Jason Duval
Jason grew up among people who made their money at the edges of the law, and a stretch in the Army did little to change the direction of travel. He is in the Keys now, earning from the drug runners who work that water, and telling himself it is temporary.
Confirmed by Rockstar · Source
What Rockstar has confirmed
- Leads
Jason and Lucia are the game's two leads.
- The premise
A score that goes wrong pulls the pair into a criminal conspiracy running across the state.
- Where Jason starts
Jason is in the Keys, working for the drug runners who operate there.
- Jason before the Keys
Jason Duval grew up among criminals and spent time in the Army before the Keys.
- Where Jason lives
Jason Duval lives rent-free at one of Brian Heder's properties, in exchange for helping with local shakedowns.
- What the two leads are to each other
Rockstar leaves the pair's relationship unresolved: Lucia Caminos sees a life with Jason as her way out, while for Jason Duval meeting her could be the best or the worst thing that has happened to him.
In Rockstar's words, Jason “knows how he'd like it to turn out but right now, it's hard to tell.”
- The opening job
The presentation opens on Jason and Lucia collecting goods connected to Boobie Ike at a run-down residential block. The job is compromised, police arrive, and it ends as a running gunfight through corridors and rooms.
Seen in official material
- Driving for Bautista
Jason and Lucia work as getaway drivers for Raul Bautista, who directs them from the back seat. They lose a four-star pursuit, burn the getaway car, leave in a van, and are paid afterwards.
Seen in official material
- The Megamundo opening
The pair are hired as security for a media executive at the Vice City launch of Megamundo, a Spanish-language broadcaster opening its first American headquarters. Armed men storm the tower and take hostages, and Jason and Lucia end up fighting on separate floors.
The executive's name is reported rather than published: Rockstar has printed no spelling of it, and the outlets covering the sequence are transcribing what they heard.
Seen in official material
- How Rockstar frames it
Rockstar describes the game as consciously staged as a Bonnie and Clyde story.
Reported by trusted sources
- Named so far
Rockstar has named eight characters: Lucia Caminos, Jason Duval, Cal Hampton, Boobie Ike, Dre'Quan Priest, Real Dimez, Raul Bautista and Brian Heder.
All eight are billed by full name in reader-facing copy on three separate surfaces: the People navigation, each character's own page heading, and the title of each character's clip in the video library.
Lucia CaminosCal HamptonBoobie IkeDre'Quan PriestReal DimezRaul BautistaBrian Heder
- Cal and Brian
Cal Hampton is an associate of Brian Heder's, as Jason is.
- Two playable leads
Jason and Lucia are both playable, and the presentation shows the player moving between them: while the pair travel together, in the middle of a fight, and when they are on different floors of a building.
Rockstar has shown the switch rather than described it. No first-party page states the rule, so when it is available, how long it takes and whether a mission can withhold it are all open.
Seen in official material
- The lead you are not playing
The protagonist the player is not controlling acts on their own rather than trailing behind: in the opening raid Lucia fights through the building alongside Jason, and in the Bautista pursuit the passenger handles the shooting while the driver drives.
Seen in official material
- The relationship
Jason and Lucia remain criminal partners, but Rockstar says the player can influence how close the two become, with consequences for how their story plays out.
Nothing has been shown of how that is expressed to a player. There is no meter on screen in the presentation and Rockstar has described no scale, no threshold and no ending it leads to.
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- The Criminal Profile
Rockstar's preview briefings describe a Criminal Profile running alongside the immediate Wanted Level, so that a consistent pattern of behaviour changes how the world treats Jason and Lucia rather than only how the police respond to the last thing they did.
PC Gamer reports that violence entered into reasonably does not necessarily count against it, that escalating a situation does, and that small decencies count the other way. Rockstar has published no score, scale or category.
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- Lifestyle shows
Rockstar says the two leads carry their habits visibly: food affects body weight, exercise builds and tones muscle, and going without sleep for long enough shows in how they look.
Described as a visible effect rather than a statistic. No number, threshold or duration has been published.
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