Joshua Foley

## Background

### 1993 - 2008: Joshua Foley

Joshua was born to the middle class couple, Howard & Grace Foley, in Queens of New York City. Since a young age, he was considered a golden boy in the eyes of his parents & many others. He was great at sports, excelled in his classes, admired by all his friends & most girls found him attractive. His parents also supported the fact that Joshua had joined an anti-mutant group called the Reavers. He decided to join at the request of his best friend, Duncan.

Eventually, Cerebro detected there was a mutant in the area. Professor Xavier sent Dani Moonstar, Karma & Wallflower to investigate. When they arrived, the Reavers engaged them in a fight. They were going to retreat after Laurie was mortally wounded until they discovered it was Joshua that was the mutant when he felt compelled to heal her. Seeing Joshua us his power, the anti-mutant group rejected him & retreated from the fight. Dani then offered him a place as the mansion but he laughed & returned home. Once he arrived, he found his former friends waiting for them, where they delivered him a severe beating then told his parents that their son is a mutant.

With nowhere else to go, Josh reluctantly went to the Xavier Institute hoping there was still a place for him. At the Professor's requests, no one was to know of Joshua's ties to the Reavers so Dani, Xi'an & Laurie were to say nothing.

### 2008 - 2009: Elixir

Though he was placed on the Exemplars Sqaud, he became close friends with Julian Keller, Santo Vaccarro, Cessily Kincaid & Victor Borkowski. However, after discovering Josh's history with the Reavers, they rejected him too & the Exemplars intervened to save him.

Around the same time he was entering the school, Rahne Sinclair was refused the chance to teach at her old school because of her immature attitude. He had heard about her earlier antics & was instantly smitten by the new "wild child" much to Laurie's dismay. After his parents come to the school to formally disown him & handed his legal guardianship to Dani, Josh loses all hope of returning home. That same night, he snuck out of the mansion to a bar where Rahne was playing pool. As the two return to the mansion, Rahne gives into her desire & kisses Josh. The two continued this relationship for another week until Rahne attempts to end it after being offered a job as mentor for a training squad.

Joshua is assigned to the Exemplars Squad, under the mentorship of his guardian Dani Moonstar. After a bad training session due to Wind Dancer's inability to lead, Josh gives her some harsh criticism from Josh. Laurie speaks to him on Sofia's behalf, leading to the two going out to dinner (which made both Rahne & Kevin Ford unhappy). Halfway through their date they were interrupted by Rahne, who brought them back to the Institute because the FBI had caught up with Kevin Ford for the accidental killing of his father. After learning the Hellions were going to break Kevin out, the Exemplars followed them & to stop them from taking on the FBI until the X-Men took them all back to the Institute. The charges against Kevin were dismissed but the tension between the squads continued to grow.

Josh continued to pursue Rahne despite carrying on a relationship with Laurie. Rahne decided to break things off permanently, but Kevin overheard their conversation. Kevin confided in Laurie what he heard, leading not only to her breaking up with Josh but Rahne fleeing the school. Bitter that he was cheating on her, Laurie used her pheromones to manipulate Prodigy into kissing her at the winter formal in a successful attempt to make Josh jealous. In an attempt to mend bonds, Sofia tricked everyone into a camp-in on the grounds of the Institute. After a fight between Josh & David broke out, Laurie eventually forgave Josh after overhearing him pouring his heart out to Icarus.

## Romantic Relationships

* Laurie Collins: Girlfriend (2008)
* Rahne Sinclair: Affair (2008)
* Alani Ryan: Girlfriend (2010 - )

## Personality

As a teenager, Josh was a member of an anti-mutant group before learning he himself was a mutant & had to enroll at Xavier's Institute. He was described as a frat boy & ladies man who only cared about being popular. Since coming to the Institute, he has grown into a mature young adult. As his powers have evolved, so has his personalty.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Mutant Physiology:** Elixir is capable of controlling the biological structure of his own & other people's bodies down to the genetic level. He can produce biomolecular energy at will to affect organic matter he touches. This allows him to heal physical damage done to his body or the bodies of others, reactivate suppressed mutant abilities, repair cerebral functions, and alter the composition of his own molecules in certain ways. Because of his control over his own biology, Elixir has proven to be very difficult to treat medically. He usually passes out after pushing his powers too far and remains in a coma for some time. Its is believed that during these times, his DNA reboots itself. At first he needed to touch his targets to heal/kill them, but later learned to use his powers on a target, without touching them.
	+ ***Healing*:** At first he was capable of basic healing, having successfully healed broken bones, severe burns & even a mortal stab through the chest. He later has demonstrated increased mastery of his powers: regrowing a heart, sedating an enraged Wolfsbane, saving Laura from near death, waking Magma out of her coma, etc.
		- ***Instant Regeneration*:** He has recently learned how to heal himself almost as soon as he wounded.
	+ ***Life-Force Manipulation*:** Josh possesses the ability to sense & detect life-forces, as he is able to feel when someone is dying, sensing the life bleeding out of them.
	+ ***Genetic Detection*:** Josh is able to detect abnormalities in living beings.
	+ ***Death Touch*:** He can use his powers to harm others, to cause different types of illness, massive swellings & organ failure. His control over his abilities is not refined so this is not an ability he uses regularly.

### Weaknesses

* **Power Limitation:** Using his powers for extreme feats of biological manipulation can wear out his body, causing him to collapse. There have also been a few times where his powers didn't affect or only temporarily affected his enemies.

### Ratings

* **Acumen:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Might:** 4 - High / Trained
* **Quickness:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Mysticism:** 1 - Nonexistent
* **Gadgets:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Projection:** 5 - Learned / Exceptional
* **Tactics:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Battle:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **TOTAL:** 50 - Power Level 2 / Low Threat.

## Trivia

* Joshua is extremely athletic. He enjoys basketball, baseball, Frisbee & video games.
* He's roommates with Anole.
* When he was younger, he was a popular kid who often picked on the the outcasts.
* He hasn't seen his parents since they legally disowned him. He held onto hope that they would come back for him but has since given up & no longer wants them to.
* Because she is his legal guardian, he has formed a sibling relationship with Dani Moonstar.
* He is a member of the Exemplars Squad, mentored by Dani Moonstar.
* Though classified as a Low Threat, he is still flagged by S.H.I.E.L.D. & is set to be reclassified.

## Notes

* The original character of Elixir belongs to the Marvel Universe.