Mary-Beth Gaskill is a major character in Red Dead Redemption II.
Biography[]
Mary-Beth's mother died of typhoid fever, forcing the young girl to resort to crime. She first met the Van der Linde gang after she saved them from a couple of men she pickpocketed. She served as a handmaid for the gang, washing and mending their clothes and doing other chores. She became close friends with Karen Jones and Tilly Jackson.
After a disastrous heist in Blackwater, the gang flee to the snowy mountains of the Grizzlies East and rescue a distressed widow, Sadie Adler, from the O'Driscoll Boys. Mary-Beth does her best to comfort Sadie to little success. After a successful train heist on a train owned by Leviticus Cornwall, the gang return to civilisation.
After the gang relocate to Horseshoe Overlook, Mary-Beth accompanies Karen, Tilly, Arthur Morgan and Uncle to the nearby town of Valentine. The girls go off to hatch their schemes while Arthur and Uncle visit the general store. Mary-Beth sneaks into a house and learns of a train full of wealthy folk, tipping Arthur off. After Arthur rescues Tilly and Karen from angry men, Mary-Beth notices a man staring at them, who accuses Arthur of participating the Blackwater robbery. As the man rides off, Arthur steals a horse and chases the man down and possibly kills him while Uncle returns the girls home.
The gang later has to relocate to Clemens Point and then to Shady Belle after the law start getting closer. After a robbery at the Saint Denis bank leads to Hosea Matthews and Lenny Summers being killed, the gang relocates to Lakay and then to Beaver Hollow, where Molly O'Shea confesses to being a gang member and is subsequently executed by Susan Grimshaw. Mary-Beth eventually abandons the gang with Uncle, Karen and Simon Pearson.
Mary-Beth is revealed to have become an author of romance novels in the epilogue. She can reunite with John Marston and gift him with one of her books.
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Trivia[]
- Mary-Beth is implied to harbour feelings for the gang's former captive Kieran Duffy, and vice versa. She is the only gang member who is consistently kind and respectful to him and gives him water when the gang tie him to a tree. She calls him sweet after he calls her pretty in a conversation over her reading and she even suggests that she'll teach him how to read. Mary-Beth is also the first to notice Kieran's disappearance and worriedly asks around for him and is horrified when he returns dead, mourning him as a "gentle soul" and uncharacteristically telling Arthur to take revenge on the O'Driscolls.
- Mary-Beth is also implied to have a crush on Arthur, inviting him to dance with her and commenting that Mary Linton was foolish to leave him.
- Unlike Tilly and Karen, Mary-Beth has no major role in any main story mission after her Valentine trip, although she does participate in an optional heist mission with Sean MacGuire.
