Most Important Characters in Arthur Morgan’s Life

Arthur Morgan has met some interesting characters throughout his life, but none are as important and integral to his journey as the ones listed below. While there are some amazing characters in Red Dead Redemption 2, they can only be further highlighted as incredible and of utmost importance when compared to how they impact and shape the life of everyone’s favorite outlaw, Arthur Morgan.

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The most important characters who shaped Arthur Morgan’s life in Red Dead Redemption 2 can be seen below, along with what made them so important, and the impacts that they had on Arthur’s life to make him a good man, or a bad one in the dying Wild West.

Spoilers ahead for Red Dead Redemption 2!

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Mary Linton

Broke Arthur’s Heart and Showed Him His Humanity

Mary Linton is perhaps the most important woman in Arthur Morgan’s life. Mary is a fair lady, and one whom Arthur Morgan has always been foolishly in love with from the moment they met. With her life as a respectable woman of society and with his as an outlaw, their journey would never have them join forever in marriage, but Arthur and Mary yearned for each other equally.

Mary’s love for Arthur both hardened him as an outlaw and as a man with a heart, as when she broke his, he fell further into his criminal and bitter life with the Van der Linde gang, and also showed how his loyalties to the gang outweighs his infinite love for Mary Linton, a woman he always desired to be Mary Morgan.

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Abigail Roberts

A Lovely Woman Who Shows Arthur the Responsibility of Family

Another important woman in Arthur’s life wouldn’t come into it until the late 1890s with Abigail Roberts, a young orphaned woman who would prostitute herself for money and safety. While Arthur did have a crush on Abigail at one time, it wasn’t returned, for Abigail fell quite heavily for John Marston and even had his child, Jack Marston.

Arthur is always sweet and caring to Abigail, because both she and her son are a representation of what he lost when a woman named Eliza had Arthur’s son, Isaac, but the two were killed in a robbery while Arthur was out of town. The death of these two makes Arthur bitter in nature, and Abigail is a reflection of the importance of protecting a wife and a child instead of neglecting them, like the young Marston Golden Boy often does in 1899.

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Hosea Matthews

Despite Being a Thief, Hosea Instilled Some Good Values in Arthur

Hosea Matthews was one of Arthur’s fathers, not by blood, but by lesson. Hosea helped to raise Arthur after he and Dutch found him orphaned, and while Dutch was more occupied with lessons of grandeur and the perils of civilization, Hosea was more interested in honorable lessons like helping folk, robbing from the right people, and living off the land.

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Hosea’s respect for Indian Reservations, their people, and other important factors of societies in a West divided are clearly represented in Arthur, but perhaps far less than the charismatic forked tongue of Dutch Van der Linde as a surrogate father.

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Dutch Van der Linde

Shaped Arthur’s World View and Made Him an Outlaw

There is perhaps no man more responsible for Arthur Morgan than Dutch Van der Linde. Dutch raised Arthur as his own son, and taught him how to read, write, shoot, and even hate. Dutch crafted Arthur to be his loyal soldier, both as a right arm with a talent for gunslinging and as someone who hates civilization and the ways of society as much as he does.

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Dutch manipulated Arthur throughout his life, teaching him wrongs from rights until he had the perfect bitter outlaw to be forever loyal to. While Dutch raised Arthur as a son, the older Arthur got, the more he saw Dutch for what he was – not a man who loved him, but a man who just wanted to survive.

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Sister Calderon

A Nun Who Gives Arthur Some Optimism

Sister Calderon only meets Arthur Morgan towards the end of his life, but it’s clear that she helped him see what he never could – that redemption isn’t beyond him. Sister Calderon is a nun whom Arthur meets in Saint Denis, and teaches him that good exists, love exists, and that even without religion, he can be both pure and impure by following what his heart wants.

Every time Arthur meets Sister Calderon, she shares some insightful knowledge and philosophy, never pestering or ridiculing Arthur about his morals or religion, but instead simply speaking to a misguided man with her heart that gives him hope and optimism that he carries with him with his heroism and good deeds in the end.

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John Marston

Showed Arthur How to be a Bigger Brother

Arthur Morgan and John Marston grew up together, but John was the little brother when raised by Hosea and Dutch. For Arthur, there was always a level of resentment to John, since he was the Golden Boy, the little brother who could get away with so much because of how Dutch and Hosea viewed him, which is why the two haven’t always gotten along, but they’ve always looked out for each other.

It might take Arthur a while to realize it, but he sees in John what he could never have – a family, a life outside of the gang with Abigail and Jack. Arthur sacrifices everything to make sure that his little brother survives in the end, and that perhaps Marston won’t be such a fool as his older brother was.

Released

October 26, 2018

ESRB

M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Use of Drugs and Alcohol