Mordecai Winchester Junior (The Raider)

Co-founder/Second-in-Command of the Reapers (Formerly)

Hand-to-hand combat

Explosives

Investigation

Stealth

Athletics

Stamina

Intelligence

Charisma

Leadership

Forensics

Espionage

Negotiation

Natasha Mason Winchester (Wife)

The Underworld

**Mordecai RIchard Winchester Junior** (known as Junior) is the former deuteragonist and later an main character in the Raider series.

Mordecai is a discharged CO/combat veteran of the United States Army and an operator of the WTO PMC that fought alongside with Jay Roberts (his closest friend).

## Background

Born on December 18, 1993, Mordecai grew up in Arlington, Virginia. While nothing is known about his life, it's revealed by Mordecai himself that he lost his mother due to cancer and that he was raised into a military lifestyle by his father, who was a combat veteran in both the Gulf War and the War on Terror. He also graduated from West Point Academy and served for 8 years in the Army with his father, fighting in Syria and Afghanistan.

Mordecai stayed with his father and helped formed the W.T.O. and the Reapers after leaving the service. Jay and Mordecai began to work together in Argentina and quickly began to trust each other, despite their open hostility.

After coming back to the United States, Jay, with the help of Mordecai, was sent to Georgia to deal with Eric Steele, a former Army officer turned vicious leader of the Brotherhood, a ruthless militia force that enslaved a small town. After capturing Steele a while back, Jay and Mordecai were also sent to deal with Miles Harper, a bioterrorist that defected from the Green Hive, another private military company, to prevent him from launching a bomb buried in Washington DC. As time passed by, Jay and Mordecai became close friends and worthy allies due to their different skill sets and traits.

After Jay's initial attack, Mordecai was shown greeting Jay and giving him some flowers to help him cope with the loss of his wife. He also warned him about how the FBI is hunting the Red Order down for the attempted attack, which angered Jay. Mordecai quickly calms him down and told him not to attack the Red Order, even in his current condition. Despite this warning, Jay still attacked the Red Order, to Mordecai's dismay. Regardless, Mordecai stayed by Jay's side and helped out with defeating both the R.S.C. forces and Trevor's private army to save politicians.

Upon hearing that Jay was on the government's hitlist, Mordecai tries to help Jay by giving him a mission in Argentina (with Sophia's help). Even though their mission was to rescue their captured allies, both Jay and Mordecai were eventually caught in the crossfire and captured by the A.R.F. forces and after losing their allies and his father, Mordecai (with Jay's help) managed to wipe out most of the army and Jack's men later on after leaving Argentina.

Despite losing most of their closest friends, Mordecai (alongside Jay and his fellow Reapers) was sent to Dubai to capture David Kramer, whom Mordecai definitely loathed due to his violent nature. However, losing most of their brothers and sisters in an ambush and being nearly wounded began to take a toll on Mordecai, but Jay managed to keep him in check and managed to create a plan that could avenge their fallen.

By finding their location, Mordecai and Jay attacked the skyscraper while wielding automatic weapons and wearing advanced armor that they both scavenged. Despite their success, Mordecai was severely wounded by shrapnel and desperately ordered Jay to kill both Kramer and Wright.

As Jay managed to kill both the pilot and Wright as the helicopter spirals out of control, Jay tries to reach for a pistol upon fighting Kramer, but Kramer eventually grabs it and as he prepares to shoot Jay, Mordecai shoots Kramer, but Kramer turns the tables and shoots Mordecai dead, angered and encouraged an injured Jay to regain his strength and kills Kramer.

Despite being heavily impacted and mournful for letting his best friend die, Mordecai's death wasn't in vain as Jay managed to keep his name intact and killed anyone that tries to tarnish the WTO's name (notably Ryan Welles and posthumously Dean Mitchell).

## Personality

Mordecai is a fairly serious individual with a notable gung-ho attitude that most people (except Jay and his father) dislike. Due to his time in the Army, Mordecai was extremely polite and respectful towards his allies and high-ranking members of the PMC and tries to learn from his father about becoming a leader, making him slightly ambitious and prideful about his status, given his status within the PMC and known as the son of a highly decorated veteran.

