Evan Rogers (The Ghost)

== Evan Rogers ==
Evan Rogers (known as Evan & Patriot) is the main antagonist of the 4th chapter.
He is a former Neo-Nazi terrorist leader who worked for various people and in the 4th chapter, he organized the takeover of the Odessa skyscraper, Rodrigo Plaza, in an attempt to steal millions of dollars in bonds. Rogers was a calculating mastermind as well as a highly intelligent yet callous man to the core, willing to kill anyone who went against his orders or plans. Throughout the chapter, he becomes Roberts' arch-nemesis.
== Background ==
Born on October 21, 1995, in Austin, Texas, Evan grew up in a patriotic household, and at the age of 5, Evan and his family went to Manhattan, New York, for a family vacation, and a young Evan witnessed the World Trade Center being attacked by Al-Qaeda and becoming traumatized by the screams and the explosions.
Instilled with a strong sense of patriotism, Evan joined the USMC at the age of 18 and trained in Camp Pendleton as an Infantryman. He served 2 tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, and Syria and fought for 8 years, including having fought in Operation Phantom Fury and Operation Horn of Africa. However, Evan and his unit began killing off anyone who proved to be a threat, whether they were actual threats or not, without being arrested or caught for their crimes. Evan was honorably discharged with full honors and the rank of Gunnery Sergeant when the war ended in 2021.
At some point after his discharge, he fell in with the Aryan Brotherhood but was later expelled from the group after 4 years, presumably for his overly violent and extreme methods of getting things done. After his expulsion, Rogers used his past affiliation with the Brotherhood and created his faction as a means to further fuel his ruse of terrorist activities. Besides his reputation, he used his terrorist background to command his underlings to anticipate and repel the forthcoming counterattacks by law enforcement agencies.
== Biography ==
=== Founding The White Viceroys ===
Rogers and his group began to kidnap, torture, and kill people from rival gangs, trying to showcase their power and control over Atlanta.
Rogers started a war with the Las Vatos Cartel and targeted their leader Leonel after they were betrayed by Leon and Gustavo in a drug deal. Despite the White Viceroys being heavily outnumbered, they managed to stand against the Cartel due to them having more advanced weapons and being more organized, Rogers and his men were able to defeat the Cartel. However, the Cartel sends in a man to wipe out the White Viceroys, and even though the army is nearly eliminated, Evan and a few survivors make it out alive.
=== Arrival at Rodrigo Plaza ===
Now only concerned with personal gain and rebuilding his army, he concocted an elaborate robbery scheme using a terrorist pretense as a cover to manipulate the authorities with his plan (which is set up by an unknown employer). He led his gang of 22 terrorists to Odessa, Texas in early May where a party of employees was being held to take control of Rodrigo Plaza. Although protected by several code-based lock mechanisms, Evan and his team were after the $840 million in negotiable bearer bonds that were being held in a high-security vault. In addition to the first six locks, the vault was protected by one last lock which was electromagnetically sealed, and could only be opened by a complete loss of power to the building, which Evan had also planned for. The prior is the main reason Evan had made the situation look like a terrorist plot rather than a straight robbery. If the authorities had known the team was after the contents of the vault, the power wouldn't have been cut, and the vault never would have been opened.
Most of the team arrived in a Pagani Courier truck, while Mara Brinks and Carl took out the guards manning the main lobby. Carl then shut down all elevator motion from the 29th floor and down using the security system as Evan locked the main entrance. Mara and her brother Bailey then proceeded to cut all phone lines in the building while Evan and the rest of the group arrived at the party on the elevator. Making their presence known through gunfire, the team gathered everyone up and took them as hostages, and Evan began his trickery, posing as a radical freedom fighter by making a short speech about "the Rodrigo Corporation's legacy of greed and deceit", which added to the belief the attack was terrorist-related. Evan then used his knowledge of the president of Rodrigo Trading, Gil Marsh, to draw him out. Once he had Marsh, he led the businessman to a board room where he then made his true intentions known.
