Fascinated by the wildlife and the will to live in a remote place Jay decided when he was still very young that he wanted to leave the busy city life and go live off the land. His parents never supported his dreams or ideas and forced him to continue his studies. Jay used to work every single year in the summer in order to save money to buy camping and survival gear, it didn't take too long until he got into guns and bought his first hunting rifle.

Faced with the hard reality of having to go to college and follow his father footsteps Jay, without his parents knowing, dropped out of college packed all his stuff and left for good. He traveled around Europe and Russia for many years and one day on one of his rare trips to the civilization to buy more ammo he found it wasn't quite the same. There was a new virus spreading.
He started feeling horrible for leaving his family behind so he tried to get back to Spain and leave the Russian wilderness behind but got stuck in Norway when the trains stoped working and all the borders closed.