Jonah Maiava

Jonah Maiava (born 1980) is a supporting character in Tomb Raider remake video games. He is a New Zealand-born, American cook and general ships dogsbody of the Endurance and one of Lara Croft’s closest friends.
He is voiced by .
==History==
===Early Years===
Jonah was born in New Zealand but raised in Hawaii by his maternal grandmother, as his father was very strict with him and his brother and because of this they often went into hiding. He studied many traditions and returned to help in the New Zealand army. His strength and almost supernatural ability to sense danger have made him a popular member of his unit; her ability to prep and cook almost anything didn't hurt either.
He suffered several injuries in the process, was honorably discharged, and went to work in his sister's café bar in Ngāpuhi, New Zealand. He met Conrad Roth at the docks, while Jonah was carrying four cases of seafood. Impressed by his strength (and later his cooking skills), Roth offered him a position on the Endurance.
At some unspecified point, he became friends with Alex Weiss.
===Tomb Raider (2013)===
Jonah accompanies the crew of the Endurance as a cook.
When the Endurance is caught in the storm that strands them on Yamatai, he is one of the survivors. Lara shortly sees him at the beach before she is taken by the Scavenger.
They later meet again when Lara is trapped and attacked by wolves, shortly she met Matthias for the first time. He leaves with the other survivors while Lara and James Whitman stay behind to look for Conrad Roth.
At the beach they all meet up again and Jonah presents Lara with a new Bow. They finally set out together on Whitman's trail to rescue Sam. While Lara climbs the monastery, he stays behind with Joslin Reyes to cover their backs.
Finally, he is able to leave the island together with Lara and Reyes.
===Rise of the Tomb Raider===
Lara and Jonah share a bond that evolved out of the things that happened to both of them on Yamatai. When Lara plans her trip to Siberia Jonah accompanies her. Together they climb up the mountain range in order to find the lost city of Kitezh. They get separated by an avalanche. Despite multiple attempts of communicating, they both don't know what happened to the other.
Lara tells him to return to the base camp, but instead he starts a search for her. He gets rescued from the wilderness by the Remnant and he and Lara are reunited in the Geothermal Valley.
When the Trinity mercenaries steal the Atlas they take Jonah, too, and set up a trap for Lara. Jonah gets interrogated and tortured by Konstantin. When he tries to free himself, he gets mortally wounded in the process, as he is unable to kill Konstantin when he has him at his mercy. Instead, Konstantin stabs him and leaves him dying. Only Jacob's powers are able to save Jonah's life.
==Personality==
Jonah represents many traits with the great gentle giant. He loves cooking, fishing and theatre.
Jonah also appears to be very spiritual, as he was the first to sense something supernatural on the island they were shipwrecked on, and he understood that the storm that stranded them was caused by an inhuman force.
Jonah can also be witty and playful, in a page of his diary he wrote that if he had been the only survivor he would have jumped into the ocean to swim, allowing Pania of the Reef to take him and join his brother in death.
==Trivia==
*Jonah is the only character from Tomb Raider aside from Lara to appear in Rise of the Tomb Raider and Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
*Jonah saved Lara in the prologue of Tomb Raider (2013) when she was drowning inside the ship. He was recognized by his left arm's bracelet while pulling Lara up.
*Jonah's surname, Maiava is pronounced MY-AVA.
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