=== The Vault ===
Still believing him to be a terrorist, Marsh continued to make assumptions about the purpose of the takeover to which Evan impatiently told him to sit down. He then continued to question Marsh over the code. After repeatedly denying that he knew the code, Marsh bravely and defiantly asserted that they were just going to have to kill him. Unfortunately, Evan agreed and killed Marsh with a single shot to the head from his weapon of choice, an Arsenal Firearms Strike One semi-automatic pistol. After that, he ordered Carl to break through the locks on the vault. Carl reminded Evan that the final lock is powered by circuits that cannot be cut locally. Rogers promised to handle the last lock.
Evam was unaware, however, that observing them through the glass door from the outside was Jay Roberts, who had slipped through the hands of the terrorists. Roberts had stopped over at the tower to provide a security detail. After Roberts kills Bailey, Mara screams in anger and tosses the office desk down, causing Evan to push her into the wall and tell her not to alter their plan. Roberts used Bailey's walkie-talkie to radio for help. This resulted in a cop car being sent over. The officer, William Anderson, did a quick check-over and left. Roberts saw this after having dispatched Henry and Mark and threw the latter's body onto Anderson's car. These were the first omens of the trouble to come.
=== Master Plan ===
While acquiring a two-way radio, C4 explosives, and detonators from the body of one terrorist, Roberts explained the situation via the two-way radio as the police, led by Deputy Police Chief Dwayne Morgan, arrived. The police sent in a SWAT team and an armored vehicle. Roberts and Anderson are unable to prevent the SWAT team from being ambushed, but Roberts manages to kill the terrorists attacking the SWAT team. One of Jane's coworkers, Harry Shaw, tried to negotiate with Evan and Roberts for the return of the detonators. Roberts helplessly tells Shaw that Evan will kill him, which Evan proves when Shaw fails. Evan then talks to the police over the radio, demanding all US troops leave their checkpoints from around the world, or every hour, he will kill a hostage. The FBI arrived and took control of the police. They ordered the power to the building shut down, which deactivated the vault's final lock as Rogers had intended. Carl ransacks the now-open vault, loading the bearer bonds into an ambulance to be used as their getaway vehicle.
Roberts continued to sneak through the building to kill the terrorists. When he found Rogers working at the explosives planted on the roof, Rogers passed himself off as an escaped hostage. Roberts appeared to let down his guard, and gave Rogers a gun; when Rogers attempted to fire the weapon, however, it was discovered that there were no bullets in the gun. As this happened, Rogers' men appeared from an elevator and fired at Roberts, who was forced to flee, leaving behind the detonators. The roof was rigged to explode with the detonators, and Rogers lured the FBI into the trap by asking for helicopter transport for him and his men to Odessa International Airport in exchange for the hostages; Rogers planned to use the roof explosion to make the authorities believe him to be dead and allow him to escape with the bonds. With the helicopter nearing with Special Agent Glaser and Agent Adkins on board, Rogers ordered the hostages to the roof, taking personal control over Jane.
=== Death ===
Roberts arrived at the roof, dealt with the terrorists escorting the hostages, and used his Heckler and Koch MP5 to scare the hostages back downstairs before Evan detonated the C4 and the roof exploded saving Roberts from Special Agent Glaser who mistook him for one of Evan's men and was about to shoot him, which unfortunately engulfed the FBI helicopters killing, Agent Johnson and everyone on the helicopter. Evan's plan continued to fall apart when the police stopped Carl from escaping in the getaway ambulance by shooting him dead when he tried to get away. After getting back into the skyscraper by shooting through the window, he realized that the remaining two terrorists, Richard and Evan were holding Jane. He quickly taped his Glock 17 pistol to his upper back with Christmas gift wrap tape and walked into the vault armed with his empty MP5.
