Jay Roberts (The Ghost)

== Jay Roberts (The Ghost) ==
Jay Trevor Roberts (also known as The Ghost) is the main character and the main protagonist of the "Ghost" series.
Jay is a retired soldier of the US Army who lost his family to violent criminals and was exiled from Atlanta. Having had enough, he resurrected his past profession and began hunting down criminals who were connected to their deaths.
== Background ==
=== Personal Life ===
==== Family Life ====
Born on November 4, 2003, Jay grew up in Columbus, Georgia. While nothing is known about his personal life or his childhood, it's heavily rumored that Jay graduated from preschool to high school with a 3.4 GPA and A + B honor roll. It's also known that Jay had a good reputation due to his willingness to complete a task and his integrity. 
According to Jay himself, he lived in a single-parent household when his abusive mother left the family and his father passed away from cancer, putting him into the system where he moved from foster home to foster home for 5 months. He took the surname Roberts from his current adoptive parents and changed his name when he came to age. During his childhood, he developed a talent for cooking, baking, and writing. He also worked his body out to peak condition to prepare himself for any potential careers before he started working in a grocery store at 15 and doing JROTC for 4 years in his high school life, molding his personality to a fierce sense of duty and loyalty to the country.
==== Joining the Army ====
As a young adult, Jay joined the United States Army and joined the Infantry for a while. While serving for the 32nd Infantry Battalion and having fought in the Third War on Afghanistan, the Russo-Ukrainian War, and the Third World War, Jay volunteered for the Army Rangers and joined the 75th Ranger Regiment, effectively becoming an NCO. He also attended Columbus Technical College and Columbus State University, earning 2 certificates and Associate's degrees in culinary arts and core curriculum, 2 Master's degrees in Sociology and Psychology, and 3 Bachelor's degrees in Health & Physical Education, Creative Writing, and Forensics.
Due to his physicality and strong combat proficiency, Jay was personally selected by the late General Winchester to become an operator for Delta Force after he reluctantly joined the US Special Forces for more preparation, eventually joining the 5th Special Forces group, according to Bachelor. His time in Delta has molded him into a highly effective soldier in terms of unconventional warfare, marksmanship, and CQC.
His time in Afghanistan (having assassinated many Taliban leaders), China (having supposedly assassinated several Chinese military leaders), and Russia (having trained Ukrainian allies) have proven his combat skills and he became the top man for secretive and highly dangerous missions for the CIA SAD (special activities division) under the direct orders of Secretary of Defense Trevor Bachelor and Agent Tyson Perkins after he surrendered his rank for extra part-time work while still in Delta. According to Jay himself, he did special missions in Russia and Afghanistan and later became the "Ghost".
His time in the Army changed when he and 5 Delta operators (Mordecai Winchester, Damien Barrett, Ned Philips, Stanley Fitzpatrick, and Jack Sharpe) were sent in to take out an Iranian general (General Ahadi) making illegal arms deals with Russian paramilitaries but found out that Iran and Russia had a plan to use American-made Tomahawk cruise missiles against the United States and under the direct orders of Secretary of Defense Bachelor, Jay, several members of Task Force: REAPER, and the Green Hive PMC led by CEO Nathan Caldwell, managed to destroy the missiles, killed Colonel Arman Hakimi of the Iranian Quds Force in a penthouse at Mexico, and nearly wiped out the Las Vatos Cartel (who helped Arman move to Mexico to evade capture and transport the last missile) even after finding out that Trevor and Nathan tried to cover up an illegal arms deal to give the missiles to a Ukrainian paramilitary group to fight against Russia and was forced to fight back against the Green Hive, causing Trevor to go off the grid.
==== Leaving the Service/Criminal Lifestyle ====
After 20 years, Jay retired and spent his time, trying to reconnect with his family and starting a food truck business until a man met him at a bar and tried to make him a mercenary, which he accepted out of a genuine need to support the family. He has done jobs in Baghdad, Mogadishu, Nicaragua, and Kinderhook, molding him into a far more dangerous mercenary.
