Morgan Rook (The Raider)

Security Guard (formerly)

Hand-to-hand combat

Explosives

Investigation

Stealth

Athletics

Stamina

Intelligence

Charisma

Leadership

Forensics

Espionage

Negotiation

**Morgan Rook** (simply known as Rook) is the main character and one of the big four protagonists in the entire Reboot timeline. Rook is a junior deputy of the King County Sheriff's Department that joined up with Jay Roberts and served as the deuteragonist of the 9th and 11th chapters in the Raider series.

## Background

Born on January 2, 2032, Morgan's life isn't discovered until Jay reads his file. It's strongly hinted that Morgan grew up in a wealthy family and went to private schools until the age of 18, where he probably joined the military for a while before finally settling to become a police officer, working for the King County Sheriff's Department in the small town of Johnston town, Georgia.

## Biography (The Raider)

Morgan is first seen when Jay and Wade did their briefing on Joseph Von Raines and was personally selected to help Jay out with the investigation because it's later revealed that Joseph has orchestrated his uncle's assassination and that Morgan wanted vengeance under the guise of arresting him. Due to reading his file, Jay immediately distrusted him, believing that Morgan is still a kid and couldn't last long in this world. However, Morgan ultimately proved himself by taking out a few of Joseph's trained hitmen to save Jay, earning his respect. Now trustful and ready to take out Joseph and his gang, the pair managed to raid the compound and Morgan ended up killing the two top members himself to save Jay, avenging his uncle.

After the raid, Morgan was trained extensively by Jay on how to fight, how to use any and every weapon system in the field, and to use guerrilla tactics, molding the young man into a hardened fighter. During this time, the pair became close friends and developed a father-son relationship.

As Ryder Brubaker is planning out his plan to defund the police under the guise of funding them, Morgan is seen, appearing to be living with Jay and his family and is shown to lead a small group of WTO operators as the head of security. However, Morgan is shown to be in a relationship with Lindsay (Jay and Lilly's daughter) and is mainly seen, fighting with Jay to save the family and to kill Ryder upon finding out his true motivations. Despite helping Jay in several missions and living in peace, it's revealed that Morgan was killed by Dean and his corrupt unit to prevent him and his family from interfering in his goal to kill Jay.

## Personality

Morgan is shown in his first appearance to be a slightly arrogant, confident, and quick-witted man that lacked combat prowess and having been in an office job most of the time, he is immediately distrusted and mocked by Jay. Due to Jay's reputation, Morgan seems to respect Jay for his service and is seen to be genuinely terrified and submissive to the veteran, having heard of his past situations. Despite this fear, Morgan seems to be completely loyal to him, having looked up to the veteran and only wanting to prove himself to Jay that he is a competent person.

As shown in his fights, Morgan seems to be extremely resourceful and focused in combat, as seen as he killed most of Joseph's hitmen to save Jay, earning his trust and respect. However, Morgan is shown to be extremely ruthless and savagely brutal when it comes to combat, having killed Arthur by angrily bashing his head in, and given the fact that the Von Raines family was responsible behind his uncle's death, it's hinted that he has a wrathful and vengeful side. This brutal act led Jay to help him redirect his anger and to keep him in check to make sure that Morgan didn't devolve into an antagonist himself. Because of Jay's guidance and training, Morgan is shown to be more focused and honorable than before, having appreciated Jay's viewpoint and risked his own life protecting Jay and his family, proving his extreme loyalty to Jay himself and that Morgan is now braver and confident in the face of danger.

Even in his final moments, Morgan died a brave and compassionate man that proved his loyalty and changed himself for the better with the help of Jay's guidance.

## Appearance

Morgan is an American man, standing at 5'10. He has dark brown hair cut into a crew cut, green eyes, tanned skin, light stubble, and a muscular physique.

Morgan is first seen wearing the KCSD uniform (consisting of a tan shirt, and dark brown pants with yellow or gray stripes to indicate his rank). In the streets, while undercover, he wore a blue t-shirt, blue jeans, and combat boots. He often wore a jacket.

In combat, Morgan is seen wearing a tank top, cargo pants, and a plate carrier with extra mags for his rifle. He also wore a hip holster with extra mags for his pistol.

