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resurrxionJosh Foley's life has been a rollarcoaster of trauma, tragedy, and reinvention. When his mutation first manifested, he was a follower. Josh was absolutely the kind of kid who bullies others because that’s just what you do so other people don’t come after you. He wasn't a ringleader, he wasn't a villain, he was just a stupid kid with a big mouth and no idea how to shut it.
It got him into trouble, sure. His first appearance has him signing up to be a Reaver at the behest of one of his friends, the first words out of his mouth being why can't we just hate mutants like normal people? He had no strong convictions, nothing he wouldn't sacrifice in order to fit in. He's charismatic, charming, and all too eager to please.
Dating teachers? Sure. Running off to play the hero and nearly getting killed? More than once. Cheating on his girlfriend with his other girlfriend? Absolutely. Anything to feel seen, to have the attention on him. He nearly gets himself killed more than once trying to show off. Josh spends most of the first run being a well-intentioned idiot, shoving his foot in his mouth at every opportunity and hurting people with careless words. He talks too much and thinks too little, easily rankled and all too quick to pick a fight. He's a far cry from the stereotypical zen healer, taking none of it seriously and wanting only the glory, but he isn't blind to the human element of it. He goes out of his way to help Noriko and bring her into the fold (even if he gripes that he was 'cut out of' the equation to bring her back). Josh is ultimately a good kid who makes terrible choices.
Being one of the only healers on campus means that he's all that stands between life and death for his teachers and classmates. It takes time, but slowly Josh begins to calm down. Once his friendship with Hellion ends and he becomes a member of the New Mutants, he stops showboating. He still wants to beat the Hellions at their own game, but he no longer goes out of his way to put himself in danger and get approval. He matures slowly but surely, accepting the end of his relationship with Rahne (and even the lack of future) and focusing on moving forward with Laurie.
When his team drops him upon finding out that he'd dated both girls at the same time, he grudgingly accepts them icing him out. He's not upset with Laurie for being angry, he is upset that no one asked his side or for clarification on what happened. They take Kevin's word over his. Josh deals with his problems (poorly) alone, or by confiding in Dani. By the time the team sets the misunderstanding aside, it's too late.
M-Day happens. Things change. Laurie is killed. The wrong side of his powers gets flipped on, and he gets the ability to kill. This alters the course of his life completely and marks the worst shift in his personality. He asks the Stepford Cuckoos to give him all the knowledge he needs to save people and they do, and that warps him on some fundamental level. Josh goes full galaxy brain, slipping into a depressive state until he's brought out of it by Alani Ryan's request to make out. He draws a line in the sand, says that he doesn't want to go out on the field because he doesn't want to kill anyone ever again.
Then Josh is recruited onto the X-Force. He's brought up to heal Rahne from mortal injuries and that's it, he's stuck. They have him give Vanisher brain cancer to put him on a leash, and have him attend every mission thereafter. This ranges from hunting down a stolen bioweapon to going into the future to protect the mutant messiah. He uses his death powers, growing both more and less comfortable with them.
After Limbo, and after joining the X-Force, Josh... changes. He gets really into yoga. Despite seemingly being in a relationship with Loa, he's seen openly flirting (and maybe more) with the Cuckoos. He completely forgoes wearing a shirt and focuses entirely on being a zen-master healer. He distances himself from his friends and keeps everyone at arms length. Josh has always been an incorrigible flirt, but the attitude here is unlike anything he's shown before.
Necrosha was the last thing he could handle. In the wake of murdering his former classmate turned supervillain, Kevin Ford, Josh disappeared. From how Wolverine makes it sound, the inability to turn gold again destroyed him emotionally and he up and vanished without a word to any of them. The next time we see him he's angrier and more broken up. He's killed at the hands of Siphon and revives offscreen, disappearing again.
When he reappears in the rubble of Utopia with a handful of other mutants who are fed up with things, he's different. Josh no longer objects to needless killing and bloodshed - he merely accepts it as a necessary evil to staying alive. Though he is convinced to return with the time-displaced X-Men, he only stays for a little while. When the M-Pox breakout happens he runs away yet again, unable to heal it and unable to handle the fact that he can't fix it. He goes into hiding and gets involved in a church in Vermont.
It's there that Monet and Sabretooth find him. Josh is jovial on the surface, but far from welcoming - clearly wanting no part in them being there. He barely has time to listen to their warning before his life is once again upended. Rogue Inhumans slaughter his new human friends, goading him into walking into the open - and he does. Pushed to his emotional limits yet again, his powers abruptly evolve and he gains the ability to heal without touching --
Only to be shot dead on the spot.
