Jonny Winters

"Jonny Winters" is a co-leader of The Professionals, an ex-lawyer, and a business owner. His birth name is unknown to anyone besides him, he strictly goes by the nickname "Jonny," even having his name legally changed to go along with his new identity.

## Role-player Information

### Alternate Characters

*Inactive/Active*

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Jonny Winters is a character role-played by Palvand.

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## General Description

Jonny Winters stands at a towering 6'5", he has a slender but toned build. He is easily identified by his tattoos, especially the face tattoo near his left eye. He has blonde hair and a dark beard.

## Early Years

Jonny Winters was born on a chilly spring morning in 1992. The place of his birth is unknown, he was abandoned at a young age on the side of the road in rural Wisconsin. Police suspected he was born outside of a hospital, as no records of his birth could be found. Not knowing who his parents were, they were unable to track down any relatives to raise him. He bounced between foster families until he was 13, when he was arrested for burglarizing the neighborhood home of an affluent family. That family assured that he was sent to juvenile detention, where he spent 2 years. There, he learned from other inmates how to commit crimes more effectively.

After being released from juvenile detention, Jonny became a small time thief, working his way across the country. He posed as maintenance workers, realtors, construction foreman, and endless other disguises to plan and execute b&e's throughout the Midwest. He was rarely caught during this period, but when he was, managed to talk his way out of incarceration before fleeing the state, and adopting a new identity.

## Private Contractor

At the age of 19, Jonny found himself at a crossroads. He had hardly managed to hold on to any of the money he had acquired on his crime spree. Jonny found an old friend from juvie named Alfonso on Facebook, and decided to contact him to arrange a meeting. Jonny's goal was to see if they could begin a new venture together: organized crime. Jonny had grand ideas of racketeering, arms dealing, and anything he thought he could make money with. When Jonny arrived into town, and met with Alfonso, he quickly found out that his plans would change. Alfonso had recently joined a private "security" firm, similar to Merryweather. To this day, Jonny will not reveal the name of the firm to even his closest of friends. Alfonso explained to Jonny in private what they group did: regional destabilization work for the CIA. With Jonny's experience in changing identities, eluding suspicion, and thieving skills, he'd be a perfect fit. So, Jonny joined with the promise of huge government paychecks, all cash... all tax-free.

## "The War"

Jonny quickly became a natural at his new job. He used his silver tongue and criminal experience to assist in coups throughout the world, but slowly he became dissatisfied with his work. The pay was a lie, he was responsible for partially funding most of the assignments he was given. He was left with next to nothing after each world-changing event. He agreed to take one last assignment, and then he was out. His handler contacted him about a job in Russia: a small, independent group of militants have been captured by Russian forces after breaking in and obtaining secret intelligence from the Russian government. The assignment was easy: infiltrate the gulag in which they were being held, free them, return them to America for debriefing. Jonny had done this a million times before, and to top it off, the handler assigned Alfonso to the job as well.

The day came, Alfonso and Jonny boarded a small, private charter plane from London to the Czech Republic, another plane to Ukraine, and finally a third plane which landed them in a remote village several hours outside of Moscow.

The small amounts of this story Jonny has shared with close friends fills in only part of what happened during this mission, the rest is unknown. Jonny and Alfonso successfully infiltrated the compound under the cover of darkness, sticking to the shadows to remain unseen, they knew that personnel was strictly accounted for at the prison facility, there was no chance of a disguise. Each man carried only a suppressed 9mm pistol to keep the mission as covert as possible. They silently worked their way through the outside of the compound, neutralizing guards as they went. When they finally reached the main corridor housing the inmates, a large force of Russian soldiers were waiting for them, guns drawn, as if they knew they were coming. Jonny wondered how they had been caught, they were careful, no bodies were left exposed, no alarms triggered, but his question was soon answered. Alfonso stood up, walked to the Russians, and pointed his gun towards Jonny.

Jonny was taken prisoner at the compound. The exact amount of time he spent there is unknown. For what seemed like months, if not years, he was beaten, tortured, and kept isolated. For Jonny, all hope was lost, but unknown to him, freedom was on the horizon.

In the early hours of the morning, hours before the light of the sun would warm the cold Russian air, Jonny was awoken by a guard. He stood up, and was escorted with the barrel of an AK-47 in his back. His bare feet touched the cold snow, he raised his head and saw a line of other prisoners with sacks over their heads, and an armed guard standing in front of each one. He knew this was the end. He approached his position at the firing line, when a large explosion burst the gates of the compound open. The guards and prisoners alike were thrown from the blast, a piece of shrapnel imbedding itself into Jonny's left ankle. He picked up the gun of one of the fallen guards, ready to help his rescue party, when he heard one of the invaders shout "Find the American!" He realized this was no rescue party, but new captors. He fired upon them as he got to his feet, and fled inside the building, followed closely by a fellow prisoner, the only one to survive the bloodbath. He removed the sack from the prisoner's head, but had no knife or means of untying his hands. The prison was defenseless, but Jonny was determined to finish the job, and get him stateside. He collected himself, put the prisoner behind him, and started to move. Jonny had never been more focused, he tactically and efficiently removed any opposition that stood in his way. He escorted the prisoner to the armory, where he found a knife to cut the restraints. He handed the prisoner a rifle, and asked him his name. "Nikolai Vasilevskiy" the prisoner stated, and in broken English "you call me Niko."

Jonny and Niko continued to move towards the rear of the compound, executing any guard between them and freedom. They reached the back wall of the gulag, there was no gate. Their only means of escape was a 20 foot drop into the cold, rocky tundra. Jonny and Niko jumped in near perfect unison, but as they leaped, a bullet ripped through Niko's calf, when he landed, he felt and heard a loud crunch. The bullet weakened the bone, and the impact smashed it completely, causing it to pierce through his skin. The guard peeked over the side of the wall, ready to execute them, but Niko, even in incredible pain, took aim, and fired a single shot between the guard's eyes, ending the threat. Jonny stood up, put Niko's arm around his body, and they vanished into the darkness.

Niko and Jonny made it safely back to the United States, only to find out that with the time that had passed, the government had moved on, they got their information elsewhere. The mercenary group had abandoned Jonny. Niko swore he would forever be in Jonny's debt for saving his life. Neither of them talk about the events much, only referring to it as "the war."

## A New Home

Promising his new comrade a better life than either of them had before, Jonny set his sights on a New Chance: Los Santos. He moved to the city with hardly a dime to his name, but with a goal in mind: organized crime. During his time overseas and at home, he saw the violence of pettiness of street gangs as a hinderance to the ultimate goal: money. He thought he could do it better, and he quickly found a family with the same intentions.

It is unknown how Jonny and Niko met the Miller family, but when they met they all knew they had the same plans for the future. He and his new friend, Paul Miller, quickly realized that two heads are better than one. With Jonny's experience and silver tongue, and Paul's intelligence, they could create an empire. They started small, and brough Niko in as an enforcer, and filled the ranks with friends and family who wanted to prosper. With their new approach to crime, and their desire to go under the radar as businessmen, they created The Professionals.