itโs me again :( this time iโm introducing jonah tanilon, ville city native & ((oblivious)) walking bad luck charm. once again, i have some necessary and some unnecessary links for him (bio, info, pinterest, playlist) and anything else worth knowing should be below the cut.
abt jonah
half filipino half white, born & raised in [redacted country]. full name is jonah tanilon but friends are free to call him jt even tho he officially left that nickname behind when he was like 16 (also nicknamedย โjet planeโ or justย โjetโ from that time he performed big jet plane by angus & julia stone at that high school talent show... no he didnโt win, letโs not talk about it)
raised by a good olโ hippie-slash-rocker dad and a realist mom for the first fourteen years of his life, which were pretty decent! his parents were very clearly in love and while they didnโt have much in terms of money, they had plenty of #happiness
tw death unfortunately jonahโs dad passed away in 2010 and that really changed his entire dynamic with his mom... they were both grieving, but rather than comforting each other, they started drifting apart. each endured the pain alone while wondering why the other only seemed to care about themselves end tw
& such was the beginning of jonahโs bad luck. he used to be a big dreamer ((and he had potential in many of the paths that he pursued)) but life kept knocking him down. grades started falling which was first pinned on him going through the grieving process, but it... never... ended... and all of his early-decision college offers fell out from under his feet, business at momโs salon started decreasing & bills became harder to pay ((again, initially pinned on only having one income as opposed to two, but...)), random bad shit started happening to him ((every pair of paints ripping in the same place (behind the left knee), spilling every cup heโs ever held in his LIFE, having ridiculous mishaps and breaking bones by doing the most mundane shit ever fr))
so... if you canโt tell....... he looks like a klutz but heโll swear that his luck just SUCKS!!! if something bad can happen, it WILL happen to jonah tanilon!!! โhope for the best but expect the worstโ mindset
that said... heโs not really a negative guy? in fact, heโs almost sickeningly optimistic because heโs kind of had to learn to find the silver lining when his lifeโs been so shitty for the past eleven years and counting.
not sure what his lifeโs purpose is - original dream was to be a rockstar & he pursued music โtil he was around 21 but shit kept going wrong ((ordered a new guitar, it was destroyed in transit but since he didnโt have โproofโ that he wasnโt the one to break it, the company wouldnโt replace it / the studio his band was recording their ep at literally burned down in the middle of the night / one of the bandโs most important gigs ended up not happening because they were cut from the lineup at the last minute (the night of) and such)) so he gave up on that one...
also tried out filmography, was briefly enrolled in college as a film & cinema studies major even but ummmm some shit happened and his camera got absolutely SHATTERED while he was halfway through filming his yearly project so <333 ditched that one too. dropped out on the spot because he was so frustrated
spent some time helping his mom as a beautician at her salon ((mainly doing nails, skin treatments but occasionally doing haircuts/colorings too)) and that was... alright, but he kinda canโt stand his mom so then he left the country for a while
and now heโs back <333 been living in center point for almost a year and his luckโs been looking up more and more ((re: he has add-on 4n, in which heโs siphoning luck off of everybody he comes into contact with)), from getting a letter and a check from a public library about how he won that short-film contest 7 years ago but they forgot to send him his cash reward to being on month 5 of never paying for fast food because the person ahead of him has already paid for him
other: mommy issues / skater boy who used to have a new broken bone every two months but heโs Good! now / unmedicated adhd ((very restless, Nice Guy but short-tempered, forgetful, always tired but always awake)) / currently fostering a pair of rescue mutts that bark like crazy every time they hear the doorknob turn but theyโre pretty chill other than that / wears a huge grin that gets him compared to the cheshire cat and/or the joker on the daily / inspired by jonah simms (superstore), winston (new girl), that one coffee shop owner slash former singer from hometown cha cha cha, miyake fromย โlandscape with flatironโ by haruki murakami & some other nameless murakami protagonists

















