Joshua H.

Joshua is a contestant from Endure: Dissonance. He joined production for Sonder.
==Dissonance==
===Profile===
Name: Joshua
Age: 30
Current Residence: New Orleans, LA
Tribe Designation: 
===Player Review Ranking===
Rank: 5th
Placement: 10th
Edgic: CPN
SurvAv: 2.52
On day one, Joshua was the circle that the social dynamics of Chanmé revolved around, everything depended on someone’s relationship with Joshua, or someone’s relationship with Joshua and Julia. At swap, though he’d made loose connections with the Véner people things weren’t optimal, but he managed to coo up to Maddy enough to get things moving on the Matt blindside. He was struck pretty hard when Julia quit, but he slowly picked up the pieces, made Eric his new #1 and helped in the theatrical performance that was Karen’s blindside. Freeze frame on Joshua, pan to darkness, text appears across the screen: and then he met Ricky! The blonde villainess went from cutthroat to kitty as he switched on to the bottom position tribe and found a new #1 in Ricky as Eric flew to the top position tribe. Joshua also made some key friendships here in Brie and Kyle and also Adam. Joshua felt super connected to Adam and cried about him so he saved him and then the next round said “nevermind” and let him die. Come merge, things were looking really solid for Joshua, there was a known target in Alicia/Heinrichs who he was already against-ish, he was reunited with Eric, and Jack joined the boys brigade that had been kicked around a bit. After an intense first tribal, Joshua is a key factor in the last minute switch into the blindside of Jonathan alongside Ricky - and then everything falls to shit. The next round Kyle is blindsided after a brutal immunity challenge, and Joshua lashes out at previous #1 Eric for not involving him. The next round is the categories challenge and nothing was sadder than seeing Joshua trying himself for every position in Most Loyal until he was dead last. He was pretty much dead from there with most viewing him as the biggest target to win, and the most likely to get out of a situation moving forward. All for a man! - Samm
Joshua came into this game with a big reputation to live up to thanks to Sam. I heard how he would play these forum games in his yesteryears flaying people alive to macrame wall hangers out of their skin or something like that. Really gruesome stuff. I was personally intimidated by Joshua at first because of his extensive graphic design knowledge so I was ready for him to eviscerate my self-esteem and then, probably also use my skin to macrame a nice star for himself or something. Joshua, however, is not that. As cunning and charismatic of a gameplayer he is he was also an extremely loyal friend to those he wanted to have by his side. I think in particular about the friendships that he had with Brie and Julia throughout the game. I talk about how close the Vener trio were and how organic they felt together and how they were meant to be but if you sat on a Joshua/Julia call or a Joshua/Brie call you'd get those same feelings. J&J within the first two phases of the game were a call that I would never intentionally miss. I used a good chunk of my data while I was oot and aboot to make sure I didn't miss what they had to say. They were engaging, entertaining, endearing, and other e words I'm sure. I also really enjoyed the catty side of their conversations too, the tea was boiling and the way they bounced off of each other and thought of every minor detail could have been boring, but it wasn't. When Julia left the game it was an emotional moment for Joshua and I felt for him, but it was also the moment that he became scrappier than ever and really seized the opportunity to become a bigger star than he already was. The immediate swap after Karen's boot was probably the best thing to happen for Joshua in a game context as it really helped build the tension between Alicia/Heinrichs and Joshua which would have been a very fun build up in the edit of the actual show watching him form friendships and link up with Kyle and Ricky for the first time, as well as reunite with Brie was exactly what he needed and helped him really build his capital coming into merge as the one to watch. I know the commentary that people have re: Ricky and how Joshua 'threw away his game' or w/e but like... I'm not going to subscribe to the narrative. I've always played with the mindset that I want to bring the people that I enjoy being around the most and are closest to me as far as possible as it just makes the game fun. Sometimes you have to bend your game in ways you didn't anticipate to make it work and Joshua damn well tried his best. He stayed fiercely loyal to those he was close to and maybe he should have let go of his emotional connections to build more agency, but I think it gave a heroic undertone to Joshua and humanized him even more for me... it was really easy for him to be humanized after Sam hyped him up to eat children for recreational sport though. Some of my favourite Joshua moments include him pretty much picking Julia immediately to be his lover (OTP <3), watching his slow descent into madness after killing the first immunity challenge and hyping his tribe up to be the one to beat... only to y'know... go to every single tribal after lol..., him and Maddy saving face to Alicia and Heinrichs post Karen's boot about how she was a snake and wasn't to be trusted and filibustering the call until whoopsies time for swap :)!!!, him continuing to drag Alicia and Heinrichs' name through the mud, glass, razor blades, rose thorns, table salt, and sandpaper..., him thinking he was the hero (lol), him showing up to FTC wearing his oversized fluffy coat to put the spotlight on him one more time... there's too many good moments to recall. Joshua dedicated his time into this game and it paid off because he was one of the central characters of the season. He played a lovable villain -- and this is where I finally accept him as my Ty Lee. - Stephen
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===Media Releases===
==Trivia==
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Category:Contestants
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