John Marston is a recurring character in the Red Dead series, appearing as a central character and the primary protagonist of Red Dead Redemption and its non-canon Undead Nightmare expansion pack, and is a central character and the secondary protagonist of Red Dead Redemption 2.
With the addition of the Liars and Cheats DLC pack, John Marston is also a multiplayer character model that may be selected in the "Redemption" section of the Outfitter. With the addition of the Undead Nightmare DLC pack, an undead version of him, known as Zombie Marston , is a Multiplayer character model that may be selected in the "Zombies" section of the Outfitter. John Marston was born in [1] in the northern United States. John was subsequently sent to an orphanage, where he spent the next few years.
He eventually ran away and tried to make his own luck living out in the streets. At the age of 11, John committed his first murder when he shot a man, although he claimed it was not his fault. Dutch van der Linde stepped in and saved the young boy, taking him under his wing; [7] [10] John was thus inducted into the Van der Linde gang , alongside Hosea Matthews , Arthur Morgan , and Susan Grimshaw. The gang became a surrogate family to the young boy, with Dutch becoming his mentor and father figure.
He taught John how to read, shoot, hunt, gather, and instilled him with a love of nature and things other than power. At some point in his life, John knew of or met a man who had been bitten by a dog and ended up dying an hour later.
John developed into an experienced outlaw, running with Dutch, Hosea, Arthur, Bill Williamson , Javier Escuella and several others, committing robberies, raids, murders, kidnappings and other crimes across the American frontier. Marston had fallen under the sway of Dutch's philosophy, believing that the gang stole and fought for a reason.
