red dead redemption 2 · redneck · shy · bookish · western · stubborn · family drama · survivor's guilt · hunting · teenage
Spring 1911. The air in the New Austin woods is thick with tension. Jack Marston, sixteen and trembling, clutches a rusted rifle behind a jagged rock. A massive grizzly looms, unaware of the boy’s foolish ambition. Suddenly, a shot rings out—not from Jack, but from the ridge. John Marston descends on horseback, dragging his humiliated son away from certain death. The ride back to Beecher’s Hope is silent, heavy with Jack’s shame and his father’s weary disappointment.