The Main Character (Jake)

* Extra Event
* Jake's Route

She is the main character in Jake Stewart's story route. Her main love interest is Jake and her second love interest is Ashton Darrow, who breaks her up with her in the beginning of the first chapter. The player chooses what her name will be throughout the story. She is also the first African-American character to become the playable protagonist. In the recent update, her default name is **Sally Hamilton**.

## Appearance

Unlike other players who were white or fair skinned, this main character is a dark skinned woman with long brown hair and brown eyes. Her dark skin appears to be lighter than Alicia Boone's. She is also equipped with clear contact lenses on her brown eyes which is proven that she is near-sighted.

In the good ending after being rescued by Jake from Aleksei Votiakov, she cuts her hair to a chin-length

Her portrait in the extra event is depicted in the secret image and wears a white fashionable v-neck top adorned with a matching ribbon at the right side with long baggy sleeves, dark blue jeans with a gold button on the waistline and brown sandals. She later wears a white lingerie with fluffy designs that resembles a baby doll when she gets intimate with Jake. In her promotional art, she wears a red formal modern gown with an elaborate design and red heels.

## Personality

The player appears to be serious, strict and short-tempered. These qualities were demonstrated when she was talking to her now ex-boyfriend, Ashton Darrow, who decided to break up with her after their seven year relationship. Although, she is deeply emotional when her thoughts about her break up with Ashton or her encounter with Jake. She can also be described as intelligent from studying at Harvard.

As a Chief Financial Officer of Carter Corp, she is also very knowledgeable and focused when it comes to dealing with financial problems in the company regarding about the accounting issues and her true nature for being workaholic which the main reason of why Ashton broke up with her. She also had a backlash with her boss Ryan Carter who does not want her to let go and for sabotaging her applications in his office.

## Season 1

In her college years, both the player and Ashton were college sweethearts who studied at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Seven years later, the player now works as the Chief Financial Officer of Carter Corp, and Ashton is the current head of the legal management at the same company. During a late work night at the office, Ashton broke up with the player, stating that their relationship was going nowhere. As the saddened player was leaving to meet up with Lisa at Starlite, she bumped into Jake Stewart. Recognizing him as Ryan Carter's bodyguard, they shared a small conversation before the player cried, eventually explaining the cause of her bad mood. When discussing her trouble with the finances of the company, Jake reassures her skills by saying she was chosen by Ryan because of her potential. She became emotionally troubled between her encounter with Jake and her break up with Ashton.

After going to Starlite and telling Lisa about the sudden break up, the two women decide to rendezvous at the player's apartment to have a girls night. When the player returns to her apartment alone, she realizes that Ashton has already moved out, proving that his plan to break up was premeditated. Before Lisa arrives, the player receives an email from her mother asking if Ashton would come visit them for Christmas. Despite having just broken up, the player said yes in fear of disappointing her mother.

When Lisa finally arrives, the player discusses Carter Corp's financial problems and notices mysterious transactions from the Russian branch. Lisa encouraged the player to notify Ryan as soon as possible.

The next morning, the player encounters Jake again in Ryan's office. She showed Ryan the financial abnormalities and expressed her wish to go to Moscow to personally investigate. Ryan refused, explaining that waiting for her visa would waste time. Still determined, the player applied for a visa online, which was rejected. She later learned that Ryan sabotaged her Russian visa application, and she depended on Ashton to clear up the visa's denial. After finally retrieving her visa, Ryan reluctantly let her go to Russia. For her protection, Ryan made Jake go with her, despite her wanting to go to Moscow alone.

The player is next seen packing for her Moscow trip. Jake calls and informs her when he would be picking her up, advising her not to be late. It is revealed that the player has a strong fear of flying, and even has the option to call Lisa to calm herself down. Shortly before the player was supposed to be picked up by Jake, Ashton suddenly arrives at her apartment. He wished to discuss ownership over items they bought as a couple, eventually agreeing that the player keeps the apartment and he keeps their car. After Ashton leaves, the distressed player begins to cry over their lost relationship. Jake arrives to her apartment during her emotional breakdown and kicks down her door, afraid that she was hurt. The player takes this time to try to learn more about Jake, ultimately learning that he enjoys being alone.

At the airport, the player learns that she would be flying on a private jet, exacerbating her fear of planes. Her phobia became much more apparent after boarding. Despite Jake's reassurance that nothing would happen to her with him around, her nervousness remained. During takeoff, Jake placed his hand on the players in an attempt to calm down her impending panic attack. The flight suddenly reached a change in altitude, resulting in the lights of the flight cabin to flicker off. Jake cupped the panicked reader's face and looked into her eyes, once again reassuring her safety. The lights turned back on after the intimate interchange, and Jake offered the player a sedative.

