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[b]INFO:[/b]
[indent][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4]Josh P. Draper[/url] || [i]Almost[/i] 18 || M[/indent]

[b]HYPERHUMANITY: Perfect Coordination[/b]
[indent]Josh's muscles are perfectly synced with his mind, and his mind is perfectly synced with the world. This manifests as enhanced reflexes, mental processing speed, reaction time, perfect aim, intuitive knowledge of his surroundings, and how he can affect them to his benefit. He can throw a coin into a vending machine from the other side of the cafeteria, shoot the wings off a fly, and—most impressively—do a flip.

Extended to the logical extreme, Joshua could feasibly set up complex chain-reactions to achieve events which seem impossible. Flipping a coin to cause an airplane crash, for example. Surviving a catastrophic car crash with only minor injuries. Breaking the record of the excellent 1983 arcade game [i]Star Wars[/i] for the sixth month in a row. That sort of thing.

There are some caveats, of course. First, Josh is seventeen. His powers will not immediately manifest (and may never manifest) to such a degree as mentioned above. Second, his ability to perform degrades under pressure. This has actually worked to his benefit: struggling to show off his incredible power has the added benefit of keeping the G-men off his doorstep.[/indent]

[b]RELATIONSHIP TO VANESSA:[/b]
[indent]Josh didn't know Vanessa well, but he [i]did[/i] know her older sister Amanda. They had an on-again, off-again relationship of near-mythic proportions, which recently came to a screeching halt due to the tragedy. He tries not to be bitter—it's not about him—but he can't help but wonder if there is some malicious higher power out there, yanking his chain and laughing about it.

Sure, he liked the girl. She'd always been close with Amy; Josh often found himself and Amy playing chaperone and chauffeur until the younger Bordeaux finally got her license. She'd been witty, sometimes even acerbic. And then she was gone, and Josh's chances with the girl he loved along with her.[/indent]

[b]PERSONALITY:[/b]
[indent]Josh tries to live his life by a few simple rules. First, treat someone with kindness until they fuck with you or your little brother. Second, it's better to dodge drama if you can. Three, if an answer can be determined using a coin flip or rock-paper-scissors, it should be. He smiles easily, enjoys being around people, and does what he can to help people when they ask. He likes to think of himself as funny, clever, and able to take a joke.

This is balanced by an unhealthy amount of selfishness. Like anyone, Joshua doesn't [i]think[/i] of himself as self-centered, but he always manages to turn situations about others into situations about himself. He looks out for himself and his interests before anyone else's, that's all. It's not a bad thing, right? Nobody can hurt him that way. And besides, he cares about his little brother. He'd die for Daniel. He's not selfish, and fuck you for bringing it up.

Amy's brought it to his attention before, and he promises to work on it before eventually lapsing back into his old ways. Such is the power of routine, and cognitive dissonance. If Josh can come to terms with his flaws, and find a way to fix them, he might actually find himself improving. Growing as a person. But that would require a deep dive into the soul, something Josh does everything in his power to avoid.[/indent]

[b]HISTORY:[/b]
[indent]When Josh was twelve, his mother cheated on his father. An idyllic life of home-cooked meals and summer movies fell apart overnight, and suddenly Josh and his younger brother Daniel were thrust into a war not unlike the trenches of no man's land. Every narcissistic and self-serving impulse in humanity's millennia of evolution came to the forefront of the resulting divorce. Some twisted god turned his loving parents in raving husks of their former selves.

After two years, their godfather, Neil, saved them. After a fight of particular vitriol left Daniel unconscious on the floor, Josh called his godfather in tears. Neil was a lawyer of some renown, coincidentally. After exploding on Josh's father, Neil and his wife took custody of the two boys, bringing them four states over to Crestwood Hollow. Once they had recovered enough to smile, the boys nicknamed that period of their lives the "Terrible Two".

Josh entered high school knowing no one, still shell-shocked from the Terrible Two. A nervous new kid should have been prime target for bullies, but puberty saved him, in more ways than one. First, he got tall, and broad-shouldered. Handsome. People wanted to be around him for that. 

Second, he was coordinated. His muscles did what he wanted them to, when he wanted them to. This talent paid off: he ended up on the Crestwood High Football team. After a few years, he'd become one of their star players. Over those years, he also got involved with Amanda Bordeaux, the girl who has captured his heart for two years now.

Daniel, two years behind him, took a slightly different path. He grew tall as well, but took after their slender mother. He wasn't so much into sports, and probably qualified as a nerd. Of course, everyone knew that if you messed with Dan in any way, Josh would come by to fuck you up six ways to Sunday.

Then, the murder. Despite his internal griping at how unfair the situation is for him, Josh instinctively told Amy that he'd do whatever he could to help her, and that he'd catch the son of a bitch who did it. Ignoring the fact that he is only slightly above-average in intelligence, Josh decided that he was Nancy Drew, and has been asking around Vanessa's friends and acquaintances for leads. 

Yes, it has been as awkward and ham-fisted as it sounds.[/indent][/hider]