Josh Foley - Elixir

[=The.Kinky.Devil=]

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OOC Contact Information
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MSN: [e-mail]
E-mail: [e-mail]

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Background
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Name: Joshua Foley
Persona: Adam Gontier
Age: 39 (Appears around 29)
Height: 5-foot 11-inches
Weight: 157 pounds
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Birthplace: Flushing, Queens, New York
Nationality: American
Species: Human (Mutant/Omega-Class)
Marital Status: Single
Distinguishing Features: Tribal tattoo on left forearm, multiple piercings in each ear.
Known Relatives: Howard Foley (father, deceased), Grace Foley (mother), two unidentified older brothers
Present Group Affiliation(s): X-Men, X-Men : Black
Past Group Affiliations: New X-Men, New Mutants, Reavers

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Statistics
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: Fighting : Typical [6]
: Agility : Good [10]
: Strength : Typical [6]
: Endurance : Good [10]

: Reason : Remarkable [30]
: Intuition : Typical [6]
: Psyche : Good [10]

- Health - 32
- Karma - 46

- Resources - Good [10]
- Popularity - Shift-0 [0]

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Known Powers/Abilities
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L1/Biophysical Control: [Unearthly] The hero has the ability to consciously alter the physiology of a target. This is accomplished by sheer force of will and does not require any physical action on the hero's part, aside from touching the target. The Power can be used at a distance but each 10 feet separating the hero from the target reduces his effective Power by -1CS. The Power is normally concentrated on a single target, but the hero can affect as many targets as he desires. Each additional target also decreases the rank -1CS.

For example, trying to affect two targets at a distance of 10 feet drops the hero's rank -4CS (-2CS per target).

The result of any form of this Power is permanent. (What's the point of healing somebody if he's just going to drop dead later, right?) The actual ongoing effects continue for as long as the hero continues to use his Power. Once this is done, the target's natural healing abilities and rates revert to normal. There are seven forms of Biophysical Control, each with its own set of effects. The first four forms are benevolent, the last three are malevolent. Heroes who use the malevolent forms against sentient beings risk Karma and Popularity loss. When the hero is created, the player must choose one of these forms. He can select one or let the dice decide for him.

Die Roll	Form
01-24	Healing
25-44	Regeneration
45-48	Revival
49-68	Damage Transferal
69-76	Decay
77-92	Disruption
93-00	Aging

Healing -- The hero can cure the damage caused by wounds, trauma, toxins', and disease. The hero can increase the target's Health by'an amount equal to the Power rank level. This is the maximum benefit the hero can give per day to one specific person. The color of the required FEAT is determined by the nature and severity of the damage. Green FEATs handle broken bones, non-terminal disease, and simple wounds. Yellow FEATs handle physical trauma, wounds to organs, non-fatal poisoning, and terminal diseases. Red FEATs handle mortal wounds, coronary attacks, strokes, toxic poisoning, and massive physical trauma. The Power seals the body and returns any still-living tissues to health. It cannot replace lost tissue.

Regeneration -- The hero has the ability to heal (as above) and can recreate large areas of lost tissue, such as severed limbs or destroyed organs. Limbs are regrown by a green FEAT, organs by a yellow FEAT, and brain and neural tissues by a red FEAT.

Revival -- The hero can actually bring the dead back to life. The Power rank number is the maximum number of days the target can have been deceased and still be revived. The condition of the corpse determines the color of the required FEAT. An intact, unembalmed, undecayed corpse is revived on a green FEAT. A decayed but intact corpse needs a yellow FEAT. A red FEAT is required for partial or embalmed remains.

For example, a Good rank can revive a 1 0-day-old, slightly moldy body if the player rolls a 75 or better.

The Power begins by healing and regenerating any damage to the body, especially the cause of death. Once the body is habitable again, the Power automatically summons the deceased spirit back and reconnects it with the body. If the spirit was already reincarnated into another body, the spirit splits into identical halves. One remains with the new body while the other half returns home. If the spirit is trapped, the hero can make an attempt to free him based on the Power rank of whatever is holding the spirit. Until the spirit returns, the body remains in a comatose state.

Damage Transferal -- The hero can heal another by apparently taking that damage from the victim and moving it into the hero. The Power first heals the target; the manner is the same as for Healing (above). Simultaneously, the hero's body reshapes itself into a duplication of the damage being healed. Once the target is healed, the hero's Self-Healing abilities (same rank) then cures this ersatz damage. A hero cannot heal another person until he has returned to normal.

Decay -- The hero can accelerate the cellular collapse of body tissue. The Power can cause Power rank damage per turn. The target becomes leprous, dies, and quickly crumbles to dust if the Power is used long enough.

Disruption -- The Power can upset the Smooth functioning of the physiology. The target suffers Power rank losses to his Health as he suffers anything from minor discomfort (nausea, chills) to fatal trauma (coronary attack).

