Jay Roberts (The Raider Reloaded Timeline)

== Jay Roberts (The Raider Reloaded) ==
Jay Trevor Roberts (known as Jay Roberts or simply the Raider) is the main character and the main protagonist in the Raider Reloaded series.
Jay is a former Delta operator and a police officer who sought vengeance against the Underworld for wrongfully framing and imprisoning him for drug charges and killing his family. Angered by this, Jay managed to single-handedly take down their operations and other figures connected to them to accomplish his mission.
== 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 had mostly 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 joined Infantry for a while. While serving for the 39th Infantry Battalion and having fought in the Russo-Ukrainian War (which devolved into WW3 due to whatever side started the war), Jay volunteered for the Army Rangers and joined the 75th Ranger Regiment, effectively becoming a master sergeant. 
Due to his physicality and strong combat proficiency, Jay was personally selected by 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 Perkins. His time in Delta has molded him into a highly effective soldier in terms of unconventional warfare, marksmanship, and CQC. His time in Argentina (having participated in the Argentinian Civil War) and Syria (having captured a few unnamed enemy leaders) has proven his combat skills to a point where he became the top man for secretive and highly dangerous missions for the CIA SAD (special activities division) under the direct orders of Tyson Perkins after he surrendered his rank and joined the Reapers, a mercenary group while under Perkins' command for extra part-time work while still in the military. According to Jay himself, he did 4 tours in Russia while doing special forces training.
After being honorably discharged from the Army for 8 years, Jay joined the Columbus Police Department and stayed for 5 years as a sergeant, earning himself a reputation for being the most effective officer in the city. He is well-known for busting a major drug ring, which consisted of XP, edible and highly addictive crystal methamphetamine. During his time in the police force, Jay met Lilly Clarke in 2031 and after developing a long-term relationship, they eventually got married and had Daryl, their son. 
As he slowly began to realize that the Underworld was starting a takeover, he chose to reject their advances and bribes, staying true to his morals. Because of that, the Underworld perceived him as a potential threat, so Duke Bennett (with a few allies, such as Dean Williamson, Royce Talbot, Stewart Watson, and Jamal Parks) managed to kill his family and arrest him for the illegal possession of marijuana, landing him a 2-year sentence in state prison. 
Surprisingly, Jay survived for months in prison, since he knew a few people and even got lucky with early release after consulting with Sam Dalton, a businessman that he met after he left the service and was a close employer for his security. After getting out of prison in a year, Jay began to work for Dalton and became a mercenary-for-hire for 6 years, having captured and killed various criminals while Dalton hid the murders as law enforcing executions needed to be done.
To double his income and to keep his mercenary life secret, Jay began to work for Jeffrey Mitchell, a fellow veteran, and Jay's close friend, at his bakery to cope with the horrors of war and to blend in with the civilian population. In addition to the bakery job, Jay started to become more and more open-minded, going out to nightclubs (mostly at the Boneyard), nature walks, and advanced driving at an abandoned airfield in the Civil War-era small town of Johnstontown, Georgia. 
Despite being seemingly open, Jay had suffered from severe PTSD and survivor's guilt for his horrible acts of violence during his time in the military and his failure to save his family and even admitted that his pride and morality cost him his career and life.
== Biography ==
Jay is first seen in the first chapter, mostly going through his daily routines, such as working out his body, working at the bakery, going out to the club, and sleeping with various women (notably Lara Winters, one of his close friends before his deployment). He usually cleans his weaponry and stashes it in various places for easier deployment. 
However, his routines quickly came to a halt when the Red Order Syndicate ordered a hit on Jay Roberts, having sent 5 squads to kill him. Despite having the home-field advantage and managing to kill half of the hit squad, Jay was quickly outnumbered and nearly beaten to death before getting shot in the chest by Royce Talbot, the second-in-command of the Red Order. The hit squad took off most of his weaponry, money, and his car before burning down his home. Surprisingly, Jay survived because Royce unintentionally missed his heart and his military training has toughened him up. 
After a few weeks of recuperation, Jay went back to his burned-down home and retrieved a truck with a crate of his belongings (half of his money, weapons, clothes, etc) before he moved back into Columbus, living in an apartment to prepare for an all-out war against the Red Order, despite knowing he might be hunted by the Underworld, which is a feared network of the largest and feared criminal organizations. 
Before he goes through with it, he goes to Ned, a fellow police officer, and a close friend, for advice. However, Ned reveals himself as one of the conspirators and exposes Jay's address in exchange for $300,000 and a higher rank to Duke Bennett for refusing to accept his offers after being caught by Jay while trying to reveal Jay's status. Jay kills Ned in a brutal fight and begins to start his one-man war against the Underworld by targeting the Red Order since they're the most influential and dangerous crime syndicate and Duke makes it more personal to him by killing his family and trying to assassinate him.
