Jonas Maliki

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

### Jonas Maliki: 1967

Jonas was born in Delhi, India to a university professor and his wife. At the tender age of three, Jonas and his family moved to London. Jonas struggled with his rather traditional parents as he embraced the counterculture of London's youth. Struggling at home, Jonas eagerly enlisted into the United Kingdom's military at the age of sixteen. It was not long after his training that he ended up being sent to Zandia.

### Jonas Maliki: 1983 - 1993

Jonas saw all too many atrocities in his time spent in the military. He would attain the rank of corporal after specializing in demolitions and explosive ordnance disposal. While away at war, Jonas' parents were killed in the intrinsic explosion in London. He knew a great tragedy had happened before hearing the news — having sensed the psychic pain of millions suddenly torn from this world. Jonas mourned in his own way, but found the idea of world peace to be worth the horrible price paid.

Jonas would spend the last two years of his military contract fighting in the surviving streets of London as martial law was declared to help secure the city from the ravages of the St. Mary's Virus and rioters. When his military contract was concluded, Jonas quickly fled England — having seen the writing on the wall and having no faith in the direction of the nation's politics.

Jonas moved to Star City. At the time he was not sure what drew him there, but he assumed the rainy weather reminded him of what he loved about London, but with more pleasing politics. Jonas used his inheritance to put himself through school, majoring in literature. Still an Anglophile at heart, Jonas fell in love with classic English literature. Following his graduation in 1993, Jonas decided to treat himself a return trip to England, meant as a farewell tour. It was during this time that Jonas had a psionic awakening that connected his consciousness to six other persons.

### Jonas Maliki: 1993 - Present

After meeting Angelica Turing and falling in love almost instantly through their shared mental connection, Jonas cut his trip early to return home. Jonas went into the forest and had a physical rendezvous with Angelica. As the two kissed, Jonas realized his subconscious mind had drawn him to Star City though the-then dormant psychic link he had with Angelica.

Jonas moved into Angelica's cabin and felt it was his first true home. Though Jonas was eager to aid Angelica's research into their new sensate nature, the rest of their cluster was uncomfortable with Angelica's inquiries and the intimate relationship she had with Jonas. It was not long before the cluster shut Jonas and Angelica out — effectively making Jonas and Angelica a cluster of two. Jonas coined their cluster 'the Lacuna' as it was missing something — something they hoped to find.

Eager to help Angelica learn more about their sensate nature, Jonas would often travel across the globe. He found other sensates and brought back knowledge to share with Angelica, including the process for activating other sensates. Though sensates of any gender can facilitate the birth of sensates, Jonas' knowledge made him the better midwife and it was agreed Angelica would be the one awaken a new cluster of seven freshly-minted sensates.

Jonas bought the cluster to Angelica's cabin and used his inheritance to finance the creation of a humble commune in the forest. However, not all of Angelica's children were eager to accept their sensate nature. Todd McCarver abandoned his cluster and his sensate mother. Jonas tried to keep tabs on Todd during his travels, but one day Jonas found that Todd had simply vanished.

Todd did turn up but only killing several persons and ending up in Arkham in a perpetually vegetative state. Looking into it, Jonas and Angelica discovered that Todd was the victim of the machinations of one of their own clustermates. This discovery would lead to Angelica being tortured, her children being abducted, and the birth of Angelica's second cluster of sensate children which Jonas promised to protect.

