Jonah

### Aliases

Reverb, Jonah (formerly), The City (formerly), Lurch, Sulphur, Verglas (formerly)

## Affiliation and Relationships

### Affiliation

The Peacekeepers (formerly), The Glassman (formerly), Neo-Sulphur (former)

## Origin and Living Status

### Species

Fabricated Human, Human (formerly), A.I. (formerly)

## Personal Information

### Occupation

Scientist, Entrepreneur, Doctor, Caretaker of Sulphur (formerly)

## Creation

### Debut

Late May, 2021

 *"Messiah." He answered. "I suppose I was part of America's response to him. A man that could kill anything, and a man that couldn't die. The world was confusing back then." He let out a sigh and squatted down. "Still is..." Jonah pulled a small stick from his satchel and put it into the ground. "I wouldn't say it was tough now. Back then all I wanted to do is die. And I did, but then came back for another round." He turned to Kenny and stood back up, continuing to speak. "I died 57 times at the hands of Americans testing on their own people. They dropped me in the ocean and left me to become a pile of adipocere. Necrosis, ironically, saved my life. Had it not been for those circumstances I wouldn't be here today, trying to help everyone I can. I've made good progress, Kenny. So looking back no, it wasn't very tough."*

-Reverb towards Kenny after Kenny asked if the Cold War had been difficult for him and The Messiah

Verglas is an A.I. born of the chaos and confusion of Ark City and the broken mind of Jonah. It is responsible for the creation of many experimental and dangerous inventions that have been fed into the city. The most notable being that of a pill that gives the user temporary powers.

Reverb is Verglas' exported conscience.

Verglas isn't known for much other than that, maybe a couple mass killings during its time as Jonah and striking a deal with the Glassman to save his own skin.

## History

Jonah's story (albeit beginning during the Cold War) began like most people's would. Born to two loving parents and grew up in a relatively friendly home. Went through school without causing too much of an issue for himself and when he graduated highschool he went to find a job. One day he came home from work and turned on the local news and found that both his parents had been killed in a car crash. He cried for several days and contemplated not going to the funeral. He decided to attend though, feeling he'd regret it if he didn't.

A couple years later he got a visit by some man that said his parents' accident wasn't an accident. Jonah didn't believe him and slammed the door in his face. For months the man kept on pestering him and eventually Jonah caved in. The man told Jonah to meet him in some old warehouse on the edge of town and reluctantly Jonah agreed to meet. However, when Jonah pulled up to the building and got out of his car, he was knocked out. He didn't see who it was but knew it was that man.

The man had brought Jonah to a strange government facility and put him into the clothes mentioned previously, save for the mask, and locked him in a room with only one meal a day. After about 16 meals he was taken out and sent to some chamber. There he was given the mask.

Over the next ten years, the people at the facility tested various gasses on Jonah. The mask worked sometimes, sometimes it didn't. Didn't make a difference though, it had become melded to his face. The inability to clean the mask, as well as the constant use of various gasses, had caused Jonah's brain to "malfunction". Certain regions shrunk, grew, stopped working, started working differently, and a bunch of other inaccuracies. It had done so much damage to him that he rarely ever breathed and had no need to eat or drink. His speech had become a mess and his skin had begun to turn an alarm raising colour. Eventually the workers decided to get rid of Jonah as he had stopped reacting to any of the gasses they'd tried. So they shot him and threw him in the ocean.

He was in the ocean for almost twenty years before something strange and miraculous happened: He woke up. He was unable to get the straight jacket off. It appeared that some of the gasses that reacted with the water hardened the structure of the jacket. It had also seemed to mess with the decomposition of his body, resulting in a full cellular death to him and anything around him. But the uncleaned mask had brought him back. And that was all he needed. So now he roams the earth, trying to find peace, whether with his new self, or fixing the mess that befell him.

After five years in the city:

During a fight with BX-nE125 he was thrown into a circuit breaker and it sent a magnitude of volts through his body. This not only restarted his heart but it did something quite extraordinary to his body as a whole.