Aging -- The Power can accelerate or reverse the aging process. The normal rate is multiplied by the Power rank number. For example, a Good rank can make aging occur at tenfold rate or go in reverse at an equal rate. A green FEAT accelerates aging. A yellow FEAT stops it. A red FEAT reverses it. As the victim's age changes, physiology and mental capacities change as well. While the Power can function as a Fountain of Youth, it can also be used to kill through old age or regression to protoplasm. A target can be protected from unwanted Biophysical Control by such Powers as Force Field Generation and True Invulnerability.

Optional Powers include another form of this Power.

The Nemesis is either Immortality or Serial Immortality.

[Talents] Acrobatics, Tumbling, Medicine, Engineering, Psychiatry, Chemistry, Biology, Genetics, Physics, Computers, Electronics, Resist Domination, First Aid, Student.

[Contacts] X-Men, Xavier Institute, Wolfsbane, New Mutants, Beast

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Equipment
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X-Men Uniform [Good] Protection vs. Physical and Energy

X-Communicator Able to contact any other X-Communicator, anywhere around the world

Motorcycle
-- Type Off-Road
-- Cost Remarkable
-- Control Good
-- Speed Remarkable
-- Body Good
-- Protection Shift-0

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History
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• Anti-Mutant Protester
  
  Josh Foley first appears as a member of the Reavers, an anti-mutant group led by Donald Pierce. When Cerebro detects a mutant in the area, Danielle Moonstar and Karma investigate. The Reavers attack Moonstar's New Mutants squad, and one of Foley's allies is severely injured. Leaning down to aid his friend, Foley's mutant power manifests and he heals Laurie Collins.
  
  
• Sent to Xavier's
  
  Outed as a mutant, much to his own surprise, and rejected by his friends and family, Josh reluctantly joins the Xavier Institute and becomes Prodigy's roommate, a situation neither finds appealing. Unable to overcome their bigotry, Josh's parents sign legal guardianship over to Dani Moonstar. He is assigned to Dani's New Mutant squad who eventually reach out to him as he comes to accept his mutation.
  
  
• Secret Romance with Rahne Sinclair
  
  Shortly afterwards, a depowered Rahne Sinclair, formerly known as Wolfsbane, visits the X-Mansion. Josh is instantly smitten by the new "wild child" Rahne, and sneaks out of the Institute at night to go to a bar where Rahne is playing pool. Josh realizes that her new attitude is a way of letting out instincts she had previously been able to blame on "the wolf." The two kiss, and Josh unconsciously heals Rahne's depowerment. The wolf takes over and she loses control, slashing Josh open. Fortunately, Laurie witnesses the attack and uses her pheromone powers to drive away Rahne.
  
  While Elixir is rushed to the mansion's infirmary, Beast reveals the full potential of Josh's power: he can manipulate all the body's functions on a genetic level, and the fact that Josh only heals is simply inexperience. Josh receives an I.V. drip, but with Archangel, the mansion's other healer, absent, there is little hope. However, Prodigy realizes that Josh can heal himself if only he were to wake, and Beast reluctantly follows Prodigy's plan. Surge wakes him with her powers, while Laurie keeps him calm so he can heal himself. As an unexpected side effect, Josh turns his skin and hair to a reflective gold color.
  
  Josh and Rahne continue to see each other secretly for a few months until Rahne witnesses him on a date with Laurie and ends the relationship. Josh is depressed at first, but eventually realizes that it was for the best and pursues a relationship with Laurie. However, Wither also has a crush on Laurie, and reveals Rahne's and Josh's previous relationship to the school.
  
  With the exception of Surge, most of the New Mutants team ostracize Elixir for his involvement with a teacher. Eventually, the New Mutants squad's in-fighting begins to affect their ability to act as a team. Concerned with the future of her team, Wind Dancer convinces everyone to get together for a camp-out so they can work through their issues with one another. The evening ends with Josh speaking candidly with Icarus about his disappointment over his own actions. The other members of the team overhear and he is reconciled with David and Laurie.
  
  Meanwhile, Josh heals Colossus and Shadowcat, after both are impaled through the lower torsos during an attack by the sentient Danger Room. The strain of this effort causes Josh to collapse.
  
  
• Decimation and Childhood's End
  
  The events of House of M leaves only 27 students with their powers, including Josh. Fearing their safety, Emma Frost orders the depowered students and staff, including Josh's guardian Danielle Moonstar, to leave the Institute. As the depowered students and staff leave, one bus of depowered students is bombed by anti-mutant zealot Reverend William Stryker, killing all on board. Josh is unable to heal them in time, and becomes severely depressed and loses confidence in his abilities.
  
  Most of the remaining students take part in a melee fight organized by Emma Frost to determine who will be members in the new group of mutant heroes in-training, the New X-Men. Despite his non-combat powers, Josh makes the team. During one of their first training sessions, the New X-Men spar with Colossus. Caught up in his emotions over the deceased students, Josh hits the powered-down Colossus over the head with a metal beam. Furious with his action, Emma temporarily kicks him off the team.
  
  Afterwards, Laurie and Josh argue about Josh's place on the New X-Men. Laurie explains that Emma is all wrong, that the team is merely about "violence and fighting," whereas Elixir can do a "beautiful thing." However, Josh tells Laurie that when he tried to heal DJ, "I could feel him dying...his life bleeding out of him," and that "when he died, he took a piece of me with him, a piece of me died, too." At that moment, Laurie is killed by a bullet fired by one of Stryker's agents.
  