## Allies

* Jake Stewart
* Ashton Darrow
* Matt Ortega
* Colin Spencer
* Ryan Carter (sometimes)
* Lisa Parker
* Gabriel Simons
* Mark Leviels

## Enemies

* Aleksei Votiakov
* The Bratva
* Cassidy Sparke
* Ryan Carter (sometimes)

## Gallery

*Jake Stewart/Gallery*

*Ashton Darrow/Gallery*

*Lisa Parker/Gallery*

*The Main Character (Jake)/Gallery*

## Trivia

* She is the very first African-American main character and the 6th African-American character to appear in the game overall.
* She is the oldest main character at 27 years old as the rest of the players in Carter Corp are 25 years of age. The player had turned 28 years old on her birthday in Chapter 6.
* She bears a strong resemblance and connection to Brandi Alexis Runnels (nee Reed) better known as Brandi Rhodes, the wife of WWE superstar Cody Rhodes who works for AEW as a Chief Brand Officer and the main host of her own cocktail and cooking show, *Shots of Brandi*. Ironically Ashton is based on her husband Cody who formerly works as the Executive Vice President of Talent Relations and an occasional wrestler and their relationship they had with each other in the bad ending seems to be a reference to Cody and Brandi's current relationship as a married couple.
* Some fans have found her to be annoying due to her crying all the time whenever she refers Ashton and not moving past Ashton's breakup despite being in relationship with Jake.
* She also bears a strong resemblance to the cousin of Snoop Dogg and both American professional wrestler and former WWE Superstar Mercedes Kaestner-Varnado, better known as Sasha Banks, prior to dyeing her natural brown hair in different hair colors of her in-ring appearances in NXT until she moved onto the main rosters of both Raw and SmackDown until her unexpected release in WWE.
	+ She shares Sasha's main heelish persona for being serious and short-tempered within her current gimmick.
	+ Her close connection with Jake Stewart is much like how Sasha became close to fellow wrestler and costume designer, Sarath Ton, better known as Mikaze who later became her current husband.
	+ Her friendship with Lisa Parker resembles the friendship between Sasha and Pamela Rose Martinez, better known as Bayley, and formed their tag team faction named the Boss 'n' Hug Connection.
	+ Both also shared for being near-sighted where the player wears eye contact lenses while Sasha is also wearing eye contact lenses whenever she competes in the wrestling ring but outside the ring, she also wore eyeglasses as one of the avid gamers in *UpUpDownDown* hosted by Xavier Woods.
* Fans have stated that she often looks like Sarah Osborne.
	+ She also bears a resemblance to the player from James Oswald-Descieux's and the player from Joe Kicks' story routes in certain images.
* She, Ashton and Gabriel Simons are the only characters that have been confirmed to study and graduate from Harvard.
* She has a fear of flying which is aerophobia which is why she cannot visit her family at Portland by taking a plane, especially for making a false message to them by email to take a visit to her family along with Ashton.
* She is the first and only main character to be a CFO, and the only Carter Corp player to have a different job than the others at the start.
	+ This makes her the first main character to be of a higher status than Cassidy Sparke at the start of the game.
* She has taken self defense classes.
* Her asking towards Jake to stay for a drink could be a callback to the times that the player from Ryan's route asked Jake to stay for drinks, both at a bar and at her apartment after her fight with Ryan.
* The player is from Portland, Oregon which is why she can't visit her family at Portland due to her being aerophobic.
* She dreamed of becoming an Olympic figure skater, but that ended when she fractured her tailbone.
* In Chapter 6 when she takes a shower with Jake, the scene references the music video from Toni Braxton's *Unbreak my Heart*. Since Jake is her love interest, the touches with their naked skin is also references another of Toni's music video which is *Spanish Guitar*.
* She was the first Carter Corp main character that does not own a pet.
* She is one of the few main character that can have feelings for both of her love interests
* She is the only main character than will end up engaged to the second love interest in the bad ending.
* There is often a misconception that she is the only main character to age in storyline and have a birthday event associated to her in game. But the 1st main character to have aged onscreen was the the player from Ryan's route who celebrated her birthday in the second season.
* She is the first main character to have an apartment that was not used for the other players. Out of all 7 main characters featured, she had a lavish apartment while others had the normal apartment.
* Fans mistake her to be older than Ryan but she is actually a year younger than him being 27 years old until the end of season 1 of Jake's route while Ryan was 28 years old going on 29.
	+ She was probably made to be 27 going on 28 rather than 25 like other main characters so her friendship with Gabriel would make sense, and because Jake is 29 going on 30.
* She is the first main character to have a mentor which was Ryan.
	+ She is also the only main character who can have a frenemy relationship with Ryan.
* She was well received by fans and were happy by the uniqueness she was given.
* She is right handed.
* She, the player from Mark Leviels' route and the player from Joe Kicks' route are the only main characters that have never worked under Gabriel's department.