Jeremy Blaire

"Somebody's been telling stories outside of class." - Jeremy Blaire's first words in Outlast: Whistleblower, sarcastically mocking Waylon for attempting to expose The Murkoff Corporation.Jeremy Blaire, also referred to as Mr. Blaire or as Jer by close friends and colleagues, is a major antagonist in the Outlast series. He appears as an unseen antagonist in the 2013 survival horror video game, Outlast, the main antagonist in its 2014 DLC expansion, Outlast: Whistleblower and a supporting antagonist in Outlast: The Murkoff Account, a comic series based on the story of the games.
He is a corrupt, sadistic executive within The Murkoff Corporation, working exclusively within Mount Massive Asylum in the Underground Laboratory to endeavour the completion of Project Walrider while also ensuring that no evidence of the corporation's illegal activity is leaked to the outside world that could potentially destroy the corporation and lead to their arrests. He is the archnemesis of Waylon Park.
He was voiced and portrayed by Canadian actor, Matt Holland.
== Story ==
===Background===
Jeremy Blaire was employed as an employee for the transnational Murkoff Corporation during the early to late 2000's. He rose through the ranks and promotions, eventually becoming the executive vice president of global project development for the company. He quickly becomes close friends with fellow colleague, Richard Trager, regularly going golfing with him outside of work. The two maintained regular contact.
At an unknown date in the mid to late 2000's, Blaire purchases the Spindletop Psychotherapy Clinic as a part of Murkoff's "Research through Charity" initiative; a government contract helping returning American veterans cope with their PTSD.
During the late 2000's, he is stationed at the Mount Massive Asylum facility in the mountains of Leadville, Colorado to oversee the Project Walrider experiment occurring within the building. He strives for the completion of the project while endeavouring to ensure that all evidence of any illegal activity is kept top secret and confidential, taking any measures necessary to prevent it from being revealed or exposed to the public.
===Outlast: The Murkoff Account===
====Issue 2====
During early October of 2012, Blaire encounters and meets Murkoff Insurance Mitigation Officer, Pauline Glick in the Underground Laboratory who silently observes a transformed Chris Walker trapped behind a glass cage. Blaire politely introduces himself, explaining the work behind conducted behind the scenes while also observing the experiments alongside Glick. The pair view a group of security forces and scientists prepare a restrained Billy Hope for the Morphogenic Engine. Glick returns to the ground floor.
Following the termination of Richard Trager and attack on Michelle Haas, Glick and her partner, Paul Marion, talk with Blaire in his office about the phantom pregnancies occurring more regularly in the asylum. After uttering the code "Eskimo Reuben", forcing Marion to leave the room, Blaire shows the projected profits for Project Walrider to an astounded Glick.
Soon afterwards, Glick accompanies Blaire wheel a petrified and horrified Trager on a stretcher, desperately pleading and begging for his life. Blaire sadistically plays it off, talking to him in a childish, playful manner while spotting a small grin. The duo stand and watch Trager being forcefully subjected to the Morphogenic Engine as his screams are drowned out while his former friend sadistically smiles in glee, devoid of any empathy or emotion. Changing his attention to Glick, Blaire asks Glick out on a date for a "drink". Glick immediately rejects him, commenting that she doesn't "eat where I hunt" as she walks away while Blaire stares perplexingly.
=== Outlast: Whistleblower ===
====Chapter One: Underground Laboratory====
During the late night of September 17th, 2013, Jeremy Blaire notices that one of his subordinates, Waylon Park, is attempting to expose The Murkoff Corporation's illegal activities through an anonymous email so he goes to the origin point where the email was sent, Waylon's office, to confront him personally. 
Upon returning from The Morphogenic Engine terminal, Blaire's guards ambush and attack Waylon, leaving him terrified and beaten on the floor. Blaire then talks to Waylon, sadistically taunting and insulting him about his futile attempts at exposing Murkoff. The former drops the laptop onto the floor, destroying it, believing that the email hadn't been sent yet and thus eradicating any evidence from being leaked to the outside world. Blaire turns to one of his guards, asking if he heard Waylon agree to "forced confinement" and becoming a patient of The Morphogenic Engine program. The corrupt guard calmly agrees as Blaire expresses his delight and satisfaction in Waylon's fear. Blaire finally adds that The Murkoff Corporation and the "onward march of science" appreciate Waylon's "bravery and sacrifice" before having one of his guards beat Waylon unconscious to be processed as patient of Project Walrider as he watches on. Blaire returns to regular operations after dealing with Waylon, fabricating a cover that Waylon is "receiving treatment" for his "undiagnosed mental illnesses".
