Jonas Garcia

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## OOU information

### Novel debut

Chapter 1

**Jonas Garcia** (*ジョナス・ガルシア, Jonasu Garushia*) Is a major supporting as well as main character of the Republic Zero series. He is introduced in Arc 1. He is the tritagonist or third perspective character of Book 1.

His personal callsign in **Napalm** (*ナパーム, Napāmu*)

He is a soldier within the Unification Army and the leader of the Exterminator squadron of Task Force Spearhead.

## Appearance

Jonas is a fairly tall and quite muscular young man. He is a purebred Onyx with both Jet-black hair that he styles into side parted cut, and Blood red eyes.

He is seen in a variety of casual outfits through out the series, but most commonly he wears his UA uniform complete with his rank insignia as well as his personal insignia depicting a flaming bomb.

* After Arc 4, he begins wearing a velvet red eyepatch after he lost his left eye while fighting Killian Diehard.

## Personality

Jonas is an extremely kind hearted and gentle person. He deeply cares for thos close to him and always goes out of his way to help those in need. But at the same time, he is also merciless, he has no remorse for wrong doers and his enemies and can often hurt and kill them in quite brutal ways.

Jonas loves cooking, and will often take the role of cooking within a household, he also enjoys doing other household chores.

## Background

Jonas was born on May 21st 1997 SSY/505 NWY in Havana, Cuba in the Caribbean Federation to Annabelle and Joselito Garcia. He was introduced to his current best friend Aaron Liares at a very early age due to their fathers' friendship.

Not much is known about his early life and childhood. He probably took the same educational path as Aaron, meaning he was in school until thigh school, dropping out at the age of 17 in order to join the Caribbean National Guard. After two years of service, he joined the FMC along with Aaron and shortly there after moved to Varadero.

Later Jonas as well as Aaron were deployed into Maritoba to fight in the Liberation war where he, where he fought for 8 months. During the war, Jonas, according to Aaron, split a man's skull open with his bare hands.

In 2021, Jonas was again deployed to fight in the Scourge war of Camher, there, he did not see much action, only firing his gun in the training range.

## Abilities

### Combat skills

#### **Martial arts**

Jonas is trained in at least one form of martial arts which he uses regularly in combat, coupled with his immense strength, it becomes an extremely deadly combination.

### Race powers

#### **Onyx - Strength of man**

With the race ability of the Onyx, Strength of Man, Jonas gains a 65% increase to his physical strength.

### Zeta

Jonas has learned to use Zeta, his aura is a bright red color, which means determination. He has an above average potential but a fairly low output in comparison.

#### **Deflection**

Jonas has been shown to be able to use the Deflection aspect of Zeta numerous times throughout the book. His deflection seems to be able to reduce the damage he takes with deflection, but not completely nullify it, which explains why his arms were broken during the battle against Fourth despite him using deflection.

#### **Amplification**

Jonas can also use Amplification, which coupled with his trained physical strength and Race ability, allows him to deal devastating amounts of damage against an opponent in just a single punch.

#### **Flow state - Curse of the Ideal**

Jonas has always had the ability to enter a sort of pseudo flow state when he feels that he or those close to him are being threatened. His flow state, dubbed Curse of the Ideal in reference to his strict moral code which he has a hard time enforcing due to his flow state. In the Flow state, Jonas is unable to control his movements and solely acts on instinct, but remains fully concious and aware of what is happening around him and what he is doing during the Flow state, unlike Aaron.

#### **Modified techniques**

It is heavily implied that in the time span between Book 1 and Book 2 Jonas created at least one modified technique, as he is shown to be a blue ribbon like Aaron, but as of yet any of his techniques haven't been revealed yet.

## Battles

*Main article: List of Battles*

Jonas Garcia Battles

**A gun for hire**

* Aaron, Jonas, Frans and Benjamin vs USFIU
* Aaron Liares and Jonas Garcia vs USFIU

**Overseas Obligation**

* Battle of FLagler Street

**War Worthy**

* Spearhead Company vs Legion 1

**The Prowling Eagle**

* 3rd Platoon vs FRA part 1
* 3rd Platoon vs FRA part 2
* 3rd Platoon vs Killian Diehard
* Jonas Garcia vs Killian Diehard (Street)

**Laying down the claim**

* Jonas Garcia vs Fourth
* Jonas Garcia vs Killian Diehard (Sawrass)