Forced to abandon his lover in Gotham when she was too weak after birthing her new cluster, Jonas began the process of mentoring the 8888 Cluster.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Psionic Metahuman Physiology:** Jonas is a metahuman with psionic abilities connected to the psionic intrinsic field as the Od (also known as the Dreaming). To be specific, Jonas belongs to a sub-class of psychic known as a sensate.
	+ ***Astral Visitation:*** Jonas can project a portion of his consciousness in the vicinity of another sensate (whether one belonging to his cluster or one with which he had his physical contact previously). This projection is tuned to the senses of sensates.
		- ***Bilocation:*** Jonas is practiced enough with his astral visitation that he project his consciousness into the locations of several sensates simultaneously. At rest, Jonas is able to maintain four concurrent visitations. Jonas is also capable to project a portion of his consciousness into his own victinity to dicreetly communicate with visitors wihout having to disrupt his physical activity or draw attention to himself.
	+ ***Obfuscation:*** Jonas can make others overlook his presence. To the weak-willed, he might as well be not only invisible but also inaudible. Most persons will not find their perceptions drawn to Jonas provided he does not do anything to draw exceptional attention to himself. If he does do something extraordinary, like shoot someone in a crowded rail station, his personal features are likely to be misremembered. Jonas can choose persons to exclude from this effect. While this effect remains up Jonas' aure will also cause distortions on most video recordings, as well as photography.
	+ ***Sensory Empathy:*** Jonas can share his senses, emotios, thoughts, and memories with other sensates — particularly those that belong to his sensate cluster.
	+ ***Supernatural Senses:*** Jonas is able to see, hear and interact with beings on the astral plane — particularly sensates, but also ephemeral entities, and invisible spirits.
	+ ***Telepathic Sharing:*** Jonas can share his knowledge, languages, skills, talents, and even his psychic abilities with sensates from his cluster (such as Angelica Turing). These same sensates can share their abilities with Jonas. For the transfer of skills, talents, and psychic abilities, Jonas must possess the receiving sensate or allow himself to be possessed by the projecting sensate while they are visiting.
* **Military Training:** Jonas is a veteran of the British Army.
	+ ***Demolitions Expert:*** Jonas is an expert of creation, arming, disarming, use, and disposal of explosive devices. He can create homemade pipebombs or even prepare military-grade ordnance — provided he has right materials and equipment.
	+ ***Expert Marksman:*** Jonas is familiar in the use of multiple types of firearms.
	+ ***Expert Martial Artist:*** Jonas is an acomplished martial artist and brawler.
* **Literary Scholar:** Jonas is an avid lover of literature — particularly classic English literature. He can quote Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Chaucer, Milton, Orwell, Woolf, and many others. He is also well-versed in cultural history and art history.
* **Well-Travelled:** Jonas is well-versed in travel, both proper and illegal channels.

### Weaknesses

* **Burden Bearing:** When a clustermate is overwhelmed with intense pain beyond their will to endure, the excess of pain may ripple out and flood over the rest of the cluster, resulting in intense phantom pain matching that felt by their clustermate.
* **Devotion:** Jonas is completely devoted to his lover, Angelica Turing. Though he can and does see her flaws, he will justify them — even when he objects to them. His love for her can manipulate him into doing which he would otherwise.
* **Migraines:** Jonas, like most psionics, suffers from severe migraines.
* **Trust Issues:** Jonas's upbringing gave him few people he could rely on. He tends to be rather guarded and cryptic — often keeping secrets until his trust is earned.
* **Vulnerability — Electricity:** Jon reacts poorly to electrical stimulation. Electric shock overestimulates the psycellium nervous system of most sensates and induces severe pain and seizures — often with violent coughing of blood and bloody noses.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Occult:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Weaponry:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Expertise:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Range:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Strategy:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
	+ **TOTAL:** 45
	+ **RANKING:** Low Threat

### Trivia

* He is the mentor of the Cluster 8888.
* He and Angelica broke into Arkham Asylum to find Todd. He gained access to the surveillance footage and found Whispers. When Angelica wanted tto confront their clustermate he was against it.
* He stole Wesley Dodds' security pass to break into Arkham. He later asked him for help with meeting the new cluster.
* Dian Belmont is his former friend.

### Notes

* Jonas Maliki is a character from the Netflix series *Sense8*.
* His appearance is based on the actor Naveen Andrews, who portrayed him in the show.

## Network Files

Network Files Jonas Maliki.jpgNetwork Files: Jonas Maliki

## Links and References

* Appearances of Jonas Maliki

1. ↑ Network Files: Jonas Maliki
2. ↑ Network Files: Angelica Turing
3. ↑ VOX Box: Behind the 8 Ball - Jonas 1
4. ↑ Network Files: Dian Belmont