Kidnapper; I have your ward.
Ivy, pulling out a Guess Who board; I have literally so many of those I need you to be more specific.
Kidnapper; Really pale?
Ivy, flipping down Mora, Malcolm, CJ, Jay, Veronica, Carlos, Claudine, Orm, Joss, Pasha, and Quinlan; More specific, please.
Kidnapper; Um, a guy?
Ivy, flipping down Evie, Rose, Andi, Spider, Mal, Polina, Kira, Nikita, Goldie, Kurse, Bloom, considers flipping down Riah and Gil but decides to give the kidnappers the benefit of the doubt; More specific, please.
Kidnapper; More?! Look, just wire us the mon- WHERE WAS HE HIDING A SWORD?!
Ivy; Oh, red hair? You have Ace. It uses it/its, by the way. May the odds be ever in your favour *hands up*
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Some types of merfolk are immune to the many venoms of cone snails, their bodies natural produce the right kinds of antivenom based on the types of cone snails indigenous to the areas they live in. Cone snail antivenom uses immune cells from some mer populations, assuming the patient lives long enough to make it to the hospital. On the Isle, a blood transfusion from some specific part-mer people (like Joss or CJ) can usually save someone, as long as they get help quickly.
Nikita and Joss are the only two who are going to stay at Xavier's Institute while the rest of the smuggled-by-the-six Isle kids hide in the AP dorms. Nikita had to stay because she needs a medically-trained caretaker due to her disabilities and Joss decided to stay behind with her to reassure her siblings and in-laws (Ivy, Veronica, and Carlos,) that she would be cared for. They visit the two of them all the time.
That's a question a lot of the Isle would like an answer to. Unfortunately, not even Joss seems to know.
She's fourteen, at Harriet's best guess, and they're fairly certain she's a civilian kid. She doesn't remember her parents, but she has a distinct impression that both are dead. Her theory is that her scar (more on that in a second) came from the same time, as if whoever killed her parents tried to kill her, too. Lydia guesses, based on how her bones have grown, that Joss was around two when the scar was created. Her age combined with the brain injury that had to have come from the wound, it's no wonder she doesn't remember what happened.
Joss looks like someone took a downward swing at her face with an axe. The right half of her face, starting halfway through what should be her right eye and ending behind where her right ear used to be, is gone. Whatever caused the wound took out nearly a third of her jaw, a small bit of her neck, and an undeterminable amount of her frontal lobe. Her ribcage is also crooked, as if someone took an axe to where the two sides of her ribs met and broke completely through the cartilidge, and the injury didn't join up properly. Both injuries should have killed her in a few seconds, if not instantly. But she survived both.
Joss has healing abilities. That's how she survived the injuries, everyone is sure, and they make her a huge asset to the gang because she can extend them to heal others.
But why would someone try to kill a baby like that? Well, the answer is likely not usual Isle love of crime. The answer is almost certainly the colour of Joss's skin; a deep, glittering indigo.
Joss is one of the few who was born with an obviously nonhuman skin tone (Harriet thinks, based on Joss's abilities that would definitely match up, that Joss is part mermaid, a deep-ocean mermaid,) but she's the only one that's ever lived past the age of five. Joss is basically an outlier that shouldn't be counted, as she's currently the only one and is definitely more of a miracle than a change to the rule.
Of course, Joss's survival also came from her learning fast. She started covering herself head-to-toe before she could remember making the choice. Covering up every inch of skin has just been instinct to her for as long as she can remember. She also uses a plastic mask under her bandages, which makes the formation of her skull less obvious, and wears goggles with lenses thick enough that no one can see that she's missing her right eye. From there she became another anonymous face on the street.
Until the war.
No one knew if she was with the Jungles, but Diego mentioned a Jungle girl who would come by once everyone was gone and heal his wounds, seemingly by humming lullabies. He couldn't describe her, of course, but Harriet figured the unusual description of "covered every inch of skin and wore goggles" would help her pick her love's mysterious helper out of the crowd.
It did, but not until years later. She found Joss when Joss was around twelve, trying to steal fish from a member of her crew. She'd originally been angry, but when she realized that this strange fish thief covered every inch of skin and wore thick, black goggles, both extremely unusual in the summer heat, she wondered... she let the girl take a fish and promised that if she came back tomorrow, Harriet would give her more. Harriet reached out to Diego and asked if he still remembered the strange Jungle girl. He did, and she asked him to stop by the ship tomorrow to see if she just found her.
Joss came back for more fish, as starving Isle children do, and Diego recognized her. The years had changed her, obviously, but she still had this strange, liquid way of movement. She seemed to move with grace beyond even a cat, like the flowing of water, and he remembered that. When she hummed to confirm that she wanted more fish when Harriet asked, Diego recognized her voice. Changed a bit, sure, but somehow still exactly the same. Harriet asked if Joss knew Diego, and she hummed a yes. When asked if she was the girl who had healed Diego, she hummed another yes.
Harriet offered her a place on the crew right then and there.
It didn't take the crew long to adapt to Joss. Maybe it was her skin, a detail that would keep her from being a plant by Maleficent, or maybe the fact that she couldn't speak, or maybe it was just something about the curiosity and lack of boundary testing, but something helped them trust her quickly. Harriet found out during a small battle that Joss knew the back alleys and side streets of the Isle like no one else. She knew exactly how to get around the Isle without ever being seen and, as a bonus, she knew where predators would hang out and labelled these places on maps so that Harriet's crew could avoid them. Joss is always a key player when making plans, and she has yet to steer them wrong.
Joss is also trying to improve the survival rate of people with strange skin. She's only managed two out of ten she's heard of, but thus far she's saved Curse, who's three and has light violet skin, and Bloom, who's around three months old and has green skin. She's their older sister now and by the gods she will protect them with her life.
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Charles Xavier made sure Nightcrawler was waiting when he bought the first shipment of kids to the Institute. They couldn't see her face, of course, but they could still see the way she lit up when she saw someone like her there, someone with blue skin and strange features but who wasn't hiding his face from the other human-passing people in the room. When he gave her a tour of the school while she was waiting on her exam, no one stared at him. No one tried to hurt him. Some of the other students even looked like them, and no one was staring at or attacking those students, either! None of them had to hide their faces.
This was a place she had always dreamed she would find but had never believed was real
Remember how I said that almost all Isle kids with an obviously nonhuman skin tone are killed early on? Joss is the only reason the "almost" is in that statement.
I love joss and would like to protect her from everything and also just give her the biggest hug ever.
I'm so glad. She's about to be completely safe. She and her two adopted siblings are going to be in the first group sent to Charles Xavier, along with the Rasputins, Heartses, and Ivy and Veronica. He asked for child abuse cases for the case he's building and she didn't hold back. She also included Curse, Bloom, and Pasha not only because she wasn't separating them from their families, but because the three of them were raised wonderfully and that'll be good for the case of "the Isle kids are not their parents."
