Dutch van der Linde

Summary
Dutch is one of the main characters in Red Dead Redemption 2 and has a key role in the sequel, Red Dead Redemption. He is an outlaw and the leader of the Van der Linde gang.

History
Dutch was born in 1855 to an English mother and a Dutch father. He ran away from home at the age of 15 after his father died and his relationship with his mother then quickly deteriorated afterwards; he began a life of crime and met Hosea Matthews, a conman that he met while they were both attempting to rob each other. He formed a gang with Hosea and built a family of sorts of people outcasted or with nowhere else to turn, and who also shared Dutch's views of independency and free-living.

Appearance & Personality
During the course of Red Dead Redemption 2, Dutch is shown as an average-built, 44 year old man. He has black, silver streaked, curled hair with that is often slicked back under his hat, a black moustache and a soul patch under his lips. Dutch often chooses to wear expensive, elegant outfits, and is usually shown in a black and red waistcoat, sometimes with a black coat, a white pinstripe shirt, and a black hat.

Dutch values individual freedom and is against the civilisation of the West by the government; he has an anarchistic worldview in the way that he acts often with violence to achieve his goals. He is a 'Robin Hood' type outlaw, as he prefers to steal from the rich people that abuse their power to exploit others, and often takes advantage of any chance of conning the rich out of their money.

He is very educated, and uses his knowledge to act as a teacher to the other gang members, along with his best friend Hosea Matthews, he has worked to teach those that join his gang to read, write, and draw. Dutch is interested most in books that teach of philosophy and anthropology, usually basing his own political and philosophical views on what he has read.