Two hours later, when The Walrider is unleashed onto the asylum and its inhabitants, Blaire flees and escapes the Underground Laboratory, making his way to the upper floors of the asylum. During the collapse, Blaire continues to remain loyal to Murkoff, mercilessly murdering anyone, including employees, attempting to escape the asylum that can potentially lead to his and his colleagues' arrests for their many wrongdoings.
====Chapter Four: Prison====
Having successfully reaching the radio in the Prison Block, Waylon attempts to radio for help from the national guard but before he can talk to the 911 operator, Blaire interrupts Waylon, elbowing him in the face causing Waylon to fall backwards onto the floor. Blaire utterly destroys the radio and everything else on the table with his baton, effectively rendering the chance of outside help to a definitive zero.
Before he can destroy anything else however, he notices Waylon trying to make a run for it out of the room so Blaire hastily knocks him back to the ground with one hit to the head with his baton. Blaire goes in for the killing blow, suffocating Waylon with his baton as the former continues to ridicule the latter for failing to "keep his mouth shut and play along". Blaring growling and roars from an unknown source abruptly interrupts Blaire's murder attempt causing him to cowardly flee the scene, leaving Waylon to meet his end at the hands of the unknown beast lurking around the corner. Fortunately for Waylon, he survives his encounter with Chris Walker, fleeing outside to the Drying Ground.
====Chapter Seven: Exit====
Twelve hours later, on September 18th, 2013, Blaire has successfully made his way to the front entrance of the Administration Block, wielding a knife to stop anyone from escaping the asylum alive. It's currently unknown how he managed to survive for several hours unharmed however it can be presumed that because of his high status within Murkoff, he has access to rooms that wouldn't typically be easily accessed by Variants and other employees.
Reaching the exit, Waylon finds an injured and bleeding Blaire leaning against one of the front doors of the asylum, pleading for his help and aid. Waylon notes in his notes that although he despises the man for what he did to him and presumably countless of others, he chooses to leave him and let him bleed out, deciding that he won't stop him from escaping this "godforsaken place" and returning home to his wife and two children.
===Death===
Although Waylon tries to leave and exit the asylum, determined to return back to his family, Blaire once again hinders Waylon's progress by lunging at him and fatally stabbing him in the stomach causing him to flinch backwards in immense pain. Blaire inches closer to a vulnerable Waylon, stating that no can know about the events that have occurred at the asylum, still remaining loyal to Murkoff till the very end. Lifting his knife in the air to deal the killing blow, again his murder attempt is interrupted when The Walrider appears, turning Blaire's face of malice into pure terror and horror.
The Walrider, at this point controlled by Miles Upshur, violently grabs Blaire and thrusts him into the air as he helplessly screams in utter fear at the unstoppable force that is about to end his life. The Walrider continues to throw Blaire around for a few seconds like a ragdoll before infusing itself with Blaire and bursting out of him, killing him instantly as all of his dismembered limbs fall to the ground in a sea of blood.
Following Blaire's death, The Walrider disappears while Waylon continues forward with his escape, adamant to tell the whole world about The Murkoff Corporation and all their illegal and immoral experiments with Blaire ultimately failing in his endeavours resulting in his satisfying, well-deserved demise. 
=== Legacy ===
==== Outlast: The Murkoff Account ====
===== Issue 3 =====
Following the dispatch of Murkoff mercenaries and military contractors on the facility to clean up the mess, Pauline Glick and Paul Marion arrive at the scene of Mount Massive to investigate the potential casualties and losses that the incident is going to cause for Murkoff. Investigating inside, the pair find the dismembered corpse of Blaire where Marion questions what was responsible behind his gruesome death. Glick agrees, jokingly commenting that Blaire's "lost weight".
== Appearance==
Jeremy Blaire possesses the build of a medium, fit Caucasian male, owning an average height and weight. He has light blue eyes and dark brown hair styled in a neat and tidy fashion. He is clean shaven as has no noticeable facial hair.
Whilst working at Mount Massive during The Murkoff Account, Blaire dons a fancy, black pinstripe suit comprising of a pinstriped, black jacket undone, a white button-up shirt tucked into his black trousers, a black tie and black business shoes. His hair is combed back, maintaining the tidy and professional appearance. At times, his hair appears messy and curly at the front of his head.