Josh is buried in Queens. It isn't clear by who, only that there isn't anyone watching the grave. He claws his way free and somehow, against all odds, makes his way to Genosha by himself. It's there that Magneto finds him. Josh is clearly unhinged, having been on the island for an unknown amount of time, reviving and killing the man who shot him. His angry outburst is disjointed, he has trouble keeping his thoughts on the task at hand - and when Magneto tries to coax him to come with them, to get help, he explodes and makes an attempt to revive the dead of the island.
All sixteen million dead mutants.
The strain of trying leads him to collapse. He remains fixated on them, wanting to help, and Magneto's X-Men take him to the quarantine zone for mutants affected with M-Pox. Josh makes an attempt to heal them and succeeds - up until he has another episode, attacking the human doctors around him. When they attempt to intervene Josh nearly kills them too, and would have, were it not for him regaining his senses at the last possible moment. They send him to Xorn's temple, giving him space to hone his abilities and recover. He reappears twice after that - once, with Exodus, to revive Magneto after he was killed by Psylocke. Declaring their debt cleared.
And once to clean up the damage caused by the Mothervine virus, which he kills completely before returning to Asteroid M with Exodus.
Josh joins Magneto's newly reformed Brotherhood of Mutants.
mask or menace CRAU history
canon update.
Magneto is ripped from the universe when Nate Grey says No More X-Men and Josh and another Brotherhood member, Marrow, are recruited onto Emma Frost's new Hellfire Club. Josh serves as Emma's Black Bishop, essentially her right hand man, though he finds their work distasteful.
When their mansion is attacked by Wolverine, Josh runs to heal Marrow and makes a break for it. It's at that moment he finds himself falling from the sky in metaheroes.
At this moment his memories of maskormenace come flooding back.
It got him into trouble, sure. His first appearance has him signing up to be a Reaver at the behest of one of his friends, the first words out of his mouth being why can't we just hate mutants like normal people? He had no strong convictions, nothing he wouldn't sacrifice in order to fit in. He's charismatic, charming, and all too eager to please.
Dating teachers? Sure. Running off to play the hero and nearly getting killed? More than once. Cheating on his girlfriend with his other girlfriend? Absolutely. Anything to feel seen, to have the attention on him. He nearly gets himself killed more than once trying to show off. Josh spends most of the first run being a well-intentioned idiot, shoving his foot in his mouth at every opportunity and hurting people with careless words. He talks too much and thinks too little, easily rankled and all too quick to pick a fight. He's a far cry from the stereotypical zen healer, taking none of it seriously and wanting only the glory, but he isn't blind to the human element of it. He goes out of his way to help Noriko and bring her into the fold (even if he gripes that he was 'cut out of' the equation to bring her back). Josh is ultimately a good kid who makes terrible choices.
Being one of the only healers on campus means that he's all that stands between life and death for his teachers and classmates. It takes time, but slowly Josh begins to calm down. Once his friendship with Hellion ends and he becomes a member of the New Mutants, he stops showboating. He still wants to beat the Hellions at their own game, but he no longer goes out of his way to put himself in danger and get approval. He matures slowly but surely, accepting the end of his relationship with Rahne (and even the lack of future) and focusing on moving forward with Laurie.
When his team drops him upon finding out that he'd dated both girls at the same time, he grudgingly accepts them icing him out. He's not upset with Laurie for being angry, he is upset that no one asked his side or for clarification on what happened. They take Kevin's word over his. Josh deals with his problems (poorly) alone, or by confiding in Dani. By the time the team sets the misunderstanding aside, it's too late.
M-Day happens. Things change. Laurie is killed. The wrong side of his powers gets flipped on, and he gets the ability to kill. This alters the course of his life completely and marks the worst shift in his personality. He asks the Stepford Cuckoos to give him all the knowledge he needs to save people and they do, and that warps him on some fundamental level. Josh goes full galaxy brain, slipping into a depressive state until he's brought out of it by Alani Ryan's request to make out. He draws a line in the sand, says that he doesn't want to go out on the field because he doesn't want to kill anyone ever again.
Then Josh is recruited onto the X-Force. He's brought up to heal Rahne from mortal injuries and that's it, he's stuck. They have him give Vanisher brain cancer to put him on a leash, and have him attend every mission thereafter. This ranges from hunting down a stolen bioweapon to going into the future to protect the mutant messiah. He uses his death powers, growing both more and less comfortable with them.
After Limbo, and after joining the X-Force, Josh... changes. He gets really into yoga. Despite seemingly being in a relationship with Loa, he's seen openly flirting (and maybe more) with the Cuckoos. He completely forgoes wearing a shirt and focuses entirely on being a zen-master healer. He distances himself from his friends and keeps everyone at arms length. Josh has always been an incorrigible flirt, but the attitude here is unlike anything he's shown before.
