Mike Walker is a co-leader of the Castle Settlement and a former resident of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Settlement. He is a supporting character in Tom Clancy's The Division: Broken Dawn.
Having led a group of refugees to join the Castle after the Mandarin Oriental Hotel was destroyed by flooding, he and Junie became its informal community leaders.
Biography[]
Mike Walker was previously a resident of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Settlement, which the Joint Task Force had converted into a refugee camp following the Green Poison outbreak. However, in early April of the next year, the waters of the nearby Potomac River overflowed its banks, flooding a vast area of southern D.C., including the Mandarin Oriental.
Left homeless, Walker led a group of fellow residents, including Violet and six other children, to the Castle Settlement further north, where they were welcomed and integrated. Walker and the Castle's original leader, Junie, assumed cooperative leadership of the community and guardianship of the various orphaned children.
Tom Clancy's The Division: Broken Dawn[]
Three weeks after resettling at the Castle, Walker and Junie began debating about the True Sons, a band of JTF deserters who had begun taking over nearby facilities in southern D.C., including the Capitol Building and Air & Space Museum. He was certain they would eventually try to control the Castle, while Junie insisted the JTF would protect them.
During a trip to the Lincoln Memorial, Walker, Junie, and the children were attacked by a band of hostile scavengers, and Walker was shot in the arm and leg while covering the children's escape. The group was ultimately rescued by two Division agents, Fujikawa and Pearson, who escorted them back to the settlement. Thereafter, Walker was confined to walking with a crutch and suffered from periodic exhaustion.
As the True Sons' territory grew, JTF officers warned the Castle that their patrols were being spread thin, and advised the residents to relocate to other settlements such as Ford's Theater for their safety. Shortly afterwards, a group of True Sons arrived and offered them protection in exchange for tribute. After some deliberation, Walker and Junie held a communal vote on their allegiance, which ultimately favored the JTF by a wide margin. They began fortifying the Castle's defenses and petitioned the JTF for weapons and reinforcements.
The True Sons eventually launched an attack on the settlement, and Walker urged Violet and the other children to find shelter as he joined the other residents in its defense; the children were later rescued by April Kelleher, who led them to the White House. Agent Alani Kelso later told Kelleher that the settlers successfully fended off the assault, but Walker's fate is not known.
Personality[]
Walker and Junie act as guardians for Violet and the other orphaned children at the Castle. While Junie attempts to shelter the children from the rampant violence in D.C., Walker believes it is futile to lie about their grim reality, and instead tries imparting them useful survival skills, such as scavenging or taking cover from gunfire. He was one of the only adults to try defending them during a scavenger attack, and was badly wounded as a result.
Of the Castle's leadership, Walker is more cynical and pragmatic compared to Junie, which often leads to arguments between the two about the settlement's safety. As the True Sons began expanding their territory in D.C., Junie believed they would remain safe if they simply kept their heads down and trusted in the JTF, while Mike was certain that they would eventually try to take the Castle Settlement and stressed the need to bolster their own defenses. However, he ultimately counseled siding with the JTF over the True Sons, as he believed helping armed rebels would make the settlement a target in the coming conflict.