Jonathan Wallace (Outlaw’s Saga)

Jonathan Django Wallace also known as John, or by his tribal birth name, “Eagle Watches” (b. February 8, 1880 - d. December 25, 1936) was a former Wapiti-African American outlaw of the Southwestern United States of America. He was a gun-for-hire that traveled from California to Lemoyne, U.S.A., even to Texas and Mexico. He also became somewhat of an Assassin, but worked outside of the creed. He eventually retired, married, and had a family of three children. He appeared in The Outlaw’s Saga of open-world game series, serving as the primary protagonist of Red Dead Revolution and its follow-up, The Aftermath, and the deuteragonist as well as the secondary protagonist of Red Dead Revolution II.
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Jonathan Django Wallace was born on February 8, 1880 to Horatio Wallace, an African American (of Dominican and Haitian descent) traveler and known outlaw, and a Wapiti Native American tribal woman named Crying Hawk from the Heartlands of New Hanover Territory. His first name was a play on the name John Ringo, a legendary outlaw who had lived through the early to mid 19th Century, and his middle name was named after a notorious former enslaved turned outlawed Black man named Django Freeman, whose story was told across the frontier, which caught Horatio’s attention. John was born somewhere in a wagon in the Grizzlies, a day before arriving at the Wapiti Indian Reservation. A few months before John was born, his father was lynched by outlaws, who have attempted to rob him due to his skin color. Soon after, the U.S. Army came to herd the Wapiti Indians towards a reservation within the valleys of Ambarino. John was born en-route, somewhere around Grizzlies West. He was raised by his mother and family members. However, by the time he turned fifteen, he grew bitter due to his early knowledge of his father’s death and him not wanting the life of isolation. His mother understood him and helped him escape the reservation, with John promising to return once he has settled someplace and liberate their family. Unfortunately, he was never able to fulfill his promise before 1899, when the reservation was completely abandoned. After his escape, he fled and hid out in the Roanoke Ridge hills of New Hanover for a while before taking odd jobs across east side of the Lannahechee River in New Hanover and in the state of Lannahechee. 
=== Arrest and Upbringing ===
Around February 12th of 1898, John had wound up in the small city of Blackwater, West Elizabeth, where a murder had took place, with the victim being Phillip LeClerk, a rich businessman. After getting a drink and silently enjoying the ambience of the saloon, which earned him the suspicions of the citizens around him, he suddenly heard pistol gunshots coming from down the road. As a result, John quickly rushed to the scene, where he discovered Phillip LeClerk's dead body. The police arrived and immediately assumed that he had murdered him due to his shady demeanor, his race, and his possession of weapons. They immediately tackled him, with a U.S. marshal making his arrest and sending him to the police chief's office. As a result, he was processed and sent to work in Sisika Penitentiary, Lemoyne for six months before he would be executed.
=== Second Lease in Life ===
Roughly a week before he was due to be hanged for the crime he did not commit, John was called upon by prison guards Jenkins and Milliken to get into a wagon with a handful of other prisoners to work on a mining detail outside of Blackwater. The wagon dragged on until they reached Big Valley, north of Blackwater, in which three armed men blocked the path with another wagon and demanded the two guards to stop. The leader then ordered them to step off of the wagon, toss down their guns, and run away without looking back. He then ordered the prisoners to run away, except for John, whom he ordered to stay behind. After paying off the two helpers, the man introduced himself as Horley and instructed John to pick up the discarded guns and follow him to his mistress' camp.
Once at the camp, he was introduced to Jessica LeClerk, the widow of Phillip. She revealed that she was aware of John’s innocence in her husband's death due to the fact that his revolver cartridges did not match the ones that were fired at the scene, which were pistol cartridges and revealed that his death was caused by four possible suspects: Amos Lancing, a politician in Blackwater and crook, Jeremiah Shaw, another politician and crook, Grace Lancing, Amos' wife and Jessica's former best friend, and Teddy Brown, Grace's disgraced brother. She offered him assistance in clearing his name and helping him survive, in exchange that he helped her bring those who were responsible for Phillip's death to justice. John silently agreed and befriended J.B. Cripps, being granted a camp. He also assisted horse thieves Cleet and Clive in stealing a horse and helped out the sheriffs across the territories.
