group of Reavers attacked a small squad of X-Men whom were in New York for embassy business.  Fortunately for the X-Men, Joshua's group was largely unprepared and lacked the strategy of some of the more organized Reaver squads, and the X-Men escaped without any lasting wounds.  Joshua's oldest brother, Nathan, was not so fortunate and lay in the street with deep, medically-urgent lacerations.  Joshua rushed from his hiding place to try and stop his brother's bleeding as the fighting ceased.  At that moment Joshua felt a strange energy surge between him and his brother, healing Nathan's wounds, even while Joshua's own consciousness waned and he collapsed in the street.<br/><br/>When Josh came to it was in his room, his arms and legs bound together while he heard the sound of angry voices echoing in the next room.  While he was unable to hear fully, it was clear the topic of conversation was about him and the power exhibited, which clearly marked him as what was most dangerous and despised in this world: a mutant.  Though he called for help, announcing that he was awake, no one came.  It was Nathan, his eldest brother whom he saved, that finally approached him in the night.  The truths he shared with Josh were painfully, brutally clear: Josh was no longer part of the Reavers, nor his family; in fact, the only reason he was still there was while his parents were defending his life, many of his once-friends simply were advocating for his execution.  Knowing that he might have died if not for his intervention, Nathan said that while he could no longer consider Josh his brother he did owe him one last favor for saving his life:  Joshua's escape.  With Nathan's help Josh fled into the night, and was instructed by his brother to seek a home at the Xavier institute while never to return.<br/><br/>Josh did eventually make it to the door of the Xavier Institute, though it was an admittedly slow process between his hesitation of "surrendering to the enemy" and a lack of survival instinct, as he believed himself both evil and defective.  He was broke, starving, and more than a little unstable upon his arrival, and it took Charles Xavier and the rest of the staff time, patience, and more than a bit of psychic meddling to even piece together Josh's story.  While there was, no doubt, some controversy at the time to even provide shelter to a member of a group who had a past and present of actively seeking to kill their kind, others felt that Joshua was exactly the kind of youth who defined the Institute's mission to protect and educate<em>all</em>mutants in need.  Perhaps due to the boy's emotional frankness and natural warmth towards him, perhaps due to Josh's evidently high intellectual capability, or simply perhaps due to his healing power being a fascinating study subject, Henry "Hank" McCoy soon emerged as one of Joshua's strongest advocates.<br/><br/>This advocacy would prove to be quite fateful indeed.  Not having any legal control over the boy, the Xavier institute cautious reached out to Joshua's family to see if they intended to challenge his presence there.  In truth, Josh's parents were relieved he had escaped the Reavers who would have killed him, though also seemed adamantly unable to acknowledge him as anything but a monster any more.  He was no son of theirs.  In the end it was them who made the demand that if Charles was to keep Josh without a fight, he was required to find a way to legally absolve the Foley family of ties with Josh.  After much discussion, Hank would ultimately step forward and offer to take legal guardianship of Josh so that he could peacefully stay at the institute.<br/><br/>Josh's earliest days at the institute, perhaps, went better than one could expect: while the weight of being a mutant and being disowned by his family weighed huge on his mind, several of the faculty, most notably Hank, learned that the boy was also eager to be exposed to knowledge about the world he had spent much of his life being denied.  Josh was both a natural thinker and artist, and for the very first time, he was in an environment where that attitude could be encouraged.  Even when the faculty chose to make the slow transition into him being among and acting as a "normal" institute student, he seemed to be fitting reasonable well.  For better or worse, he seemed to have even become a loyal friend of one of the more concerning students at the school, Julian "Hellion" Keller.<br/><br/>While Julian had a tendency to prey and bully on the other students, he seemed somewhat receptive to Joshua's naturally quieter tendencies, and willingness to look up to him for leadership.  They additionally bonded over a distaste for Joshua's new roommate.  (<em>While this is canonically Prodigy, I am leaving this as an unnamed NPC at this time out of respect for possibly future Prodigy players, and in case anyone actively wants this connection.</em>)  This relationship ultimately ended in a tumultuous explosion, however, when after becoming suspicious of Josh's tight-lipped stance about talking about his past, Julian managed to extract the identity of Joshua's parents and his former status as a Reaver.  