## Skills

* **High Intelligence**: Morgan 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. He was capable of using his charm and polite side to gain the trust of enemies to blend in and complete his task without them knowing that he was there within their organization.
* **Criminology**: As a former deputy, Morgan has exceptional insight into 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 the Georgia criminal underworld was moving and selling.
* **Hacking Skills**: After learning from Jay, Morgan is an intermediate hacker with complete access to even the most secret government servers to find his targets and trace their location with technical help. He can jam communications, cause blackouts, and disable security systems.
* **Master Tactician**: As a former deputy that is trained by a combat veteran/NCO, Morgan 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. He is a skilled negotiator and interrogator, capable of presenting facts and telling lies without inducing intense emotion. He is a very effective leader and mentor, having fought with and led many Reapers and a large number of W.T.O. operatives into various battles with strategic facts and thinking. He's also capable of spotting certain flaws within his environment and using any methods deemed necessary to accomplish his goals, such as using explosives to take out the Von Raines family and picking out the stragglers with ease. As shown in the raid against the Brubaker Gang, Morgan is a strong and fierce leader to the core, having commanded and led a massive number of skilled operatives to help take out Ryder Brubaker's associates.
* **Expert Spy**: Having worked with Jay, Morgan is extremely skilled in stealth, espionage, infiltration, disguises, thievery, and eavesdropping. He's well adept at blending in with his surroundings as well as sneaking around heavily guarded outposts and compounds with ease.
* **Stealth Mastery**: Morgan is a master in stealth tactics, such as understanding the use of disguises to enter authorized locations, using his 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 to move to the objective.
* **Connections**: Having worked with various law enforcement agencies, Morgan has a vast set that he can use to gain an advantage over his enemies, even with weapons dealers, criminal informants, and government officials.
* **Forensics Specialist**: Morgan is very capable of making a "clean job" by using the silent approach to minimize mass destruction. Whenever he kills his targets, he tries to make the deaths look like either a gang attack or a simple accident.
* **Expert Driver**: During his time working with Jay, Morgan has shown exceptional driving skills to the point where he is even capable of driving manual cars, mechanicalized vehicles (Boats and helicopters), and motorcycles with ease.
* **Master Marksman**: As shown in various fights, Morgan is extremely proficient with firearms, including pistols, revolvers, rifles, and 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. Due to his new and extensive knowledge of guerrilla tactics, Morgan has shown to be extremely skilled in scavenging and using whatever firearm that the enemy has to achieve his goals. Morgan can blend his marksmanship with hand-to-hand skills, being able to grapple, disarm, and even use his enemies' weaponry against them with precision.
* **Master Martial Artist**: Having been trained by a former Spec Ops operative (Jay Roberts), Morgan is shown 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, Hapkido, Systema, and Ninjutsu. He can quickly outmaneuver, outmatch, and outlast his opponents, even capable of taking on multiple opponents at once. Due to his quick wit, Morgan can adapt to his opponent's fighting styles, studying them during the fight and adapting to turn their strengths against them as seen in his fights. He also sometimes makes use of dirty tactics (such as eye gouges, biting, and striking the groin) and the environment around him to gain an advantage.
* **Knife Mastery**: Morgan is highly skilled in wielding and throwing blades, such as knives and axes. Combined with his extensive knowledge of anatomy and intense experience in Kali, he can use blades to find a suitable angle to either wound or kill an opponent during his fights.
* **Improvised Weapon Mastery**: In addition to his skills with firearms and martial arts, Morgan is very good with using whatever tools that he sees during his fights to gain an advantage over his opponents, as such a rifle to kill Arthur.
* **Peak Human Condition**: As he was trained by a former soldier of the United States Army, Morgan has displayed peak human physicality for a man of young age. He's extremely athletic, and his strength, stamina, speed, agility, reflexes, durability, and pain threshold are in top condition.
* **Peak Human Strength**: Despite his build, Morgan is very strong, capable of overpowering and restraining even larger opponents, knocking out or outright killing a skilled operator with a single strike, breaking their bones and necks with ease, and surprisingly ripping out their throats, eyes, and ears with relative ease, which shocked allies and enemies alike. Morgan was also capable of breaking out of handcuffs and other restraints fairly easily due to his specialized training.
* **Peak Human Durability**: Morgan is highly resilient and sturdy due to his time on the battlefield. Morgan can survive multiple gunshot wounds, stabbings/slashes, and blunt force trauma without feeling that much pain.
* **Peak Human Speed**: Morgan is extremely fast, especially for a man of his age. Morgan can outrun his opponents and can run and sprint far distances uninterrupted. In combat, Morgan's speed made him more dangerous as he used his new anatomical knowledge to quickly injure an enemy.
* **Peak Human Agility**: Morgan has extreme amounts of stamina. He can fight for considerate amounts of time and run great distances uninterrupted. He can flip and spin his way out of incoming gunfire with the impressive feats of an experienced gymnast and vault, scale, and traverse through difficult terrains and obstacles with ease. Even with being extremely injured or tired, Morgan required little time to recover before continuing the fight.
* **Peak Human Reflexes**: Morgan has incredible reflexes. Due to his time on the battlefield, he has displayed a fast reaction time, as he can evade bullets and melee attacks during combat with ease. Due to his expertise in guerrilla warfare, he can correctly assess the situation, understand the purpose, and react effectively, making it harder for the enemy to outwit him in the field. His senses are shown to be enhanced, having the capability to hear, smell, and sense his enemies from any direction and to avoid ambushes, raids, and sniper fire with ease.
* **High Pain Tolerance**: Despite his strong combat proficiency, Morgan has been injured throughout the series, but demonstrates a decent tolerance to pain, being able to survive near-fatal injuries, such as gunshot wounds, stabbing, blunt force trauma, and physical blows with ease.

## Equipment

* **Browning Hi-Power**: Morgan's sidearm. He notably carries it on his duty holster and used it to shoot Joseph Von Raines as Joseph went to kill Jay. His pistol is the MK III variant with customized grips, Novak sights, and chambered in JHPs.
* **S&W M&P-15**: Morgan's primary weapon. He notably used it against the Von Raines family and the Brubaker gang with ease and infamously used it to bash in Arthur's skull as Arthur tries to strangle Jay. His rifle is outfitted with a Trijicon TA31 ACOG, Magpul AFG, 30-round P-Mags with Ranger plates, a Magpul ACS-L stock, and an offset sight. In stealth, he used an Osprey square suppressor.

## Deaths

* **60 Brubaker Gang soldiers**: Shot to death.
* **Bruce**: Stabbed in the head.
* **20 Von Raines soldiers**: Shot and bludgeoned to death.
* **Arthur Callahan**: Bludgeoned to death.
* **Joseph Von Raines**: Shot in the throat.

## Trivia

* Morgan is the only law enforcement officer that Jay himself trained and had not he died, Morgan would have been a Reaper and Jay's, right-hand man.
* Morgan is considered to be the 4th dangerous person because he's a quick learner and can easily adapt to combat scenarios combined with Jay's training, he is seen to be on par with or surpass Jay in terms of combat readiness.
* Given his strong combat proficiency and use of automatic weaponry, it's hinted that Morgan has a military background.