Utilizing his Delta training, Jay systematically took down the Red Order by targeting and killing Stewart Watson (the Underworld's drug manufacturer) at the Tech (one of Duke's nightclubs) and Randall Reed (the leader of his drug empire) at a drug deal. These killings began to make most of the gangs fear the guy, such as Dean Williamson, who called Duke about the situation that was going on. Because Jay interfered in his activities, Duke has placed a $600,000,000 bounty on his head, only doubling it to $900,000,000 if he was caught alive. 
However, Jay caught wind of this and began to dismantle his money laundering rackets before going after Dean at his compound after tracking down his location by interrogating Zane Winters, who betrayed the gang to spend time with his family. Because of that, Zane was spared by Jay. After killing most of his men, Jay and Dean fought, and during the fight, Dean taunted him about "tasting" his wife, revealing himself as one of the men who participated in his false imprisonment. Jay kills him and after Duke calls him about Jay's death, Jay reveals himself to Duke and tells him that this war won't stop until he is either dead or imprisoned and that he will kill anyone that the Underworld sent to take him down. After hanging up the call, Jay unleashed Duke's crimes to the public, exposing his true nature and the Underworld, showing that he is very serious about taking out the criminal network.
After 2 weeks, Jay has successfully managed to weaken the Underworld, tarnishing Duke's reputation and exposing the Underworld's presence. Because of this, Duke is mainly blamed for starting this by most of the bosses, including both Jamal Parks and Heather Calloway (the two crime bosses who disagreed with the plan). Extremely paranoid that the bosses might snitch and eager to take over Georgia, Duke has Royce sent in to eliminate them (both Calloway and Parks) and makes their deaths look like a simple accident to both pin the blame on Jay and to convince the other bosses to deal with Jay. However, he failed to kill Heather since Jay had tapped their phones and saved her. During the rescue, Heather is held at gunpoint and she reveals that Duke (with the help of some corrupt officers and his associates) had planned out Jay's false imprisonment and that she and a few mob bosses tried to stop it, but were given death threats, which prevented them from doing anything. 
Knowing the truth and realizing that Duke is planning to kill all of the bosses to take over the city, he spares Heather and allows her to call the Underworld's boss to expose Duke. After the call, Heather left the city and Jay went after Duke but failed to get to his location because Duke sent in a 12-man squad of elite soldiers to kill him. Although the soldiers prove to be a match for him, Jay quickly manages to kill them and finds their location after interrogating an injured soldier for information and calling Duke out for his failure to kill him. 
After finding the compound, he managed to convince a low-ranking soldier to plant charges inside the building. As the soldier planted the charges, Duke organized a sit-down and talked with the bosses (Allen Edge, Vincent Lee Harper (with Jacob Walker), Devin Kimber (with his sons Drake and Angel), Joseph O'Malley (with his son Arthur), Payne Drifter, Dwight Miller (with the O'Miller twins), Dimitri Mikhail (with his brother Ivan), Manolo Hernandez (with his lieutenants Manuel and Raul), Anthony D'Amico (with his lieutenants), Javier Fernandez, Michael Callander (with his biker crew), Nathan Wilson (and his brother Max), the Neves brothers (with their son Pablo), Anton Williams, Jackson (Heather's second-in-command), Jax Brubaker, Joseph Von Raines, and the Vargas brothers) about dealing with the situation and as they're making a toast, all of the bosses and their successors drank and suddenly began to die, revealing that Duke has poisoned them all to take over their rackets and to become the most powerful crime family in the city. 
However, Jay managed to detonate the charges after the soldier tried to expose his position (Jay placed a hidden mic in the bag of explosives), killing a majority of the coalition and destroying their helicopter and vehicles. This attack started an all-out war with all factions at the compound, the majority of the Red Order soldiers are being picked off by Jay's sniper support while the surviving factions charge inside the compound. Jay manages to kill both the Red Order soldiers and the coalition members with ease and kills Royce Talbot in a brutal fight after it's revealed that Royce is the one who killed his wife. As Jay progresses through the burning building, an injured Duke ambushes Jay, leading to a brutal fight where Jay manages to gain the upper hand and holds Duke at gunpoint. Although he wanted to kill him so badly, Jay deliberately cripples Duke by shooting both of his kneecaps and leaves him to bleed out as the cops come to take him in if he were to survive the blood loss and shock. Jay leaves and Duke is later revealed to be still alive, but in a wheelchair and locked up in state prison for his crimes.
However, Jay goes with Jeffrey to pick his kid up but is forced to fight against 13 men who are shooting up the place, killing many students and teachers. Jay managed to kill 12 of the 13 men and captured the leader for information. Jay somehow manages to escape and after finding an abandoned cabin, Jay interrogates the leader, who reveals that the 13 men are trying to prove their worth to their new boss, who is now leading the Red Order and they're rebuilding the empire with mass production of XP. Jay kills the leader and watches Smith kill a lieutenant to prove his ruthlessness and goes to Sam Dalton for a mission and he is sent in with a team of 8 mercenaries to kill the new leader before he leaves Georgia. 
