Jay

**Jay** was a protagonist and survivor of the outbreak. He is the first Kamo'o'hali Sylvester encounters.

## Jay

### Family

Jamie (younger sister), Billy (younger brother), Unnamed parents (deceased)

### Cause of Death

Bitten on the arm by a Kamo'o'hali, torn apart and devoured by Kamo'o'hali, shot in the head by Sylvester

## Pre-Apocalypse

### Malibu, California

Jay was the older brother of Billy and Jamie, and a professional surfer At the time of the apocalypse, Jay was driving his car with his siblings who may have been heading over to Andrew's home for his weekend visit (since they were only a few blocks away from his home at the time of the accident). However, someone jumped in front his car forcing him to swerve and crash, rendering him unconscious.

## Post-Apocalypse

### Torn Apart

Jay awakens from a car crash to find his siblings missing in a world filled with carnage. As he searches for them, he stumbles across a group of Kamo'o'hali feeding on a victim. Having disturbed one of them, he is pursued only to be rescued from them by his friend, Andrew. He takes him back to his house, where his siblings fled to after the crash. Andrew tends to his wounds and explains to him what's been happening while he was unconscious.

With the growing risks, Jay and his family decide that they have to try to get to a safe zone. Andrew goes to their neighbor's house to scavenge for supplies and the keys to his truck. When Andrew does not return, and risks start to grow, Jay decides to take his siblings and run.

While fleeing with his siblings, Jay returns to the street where he wrecked his car and searches a nearby vehicle for keys. While searching it, a Kamo'o'hali that he did not see beforehand attacks him from the backseat and bites his arm. He kills it, but knows that it is too late for himself and that he will soon turn. With an advancing wave of Kamo'o'hali approaching, Jay tells his siblings that he loves them and tells his sister to look after her brother and that they need to run. He stays behind and lets the Kamo'o'hali devour him and rip his body in half, in order to distract them and buy his siblings time to escape.

After an unknown length of time, Jay awakens as a Kamo'o'hali, and over the course of about two months, Jay's body enters an extreme state of decay and crawls to a nearby beach.

### Shark Blood

His mutilated and undead corpse is discovered at the beach by Sylvester, who had just fled his house after awakening from and was at that point, oblivious to the apocalypse (until informed by Itachi). Frightened by seeing a mangled shark corpse snapping at him and reaching out towards him, Sylvester flees. Hungry, Jay crawls away in search of food. The next day, a prepared Sylvester returns for him, looking on in horror and pity at what has happened to him. Just as Jay notices him, he apologizes for what has happened to him, before shooting him in the head with his Colt Python revolver to end his misery.

## Death

### Killed by

* Kamo'o'hali *(Alive)*
* Callaway *(Infected, Alive)*
* Himself *(Caused)*

As Jay tries to escape the city with his siblings, he enters a car on the street and is bitten on his arm by a Kamo'o'hali. Knowing that he is infected, Jay allows himself to be devoured by a group of them while his siblings escape. Sometime later, a partially devoured Jay reanimates.

* Sylvester *(Zombified)*

Two months later, a zombified Jay is encountered by Sylvester, who tearfully expresses his sympathy for him and shoots him in the head to put him down.

## Killed Victims

* Judy *(Zombified)*
* Himself *(Caused, Alive)*
* A few Kamo'o'hali

## Relationships

### Andrew

Andrew and Jay had a strong relationship but for unknown reasons the two ended their relationship. Although , they both have a good relationship with Jay's siblings together whom they both loved deeply. After Jay regained consciousness after his car accident he went to Andrew's house to see if Jamie and Billy were there, they were and Andrew was pleased to see Jay was okay. Andrew later tells Andrew, Billy and Jamie that they have to get guns to get them to a safe spot were they will be picked up then he leaves hoping to collect them and protect Jay and the children but is devoured, showing that he did still care about Jay's safety willing to risk his own life for him and his friends. Jay quickly figured out that the chances of Andrew coming back were very slim and was shown to be saddened but tried to hide his emotion so he didn't worry his siblings.

### Jamie

Jay and Jamie had a good relationship and the two cared about each other deeply. This is shown by how scared Jay was when Jamie and Billy went missing after he woke up in the car accident. Also when Jamie and Billie were getting attacked by a zombified Judy, Jay kills her saving both of their lives. Jay then sacrifices himself to the Kamo'o'hali after he is bitten, to give Jamie and Billy a chance to escape. Jamie is shown to be devastated as she watches her brother be devoured.

### Billy

Like Jamie the two had a good relationship. The two cared for each other very deeply, shown by how terrified Jay was when he found that Billy and Jamie were out missing from the car when he awakens from the car accident. It is also shown when Billy and Jamie were attached by a zombified Judy, where Jay kills her to save their lives. Afterword's, Jay sacrifices himself to the group of Kamo'o'hali after being bit, letting Billy and Jamie have more time to escape. Billy is shown to be sad when seeing his brother being devoured by Kamo'o'hali.

### Sylvester

*"I'm sorry this happened to you."*

-Sylvester to Jay

Sylvester saw Jay as a Kamo'o'hali, Jay had been "sleeping" at this point, something other Kamo'o'hali have been seen doing in the series, and awakens to try to feverishly reach out to grab him instinctively, but fails due to him missing most of his lower half. Sylvester becomes horrified, this being the first time he has ever seen a Kamo'o'hali, especially one under conditions that would kill a normal human, get up and move towards him. Later, though, he felt sorry for Jay, despite possibly never have meeting or knowing him before in his past life, and ultimately decided to use one of his spare bullets put him out of his misery, going as far as to track down and find him. After stopping again in front of the beach he found him at and seeing he had crawled a good distance, simply so that he wouldn't have to "live" as a Malibu with a half-body any longer. His last words before shooting him in the head with his revolver, while looking around to make sure the ensuing gunshot wouldn't attract other Malibu nearby, were "I'm sorry this happened to you."

## Trivia

* Jay's character and death were inspired by Hannah from the AMC series *The Walking Dead*