Jay Roberts (The Raider Timeline)

== Jay Trevor Roberts (The Raider) ==
"Haven't you heard, brother? I'm the Raider and I collect the souls from scum like you and send them back from hell." - Jay Roberts to Jack before killing him out of pity and vengeance
Jay Trevor Roberts (Real name unknown and infamously known as "The Raider") is the main protagonist of "The Raider" series. 
Jay is an honorably discharged NCO/combat veteran of the United States Army who is forced to fight against the criminal underworld after surviving a deadly encounter/failed assassination attempt.
== Background ==
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 most of his educational process (from preschool to high school) with a high GPA and decent grades. It's also known that Jay has a good reputation due to his willingness to complete a task and his integrity. 
As a young adult, Jay joined the United States Army and went to an unknown college. There, he met Duke Bennett, a senior who took a liking to the young man. After spending time with each other for 2 weeks, Duke made Jay join his club, which turned out to be a criminal syndicate that Duke founded himself. Jay reluctantly joins the gang when Duke threatens to kill him and anyone close to him, which makes him realize that joining is the only option to protect them. 
As a member of what is known as the Red Order Syndicate, Jay regularly hunted people down and took away money that they owed to Duke, which earned him respect from the arrogant man. However, Duke was willing to promote Jay and make him become a lieutenant if he killed a woman (who was a former girlfriend of Duke), but Jay kills the hitman working with him after seeing the woman with his (Duke's) children, betraying the gang as a whole. 
Because of his betrayal, Duke and a few men attacked him at his house during his senior graduation, raping and killing everyone (except for Jay, who was brutally beaten and left for dead). Luckily for Jay, a mixed-race couple saved his life and after recuperating for a while, Jay went to their home and thanked them for saving his life. 
However, he chose to stay with the couple after seeing that they lost a child and soon became an adoptive son for the couple. Jay also changed his birth name and gave himself a name to remember him by Jay Trevor Roberts.
Jay went back into the Army (despite the things that happened) and after showing his physicality, Major General Mordecai Winchester personally selected him to join the 38th Snake Regiment, his special forces company to capture or kill Jonathan Fritsch Hansel, which Jay reluctantly agreed to do for the thrill. 
However, Jay slowly began to devolve as the war progressed, having brutally murdered a dozen mercenaries, killed and cannibalized most of his men, and even treated injured villagers. However, after a brutal fight between him and Hansel, Jay points his handgun at Hansel with the intent of vengeance (Hansel had killed 4 men that Jay was close to), but he reluctantly spares Hansel, which earned him more respect from Major General Winchester, who also gave Jay a contract to join up with the Winchester Tactical Operations private military company, a NATO-founded private military company which Jay later joined for more adventure, such as taking out the Argentinian Revolutionary Front, the Liberty Bombers, and a corrupt division of the W.T.O. PMC. 
Over time, Jay quickly became well-known around the world and was offered by a Hollywood agent to do a horror movie, Jay jumped up at the opportunity, which made him become a well-known celebrity in talk shows and commercials.
However, this life of fame was quickly taken away when Duke Bennett (who was sent away by Jay) sent a few known associates to kill him and his wife, which he somehow survived. After 2 years of recuperation, Jay gears up by scavenging a box of remaining money, clothes, and weaponry to prepare for his one-man war against the Red Order Syndicate. 
As he killed Duke's associates one by one, he managed to find Duke's compound and by using his unconventional tactics, Jay managed to kill Duke and his most loyal members, with the cost of being imprisoned after the Columbus Police Department surrounded the compound, seeing a bloody Jay wielding both Duke's severed head and an assault rifle.
However, Jay was given a chance by FBI Agent Wade Bryan (who was assigned the case after Jay's attack) to capture Dominick Smith, a former Red Order enforcer to help defeat the Red Order, which Jay agreed to do. 
However, Dominick knew and had Jay captured to both ransom him and kill him as revenge for Duke's death, but Jay escaped and killed every single member except for Dominick, whom Jay knocked out during a fight. This event hardened Jay to the point where he came back into the W.T.O., which he joined to help the government clear out the criminal underworld in Columbus. 
