Jonathan

Jonathan is a Marine Vice Admiral stationed in G-8 Marine Base. He is Chef Jessica's husband, and is also said to be Akainu's protege.

Appearance
Johnathan is an orange haired man with black eyebrows and mustache. When in uniform, he wears a typical Marine overcoat with medals and a feathered tricorne.

Personality
Johnathan tends to spend the night fishing and is often seen relaxing and meditating, but despite this he is a brilliant strategist. He seems to severely dislike broccoli and says "nah" at the end of his sentences on occasion. He cares deeply for his base and his soldiers. This is shown after the Straw Hats escape, he reveals that he had no aspirations of capturing the Straw Hats and merely saw their appearance as a way of bringing his soldiers together and proving to the Marine headquarters that the G-8 base was still important and did not deserve to be decommissioned.

Though he is said to be Akainu's protege, he has conflicting morals with his mentor. Akainu is a believer of dark justice who is willing to kill even civilians if it would uphold the peace, whereas Jonathan is more of a believer of moral justice who is willing to let criminals go regardless of orders depending on the situation.

Relationships
Johnathan has a loving relationship with his wife, Jessica. Though he gets special treatment when it comes to meals, he unfortunately doesn't like the meals personally prepared for him by her as they contain a lot of vegetables. He however cannot refuse her cooking. As a result of his wife's somewhat command over him, his base has a bunch of rules that pertain to eating, such as not leaving any leftovers and brushing your teeth after meals.

Abilities and Powers
As a Marine Vice-Admiral, Johnathan is capable of commanding a Buster Call alongside four other Vice-Admirals. As the commander of G-8, Johnathan commands the entire base and all its Marines stationed there. Johnathan is a brilliant thinker and strategist. He is capable of deducing things that his men don't immediately figure out when given the right clues. He is also capable of thinking things through to outwit his enemies.

Apart from his abilities as a Marine, he is also a skilled fisherman and chess player.

History
While fishing one night, Johnathan noticed the Going Merry fall from the sky into the middle of G-8. Seeing this, Johnathan and the rest of the Marines immediately started investigating the ship. Upon searching the ship, Johnathan and the other Marines found it to be completely deserted. From this discovery and from eye witness accounts of strange happenings like the sight of a furry monster and hands suddenly appearing, the entire base suspected it to be a ghost ship. Johnathan however suspected otherwise.

Finding some clues left on board by the Straw Hats, Johnathan deduced that the ship was not haunted and had recently been to Jaya. Upon deducing this, he however did not denounce the rumor of the Going Merry being a ghost ship as to not alarm the base. He then instructed his head officers to fortify the base's defenses and to search places where people might gather. Johnathan suspected that in light of current events, the pirates would probably disguise themselves as Marines in order to avoid detection.

As events unfolded, Johnathan found Roronoa Zoro and had him imprisoned. With his men busy interrogating this captured pirate, Johnathan decided to head to the mess hall to investigate and to have well deserved meal. As he was eating, Johnathan had a chance encounter with Luffy and Sanji disguised as chefs. Having discovered these two pirates, Johnathan and his wife, Jessica, attempted to capture them. They unfortunately couldn't catch them due to the some Marines coming in for lunch.

As events continued to unfold, Johnathan was informed of a long nosed man that his men found. Suspecting that this man might be the Special inspector that the Marine Headquarters sent on the Stan Malay that arrived earlier, Johnathan didn't immediately imprison Usopp right away. He however imprisoned him when the actual inspector Shepherd came. Though the inspector arrived, Johnathan however suspected that this woman was not the real inspector either. Going by the reports of unidentified personnel and his encounters with the Straw Hats he met, Johnathan deduced exactly who they should be looking for.

After some time without much incident, Johnathan decided to lay a trap for Luffy and his crew. Knowing that Luffy would most likely try rescue his imprisoned crew mates, Johnathan set an ambush in the brig. Though Johnathan was able to direct Luffy's path into the brig, the pirate and his crew mates were however able to escape the trap. As the incident further ensued, Johnathan felt that normal tactics would not work on the Straw Hats. Knowing that the pirates would be heading to their ship and to prevent further needless damage to his men and the base, Johnathan decided to lay an ambush in the dock where the Going Merry was kept.

Though Johnathan directed his forces to ambush the pirates in the dock, his men however would still need time to reach the dock before the pirates. Knowing that the Straw Hats would have cross the Straw Bridge to reach the docks, Johnathan decided to set an ambush on the bridge in order to delay the pirates while the rest of his men were preparing. For this task, Johnathan reluctantly ordered the Marines of Unit 55 to engage the pirates. Though the ambush ended with part of the bridge being destroyed by Luffy, Johnathan's plan however worked in delaying the pirates and giving his men enough time to set positions in the dock.

The ambush in the dock however went awry due to unforeseen factors and the Straw Hats were able to escape on their ship. Johnathan however knew ahead that something like this would happen so he had all the Straw Hats' gold confiscated while the Going Merry was still in the Marines' possession. Knowing full well that the pirates wouldn't leave their precious gold behind, he knew right away that the Straw Hats hadn't left the base when it was reported that they somehow escaped undetected. Though he guessed correctly that they would be hiding in one of the abandoned docks, Johnathan decided to let the pirates make the first move.

Trivia

 * Although he is a non-canon anime character, during the gathering of Marines in Marineford, Jonathan and his two subordinates, Drake and Gu, were among the Marines present.