Morris Reyes

Morris Reyes, commonly known as Rook, is a mercenary working under the services of anyone willing to pay.

### Biography

Morris Reyes is born on February, 25th 2028. His father is latino-american while his mother is american. He is born in the Corporate field and raised by his lovely parents who want for him the highest education he could get. Morris gained the highest grade his whole life and had a good reputation among his classmates. He used to be very sociable and happy. His mother was a receptionnist at an expensive hotel while his father was a powerful businessman. He even projected Morris to take his place at his death. But the father had made a lot of enemies because of his greed, especially among the poor population.

One day, while his father was driving them to a highway, a gang of low-grade thugs drives nearby and blasts his head off with a shotgun. Therefore their car rolls sideward and crashes against a truck full of gasoline, nearly blowing up the bridge and killing everyone. While the mom dies because of the fire, teenager Morris escapes and waits for the Trauma Team. Assured, he is taken to emergency while he deals afterwards with his parents' death. Revengeful, he decides to use some of his money to hire a hired gun in order to bring to him the head of the assassin. The hitman successes his mission and brings him the head. Morris burns it into his chimney before continuing his routine. Unfortunately, as an orphan, his mood quickly changes and he becomes depressive.

Reaching 25 and despite being in good position for taking his father's entreprise back, he leaves the Corporate to live in the poor side of Night City in order to become a mercenary. Using his Corporate background, he gains some fortune to get a decent apartment, a car, some guns and especially some implants enhancing his physical abilities. Despite leaving, he still keeps contact with some personnalities from the Corporate. As a mercenary, he pursues the mission to kill the most criminals he can, still traumatized by his parents' death. At 17, he will meet his friend Dutch, who is a homeless nomad moving into Night City to sleep with a friend. Both become good friends and Dutch becomes a bartender in the future.

Morris will then meet during a mission a foreign member of his family : Jonathan Riley, named Scorpion.

### Traits and personnality

Ever since his parents' death, Morris Reyes developed some kind of depressive attitude and a behaviour nearly going to the suicidal genre. He spends his time drinking small drinks and walking into the street, despite the dangerousity of Night City. Despite that, he still shows some human behaviours, such as kind, understandable, selfless and emphatizing. As a mercenary, during the missions, toward hostiles, he is cold, focused, determined and pragmatic. The scar on his cheek comes from the day when a drunk jealous husband hit him with a bottle of whiskey.

### Cybernetics and skills

#### Blue eyes

His cybernetic eyes allow him to see through the dark and get intels - in one second - on anyone registered to the NCPD or the register of the city.

#### Reflexes

With the time and the age, Reyes has developed a sixth sense which allows him to dodge in extremis incoming bullets. He has been able to rivalize against skilled killers with swords, guns or other deadly weapons.

#### Intelligence

Thanks to his childhood in high-society, Morris Reyes has gained some large common knowledge about a lot of countries and any subject.

#### Hand-to-hand combat

Morris is among the best boxers in Night City. He has easily knocked out some heavy fighters, such as nightclub guards.