Hunter Jeremiah Hartley

Hunter Jeremiah Hartley is an employee at O.V.E.R. and present leader of Base. He is a white man in his late 40s who has shoulder-length light brown hair, a northern accent, and a big frame. Hunter is from North Dakota, and has a Facebook page where he shares pictures of O.V.E.R.

He has had different relationships to Mike Walters across different timelines and iterations, sometimes friendly and sometimes hostile.

Hunter was manipulated into the destruction of 357A, leading to a physical altercation where Mike shot and killed one of Hunter's iterations. In a related timeline, the Hunters demolished Base and used a calculator to transport Mike into the wilderness.

Iterations
Hunter has at least four iterations. Mike has referred to the younger three as Innocent Hunter, Mystery Hunter, and Punished Hunter. The Hunters refer to themselves as Hunter, Jerry, and Jeremiah. Punished Hunter and Innocent Hunter both have a scar on the left side of their faces from forehead to cheek, caused by the explosion of 357A. Punished Hunter does not appreciate Mike's nickname for him.

There is another relevant iteration of Hunter who is much older than the other three, approximately retirement-aged. This iteration was teleported into Mike's cabin, dead and with his eyes gouged out. This iteration has been referred to as "Elder Hunter" and will be killed by August Baxter.

Compared to Mike, Hunter seems to see a greater degree of continuity between iterations.

Connectivity Strike
Hunter was the target of a connectivity strike in order to prevent him from destroying Base. The new timeline this created led to the deaths of many Base members, leading to a correction and an agreement that no member of Base, besides Chance, would ever directly interact with Hunter. However, this agreement was broken when Hunter took over Base and, further, enacted a correction which led to him having always had control over Base.

Timeline where Hunter dies (Episodes 67-71)
The connectivity strike occurred on the night Mikey originally first infiltrated 116E. Mikey was sent to kill Innocent Hunter in his Cabin, while Mike and Michael killed Mystery and Punished Hunter.

In place of Hunter, Marissa was the one forced to participate in the destruction of 357A, leading to her death. Further, during the fight within Tier 2, Anne was killed, though Edgar was never sent away to experience a Lost Year.

Without Anne or Marissa, early Base operations differed considerably. The mission to Rugby never occurred. Mike and Michael, still aware of the original timeline, assisted early Base in figuring out how to navigate the spacetime technology. This Base came to recruit Charlie, Chance, and Shadow.

Timeline without further contact (Episodes 72-100)
In order to avert the deaths that occurred within the timeline with a completed connectivity strike, members of Base met with the Hunters in order to negotiate an agreement. According to this agreement, no direct contact was allowed between any Base members and any of the Hunter iterations except through Chance.

Within this new timeline, Hunter was still forced to carry out the destruction of 357A. The skirmish within Tier 2 played out similarly to the original timeline, except that Edgar never experienced a Lost Year, presumably due to the prior death of Alaska Mikey. Notably, even without Hunter, Mike was still teleported into the Latvian wilderness during Project 2BDO for reasons that are still unclear.

Despite the agreement to avoid contact, Innocent Hunter and Mike worked together in order to help save Cole. The agreement apparently fell apart fully as Hunter eventually took some control over Base.

The Hunter Hartley Base Timeline (Episodes 101+)
While in control of Base, Hunter made a correction to create a timeline in which Mike and Edgar never formed a relationship and Hunter had always been in charge of Base. When and how exactly the correction was made is still unclear, though one relevant detail is that Mike still participated in WOE.BEGONE.

In this timeline, Mike was ordered by H – implied to be Mystery Hunter – to kill Edgar. Additionally, August Baxter has been killed in this timeline, and his hat given to Mikey. Other known deaths include Matt, who was never resurrected after Mike completed his fourth challenge. Other members of Base are still present, including Anne, Charlie, Chance, Shadow, and Marissa. Further, Cole remains with Base, rather than being aligned with the Flinchites.

While most characters seem unaware of the existence of previous timelines, a few have retained knowledge, including the Hunters, as the initiators of said correction; an iteration of Ty Betteridge, created by Flinchite record-keeping procedures; and some iterations of Michael found ten years in the future.