Prompt me with gen Jonas prompts!

[fignewton]

I hope you're all enjoying this impromptu series as much as I am... :)

Prompt me with gen Jonas prompts! No promises of first come first served, but I hope to do twelve drabbles all together.

ETA: I need two one more for the regular twelve. Prompts, please?

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[magistrate]

Observations on how everyone in SG-1 is an outside of some stripe!

[fignewton]

It's lonely, being different from the others. It's some consolation to Jonas that, as an outsider, he can observe impartially and see things as they truly are. He likes the idea of better understanding the Tau'ri.

But as time passes, Jonas slowly realizes that all of SG-1 don't quite fit. Teal'c is Jaffa, inhuman. Major Carter, a woman, is a minority at the SGC. Even Colonel O'Neill, military cog, is detached, a certain brittleness that speaks of something missing (Jonas tries not to think about that too much).

SG-1: band of misfits. Maybe he suits them better than he thought.

[sid]

a certain brittleness that speaks of something missing

Bingo, Jonas (and fignewton.)

[fignewton]

::nods:: It was Niamea who first made the awesome observation several years ago that Jack in S6, and Daniel in S9-10, are markedly different - and the absence of the other is probably why. I look at it in a gen way, natch. ;)

[sid]

Natch. ;-P

[thothmes]

Jonas' professor is demented as a result of naquadria radiation poisoning. How does he handle reading about Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Or

Earth food

Or

The new Langaran Weather Bureau

Or

Jonas observes Jack and the Russian SG team

Or

First time at the movie theater

[fignewton]

Jonas studied Earth's history during those probationary months at the SGC. He was fascinated by the similarities between the Cold War and his own planet's struggles.

So when he learned that SG-1 would be going off-world with the Russian team, Jonas watched carefully to see how these former enemies interacted after so many decades of hostility. Could they really work together?

Yes, they could -- even offering solace at the moment of death.

Jonas was both moved and disturbed. Perhaps it took effort, but the Tau'ri could set differences aside. Why couldn't Kelowna, Tirania, and the Andari do the same?

[sid]

Why couldn't Kelowna, Tirania, and the Andari do the same?

Because your people have been hit with the stupid stick, unfortunately. *eg*

[fignewton]

Heh, YES. Poor stupid Kelownans. They were really good at being stupid, weren't they?

[sid]

How Jonas really felt about Daniel coming back

NICE prompt. Needs more than a drabble. :)

[fignewton]

When they found Daniel on Vis Uban, Jonas' immediate reaction was an almost painful joy: I am absolved. That happiness was tempered when they discovered Daniel's amnesia, but the damage seemed only temporary.

Jonas and Daniel had first established an easy rapport back at the beginning, and they quickly returned to that friendly relationship. (Did Daniel find it easier with him, Jonas wondered, because there was less depth to restore?) After their joint mission, sharing peril together, Jonas almost wished he could remain on Earth with a truly complete SG-1.

But his people needed him. Kelowna had to come first.

Re: NICE prompt. Needs more than a drabble. :)

[sid]

Thank you! I love this:Jonas' immediate reaction was an almost painful joy: I am absolved. Jonas has been carrying this weight around for quite awhile, hasn't he?

and this:(Did Daniel find it easier with him, Jonas wondered, because there was less depth to restore?) Ooh, lovely thought! Examining that idea would take more than a drabble, yes. :-)

Re: NICE prompt. Needs more than a drabble. :)

[fignewton]

Heh, yes. Even if he's accepted that he couldn't have saved Daniel (and I think he did accept that, over time) there's still the grief of knowing Daniel died for his planet and his people were distinctly ungrateful.

Glad you liked the parentheses! :) Yes, this does need more than a drabble. One day, maybe.

Thanks!

[paian]

Jonas now (as of where series/movies left off; SGU optional) pondering (what he knows of) where the team is now and what they're doing ... and how their paths might intersect again?

[fignewton]

They put Jonas in SGU?! Better than dismissing Langara with a single line, I suppose...

When the Ori captured Jonas and his fellow rebels, most were killed on the spot. Jonas, however, was saved for public execution. They leisurely tortured him before wrapping him in chains and standing him before the silent, frightened public. Jonas awaited death.

Instead, light suddenly streamed from the Prior's staff and he fell to his knees, sobbing. The tyranny of the Ori was finally broken.

Weeks later, a working government restored, Jonas opened the Stargate to Earth and learned of SG-1's role in saving his life.

To Jonas, it made perfect sense: the team never really left anyone behind.

[paian]

Oh, I love this! I feel such horror for the ordeal Jonas and his people go through (dismissed in a single line of dialogue indeed ::headdesk::), and such triumphant exhilaration at the end. What a terrific way to connect him back to SG-1.

(And nah, he wasn't in SGU, but sometimes it can be hard to decide whether to include the minuscule SG-1 references and cameos from SGU in present-day or near-future fics, so I wanted you to know that it was cool by me either way.)

Thank you for this wonderful drabble!

[fignewton]

Ah, I don't follow SGU at all, so...

It was actually my indignation at that callous dismissal that got me started liking Jonas in the first place. (Till then, I was in the "three eps in S6" category.) But after that casual "Oh, yeah, and Langara's gone too" without even mentioning Jonas by name, I started hunting for fix-it fics. And then I wanted to read more Jonas. And there you are. :)

Glad you liked. Thanks!

[sid]

Perfect last line! One SGU episode actually takes place partly on Langara. Jonas doesn't even rate a mention. :-(

[fignewton]

Isn't SGU taking place in another galaxy? ...No, never mind, I don't want to know. But poor Jonas! When they did a "mythology of the Gate" special back during S10? He didn't get mentioned then either. Sigh.