As the team went to a scrapyard to sabotage a deal, the team (except for Jay) got captured by Smith's men and was going to be tortured for information about their intentions. Thanks to a tracker, Jay managed to find an outpost, killing the surviving soldiers and saving his team from danger. A few days later since the attack, Jay went to the Tech and executed a drugged-up John, effectively wiping out the Red Order.
For 3 years, Jay became Dalton's best soldier, having proved his combat proficiency as he managed to create a meeting with a group of Russian gangsters who he believed had kidnapped 4 teenage girls. During their meeting, he provokes them into beating him and stealing his car, but he has planted a tracking device in advance and tracks the vehicle to the gang's hideout via GPS. He storms into the hideout and kills the gangsters before altering the scene to make the shootings look justified, then finds the girls locked in a closet. While the rest of his unit (Callander, Walker, and Biggs) and Dalton congratulate him, he is confronted by his former partner, Hugh Reeves, who has grown weary of their corruption and has begun reporting problems to Special Agent Wade Bryan of the FBI, who starts an investigation against Jay. 
Believing that Reeves has been snitching on him to Bryan, Jay follows him to a sporting goods store to beat him up. However, Reeves is killed by two gangsters under the pretense of a robbery. According to Dalton and Callander, the DNA of two feared criminals (known as the Ford twin brothers, who had biblical names like Micah and Gabriel) is found at the scene, as well as a large amount of cash in Reeves' possession. 
According to Jay, the investigation assumes that Reeves was corrupt and stole drugs from a police evidence room and sold them to the brothers. Jay then enlists the help of Elijah Whitaker (a police detective who was revealed later as a former Marine) in his investigation. As the two men investigate, they eventually find a house in the hills where they discover the bodies of the real Ford brothers buried in a shallow grave; the condition of the bodies makes it apparent that they were killed long before Reeves' death. 
The two men then pose as dirty cops who are willing to take over the stealing and selling of drugs and can set up a meeting with the two criminals masquerading as the brothers. As Jay questions who the two are, Connor is fatally shot when he recognizes them. Jay manages to kill both men and escape back to one of his safehouses. He then discovers from a news report that they were undercover mercenaries who worked for Dalton and went so deep undercover that they lost their mental grasp. Afterward, he is captured by Biggs and Walker, who admit that they planted the Ford twins' DNA and the money at the scene of Reeves' murder; Jay realizes that Reeves was informing on Dalton to Bryan, as he was the one stealing drugs from the department's evidence room and ordered Reeves' assassination. Jay kills the pair after he finds out that Biggs and Walker are going to take Jay out to the house where the bodies of the real Ford twins are buried to execute him under Dalton's orders. He then heads to Reeves' house where he finds Callander about to rape and kill Reeves' widow, but he can subdue Callander and places him in the trunk of his car. 
Jay launches an all-out assault against Dalton's mansion, killing all (but 5) mercenaries, including Callander in the process. He confronts Dalton and apprehends him after a brawl. He then discovers that Dalton has incriminating evidence against several high-ranking officials in the department and other politicians, which he would have used to become mayor. It's also revealed that Dalton was forced to kill Jay under the orders of the Underworld to protect his family, but didn't go through with it out of mercy until he found out that Jay was investigating, which he was forced to do out of desperation. Dalton, asserting that he's Jay's mentor and father figure, attempts to bribe him with a large amount of money, but an enraged Jay refuses and executes Dalton. Later, Agent Bryan arrives, and Bryan reveals to Jay that they used him to bring down Dalton and get access to his files by opening his eyes to the real corruption going on within his group. As he leaves, Bryan tells Jay that the city does need a hero like him. Due to Dalton's death, Jay was out of work until he became a freelance mercenary, having worked for various organizations, including the FBI.
After 3 months after Dalton's death, Jay is met by General Winchester, who wants him to rejoin the Reapers after discovering that he is active, but Jay refuses. Not long after Winchester left, Jay was attacked at night by 3 Reapers, who were sent in by Winchester, who wanted to tie up loose ends by killing him. Jay went to the Reapers' clubhouse and killed most of them, including Mordecai Winchester Junior (his former mentor's son), albeit reluctantly since he was fighting against his former allies. After discovering that the Reapers became corrupted and sought power, Jay went to their compound and killed the last of them, before engaging Mordecai Senior in a brutal sword fight. During the fight, Mordecai reveals that Jay chose to give up the mercenary life in the CIA because his morals prevented him from becoming greedy like his allies. 
Angered by his hypocrisy, Jay kills Mordecai, ending his former group once and for all. However, he found that Tyson Perkins was working for the Underworld, so he traveled to rural areas in Georgia and dismantled his fronts, leading the Underworld to target Perkins (it's revealed that any criminal organization that breaks a rule or had too much power is immediately targeted and presumably kills the leader to replace them with an assigned boss or to wipe them out for good to set an example). He infiltrates Perkins' mansion and kills all of the guards. The two men fought each other until Jay stabbed him in the heart. While on the edge of death, Perkins admits that he did it for the money and begs for medical assistance before Jay refuses and executes him. Because of Perkins' death, the Underworld's profits began to decrease significantly due to Jay's interference, causing them to lose almost all of their power and influence in the country. 
