History: Josh was always the golden boy - good at sports, admired by his friends and attractive to girls. The popular one who would pick on the outcasts, he also once belonged to 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. He joined the Reavers in an attack on several Xavier's students. During that attack, his friend was injured and Josh discovered he had the ability to heal. Josh tried to hide his secret, but when Pierce attacked Wallflower, he decided to do the right thing and heal her. Still, he was reluctant to accept Dani Moonstar's offer to come to Xavier's until his family and friends rejected him for being a mutant.

At Xavier's, Josh became Prodigy's roommate. The two had a rocky start to their friendship as Josh felt Prodigy was always judging him for his past deeds. His parents soon signed over custody to the school and Danielle Moonstar became Josh's legal guardian. But Josh felt like an outcast and sought refuge in a friendship with an ex-teammate of Dani's, Wolfsbane. Wolfsbane was also going through a rough phase in her life as she had lost her foster mother and her wolf abilities. She and Josh spent an evening talking together which ended in a kiss. The kiss was intense and during it, Josh inadvertently "healed" Wolfsbane and gave her the wolf back. The wolf, back with vegeance, gutted Josh for his efforts. It was uncertain if he would survive the attack until Prodigy suggested Surge use her electricity to wake Josh up just long enough for him to heal himself. The plan worked, but in the healing process, Josh turned himself gold, becoming the literal "golden boy" he'd always wanted to be.

Josh and Rahne had a secret relationship for a while, but Wolfsbane called it off when she realized Josh was attracted to his teammate, Wallflower. Josh and Wallflower became involved and were happy together until fellow student Wither exposed his previous relationship with Wolfsbane. Wallflower immediately dumped Josh, using her pheromones to scare him. Josh has been spending a lot of time alone, most of his training squad angry with him for his treatment of Wallflower. Of his teammates, only Surge seemed not to hold it against him.