double poll across the skyyyyyy

[kepthishead]

I'M BORED AND WANT TO KNOW so double serious poll!

What does your character's room/living space look like in camp and what accent do they speak with? I must know!

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[drfeelgold]

Josh is from Queens, New York and speaks with a slight accent. His room can be a little untidy at times- books laid out or stacked on the floor and occasionally some articles of clothing left in a heap- but his roommate at the Institute was a HUGE NEAT FREAK who broke Josh of most of his messier habits, so comparatively he's not as bad as he used to be.

Also, his room has thick curtains on the windows for those moments when he needs his room to be transformed into a dark cave of despair.

[needsahandjob]

There there, Josh. I'm sure if you ask Julian very nicely and the sun and moon are in alignment and he can bring himself to care, he too can board over your windows like he has his own.

[drfeelgold]

Thanks Julian, you're a true friend.

[needsahandjob]

Just don't ask him to clean your emo cave of solitude, because he doesn't know how.

oh god his room is disgusting in X-23 it is horrible.

[drfeelgold]

I believe it. It probably took David FOREVER to get Josh into the habit of picking up his dirty socks and I imagine he only did after David probably stole all of them and hid them around campus or something. Worst game of treasure hunt ever :(

Pics or it didn't happen.

[needsahandjob]

It helped that David could borrow the abilities of other X-Men to know where to hide them better. Poor Josh probably spent a few days sockless.

I'M TOO LAZY TO CROP THIS BUT bottom panel. The bits you can see are the cleanest part. it also smells disgusting, if Laura's reaction is anything to go by.

[drfeelgold]

True facts: this is how Josh's habit of going around barefoot first took root.

OH YAY HE GOT A HAIRCUT although now I'm wondering if he's planning on trying out for the school's first production of Grease. How did the reunion ish go?

[needsahandjob]

Thanks, David. IF JOSH'S POWERSET WAS ANYTHING ELSE HE'D HAVE HEPATITIS AND LEGIONNAIRES DISEASE BY NOW.

YEAH I DON'T KNOW apparently everyone wears leather jackets outside of school hours at the school. As for the reunion, it went really terribly: they think that Julian's this close to a melt down and will kill himself and/or someone else, he tried reaching out to Laura, Laura was just "um." and tried to leave, Julian grabbed her arm and then Gambit threatened to dismember him if he touched Laura again.

so basically it was pretty much yet another day in Julian's terrible life.

[drfeelgold]

DEATH BY TETANUS. Although that's a pretty mild way for any mutant to go out these days.

Oh god Marvel why are you so full of fail :( IT'S OKAY JULIAN EVENTUALLY THEY'LL GET BORED OF MAKING YOUR LIFE HORRIBLE. MAYBE THEY WON'T EVEN KILL YOU WHO KNOWS o/

Or maybe when Josh comes back (and I have to believe it's when not if) Marvel will go back to making HIS life terrible instead of Julian's and balance will just reset itself.

[needsahandjob]

Clearly that's how the next NXM kid is going to die, because it hasn't been done yet. It'll be Nori, who Marvel have somehow forgotten dyes her hair blue given that it's black in her appearance in Gen Hope. You'd think they'd remember that, given that she's no longer the only NXM kid with metal gauntlets.

Do you really want Josh back under the current climate? I mean, let's face it, they'd bring him back and shank him or something, forgetting that he's an omega level healer. Alternatively they put him in therapy and he comes back the most stable mutant.

[drfeelgold]

Aren't they starting to run out of kids to kill now anyway? Or do you think Marvel's planning to move on to the Avengers Academy once they've weeded the mutant herd enough?

My favorite colorist error featuring Josh is the first issue of X-Force he showed up in and the artists apparently forgot that his skin is gold. I mean who would expect such mistakes when they put out such quality work, right?

Oh god, if it was up to me I would take Josh and ALL THE OTHER NXM KIDS and wrap them in a blanket of clouds and rainbows and hide them somewhere far, far away from Cyclops, Wolverine and the 616-verse at large. Man, maybe they can all go hang out in Asgard WAIT IS ASGARD STILL STANDING? I've not been following the Fear Itself event at all (what I do know is that Thor is dead- again - and that little Loki is a lot awesome).

Man this reminds me that I need to finish my list of where Josh may possibly be now in canon that I was planning to tack onto my headcanon post once I finished it. IT'S KIND OF LIKE 'WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN

[needsahandjob]

Well, they are moving Laura over to Avengers Academy once her solo series ends in January, so I guess she can bring her deathgerms along with her. It's all right, there weren't that many baby avengers I liked that much when I read the title anyway.

...gosh how do you forget that Josh is gold. It's kind of his thing. It's good to see that Marvel hires artists and colourists that are up to date with these things. Then again, it's funny that I say that Marvel hires artists given some of the art that I've seen lately. sob sob sobbb

[drfeelgold]

How anyone allows any teenager in the Marvel universe to so much as put on a costume, I just don't know. Also, man I wonder if people should start planning an intervention to stage at Marvel to address their proclivities for killing kids.

TEARS FOREVER ;;

It really should have been the kids who had the confrontation with Cyclops that led to the break-up of the X-Men, not Wolverine. That would've been AWESOME to read and it's not like any of them (in the hands of good writers) are lacking the agency to do so. Also, having just read Uncanny X-Men 165 (the Christmas issue) HOW HAS IT GOTTEN THIS BAD? That issue was adorable, there were snowball fights and mutant-run soup kitchens AND ALL THE GOOD THINGS and now not even a third of them are still alive and everything is terrible. Why comics, why? ;;

Oh god *ADDS 'RUNNING A TANTRIC SEX WORKSHOP' TO THE LIST* XD