To prevent their reputation from being tarnished, the Underworld sent in over 10 squads and their main enforcer to hunt down and capture or kill Jay Roberts for his interference. After taking out a drug convoy, Jay was beginning to be slowly hunted by the Reaper, who failed to get him due to Jay's cleverness. However, his allies (such as illegal arms dealer Beaver and former hacker Charlotte Lille) were being targeted and later killed by the Reaper, which Jay reluctantly used as a ploy to lure the Reaper and his army after realizing that he is slowly outgunned and outnumbered. After finding an abandoned warehouse, Jay set up various traps and vantage points to be better able to attack all squads before dealing with the Reaper, who didn't show any fear to the veteran. The two eventually engage in a brutal H2H fight and even though the Reaper does receive the upper hand, Jay manages to gain the upper hand and defeats the Reaper, ending the Underworld's best chance of redeeming their reputation. After a month of hiding, Jay eventually found Mr. Under at his mansion in Naples, Italy, and killed him and his guards, ending the Underworld. 
After 5 years after the Underworld's dismantlement, Jay was hired by an unknown person to retrieve Lucille Snow, a young woman, and to prevent her from falling into the hands of Charles Dexter, an arms dealer. After being framed as a murderer as he tries to kill Dexter silently, Jay goes on a personal quest to kill Dexter, having killed Dakota Cedar (Dexter's hitman) after extracting information. It took Jay a while to find Lucille, having infiltrated his arms factory and tortured Clint Bateman (a corrupt sheriff of Hot Springs), who revealed that Dexter was located at Blackwater, a private hotel, where one of his clients met with Dexter to buy Lucille. Jay infiltrates Blackwater and kills both Nicole Bell, Dexter's secretary, and Isaac, his son, before pursuing Dexter himself to the top of the hotel. Dexter tries to escape with Lucille on a helicopter after ordering his men to blow up the building. Jay managed to escape the building by jumping onto Dexter's helicopter and fighting him upon entering, causing them to crash into a forest, where the two injured men began to fight and Jay managed to beat Dexter to save her, leaving him to die alone. 
As Jay drove to his employer's drop-off zone, Lucille revealed her real age as a 20-year-old and that Jay's employer was herself. It's heavily assumed that he (Lucille's father) had raped her and tried to sell her to various people (including Dexter) before she escapes and hired Jay to protect her, but her father took advantage of her escape and used Jay to find her. Knowing that they would kill him and sell her, Jay reveals to her that he managed to get two-thirds of his payment and saw through them, hinting that he was planning to fight them. At the drop-off point, Jay gives a disappointed Lucille to her father, but outsmarts them and kills two of the men, except for the father, who was shot in a critical area and left to be arrested for his crimes. Jay gave Lucille his payment and his car and told her to leave the United States, eventually completing his mission. 
After a few weeks after Charles' death, his younger brother took over the arms industry and began to put most of his resources into hunting Jay. Jay became aware of the fact after learning from an employer of a rival arms industry and went after several businesses of Dexter, luring him into the open and ruining his radio broadcasts. Knowing that Dexter would retreat to the arms factory, Jay attacks the factory by detonating the charges, killing a great majority of a private militia force hired by the family guarding the place and disabling their security systems. After progressing through the factory, Jay managed to kill Dexter and Damien Barrett, a mercenary that he befriended (revealed to be hired by Dexter to kill Jay for a huge payment), destroying South Dakota's primary income. 
Jay retired from life as a freelance mercenary and lived in Johnstontown for 15 years when Jay became a well-known public speaker for the town. It's revealed from various townsfolk that a big gang of violent bikers was terrorizing the town for years, resulting in the inactive veteran capturing their leader during a raid when a few of them fought Jay at a bar. Though it seems to be a success, it quickly led the town to become overrun by the bikers and their reinforcements, with them destroying stores, and homes, and taking people for their sheer enjoyment. With the help of Jeffrey Mitchell and a few of the townsfolk (revealed to be veterans), Jay managed to defeat the bikers and severely wounded their leader, resulting in him being locked up for attempted terrorism. 
Jay left the town after the events and went back to living in Columbus, eventually starting a food truck business that quickly gained praise and has moved to a few cities, such as Perry, Atlanta, Macon, and Savannah, to live out his own life. After a week, Jay's corpse was found by a customer and it's revealed that Jay killed himself because of his guilt and paranoia. 
== Personality ==
As shown in a few flashbacks, Jay is typically known as a calm, wise man, being a good friend and dedicated father. However, he will stubbornly cling to his strong personal moral code, which ultimately cost him his entire life as a happy individual.
