Jonathan

Jonathan sports orange-red hair paired with brown brows and a brown mustache. Even as base commander he usually skips the uniform in favor of relaxed clothing. When he does suit up, he dons a standard Marine overcoat hung with decorated medals, but swaps the regulation cap for a feathered tricorne rather than the headgear his peers wear.

For an officer of his rank Jonathan comes across as remarkably mellow and warm, devoted to his base and the troops he leads, with fishing as his hobby of choice; only his wife Jessica keeps him from drifting into idleness. Beneath the laid-back surface sits one of the sharpest strategic minds in the Marines, a chess enthusiast who studies opponents closely enough to forecast their moves. After the Straw Hats slipped away, he admitted he had never truly aimed to capture them, viewing their arrival mainly as a way to rally his men and prove to headquarters that G-8 still mattered. He also detests vegetables and habitually tacks a drawled syllable onto the ends of his sentences.

As a vice admiral Jonathan can call down a Buster Call alongside four colleagues, and as G-8's commander he directs the whole installation and every Marine posted there. He favors outmaneuvering foes over meeting them head-on, drawing conclusions from clues his subordinates miss and improvising clever traps. Rank alone implies considerable raw power, and like all vice admirals he can use Haki. Beyond soldiering he is a gifted angler who can hook and reel in people with his rod, and a devoted chess player whose game informs his planning.

When the Going Merry dropped out of the sky into G-8, Jonathan rejected the ghost-ship rumor his base embraced, deduced the crew had passed through Jaya, and quietly fortified the island. He captured Zoro, crossed paths with Luffy and Sanji disguised as cooks, and pieced together exactly whom to hunt. A string of ambushes followed, in the brig, on the Straw Bridge, and at the docks, each foiled yet each buying him ground. He confiscated the crew's gold in advance, predicted their hiding spots, and even trapped them in the shallows when the night waters receded, only for the pirates to flee Navarone by balloon octopus and Dials. He treated the escape as a win regardless, having united his garrison and reminded headquarters of the base's worth.