Jared Porter

* 2013
* 2020s

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> ―Jared Porter, talking to Omir in The Langham hotel.
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> **Jared Porter** is the **main character** in *What Remains*. He is the illegal adoptive father of Oj Singh, as adopting him legally is physically impossible. he had a girlfriend named Sarah when he was around 27.
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> A strong willed person, and likes to takes risks. Jared survived the outbreak at first as an EDRU soldier, and continued on with the Escapees. later on in life, Jared moves with OJ and raises him as his own son, Completing his dream of raising a child, sadly he could not do it with sarah, but he knows that shes happy he tried.
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## Biography

### History

#### Pre-apocalypse (20th century)

In **1986**, Jared is born in *Perth, Australia*. When he was a couple weeks old, his parents moved to *Alexandria, Virginia* to live nearer to his grandfather, Grandpa Porter, Jared used to visit his grandfather a lot as a kid.

Around 6 years later, Jared is enrolled in a public school. at around grade 7th, Jared was pulled into a fight in school, and gained a scar on his face, after being (**almost**) stabbed by a knife of another schoolmate.

#### Pre-apocalypse (21st century)

##### **2004**

Jared graduates high school, and gets a job at a pizza place as a pizza delivery boy, he worked at this job to gather money, as now that he has graduated, he decided he wants to leave the house.

##### **2011**

When Jared was 25 years old, his parents moved back to Perth, and left him alone in america, but at that time he already had a house.

#### Beginning of the apocalypse

Jared works at the pizza place for another 2 years, until the Vivus Mortuus outbreak begins.

Jared loses his job as a horde of zombies raids the pizza place. this makes Jared unemployed, until around 10 days later on **July 12th** (**2013**), EDRU soldiers from the Richmond, VA, EDRU base find Jared and enlist him into the base, as a **resident**. Jared begs the base boss to enlist him in the EDRU soldier operation, and his boss agrees.

##### **5 Days later**

Jared meets Nick Butler after picking him up from Nick's neighbourhood, where Scott Blackwell lived too.

Jared and Nick become great friends in the base.

##### **August, 2013**

around a month later, Jared and Nick are best base buds.

On **August 20th**, a new soldier joined the EDRU, Scott. Scott infultrates the base within, and implants bombs on the walls of each part of the base.

At night, Scott bombs the base, this event was known as The fall of richmond base, and was a pretty big one in the EDRU post-apocalyptic history.

Nick and Jared make a run for it, and flea to Norfolk, VA, where they settle in Grandpa Porter's house, as it was abandoned somewhen around the beggining of the apocalypse.

the 2 stay there for 2 days, (**August 22nd**) until Nick is killed by a horde of zombies inside an abandoned bar.

At night, Jared finds Scott and Omir Singh near the side of a building, and at night, Jared goes and beats up Scott on the virginia beach, and falls asleep on the sand. Later on the morning of **August 23rd**, Jared finds himself sleeping on the sand, with his back quite rusty, and a turtle sleeping by him. Later on he begins wandering around the city, thinking of either suicide, or leaving it, as he doesn't know where or what to do with his life. later on, he discovers the secret base of the group on the beach, and begins a war with them or does he?

**August 24th**, Jared sneaks back to his grandfather's house and gets in his room, and the reason for the sneaking was because he saw 2 people in Norfolk, most likely from the beach house he saw. one of them, called Mike Davis finds Jared in his grandfather's room and disarms him. Mike later takes him to the beach house, and introduces Jared to the team. and that is how Jared became an Escapee, and they tell him that they were going to Roanoke Rapids.

Later, on the same day the escapees go to North Carolina, but arrive to Wilmington instead of Roanoke Rapids. There, they find a practically fine city, with only 2 residents, Sheriff Tennorman, and Sarah Cross. When arriving, Jared falls inlove with Sarah, but it wasn't very obvious at first.

Sarah and the Sheriff help the escapees get to Roanoke, and the group set sail.

After getting to Roanoke, they realize its not so great, and find out about luke's dead friends, who were killed by none other then scott.