Jay is shown throughout the series as an open-minded, hard-working, and self-confident individual who only goes to nightclubs and parties to have fun, but it's revealed that he is a highly pessimistic and hardened veteran who suffers from a severe post-traumatic stress disorder and great difficulty adjusting to civilian life, which is especially complicated because of prejudice against returning soldiers after WW3 ended. He is shown to be highly prone to violence because of the torture he suffered at the hands of Russian soldiers in the Third World War. 
Due to his PTSD, he has difficulty talking about his problems and he is too scarred from trauma to open up to most people. The only people he trusts in the world are his late wife, Tamara (a prostitute that he saved from Duke), Samuel Dalton, and Beaver (his arms dealer), and he still has only told Samuel about one of the brutal deaths he witnessed. This makes Jay look like a simple bloodthirsty killer to most people, but in reality, he is so overwhelmed with self-hatred and nightmarish memories that he can't talk to anybody or at least leave his house until he feels so. 
Because of that, he rarely speaks until spoken to or asks/answers questions, as he chooses not to engage with most people and only speaks directly to a few people that he can trust. As he grows older, he becomes extremely bitter and angry at the world, even leading to him casually swearing and making snide comments under his breath at people, and downright insulting people, believing that people are extremely selfish and are only out for themselves and getting what they want while making people suffer for their intentions, showing that he had developed an extremely cynical and pessimistic worldview and claimed to himself as a survivor and a nobody in a "f**ked up world" where people kill each other or sell drugs for their benefit. After losing his right eye and left leg for the past 15 years, Jay grew more distant and somewhat accepting of the fact that he can't save everyone and chose to leave the town at the mercy of the bikers, which began to show that Jay is starting to become a powerless and highly insecure coward that is straying from combat due to his injuries.
As the series progresses, he is truly displayed as a man who genuinely wants to stay away from conflict but is willing to do anything to save his friends and the people he cares about from any danger, despite being highly cynical. Due to his violent nature and his strong use of brutality against people who tried to kill him, many civil people tend to fear him, except for Sam Dalton, who is his boss and most likely his only father figure who understands him and the pain and torture he had endured in the war and is the only one able to understand the problems he has since he learned from his father, who was a military veteran. 
Despite his cold and brooding demeanor, it's implied Jay did care for people and reveals to Sam that he did form a bond with his fellow soldiers and that his combat skill and general care for all members of the Reapers have led him to be looked up to, and allowed him to take the leadership role within the group in the past, having a strong sense of compassion for others. Relying on his military skills and survival tactics, Jay has evolved into a battle-hardened survivor who will protect anyone whom he cares about without question. In many ways, Jay has displayed strong violent tendencies and even showed intense ruthlessness and mercilessness; being ready to destroy a threat without a moment's hesitation and not trusting anyone except for himself or his group. Given the fact he knew that with the world the way it is now, he claims that you either become stronger and die with dignity and sincerity or live in constant fear with slight dishonesty, making him far more cold-hearted and callous and much more pragmatic in his viewpoint. 
However, unlike the men he killed, and despite his coldness, Jay retains most of his morality and honor for the sake of himself and the people he cares for, looking to his dead allies and family members for guidance and even coming back to religion in making sure that he doesn't completely lose his sanity and devolve into another antagonist himself. This contrasts with most antagonists, who only care about personal survival and use people for their benefit.
Despite his ruthless and cold-hearted demeanor and bleak worldview, Jay has slowly begun to lose more of his violent traits and has adopted a more peaceful and democratic way of living, genuinely trying to avoid violence in general and while this made most of his former allies go against him, his stubbornness to follow his moral code has prevented Jay from committing horrific crimes and only spared people that posed no threat to him. While he is a mercenary, it's later revealed that he is only doing the work to pay off his debts and admits to Lucille that he enjoyed fighting people as he traveled, showing a prideful attitude to violence, but claims that he is more honorable, only killing people that deserved it or posed a huge threat, showing that he viewed violence as cold, necessary, and without feeling while only using it as a last-ditch attempt, only preferring diplomatic reasons to convince them into giving up. 
His morality made him immune to threats, bribery, and blackmail, and given his cynical attitude, he often assumed (sometimes rightfully) the character, intentions, and flaws of a person, and as seen with Dalton, he displayed shock when he found out that he tried to kill him and for committing these crimes and anger/sorrow after realizing that Dalton had to die for his betrayal and for using him as an assassin for fame. Even though he wanted to leave the town, Jay chose to go back and fight against the bikers to save the town, finally regaining his courage and accepting that while he is trying to avoid violence, he can choose how to use his military training for good. 
In short, Jay is a combat-hardened veteran who has intense cynicism and manages to redeem himself by following in his footsteps and giving up his life as a mercenary to live a peaceful life as a food vendor. 
== Appearance ==
Jay is an American man with dark brown eyes, black hair, and a light skin complexion. According to his file by Perkins, Jay is standing at 5'9 or 5'10 and weighs over 245 pounds. Unlike his counterparts, Jay is seen with several scars on his body (most notably on his face) from years of fighting, which made him more intimidating with the combination of his military training. He sports a crew cut (later a swept-back undercut fade) and a heavy stubble beard and according to most people, he is often described as "a ruggedly handsome operator with skills". 