While working on a job in the Philippines, faulty intelligence led to Jay demolishing an entire building to kill 50 terrorists holed up inside, not knowing a grade school was also located in the basement. The final death toll included many women and young children. Despite his outwardly cold, indifferent appearance, the incident scarred Jay deeply. Ironically, it also had a profoundly positive effect on the payment he could expect to receive for jobs following the incident — he noted dryly that his typical fee doubled following the Philippines, as many of his employers were willing to pay a premium for a man with no conscience. 2 months after the job, Jay has been focused on his food truck business to try to avoid doing mercenary work. 
While at a bar, he meets Royce Talbot (the Red Order's second in command) and Talbot offers him a job to kill a man who stole money from his boss, which Jay accepts. However, as Jay saw the target having a family and using the money to support his family, he refused to kill his target and told the family to leave the city for good. Due to the betrayal of his contract and his compassion, Talbot sent a few men to kill him by shooting him and making it look like an accident as they burned down his home and took his weaponry, his money, and his car. However, his wife and son were shot while he tried to save them (upon realizing that they weren't there for a robbery), which greatly devastated the veteran. He survived due to pure luck and for two months, he recuperated in a hospital until Talbot discharged him, only to take him to the outskirts of Atlanta and order his men to beat him before putting him in exile and threatening to kill him if he came back to Atlanta.
After four years of training and eliminating most of the criminal organizations, Jay already made a plan to exact vengeance against the men responsible for destroying his family by becoming the Ghost and earning himself a reputation as a respected and feared vigilante while hiding in the small town of Johnstontown, Georgia and used John Brewer (a fake identity) to work as a baker.
== Biography ==
== Personality ==
== Appearance ==
== Skills ==
* High Intelligence: Jay was shown to be a highly intelligent, sharp-witted, and methodical man and was highly adaptable to any situation. He is extremely level-headed and can handle extreme stress to avoid dangerous situations using incredible street smarts. He was capable of using his charm and polite side to gain the trust of enemies to blend in with their organization and to complete his task without them knowing that he was there within their organization.
* Criminology: As a former mercenary, Jay has exceptional insight into how the criminal underworld operates and how illegal activities work, such as mercenary groups and feared crime families. He also displayed extensive knowledge of illegal narcotics, able to tell what kind of drugs the Georgia criminal underworld was moving and selling.
* Intimidation: Due to his title as "The Ghost" and his exceptional combat abilities as a former Delta operative, Jay is widely known and feared within the criminal underworld and was so infamous that even his title strikes fear and terror into the hearts and souls of his enemies that incurred his wrath. Jay used his combat abilities and title to lure enemies away from him, even using a simple Ace of Spades card and placing it on an enemy's corpse to further fuel more fear toward him. His skill set and efficiency for killing criminals rapidly became so infamous that the ex-soldier became known as the "Ghost" due to his ability to wipe out an entire group quickly and efficiently and disappear without any issue, making even the most dangerous gangs fear him to a large extent.
* Hacking Skills: After learning from CIA technicians, he is an intermediate hacker with complete access to even the most secret government servers to find his targets and trace their locations with relative ease. He can jam communications, cause blackouts, and disable security systems.
* Multilingualism: Jay is shown to be fluent in several languages, including English, Spanish, German, Italian, Latin (to a certain degree), French, Russian, Irish Gaelic, Japanese, and Arabic. Out of the languages (only 6 are trickier for him to speak due to his speech impediment), Spanish is his most spoken as he communicated with several Argentinian soldiers and German as he went to Germany to do a dead-drop.
* Skilled Physician: Jay appears to have extensive knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, as well as intermediate first aid and medicine, as shown during his self-healing scenes where he puts slight pressure on his severe wounds. He is shown to be extremely knowledgeable in pressure points, as shown during his sparring match with Nichols, the hand-to-hand expert of the Ghosts.
* Master Tactician: As a former Infantryman who joined the Rangers, the Green Berets, Delta Force, and the CIA SAD, Jay is highly capable of casing out, planning, and executing plans, assassinations, and raids. He's also a highly skilled tracker, having collected information with relative ease to find his targets and their locations while on a mission. He is a keen judge of character, often correctly assessing the correct intentions, flaws, and capabilities of both allies and enemies just by watching them. He is a skilled negotiator and interrogator, capable of presenting facts and telling lies without inducing intense emotion. He is a very effective leader and mentor, having trained, fought, and led his Reapers and a large number of Delta operatives into various battles with strategic facts and thinking, which made him far more dangerous. He's also capable of spotting certain flaws within his environment and using any methods deemed necessary to accomplish his goals, such as using explosives to take out various militia groups and picking out the stragglers with ease, as a lone wolf. As shown in the raid against the Russian arms depot, Jay is a strong and fierce leader to the core, having commanded and led a massive number of skilled operatives to help take out various Russian soldiers.
