Jonn Whitson
From FABT
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Biological information | |
Born: |
14 February 2165 CE |
Died: |
1 November 2185 CE |
Physical information | |
Species: |
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Gender: |
Male |
Height: |
6.2ft |
Hair: |
Black |
Eyes: |
Brown |
Political and military information | |
Affiliation: |
Orphan-based gang |
Weapon(s): |
M-3 Predator (briefly in August 2185 CE) |
Equipment: |
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Rank(s): |
Dockworker |
Era: |
Asari Cycle |
Battle(s): |
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- "I can take care of myself! Besides, I just spent fifty credits on this pistol and I plan to use-"
- — Jonn Whitson to Commander Shepard shortly before the latter confiscates his pistol and destroys it shortly before the Kima Siege.
Jonn Whitson was a civilian who lived in the Khamer District on Omega. Born on the cargo hauler MSV Daedalus, Jonn was born into a family of merchantmen, with both his mother and father having served on cargo ships back on Earth prior to the discovery of prothean ruins on Mars, and after the founding of the Systems Alliance in 2149 CE, both of them made the transition to spaceborne cargo ships, going through the necessary training to do so before they got served the same posting on the Daedalus, where they met each other. Jonn would be born in 2165 CE, years after his father had become captain of the Daedalus following its purchase by the Terminus-based shipping company, East Terminus Shipping, where he meant the first much of his early childhood on the Daedalus as it went from port to port, although its frequent port-of-call being Omega meant the station became a second home to Jonn. In 2169 CE, following his mother's death in a cargo mishap that led to her being caught in an explosive decompression, his father began neglecting him, becoming consumed in his work: this negligence culminated in Jonn's father accidentally leaving him behind on Omega in 2172 CE when the Daedalus was running late on a shipment due to prior delays, causing him to rush the ship out of dock before checking to make sure his son was aboard: the Daedalus would never be seen again, disappearing without a trace only days into its run and leaving Jonn as an orphan, abandoned on Omega. Only seven years old, Jonn learned to grow up on the streets all on his own, eating scraps just to survive, living this way for another two years before he finally joined a local gang also made of orphan children who had banded together to scrape together a living, and the group hardened him as he grew into his adolescent years. A part of him however still wanted to follow in the footsteps of his parents however, and he would ultimately choose to leave the gang to get a job as a dockworker, working on the same docks that his father had abandoned him at years before.
In August 2185 CE just after his 20th birthday, Jonn heard of the recruitment drive by the Kima Alliance to recruit freelancers to fight for them in taking down Archangel during the Kima Siege, and Jonn decided to sign up, seeing it as an opportunity to carve a name for himself on the station as the one who killed the then-infamous Archangel. Buying a cheap M-3 Predator pistol, he then headed to the room the Blue Suns had rented in Afterlife to funnel in their recruits, but before he could sign up, he was stopped by a heavily armoured mercenary that tried to persuade him to forget all about the recruitment and go home: when Jonn persisted, the mercenary took Jonn's pistol and destroyed it, forcing him to go home in a fit of rage: unbeknownst to him at the time, this mercenary was actually Commander Shepard under cover, and he would learn afterwards on the news of all the deaths of the freelancers and the bloody cost the Alliance had paid to dislodge Archangel, who had since disappeared. Realizing he had been saved from certain death by Commander Shepard, a war hero of galactic renown, and shaken from his stupor, Jonn returned to his job on the docks and gave no second thoughts to joining a mercenary band ever again. Unfortunately for Jonn, he would be in the middle of a shift on the docks when fighting broke out in the Dyuko District in November of that year as the PMCs attempted a coup to depose Aria T'Loak, only for horrifying creatures to surge the docks and slaughter everyone present, Jonn among them. Jonn's body would later be converted into one of the adjutants, which would be contained to the lower levels of Omega following Oleg Petrovsky's successful containment of the creatures at the beginning of his occupation of the station. It is unknown exactly what occurred to the adjutant that was originally Jonn Whitson, but whatever the case was, his body was certainly destroyed when all of the adjutants on the station were purged by Aria T'Loak following her liberation of the station in 2186 CE.