Johnathon Marston
1/10 characters from the prohibitionist
Other names: Jonny, John
Age 29-(40 time skip to 1937)
Hight: 5’10
Born: 8/10/1896
birthplace: Arizona, USA
Relationship: Linda “Parker” Marston (1898 -
Parents: Lana “Francis” Marston 1859-1906, Dae Daryl Marston 1843-????(missing or dead)
Siblings: Billy “dead eye Kelv” Marston (missing)
Half sibling: 16 unknown from his fathers side
Children: unknown child(????) unnamed boy(1920-1920) Lana Eliza Marston (dec 7th 1926)
Sex: M
Dead 1937 (Lonnie's firing squad lead by Mandy Lanzer)
Bios: Johnathan Marston also known as John Marston is the protagonist of this story born on Aug 10th 1896 in an abandoned barn In the middle of nowhere in Arizona. after John’s mother Lana Marston was running from the Pinkerton's and dea’s boys after a train robbery that happened earlier along with 2 other members of the gang and 1 man from the Pinkerton that they got to help with this mess John and Lana managed to go to Mexico to live with a friend from a Pinkerton detective agent until it dies down. John didn’t know what happened in Mexico. John was not a shy kid; he was an active lad to people that he knew. He likes to make new friends and make other people laugh. He even made some friends with local shop owners and once paid 30$ for the feds to set his mother free from jail.
In 1905 to 06 John and his mother were homeless. The feds made an investigation on Lana and discovered she was an escaped convict and outlaw from the west with the price on her of 200$. There for prison her for a month and everything taken from them but he has faith for him and his mother to get right on track. But faith had the better of him in 1906 when his mother contracted yellow fever and had to get help from a random man in the streets and be in the hospital said that she wouldn’t make it and stood by her side until she died.
With his mother's dying wish she told him to never follow his father's footsteps or her footsteps but have an act of kindness on others. His mother was gone and no one to talk to, he was depressed for the past 2 years. The man that saved and tried to take off is Samuel Seymour a black bar owner, trumpet player and a local jazz musician in the streets of Brooklyn. He lives with his six year old daughter named Paulina Seymour. Paulina is John's closest friend During his mother’s passing she tells stories of her mother that she never met. He never met her after his mother passed; his sorrows were somewhat answered by a friend that he can talk to at least but still saddened until the funeral in 1907.
In 1910 he got a job to work as a paperboy. He didn’t really like the job he was shouting at other people just to buy newspapers. In 6 months he quit but not before getting a bit of money in his pocket. He overheard that Samuel had problems with his bartender so he asked Samuel to work at his bar as a cleaner. For 7 years he loved being in a jazz bar and listening to Samuel and Paulina sing and play on the stage. He later in 1917 was promoted as the bartender and loved making cocktails for people he got pretty good at making cocktails. His life at the time was pretty positive and found himself as the favorite of the jazz bar to almost all customers and employees.
It's 1918 and saw all the ww1 veterans coming back form the eastern front including a Mexican American soldier who looked at John like he had seen him before but don’t remember. John saluted the soldiers and the Mexican American soldier saluted back.
Later in November of 1918 he was pushed by a girl that was trying to get to school. It was Linda Parker who helped her up and asked if she was ok. Linda fell in love for the first time in a long while and John too. (But John didn’t see it that way when she bump into him he proceeds to say “hello” and snap his fingers for her to snap back to reality)They talked for a bit before Linda had to run to the school but agreed to meet up in Calloway street or at the jazz bar he worked at later in the day. After a few weeks of them hanging out John had a liking for Linda but never asked to be with her because it’s too early. Linda wanted to be with him but for now she would have to wait until he asked her out. By February of 1919 he asked Linda to be together; she finally accepted it within the year they married and had a very small wedding. In 1920 they had their first born who died in infancy. He and Linda were devastated by the news they didn’t have a look at their baby before he died. John made a choice to not have a kid for a while. Linda doesn’t know why he made that choice he never really explained why he made the choice either or knows the reason. (Linda later in ‘26 convinced him to give another chance.)
Later in 1920 John was working at the bar until he saw 4 shady men who had guns and one holding a cigar in his mouth asked for some drinks for the guys. He made some drinks for them and for himself as well. John asks one of the who was the mod boss to not smoke inside. The mob boss refuses and threatens him with a bullet in his head. After minutes the 4 men had pointed their pistols at him but he had a sawed off at the boss's head and offered the deal of putting their guns down and his cigar down act like nothing happened and offered a free drink for them. They accepted it and lowered their guns and the mob boss put his cigar down later on. The mob boss named Sergio Lonnie asked if he can help the mafia as the bartender for his members. He didn’t really know why but Lonnie explained that his other bartender who was in his 80s passed away from a stroke and had to find another person to replace him quickly. John accepts with one condition for him not to be part of any conflict with another member. Lonnie also accepts the condition.
His first day as the mafia’s bartender was boring. Most of the time he just waits and waits and waits. He sometimes reads books for boredom, writes a letter for his wife, sees rats fight each other from time to time, and experiments on a new cocktail. When the members do come in he introduces himself and Lonnie told the 12 members in mafia that he’s gonna be the replacement for today for him to try it out. It went well for John and made a few friends in the mafia, some even teaching some to make an old fashioned bourbon. He had a lot of fun the past few weeks, even the down side that he had to wait 7-8 hours for them to come to the tavern where he can sleep for 6 hours. He asked Lonnie that he can join the mafia as a bartender for the men he is now the new official replacement bartender.
1922 John was opening up the tavern until he heard a noise in the back. He investigated the storage when he spotted a 13 year old kid named Manny lasers shy and scared kid that was just trying to find food or water at least. The kid is very scared to talk or run away from John; he just froze in place. John, like a nice human being, gave me a lot of chocolate and asked if he wanted some cola. Manny was hesitant to just accept it which he did they both talked in the counter of tavern and talked for 30 minutes until Manny realized that his brother who’s name is Mandy is going to attack the members of the mafia for money they hurry to the where they are and they see Mandy trying to mug the boss and killed 1 of them in the ally way of New York intervening them to stop at one point putting his gun to Mandy for him to not attack. Mandy did stop attacking before Lonnie’s men pinned him down and took him to the tavern and had a conversation on what to do with Mandy. One side they just want to kill him on the other side they want to just let him go and put them back in the streets. John and Manny want them to stay but on watch. Most of them refused but Lonnie and Matteo Lewis said that there’s no reason for a kid to be the tavern but Mandy has some uses for the mafia and needs new members to combat the threat of the other gangsters, lone sharks, and corrupt cops. Plus they’re rival Russian-Irish gangsters. (They do have some recruits for them to protect but some are either not accurate enough to use a firearm or they don’t know how to use one) they made a vote for them to stay but have Mandy in HIGH supervision if he kills someone or escapes. As for Manny john made his friend and later on on Manny's life he became a US navy recruit and set sail in 1924.
(this is here the the prohibitionist story starts in streets of new york in feb 5th in 1926)