Enraged and feeling betrayed, Julian quickly spread the knowledge around school, making sure what was once a quiet secret was now widely known by students and staff alike.  Still very much ashamed of his past, Joshua could only respond with shaky apologies and quickly fell back into his older introverted, loner tendencies.<br/><br/>There were those among the student body, of course, that learned to forgive Josh and felt that Julian's actions that so brutally, publicly punished him for a past self were out-of-line.  One student among them in  particular, (whom was been left deliberately as an unnamed NPC at this time in case anyone would like the plot-hook in the future; this is canonically played out by Rahn Sinclair,) took both a liking and pity on the now quite insular Josh.  When Josh and the student shared what should have been an innocent first kiss, a surge in Josh's power activated repressed mutant genes within the other student that were considered disabled for good.  Josh was confused and alarmed for a single moment before, but as he often fought with, he ultimately slipped into one of his mini-comas.<br/><br/>When Josh awoke he was in the caring, if quite intellectually stimulated, care of his guardian Hank McCoy.  Like a caring mentor and friend, Hank's priority was to both stabilize and orient the recently coma-induced Josh.  However, Hank also had important information to depart to Josh and the core staff members within the institute: Josh was not simply a "healer" mutation as it was once believed.  Instead, Hank theorized, Josh had a startlingly powerful mutation that could allow for the manipulation of all organic matter on the planet: healing and harming, sure: but even abilities observed in the very few, including altering genetic mutations, genetic expression, and perhaps even resurrection.  Josh's limited ability to heal minor to moderate wounds was simply because he had never been trained or challenged to do anything greater.<br/><br/>There was new attention on Josh after those revelations, some good and some bad.  Even among the staff, some viewed him as both a potential asset and dangerous weapon, and argued the proper course of action for the youth.  Josh, for his part, simply felt humiliated and embarrassed for being singled out once more:  particularly since he could barely heal more than a couple people in a day's before becoming so mentally and physically exhausted he would lapse into a coma.  He exhibited a temperament at that time that was atypically stormy as he confronted Hank.  While, in many ways, Hank meant everything to him, he was unable to hide his quaking and angry insistence that there must have been some mistake in Hank's data.  This was not his life, this was not his potential.<br/><br/>Josh slowly adapted to the news through a variety of coping mechanisms.  With Hank's kind but forceful guidance, Josh learned to partially channel his increasingly surfacing bouts of frustration and anger through art, physical activity, and meditation.  He became an avid tennis enthusiast, and slowly began to feed his mind in a way that Hank theorized would cause Josh's latent abilities to blossom.  This included intensive sessions of studying anatomy, physiology, and bio-mechanics so that Josh would be capable of visualizing and focusing on the the desired forms and changes that he might want as his powers came fully into bloom.  It was a slow process -- particularly in regards to Josh's powers since he often lacked the stamina for much practice on a daily basis, and pushing him too hard would -- quite literally -- put him out of commission.  While information of his Reaver past certainly had not been forgotten, as "old news" does, its significance began to wane, and Josh slowly felt the student body being less overtly hostile and unwelcome to him.<br/><br/>Josh took the recent attacks on the institute incredibly hard.  Not only did he lack the fighting skills of many of his peers and mentors to be a proper player within the fight, he felt completely helpless as so many injuries formed around him that taxed his very limited stamina.  To make matters worse, as a well meaning staff-member attempted to pull him away (<em>while semi-canonically -- under different canonical circumstances, that is -- this person is Wolverine, i am leaving it as an unnamed PC for the moment for potential connection purposes,</em>) Joshua acted in fear and distress and unwittingly covered their body in painful boils, which only added to the overly-stressed needs of the infirmary for the staff member to heal from.<br/><br/>Josh has spent the last several months in a terminally exhausted state, draining his every reserve by using his healing properties when possible, and trying to assist in more traditional medic-related fashions under Hank's guidance when not.  On more than one instance he has over-extended himself into a coma.  The weight of supposedly having so much potential to help, and yet feeling more like another burden to the institute, has weighed very heavily on his mind.  After completely abandoning some of his self-care practices such as tennis, meditation, and art, Josh has slowly been forced into taking the time for them again by several staff members and students concerned with his currently frail-seeming and precarious health.