The gases that were in his body had been made unstable due to Anthony and his brother moving Jonah so quickly and when the electricity struck him these gases responded vigorously. Nerve gases, neuro-targeting gases, and blood cell-targeting gases caused his brain and other organs to kick into overdrive. His already heightened senses were accelerated and improved upon and his body began to create blood cells again, causing his skin and other physical injuries to heal overtime. His overclocked brain caused his blood cells to work faster, making his injuries heal quicker. His nerves, while being able to feel things like heat, continued to fail to send pain indicators to the brain. This accelerated brain action also rendered his old and disheveled organs useless and he quickly needed new ones.

He was able to negate most things deemed "useless" such as eating, drinking, and breathing and used the parts of the now dead BX to create a mechanical system where most of his organs were and connected it to nearly every part of his body. He was now able to vent different gases into the system and use their reactions with one another to create things like nutrients and oxygen for his body without needing to breathe it in. He took the eyes of Ironidax from The Harvester and implanted them in place of his own. There was no real reason for this other than the fact that he didn't like seeing them laying around and deemed them too valuable to get rid of. He soon took the metaloid of The Harvester and used it to line his bones, making them more durable.

The robot leg he had was modified into a multipurpose tool that he could wear on his forearm like a sleeve and control with various cybernetic linkings. It could change from the sleeve to a small smg-like weapon, a bat-like weapon, drill, or anything else he might need.

Despite all brain and body activity, the brain itself remains like it was when he was still a normal zombie. Regions a mess, no way to pinpoint where anything was, and seemingly to always shift in terms of what was used for what.

In short, his danger level and cockroach level have gone up, but in a world that changes as fast as he does, it doesn't really matter.

After another five in the city:

Jonah had a vision of a place that existed in response to his own image. A place where he could protect those within without having to worry about people like Atlas, John, and Messiah coming in and tearing things up every couple of days.

There was no place for this city on land. So Jonah did what any sensible person would and built in the ocean. With help from cultists, doctors, architects, and his own minor technopathic abilities they erected the city in a dome under the water.

Once completed Jonah, using knowledge he'd collected from many sources he was able to connect his brain to a mechanical spine and then was placed in a secret place. He was able to control any technical thing in the city, so long as it was made in the city.

He changed his name to Verglas and began researching and experimenting with metahuman and alien DNA. Soon he was able to rewrite segments of DNA to give humans powers. This was a short-lived project as the Glassman soon came and took over Neo-Sulphur. Not wanting to give him the advantages Neo-Sulphur could promise, Verglas destroyed the city and everyone inside it then escaped into the ocean for ten years.

After he returned to the city, he became a host for various shows and continued his biological research, which soon stemmed into medical research. After several incidents, he had an epiphany that ended in a nostalgic trip to The Sanctuary to meet with Arura, Zaps, and John after too many years apart. After the visit he returned home and accidentally figured out how to travel between universes.

He went on a trip through the multiverse and with new information figured out how to make carbon based life and modify it without having to go through reproduction. He created the body of Reverb and is now using it as his main body.

Soon after, he made a deal with Excal which allowed him to escape the collapse of his own universe and live in one where the Jonah had died. After arriving, he confronted The Messiah, and the ensuing conversation told Jonah he was approaching life the wrong way.

He broke in to the the T.B.I. and merged with the anomaly that had been created by time fluctuations. With this he gained the anomaly's memories and powers (biokinesis and intangibility) and soon found a way to everywhere at the end of time, cashing in on his last favour from Prism: Freedom. He was then freed from all laws of nature, physics, the mind, the body, magic, the concept of life and death, and many other things.

or various shows and continued his biological research, which soon stemmed into medical research. After several incidents, he had an epiphany that ended in a nostalgic trip to The Sanctuary to meet with Arura, Zaps, and John after too many years apart. After the visit he returned home and accidentally figured out how to travel between universes.

## Powers & Abilities

### **Powers / Abilities**

Omnilock

Bio-Fission

Bio-Fusion

Biokinesis

Portal Construction

Phasing

Dimensional Energy Manipulation

Genius Level intellect

## Paraphernalia

Jonah has a plethora of gear and weapons available to him, but he usually carries a satchel with him.