Over time, Jay managed to wipe out both the Shadow Company (a Middle Eastern mercenary group that dealt in international drug dealing and human trafficking) and Redwood Security Consulting (a rogue private military company) with the help of Jonathan Hansel, who completely redeemed himself and died during an operation while trying to save Jay's fellow Reapers, which made Jay deeply mourns him to a degree and made him realize that even the most dangerous people are only human. 
After the attack, Jay was forced to find President Sophia Tucker, who was revealed to be captured by Trevor Bachelor, Jay's top contractor and leader of the Green Hive (Trevor's army) who wanted to take over as President by killing Tucker and placing the blame on Jay. However, Jay managed to kill Trevor and his whole army after tracing his location at an airport, but he ended up becoming labeled as a terrorist while Trevor was labeled as a hero for "protecting the president", to Tucker's dismay.
After 5 years of hiding from the government, Jay (with the help of President Tucker) managed to get off the government's watchlist by helping the Argentinian government defeat the Argentinian Revolutionary Front (which became an actual army) and although the mission was partly a failure because the W.T.O. suffered huge casualties (mostly 171,000 operatives), it was a success with the death of Roberto Salazar Junior and the capture of Jack Riley Sharpe (who supplied the ARF forces with equipment scavenged from fallen W.T.O. operatives and Marine units and helped transform the weakened paramilitary gang into an actual army). However, Jack escapes with the help of both his former gang members (who knew him from his past as a gangbanger) and former Reapers (whom Jay discharged due to their exceedingly violent tendencies), which led Jay to kill him once and for all when Jack managed to kill half of the Reapers and killed Mordecai Senior out of vengeance.
With the deaths of Mordecai Senior and half of the Reapers, Jay was close to giving up the PMC to avoid more bloodshed but ended up doing a contract that allowed him to regain his pride by killing David Kramer (another Reaper that betrayed the group due to his hatred of Mordecai Junior). However, Kramer received help from Eric Wright (revealed to be the son of the late Lt. General Lewis Wright) and managed to lure the Reapers into Dubai. 
Using the desert environment, Kramer managed to kill all of the Reapers (except for Jay and Mordecai Junior) in an ambush. Surviving the aftermath, Jay and Mordecai find Kramer's location and fight their way through by using heavier weaponry and advanced armor. Despite the drawback of losing Reapers in the mission, Jay succeeded in killing both Wright and Kramer but was locked up in custody until Agent Bryan released him with government help.
After being released, Jay was assigned one last mission to wipe out the Von Raines Family (who became the top dogs after Duke's dismantlement) with the help of Morgan Rook, a Sheriff's Deputy. Despite having a strong distrust and hostility toward the young deputy, Jay quickly admired Morgan when Morgan saved his life, showed his fighting abilities, and allowed him to fight alongside him to defeat Joseph Von Raines and his loyal members. After wiping the family out, Morgan and Jay began to bond and became close friends and partners as he retired for good from the W.T.O. PMC. 
However, Jay managed to teach the quick-witted Morgan how to fight, how to shoot, and how to use guerrilla tactics to his advantage, molding the self-taught deputy into a hardened warrior who is on par with or surpassed his training, making him an honorary Reaper in his eyes.
Despite his retirement, Jay and Lilly (who used a body double to go to France with her family and gave birth to two children) were under attack by gunmen and after seeing that Redwood Security Consulting was behind the attack, Jay came back to the scraper and meets Lt. Colonel Ryan Welles, a West Point Graduate and a cocky rich kid that took over the W.T.O. and refused to supply Jay with weapons and manpower, which infuriated Jay greatly. 
However, Jay goes to a mansion and holds Major Pinewood, an RSC officer at gunpoint to find out, but Pinewood dies at the hands of a hired group of fixers led by Scorpio (who is revealed to be a former soldier and operative of the W.T.O.) and Jay survived the encounter. Extremely concerned for Lilly's safety, Jay went back to the cabin and it is revealed that Scorpio had kidnapped Lilly before attacking the mansion. 
