Jonah Brown

## Early Life

Jonah Jackson Brown was born in Providence, Rhode Island on March 14, 1944. His father was a veteran of the second World War, and taught Jonah how to fight. In 1959, Jonah was a freshman in high school, hoping to get in with the popular crowd at his school. He ended up going to a party on a night that he was supposed to be watching his little sister Zoe, and her friend who lived down the street. That night his sister was hit and killed by a car. Jonah arrived home before his parents to find the police and paramedics taking his sister to the hospital. This experience caused him to stick to having only a few friends, and being very protective of the vulnerable, especially his younger friend Frankie Jackson.

He began a relationship with a girl named Maggie Booker a year after the incident. The two planned to go to college in Boston together after their graduation in 1962, but her father wanted her to stay closer to home. Jonah left for Boston and began his medical schooling that fall.

The Great War came, and Jonah ended up in a crowded fallout shelter with a couple hundred people. About 9 years later, Jonah's closest friends were killed by a gang led by a man named Freddie Veil. Veil left the shelter shortly afterwards, and Jonah followed, hoping to avenge his friends.

## Gnash's Gang

On his search for Freddie Veil, Jonah caught the attention of Thomas Wilson, a member of Gnash's Gang. Wilson took Jonah to the gang and introduced him. Jonah saw this as an opportunity to eventually get his revenge against Veil. A few weeks later, Jonah made a blood pact with Gnash, a requirement to become a full member of the gang. Jonah's morals were called to question in his time with the gang, but he convinced himself that their behavior was necessary for survival.

Soon, Gnash's Gang went to war with the Veil Gang, and Jonah carried out his revenge. Jonah was satisfied for a short time, but he once again began to question the morality of his actions. Eventually, he shot down a traveler, whose face he could not see. Upon looting the corpse, Jonah realized he had killed his own father, who had been looking for him. His father was carrying a letter from Maggie, who wanted him to know that she was still alive and that she wanted him to come home.

Jonah had become close with Wilson during his time with the gang. Wilson was stunned, and immediately empathetic with Jonah when he told him about killing his own father. Soon, Jonah made the decision to leave the gang, but Gnash wouldn't allow it; they had a blood oath. The gang saw Jonah's desire to leave as a betrayal, and hunted him down during his whole journey back to Rhode Island. Wilson decided to join Jonah, and help him on this journey.

It was during his journey to Rhode Island that Wilson became very ill. Jonah, as a medical student, concluded that Wilson had a mysterious bloodborne disease, that would likely end his life in the near future. Wilson told him that he had these symptoms since shortly after the war. Jonah realized that Gnash, and everyone who joined the gang after Wilson, including himself, would also eventually become ill of this disease. This revelation demoralized Jonah, but Wilson dedicated his dying words to encouraging Jonah to get home to see his girl. Jonah eventually killed almost every member of the gang, and ended up getting back home and seeing Maggie once again.

## Later Life

Jonah 'married' Maggie in 1973, and they had a child, Jonah Brown Jr., who was born in 1975. In 1975, he began displaying the same symptoms which killed Wilson, and Jonah would die himself in 1987.