During the events of Outlast: Whistleblower, Blaire is generally portrayed and seen in a black business suit because of his rank and status within Murkoff. His black suit consists of a black suit jacket, a crisp white dress shirt with the top button undone tucked sharply into a pair of black dress trousers accompanied by a standard brown belt around his waist with a pair of neatly tied black dress shoes for his choice of footwear.
When Blaire is seen for the final time in the Administration Block by Waylon at the end of Outlast: Whistleblower, he still retains his appearance as aforementioned before however he's bleeding in his lower stomach resulting in his shirt and trousers becoming stained red with blood.
== Relationships==
===Allies===
*Helen Grant (Alive) - Executive Colleague/Co-Worker
*Security Guards (Deceased) - Subordinates
*Pauline Glick (Alive) - Acquaintance
===Enemies===
*Waylon Park (Alive) - Former Subordinate & Archnemesis
*Dr. Richard Trager (Deceased) - Former Executive Colleague & Ally
*The Walrider (Active) - Killer
==Appearances==
Title 	Role 	Additional Notes
Outlast 	Unseen Antagonist 	- Most likely roaming or hiding withinn the asylum during the events of the game.
Outlast: Whistleblower 	Main Antagonist 	- Acts as Blaire's official debut in the Outlast series.
- Appears a total of three times in the story.
- Ends up killed by The Walrider before he gets the chance to kill Waylon Park.
Outlast: The Murkoff Account	Supporting Antagonist	- Mentioned in Issue 1 concerning Murkoff's "Research through Charity" initiative.
- Appears in Issue 2, taken place roughly a year before the events of Outlast: Whistleblower.
==Quotes==
=== Outlast: The Murkoff Account ===
==== Issue 2 ====
- "Impressive, am I right? Jeremy Blaire, vice president of global project development. And you're Pauline Glick, Insurance Mitigation Department...I try to stay well informed." - Jeremy Blaire's first words in the issue, introducing himself to Pauline Glick in the Underground Laboratory.
- "Yes, 'human', not so precise a term as it used to be. Where's your partner? You're gonna want to make sure he understands, then, how important it is we weed out any employees who aren't, uh...true believers." - Blaire conversing with Glick while observing the Project Walrider experiments.
- "It's obviously a huge litigation risk. Every woman in the facility would have grounds for a multi-million dollar suit. We have to shut it down, until...Let me interrupt you - 'Eskimo Reuben'." - Blaire discussing the recent phantom pregnancies with Glick and Marion before interrupting himself with the code 'Eskimo Reuben'.
- "Of course it's not your fault, Rick. You're not evil, you're sick and...we're going to make you better." - Blaire talking to his former friend, Trager before he's subjected to the Project Walrider experiments, in a sadistic and playful manner.
- "You're very good at your job...Have a drink with me tonight." - Blaire's last words in the issue, complimenting Glick's skill before abruptly asking her out for a "drink".
===Outlast: Whistleblower===
====Chapter One: Underground Laboratory====
- "Mr. Waylon Park. Consulting contract 8208. Software engineer with a level three security clearance. Graduated cum laude from Berkely but still somehow not smart enough to realise that the last thing a fly oughta do in a spider's web is wiggle. Somehow dumb enough to think that a borrowed laptop, onion router and firewall patch would be enough to fool the world's leading supplier of biometric security. Stupid, Mr. Park. More than stupid, in fact, that was...crazy. I'm afraid we're going have you committed. Mr. Park, will you willingly submit to forced confinement? Did you hear that agent?! Great. Oh, and uh did I just hear Mr. Waylon Park volunteer for the Morphogenic Engine Program? That was brave indeed, Waylon. The Murkoff Corporation and the onward march of science both appreciate your bravery and sacrifice. Maybe you could administer Mr. Park here a light anaesthetic." - Blaire's sadistic speech to an incapacitated Waylon Park about his stupidity of getting caught and forcing him to become a patient of Project Walrider, under the guise of a light hearted and friendly attitude, similarly to how he spoke to Trager a year prior.
====Chapter Four: Prison====
- "Waylon Park! You couldn't just...couldn't just keep your mouth shut! You couldn't just play along! But, you're done talking now...Do me a favour and die here, Park!" - Blaire attacking and continuing to mock Waylon as he attempts to kill him by strangulation with his baton before fleeing the scene after hearing roaring from an unknown source.