However, Jay managed to survive another attack by a huge group of operators by using his traps and wit to outmatch the unprepared assailants. It's later revealed by an injured operative that Welles has turned the W.T.O. into a criminal organization and wanted to get rid of Jay and any witnesses to get power and wealth from his heinous crimes. Because of this flaw, Welles and Scorpio are killed by Jay during his rescue mission to save Lilly. With crime levels going down in Georgia due to the disbandment of several criminal organizations, Georgia became more vibrant and peaceful and after 12 years, Jay (now older) chose to stay in retirement and gave up his PMC life to raise his family.
However, with Welles' death and Jay's retirement, Georgia quickly became a near-lawless state with its law enforcement agencies being defunded by a hidden corrupt division of the WTO PMC. 
As 6 months passed since the attack, Jay finally retired from the PMC and despite being retired, he tried to help out the corporation by supplying them with weaponry from his dealers. However, unknown mercenaries disrupt the deal and kill Jay, the dealers, and the remaining operatives. 
11 years later, the W.T.O. (now under the command of Dean Mitchell) has been in a war against the Vargas gang, a Venezuelan street gang because they stole a disk from the PMC that contained evidence. With no other options, Mitchell hires Dell Lincoln Hunter, a notorious criminal, and hardened mercenary to retrieve the disk. After hunting down and wiping out the Vargas gang, Dell finds the disk and as he watches the video, it's revealed that Mitchell is the biological father of Ryan Welles (the CO that Jay killed) and that Mitchell has orchestrated the whole assassination attempt as both retaliation and to take over the PMC to continue Welles' business. 
As Dell gives up the disk, he is betrayed by the operatives under Mitchell's orders, revealing that he isn't going to live regardless. Dell made his escape and with the help of his uncle, Dell managed to wage his one-man war against Mitchell, resulting in the deaths of both Mitchell and his loyalists and avenging Jay's death. 
With Jay's death, the W.T.O. has been completely disbanded and with Dell's involvement, Jay's death wasn't in vain and died as a legend who was renowned for his honorable reputation as a fierce warrior. 
== Personality ==
While it's not shown in his backstory, it's rumored that Jay was once a kind, honest, and polite man who showed great compassion for people who were close to him. According to some people, Jay was known for his wisdom and perseverance. 
As the events (forced to join a gang and losing all his close friends and family members) happened, Jay slowly devolved into a reserved, fearful individual who became more hostile and defensive around others and was shown to have strong trust issues that were so strong that he's even willing to hurt others to protect himself and his family, which showed that he did deeply cared about the people close to him. 
Due to his time in the Army and the W.T.O. as an operative, Jay became more cold-hearted, ruthless, and vicious over time and because of his status as "The Raider", his serious, focused, and battle-hardened demeanor made him both respected and feared by allies and enemies alike, earning him an infamous reputation within the criminal underworld. 
According to Mordecai Winchester (his mentor/father figure), Jay was described as a very brutal, merciless, and stern man who lacked any remorse for killing his opponents and was willing to torture his enemies in brutal ways for information, which made him more feared by surviving enemies. His ruthlessness and brutality mostly stem from his severe PTSD, which he reveals through mild nightmares, constant drinking, and getting defensive around things that remind him of war. He also shows extreme aggression and fits of rage if he is forced to get his revenge, as shown when he destroys an entire criminal organization (The Red Order Syndicate) to avenge his fallen family and friends and out of hatred due to surviving his near-fatal injuries. 
Depending on who he's fighting, his rage even has made him a more dangerous opponent in a physical fight. His developed attitude made Jay more indifferent and cruel to anyone, even towards the civilians that he was protecting from the threats during his time in Argentina. 
Despite his vicious and aggressive nature, Jay wasn't completely heartless as most enemies claimed and was shown to be deeply regretful of any and every kill that he ever committed and even admitted to his allies that he only killed people out of survival and it was presumed that Jay hates killing people in cold blood, despite having committed such acts throughout the series (Having killed injured enemies and surrendering criminals that were outmatched). 
