Joshua Lewis Barlowe

Codename: "Idiot with a death wish."
Nickname(s): "Josh or Lewie the Bar Guy."
Age: "38- but who's counting?"
Race: "Just a boring old human."
Alignment: Neutral Good
Is this a canon?: Nope


Hair Color: Light Brown
Eye Color: Grey
Gender: Male
Height: 6'03"
Weight: 170LB
Other Traits: Has some battle scars.


Main Power Origins: Natural

Powers

"Nothing to see here..."Nothing at all heeheehee~Skills
• Exceptional Military Martial Arts Training
  
• Exceptional Marksmanship
  
• Exceptional Tactician
  
• Exceptional Mechanic
  
• Exceptional Insight
  Hotwiring
  Lockpicking
  Persuasion
  Intimidation
  Bar Games
  Sleight of Hand
  Pickpocketing
  Bomb Diffusal
  
  Abilities
  
• Exceptional Athlete
  
• Exceptional Poison/Toxin Resistance
  
• Exceptional Pain Tolerance
  
• Exceptional Reflexes
  Perceptive
  Ambidextrous
  Fear Resistance
  
  
  Physical Weaknesses
  
• Getting on in age
  
  
  Mental Weaknesses
  
• PsychosisPLAY WITH ME JOSHY-BOY!
  
• PTSD
  
• Smoking and Drinking
  
  
  Equipment
  
• Bullet-Proof Vest
  
• Standard Issue Police Pistol
  
• S&W 500 Super Magnum (With Compensator)
  

Personality
Josh contrary to his profession and ideals, is a pretty laid back kind of guy. He doesn't care what criminals do to each other- frankly the quicker they kill eachother off the better. Josh typically always sounds and acts like he's tired all of the time. He is not above dealing with people working outside the law just to make a living, assuming they're not hurting anyone directly- but he nontheless, uses them sparingly just for information. Josh is also not above some physical coercion when the opportunity presents itself.

Now onto the fun part- Josh's mental issues. Being that he did serve in the military, one of his deployments being in the middle east it should come as no surprise that he has a case of PTSD. However, because of the specific event that caused this, Josh suffers a varying degree of psychosis- notably involving some kind of grinning masked man. Fortunately he takes medication, and also happens to drink enough that it doesn't impact his day to day too much.


Family Members: Unknown
Place of Origin: Jump City

History
Josh was born and raised to a single mother in California, Jump City. His parents were divorced some time after he was born, due to his father's military lifestyle getting in the way of his mother's want to settle down. It was difficult raising a child on your own with a minimum wage job, and at a young age he learned he had to help out all he could to help his mother out. His life was mostly unremarkable outside living in a city plagued by supervillains and other menaces. He did show high marks in his physical and mental tests for early enrollment in the military. Eventually he did enroll into the military, following in his father's footsteps for some time.

He was then deployed to the middle east where his life took a turn for the worst. Josh and his unit were in the midst of evacuating civillians during a bomb threat, wherein they were engaged with some terrorists in a firefight. The rest of the details are foggy. But somehow during the exchange the bomb had been set off, revealing that it was some kind of chemical bomb that released a noxious gas after detonation. Josh remembers things AFTER the blast differently than how it had been. He felt like his entire body was on fire, like literally on fire. Every sound was magnified by a hundred, colors seemed to constantly shift with shapes ebbing and flowing into one another. For everyone caught in the blast, they ALL looked like skinless monsters that he HAD to put down! This would also be the first time he encountered... HIM. A monster whose face looked like a mask laughing eternally, and indeed the fiend's voice rang out through the entire experience. And then he passed out.

When he came to, he found himself strapped into a bed in a medical tent where he eventually recanted what happened. He was told contrary to what he experienced, that he had been found among the horribly mutiliated bodies among the wreckage with further evidence linking him to most of their deaths. The only consolation was that he hadn't been the only one to... react the way he did. The gas had evidently been designed to bring people into a psychosis-like mental state. While tests were still being done, both mentally and physically, he suffered on and off night or day terrors as the SAME masked man would torment him. Only Josh could see him, everyone else despite how real the hallucinations appeared, no one else could see him.

Eventually, after being prescribed some medication, he was sent back home to take some time off. It was soon after this that his mother passed away and he slipped into a kind of depression, eventually enrolling in the police academy. He needed to refocus his energy into something productive and worthwhile, and helping the city where he was born seemed like the best option. Despite the medication helping him for the most part, he still sometimes sees or hears things that aren't there. Usually it's minor like a whisper, or a familial masked face out of the corner of his eye. And sometimes he has trouble sleeping at night. But he's made Detective now, and supervillain or not, he's gonna try to help people.


"I swear I've done the paperwork. Let's just get this over with."

We are gonna have so many normies.