The Washington Brothers

== Washington Brothers ==
"Our God wants us to cull the weak and we're not weak-willed cattle. We're the holy butchers, slaughtering our cattle while they're breathing instead of using the same old cowardly tactics as most people do. We're the Washington Brothers and we're the true killers of mankind." - A member recalling their motto
The Washington Brothers are a large group of hostile survivalists introduced in the Reboot timeline. They served as the minor antagonistic group in the first and eleventh chapters of the Canon timeline.
== History ==
According to Maxwell and some members, the Washington Brothers were created with the sole purpose of raiding and killing anyone in their path. After 10 years, the Washington Brothers moved to Georgia due to its geographic area and history. In the Canon series, the group took over a family ranch and managed to live there before their near-disbandment by a strike team led by Jay Roberts.
As revealed by Maxwell, the group used to be veterans with a taste for bloodshed and after their discharge, they recruited anyone with similar mindsets to join them, giving them the numbers and adding more fear whenever they moved into a state and murdered anyone on sight.
== Background ==
Having moved from state to state, the Washington Brothers started to hunt and kill people and animals just to enjoy it. They're notorious for their horrific tortures and cruel/sadistic acts of violence towards their victims, having been known to flay, scalp, dismember, disembowel, roast, and slash their victims while they're alive, being more like a cult of deranged serial killers, thieves, and rapists since they all believed in a higher being giving them a purpose to become either a hunter or prey. 
Unlike all of the factions, the Washington Brothers have no interest in money, appearing to survive off scavenging and hunting, taking their victims' clothing, food, and supplies upon raiding campsites and survivalist compounds/encampments. They're very nomadic, given their dress code (having unkempt hair and scruffy clothing) and their lifestyle. Except for a large ranch, the Washington Brothers tend to live in primitive camps, either their own or ones seized from their victims.
The Washington Brothers appear to be intent on controlling the area they're living in and keeping the populace in terror, revealing that they want people to fear them due to their methods and brutality. To add more fear within their ranks, the Washington Brothers tend to make their "WB" signature by writing it on walls with their victims' blood after raiding a place and were shown to be highly territorial, having hunted down and/or killed people in extremely violent ways for crossing their lands. In addition to their brutality, the Washington Brothers also began to turn to cannibalism and appeared to have kept their victims alive as a basic food supply.
All members of the Washington Brothers appeared to be shown wearing tattered and scruffy clothing, having unkempt hair, weathered skin, and sunken, bloodshot eyes. Some members appear to carve a W into their forehead and file down their teeth to sharp points (presumably to inflict more damage if put into biting range) to add to the ferocity of their appearance.
== Members ==
* Maxwell Washington - Leader (Deceased)
* Otis Washington - Second-in-Command (Deceased)
* Trevor Washington - Lieutenant (Deceased)
* Morgan Washington - De-Facto Leader (Deceased)
*375 Washington Brothers - Soldier (Deceased)
== Vehicles, Weaponry, and Equipment ==
The Washington Brothers are shown to be utilizing bows and bladed weapons rather than using guns, preferably because of their love of carnage and wanting their victims to suffer a slow, painful death.
Vehicles
* Harley Davidson FXSTC Softail
* Dodge Ram Van
* GMC Savana
* Chevy Pick-Up
Weapons
Assault Rifles/Sniper Rifles/Machine Guns
* Norinco Type 56
* H&K HK416
* Colt M4A1 
* Remington 700
* Ruger M77
* Winchester M70
* AKS-74U
Shotguns
* Mossberg 500
* Winchester 1300
* Double Barreled Shotgun
* Remington 870
Pistols
* Beretta 92FS
* Colt SAA
== Trivia ==
* The Washington Brothers are the only faction that acts like a highly deranged cult/brotherhood of cold-hearted and vicious killers.
* According to their dialogue, the Washington Brothers appeared to have a Darwinist/Christian-like mindset, believing that God is giving them a purpose to "free" people by taking their souls through mayhem and bloodshed, and strongly believed that mercy and sympathy are weaknesses. As revealed by Maxwell, the Washington Brothers tended to kill their own if they didn't follow the code and showed weakness.
* The Washington Brothers are shown to be very organized in their tactics, using bows rather than guns and using guerrilla warfare to kill their victims than brute force.