Henry Jones Sr

Henry Walton Jones was born in Scotland on December 12,1872. He was childhood friends with Jack Williams, a relative of Ash Williams. When he was five years old in 1876 he would go swimming in the Loch Ness, once encountering the famous monster that resides there.  He ran away from home once. His father, Robert Edwin Jones was a member of the Watcher’s council, which was dedicated to hunting Vampires such as Angelus and Lord Ruthven. Jones’s father was killed by the vampire Dio Brando, alongside members Page, Plant and Bornnam in 1889.  Dio was killed by the son of another member, Jonathan Joestar, whose father George Joestar had been a member of the Watcher’s Council.

Jones was recruited into the Watcher’s Council at age 17. He developed an interest in the Stone Mask that had transformed Dio into a vampire. While in University, he was trained by Helen Margaret Seymour, Professor Nigel Wolcott, and Marcus Sharman at Oxbridge University.  His friends included Marcus Brody, Richard Medlicot, and Eric Scythe. Jones proposed that there was an entirely dynasty of King Arthurs, which would explain several discrepancies in his recordings. This paper led him to become interested in the Arthurian age later on. Graduating in 1893, Jones would become a professor of Medieval Literature, teaching future famous archeologists Emily Sands and Sven Nelson.  He would Marry American Anna Mary Jones in 1898. That same year on April 2nd, Jones received a vision of the Holy Grail which told him he would seek it like the knights of old. He began writing his Grail Diary and became intent on finding the cup of Jesus Christ.

Jones in 1899 moves his family to Princeton, New Guersey, hoping to look into their own notes on the Holy Grail. While there his son Henry Jones Jr was born on July 1st. The couple had a daughter named “Susie” who died as a child(on Earth 11 she survived and Henry died). To recover from the loss, Henry Jones Sr and his wife bought a young puppy as a gift for Jones Jr named “Indiana”. Jones Jr learned how to walk and climbed onto the roof of the home, forcing Jones Sr to rescue him. Jones Sr would tells his son the stories of Heracles as bedtime stories.

In 1900, Jones took a teaching position at Princeton on Medieval Literature. In August he headed to Massachusetts for an Association of American Medievalists Convention where his findings were ridiculed.  This failed to deter him and he returned to Europe in 1905 for a grand tour, reuniting with Marcus Brody and his Watcher’s Council connections and looking through the information of groups such as the Britain based Magnus Institute and Warehouse 12(would relocate in 1914). Warehouse 12 employees believed the Cauldron of Annwn in their possession to be the basis for the Holy Grail but Jones was skeptical of this claim. Russia’s paranormal Tsar’s Seers and Japan’s Demon Slayer Corps lacked knowledge on such devices and Jones was not much of a physical fighter.

The Jones family resided largely in Britain during this time. Jones Sr became good friends with Orlando, Duke of Oxbridge and Jones Jr with Oxbridge’s Conrad. Jones Sr’s interest in Arthurian legend greatly inspiring Conrad’s fascination with the Knights of the Round Table. On November 14, 1905: Marcus Brody sent a letter stating texts in Brittany referencing the Grail had been found.

In 1906, The Joneses visited France, tracking the Grail to its last known location in Iona until it was sacked by Vikings. A monk told him the locations of other artifacts. In July, the inn they were staying at were attacked and they were forced to find elsewhere to stay. Following the monk’s information they went to Klasenheim in Osterlich-Zubrowka. Henry discovered a painting in a castle showing a Franciscan Friar giving the grail to a Knight during the Crusade, who found it in the Canyon of the Crescent Moon.

In 1908, Jones was invited on a Two-Year World Lecture Tour. While he was hesitant to abandon his quest for the Grail, several of his associates agreed to continue his work, while Jones would search for information in the locations he visited. Emily Sands, Marcus Scarman, Sven Nelson and the Japanese professor Takeo Yamatone met and agreed to continue the hunt. What really pushed Jones Sr to accept was a second vision he experienced of the moment he found the Grail, with a man he believed to be his adult son, using the Grail to save his life. He then chose to prioritize the education of Jones Jr. Jones Sr also wanted to educate his son to follow in his footsteps and hired his old professor Helen Margaret Seymour to tutor Jones Jr. They first travelled to Alexandria in Egypt and then to Cairo. Jone Sr bought his son a journal of his own to record his adventures. They briefly met Napoleon Meek before continuing to Morocco, arriving in Interzone. Where they met London times Journalist Walter Harris. The Sharifa Emily Keene granted Jones Jr a slave as playmate named Omar. Jones Jr and Omar were nearly sold into slavery before being rescued.

The Joneses arrived in September on a Coffee Plantation in British East Africa, meeting with an old classmate Richard Medlicot. Jones Jr was invited on a safari with former US President John Norton and British Agent Allan Quatermain, but did not take part in their true mission there, reuniting with the rest, when they headed to Paris, France.

Professor Jones decided to attend the first Psycho-Analytical Conference being held in Vienna, with the family staying at American Ambassador Richard Keren's residence. His son, Jones Jr took the daughter of Franz Ferdinand, Sophie ice skating. Jones Sr was angered and withdrew Jones Jr due to the many enemies that family had . The Joneses then had dinner with Carl Jung, Alfred Adler and Sigmend Freud.

The Jones family travelled to Florence, Italy, where they stayed with Professor and Senora Reale. They attended an opera written and conducted by Giacomo Puccini, Unknown to Henry, during his week-long absence in Rome, Anna had a brief courting with Puccini, but she ultimately refused to abandon her husband and when Henry returned to Florence he was surprised and happy to see his wife had come to meet him at the train station.

In 1910, the family traveled to Russia, where Jones's first significant rift with his son occurred. The Akhmatovs, Henry's friends, invited them to their daughter's wedding. Indy tried to behave himself and enjoy the wedding at the same time, but failed to do so. He leaned against a cart with crystal on it which sent it crashing into a passing waiter. Indy's father took him out into the hall to reprimand him. He told Indy that he was to stand in the hall and not move, however, Indy disobeyed him. As he walked into an adjoining room, Indiana accidentally brushed against a handle attached to the rope a huge chandelier was hanging from. The handle came unlocked and the chandelier crashed down onto the wedding cake. Indy's parents looked on in disbelief and his mother took him to his room. Indy apologized to his mother, but she told him that his father would deal with him in the morning. Indy, feeling he was being treated unfairly, climbed down a gutter drain outside his window and ran away.

For the following days, Henry went from regret at bringing the boy on the trip to desperation for his son's return. While Indy's parents were looking in on a bedridden Miss Seymour, who had taken ill, a hotel clerk knocked at the door to tell them that Indy had been found. Anna made Henry promise that he wouldn't be too hard on the boy. The Joneses arrived at Tolstoy's estate and were reunited with Indy who apologized for running away. Before he could reply, Henry spotted Leo Tolstoy and was amazed. Indy introduced his parents to Tolstoy. The Joneses left Russia for Athens, Greece. While on the train, Professor Jones blamed him for Miss Seymour's condition. Indy said he hated his father.

After arriving in Athens, Henry took Junior and his mother to see the Parthenon, however, Anna decided they should return to the hotel to look in on Miss Seymour. The next day, Anna left to visit her sister at a spa for the weekend and left Indy to accompany Henry on his research trip. Both father and son did not like the fact that they were stuck with each other. Henry said that he had to go to the hanging monastery in Kalambaka, but Anna said that he'd have to take Indy with him. Henry tried to argue that it was dangerous, but she disagreed. After she left, Henry lectured him on his behavior and said that he had enough work for Indy to keep him busy throughout the weekend.