=== Morals of a Gunslinger ===
After assisting the sheriffs of Valentine, Blackwater, and Tumbleweed, Horley suggested for John to visit U.S. Marshal Tom Davies in Tall Trees. He did so with a small posse, where he was briefed on a Mexican outlaw named Alfredo Montez, being wanted in five states and two countries and was last seen near Manzanita Post. The posse then rode to Manzanita Post and met up with Lee, a hunter, who assisted the posse in navigating the redwood forest to locate Montez, dispatching every patrol en-route, before discovering the location of Montez's hideout near the Swadbass Point cabin in Aurora Basin that was surrounded by Del Lobos. John used a sniper rifle to take a shot at the man who was presumed to be Montez and killed him before assisting the posse in clearing out the basin. Lee decapitated the corpse and with the rest of the posse, took some horses and rode back to Manzanita Post, dispatching any Del Lobo reinforcements along the way. When they reached the post, Lee showed Davies the head, which he revealed that it was not Alfredo Montez himself, but in fact, was his brother, Jorge Montez. He continued to pay John and the rest of the posse for their hard work, but less due to the fact that they had killed the wrong person. Davies then proposed that John meet him in Van Horn whenever he got the chance.
=== Vengeance ===
After a week of work, Jessica and Horley were able to locate Teddy Brown within Fort Mercer, New Austin, and called John and another small posse of hired guns to assist her. John and the posse, with the help of Horley and some marshals, armed themselves with Australian armor to protect themselves within the fort. After killing many of Brown's men, Teddy emerged himself and armed with the same piece of armor and a repeater, began fighting the posse until they successfully wore him down to the point where he grew exhausted fighting. Jessica herself charged in and demanded the answer of her husband's murderer. Teddy further insulted Phillip and confirmed that he was the one who murdered him. When Jessica demanded the answer of who put him up to the murder, he refused to further answer her questions, provoking her to execute Teddy Brown with a single bullet to the forehead, all while John watched in satisfaction.
=== Montez Hunt ===
=== Vengeance Ending ===
=== A Life of Shine ===
=== The Lemoyne Inferno & Moonshine Success ===
=== Manhunt & Disappearance ===
=== Outlaw Beginnings ===
Around September of 1899, John, who spent a whole year in hiding near Las Venturas, Robada, finally grew homesick and decided to return home. John hitched a ride on a wagon down south all the way back to Saint Denis and arrived in the daytime, ready to start fresh. He then rode all the way back to Wapiti, hoping for his family to be present. However, when he arrived, he saw it was abandoned, and as he looked around, he noticed a grave reading "Crying Hawk - beloved huntress and mother of the Brown Child," causing him to crouch and scream in anger and sadness as he had realized that his mother had passed away before he even arrived, and his tribe had left, never to return.
=== Contracting Days ===
=== The Covington Emerald Heist & Second Disappearance ===
=== The Bloodshed in Lannahechee & Return to Lemoyne ===
=== The Il Sovrano Heist & Third Disappearance ===
=== The Ember of the East Heist & Fourth Disappearance ===
=== Final Disappearance and Later Life ===
After the successful strings of robberies for the Italian Mob and the defeat of Gene “Beau” Finley, John quickly disappeared, last sighted near Lagras, where many presumed him dead, either by being killed by the wildlife or the Night Folk lurkers. In reality, John enlisted the help of the mob to make it look like he was killed in the swamps and find a safe and discreet passage to Mexico to hide out. The mob successfully smuggled him out of America and into Mexico on the south side of the Lannahechee River. From there, John spent the next three years hiding, eventually traveling to the desert state of Nuevo Paraíso, settling temporarily in Chuparosa.
By early 1908, things have calmed considerably for John and, feeling homesick once again, he decided to migrate back into America, making his way back to his home - to the remote region of the Grizzly Mountains.
On the way, John met a fellow traveler, who was a Dominican-Navajo Native American huntress and bounty hunter. The two developed an interest and even worked together at times. On one fateful day, the two established a rendezvous and after a sexual encounter, resulted in the conception of their first son, Samuel Wallace, who was born in 1909. The two married after and settled in southern Ambarino on an abandoned ranch. By 1911, the two had a second son, Hagen. By 1914, John’s wife was pregnant with a girl, but he was finally tracked down and forced into action once more.
