  |
This article's content is marked as Mature The page contains mature content that may include coarse language, sexual references, and/or graphic violent images which may be disturbing to some. Mature pages are recommended for those who are 18 years of age and older. If you are 18 years or older or are comfortable with graphic material, you are free to view this page. Otherwise, you should close this page and view another page. |
| “ | We have lived in this house for a hundred and twenty years. We never had no problems 'cept for Yankees. | „ |
| ~ Catherine after being captured by the Van der Linde gang. |
Catherine Braithwaite is a major antagonist in the 2018 action-adventure video game Red Dead Redemption II, serving as one of the two main antagonists (alongside Leigh Gray) of the Clemens Point chapter.
She is the head and matriarch of the Braithwaite Family, who are rivals of the Gray Family in the Scarlett Meadows region of Lemoyne and associate of Italian crime boss Angelo Bronte.
She was voiced by Ellen Harvey in motion capture.
Biography[]
Background[]
Little is known about Catherine’s past. It is known that she is from English descent and had four children with an unknown man : Bartholomew, Gareth, Gerald and Gertrude. However, as Gertrude was disfigured and mentally unwell, she was locked in an outhouse on the Braithwaite Manor land rather than being sent to a sanitarium, in fear of the family name being tarnished if word of Gertrude’s health ever got out.
The abolition of slavery in 1865, following the defeat of the South in the Civil War, significantly damaged the Braithwaites, who lost a huge amount of money, as well as the Grays. Prior to 1899, Catherine began selling moonshine to the Lemoyne Raiders through an illegitimate side business, acquainted Angelo Bronte and had a passion for Thoroughbred horses.
Events of Red Dead Redemption II[]
In 1899, the Van der Linde gang had stolen a shipment of liquor from the Braithwaite family, on behalf of the Grays. Leading members Hosea Matthews and Arthur Morgan sell the liquor back to the Braithwaites, who offer them and their leader Dutch van der Linde work. She tells them to sell the moonshine at the saloon in Rhodes to advertise their product, where they are eventually ambushed by Lemoyne Raiders who were hoping to buy the moonshine from Catherine herself.
On the suggestion of Tavish Gray, Arthur, John Marston and Javier Escuella stole Catherine’s prized horses to sell them for good price, although Tavish scammed them on the real price, angering the three men. Before or after this mission (the player can choose to start one or the other), Catherine has Arthur and Sean MacGuire sneak onto Caliga Hall to burn down the Gray’s tobacco fields in order to permanently put them out of business.
Eventually, after realizing she had been fooled, she ends up double-crossing the Van der Linde gang and kidnaps John and Abigail Roberts’ four year old son Jack before selling him to Angelo Bronte in Saint Denis. This proves to the nail in the Braithwaites’ coffin, as in retaliation, Dutch and numerous gang members leaves immediately to ambush the mansion and get the boy back. The Van der Linde gang successfully dispatches Catherine's henchmen and raids her mansion. After her two last sons and guards are shot, Catherine is found hiding in a room and refuses to reveal Jack’s whereabouts, continuing to insult them. Dutch decides to take her outside and finish one of her son who was still barely alive to fuel her agony and drags her in the stairs by the hair and outside the mansion, as the gang sets it on fire.
Outside, as the mansion starts to burn, Catherine claims that there isn’t rules in war, before finally revealing she gave Jack to Bronte. The gang then leaves the scene and Catherine runs back into her mansion in distress and dies in an act of self-immolation.
Relationships[]
Allies[]
- Lemoyne Raiders
- Angelo Bronte
- Saint Denis Mob
- Business owners
Ennemies[]
- Van der Linde gang
- Gray Family
- Politicians
- Yankees
Personality[]
Being a wealthy deep southern woman in the late 1800's, Catherine Braithewaite is an egotistical and proud person, believing herself to be superior to most others and especially those she considers "Yankees" since her home was a former confederate slave plantation.
Catherine was so petty that she kidnapped Jack, an innocent young kid as the gang stole their liquor. This proves that she has no problem going beyond what is good to get back at people. And will betray anyone for profit. But one thing she has going for her, is her undying love to her sons as she cries and yells after they are killed. Even commmiting suicide to honor them.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- If the player returns to the mansion after it's burned to the ground and loots what's left of her body, they will find "Catherine's Brooch" which is the very same shown around her neck, and can be sold to a fence for a good price.
- The player can also find a small lockbox left of her body hidden in shrubbery and in it, is a single gold bar worth $500, ironically confirming that Dutch was technically correct about one of the families hiding gold.
External Link[]
- Catherine Braithwaite - Red Dead Wiki
