Young Arthur Morgan And John Marston

Arthur morgan is a better protagonist than john marston.

Young arthur morgan and john marston. Arthur and john were more or less like brothers as both of them were raised by dutch and hosea for 15 years. A few weeks ago i dedicated a fair amount of words to talking about why the original red dead redemption s protagonist john marston is to put it plainly so damn good. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. John marston hires arthur morgan a private detective to look into the death of heidi mccourt a former friend who he suspects was the victim of foul play rather than suicide.

971 points 1 year ago. Instead of the one night stand with eliza arthur sleeps with the reader with similar consequences. John marston was the. Dutch van der linde stepped in and saved the young boy taking him under his wing.

Despite his ability to commit great acts of violence arthur has his own moral code and doesn t believe in what he deems as unnecessary killing especially if it endangers himself or those he cares about. Notably arthur was kind and polite to john marston s then four year old son jack having a gentle demeanor around the young boy in contrast to his threatening persona. This hurt arthur deeply and left him feeling betrayed and also annoyed at john not appreciating the family he had. John was thus inducted into the van der linde gang alongside hosea matthews arthur morgan and susan grimshaw.

His investigation leads them into the middle of an escalating war between two powerful gangsters fighting for control over west elizabeth s bootlegging industry both of which arthur has unpleasant and unfinished history with. In 1885 at the age of 12 marston had been caught stealing by homesteaders in illinois who planned on hanging him. However their relationship strained when john ran away for little over a year after getting abigail roberts pregnant with his son jack. Arthur is 26 years old reader is 20 and john marston is 16.