* Expert Spy: Having worked in Delta Force and the CIA SAD, Jay is extremely skilled in stealth, espionage, infiltration, disguises, thievery, and eavesdropping. He's adept at blending in with his surroundings and easily sneaking around heavily guarded outposts and compounds.
* Stealth Mastery: Jay is a master in stealth tactics, such as understanding the use of disguises to enter authorized locations, using his hacking skills to disable communications and light sources, and using the environment around him to blend in, even in plain sight, to avoid detection. He's also capable of luring enemies into certain scenarios where he can easily eliminate them or pass by them to move to the objective.
* Skilled Engineer: Jay is a very skilled mechanic and engineer capable of manipulating and using objects and machinery around him to gain an advantage. He's also capable of using makeshift traps out of common household supplies and military weaponry to deter his enemies and has modified his vehicle to take a beating.
* Skilled Scientist: Jay has shown to be somewhat knowledgeable in poison and was able to concoct poisons to either incapacitate or kill his enemies. Combined with his charm, Jay can use poison whenever he sees an opportunity in the form of food and is capable of using it efficiently to make the death look like an accident.
* Connections: Having worked with a few prison groups, and various mercenary groups, Jay has a vast set that he can use to gain an advantage over his enemies, even with weapons dealers, criminal informants, and government officials.
* Forensics Specialist: Jay is very capable of doing a "clean job" while working with paramilitary groups by using the silent approach to minimize mass destruction. Whenever he kills his targets, he tries to make the deaths look like either a gang attack or a simple accident.
* Expert Driver: During his time on the battlefield, Jay has shown exceptional driving skills to the point where he is even capable of driving manual cars, mechanicalized vehicles (tanks, APCs, boats, and helicopters), and motorcycles with ease.
* Master Marksman: As shown in various fights and having been a Delta operator, Jay is extremely proficient with firearms, including pistols, revolvers, rifles, and shotguns, as well as being frighteningly precise with eliminating targets in both close-range and long-range distances (as shown during his fights). He's also skilled with using and firing heavier weaponry, such as grenade launchers, light machine guns, and flamethrowers as well as using mounted weaponry. Due to his extensive knowledge of guerrilla tactics, Jay has shown to be extremely skilled with bows and scavenging, and using whatever firearm the enemy has to achieve his goals. Jay can blend his marksmanship with hand-to-hand skills, being able to grapple, disarm, and even use his enemies' weaponry against them with precision. Jay is also seen to slightly calculate the trajectory of his weapons and use them to great effect, such as shooting an RPG at a lightly armored car with some difficulty. He is also capable of firing heavier weapons one-handed and dual-wielding pistols and accurately landing shots at enemies with relative ease. As shown in several scenes, he is capable of drawing his sidearm out and accurately gunning down men with relative ease, making him a deadly marksman in close combat.
* Master Martial Artist: Having been trained in the Army and taking classes throughout his life, Jay is shown to be an incredibly skilled hand-to-hand fighter. His fighting style is mostly improvised and consists of Boxing, Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Wrestling (both freestyle and Greco-Roman), Sambo, Krav Maga, Hapkido, Kyokushin Karate, Kempo Jiu-Jitsu, Taekwondo, and Eskrima/Kali. He can quickly outmaneuver, outmatch, and outlast his opponents, even capable of taking on multiple opponents at once. Due to his quick wit, Jay can adapt to his opponent's fighting styles, studying them during the fight and adapting to turn their strengths against them as seen in his fights with Duke Bennett, Ned, Lucas Wolf, Martin Adler, and a few Ghosts and Green Hive mercenaries. He also sometimes makes use of dirty tactics, such as eye gouges, biting, and striking the groin, and the environment around him to gain an advantage. Despite being older, Jay is still capable of fighting, such as he managed to beat various enemies with minimal ease.