Jay is shown to have a heavily built muscular physique and sports various tattoos, such as:
* 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 Tattoo (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.
*7-2 Card Tattoo (left wrist): Represented his involvement in 4 special operation groups (Rangers, Green Berets, Delta Force, and the CIA).
During his military service, Jay either wore the famous ACU in an OCP pattern or tactical clothing during his time with Delta Force. In his police career, he wore the standard-issued Columbus PD uniform (dark blue shirt, light blue pants, black shoes, and a tie with a clip). During his time in prison, he wore a hot pink prison jumpsuit.
Throughout the series, he began to wear different outfits in the chapters:
1st Chapter/2nd Chapter/3rd Chapter (2042):
* Bed Outfit: Jay is seen wearing a gray tank top, dark blue boxer briefs, and a Fitbit watch on his left wrist, presumably to keep track of his hours. He usually wore slippers.
* Outdoors Outfit: Jay is seen wearing a dark red athletic t-shirt, gray athletic shorts, and black running shoes, presumably for jogging and other exercise routines.
* Work Outfit: Jay is seen wearing a dark gray flannel shirt, a black t-shirt, blue jeans, and brown cowboy boots. He is seen for the first time wearing his military dog tags. He usually wore black-rimmed glasses and according to Lara, the glasses often made him look "Hollywood attractive".
* Street Outfit: Jay is seen wearing an olive green (switched to dark blue in the 2nd chapter and white in the 3rd chapter) long-sleeved shirt, dark blue jeans, black combat boots, and a G-Shock watch. In combat, he often wore tan gloves, a hip holster, and an SDS BAE plate carrier.
* Nightclub Outfit: Jay is seen wearing a dark gray suit to infiltrate the Tech nightclub. He usually wore a black zip-up tie and a small-in-the-back holster for his sidearm.
* Work Outfit #2: Jay is seen wearing a black combat uniform during his on-duty hours for Dalton Enterprises. Unlike the others, he wore no headgear.
4th Chapter/5th Chapter/6th Chapter/7th Chapter (2045):
* Street Outfit: Jay is seen wearing a dark blue patterned shirt, blue jeans, and gray running shoes. He put on a ballistic vest during the raid on the Russians' hideout. He was usually seen with his hair grown out into a swept-back undercut fade and appeared to be clean-shaven, having shaved his heavy stubble beard.
* Street Outfit #2: Jay is seen wearing a dark gray t-shirt, blue jeans, a black leather jacket, black combat boots, black fingerless gloves, and his dog tags. He wore this throughout the 4th chapter.
* Casual Outfit: Jay wore a black suit during Sam's promotion to commander.
* Street Outfit #3: Jay is seen wearing a white t-shirt, blue jeans, and tan combat boots. He notably used concealable body armor in his fight against the Reaper.
* Combat Outfit: Jay is seen wearing OCP pants, tan boots, and a tan (switched to dark green in the 6th chapter) t-shirt. He wore body armor against the Reapers during his pursuit.
8th Chapter/9th Chapter (2050):
* Street Outfit: Jay is seen wearing a dark gray t-shirt, blue jeans, a black leather jacket, and black combat boots. He often took parts of the enemy's uniform (plate carriers, holsters) to blend in to save Lucy from Dexter. 
* Street Outfit #2: Jay is seen wearing a black t-shirt (switched to a fitted gray tank top), blue jeans, a green army jacket, black combat boots, and body armor during his pursuit of Dexter's younger brother.
10th Chapter (2065):
* Street Outfit: Jay wore a tan canvas jacket, a gray t-shirt, and olive cargo pants. He wore brown cowboy boots. Due to his past injuries from attacking the compound, Jay is seen with a blind right eye and a prosthetic leg on his left side since his leg was crushed by debris. He appears to be older, with graying hair to a buzzcut and a light stubble beard.
== 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 with their organization and to complete his task without them knowing that he was there within their organization.
* Criminology: As a former police officer in the Columbus Police Department, 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 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.
* 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, and Arabic. Out of the languages, 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 Salter, the hand-to-hand expert of Dalton's unit.
* 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 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 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, 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 Dalton 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 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. 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, Sam Dalton, and the Reaper. 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 half-blind and having a prosthetic leg, Jay is still capable of fighting, such as he managed to beat the leader of the Hounds MC 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 the Reaper. 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 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 punched through a brick wall during his fight with the Reaper 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 (broken ribs, a gunshot wound near the heart, a severe beating, etc) and a severe beating from the Reaper, 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 Charles Dexter, as seen as he fought him evenly, despite being injured.
