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== Background ==
 
== Background ==
  
By the time Jonah was born, nobody could rightly say how the machines had attained sentience, let alone why they decided to turn against us. That was all academic, and the young girl grew up in a world where there was no time for questions like that. She watched her friends and family die in front of her, but through it all she managed to escape each time, to fight off the attackers. Many people around the world did, but over time their number declined until she was the only one remaining.
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How did the robots attain sentience? Why, with their newfound sentience did they decide to take over the world? That's all above Jonah's paygrade, as she was born in this apocalypse and forced to learn how to survive the hard way. At the start there wasn't anything special about her, nothing that made her stand out from the millions trying to make their way at the same time. But, over time, those millions were whittled down and, through luck or some unseen agency, she survived. And she kept surviving. Eventually she had quite the knack for it.
  
Out of some technological alchemy, through the fires of combat she had been forged into a true warrior. But that was doing her no good, and she didn't have long left when help arrived. The famed hero Jungle King stumbled upon her Earth in one of his escapades, along with the hyaenodon genius [[SidewaysLLCScudamoreCheese|Scudamore]]. Together, the three rallied and figured out a way to escape this world (truth be told, Jonah mostly punched robots and left the figuring out to these two) and bring Jonah to their home dimension.
 
  
Adjusting to a world where humans lived and thrived was a culture shock for Jonah. She took a few jobs, but was invariably fired after she made some blunder or offended the wrong person. Her stint as a security guard for the Unnature Reserve is still spoken of fearfully by researchers who remember her breaking up a fight by hospitalising both combatants.
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It had been about a year or so since she'd seen another human being, by her reckoning at least, when Sidewise came across her Earth. The team did what they could, which wasn't as much as they'd have liked to, and they managed to evacuate her safely. A world where humans could live freely was alien to her, and she really didn't make a good impression when she first tried to integrate with society, but Jonah's glad for her new lease on life. While she doesn't have the first clue how to make it in the "real world", she knows how to fight, and Sidewise can make use of people like that. Especially when they're as loyal as she is, not being one to forget a debt easily.
  
At the end of her rope, Jonah was approached by a group named Sideways, who promised her a role that would let her put her talents to good use, and help people while doing so. Feeling lost and adrift in a world much less violent than what she's used to, Jonah happily accepted, taking the codename Survivor and preparing for her first mission into the unknown.
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Jonah is a giant of a woman, and built like a stack of bricks, which combines with her awkwardness to make her a little off-putting. But she tries her best, and if she makes it onto a team she'll do all she can to keep her teammates safe from the perils of the multiverse.

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