Jonathon "Miami" Gray

Miami a character in The Recreation Center.

# Backstory

Miami was born in Miami, Florida (hence the name, Miami) on Independence Day of 1992, which makes him 29 years old. His mother worked at a sewing mill for 30 years until her death in 1998, when Miami was 6. His father is the owner of an Ammu-Nation gun shop in Fort Lauderdale. In 2009, he was drafted into the United States Marine Corps, where he was positioned in Fort Zancudo, in Los Santos, San Andreas, which is where he met Mac, and after that, he became Miami's mentor. He suffered 3rd degree burns on his right arm in 2013 after a C-130 Hercules exploded after an oil leakage. In 2019, he became part of Mac's very own club, which is located at a rec center in Morrowville, Nebraska, where he still lives to this day.

# In-game Events

The first time the player becomes acquainted with Miami is in the mission Prepping The Assault, where he was recruited into the Fort Zancudo division of the USMC. He meets up with Mac at the security checkpoint in an AM General M1026 HMMWV. He gets a tour of the place, and is positioned into the firing range. He is armed with a Vom Feuer manufactured G36C assault rifle and a Shrewsbury manufactured ASP 9 sidearm. He takes out all the targets, and is welcomed and canonised into the army. After beating up his fellow Marines, he gets his first Medal of Honor. He goes to talk with Mac about his first mission, and Mac tells him they are dropping into Verdansk, Kastovia via a Lockheed C-130 Hercules. After gearing up, Miami and the other soldiers get into the plane, but their calm is short lived when they reach Urzikstan, as an FJM-148 Javelin missile hits the plane's right wing, and the crew are forced to jump out immediately. Miami thinks the operation will be a piece of cake, but a Canis Crusader crushes a soldier mid-air, and plants a person shaped hole in the ground under the truck. Miami is traumatized when he sees this, and cuts his parachute cord, and falls 120 ft. in the air, yet only managing to have only minor leg injury. Mac pulls Miami up and gives him his gun, and Miami is initially reluctant to shoot the Urzikstani terrorists, so he takes out his sidearm, and thinks about an idea in his head. He gets from behind a wrecked car, and shoots one of the terrorists in the abdomen, and picks up another gun, as he compares it to a video game. He gets a bit too trigger happy, and accidentally wastes all of his pistol ammo, but pulls out his G36C as a Technical comes smashing through a house, guns blazing. Miami gets accurate with his aim, as he shoots the gunner in the neck with his first bullet. His happiness is short lived as the same truck smashes into him, and pins him against a concrete wall. Mac shoots the driver in the head, and gets lucky as he puts the truck in reverse gear, and unpins Miami from the wall, as he collapses. In 2020, while they are in Liberty City, Miami is growing more and more weary of Mac's actions, and when him and the gang goes to retrieve a document from the Libertonian, Miami decides to wait until they get the document. After the cutscene, Miami is seen making a phone call to someone. When Mac and his crew end up being ambushed by the Ancelotti's at the Libertonian after Player steals the document and the Betamax tape from the server room, Mac gets incredibly suspicious. After they escape the car chase, the crew pull out their guns, and Andre points a KSG 12 at Miami. As it turns out, Miami was actually a mole within Mac's crew working with the Ancelotti's. Miami tells Andre that their leader, Michael Ancelotti is leaving Liberty via a plane, Hornet asks what else he can tell the crew, and points a Diamatti at his head. Miami says he has nothing else to tell him, resorting Player to whack him with the stock of a Vector, knocking Miami out. He wakes up tied up in a rack, and Mac smokes a cigar, and after, burns Miami on the chest with the burning end of the cigar. Miami confesses that he has placed a bomb in the rec center, and Nolan turns the valve on the rack, stretching Miami's chest and limbs. After he tells them, Mac takes Miami off of the rack, with Miami coughing up a truck load of blood. When he realizes this, he tells Mac to give him his gun. Mac accepts the request, and the crew end up walking away into the elevator, as we hear a gunshot, which then makes the screen cut to black, ending the cutscene. After the completion of the mission, a newscast from Weazel News states that Miami was found dead in the house of a former colleague. They then state that they found an M9 in his hand, and a gunshot wound in his head. After that, they say that no charges will be filed against Mac and his crew. After that mission, in the Hub World, there is a portrait of Miami, with an in memory message saying "Dedicated to the memory of Johnathon "Miami" Gray (1992-2020). You will be missed."

# Personality

Miami is cold-blooded, and heartless at times, mainly when he's going in covert operations at Russian army camps, where he mainly steals vital intel that could put the US ahead of the Russians as the biggest global superpower. When he's doing jobs for Mac and his crew, he does not hesitate to do them, as he is nice to his friends most of the time, even though he did have a massive argument with Hornet for blowing their cover while infiltrating the Lubyanka Building for sleeper agent names. He is good friends with Mac, Andre, Hornet and Nolan, which makes him in Mac's clique. He has a love-hate relationship with General Shepherd initially, but when he killed Ghost and Roach, he was most eager to kill him, and thanked the then-wounded Soap for killing him. To compliment the heartlessness of Miami, he kicks Shepherd's corpse, takes the knife that Soap threw into his eye out, and jams it right, square into his temple, grabs his cigar, smokes it, throws it on his body, and spits on the corpse.

# Close Calls

Miami as also had a series of close calls as well, like in the mission "Landing Gear", when a Russian mole was disguised as a US soldier, he threw an M67 Frag at the Titan they landed, and Miami was knocked back 5 feet, and nearly crushed underneath the rubble from the hangar. He got out himself, but was severely wounded. He picked up a Taurus, and shot the gun 6 times to signal the crew, but ran out of ammo, and collapsed. He was then taken to the hospital, and left there to rest for 2 days. Another close call came when on the mission "Assault on Morrowville", where he was shot twice in the left shoulder by a Federation soldier with an AK12, and crawled all the way to an apartment complex, where he passed out, but Mac carried him in, and sat him on a red couch, which he woke up. Mac let Miami borrow his MP443 Grach to defend himself with, and Hornet was shot in the leg by a Spetsnaz soldier with an FP6, nearly paralyzing him from the waist down. Andre carried Hornet to the same apartment complex, but sat Hornet on a coffee table, where he was given Andre's P226 to defend himself with. After the assault, Hornet and Miami were escorted in a captured Ural-4320. Both were in the rec center's infirmary, and recovered in a span of 1 day. Another close call is when Martin Madrazo called him to meet him at the Xero gas station in Strawberry, he showed up with only a P226, but Martin had an MTL Apocalypse Cerberus, which nearly ran over Miami, who was lucky to get a shot on the truck's driver side door.

# Trivia

Miami's full name is Jonathon Gray.

His favourite thing to do at Fort Zancudo is helping the mechanics fix some of the cargo planes and fighter jets.

He has experience flying a plane, as evidenced in "Landing Gear".

He has a split personality, as he is both good, and evil sometimes.

He owns a garage underneath the rec center.

He also knows how to use every single gun in the game, as he reloads them a specific way.

He is also working with Andre to launch a peace agreement with all the major gangs in the world, and all the militaries, so they wouldn't need to attack the world.

A hobby he also likes is spraying graffiti on the streets.

His groaning noise for when he gets shot is the Wilhelm Scream.