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His father was abusive when he was young, causing Jonah and his brother to often hide from him.
As a young man, he traveled back to his home country to serve in the New Zealand Army. His strength and almost supernatural ability to detect danger made him a popular member of his unit; his ability to prepare and cook almost anything didn’t hurt either.
After sustaining injuries in the line of duty, Jonah was honorably discharged and went to work as a chef in his sister’s café in Ngāpuhi, New Zealand, Conrad Roth encountered Jonah dockside carrying four crates of seafood at once. Impressed by his strength (and later his cooking), Roth offered him a place on the Endurance.
You want a non-White male to die.
I'm calling this out for racism.
she has no white male friends.
Introduction
We all know Jonah, or at least, we think we do. He's the big New Zealand Born Polynisian raised man who helped Lara on the Island of Yamatai, a master survivalist, a big guy, a cook. Deep calming voice, friendly, and an recognizable due to the cultural beads on his neck.
But who is he really, we see him, at least, whom we assume he is, every time. But the truth is often stranger than fiction.
The Man is
The Man, or Jonah is a strong independant yet reliable friend who comes into an adventurer's life, bringing reason, a voice of persuasion, yet keeping enough distance to avoid the spot light. He is the voice of reason, he understands the mystical state of the world.
The Myth illuminated
So why does Jonah keep changing, his voice stays the same, he's still big, he still keeps the necklace. The Myth goes back to the culture of Panea of the Reef, which, while in mythology is a goddess of the sea, is actually, in truth, an orginization.
Now, before you react in shock, Jonah spoke of his abusive father, and how he and his brother, whom also is named Jonah (Though name is never given) where considering returning to 'Her Embrace'.
The Legend told
Panea is a secret base for the orginization known as 'Jonah' a man, made over and over again, conditioned to the same life. Aware, functional, and each time Jonah survives a mission he returns to Panea and shares his tales with his brothers.
They are trained, each and every one, fed on a diet to make them large and strong, given the necklaces to show where they come from, trained vocally to all hold the same iconic voice that comforts.
But isn't another secret orginization bad?!
Not at all, Jonah isn't like Trinity, who tries to oppress the truth, but rather, finding extrodinary world changing people and befriending and guiding them. Keeping them safe. And making the world a better friend.
Everyone in the world knows, the difference between life and death isn't a knife's edge, but rather, a friend at a time in need.
Without Jonah, Lara would be dead. And Lara in turn is indirectly at times, and directly at others guided by his optimism. His kindness. The fact that despite being willing to kill, that he is not homicidal.
This traid, shaired by all Jonah as whole have endeared the orginization to Lara. They want to protect her, and they keep each other up to date. If Lara is in trouble, there is a Jonah around the corner waiting to step in and help.
But they aren't opressive either. They understand that the best things require room to grow. And that you can't make a tree go strong by strangling its trunk.
What is the purpose of Jonah?
Jonah's purpose is simple, to make the world a better place, to create their paragons of good men to serve as examples and aides to people of importance.
Jonah stands and watches history unfold, and helps to bring friendship, tradition, and good values into the hearts of those world shaking people.
Okay, but why did they attach to Lara?
Origionally Jonah was a friend of Roth, Lara's mentor, and she had great potential, Roth, a longstanding friend, and man in the know about the Truth of Jonah had invited him on the expedition knowing their well intent and wanting the most morally mature orginization in the world at his back.
When Roth died, and Lara took up his mantle, time and time again, simply for the purpose of saving a friend, Jonah knew that Lara was the next great friend. However as time went on, and the crazy cult happened, and then Trinity, the orginization knew they couldn't preserve their friendship and send the truth.
So when Jonah returned from Yamatai, they sent another Jonah in his place, with his memories to protect her. Because of their membership criteria and identical voices, she simply assumed that Jonah had aged oddly in the short time apart.
In truth, they are trying to hint at their true nature, trying to tell her subtle that Jonah, while one person, is also many people. And that they are her friend.
Holy hell, that's cool, does that mean Jonah is a hive mind?
Again, with everything Jonah, it's complicated. They have an artifact that allows memory transferance between its members, but they preffer to keep things on the level, let each new generation grow as time goes on so as to keep relevant and to avoid the traps that a centuries old center of lore and wisdom would bring to a young body. Such as being seen as not natural.
What about Lara, she's changing, is she in on it?
No. She just... ages wierdly. Remember how she landed on her side, her immune system deals with toxins and infections wierdly, it's mostly visible in the face.
Fortunately, she hasn't caught anything bad enough to render her with 'a tired face'. Tetnus, Hepititus, etc!? Naw, Lara has a wierd immune system, it simply adjusts the facial features a bit.
How does she have that ability?!
Jonah of course, from his time with Roth. Roth had it too, and he trained Lara, he helped condition her immune system with dietary training and secrets he'd learned from Jonah. Lord Croft never really took to it as well.
So basically, Jonah invented the immune conditioning regimine, and Roth embraced it, and used it to condition Lara.
Other effects basically include faster than human reflexes, accelerated healing factor, endless stamina, sharper than human senses.
Isn't this familier?
Yes, it's the Trial of the Grasses, the Origional Jonah was a Witcher, but the origional process was lost, but he managed to create a new one, and after a wierd conjunction of the spheres he was trapped on Earth.
Earth's odd place prevents overt displays of magic from all but a very few, so things like the Signs don't work on earth.
In the years since he made a refined version that while not as potant as the origional concoction worked on both healthy men and women and could be administered in a subtle fashion over time.
Does this mean what I think it does?
Yes... Lara Croft is a Secret Witcher. And Jonah's Necklace Vibrates when there are monsters nearby.
I would say that she was Ciri in disguise, dying her hair and traveling through time, but we all know Ciri is black now, so that can't be.