Necrosha was the last thing he could handle. In the wake of murdering his former classmate turned supervillain, Kevin Ford, Josh disappeared. From how Wolverine makes it sound, the inability to turn gold again destroyed him emotionally and he up and vanished without a word to any of them. The next time we see him he's angrier and more broken up. He's killed at the hands of Siphon and revives offscreen, disappearing again.
When he reappears in the rubble of Utopia with a handful of other mutants who are fed up with things, he's different. Josh no longer objects to needless killing and bloodshed - he merely accepts it as a necessary evil to staying alive. Though he is convinced to return with the time-displaced X-Men, he only stays for a little while. When the M-Pox breakout happens he runs away yet again, unable to heal it and unable to handle the fact that he can't fix it. He goes into hiding and gets involved in a church in Vermont.
It's there that Monet and Sabretooth find him. Josh is jovial on the surface, but far from welcoming - clearly wanting no part in them being there. He barely has time to listen to their warning before his life is once again upended. Rogue Inhumans slaughter his new human friends, goading him into walking into the open - and he does. Pushed to his emotional limits yet again, his powers abruptly evolve and he gains the ability to heal without touching --
Only to be shot dead on the spot.
Josh is buried in Queens. It isn't clear by who, only that there isn't anyone watching the grave. He claws his way free and somehow, against all odds, makes his way to Genosha by himself. It's there that Magneto finds him. Josh is clearly unhinged, having been on the island for an unknown amount of time, reviving and killing the man who shot him. His angry outburst is disjointed, he has trouble keeping his thoughts on the task at hand - and when Magneto tries to coax him to come with them, to get help, he explodes and makes an attempt to revive the dead of the island.
All sixteen million dead mutants.
The strain of trying leads him to collapse. He remains fixated on them, wanting to help, and Magneto's X-Men take him to the quarantine zone for mutants affected with M-Pox. Josh makes an attempt to heal them and succeeds - up until he has another episode, attacking the human doctors around him. When they attempt to intervene Josh nearly kills them too, and would have, were it not for him regaining his senses at the last possible moment. They send him to Xorn's temple, giving him space to hone his abilities and recover. He reappears twice after that - once, with Exodus, to revive Magneto after he was killed by Psylocke. Declaring their debt cleared.
And once to clean up the damage caused by the Mothervine virus, which he kills completely before returning to Asteroid M with Exodus.
Josh joins Magneto's newly reformed Brotherhood of Mutants.
mask or menace CRAU history
- Josh arrives in MoM. He spends his first few months adrift, trying to figure out where he belongs and what to do. Eventually he and his ex, Laurie Collins, reconnect and slowly begin to build a friendship.
- Josh gets a job at De Chima General and begins working as a doctor. He finds this work immensely fulfilling.
- David Alleyne arrives. Josh and David mend their friendship.
- As the fabric of reality begins to unravel, Josh befriends Joseph Kavinsky over their mutual desire to overcome their past shitty behavior and be better.
- Reality is saved! Josh gives up his memory of Danielle Moonstar. Dani eventually arrives in-game and she and Josh get to know each other. Note: He will be coming in missing these memories still and will be searching for a means to retrieve them.
- Josh buys a house. He moves David and Kavinsky into this house. He and Laurie also begin dating.
- Life goes smoothly for a while. Josh gains stability that he never had before.
- A massive reality warping event happens. Josh becomes a leader of KRAKOA, a faction separated from the rest of the world to protect children. Josh has no memories of this event, only vaguely familiar feelings. As his AU-self was incredibly close to the Hargreaves family, some of that fondness carries over into this world.
- Josh heals Luther Hargreaves of his mutated body.
- Reality begins to come apart again. Josh time-travels to try to help stop it. While in the past, Kavinsky - whose sanity has begun to fray - kills Laurie and David. The two of them are revived.
- From here things get foggy. Josh remembers that they were unable to stay in the world they had come to call home, and that they were making the choice to return to David's era of Krakoa.
canon update.
- Josh returns to 616, forgetting everything about his time in the other world. He resumes his time as a member of Magneto's brotherhood.
Magneto is ripped from the universe when Nate Grey says No More X-Men and Josh and another Brotherhood member, Marrow, are recruited onto Emma Frost's new Hellfire Club. Josh serves as Emma's Black Bishop, essentially her right hand man, though he finds their work distasteful.
When their mansion is attacked by Wolverine, Josh runs to heal Marrow and makes a break for it. It's at that moment he finds himself falling from the sky in metaheroes.
At this moment his memories of maskormenace come flooding back.