At the start of his origin story and upon meeting Jay, Mordecai is shown to be extremely distrustful and openly hostile towards the new recruits (most notably towards Jay because Jay is very close to his father). Despite being hostile to Jay at first, Mordecai became closer to Jay and became closer friends and combat buddies.

Unlike Jay (who's more focused and calculated and has a strict moral code), Mordecai is shown to be more aggressive, trigger-happy, and hostile, having the capability to rip apart his enemies in combat via brute force. He's less willing to follow moral standards, having killed a pair of criminals (one of them was a child) and forcing Jay to cover his behind multiple times as he charges into battle, showing his violent attitude in combat.

However, Mordecai became slowly influenced by Jay's focused persona and is shown to be extremely focused and collected in combat, having calmed down after losing his father at the hands of Jack. Towards his enemies, Mordecai is more brutal, focused, and slightly overconfident as shown in his fight with Angelo Salazar and bragged about letting his men torture him, which resulted in the surviving Liberty Bombers and Angelo escaping his grasp.

Despite his negatives, Mordecai has some qualities that most people have never seen. His notable traits are his strong compassion towards his allies (as shown when Jack killed Helen and Jay preventing him from getting more reckless), his moral code (he never targets civilians and strongly protected his soldiers), and his courage (even ordered Jay to kill his archenemy after being injured).

Even in his final moments, Mordecai has shown his true nature as a brave, honorable individual that's always ready for a fight and has sacrificed himself to both protect Jay and to give him a fighting chance to kill Kramer, dying as a protective, courageous, and compassionate man that used his last moments to save his best friend and to avenge his fallen comrades.

## Appearance

As shown in his military photo, Mordecai is shown as an American man, standing at 5'11 and shown in his 30s, and has a lean and muscular build. He's also clean-shaven and has shorter hair.

As of 2039, Mordecai is shown to be in his mid to late 40s and has a high & tight fade, a heavy stubble beard, and a muscular build that is covered with notable tattoos and scars. He is shown to wear military-styled clothing like Jay but to a lesser extent.

In Dubai, Mordecai wore his ACU with makeshift armor when the pair (him and Jay) charged through Kramer's army just to kill their targets. His hair is now gray and grown out.

## Skills

* **High Intelligence**: Mordecai was shown to be a highly intelligent and methodical man and was highly adaptable to any situation given to him. Thanks to Jay, he is slightly more level-headed and can handle extreme stress to get out of dangerous situations by using incredible street smarts and brute force. He was capable of using his charm to gain the trust of enemies to blend in and complete his task.
* **Multilingualism**: As a former Green Beret, Mordecai is shown to be fluent in several languages, including English, Spanish, Latin (to a certain degree), French, and Arabic.
* **Master Tactician**: As a former Infantryman that is trained by his father, Mordecai 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 forcing information out just by looking at his captives' body language and telling lies without inducing intense emotion. He is a very effective leader and mentor, having trained, fought, and led his 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.
* **Expert Spy**: Having worked with the CIA SAD and trained by both his father and later Jay, Mordecai 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**: Mordecai is a master in stealth tactics, such as understanding the use of disguises to enter authorized locations 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.
* **Master Marksman**: As shown in his fights and his final stand, Mordecai 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 extensive knowledge of guerrilla tactics, Mordecai has shown to be extremely skilled with bows as well as scavenging and using whatever firearm that the enemy has to achieve his goals. Thanks to Jay, Mordecai is shown to be very capable to 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 his father (a former Green Beret and General), Mordecai is shown to be a somewhat exceptional 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, Mordecai 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 with Angelo Salazar, General Ramon, and various trained mercenaries. 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. His notable trait of H2H is when he killed Ramon with one hand and broke his neck with that hand.
* **Knife Mastery**: Mordecai 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 in a fight.
* **Improvised Weapon Mastery**: In addition to his skills with firearms and martial arts, Mordecai is very good at using whatever tools that he sees during his fights to gain an advantage over his opponents. A notable example is using a grappling gun to kill a Rebel W.T.O. operator.
* **Peak Human Condition**: As a former soldier of the United States Army, Mordecai 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.
* **Peak Human Strength**: Despite his somewhat slender build, Mordecai 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, breaking through walls and glass with some difficulty, and surprisingly ripping out their throats, eyes, and ears with relative ease. Mordecai was also capable of breaking out of handcuffs and other restraints fairly easily due to his specialized training.
* **Peak Human Durability**: Mordecai is highly resilient and sturdy due to his time on the battlefield. He can survive multiple gunshot wounds, stabbings/slashes, and blunt force trauma without feeling that much pain. The greatest feats of his durability were surviving a brutal impalement from helicopter wreckage and retaining enough strength to kill Kramer.
* **Peak Human Speed**: Mordecai is extremely fast, especially for a man of his age. He can outrun his opponents and can run and sprint far distances uninterrupted. In combat, His speed made him more dangerous as he used brute force and tactical formations to quickly rip apart enemy troops.
* **Peak Human Agility**: Mordecai has extreme amounts of stamina. He can use 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, Mordecai required little time to recover before continuing the fight.
* **Peak Human Reflexes**: Mordecai 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, Mordecai 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, Mordecai has been frequently injured at certain moments, but demonstrates a near-inhuman tolerance to pain, being able to survive near-fatal injuries, such as gunshot wounds, stabbing, blunt force trauma, and physical blows with ease. As shown in his fights with numerous opponents and even David Kramer, Mordecai has shown that he can outlast and outwit them by using his injuries against them, opening them up for a counter-attack.