====Chapter Seven: Exit====
- "Mr. Park. How the fuck are you still alive? Let's...make a deal. You help me, I'll help you." - Blaire, in disbelief, upon finding Waylon alive during the morning of September 18th, an entire day after he last saw him.
- "God, I'm stuck like a pig. Help me up...please." - Blaire continuing to plead for Waylon's help despite everything he has done to the latter.
- "Fucking DIE already! No one can know! No one..." - Blaire revealing his true intentions to still keep the events of Mount Massive a secret before he attempts to kill Waylon.
- "GRAHH! What the fu...Urk. Oh, GOD! Oh, CHRIST IN HEAVEN! How did it get out?! NO! NO, PLEASE! NO! NO! AHHHH-" - Jeremy Blaire's last words shortly before his violent death, expressing his terror and utter horror at the sight of The Walrider in his final moments.
==Gallery==
===Screenshots===
==== Outlast: The Murkoff Account ====
===== Issue 2 =====
File:JEREMY BLAIRE COVER.png|Jeremy Blaire standing alongside Pauline Glick on the cover of Issue 2.
File:JEREMY BLAIRE 1.png|Blaire meeting Pauline Glick in the Underground Laboratory.
File:JEREMY BLAIRE 2.png|Blaire and Glick observing the Project Walrider experiments.
File:JEREMY BLAIRE 3.png|The Pauls talking with Blaire about the Morphogenic Engine's effects on women in Mount Massive.
File:JEREMY BLAIRE 4.png|Blaire showing Glick the projected profits of Project Walrider.
File:JEREMY BLAIRE 5.png|Blaire sadistically mocking his former friend as he's about to endure the Morphogenic Engine.
File:JEREMY BLAIRE 6.png|Blaire's final appearance in Issue 2, grinning in amusement at Trager's suffering.
===== Issue 3 =====
File:JEREMY BLAIRE AFTERMATH.png|Jeremy Blaire's remains being found by the Pauls.
====Outlast: Whistleblower====
=====Chapter One: Underground Laboratory=====
File:JEREMY BLAIRE-REVEAL.png|Jeremy Blaire's debut in Outlast: Whistleblower, confronting Waylon Park for attempting to leak Murkoff's illegal activities.
File:JEREMY BLAIRE-LAPTOP.png|Blaire talks to Waylon shortly before destroying the laptop whilst accompanied by his security guards.
File:JEREMY BLAIRE-CRAZY.png|Blaire sadistically mocking Waylon, dubbing him "crazy".
File:JEREMY BLAIRE-FINAL.png|Blaire watching on as his guards beat Waylon unconscious to become a patient of Project Walrider.
=====Chapter Four: Prison=====
File:JEREMY BLAIRE-PRISON.png|Blaire destroys the radio to ensure no one can call for help from the outside world.
File:JEREMY BLAIRE-ATTACKING.png|Blaire attacks and attempts to murder Waylon by strangulation with his baton.
File:JEREMY BLAIRE-COWARD.png|"Do me a favour and die here, Park!"
===== Chapter Seven: Exit=====
File:JEREMY BLAIRE-EXIT.png|A seemingly injured Blaire pleading for Waylon's mercy.
File:JEREMY BLAIRE-KNIFE.png|Blaire deceiving Waylon, stabbing him with a hidden knife.
File:JEREMY BLAIRE-KILL.png|Blaire inches closer to a vulnerable Waylon, preparing to kill and silence him.
File:Jeremy Blaire's Final Moments.png|Jeremy Blaire's Final Moments
File:JEREMY BLAIRE-WALRIDER ATTACK.png|Blaire is violently attacked by The Walrider, thrusted into the air.
File:Jeremy Blaire's Death.png|Jeremy Blaire's Death
File:JEREMY BLAIRE-REMAINS.png|Jeremy Blaire's gruesome remains.
==Trivia==
*Despite being the main antagonist of the story, he only appears a total of three times in the DLC.
* In Waylon's notes, Blaire is described as his "supervisor's supervisor".
*In the "Miscarried Profits" documents, Blaire discusses his desire to bring females back onto the premises to continuing experimenting on to increase the profits of Project Walrider however, considering his nature, it's highly likely that Blaire had ulterior motives to perform his perverted, sexual fantasies on them.
*While only proven once, it's highly probable that Blaire's close friends and colleagues referred to him by the nickname, Jer.
*Blaire's professional work email is "j.blaire@murkoff.us.com".
*Blaire is the first major antagonist to be introduced in Outlast: Whistleblower and is ironically the final one to meet his demise.
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