=== The Great Southern Purge ===
In 1914, the U.S. government tracked John down and although they could've had him arrested or killed for his past crimes, they saw his heroic deeds as well and decided to put his skills to good use. With the old West dying and little gangs are left, the government called upon John to go back down south into West Elizabeth, New Austin, and even Nuevo Paraíso, find all gang hideouts, clear them out, and destroy the remaining gangs. John intially refused to do so, given that his daughter would be born fairly soon and he did not respect government, but was faced with an ultimatum: either do the government’s dirty work and be able to go home when it is done and live freely, or be shot down for his crimes, have his ranch repossessed, and children orphaned, John begrudgingly agreed and with this, packed his guns and made his way to Saint Denis for briefing.
After doing so, he was sent to Blackwater, where he was supplied sufficient gun and ammunition supplies to help him. John stayed in the Blackwater Hotel until he was ready to take a train ride to New Austin, arriving in Armadillo. He tried to ask for directions to Twin Rock, considering that he did not remember where it was as it has been nearly a decade since his last visit. The customer began to get violent and John retaliated. He beat down the thugs who were gaining up on him, with one of them reaching for a knife. John immediately pulled out his gun and dispatched the thugs, realizing that they were gang members. He picked up a map from their corpse and fled, but was ambushed by Armadillo lawmen, who shot John in the abdomen. He was cleared of his charges and was patched up in the doctor’s office, but was told that if he were to return to Armadillo, he would be arrested or shot on sight. John acknowledged this and left, using the map to find Twin Rocks as well as getting the layout of the state of New Austin, southern West Elizabeth, and the Mexican state of Nuevo Paraíso.
=== End of the Purge ===
After John had finished doing the last of the government's work, they faced him one last time in Blackwater, and as they promised, they allowed him to return home, while also clearing his name of all of his previous crimes.
=== Hunting Game and Family Massacre ===
Around mid February of 1932, John went hunting for moose within the Grizzlies, with his son, Sam, tagging along. However, after a day of fruitless hunting, the two men returned home to find that their home had been broken into. Only when they went into their home, they discovered that their entire family was butchered and murdered, which sent John and Sam into blind rage and pure bitterness. They discovered one man still on the property and he attempted to run, with Sam catching him quickly. The two men then proceeded to beat the man close to death using hammers, demanding who committed the horrific act. Under the threat of a slow and painful death, the man revealed himself to be part of a new cult that was established out of the Seventh Generation, after John had murdered "the Shepherd," Virgil Edwards years ago, and that the cult had been biding their time for years and have come to murder John in retribution, but found that his family was home. He started crying, saying that his leader ordered for him to murder his wife and children, and begged forgiveness. Sam refused to grant him his wish for forgiveness and smashed his head in with his hammer. Jon simply stood catatonic for several moments as he reflected on his murder of Edwards years ago and suddenly collapsed and screamed in anguish.
=== Bounty Hunting in Oklahoma ===
=== New Bordeaux Lead ===
=== Texas Imprisonment ===
=== Following Leads to Missouri ===
=== Trapped in Eternity Mines and Sacrifice ===
=== Legacy ===
Sam ultimately pursued John’s killers. In the end, Sam succeeded in getting revenge for his murder, but was forever condemned from ever returning to the west, now being forced to run away to the far East due to his actions that were considered monstrous.
Although Sam was John’s only remaining son, he continued to have six children altogether with two different women in two different areas: Liberty City, Liberty and Ludendorff, North Yankton. With this, Sam managed to keep the Wallace bloodline and name ongoing. His ancestry is later passed down to modern criminal Joel Wallace of Liberty City, who resides in San Andreas as of the 2020s while also having a son as well.
As of the 2020s, he has several living descendants, namely Joel Wallace, Kaylee Wallace, and Luke Wallace, each one having child(ren) of their own.
John also documented that he believed that he has fathered at least one child or even more throughout his adventures as at times, he either seduced waitresses, fellow travelers, or prostitutes and often slept with them. However, none of his illegitimate children are acknowledged or known.
== Appearance ==
=== Physical ===
John appeared to be a young man with a dark complexion and black hair. It can be noted that he also had brown eyes. He was also relatively skinny in physical shape.
Around the time he returned to the southwestern territories in 1899, he had a more haggard appearance, sporting a beard and appeared dirty. He later cleaned up and although he kept the beard for days, he eventually found the chance to shave it, giving himself his signature clean-shaven face.