Due to his strong moral code, Jay wouldn't harm and kill civilians, especially children when in combat or on a mission. His morality stems from his time in the Army when he had to deal with Hansel. However, Jay was willing to wound or kill civilians (armed or not) to kill his enemies, albeit with slight remorse. Unlike most of his fellow Reapers (who strongly preferred brute force), Jay tries his best to avoid civilian casualties and mass destruction to complete a task through stealth and unconventional tactics, showing that Jay has still retained a code of honor and is willing to save lives or to kill a target by deviating certain details despite following direct orders from his mission. 
Despite his willingness to fight his way out of certain scenarios, Jay has shown to be somewhat hesitant about taking another person's life, such as sparing Jack (despite his betrayal and defection to the ARF army), and strongly believed that violence should be cold, necessary, and without feeling, showing that Jay only used violence if the situation calls for it and saw it as a last-ditch effort. Although Jay has an indifferent tone to violence, he is shown to be somewhat hypocritical as he claims to an injured Trevor that he enjoys killing his enemies if they make it personal for him, which showcases a sadistic and vicious side of Jay that most allies and enemies never saw.
As described by allies and enemies alike, Jay was infamous among criminal and terrorist groups to the point where he would strike fear into their hearts and souls when they knew he was coming for him, revealing his ruthless and relentless nature as he occasionally set his sights on his target and was willing to chase his targets down either on foot or car. His ruthlessness is shown several times when he hunts down his enemies and he is shown to be a brave and resourceful operator, using whatever methods deemed necessary to kill or capture his targets and to fight on the battlefield with or without his allies. However, it's shown that Jay has become more pitiless and detached over time as shown as he is willing to leave his injured enemies to die or pretend to save Welles before delivering the final blow. 
Despite the negatives, Jay is still the same compassionate and polite man who's still willing to protect the people who are close to him and is shown to be completely happy with his life as he retired from the W.T.O. and raised his family as his main goal. As shown in his interactions with Morgan Rook, Jay has adopted a peaceful and democratic nature, as such when he gave up his paramilitary career and focused on raising his family. 
However, Jay was once again forced back into fighting against the Von Raines gang and showcased a more focused and level-headed approach to planning out and executing plans, as he supported Morgan with sniper support and hacking into their communications to feed him information. However, returning to his lifestyle quickly led him to his downfall, and dies as a brave, supportive individual at the hands of corrupt operatives led by the father of one of his previous enemies he killed in the past. 
== Appearance ==
Jay is an American man with dark brown eyes, black hair, and a light skin complexion. According to his file, Jay is 5'9 (175.26 cm) and weighs over 245 lbs (111.13 kg), which made him more intimidating with the combination of his military training.
As seen in his old military photo and certain pictures, Jay was shown to be younger (possibly late teens to early 20s) and have a slightly chubby physique with a light stubble beard and a skin-fade buzzcut.
From 2039 to 2045, Jay is shown to be lean and muscular (as a result of his strict exercise routine and his constant fighting on the field), has thicker hair, and sports a heavy stubble beard that he maintained over time. Jay began to wear clothes that matched his military background as the series progressed. He also sports various scars and tattoos on his body.
As of 2045, Jay is shown with a messy undercut fade with thick stubble framing his jawline. He's more muscular and toned than in 2039 and as he attacked the airport, Jay wore a white button-up shirt, gray cargo pants, and combat boots. Jay is also heavily bloodied and his clothes are now tattered and ripped during his fight against the Hive operatives.
As of 2050 to the present day, Jay is now bald (mostly from the time when he lost a chunk of hair during his fight with Trevor) and still sports a heavy stubble beard. As he retired from the PMC, Jay is now older with weathered skin and wore glasses and country-like attire (flannel shirts, jean shirts, and blue jeans) with a grown-out beard. He is now skinnier and paler and appears to lost his muscular physique.
== Skills ==
* High Intelligence: Jay was shown to be a highly intelligent, sharp-witted, and methodical man and was highly adaptable to any situation given to him. He is extremely level-headed and can handle extreme stress to get out of dangerous situations by using incredible street smarts. He was capable of using his charm and polite side to gain the trust of enemies to blend in and complete his task without them knowing that he was there within their organization.
* Criminology: As a former enforcer of the Red Order Syndicate, 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 Raider" and his exceptional combat abilities, Jay is widely known and feared within the criminal underworld and is 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.
