Martin Adler (Raider: Last Blood)

== Martin Adler ==
Martin Adler, simply referred to as Adler, is a main character and a minor antagonist in the "Raider: Last Blood" series.
Serving as the quaternary antagonist in the 4th chapter, Adler is a high-ranking member of the Ghosts, serving as Dixon's right-hand man. After Connors' retirement and Dixon's take over of the group, he becomes the second-in-command of the group. He eventually becomes the tertiary antagonist in the 5th chapter after he defected to the Green Hive PMC for more money and to kill Jay under orders.
== Background ==
Born on August 18, 1999, in New York City, Martin grew up in a family of actors, and at the age of 18, he joined the United States Army, just to kill people since he grew up watching violent movies and enjoyed seeing gore.
As he fought in Afghanistan, he rose through the ranks and became a Ranger before being personally selected to join Delta by Connors due to his sheer ruthlessness. Upon returning from war, he struggled to find jobs or deal with trauma, but the relationship between him and his comrades remained strong. He then decided to become a mercenary.
== Biography ==
== Personality ==
Wild, ruthless, and unpredictable, Adler is undoubtedly the most unprincipled and chaotic member of the Ghosts, even by the group's standards, crossing many lines that the others normally wouldn't.
Adler is shown as a brutal, sadistic, abrasive, cocky, and violent individual. He is shown to take sadistic joy out of fighting and takes every opportunity to do so even if it is impractical, such as wanting to take down a platoon of highly trained soldiers, despite having orders not to from Connors. Despite being disliked by them, Adler seems to be on good terms with his fellow Ghosts, particularly Elena. However, according to Elena, the Ghosts know not to rile him up as he has an extremely hot temper. His rage and sadism are so high to the point he gets enraged when Jay is ordered to torture a soldier. To most of the Ghosts, he is a narcissistic, mocking, hurtful, callous, and sadistic soldier who has absolutely no qualms about killing others with a barbaric glee and tends to bully and antagonize most of them, causing them to resent him and seem to think very little of him, only working with him out of pragmatism or because they have to avoid Connors' wrath. 
Despite coming off as just a hotheaded brute, Adler is shown to be highly intelligent, calculated, and manipulative, capable of acting as a mole for some time without being discovered and making his way through Trevor's grace to become his most trusted associate. Despite being selfish, he appears to have his own sense of respect for those who he deems capable in combat. He surreptitiously shows some admiration for Jay's skillset and enjoyed fighting with him, even proclaiming that they always "get the job done". In addition, he is quite charismatic when necessary, being able to verbally acquire information about a heavily guarded military convoy with relative ease and later lead a large portion of the Ghosts after managing to convince them to join his cause in a short time. 
Adler has a callous and unsympathetic attitude towards death, brushing it off as "part of the game" in a conversation with Jay, showing that he has no remorse toward the people he kills and admitting that he enjoyed killing people as long as it lines his pockets. When confronted with his disloyalty after Jay found out, Adler simply labels himself as a survivor, showing no loyalty to anyone but himself, highlighting his self-serving, every-man-for-himself attitude to life and that he is extremely greedy and deceitful to the extent that he defected to the Green Hive to satisfy his bloodlust and greed. However, in the 5th chapter, Adler seems to have always been jealous of Jay and his close bond with Elena, stating that he had been "waiting a long time to do this" as they fight, hinting that Adler deeply wanted Elena for himself and saw Jay as a threat, so he's more than willing to use all means necessary to get her heart and into her pants, betraying the group and trying to kill Jay out of pure spite and jealousy. This jealousy is exploited by Elena after she shot a knife from his hand and he tries to pass it off as a joke before revealing his envious nature and blaming Jay for his own betrayal before begging her not to shoot him, showing that Adler is a very manipulative and pathetic hypocrite whenever the tables are turned on him while he was capable of hurting and torturing people while they're begging.
Adler's ultimate downfall would be his cockiness and manipulative attitude when his guard is lowered when he is humored when Jay grabs a bell during one of their fights and when trying to convince Elena not to kill him, even after his defection is exposed. During their fights, Adler stops when Jay tries to convince him not to kill him and that he can have Elena, showing that Adler was easily convinced until he chose to kill Jay and was determined to do so after claiming "Screw it", revealing his true nature as the bloodthirsty, arrogant, and violent man that he really is. 
In short, Adler is a deceitful and arrogant man that betrayed his allies for his own benefit.
== Appearance ==
Adler is an American man, standing at 5'9. He has graying dark brown hair in a slicked-back parted style, a light stubble beard, blue eyes, and a muscular build.
He wore an outfit, consisting of a white shirt, dark green cargo pants, a military jacket, and a combat rig. He has a mask with a smiling, white skull expression on it.
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