By 1932, John appeared to look old, having gray hairs and a beard once again. He still retained his stocky appearance.
=== Clothing ===
== Personality ==
=== 1898 ===
John was a bitter but silent young man, who was raised in one of the worst ways possible: on a reservation, and eventually, in the wilderness. However, he found the resolve to keep going and did not stop. However, when he was framed for Phillip LeClerk’s murder in Blackwater, John became vengeful of the men responsible, but accepted his punishment to maintain some form of honor, even willing to look death in the eye. When he was freed, he was grateful and offered whatever help he could.
=== 1899 ===
John has hardened in personality due to the fact that the government will never let him rest easy and his dubious actions in California. He became more violent in nature, especially against government officials. However, he always has a soft spot for his friends and newfound family members, especially his horse, Hidalgo, whom he grew to love dearly as his steed. However, he was friendly towards Tom Davies, despite him being a U.S. Marshal. Although John was bitter, he was not without humanity, but he did not take chances against enemies or bounty targets and normally assassinates them. He was very violent in combat.
=== 1900 - 1902 ===
John mostly remained the same, but slightly loosened up.
=== 1903 ===
John has matured enough to the point where he no longer holds as much anger towards some government officials as he did over the years, but still has disdain towards them due to him being on the wrong side of the law, and does not approve of the U.S. Government as a whole.
=== 1904 ===
John had became softer in personality, but still had a bit of gruff when it comes to enemies, as always. He still remains violent in combat, as expected.
=== 1905 ===
Due to the recent events around this time, John reverted back to his bitterness and anger and even had no remorse in killing every enemy he faced against and even had no fear in taking on a whole state police force and stealing three jewels, stating that he did not have much to live for, implying that he became suicidal. However, after defeating Gene “Beau” Finley and saw that he brought destruction and chaos, decided to spare Finley at the last second and knocked him out. From then on, John sought peace in Mexico and the Grizzlies from then on.
=== 1932 ===
== Attributes ==
John was a man who was reckless, yet fierce. Due to these things, he acquired some skills and attributes that were used to his advantage.
* Bow Archery - John was taught how to shoot an arrow by his tribe when he was eight years old and slowly perfected it over-time. He often liked using a bow and arrow during hunting and combat.
* Gunslinging Skills - During John’s time in the West, he has picked up gunslinging skills from many other cowboys he ran into, even getting some target practice. By 1899 and beyond, his skills have drastically improved and is shown to be quite the gunslinger, who can duel-wield high-powered revolvers and sawed-off shotguns with little to no difficulty. He also favored shotguns for up close encounters.
* Sharp Weapon Skills - John has some experience in the knife fighting and sharp weaponry fields. He uses his knife for hunting or for fights that are up close and personal, while also using a Tomahawk, per his Native heritage. However, he has not taken too much time perfecting the throwing technique of these weapons and is skilled with combat knives, hatchets, and cleavers, but can still hit targets with his throwing knives and tomahawks.
* Crafting Skills - Since John had to survive in the hard wild lands of the Wild West, he had to fend for himself in the wild. He used techniques and recipes he picked up along the way to craft items that can benefit him and help him survive. He even had skills to craft weaponry, such as molotov cocktails, dynamite arrows, poisonous gases from moonshine, healing tonics, and special ammunition. He also learned how to properly season his meats for extra flavors.
* Sharpshooting Skills - John knew his way around rifles and repeaters. Although not as skilled as he is with revolvers and pistols, he has good aim with rifles, especially the Carcano and Bolt-Actions, but does not always have the greatest accuracy. If he could, he would stick to revolvers and pistols. At times, if the situation calls for it, he enjoys duel-wielding his Sawed-Off Shotguns as he knows it makes him twice more dangerous than anyone else.
== Criminal Record ==
John has a high amount of crimes he committed under his belt, all of which are enough to put him away for life or even being hanged if he were to be caught. Here is a list of crimes he committed:
* Murder - Over the course of the series, John killed a high number of people, mostly outlaws and rarely innocent people. However, he has killed quite a few cops and lawmen, making him a wanted man.
* Armed Robbery - John robbed some people and stole valuable things using an armed weapon.
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=== Notable Crimes ===
Jon has committed some fairly notable crimes that are the highest-ranked crimes of his time.
