Origin
Josh was always a golden boy -- good at sports, admired by his friends and attractive to girls. Josh also happened to be the popular one who would often pick on the the outcasts, and was also once a member of a mutant hating group, The Reavers. During his first meeting, Donald Pierce was demonstrating his blade arm and sliced Josh across the hand. The injury immediately healed itself and Josh dismissed the incident. When the Reavers conducted an attack against the students of Xavier's, specifically Moonstar's New Mutants Squad, Josh's friend was injured. It was at this time that Josh discovered he had the ability to heal. Although Josh tried to hide this secret, he decided to to use his ability for the greater good when he healed Wallflower, after she was attacked by Pierce. While he was reluctant to accept Dani Moonstar 's offer to come to Xavier's, he eventually accepted when both his his family and friends rejected him for being a mutant.
New Mutant
New Mutant
Josh and Laurie
House of M - New X-Men
Wallflowers death
World War Hulk
After some events, Elixir, together with other members of of the X-Men, attempted to defeat the Hulk. Josh successfully used his powers to disrupt the brutes healing factor, allowing the other mutants attacks to have some effect. Unfortunately, both he and the Beast were still defeated, but before they were killed, the Astonishing X-Men arrived, as if on cue, to save them from death.
Messiah Complex
The New X-Men later decided to attack the Purifiers in retaliation for their assault on the mansion. Elixir decided to stay out of this mission, afraid that he might again be overcome with rage and resort to killing again..
X-Force
Elixir in X-Force
Stepford Cuckoos and Elixir
Elixir joined the rest of X-Force on a mission to rescuing his old teammates, Hellion, Surge, and the former X-Force member Boom Boom. However, it was at this time that Cyclops discovered Cable's location in the time stream, and decided to send them after his son just as they were about to save Boom Boom. Elixir worked with X-Force to help keep Hope from from Stryfe and even seemed to develop a bond with the young mutant messiah. He also attempted to kill Stryfe with his abilities, although this proved to be futile as Stryfe psioniclly forced Elixir to heal him. After learning what Hope truly was, Elixir and the rest of X-Force returned to the present to rescue their teammates.
After coming back to the present, he was able to heal Hellion of the Legacy virus. He proceded to try to save Surge, throw a combine effort of him and Hellion. In the end both of his friends lived. After words, his only problem was being exhausted from over use of his powers.
Powers
Healing
Theoretically, he may even have the capacity to alter his own genetic code, which may be why he is classed as a potential Omega. Elixir has also demonstrated offensive uses of his powers. When enraged by an attack on the Mansion, Elixir made contact with William Stryker and reversed his healing power, which caused Stryker to rapidly die. This power has been demonstrated since, and is an ability that he has limited control over. While he has begun to explore what he can do with his healing abilities, he has yet to fully explore his control over the reversal of healing, and any practice of this ability will most likely result in the death of his target.
Appearance
Elixirs black skin after killing Stryker
Originally Elixir's appearance was that of a normal human, Caucasian teenager. After healing himself from a nearly fatal injury sustained when he returned Wolfsbane's powers, his skin took on a shiny golden appearance. After using his power to kill Stryker his skin turned pitch black, suggesting that his color and emotion changes depending on how he uses his powers. After again using his powers to heal his skin has reverted to its original golden hue with pitch black globs of pigment flowing around his body (much like the movement in a lava lamp). Currently when he uses his powers, his skin will turn to the dominant color of whichever power he is using. So if he uses his hands to heal, they become primarily gold in color. Conversely, when he uses his death touch, black becomes the predominant color of his hands.
Relationships
Josh has had very interesting love life since joining the X-Men family. Starting with a love triangle with Wallflower and Wither. Moving in to a relationship with Wallflower and making out with Wolfsbane frequently. Shortly after Wallflowers death, Loa came into his room and asked if he wanted to makeout, they have been together since.
Alternate Realities
House of MEarth-58163 House of MHouse of M - Elixir worked with SHIELD in this alternate reality. He was a torturer, he combined his powers with Wither (Kevin Ford) on Cameron Hodge, a human terrorist to try and get information. When Wither touches someone, they die almost instantly, but Elixir would negate Wither's power's effects on the victim with his healing touch, but not before a part of them dies and comes back via healing, which is said to be an extremely painful experience for the victim they force to undergo this process. He also used his powers offensively against Surge (Noriko Ashida), he forced blood to go into her lungs just by touching her arm, making it hard for her to breathe throughout the rest of the story.