* Hacking Skills: After learning from NSA computer technicians who joined the PMC, he is an intermediate hacker with complete access to even the most secret government servers to find his targets and to trace their location with technical help. 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, and Arabic. Out of the languages, Spanish is his most spoken as he communicated with several Argentinian soldiers and German as he spoke to Hansel while at HQ.
* 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 Morgan Rook.
* Master Tactician: As a former Infantryman who is trained by an Iraq War-era combat veteran/CO, Jay is highly capable of casing out, planning, and executing plans, assassinations, and raids. 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 W.T.O. operatives into various battles with strategic facts and thinking, which made him far more dangerous than being a lone wolf. 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 the Von Raines family and picking out the stragglers with ease. As shown in the raid against the Brubaker Gang, Jay is a strong and fierce leader to the core, having commanded and led a massive number of skilled operatives to help take out Ryder Brubaker and his associates.
* Expert Spy: Having worked with the CIA SAD, Jay is extremely skilled in stealth, espionage, infiltration, disguises, thievery, and eavesdropping. He's adept at blending in with his surroundings as well as sneaking around heavily guarded outposts and compounds with ease.
*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 who is 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 various law enforcement agencies and the PMC, 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" 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 in the PMC, 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, 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 as well as scavenging and using whatever firearm that 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.
*Master Martial Artist: Having been trained by a former Green Beret and various Reaper officers, Jay is shown to be an incredibly skilled hand-to-hand fighter. His fighting style is mostly improvised and consists of Kickboxing, Krav Maga, Eskrima, Kempo Jiu-Jitsu, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Sambo, Hapkido, Systema, and Ninjutsu. 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 Jack Sharpe, Ryan Welles, and Dominick Smith. 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.
*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.
*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, such as a metal pipe to kill a Hive operator. 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, 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 was also capable of breaking 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 broke part of a concrete wall and punched through a brick wall during his fight with Ryan Welles and was capable of lifting and slamming 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 (a broken femur, a gunshot wound near the heart, etc.) and a severe beating and were capable of withstanding heavier punches from Jack, 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 Scorpio.
*Peak Human Speed: Jay is extremely fast, especially for a man of his age. Jay can outrun his opponents and can run and sprint far distances uninterrupted. In combat, Jay's speed made him more dangerous as he used his anatomical knowledge to quickly injure an enemy.
*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 evade bullets and melee attacks during combat with ease. Due to his expertise in guerrilla warfare, Jay can correctly assess the situation, understand the purpose, and react 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.
*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 Jack Riley Sharpe, Trevor Bachelor, and Randall Reed, Jay has shown that he can outlast and outwit them by using his injuries against them, opening them up for a counter-attack.
== Equipment ==
Weapons:
* Springfield Armory TRP Operator: Roberts' primary sidearm. He notably used it to kill a large number of criminals, terrorists, and mercenaries, such as the Red Order Syndicate, the Shadow Company, Redwood Security Consulting, and the Green Hive. He also killed Stewart Watson and Deacon Marlow via execution with the pistol. As of 2050, Jay no longer used the pistol anymore, which suggested that Jay needed a pistol with durability and reliability.
* Glock 17 (4th Generation): Roberts' secondary (now his primary) sidearm. He notably used the pistol to kill another large number of mercenaries and terrorists, such as the ARF forces, the Von Raines family, and a corrupt unit of the PMC. He also executed Ryan Welles by landing a final round into his head as he tried to rescue him.
*S&W 629 Classic: Roberts' home defense/hunting sidearm. He notably carries the revolver in a hidden vault and uses it several times to threaten certain individuals. His revolver has a ported barrel and Hogue grips.
* Colt M4 (M4A1) Carbine: Roberts' primary firearm. He notably used the rifle numerous times throughout the series, even using it to open doors, disable vehicles, and knock out/kill enemies silently. His rifle is the SOPMOD version outfitted with an EOTech HHS V hybrid sight, a MAGPUL AFG (Angled Foregrip), a custom pistol grip, MAGPUL PMAGs with Ranger Plates, a custom muzzle choke, and a CQB stock with the Army logo on it.
