Jonathan

**Jonathan** is the main character, along with Sherwin and Sherwin's Heart, of the short animated student film '***In a Heartbeat***'.

## Appearance

Jonathan has a slightly
darker skin tone than Sherwin. He has
dark brown hair which is longer at the front than at the back. His
fringe is neatly combed to the right, leaving a parting on the left
side of his head. His eyes are light blue, which contrasts somewhat
with his skin tone.
He is shown in both the
concept art and trailer to be a little taller than Sherwin, as well
as little better built, with in particular broader shoulders.

In the short, Jonathan wears
a school uniform which comprises of a dark blue sweater with a badge
on the right side over a white button up. The shirt sleeves, as well as
the sweater's rolled up past the elbows. The collar of his shirt is
turned up and no tie is visible. In addition to this, he wears dark
grey trousers turned up at the bottom, as well as matte black uniform
shoes.

Jonathan is usually represented
carrying a book and apple, the latter of which he has the habit of
playing with like a ball, spinning it on his index finger and juggling it, whilst also walking and reading a book.

## Personality

Jonathan is the most popular boy at the school that both he and Sherwin attend. Jonathan seems to be affable, friendly, and kind-hearted.

His good coordination skills shown off when he multitasks while walking as well as his slightly relaxed school uniform adding to the ‘cool’ factor, and that probably made him to be so along with his looks.

## Relationships

### Blond Student

Jonathan seems to be an acquaintance of the blond student, as he greets him with a hand gesture when he sees him walking up the school path.

### Shirley

While Jonathan has been seen to unintentionally interact with Shirley for the majority of the film, he does help repair the heart after Sherwin ran away, placing Shirley's other broken hand with the one Sherwin was holding to repair the heart.

### Sherwin

At first, Jonathan notices
Sherwin following him around, but seems oblivious to Sherwin's real
intent and romantic attraction to him. It is implied in concept art
and offically in art drawn by Esteban Bravo that Sherwin succeeds in his advances and that Jonathan doesn’t
reject them.

## Trivia

* Initially, Jonathan had paler skin, and dark brown-black hair. They didn't think much of his ethnicity due to his charm point being his 'Dreamy blue eyes'. However, in mid-production, his ethnicity was changed.
* In the ‘The Fault in our Hearts’ parody poster of the film ‘The Fault in our Stars’, Jonathan takes the place of the character Augustus (originally played by the actor Ansel Elgort).

* In the ‘Broke-Heart Mountain’ parody poster of the film ‘Brokeback Mountain’, Jonathan takes the place of the character Jack Twist (originally played by the actor Jake Gyllenhall).
* In one of the early sketches, Jonathan is seen playing baseball in the role of a pitcher.
* In another, he is seen to be dancing easily, whilst Sherwin struggles.
* Beth David has created an alternative universe where both the main characters are girls, and named the one based after Jonathan "Johanna".
* The book that Jonathan is seen reading in the short is entitled 'The Picture of Dorian', by Oscar Wilde. This is a play on words on the original title, 'The Picture of Dorian'. this being the founding for the Wilde v. Queensberry trial.
* Jonathan’s dominant hand seems to be his right one, as it is the one that he uses to do more complicated tasks, like spinning his apple. However, there is a chance that he is ambidextrous, due to his ability to hold a book steady and supposedly turning the pages with his free hand.
* On Esteban Bravo's Instagram page, "@estebravo" who is one of the main animator's and creator's of In a Heartbeat, drew Sherwin and Jonathan kissing and holding hands. Because of Esteban being one of the creators in the film, this drawing shows explicit proof Sherwin and Jonathan are together.