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Mutations and Powers</span></span><br/><strong>Classification:</strong>Alpha Level<br/><br/><strong>Type of mutant:</strong>First of Family<br/><br/><strong>Powers:</strong>Theoretically, Josh has the ability to permanently alter the biological/or and genetic make-up of any living or dead organic life-form, including himself.  In practice, he is nowhere near that scope of power, however, and instead is unlocking small bits of that potential through his time at the Institute.<br/><br/><em>The Power of Touch</em>- While canonically Joshua has unlocked the ability to affect small groups at a distance, in his present development state Joshua must be physically touching an individual for his abilities to take effect.  While he may still affect an individual while touching them through clothes if he concentrates particularly hard, he is currently unable to affect an individual in thick, protective technological suits or armor.  Joshua may currently only effect one individual at a time.<br/><br/><em>Limited Reserves</em>- When Joshua uses his abilities repeatedly in close frequency, or if he performs an act that is close to his current maximum level of ability, Josh is at high risk to lapse into a coma.  He gets progressively weaker as his reserves are depleted, until he is simply no longer conscious.  The duration of this coma typically lasts for around twelve hours, but the GM (or player, if he so chooses,) may opt to extend this period for particularly trying feats.  While the mechanisms of this are not even canonically fully understood, Hank McCoy has theorized that uses of Josh's powers subtly weakens his own DNA, and his time in the coma is Josh's subconscious way of reflexively using his power to repair himself.<br/><br/><em>Problematic Natural Healing </em>- While the mechanisms of it are not fully known, it has been theorized that due to Josh's unusual power over his own DNA, conventional medicine tends to lack effectiveness.  If Josh is unable to heal or protect himself for any reason through his own powers, it is often a prolonged and exhaustive process to get conventional healing methods to work on him.  This includes recovery from damage, but also more esoteric health issues such as recovering from illness or receiving effective vaccines.  Fortunately for Josh, Hank McCoy has studied him enough that, when absolutely necessary, he can develop formulas that are somewhat effective on Josh; however, there is usually quite a high fiscal and time cost in developing such tailor-made formulas.  Due to it's unique properties, it has also been theorized that Warren "Angel" Worthington III's blood<em>may</em>also be beneficial when dealing with Josh's stubborn natural healing mechanism.<br/><br/><em>Healing Touch (General)</em>- One of Joshua's earliest unlocked abilities, and perhaps the one he is most known for, is his ability to heal another life form of injuries.  Minor wounds are instantaneous, but severe wounds may take an extended period of time and substantially drain him.  Blood is restored, flesh is repaired, and wounds heal.  This ability is still very tasking on him, and using it more than three times in a day for minor wounds, or more than once in a day for severe wounds, will likely drive him into unconsciousness.<br/><br/><em>Death Touch</em>- While canonically Joshua may have recently developed this skill quite extensively, he is much less practiced during the current timeline.  Joshua may, however, impart a level of non-lethal damage in the form of a biological attack, such as painful boils, twisted limbs, or simple feelings of illness and malaise.  With a similar stamina pool to Joshua's Healing ability, if Joshua<em>attempts</em>to inflict more than three minor-to-moderate wounds, or more than one severe wound in a single day, he is at risk of lapsing into a coma.<strong>Please Note</strong>: The actual severity of damage, if any at all, Joshua inflicts at any time is entirely up to the GM and consenting players.  The level of power<em>only</em>refers to whether Joshua is attempting to conserve some energy for later or go 'all-in' with no care as to what energy reserves he may have afterwards.<br/><br/><em>Genetic Alterations (Minor)</em>- With much concentration, Joshua has the ability to make a minor genetic variation upon physical contact.  These must be within the confines of the average human genome, and are not so strong that they will assist in battle in any way at this time.  They may, however,<span class="bbc_u">aid</span>(along with other props) in certain disguises.  Examples may be increasing the melanin to adjust an individual's skin color, adjusting the color of a person's eyes, or changing the shape of their nose.  This is still a very trying ability for Josh, and more than one use of this power in any given period will likely result in him entering a coma.<br/><br/><em>Healing Touch (Regeneration)</em>- Currently at the very peak of Joshua's abilities, Joshua has a<em>chance</em>(prior GM approval of each instance required) of regenerating lost limbs or organ tissue to another.   