* The attack in Tumbleweed and the murder of at least three lawmen.
* Illegal murder of Jorge Montez under the unofficial orders of U.S. Marshal Tom Davies.
== Killed Victims ==
Killed Victims
Episode: 	Victim: 	Cause of Death:
Destroyed By Grief 	Amos Lancing (alongside Jessica LeClerk)	Initially shot by Jessica, later finished off with shot to the back.
The Path to Revolution 	Blythe City outlaws 	Murdered off-screen.
Red Ben Clempson 	“Red” Ben Clempson 	Shot.
Red Ben Clempson 	Thomas Fields 	Shot.
Red Ben Clempson 	Frank Wells 	Shot.
The Final Hoots of The Owls 	Mommy Owlhoot 	Shot in the head with an arrow.
The Final Hoots of The Owls 	Aunty Owlhoot 	Shot.
The Final Hoots of The Owls 	Uncle Owlhoot 	Shot.
The Final Hoots of The Owls 	Cousin Owlhoot 	Shot.
Farewell, My Dear Lady 	Barbarella Alcazar 	Throat slit.
Where Your Morals Lead You 	Jorge Montez 	Shot.
A Sport to Bear 	Nikoli “Yukon Nik” Borodin (assisted) 	Assisted via apprehending; later executed.
Money Give, Money Take 	Tobin Winfield (assisted) 	Assisted via apprehending; later executed.
The Fall of Carmela Montez 	Carmela “La Munéca” Montez 	Blown up with dynamite.
Burning Matters Cannot Be Tended 	Cecil C. Tucker 	Burned with molotov.
Into the Night, Where the Folk Hide	Philip Carlier 	Shot.
The Seventh Generation 	“Shepherd” Virgil Edwards 	Shot.
To Live or Die in the Southwest 	Gene “Beau” Finley 	Shot.
== Relationships ==
== Gallery ==
== Trivia ==
*John’s has many similarities to outlaws Lenny Summers and Charles Smith from Red Dead Redemption II’s story, and Pirate Captain Assassin Edward James Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton, or Connor Kenway.
**John shares the same age and similar appearance as Lenny Summers as both are young black men who were both born around 1880. However, Jon outlived Lenny in terms of lifespan as Lenny died around 1899 at the age of 18, while Jon lived to be 51 by early 1932.
**John has similar ancestry to Charles Smith as both men were born to a black father and a Native mother. Both ran away from their homes at a young age and struggled to survive in the rugged landscape of the Wild West. However, while it is unclear what tribe Charles is from, John is known to be of Wapiti-Indian heritage.
**John’s ancestry and story is also similar to Connor Kenway’s as both are part Native-Americans who become assassins at some points in their lives. Both eventually have children as well and are ancestors to a present-day person, namely Desmond Miles and Joel Wallace respectively. However, John was Black and Wapiti-Native while Connor was Mohawk-Native and British-Welsh mixed.
**John has a criminal outlook on life and initially wished to seek fortune rather than peace, similar to Edward Kenway. They also share similar garment styles.
*John, Sam, Arthur, and John Marston are the only protagonists who are playable from the Red Dead series.
*It is implied by John that he may have illegitimate children that he conceived during his travels, despite being at a young age.
**According to John, as he traveled the West Coast, he slept with a number of prostitutes and accidentally conceived children he would never know. With this, it is entirely possible that he has more descendants in present-day than what is shown.
*Initially for the original synopsis of Red Dead Revolution II, John was going to have a considerably smaller role, being only a supporting character. In the original script, he was going to be brutally murdered by the Lasting Light in a cabin in the Grizzlies for his murder of "Shepherd" Virgil Edwards and Sam was going to engage on his journey to avenge him. However, this was scrapped to where John would survive the events of the Grizzlies attack and would accompany Sam on his journey to stopping the Lasting Light, but he still dies.
*John is primarily based off of the Quentin Tarantino movie character, Django Freeman, with some inspiration from The Man with No Name. On top of that, his story is somewhat similar to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
*With John’s death, Sam was initially the remaining surviving known Wallace family member left, until his children were born in the 1940's, and his descendants continue to live on into present-day.
*John and Sam are the only known older members of the Wallace family to not die in either Ambarino or Liberty, as Jon died in Missouri, and Sam died in North Yankton.
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