Evan put his pistol to Jane's head and told Jay to surrender his machine gun, having finally gotten the drop on Roberts. Jay did as he was told, and put his hands behind his back, but used the feint to grab his pistol and shoot Richard in the forehead and Rogers in the shoulder. The bullet shot through a window, cracking it. As Jay comforts Jane, Evan attacks Jay, and after a short brutal fight, Jay pins Evan against the window and tries to get answers out, which a defiant Evan tells him that he was doing it for "craps and chuckles" and spits blood on his face. Jay throws a shocked Evan out of the broken window and plummets to his death on the pavement of the plaza, 30 stories down.
== Personality ==
Having been trained in Camp Pendleton, Evan was very confident in his abilities. In his first appearance, Evan declares himself a passionate freedom fighter for his homeland and is shown to be extremely caring, as seen by his relationship with his fellow soldiers. 
He appears to hold respect for Jay since he is the main threat to the group and even admires him to an extent. Well-read in American history and culture, Evan appears to be outwardly polite and soft-spoken, having earned his reputation through his speeches and military tactics, earning him many followers through his charisma and fierce leadership abilities. By creating a strong sense of unity, Evan was well-known throughout the group as their most respected and feared leader due to his natural charisma and fierce leadership and even displayed genuine compassion for his fellow gang members and treated them as family members in a way, as shown as he mourns the loss of his fallen members and tries to avenge them by attacking Jay multiple times. 
In contrast to his kind and playful persona, Evan is shown to be a sadistic, cruel, and violent man who is a cold-blooded murderer willing to kill anyone whom he is hired or who is a threat to his goals. He has no qualms about torturing or executing people as shown by his goal of kidnapping and killing innocent people under orders from the Brotherhood.
Unlike his counterpart in "Raider: Last Blood", Evan preferred to switch between a casual persona and an intimidating one to surprise people with his next move, as he had many different tricks up his sleeve. He had a casual attitude to killing and torture as shown when he murdered various civilians to use their bodies for drug trafficking and Marsh and Shaw and intended to murder the staff of Rodrigo Plaza which included a pregnant woman whom he was aware of just out of pure spite and greed, showing his mercilessness. He also has a good, but dark sense of humor, and isn't afraid to make light of very dark and serious situations. This is furthered by his apparent jokey nature with Mara and Carl, two people he presumably knew well and liked. Even Roberts often shot witty remarks back and forth either face to face or over the radio with Evan.
A highly intelligent man, Evan liked to flaunt his knowledge and was very knowledgeable about business and finance, shown as he was also able to determine what kind of high-priced suit one was wearing just by looking at it (or perhaps he just had a penchant for Luca Valentino suits in particular) during his conversation with Marsh and seems to enjoy reading magazines, making references to things that he has read in Forbes and Time. While speaking to the Odessa PD and FBI, Evan diverts their attention by pretending to have ideological aims, as had been presumed (as opposed to the simply self-interested theft which the operation truly is), and demands the withdrawal of thousands of US soldiers from around the world, referring to them as "self-righteous cockroaches that leeched onto everything the world has". He has, of course, no concern whatsoever for the government and even the hostages, as shown as he was willing to kill any of them when he killed Shaw and threatens Jay.
In his backstory, after he was expelled from the Brotherhood and rebuilt the White Viceroys, Evan became more ruthless and violent than before and was willing to do just about anything for the money and to gain power and influence over Texas. He shows sadism and brutality towards his victims and will be shown to have little to no limits in his actions, as shown as he murdered many people just for the money. He is deeply egotistical, being angered when Jane rightfully calls him out as being a lying, violent thief, and will feel threatened towards anyone bruising his ego as seen when he kills one of his men for failing to kill Jay. He gradually came to see it as a necessity and eventually developed into a ruthless crime lord motivated largely by vanity, ego, and greed.