At this point in development, Joshua is very likely not familiar enough with anatomical workings to be able to do this without guidance; this guidance  ideally will take place in the form of his mentor and legal guardian, Henry "Hank" "Beast" McCoy.  If pressed, Joshua will likely be able to extract enough through his own research via books or internet, but it will not be nearly as time efficient as Hank's guidance.  Making an attempt at regeneration will almost assuredly send Joshua into a coma, likely at a longer than typical duration.<br/><br/><em>Great Promise</em>- Even more than many of the Institute's students, Joshua has a broad, possibly Omega-potential, base of power development under the realm of his organic-matter altering power-set.  If the<span class="bbc_u">GM chooses so</span>these powers may accidentally manifest themselves for the better or worse of the team in a given situation.  Josh will have no control of them -- or likely any knowledge that he himself has the capacity to do them.  These abilities are<span class="bbc_u">not</span>at the discretion of the player, so please do not suggest any; if Joshua more reliably unlocks an ability, they will be added to the list above following GM approval.<br/><br/><strong>Abilities:</strong>Things not given to your character by their mutation. Ex: multilingual, martial artist, etc.<br/><br/>Drawing (Late Beginner - Early Intermediate) - Josh's favored artistic medium is drawing, particularly with artistic markers and colored pencils, and he has slowly developed some skill in doing so.<br/><br/>Meditation / Tai Chi - Due to Josh's tendency towards strong emotions, artistic temperament, and the fact that his damage abilities tend to become a bit unhinged in perilous situations, he has developed discipline in the arts of both Zen Meditation and Tai Chi.<br/><br/>Practical Anatomy & Physiology Knowledge Base / Emergency Medic - Since Joshua's abilities are enhanced by his knowledge-base of anatomy and physiology, he has spent (and continues to spend,) much time learning applied and theoretical biology from Hank McCoy.  Even when Josh's mutant powers fail, he has knowledge of various life-sustaining techniques and biological processes.<br/><br/>Promising Intellect - While still demonstrating an aptitude far below his mentor, Henry "Hank" McCoy, Josh, nonetheless, has shown that he has a very strong capacity and potential for grasping and retaining complex scientific concepts.<br/><br/>Tennis Player  (Intermediate)- While Josh lacks some of the broader knowledge-base of team sports due to his somewhat aloof and problematic start in life, when he was told to learn to focus his emotional urges better, he found a strong love for the game of tennis.  He often goes to the court, particularly when more quiet methods of focusing fail him.<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">School Information</span></span><br/><strong>Classes Taken:</strong><br/>Intense Anatomy/Physiology/Biomechanics, Private Tutoring, Hank McCoy<br/>Languages (Latin)<br/>Power Control (Beginning)<br/><br/><br/><strong>Clubs/Extracurriculars:</strong><br/>Chess<br/>Drawing (Primarily Colored Pencils & Art Markers)<br/>Meditation (Zen)<br/>Tennis<br/><br/><strong>Student Relations:</strong><br/><strong>WIP</strong><br/><br/>Henry "Hank" McCoy - Joshua's legal guardian, mentor, and someone near-infallible in Joshua's eyes.  Hank was among the few who still showed Josh compassion when it was revealed he was a Reaver prior to his mutation surfacing.  It was Hank who first discovered that Joshua's abilities extended far beyond simply healing, and it was only by being a loyal student to Hank's knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and bio-mechanics that Joshua has been able to successfully expand his power base so quickly.<br/><br/>Bobby "Iceman" Drake - Joshua has been helping tend to many of the wounded since the attack, and it is no secret that Bobby has been a favorite stop of his.  Joshua clearly idealizes Bobby, and has on more than one occasion said he reminds him of the big brother he wanted to have before being disowned by his own.<br/><br/>Julian "Hellion" Keller - While Joshua and Julian started out as close friends, it was Julian who discovered Joshua's past as a Reaver.  Not only did Julian begin a personal vendetta of bullying and ostracization against Josh, but he ensured that Joshua's past as an anti-mutant activist was widely known.  While Julian has largely abandoned his largest torments of Josh, having in many ways succeeded at his attempts of isolating the once-friend, Josh still gets bullied by occasion.  While it might seem like cowardice to not fight against Julian, the truth is Josh is simply too ashamed of his own past to fully confront the boy.<br/><br/>Theodore "Teddy" "Hulkling" Altman - While Joshua himself would be hesitant to tell Teddy this, Teddy was Joshua's first love, and the one who initiated him into certain intimate rites of adulthood.  Josh is still loyal and trusting of Teddy to a fault, and will likely take his side in any confrontation.  Ultimately, Josh determined that he and Teddy needed very different things during their experience at the Xavier institute, and they mutually, if reluctantly, terminated the more intimate aspects of their friendship.