* 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. Jay's speed made him more dangerous in combat 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 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 Samuel Dalton, 3 of his mercenaries, the Reapers, Tyson Perkins, Charles Dexter, 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 ==
* H&K MK-23: Jay's primary sidearm. He notably used the pistol to kill several mercenaries and Underworld associates with relative ease. His MK23 is usually suppressor-equipped, with an Osprey 45 square suppressor.
* FN FNP 45 Tactical: Jay's on-duty sidearm. He usually carries it and used it to kill most of Dalton's men until switching it to another pistol.
* Glock 17: Jay's secondary sidearm. He notably bought it from Beaver and used it for the remainder of the series, having carried it for loud missions. His Glock is the 4th Gen model with a flared mag-well, a ported barrel/slide, night sights, and textured grips.
* Kimber Warrior: Jay's temporary sidearm. He notably took it from an Underworld assassin and used it against the Reaper before discarding it.
* Colt 629 Classic: Jay's hunting sidearm. He notably carried it as a safety measure to protect himself against bears. His revolver is outfitted with Hogue grips and a ported barrel.
* 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, and a Magpul MOE stock.
* H&K HK-416: Roberts' on-duty primary firearm. He mainly carries the rifle on patrol and hostage missions. His HK416 is customized with a Magpul CTR stock, a suppressor, an EoTech 512 holographic sight, a 45-degree offset sight, a Magpul AFG, and an AN/PEQ-2A IR designator.
* M100 SASS (Knight's Armament SR-25): Roberts' primary marksman rifle. He notably used the rifle two separate times as sniper support during his time in Delta. The M100 is outfitted with a sound suppressor and a laser sight.
* Remington M2010 ESP: Roberts' secondary marksman rifle. He notably used it to kill several enemies before discarding it. 
* Remington 700: Roberts' hunting rifle. He notably used it to bag various rabbits and deer himself to make jerky.
* Mossberg 590: Roberts' primary shotgun. Jay strongly used the Mossberg to breach doors, subdue targets, and intimidation skills as a CQC-operated weapon. The Mossberg used by Roberts is the Mossberg 590A1 outfitted with Ghost Ring sights, a heat shield, an extended magazine tube, and a collapsible stock.
* Benelli M4 Super 90: Roberts' secondary shotgun. Jay strongly used the Benelli throughout the series whenever he needed heavier firepower. He bought the weapon from Beaver and it's outfitted with Mossberg-styled ghost ring sights, a shell holder, a door breacher muzzle brake, a heat shield, and a fixed stock.
*Knife: Roberts' primary combat knife. He notably used it on several occasions. His knife is a Ka-Bar Tanto Knife.
*Machete: Roberts' primary melee weapon. He notably used it at various events. His machete is a blued steel combat machete.
== Awards ==
WW3 (World War III)
* Medal of Honor 
* Purple Heart
* Distinguished Service Cross (DSC)
* Distinguished Service Medal (DSM)
* Defense Distinguished Service Medal
* Homeland Security Distinguished Service Medal
* Soldier's Medal
* POW Medal
The Argentinian Civil War
* Army Good Conduct Medal
* National Defense Service Medal
* Distinguished Flying Cross
* Humanitarian Service Medal
* Army Service Ribbon
* Purple Heart (x2)
* Silver Star (x2)
* Armed Forces Service Medal
* Army Achievement Medal
* Army Commendation Medal
* Joint Service Commendation Medal
* Joint Service Achievement Medal
* Meritorious Service Medal
* Air Medal
* Defense Meritorious Service Medal
* Soldier's Medal
* Defense Superior Service Medal
Badges
* Combat Infantryman Badge
* Combat Action Badge
* Ranger Tab
* Special Forces Tab
* Combat Service Ribbon
* Airborne Tab
== Deaths ==
Murders committed by Jay:
* 85 Russian Soldiers: Shot, blown up
* 38 Chinese Soldiers: Shot, blown up
* 18 Russian Spetsnaz Operatives: Shot, beaten
* 67 ARF Soldiers: Shot, blown up, bludgeoned
* 48 ARF Soldiers: Shot to death
* Roberto Salazar Junior: Shot in the head
* 80+ Unnamed Targets: Varied
* 2 Unnamed Criminals: Shot, bled out
* 48 Unnamed Criminals: Varied
* 25 Red Order Soldiers: Shot, beaten, stabbed, slashed
* Ned: Stabbed in the left lung, throat stabbed
* 12 of Stewart's Men: Shot, neck snapped, stabbed
* Stewart Watson: Strangled and neck snapped
* Randall Reed: Shot in the jugular, bled out
* 89 of Dean's Men: Shot, blown up, bludgeoned
* Dean Williamson: Beaten, jugular severed
* 6 Red Order Hitmen: Shot to death
* 11 Red Order Elite Soldiers: Shot, neck snapped, stabbed, blown up
* Sgt. Johns: Beaten to death
* 3,000 Underworld Soldiers: Blown up
* 24 Underworld Soldiers: Shot to death
* 12 Red Order Soldiers: Shot to death
* Royce Talbot: Stabbed in the gut, throat ripped out
* 13 Unnamed Members of the Red Order: Shot, stabbed
* 25 Red Order Soldiers: Shot, stabbed, slashed, neck snapped
* 6 Red Order Guards: Neck snapped, shot
