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| “ | It's a nasty world out there, and it's catching up with us. | „ |
| ~ Leopold Strauss. |
| “ | You know how it is... people are happy to borrow off someone like me, but more enthusiastic paying back to someone like you. | „ |
| ~ Leopold Strauss to Arthur Morgan. |
| “ | You know... they-they say the sick delude themselves. I was your friend. | „ |
| ~ Strauss to Arthur as he's being kicked out of camp (while Arthur has high honor). |
Leopold Strauss is a supporting character in Red Dead Redemption II.
He is a member and loanshark for the Van Der Linde gang, allowing loans to people he perfectly know aren’t able to refund it. He is also inadvertently responsible for Arthur Morgan’s terminal illness, leading to the events of the story.
He was voiced by Howard Pinhasik.
Personality[]
Despite his initial appearance of being a coward, Strauss is always completely loyal to the gang, even after being forcibly kicked out of the ranks despite how much money he helped them make. One good example was during the mission "A Fine Night of Debauchery", where after Arthur and Javier Escuella are discovered and start a shootout, a guard soon enters the room and aims his gun at Javier while his back is turned, so Strauss hits him in the back of the head with a wine bottle to save him despite possibly killing a man. Strauss later proved his loyalty once again sometime after Arthur Morgan's death where he was captured and tortured for information on the remaining members of Dutch's gang and refused to say anything until he died.
Biography[]
Background[]
Leopold Strauss was born circa 1846 in Vienna, Austria in poverty. By the age of 14, his older brother was a petty crook who would beat up watchmen for food scraps. Strauss's father sold his own daughter into slavery at the age of 9. Strauss, his parents, and his older brother came to Texas in the United States.
He would be inducted into Dutch van der Linde's gang in early 1899, where Leopold would handle much of the gang's accounting. While on the run from the Pinkertons after the botched Blackwater robbery, Strauss has Arthur Morgan collect some debts from the people he had leant money to, one of whom had tuberculosis which he spread to Arthur.
Sometime after the gang set up camp in Beaver Hollow, Arthur finally exiles Strauss from the camp following another loan shark job for targeting people he knew could never pay back the debts and ruining their lives in the process. Should Arthur have high honor, he will shame Strauss for preying on poor, innocent and struggling people. If Arthur has low honor, he will simply label Strauss an embarrassment, a creep, and a parasite who had wasted his time. Either way, Arthur throws Strauss fifty dollars for him to take and kicks him out of the camp, writing in his journal that he couldn't stand the sight of him anymore and Strauss isn't seen for the rest of the game.
However, if Arthur doesn't go to collect the debts or if Strauss isn't approached in Beaver Hollow, he will simply leave when the gang collapses. During this, Strauss confronts Arthur and admits that he's running away. Arthur tells Strauss that he wishes he would miss him, but that he really won't before Strauss leaves on a horse.
Death[]
Sometime after his exile, Strauss was captured by the Pinkertons and was brutally tortured in an attempt to reveal the gangs location, however he refused and died from his injuries. In a way, Strauss has a redemption of his own because of this. After Charles reunites with John, Charles commends Strauss for going through this torture and that he never said a word about the old gang.
Gallery[]
Relationships[]
Allies[]
- Van der Linde gang
- Annabelle
- Hosea Matthews
- Dutch van der Linde
- Arthur Morgan
- Mac and Davey Callander
- Charles Smith
- John Marston
- Jack Marston
- Abigail Marston
- John Marston's daughter
- Simon Pearson
- Lenny Summers
- Jenny Kirk
- Karen Jones
- Suasn Grimshaw
- Josiah Trelawney
- Reverend Swanson
- Molly O'Shea
- Sean MacGuire
- Sadie Adler
Enemies[]
- Colm O'Driscoll
- O'Driscoll Boys
- Leviticus Cornwall
- Angelo Bronte
- Braithwaite family
- Gray family
- Pinkertons
- Andrew Milton
- Edgar Ross
- Micah Bell
- Lemoyne Raiders
- Murfree Brood
- Sheriffs
- Lawmakers
- Police
- Government agents
- Bureau of Investigation
Trivia[]
- His is considered the reason why Arthur got tuberculosis in the first place, because if he had not send him to Thomas Downes for loan payments then Arthur would not have contracted to the disease.
External Link[]
- Leopold Strauss - Red Dead Wiki