*M100 SASS (Knight's Armament SR-25): Roberts' primary marksman rifle. He notably used the rifle two separate times as sniper support to help Morgan Rook take out the Berserker Club and its allies. The M100 is outfitted with a sound suppressor and a laser sight.
*Mossberg 500: Roberts' secondary firearm. As a CQC-operated weapon, Jay strongly used the Mossberg to breach doors, subduing targets, and intimidation skills. The Mossberg used by Roberts is the Mossberg 590A1 outfitted with Ghost Ring sights, a heat shield, an extended magazine tube, and a Speedfeed stock.
*Machete: Roberts' primary melee weapon. He notably used it to stab, slice, and easily decapitate various enemies. His machete is a fixed-bladed jungle machete.
*Knife: Roberts' primary combat knife. He notably used it to stealthily take out various targets and throw them into targets on point. His knife is a fixed-blade Ka-Bar Tanto Knife.
== Deaths ==
Murders committed by Jay:
* 80 of Hansel's Mercenaries: Shot, beaten, and stabbed to death.
* 6 of his soldiers: Stabbed to death and later cannibalized.
* 41 Argentinian Revolutionary Front Soldiers: Shot to death.
* 58 of Wright's Operatives: Shot to death.
* Lewis Wright: Knife threw to the left eye.
* 28 Brotherhood Militiamen: Shot to death.
* 7 of Miles Harper's Mercenaries; Shot to death.
* 46 Argentinian Revolutionary Front Soldiers: Shot to death.
* 32 Liberty Bombers: Shot to death.
* Peterson: Shot to death.
* Angelo Salazar: Shot to death.
* 56 W.T.O. Rebels: Shot and beaten.
* 200 African Militants; Rumored to have shot, stabbed, slashed, and beaten to death.
* 4 Red Order Syndicate Hitmen: Stabbed, beaten, and shot to death.
* 48 of Duke's Dealers and Enforcers: Shot to death.
* 89 Williamson's Boys Members: Blown up and burnt to death.
* Zane Winters: Impaled in the mouth with a metal pole.
* Dean Josephine Williamson: Bludgeoned to death with a rifle.
* 10 of Stewart's Men; Shot to death.
* Stewart Watson: Shot in the head.
* 18 of Watson's Men: Shot to death.
* 150 Red Order Syndicate Soldiers: Shot and blown up to death.
* Royce Talbot: Eyes gouged out, stabbed in the skull.
* Duke Bennett: Beaten, eyes gouged out, trachea crushed, later decapitated.
* 56 of Dominick's Men: Shot, stabbed, and beaten to death.
* 34 of Lee Harper's Men: Shot to death.
* Vincent Lee Harper: Jugular bit off.
* Jacob Walker: Trachea crushed, curb stomped.
* 36 Shadow Company Mercenaries: Shot to death.
* Deacon "Smoke" Marlow: Shot in the heart twice.
* Foster: Neck broken.
* 77 Shadow Company Mercenaries: Shot, blown up to death.
* Andrew Weaver: Shot in the head.
* Randall Reed: Stabbed in the intestines and bled out.
* 80 Redwood Security Consulting Mercenaries: Shot, slashed, and blown up to death.
* Donald Weston: Shot to death.
* David Harrison: Stabbed in the heart.
* 120 Green Hive Mercenaries: Shot, blown up, and slashed to death.
* Nathan "Dallas" Caldwell: Shot in the head.
* Trevor Bachelor: Beaten, stabbed in the throat.
* 270 Argentinian Revolutionary Front Soldiers: Shot, stabbed, and blown up to death.
* 28 of Jack's Men: Shot to death.
* 24 of Jack's Reapers: Shot to death.
* 31 of Jack's Reapers and Men: Shot to death.
* Jack Riley Sharpe: Beaten, slashed, stabbed, and later decapitated.
* 117 of Kramer's Men: Shot, beaten to death.
* Eric Wright: Stabbed in the jugular.
* David Kramer: Stabbed in the chest and decapitated.
* 6 of Joseph's Hitmen: Shot to death.
* 37 of Arthur's Mercenaries: Shot and blown up to death.
* 13 of Joseph's Men: Shot to death.