As the White Viceroys flourished, he increasingly saw people as expendable pawns, whom he either manipulated to further his interests or eliminated. He also comes to find his new status as a crime lord psychologically rewarding, leading him to become less and less reluctant to resort to criminal acts such as theft, extortion, organ trafficking, and murder, showing pleasure, enthusiasm, and even a sort of depraved indifference in these acts to a degree. Evan's descent into the 4th chapter reveals a surprising level of repressed ambition, rage, resentment, vanity, and increasing ruthlessness which makes him a huge threat as he ordered the heist, had his men kill and wound police officers, and killed two civilians without remorse and hesitation.
Due to his callous disregard toward human lives and no-nonsense attitude about murder, along with the unbelievable things he'd done for the sake of being paid and to gain power such as becoming a major part of a domestic terrorist attack and blowing up a building with civilians to fake his death for 800 million dollars, Jay had no problem doing away with Evan and even Jay likely feels that Evan is one of the most disgusting beings he's ever met and in his last moments, Evan never showed any remorse for his actions and told Jay to stick it before spitting blood in his face with a spiteful smirk, showing his irredeemable traits and died a violent and greedy mercenary willing to kill and torture innocents for the money.
== Appearance ==
Evan is an American man, standing at 6'0. He has dark brown hair styled in a crew cut, a goatee beard, dark blue eyes, and a heavily built muscular physique, perfect for his position. He also has tattoos on his body, ranging from a swastika on the left side of his neck, the USMC logo on the back of his neck, and the devil dog tattoo on his right hand.
In his past, Evan wears an outfit similar to other members of the White Viceroys, though with different colors, to stand among his men; He has a dark-green armor vest on a black shirt with folded long sleeves. He has a pair of khaki pants and wears black steel-toe boots.
In 2048, Evan wears a dark gray long-sleeve shirt (with its sleeves folded up before the elbows), gray camouflage cargo pants, and black combat boots underneath a black jumpsuit during the Rodrigo Plaza job.
== Skills ==
* Expert Combatant: Evan is a highly skilled and formidable hand-to-hand combatant, as well as being able to use several melee weapons such as knuckledusters and knives with great skills. Also, Evan holds himself up in a fight with Jay for a long time even though he was being heavily injured due to a bullet to the shoulder. Evan also shows a high pain resistance, as he does not give up on fighting against Jay Roberts despite having suffered several heavy injuries.
* Knife Mastery: Evan is highly skilled in using a knife in combat, being able to try to kill Jay with his knife.
* Expert Marksman: Evan is extremely skilled in the use of a wide variety of firearms. He is also extremely accurate, managing to shoot Marsh and Shaw in the head along with trying to shoot Jay through windows. 
* Expert Assassin: Evan worked as an assassin for the Aryan Brotherhood, killing many people on their behalf including several members of the Los Vatos Cartel and various employees of Rodrigo Trading.
* Expert Tactician: Evan is a skilled planner, being able to track down Jay and set up ambushes against the Cartel. He is also known for improvisation, using the darkening environment during his fight with Jay Roberts.
== Equipment ==
* Arsenal Firearms Strike One: Evan's sidearm. He notably used it to kill many people and threatened Jay more than once.
* H&K MP5A3: He briefly took Franklin's gun and used it to pin Jay down.
* Glock 17: He briefly wields it after Jay gave it to him and tries to shoot him, but was loaded with dummy rounds.
== Deaths ==
Murders committed by Evan:
* 100+ Civilians: Killed under orders of Hugo Rodrigo.
* Gil Marsh: Shot in the head (faked)
* Harry Shaw: Shot in the head
* Mara Brinks: Blown up
* 10 FBI Agents: Blown up
* Special Agent Glaser and Agent Adkins: Blown up
== Death ==
Killed by:
* Jay Roberts (Directly Caused)
After a short brutal fight, Jay pinned Evan against the window and tried to get information, Evan defiantly spits blood on his face and gets thrown out of the window, plummeting to his death on the pavement of the plaza, 30 stories down.
== Trivia ==