Mordecai Heller

Mordecai begins working as an accountant and bookie for grifters, loan sharks and gambling operations, he finished his primary education and in need of money at the age of 17 extorts money from someone minor in the crime world and later murders them to replace their role and was able to embezzle money from higher-ranks though he is later caught. In fright Mordecai leaves New York on a getaway train to either Chicago or Detroit, he leaves all the money for his family and meets Atlas May and later leaves with him to St. Louis, Atlas helps Mordecai get out of his former troubles and Mordecai decides to join Lackadaisy as a sharpshooter, though after Atlas's death in 1926, Mordecai leaves and kneecaps his coworker Viktor, he later gets hired by Asa Sweet in early 1927 to be a triggerman for Marigold.

Mordecai is a anthropomorphic tuxedo cat. He has olive green eyes and short hair at the top of his head that droops down. He commonly wears the Marigold uniform with a red tie but occasionally wears a long, black coat with a beige fedora or a white-collared shirt with suspender pants and a black boots. Serafine forcibly carved a Voodoo protection glyph into Mordecai's chest when he refused to join the Maitre Carrefour cult. he has a blood stain in that area. According to a QNA page about eyebrows, Mordecai's were styled so he would always look mad.

Mordecai has a serious and annoying look all the time, He thinks before acting, he is very serious in his work and very organized, he wants everything to be in order and he does not like to have problems.

Mordecai's way of speaking is very particular, he will speak elegantly but also very directly, he is very serious when speaking and does not usually make jokes.

In regards to whether Mordecai has any hobbies, Tracy noted that, "Mordecai is generally working even when he's not officially working. There's almost always something to prepare for, and when there's not, he keeps his aim practiced, he buys and sells stocks, juggles money between accounts, sends mail, reads (for the applicable knowledge more than the enjoyment, he says), cleans, paces and sips tea". He also has a talent for math