  A distraught Josh remains with Laurie's body until they are found by several of the X-Men and students. When Wolverine attempts to restrain Josh from Laurie's body, Josh's power surges and causes painful boils and blisters to appear on Wolverine's hands and wrists. Stryker begins an attack on the institute but Josh sits unresponsively in the infirmary. Coming to his senses and enraged over the death of Laurie, Josh uses his power to kill Stryker. This act of revenge turns Josh's golden skin into metallic black and Josh falls to the floor, catatonic.
  
  According to David, Josh's killing of Stryker not only changed the color of his skin, but also altered his brain chemistry.
  
  
• Nimrod and Funerals
  
  When X-23 is mortally wounded and unable to heal during the final battle with Nimrod, Hellion rushes her back to the Institute with help from Emma Frost, who unlocks the part of his brain which controls his powers. Julian gives a motivational speech and gets Josh to move forward with his life. Josh heals Laura, which also turns his skin back from black to gold.
  
  Shortly after it is discovered that a small part of black still remains on Josh's skin, moving from place to place. Josh states he could still kill but he will need to learn how to control his powers and use them only to heal. He, like the other remaining students and staff, attends at a memorial to remember all the students who were killed in Stryker's raid of the school.
  
  
• Change of Attitude
  
  Since waking from his coma, Josh seems to have taken a more peaceful approach to life. In New X-Men #32, Rockslide states, "Since Foley's gone all zen, we'll probably need a replacement." In issue #33, Josh approaches Beast and asks him to teach him everything there is to know about human anatomy, physiology, and biology. Josh states in issue #32 that he always knew that he could do more, and though Anole suggests that Josh stop studying in lieu of having the Cuckoos simply placing Beast's knowledge into his brain, Josh states he would rather do it the right way.
  
  He has begun to wear only white clothing, and, when not studying, seems lost in thought and is introspective.
  
  Before the other students are teleported to Limbo, The Stepford Cuckoos help Elixir learn advanced science by taking information from the Beast's head and putting it into Josh's. This increases his power exponentially, allowing him to heal otherwise-fatal injures with a touch. He also masters his "black abilities" by being able to switch instantly from golden/healing to black/disease causing. After Belasco rips out David's heart, Elixir rushes over and touches him. David begins growing a new heart out of nothing and comes back to life. Josh is exhausted after healing David and passes out. He demonstrates his darker abilities in the same issue, causing the demon that is holding him to swell up and bleed out of its ears, before having its entire head explode.
  
  
• World War Hulk
  
  Elixir is one of the students that goes up against the Hulk in World War Hulk: X-Men. He is carried towards the Hulk on Beast's back. Elixir touches the Hulk which affects his healing factor and gives an opening for the others to attack the Hulk. He and Beast are punched away by the Hulk, but Elixir heals Beast so they can try again. Once Hulk has defeated The New X-Men, Elixir and Beast are the last ones left. Hulk is about to crush them but the "Astonishing" team arrives and saves them.
  
  
• Children of X-Men
  
  When Mercury comes to ask Elixir about his age, he is sitting alone in the dark and tells her instead about his cells and how he feels them aging and dying, freaking her out. When Surge interviews him about what happened to David in Limbo, he tells her nothing happened.
  
  Later when Kitty Pryde tries to have a student/teacher conference, he is still sitting alone in the dark. When she asks him what he is doing, he tells her he is thinking about life and death and how he can give it and take it. “With everything my powers can do… Really Miss Pryde… What can’t I do?” This scares her and she leaves quickly. Later in a faculty meeting, she thinks he might become the next Magneto.
  
  
• 25 Years Later
  
  25 years go by, and Josh has come to terms with the magnitude of his powers. This is all because of the death of his father, Howard Foley, who, on his death bed, told recorded a message that was delivered to Josh after his death, telling him how proud his father was of him. His mood lightened then, saying a prayer for his father, and set about learning to control his emotions, control his powers, and come to grips with his place in the world.
  
  He did that, and after a couple years came out of the self-imposed exile to rejoin the school as a whole, taking over the where Dr. McCoy left off, teaching science and running the laboratories and medical facilities. Dr. McCoy helped out from time to time, but this gave Hank a chance to go after his other dreams, help out his other obligations, and the fact that Josh had the medical and scientific information 'downloaded' into his brain from Hank by the Cuckoos helped things along nicely.
  
  Now that he has taken over the labs and Hank's classes completely, he is a fully integrated part of the school faculty, as well as a full-fledged member of the X-Men, having mastered the complexities of his powers, to the best of his degree. He was able to return his skin color to it's natural color, even learn how to change it, and his hair and eye color, with but a thought, and can even suspend the aging process indefinitely through a concentrated effort. He's moved to taking on a slightly different guise, with semi-long, dark brown hair, a self-created tattoo on his arm, and yet kept the blue eyes, telling himself that they were the only things to never change, to show to himself, and others, that he's still the same Josh.