Jonah Desperately Needs a lore rewrite!

Jonah Vasquez is one of the most hated survivors in the game and the main reason is the lore making him a war criminal. BHVR tried to say a political messages of the Chile Dictatorship but made the bad side the Survivor like how are we supposed to root for them if they killed multiple people then just brushed it off 😕

(Pixel Bush goes into great detail on what makes his story Problematic and why its arguable the worst lore for a survivor)

its to the point that people that main him get harassed on twitter and even in the game for the CHARACTER they play, and with the new tome coming out I'm worried that are gonna make it worse like his Base lore is bad as is, if they add more context and its worse Jonah as a survivor would be unsalvageable

instead of just shitting on his lore tho I have my version on what ill do

My Edit

(Note I'm not a good storyteller what sho ever so its gonna be flawed but might as well put it out there also I'm not gonna write the story but instead give my idea on how it should go)

my edit of his story would've been from the ground up changing his job and how he acts as a person

 Generational Trauma

in Jonah's base lore it goes into his father working hard to provide stable life for him so the beginning Jonah’s story should be around generational trauma of feeling the pressure that parents put on their kids and how they grow up not feeling good enough for them, (Jonah's Father worked hard to supply Jonah with a good education so Jonah could feel like if he doesn't get good enough grades he’s a disappointment to them, When he gets a Job his Father doesn't like he starts to feel like he's being Judged by his family

Artist

• - Instead of Jonah working for the CIA he should be an Inspiring artist that works at the museum in Fresno, He wants to be a successful artist but needs to make name for himself spends nights commissions to gain more money and to put his work out there
• - Him being an artist will match the match the portrait of a murder Chapter theme
• - it could play into the generational trauma of not feeling good enough since artist aren't paid a lot, Jonah could feel like he wasted the chance his father gave him for a successful life for one of being broke living in a small cheap apartment in Fresno CA
• - This would cause a similarity in Jonah and The Artist with the Artist being successful and having paintings at the museum Jonah is working, while Jonah is the starving artist who works so hard with barely any pay off
• - Not all artist are successful even though they are talented, so that'll be a more realistic story about an artist in the modern age

Nightmares/Visions

-An idea I had was that Jonah would paint what's on his mind but as time goes on and he starts to nightmares of People in black Robes sacrificing people as he keeps having nightmares he decides to paint them he starts to paint them after each one the nightmare gets more and more detailed. Each painting is in different style (Expressionism, Abstract, Surrealism, Etc.) but the last one was photorealism of large spidery fangs surrounded by fog. He gets obsessed and it becoming the main thing on his mind, who are the people in the dark robes?, Why are they killing?, How does the Spider fangs relate?. He went to the library before work and got a book about The psychology of dreams, during his lunch break he reads for no luck on what he is looking for, walking back to his work station he recognized a building from one of the paintings, he looks at the name seeing, C. Mora going on his tablet he looks her up to see that she was from Chile, researching the city he finds an old cemetery, the exact one he had seen in his Nightmare

• - Him having Powers isn't too far out of reach saying Mikaela Reid, Yoichi Asakawa, and Haddie Kaur all had their own powers
• - Him having nightmares of Murders could be something along the lines of Last Night In Soho where as the nightmares get worse and worse they start to bleed into reality and he starts hallucinating people in dark robes following him

-Painter Walter Sickert Painted Multiple paintings of Jack the Ripper and his murders in so much detail that years after his death Patricia Cornwell wrote the book Portrait of a Killer about how she believes he was Jack The Ripper

(I'm not saying Jonah should be a killer but pointing out that people have painted crimes before)

Having Jonah Paints Crimes gives a different meaning to Portrait of a Murder while The Artist Paints murders of crows, Jonah would be more literal painting actual murders

His Disappearance

How I imagined Jonah being taken was he was in his apartment up late at night taking pills to stay awake, and he hears something in his apartment, he calls the police and hid in his bedroom. after hiding for what felt like hours The Spidery Fangs come out from the painting in his room and gets a hold of him. He screams for help as it pulls slowly him into the canvas. by the time the police arrive the place is a mess and Jonah was gone

One thing about DBD lore is they usually have the same ending, Someone gets surrounded by black fog then it says they are missing, or they die but their dead body wasn't found. Kate is the only one I could think of being different having the spider legs Grab her and pull her into the darkness