At age sixteen, Joshua Foley woke up to the end of his innocence. The last mutant healer left standing, the weight of the world suddenly resting on his ill-prepared shoulders. Holding the lives of his classmates in his hands had always been a burden he was not ready for, but now he was all that stood between himself and the extinction of their species.
Each failure is a weight. A precious life lost that they'll never, ever get back.
Laurie Collins dies reaching out to him, delicately trying to pull the weight from him even as he pulls away and holds tighter to this new duty. Josh Foley takes out her killer.
And things only really get worse from there. X-Force destroys him completely, taking and taking and taking until he has nothing left to give. Then, and only then, he disappears into the night. His hands are stained with blood and the sin of this, of his gift being used in such an evil manner, tarnishing that shiny gold into a lightless black for months.
He's only recently regained his healing abilities - death, it would seem, is a great renewer. Still he's far from cleansed. There is no reset on this. And so the young man who steps out of the car isn't the same young man that Kevin Ford last knew. Josh looks leagues older and oh so tired. He's bright and shiny in the humid heat of the sun, raising gloved a hand in greeting. ]
"Hey, uh..." He rubs the back of his neck, frowning a little. he hadn't thought this out. "I'm... looking for a guy? Brown hair, about ye tall? Heard he was here."
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At age sixteen, Joshua Foley woke up to the end of his innocence. The last mutant healer left standing, the weight of the world suddenly resting on his ill-prepared shoulders. Holding the lives of his classmates in his hands had always been a burden he was not ready for, but now he was all that stood between himself and the extinction of their species.
Each failure is a weight. A precious life lost that they'll never, ever get back.
Laurie Collins dies reaching out to him, delicately trying to pull the weight from him even as he pulls away and holds tighter to this new duty. Josh Foley takes out her killer.
And things only really get worse from there. X-Force destroys him completely, taking and taking and taking until he has nothing left to give. Then, and only then, he disappears into the night. His hands are stained with blood and the sin of this, of his gift being used in such an evil manner, tarnishing that shiny gold into a lightless black for months.
He's only recently regained his healing abilities - death, it would seem, is a great renewer. Still he's far from cleansed. There is no reset on this. And so the young man who steps out of the car isn't the same young man that Kevin Ford last knew. Josh looks leagues older and oh so tired. He's bright and shiny in the humid heat of the sun, raising gloved a hand in greeting. ]
"Hey, uh..." He rubs the back of his neck, frowning a little. he hadn't thought this out. "I'm... looking for a guy? Brown hair, about ye tall? Heard he was here."