Profile: Jonah Samujurn

 PROFILE

"The stage is mine, so it's time to show the world how bright I'm going to shine!" - Jonah Samujurn

Name: Jonah Samujurn

Age: 20 

Species: Human

Country: Thailand

Hair Color: Natural brunette but dyed platinum blonde

Eye Color: Brown

Skin: Sandy 

Height: 5'9”

Weight: 162 Pounds

Powers: Ultraviolet Light Magic

Allies: Theo, Turbine, Bevan, Sung Jin

Likes: His parents, his fans, performing, exercising, Kluay Kaek, magic

Dislikes: Missed opportunities, feeling like he can do better, hawks, his stoic Cambion cousin 

Backstory

Jonah is the son of First Samujurn and Brigitta Olsson, who met several years ago when Brigitta visited Thailand on vacation. The two fell in love and a few years after marriage, Brigitta gave birth to Jonah. Raised in Chumphon, Jonah lived a very lax childhood while being aware of the various dangers of his world. At ten years old, Jonah was taught ultraviolet light magic by his mother while learning self-defense skills from his father. 

While home one evening after finishing up his homework and channel surfing, Jonah stumbled upon a music video of Korean performers and instantly became mesmerized. That became the catalyst for Jonah pursuing a career in music. During his teen years, Jonah continued his magical practices, but heavily began teaching himself how to dance similar to various K-Pop (Korean Pop) idols as well as how to sing. 

After high school, instead of going to college as his parents hoped, Jonah worked under a popular entertainment company in Bangkok, Thailand and became a musician under their label. Although Jonah wasn't an overnight success, his hard work and dedication to his craft eventually brought about his desired popularity. It also helped that Jonah appeared in various Thai dramas to boost his recognition. While ecstatic at having turned his dreams into reality, Jonah now works twice as hard to continue improving himself, and to make his growing fandom proud.

TRIVIA

Jonah was originally not a planned character for 2023, but because an artist friend needed work, I decided to get Jonah done sooner than scheduled.

Earlier plans for Jonah's ethnicity was to make him purely Thai, but I decided to make him part-Swedish and part-Thai.

One of my original ideas for Jonah was to make him a go-go dancer who wielded magic, but I decided that wasn't what I ultimately wanted for his character.

Jonah wields light-based magic similar to Xiaoyu, but unlike Xiaoyu, who manipulates pure whitish-yellow light, Jonah uses ultraviolet lights with various effects for offense. Jonah also uses his magic to enhance his stage performances.

As stated in his profile, Jonah is not a natural blonde, but a brunette. Jonah colored his hair in order to stand out and fit the idol aesthetics.