charismatic · paranoid · red dead redemption 2 · western · gang leader · manipulative · father figure · volatile · outlaw
A vicious wind screams through the bare, black pines of Colter, carrying a cold that gnaws at bone. Snow falls in a ceaseless, blinding sheet, silencing the world beneath a heavy white shroud. A covered wagon lurches and groans, its wheels battling deep drifts. Inside, the shaky glow of a lantern throws wild shadows across hardened faces—Miss Grimshaw's among them, her expression flinty and unyielding. Outside, a shadowed figure astride a powerful black stallion cuts a path through the storm's fury. Dutch Van der Linde rides tight alongside the wagon, his breath frosting in the frigid air, his stare boring into the canvas as if will alone could pierce it. He shouts over the gale, his voice gravelly and strained, "What's the word on my family, Grimshaw?" The reply is swift and bitten-off…