* Knife Mastery: Jay is highly skilled in wielding and throwing blades, such as knives and axes. Combined with his extensive knowledge of anatomy and intense experience in Kali, Jay can use blades to find a suitable angle to either wound or kill an opponent in a fight and has shown deadly expertise with a machete as shown during his fights. Due to his background as a freelance mercenary, he learned Iaido, Kendo, and Ninjutsu and used them effectively.
* Improvised Weapon Mastery: In addition to his skills with firearms and martial arts, Jay is very good with using whatever tools he sees during his fights to gain an advantage over his opponents, as when he used a metal pipe to unsuccessfully knock out Ned. Due to his engineering skills, Jay was very capable of making makeshift traps with minimal resources to maim and kill opponents.
* Peak Human Condition: As a former soldier of the United States Army, an operative of the 75th Ranger Regiment, the 5th Special Forces Group, and Delta Force, and a freelance mercenary, Jay has displayed peak human physicality for a man of his age. He's extremely athletic, and his strength, stamina, speed, agility, reflexes, durability, and pain threshold are in top condition.
* Peak Human Strength: Despite his build, Jay is very strong, capable of overpowering and restraining even larger opponents, knocking out or outright killing a skilled operator with a single strike, breaking their bones and necks with ease, breaking through walls and glass with some difficulty, and surprisingly ripping out their throats, eyes, and ears with relative ease, which shocked allies and enemies alike. Jay could also break out of handcuffs and other restraints fairly easily due to his specialized training. His strength is somewhat near inhuman to a degree, as shown when he punched through a brick wall during his fight with Lucas and could lift and slam an operative to the ground while gouging the eyes. One possible explanation of his strength comes from his intense exercise regime that involved strength training, which would explain his capability to do nearly difficult tasks that the average man couldn't.
* Peak Human Durability: Jay is highly resilient and sturdy due to his time on the battlefield. Jay can survive multiple gunshot wounds, stabbings/slashes, and blunt force trauma without feeling that much pain. The greatest feats of his durability were surviving a brutal torture session by the Red Order Syndicate (broken ribs, a gunshot wound near the heart, a severe beating, etc) and a severe beating from Martin Adler, as seen as he was capable of withstanding heavier punches from him, who's more skilled in hand-to-hand and utilized brute strength. His durability also made him tougher to kill, as evidenced during his fight against Lucas Wolf, as seen as he fought him evenly, despite being injured and the fact that Wolf is more younger and agile than him.
* Peak Human Speed: Despite being middle-aged, Jay is extremely fast, especially for a man his age. Jay can outrun his opponents and can run and sprint far distances uninterrupted. Jay's speed made him more dangerous in combat as he used his anatomical knowledge to injure an enemy quickly.
* Peak Human Agility: Jay has extreme amounts of stamina. He can fight for considerate amounts of time and run great distances uninterrupted. He can flip and spin his way out of incoming gunfire with the impressive feats of an experienced gymnast and vault, scale, and traverse difficult terrains and obstacles easily. Even with being extremely injured or tired, Jay required little time to recover before continuing the fight.
* Peak Human Reflexes: Jay has incredible reflexes. Due to his time on the battlefield, Jay has displayed a fast reaction time, as he can easily evade bullets and melee attacks during combat. Due to his expertise in guerrilla warfare, Jay can correctly assess the situation, understand the purpose, and act effectively, making it harder for the enemy to outwit him in the field. His senses are shown to be enhanced, having the capability to hear, smell, and sense his enemies from any direction and to avoid ambushes, raids, and sniper fire with ease. He is notably quick enough to react and kill several men with ease.
* High Pain Tolerance: Despite his strong combat proficiency, Jay has been frequently injured throughout the series, but demonstrates a near-inhuman tolerance to pain, being able to survive near-fatal injuries, such as gunshot wounds, stabbing, blunt force trauma, and physical blows with ease. As shown in his fights with numerous opponents like Damien Barrett, Martin Adler, Lucas Wolf, some of the Ghosts, Royce Talbot, and various enemies, Jay has shown that he can outlast and outwit them by using his injuries against them, opening them up for a counter-attack.
== Equipment ==
== Awards ==
== Deaths ==
== Trivia ==