Joshua Fuller-Deets

Joshua Fuller-Deets was found after a two-passenger plane crashed off the coast of a cove in Alaska. A logger witnessed the crash, and on the cold rocky shore found the baby, swaddled amidst the wreckage. Next to him lay an old black and white photograph. The logger took him home and raised him as his own. The logger (whose name Josh will not reveal) was often gone for long periods of time. Josh's best friends were his dogs, and the expanse of Alaskan wilderness he played in. When Josh was older, the logger told him of the crash, and gave him the carefully preserved photo. However, tragedy struck when the logger was killed in an accident. When the trustees of the state came to take Josh, the two dogs were so vicious to defend him that the police and animal control were called. Eventually, after a long struggle, the police shot one dog while the other was subdued by animal control, and led frothing into the van, where records show it was quickly euthanized.

Josh was forced into foster home after foster home. At the age of eighteen, Josh was finally able to live on his own. He turned to the skies, taking flying lessons and quickly became one of the premier aeronauts. His abilities would be described in The Washington Post as "prodigal." However, the sky and tragedy seemed entangle in his veins. One day, while attempting to break the record time of a single-man plane traversing the spine of the Alps, his plane shorted out in a lightning strike which came from an almost pure blue sky. Crashing into the Alps, Josh crawled from the wreckage, burned and injured. In his reports, he suffered from "severe hallucinations." He claims that the two dogs of his childhood returned and guided him through the wood and snow. For three days he wandered after the dogs, until he stumbled across the lights of the village below. During the sojourn, Josh broke three ribs, an arm, and lost two toes on his left foot to frostbite.

After the experience, Josh, nearly crippled and without a plane and no sponsors, enrolled in Hampshire College. There he studies a combination of psychology, aeronautics, and semiotics. He knows his destiny is tied to the sky, and he knows as well that he will eventually return to Alaska, to find the truth of his origins.