Zane Winters (Reboot Timeline)

The Spinoffs

The Underworld

Allison Winters - Younger Daughter

Charisma

Leadership

Intimidation

Blackmail

*"You can kill me. It doesn't matter now because when Dean finds you, you'll be wishing that you were dead."* - Zane's last words to Jay

**Zane Cole Winters** is a supporting character and a minor antagonist of the Reboot timeline.

Winters is a former Navy SEAL and the second-in-command of the Williamson Boys. He served as the secondary antagonist in the spinoffs and the supporting antagonist in both the Canon series and the Raider series.

## Background

Born on October 20, 1999, Zane was born in a trailer park with his father (a Gulf War veteran). At the age of 8, Zane is taught by his father how to survive at all costs. At 18, Zane joined the Navy and joined with the SEALs after graduating basic training. As rumored by Talbot, Zane met up with Dean after being honorably discharged and joined the same unit as him, eventually gaining deep trust with each other.

As Dean called up his unit, Zane helped formed the gang and became Dean's right-hand man and the gang's second-in-command, having helped Dean with making profits while making deals with Talbot.

## Biography (The Canon Timeline)

Zane is first seen when Dean recruited Jay into the gang. However, Zane is shown to be deeply distrustful of Jay, rightfully assumed that he would betray them.

As Dean sent them to deliver the money, Zane is last seen, wounded after Jay's attack. Zane tries to reach for the radio, but Jay grabbed him and executed him as Jay reveals himself.

## Biography (The Raider)

Zane is first seen as he and Dean talked about old times. As the gang partied, Jay destroyed the bar, killing all of them, except for Zane and Dean, who Zane then saved from the fire. As Zane saw Jay, he saw a pipe and swings it at Jay, but is quickly disarmed and stabbed by Jay with the weapon he formerly used.

## Personality

In his first appearance, Zane is shown to be a confident and brave individual who served honorably during his service.

As he helped form the gang and worked with Dean in various crimes, Zane devolved into a cold-hearted, callous, and ruthless man that participated in several crimes and unlike Dean and most members, Zane hasn't ever killed innocents, making him more honorable. Despite his honorable and friendlier side, Zane is extremely loyal to the gang and proved himself to be more than willing to kill for the gang if necessary, showing no remorse or hesitation in doing so.

Zane is highly intelligent and perceptive than most members, having planned out most of their heists and was capable of seeing through Jay's disguise and keeping tabs on every single member to prevent any power struggle and betrayal.

Zane's hostility to Jay and his extreme loyalty to the gang ultimately led him to his downfall and even in his final moments, Zane taunted him for his betrayal and threatened him with death if Dean found out, eventually dying a highly callous and loyal individual that failed in his goals to kill Jay and to protect Dean.

## Appearance

Zane is an American man, standing at 6'3. He has a muscular build, dark brown hair, green eyes, and a defined jaw. He sports a beard and slicked hair. His tall and muscular physique made him the most intimidating member of the Williamson Boys.

In his first appearance and in older pictures, Zane is seen being clean shaven and had a buzzcut.

During his time with the Williamson Boys, Zane is seen wearing a black leather jacket, a white shirt, combat boots, and black cargo pants.

## Skills

* **High Intelligence**: Zane was shown to be a highly intelligent, sharp-witted, and methodical man and was highly adaptable to any situation given to him. He is extremely level-headed and can handle extreme stress to get out of dangerous situations by using incredible street smarts. Under Dean's orders, Zane was capable of using his charm and polite side to gain trust with enemies in order to blend in and to complete his task without them knowing that he was there within their organization.
* **Criminology**: As a enforcer, Zane has an exceptional insight in how the criminal underworld operated and how illegal activities work, such as mercenary groups and feared crime families. He also displayed extensive knowledge of illegal narcotics, able to tell what kind of drugs that the Georgia criminal underworld were moving and selling.
* **Intimidation**: Due to his status as Dean's right-hand man. his tall stature, and his exceptional combat abilities, Zane is widely known and feared within the criminal underworld and was so infamous that even his status strikes fear and terror into the hearts and souls of his enemies that incurred his wrath.
* **Master Tactician**: As a former Navy SEAL, Zane is highly capable of casing out, planning, and executing plans, assassinations, and raids. He is a keen judge of character, often correctly assessing the correct intentions, flaws, and capabilities of both allies and enemies just by watching them, as seen as he rightfully assumed that Jay was a mole and is planning to kill him and Dean. He is a skilled negotiator and interrogator, capable of presenting facts and tell lies without inducing intense emotion. As shown in the failed trading deal, Zane is a strong and fierce leader to the core, having commanded and led a small number of skilled operatives for protection.
* **Expert Spy**: Having worked with the CIA SAD, Zane is extremely skilled in stealth, espionage, infiltration, disguises, thievery, and eavesdropping. He's well adept in blending in with his surroundings as well as sneaking around heavily guarded outposts and compounds with ease.
* **Stealth Mastery**: Zane is a master in stealth tactics, such as understanding the use of disguises to enter authorized locations, using his team's hacking skills to disable communications and light sources, and using the environment around him to blend in, even in plain sight, to avoid detection. He's also capable of luring enemies into certain scenarios where he can easily eliminate them or pass by them in order to move to the objective.
* **Connections**: Having worked with various mercenary groups before joining the gang, Zane has a vast set that he can use to gain an advantage on his enemies, even with weapons dealers, criminal informants, and government officials.
* **Forensics Specialist**: Zane is very capable of making a "clean job" by using a cleaner and silent approach to minimize mass destruction. Whenever Dean kills his targets, he tries to make the deaths look like either a gang attack or a simple accident.
* **Master Marksman**: As not shown, it's hinted that Zane is extremely proficient with firearms, including pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, as well as being frighteningly precise with eliminating targets in both close-range and long-range distances (as shown during his fights). He's also skilled with using and firing heavier weaponry, such as grenade launchers, light machine guns, and flamethrowers as well as using mounted weaponry.
* **Master Martial Artist**: Having been trained by the SEALs, Zane is hinted to be an incredibly skilled hand-to-hand fighter. His fighting style is mostly improvised and is consisted of Kickboxing, Krav Maga, Eskrima, Kempo Jiu-Jitsu, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Sambo.
* **Peak Human Condition**: As a former soldier of the United States Navy, Zane has displayed peak human physicality for a man of his age. He's extremely athletic, and his strength, stamina, speed, agility, reflexes, durability, and pain threshold are in top condition. As seen, Zane managed to survive a near fatal GSW and tries to fight back, to no avail.

## Equipment

* **Glock 19**: Zane's sidearm. He notably carries it in a hip holster and tries to use it against Jay, but failed. His Glock is a Gen 3 with Target sights and a silver barrel.
* **H&K HK-416**: Zane's main firearm. He carries it on his shoulder with a strap, but chose not to carry it to the deal and opts to leave it with one of his trusted soldiers to carry it. His rifle is outfitted with an 11'5 barrel, a Trijicon ACOG, and Magpul AFG.

## Deaths

**Murders committed by Zane**:

* **25 Iraqi Insurgents**: Shot to death.
* **35 Rival Members**: Shot to death.

## Trivia

* Zane, unlike most members, is shown to be the most honorable, having never harmed innocents and only killed rivals if necessary.
* Zane is the antagonist (before Randall Reed) to actually see through Jay's deception and had not Jay used Dean's decreasing sanity, Zane probably would have exposed him sooner.
* Due to his calm and collected manner and the fact that he kept tabs on each member, Zane appeared to be the gang's main secretary.