When Markus arrives in Jericho he’s bitterly disappointed by what he finds. He was expecting safety like the sort he’d just left, and instead he found a rusting metal boat with a crowd of people slowly dying away.
Out of Simon, Josh, and North, Josh is the only one that really defends it.
After two dialog choices, Josh:
From here Markus says something bleak, with 3 out of 4 choices criticizing them for their passivity. Josh doesn’t take it personally, which is probably an important strategy in his situation.
Jericho’s a refuge. They’re free there, they’re safe.
North and Simon don’t say a lot, here, but when they do, their tones are different. For example, when you select the ‘Freedom’ option:
Her answer is similar to Josh’s on the surface, but is different when you look twice: Josh says ‘our strategy keeps us alive’, while North is saying ‘there are no good options and everything is shitty.’ She sounds frustrated with their situation, focused on the negative parts of it in ways Josh isn’t.
Simon seems similarly frustrated, after Markus has criticized their decision to hide:
Josh weathered Markus’ criticism. Simon, by contrast, seems to dwell on it more.
Josh knows things are bad. He can acknowledge to Markus that the injured androids are slowly dying away, and he’s the one who brings up the kid-android’s likely death. He just sees it as the best option among all the others; it’s reliable in its own dark way, and choosing it means they have some semblance of control in deciding their fate. It’s also one of the very few options that leave room for people who don’t want to fight, and Josh really doesn’t want to.
Josh was accepting of Jericho as it was, while Simon and North were unhappy with it. When a chance to change things comes along, the two of them jump for it, and Josh follows very reluctantly. Essentially he’s been outvoted.
We see hints of these inclination’s natural outcome later, when things are getting grim in Crossroads:
They all started out dismayed over what humans were doing, but Josh is the one who clearly regrets ever trying to change things, and he presses the point by blaming Markus and lashing out. North and Simon don’t do this, and are more likely to argue for more action or redirect the conversation so that someone else can argue for it.
TL;DR, Josh wanted to hold on to Jericho as a known refuge when Markus first arrived, and will regret leaving that relative safety behind when things start to hurt. North and Simon don’t see Jericho with the same lens, and don’t regret acting accordingly.
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