Jared and Luke get mad at Scott, as Jared believes Scott is the reason for Nick's death, and Luke is angry at Scott for **actually causing** his friends' death. the 2 go on a hunt, and try to find Scott, eventually they find him at a hotel, and try to get to him, but he sneaks through a vent. the 2 follow him around and run after him around the city when they eventually trace him down, and beat him up on a sidewalk. randomly, Stan Oberson pulls up, and the 3 have a fight there, and even the Emergency Disaster Response Unit(s) and 2 crackheads, a man and a bear. a fight breaks out on the sidewalk, and Scott dies.

afterwards, The escapee team come back to wilmington, and the Singh have some.. family problems, after it was revealed by Stan during the fight that Maya was pregnant. Later on, the pheonix project appear in wilmington, and try to shoot up the place, tho sadly, they fail miserably, and the escapees survive. overwards, the team go back to their rooms.

The 2 singh have a small talk in their house, while jared reads a book, mike sleeps and luke writes stuff. Later on, the sheriff takes jared on a walk, where he shows him a garage full of guns and armory.

##### September

Jared finally approaches Sarah and asks her out, and she actually says yes. the 2 begin dating and go to each other's dorm from time to time.

#### 3 months later, **Decemeber 10th, 2013**

Wilmington is raided by a horde of zombies, causing the Escapees to flea away, and to leave behind the Sheriff, but not Sarah, as she joins officially them, while Maya is now in her 8th month of pregnancy.

##### Dec 10-11th

The team set their destination to petersburg, VA, and several hours later, arrive there. afterwards, they head towards a civil war site, where a museum lies. Jared and Luke enter the museum, and before exiting, discover that luke has been bitten. later, luke tells the group, and he and omir head to woods. only omir comes out of there, As Luke was killed. Jared and Mike find a deck in the site, where they find a bunch of untouched stores. inside one of the stores, maya gives birth to a pre-term baby, Oj Singh , with the help of sarah. Afterwards, the team all goes to sleep, and Mike watches over them at night.

##### Dec 12th

Jared goes hunting in the forest before anybody wakes up, at around 4am. at 9am, everybody's awake. the team wrap up their stuff, and get ready to leave, as jared walks in with 4 dead rabbits. after they leave, they head towards a carnival, where they found it is infested with zombies. they attract the walkers outta there, and go more inwards in the carnival. later a guy approaches the carnival and stops the attraction that the zombies are looking at, and makes them go away.

A unit of EDRUs arrive at the carnival, and shoot up walkers and a man tells them to stop, and they hit him too and destroy his car. the EDRU go away and the escapees help the man, and for that he lets them stay in his house for the night.

##### Dec 13th

It was the morning, A kid breaks into Isaac’s home, and wakes up mike. Slowly, everybody wakes up, and it appears that Sarah was the kid’s babysitter during his childhood. The team all set to go to a garage, but get launched off course by a swarm of walkers. They get separated and Jared and Sarah find themselves In nick’s farm, Meanwhile, Omir, Isaac and The kid, try to find the 2 with a car they hotwired from the garage, sadly, Mike gets eaten by horde that was inside the garage. they crash near the bar, like Nick did. Phoenixes arrive and search the area of the crash, and then wander to the barn, and find Sarah and Jared, and arrest them.

Jared and Sarah are put in the phoenix jail.

##### Dec 14th

Omir and Isaac get arrested too, and reunite with Sarah, but still not Jared, although, they know hes here. The escapees are sent to do prison chores, and Jared tries to escape, but Sarah delays him and blows the escape of, putting the both of them back into a heavy cell. Alex gets arrested by the pheonix and terrance leaves him. the team reunites in the prison, and discuss a plan to escape.

##### Dec 15th

Omir, Isaac, Steven and Alex meet up outside, about to go with their plan. Keisha goes to Jared and Sarah's cell, and says shes gonna take them to the cafeteria and this alarms the guards that the team is going to commit their plan of escape, as Alex told them in the interrogation. Keisha takes them to the armory, where a guard dismissed her falsified file of clearance, and arrests everyone, the whole team is taken outside, to kill them, as brandon decided to make the execution early. Brandon decides to kill Sarah and Isaac, setting Jared into an emotionless sense, as he just experience his girlfriend being killed in front of him. the rest of the escapees are sent back to cells.

around 2 hours later, Jared wakes up on the floor, sweating and wakes up from a falling-nightmare, and talks with Steven, until something happens.

some raiders attack the Phoenix base, and wakes up all the prisoners. the phoenix win the raid, and the raiders flea. but that wasn't the end, it was just the beginning. the shooting noises attracted a zombie horde to the base, and eventually this begins a full on zombie raid onto the base. the phoenixes fail to keep their base safe, and the base falls. the escapees pick up Oj and escape, leaving Alex behind. After driving for a while, they stop on the side of the road and go to sleep.