* John Smith: Shot in the throat and the head
* 4 Russian Mafia Members: Shot to death
* Fake Ford Brothers (real names revealed to be Marcus and Tashawn, two of Dalton's mercenaries): Shot to death
* Corporal Dante Walker: Jugular severed with handcuff edge, bled out
* Private Carlton Biggs: Skull cracked from brute force
* Sergeant Wesley Callander: Knocked out, right arm broken, blown up
* 28 of Dalton's Mercenaries: Shot, blown up
* Salter: Shot in the head
* Elijah "Eli" Marino: Stabbed multiple times, beaten to death with a brick
* Jason Cranston: Beaten, stabbed in the heart, bled out
* Samuel Dalton: Beaten, shot twice in the chest
* 48 Reapers: Shot, beaten, stabbed, blown up
* Mordecai Winchester Junior: Eyes gouged out, neck snapped
* Mordecai Winchester Senior: Stabbed through the chest and in the heart
* 39 Underworld Soldiers: Blown up, burnt to death
* Tyson Perkins: Stabbed in the heart, bludgeoned to death
* 5 Underworld Soldiers: Shot to death
* 120 Underworld Soldiers: Shot, stabbed, slashed, burnt to death, blown up, and beaten
* The Reaper: Shot, stabbed multiple times, beaten, eyes gouged out, and burnt to death
* 27 of Romano's Men: Shot, stabbed, and neck snapped (offscreen)
* Mr. Under (Giovanni Romano): Shot in the throat, bleeding out
* Dakota Cedar (real name unknown): Shot in the right lung, bled out
* Sheriff Clint Bateman: Shot in the right thigh and the left shoulder, thrown off a cliff
* 36 of Dakota's Men: Shot to death
* Isaac Dexter: Shot in the foot, trachea crushed
* Nicole Bell: Blown up, left to die
* 24 of Dexter's Elite Guards: Shot to death
* Charles Dexter: Beaten, bled out
* 2 of his employers: Shot to death
* 59 of Dexter's Private Militiamen: Shot to death, blown up
* Damien Barrett: Knife in the armpit, thrown off
* Leonard Dexter: Shot in the thigh, shot in the right eye
* 18 of the Hounds: Shot, beaten, blown up
Murders connected to Jay:
* 5 Unknown Enemy Officers: Captured and sent to his CIA handlers
== Trivia ==
* Jay has a strong fascination for cars, especially pickup trucks (like his 2004 Chevrolet Avalanche) and muscle cars such as his modified 2010 Dodge Charger R/T, which is shown as Jay's signature car.
* Jay was known for using a clean and effective approach on missions and tended to avoid mass destruction through using unconventional warfare and espionage to effectively infiltrate enemy territory and kill his target, given his history in Delta.
* Despite having a relaxed temperament and being labeled as the most respected mercenary 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 the Reaper. 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 to a more peaceful and business-oriented individual retired from the violence.
* Roberts' drink of choice appears to be cranberry juice as he drank cranberry juice during his home scenes.
* Roberts is a fan of both old-school rock, pop, and metal bands, such as 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 charging into battle.
* As the story progressed, Jay's combat skills appeared to become more and more improved as he fought in the field over time during his CIA years, which made Mordecai Winchester's claims about Jay true as he is Jay's mentor and father figure during his career.
* Jay appears to be ambidextrous as shown in the series as Jay can use firearms and melee weapons with both hands (notably in his fight against the corrupt operatives).
* 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 Salter, both of the Winchester men, and most of the antagonists (notably Ned, Royce Talbot, Duke Bennett, the Reaper). Jay is the only Reaper who betrays the PMC's ideology and retires with dignity.
* Jay has killed (directly or indirectly) 4,103 people (4,108 if counted as the connected deaths) and 27 antagonists (only 15 are main or secondary antagonists), making him the only protagonist to have the highest kill count alive in the Reloaded series and having beaten his counterparts' kills. He dies from self-termination, unlike his other counterparts, who died from his former allies.
* Jay is the only mercenary who only did his contracts for an organic reason (to build a business and to pay off his debts) than most of the rivals who came for money or power.
* Unlike his counterparts (who was the former soldier who was selected to become a Special Forces operator and joined a NATO-funded PMC), Jay in this timeline is shown to be far more dangerous and skilled, given the fact that he is ex-Special Forces (both an Army Ranger and an Army Special Forces (or infamously known as a Green Beret) and is a feared Delta operator that became a cop after being discharged and later became a freelance mercenary, working for whoever paid him the most. Even after 15 years of being inactive and began to both cook food and publicly help out his community, Jay was still in peak fighting condition, albeit a bit rusty because he's noticeably slower and less agile than before, combined with the fact that he is half-blind and has a prosthetic leg from his last assault.