congrats teds, the random number generator has awarded you Jonah from Darkling Deeps!
[Image ID: a picrew by @horatiosroom which I hastily assembled for this post; it features a brown-skinned man with short curly black hair, lidded green eyes, a shitty mustache and slight beard, and a disgusted expression. He is holding a silver coin in one hand, and wearing a yellow coat.]
Name: Jonah (no last name; the naming convention for this group of characters was biblical names, specifically because I wanted to use relatively familiar names while avoiding a sense of specific time or place (the setting is vaguely futuristic sci-fi but because the story is largely confined to one (1) boat it's a bit distant from the actual events))
Pronouns: he/him
Origin: Darkling Deeps, a Novel TM I was working on during the quarantine about six sailors who hunt sea monsters in the waters of an abandoned planet. It's a full-on tragedy; three of them die and only one of them will ever leave the planet again. Currently it is very unfinished but I think I'm going to come back to it one day; if I ever finish a proper novel I'd want it to be this one first.
I figure the best way to introduce Jonah is to talk about what I had in mind while creating him, cause with this set of characters I did very much have a couple guidelines I answered while working on their arcs. I wanted them to be very archetypal; Jonah falls into the Pissed-Off Loner who doesn't enjoy being here category of Guy, he's from a more populated section of the galaxy, he hates the sea, and he views pretty much the rest of the cast as hicks who aren't worth his time. The Reason He's Out Here Risking His Life To Kill Things From the Deep is because he pissed off some very dangerous people and is currently deep in debt to the mob; he needs to make money and he needs to make it FAST and UNTRACEABLY. Finally, I made a really strong naming choice with this guy, and I'm Ready and Willing to Commit To That :)
[Darkling Deeps spoilers if anyone wants to avoid spoiling a book that you can't read and is largely unwritten anyway] His storyline for approximately the first third of the book is the typical loner gets coaxed out of his shell by friendly coworker who thinks he's interesting storyline; then he promptly Fucks This Up by putting everyone in danger for the possibility of a better haul and getting his one (1) defender killed in the process! great work bud! He spends the rest of his time alive sitting in a makeshift cell belowdecks realizing that he is terribly lonely and has always been for his entire life :D
[He will resign himself to dying alone as he takes the ship into the maw of a thing too large to contemplate; and Captain Caleb will go down with him, arms locked together as they go up in flames.]