##### Dec 16th

Jared and the escapees wake up in their car and start organizing their stuff. **15 minutes later**, Omir begins driving when suddenly an NADF truck arrives behind them and begins shooting the escapees. For around **13 minutes**, the escapees finally manage to escape the NADF, the team stops and sees a shed near the road, they decide to wander into the shed, and find horrid things that they weren't meant to. **13 Hours later** the team arrive at a gas station somewhere between Mississippi and Virginia, and they decide to explore it. there, they find a strange man called Sean, he tries to loot Jared but Steven comes to help him, the 2 overcome sean and take him in to the car, as a "prisoner". the team get to a road, which has a church nearby. Jared, Steven and Sean go inside the church to investigate/loot it, they break inside and after a few minutes of looking around, they hear noises from the basement, which when they go down to, they find a body, covered in meat and blood.

he 3 find a priest there who was mentally insane, he was a cannibal priest, who creeped the 3 out. after talking with the priest, they run out of there and go back to the car. after going back to the car, Omir cannot get the car working, so he asks for the team to cover for him, as he tries to fix the battery. Omir drives off, for about 15 hours, as the streets were all dark.

##### Dec 17th

Omir finally reaches the highway, after carelessly driving for 15 hours with some stops on the way. 7 minutes later, the team think about what to do and how to get out of the highway, as it was filled with cars, when suddenly strange men arrive. the team hide in the car, and try to not make much noise.

The men come closer to the car, and find the escapees and take them in. An hour later, Steven, Jared and Sean wake up with a bag taken off their face, and sitting in front of a man named Samuel Allen, Samuel explains to the 3 what will be going down, and they get home.

At around 2:41PM, Jared goes around town to find Omir and Keisha, and finds them at the hospital and daycare.

5 hours later, at 7:15PM, people arrive at the arena, to celebrate a new finding of a truck full of water jugs, in a ceremony. Jared sits next to Steven, and has to watch as his cousin Kyle fights a man who used to be in the mexican cartel, and defeats him. 3 hours later, the ceremony ends and Jared goes back home, sits on his bed, whichw as in front of a window and reads a book. Half an hour after he went home, Jared hears a boom from the outside, and sees a bright light in his window. He approaches the window, and sees a fire cloud of explosion. After some conclusion in the HQ of Starkville, Jared gets arrested twice and released once,

(around 12am dec 18th) at the police station, he meets Alex again and Terrance for the first time, Omir . The next day, the escapees wake up again, and Keisha (again) helps them escape, by killing some guards and bribing one. the escapees, Alex and Terrance escape starkville and part their ways. On the way out, Keisha is shot by Samuel, for escaping. this leaves Jared, Omir and OJ the only remaining members of the escapees, as Steven became a cop the day before, and was not arrested/did not escape with the escapees.

##### Dec 30th

Jared and Omir were in the outer forest outside Starkville, sitting near their truck, along with OJ. Omir marks the date on a calendar, and decides to pour the 2 some champagne he found in Starkville, the 2 drink up and rant about their lives. Walkers begin walking towards them, and the 2 put Oj in the truck to sleep, and drive away.

## Personality and traits

Jared is an australian-american man, as he was born in the AUS (australia) but moved to the USA at a couple of months old. He is very different than most australians, as he doesn't even have a british accent. (Jared was a british australia, **not** native.)

At the beginning of the apocalypse, he joined the EDRU an was loved by most of his fellow soldiers, like Nick and many other soldiers, which are unnamed. he spent over 2 months in the EDRU, Stan Oberson didn't like him much, but more then Brandon did. Jared is a pretty funny man, and sometimes is funny at the wrong times.

Jared views family as something important, as ever since Sarah was killed, he only seeked revenge on Brandon, thankfully because this isn't star wars, Revenge was recieved. Sometime in the future, Jared in fact killed Brandon.

## Skills and abilities

Jared is skilled on motor driving, as his job before the apocalypse was pizza delivery, and he did it on a motorbike, giving him skills to ride like a born biker, but not baker.

Jared learned to use guns and grenades during his time as an EDRU soldier, and he learnt even more in his time as an Escapee. after Luke's death, jared used Luke's rifle sometime, to remind himself of him and avenge luke for what the zombies have done to him.

With time he also developted parenting skills. Omir was too busy focusing on surviving, that he decided to leave OJ and with no other person in OJ's life, Jared took him.

