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| “ | You are Miles Upshur, an investigative reporter whose ambition is about to earn him an intimate tour of hell on earth. Always willing to risk digging into the stories no other journalist would dare investigate, you will seek out the dark secret at the heart of Mount Massive Asylum. | „ |
| ~ Outlast prologue |
Miles Upshur is the main protagonist of the 2013 horror game Outlast, being an investigative journalist ordered by someone named The Whistleblower to reveal the inhumane experiments at Mount Massive Asylum.
History
Outlast
Miles is a journalist who was fired from his job for posting offensive material to his company regarding Afghanistan. Afterwards, he became a freelancer where he was told by the Whistleblower to record and reveal the horrors going on at Mount Massive Asylum, where the nazi-led company Murkoff performed experiments on the patients in order to make them a valid host for the Walrider, an artificially created god who's a human-shaped swarm of nanobots. The side effects of the experiments turned the patients into mentally and physically broken monsters who overtook the asylum. Miles arrives on the scene to find a slaughtered team of SWAT officers and an army of inhumanly dangerous patients, called Variants, after him. Before he can escape, he is plunged deeper into the asylum by the head Variant, Chris Walker, an extremely strong ex-military cop who is killing all patients so there is no host for the Walrider. On the other hand, Miles wakes up to find Father Martin, an insane priest with a mob of followers who have created a religion surrounding the Walrider. After surviving the deadly attacks of Walker, Dr. Richard Trager, and the Twins, Miles finally arrives to the asylum's underground lab where the experiments took place and where Murkoff's head, Rudolf Wernicke, an aging nazi officer, is housed. In the lab, Miles is possessed by the Walrider right before being gunned down by a tactical division of Murkoff soldiers.
Outlast: Whistleblower
In an overlapping DLC prequel of the game, following the Whistleblower, the moral Murkoff engineer Waylon Park dedicated to getting his villainous company shut down, Miles is revealed to have survived his wounds. Due to the fact he was possessed by the god-like Walrider, the soldiers' gun-fire did nothing to him, and he killed both the squad and Wernicke himself before heading up to the surface. Somehow taking control of the Walrider, Miles saved Park from another Murkoff director Jeremy Blaire at the exit of the asylum, ripping him to shreds. Park finally escaped the asylum by stealing Miles' car, but the journalist doesn't seem to mind, instead engulfing the asylum into a destructive tornado and helping Park escape to leak his recorded footage and take down Murkoff.
Personality and Abilities
Miles is very athletic, has high stamina, and is skilled at parkour. While he's considerably strong, able to lift himself up with ease and fend off Trager, he is no where near combatic, and all he can do is run or hide from the unstoppable variants. He is also extremely durable, able to withstand monstrous amounts of damage and keep going. After being possessed by the Walrider, Miles somehow overtook the beast and apparently used his power for good. This power was indescribably high, but he is able to fly, pick anything up regardless of size, rip anything to shreds, and destroy anything, usually in an inescapable tornado.
While Miles never speaks a word other than screams and gasps, his personality is shown in his notes he regularly writes in his journals. He is shown to be very cynical and pessimistic towards anything in the asylum, but for good reason. He also usually cracks dark jokes and is depicted to be very violent.
Appearance
Miles' face is never seen. However, due to being in a full-body awareness game, everything else on Miles is visible. He seems to be an athletic man in his late 20's donning a white dress shirt under a brown jacket with a black belt, blue jeans, and brown boots. Interestingly, his third-person model shows that he completely lacks a head, but has a bloody stump for a neck, suggesting it was ripped off. This is because Miles' body is only seen when his head is chopped/ripped off. He also has an untextured head, and this is only present for a realistic shadow.