* 24 of Scorpio's Men: Shot to death.
* 100 of Welles' Operatives: Blown up, shot to death.
* 24 of Scorpio's Men: Shot to death.
* 100 of Welles' Operatives: Shot to death.
* Scorpio: Beaten, eyes gouged out, and neck snapped.
* Ryan Welles: Beaten, shot in the head.
* 87 of Ryder's Men: Shot to death.
* Ryder Brubaker: Jugular bit off.
Deaths connected to Jay
* Rochelle: Bisected from the shrapnel of a combat helicopter.
* General Ramon: Neck snapped by Mordecai Junior.
* Rawlins: Blown up.
* Patrick McCarthy: Beaten and stabbed in the eye by Jonathan Hansel on Jay's orders.
* Martin Angelo: Blown up.
* Jonathan Hansel: Shot to death. Hansel (under Jay's orders) chose to sacrifice himself to prevent the mercenaries from attacking Jay and his allies.
* About a thousand R.S.C. Mercenaries: Blown up by Hansel.
* 57 Reapers: Shot to death by various enemy forces. Half of the Reapers were killed by Jack Riley Sharpe and his men while the other half were killed by a coalition force led by both David Kramer and Eric Wright.
* Mordecai Winchester: Shot in the head by Jack Riley Sharpe.
* Mordecai Winchester Junior: Shot in the head by David Kramer.
* Lilly Clarke: Executed by Dean Mitchell's men.
* Daryl and Lindsay Clarke: Executed by Dean Mitchell's men.
* Morgan Rook: Hung to death under Dean's orders.
* Nathan West: Thrown off a building by Jack Riley Sharpe.
* Dean Mitchell: Shot to death by Dell L. Hunter. Dell avenged his death as revealed as Dean orchestrated Jay's assassination.
* Arthur Callahan: Bludgeoned to death by Morgan Rook.
*Joseph Von Raines: Beaten and stabbed to death by Morgan Rook.
== Death ==
Killed by:
* Dean Mitchell (caused)
As Jay made a deal to trade some of his gear to supply his PMC, several WTO operators (hired by Dean Mitchell) ruined the deal and mortally wounded Jay. Rather than fighting back or begging for his life, Jay defiantly stares down the operator and tells him that he fought in several suicide missions and after hearing his family die, he says "Do what you got to do, you spineless bastard" before getting shot in the chest, dying as a brave, courageous man who was defiant to the very end.
== Quotes ==
* "Despite what people say about me, I'm not a damn hero. I'm just a monster that is extremely good at killing even the most dangerous people while following orders. Even though killing is the only thing I'm good at, I wanted to leave this lifestyle behind, and just start brand new. but deep down inside, I know that I can't leave because the bloodshed never ends. I need to give in to the violence around me and fight my way out if I want to survive in this screwed up world." - Jay embracing the monster within
*"No matter what happens, I will never die as long as the mission is still online" - Jay's refusal to die to complete a mission
*"I might be a killer, but I want to give up this life to start anew. Every time I tried to leave this life, it came back to me every f***ing time! If you want a monster, then I will give you a monster. I took out hundreds, if not, thousands of enemies throughout the years, and I'm damn good at my job. I might regret anything that I did, but my lack of remorse and sheer focus made me far more dangerous than before. I will use my combat tactics and ruthlessness to protect the weak at all costs, even if I don't survive. That's why I'm the Raider." - Jay embracing the title of the "Raider"
*"I am the man who survived several suicidal missions and I had fought in several operations throughout my paramilitary career. I swore to protect, serve, and defend my country at all costs, even if the cost is my own life." - Jay's audio log
== Trivia ==
* Jay has a strong fascination for cars, especially pickup trucks (like his 1994 Ford F-150) and muscle cars such as his modified 2010 Dodge Charger R/T, which is shown as Jay's signature car for chases.
* Jay was known for using a clean and effective approach on a mission and tended to avoid mass destruction by using unconventional warfare and espionage to effectively infiltrate enemy territory and kill his target.