### Summary

So Jared is a very skilled survivor, who now lived alone with his "Son", OJ. He's great at shooting, parenting and motor driving. Jared was also good with hunting, which he most likely gained from being with his father.

## Relationships

### Friends

#### Sarah

Sarah Cross is was a former romantic partner of jared, which he met in august 2013. Jared and sarah were deeply close to each other, and almost had a child if Sarah wasn't killed in the prison yard, as sarah was most likely going to have a baby, since she and Jared had intercourse in their cell, being all alone with each other.

Jared and Sarah we're great companions, and we're the main couple of the story, as Jared is the main character, Sarah was his love interest.

Jared wanted to protect Sarah, but when Brandon took her life, he failed his mission.

#### Omir

Jared met Omir on the road in Norfolk, VA. Technically, they only saw each other.

When Mike found Jared in his grandpa's old house (Jared's grandpa, **NOT** Mike's), and brought him to the Escapees HQ, which was a small beach house on virginia beach. Jared recognized Omir and called out his name, but they didn't think much of each other.

Jared and Omir became friends over time, great friends even. They had great respect for each other, and they were pretty similar in their apocalyptic experiences, both their partner's died, they've lost many friends, etc. the 2 became the closest friends in the escapees.

#### Maya

Maya and Jared's relationship was purely platonic, they barely talked to each other, but they still had respect for each other.

#### Luke

Luke became good friends with Jared, after Scott killed both of their friends (Nick and Luke's friends), the mission to kill Scott bonded them together, and made them great friends. Sadly, on December 11th, 2013 Luke was discovered bitten, and Omir had to shoot him, so he wouldn't need to later, as Luke turns into a zombie.

#### Mike

Mike was Jared's secondary best friend in the escapees, as he was the first to properly meet Jared, he introduced Jared to the Escapees, and so Jared viewed him as a very good friend. When Jared & Sarah got seperated, Mike was killed in a garage as zombies ravaged on him. Jared wasn't aware of Mike's death, and tried to brush it off when he found out.

#### Steven

Steven was the first person that Jared met when he got imprisoned by the phoenix, aside from Baker. as time went, Jared and Steven became well friends. The 2 had almost the same reaction when discovering Father Jason, so it was quite funny.

#### Keisha

Jared didn't really get to know keisha that well, as she was seen as "Just another member" of the escapees to him, since he didn't think too much of her, as she reminded him too much of Mike, not by her racial identity, but of her last name and some of her mental traits.

#### Isaac

Jared loved Isaac platonically, as Isaac was just a junkie with drugs who lived alone and tried surviving the apocalypse the best he could. Sadly, Isaac was killed with Sarah by Brandon, And Jared took his revenge on Brandon for that reason too. the 2 weren't exactly friends, as they didn't properly introduce themselves to each other, but Jared found Isaac a good man.

#### Sheriff Tennorman

Jared felt Sheriff Tennorman would've make a funny father-in-law, as that was what he was going to be if Sarah never died.

Jared found the Sheriff funny too, as he had a country accent, even tho he lived in Virginia. Jared and the Sheriff got along well, they were good friends.

### Enemies

#### Alex

Jared felt hatred towards Alex, but tried to seek forgiveness towards him, as he knew Alex was only a child. The reason for Jared's rage towrads Alex was because he believed Alex was the reason for Sarah (and Isaac)'s death, as he and the rest of the Escapees believe he was the one who told the guards of the plan, which is why Brandon became aware of it, and decided to make their executions early.

#### Terrance

Jared met Terrance for the first time at the Starkville police station prison cell area, who was there with Alex. The two only interacted at that time.

### Factions

#### EDRU

The EDRU hates Jared, and see him as wanted. In August 20th, 2013 The richmond base falls after Scott Terrorises it, but Stan Oberson blames Jared and Nick for it, so he files Jared as wanted.

#### The phoenix project

TPP most likely do not know of jared, as they dont exactly have the communication levels of the EDRU, so Jared isn't filed as a "Prisoner", "Escapee", "Wanted" or anything else, but he is hated by one of their former bases, the New Richmond base, which fell due to a zombie horde caused by a raider raid.

# The Show

## Jared Porter

### Alias(es)

* Jared
* Commie

## Social life

### Family

* Kyle Porter (Older Cousin)
* Omir Singh Junior (Unoffically adopted son)

## Series Information

### Season(s)

6

This refers to Jared's appearance(s) in *What Remains: The show*