## Equipment

**Weapons**:

* **Glock 17 (4th Generation)**: Mordecai's main sidearm. He notably used it in his final encounter with David Kramer after shooting him in the shoulder.
* **M4A1 Carbine**: Mordecai's primary weapon. He notably used the rifle to accurately kill or wound his opponents with relative ease, making him a skilled sharpshooter. His rifle is outfitted with a Trijicon TA31 ACOG sight, Magpul AFG and P-Mags, and an offset Vortex sight.
* **Knife**: Mordecai's primary melee weapon. He notably used it to stealthily kill his enemies. His knife is an Army-issued KA-BAR combat knife with a black handle.

## Deaths

**Murders committed by Mordecai**:

* **47 Iraqi Soldiers**: Shot to death.
* **79 of Hansel's Men**: Shot, beaten.
* **About 90 ARF Soldiers**: Shot to death.
* **About 50 Liberty Bombers**: Shot to death.
* **About 58 of Wright's Operatives**: Shot to death.
* **31 of Wright's Operatives**: Shot to death.
* **Jose Ramon**: Neck broke.
* **28 Brotherhood Members**: Shot to death.
* **12 of Miles Harper's Men**: Shot to death.
* **About 35 of Stillman's Soldiers**: Shot and beaten.
* **Daniel Stillman**: Stabbed in the neck and the head.
* **75 RSC Operatives**: Shot to death.
* **38 Green Hivesmen**: Shot to death.
* **177 ARF Soldiers**: Shot, stabbed, and beaten to death.
* **30 of Jack's Men**: Shot to death.
* **116 of Wright's and Kramer's Men**: Shot to death.

## Trivia

* Next to Jay, Mordecai is one of the most dangerous operatives in the Raider series, given his intense military background and deadly precision against his opponents.
* Mordecai has killed 868 people (2 antagonists included) in the Raider series.
* Mordecai was shown to sport tattoos:
	+ Tribal Tattoo (on his left bicep)
	+ Knife Tattoo (on his right forearm)
	+ Infantry Tattoo (on his left pec)
	+ United States Army Tattoo (on his upper back)
* When in combat, Mordecai seems to have a strong preference for rifles over pistols. In the Raider series, Mordecai is notably shown wielding his M4A1 carbine and, although he does carry a Glock pistol, it's extremely rarely used until the climax where he injured Kramer before dying.
	+ His preference for rifles most likely stems from his time in the Army and his specialized training, where a rifle would have been his main primary weapon while he would have little, if not lots, of experience with using pistols.
* As of his death:
	+ The Winchester family is now deceased.
	+ All of the Original W.T.O. members and the Reapers are deceased.
	+ Mordecai was the last living Reaper to injure, if not kill another Reaper (Kramer) while extremely injured.

* In the Raider Reloaded series, Mordecai became an antagonist and was the second-in-command of the Reapers, which in this timeline, is a CIA-founded mercenary group.