* Despite having a relaxed temperament and being labeled as the most respected operator by his allies, Jay, when pushed to extreme pain, is known for his violent fits of rage in combat, as shown as he fights against Trevor. His rage made him far more dangerous in a fight and was capable of outmatching his highly trained opponents through brute strength and durability.
* According to most allies, Jay's specialty was shown to be hand-to-hand combat, given his peak physical condition and he admitted that he prefers using blades and non-lethal takedowns to defeat an enemy than using firearms, despite being highly proficient in gunplay.
* Jay is shown to visibly change his personality and appearance as the series progresses, having gone from an extremely aggressive and violent killer to a more serious and focused operator who became more renowned for his combat proficiency.
* Roberts' drink of choice appears to be cranberry juice as he drank cranberry juice during his home scenes.
* Roberts is a fan of Guns N Roses, Van Halen, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Metallica, AC/DC, and Marilyn Manson, as shown as he constantly blasted metal music to disorient and scare his opponents before killing them.
* Jay is married to Lilly Clarke now and appears to have retired from the PMC to raise his family with Lilly and two of his kids.
* As the story progressed, Jay's combat skills appeared to improve a lot more as he fought in the field over time, which made Mordecai Winchester's claims about Jay true as he was Jay's mentor and father figure during his career.
*Jay appears to be ambidextrous as shown in the series as Jay was able to use firearms and melee weapons with both hands (notably in his fight against the corrupt operatives) It's since revealed that Winchester (a former Green Beret) has taught Jay everything that he knew during his military career and that Winchester had a father that fought in Vietnam and learned that soldiers must learn with both hands to avoid being in a disadvantage, which explains his specialized training.
*While it's never shown, it's implied that Jay might be bisexual because he reveals to both Morgan and Lilly that he had dated multiple partners (only 2 were male) throughout his college days, but he strongly revealed that he always enjoyed a female presence in his conversation with Lilly, which strongly revealed that Jay was only experimenting.
*Out of the Reapers, Jay is the most skilled Reaper (due to his specialized training) and is seen to be one of the Reapers' best hand-to-hand fighters, rivaling if not surpassing Jack Sharpe, both of the Winchester men, and most of the antagonists (notably Randall Reed, Royce Talbot, Duke Bennett, Trevor Bachelor, and Ryan Welles). Before his death, Jay was the only Reaper who stayed loyal to the PMC's ideology and retired.
*Before his death, Jay killed (directly or indirectly) 2,161 people (3,234 if counted as the connected deaths) and 23 antagonists (only 10 or 20 are main or secondary antagonists), making him the only protagonist to have the highest kill count alive.
*Jay is the only protagonist who never reveals his true name. It's later revealed by Jay himself that he changed his real name to avoid being hunted by the Red Order Syndicate when he survived, which makes him the first protagonist to change his name and never reveal it throughout the years.
*In his shirtless scenes, Jay has been shown numerous tattoos that reveal parts of his personality and military background.
**Black Scorpion Tattoo (right bicep): Represented his emotional resilience and getting rid of his past mistakes and his love for weaponry.
**Tribal Tattoo (entire left arm except for the underside): Represented his love for various Oceanic traditions.
**United States Army Tattoo (upper back): Represented his service for the Army.
**United States Army Eagle Tattoo (lower back): Represented his pride and service for the Army.
**Infantry Logo (left pec): Represented his job position in the Army and enjoyed fighting in Infantry.
**Love & War (gun and heart) Tattoo (right pec): Represented his internal conflict between leaving his life and fighting.
**Familie für immer (Family Forever in German) Tattoo (right underarm forearm): Represented his strong faith and love for his family.
**Venator sum (I'm the Hunter in Latin) Tattoo (left underarm forearm): Represented his strong combat abilities and hunting skills.
**Loyalty Dreamcatcher Tattoo (right calf): Represented his loyalty to both his family and his PMC.
**Floral Tattoo (right upper forearm): Represented his non-violent nature and his family tradition.
* Following Jay's death:
** There are no surviving members of either the Roberts or Clarke families.
** There are no surviving members of the original W.T.O. family and the Reapers.
** The W.T.O. was decommissioned and disbanded due to its corruption and its involvement in his death.
** Dell is the longest-living protagonist who avenged his death in the series.