Jean "Fredrick" Astor

> "Life is a joke. People are sheep, just waiting to be used."
>
> -Jean Fredrick Astor

Jean "Fredrick" Astor is the second in command of the O'driscoll gang, from Red Dead Online. He was Circe Johnson's Ex-fiance at one point.

## Background

Jean “Fredrick” Astor was born sometime in 1858, living in Rueil, France, for most of his life. He had a very wealthy family and as a child he was always spoiled and got everything he wanted, not even having to think twice. He had the mindset of always getting what he wanted since the very beginning, if he didn’t get what he wanted he would manipulate the situation and as he got older he got better at the whole manipulation thing that it soon became one of his strong suits (gaslight, gatekeep without the girlboss). In his 20s Jean moved to Paris to start a business of his own, he always wanted to get into the arts so he saw going to Paris as a good idea.

In the beginning his whole art thing wasn’t working too well, it’s not that his paintings were terrible per say but it was more of his paintings didn’t get enough attention. In a fit, Jean ran to his parents and they paid money to have his paintings showcased in the big museums, but even still. His paintings didn’t get the attention he hoped for. Jean watched from afar as all these other “horrid” paintings got more attention than his work and he soon made a plan, so out of jealousy in the next big art showcase he stole the paintings of other people so that only HIS paintings would be there in the showcase, watching people be confused about where the other paintings were brought him a sense of pride and joy. Slowly but surely Jean began to take more paintings from the museum and soon enough the museum decided to close up before all the paintings were gone.

Jean knew it would be a risk to resell the paintings in Paris so in his 30s he sailed off to America where reselling paintings and claiming them as his wouldn’t be a problem. Soon Jean found himself in Saint Denis, there he would sell one of his stolen paintings to a man named Colm O’driscoll who saw through his charade quickly and was impressed that Jean would even try a stunt like this with him. And instead of Colm punishing him for trying to do that they had a nice drink at the saloon and Jean told him how he acquired all these paintings all by himself leaving Colm to be impressed. Jean still had a bunch of these stolen paintings to sell and Colm saw it as a business opportunity. They both started to go around Saint Denis selling paintings and scamming people left and right, Colm started to notice how good Jean was at manipulation and conning that he soon asked Jean if he’d like to work with him permanently.

Jean had refused the offer, saying it was a decent offer but not good enough for him. Colm didn’t want to lose someone who could benefit the O’driscolls in so many ways so for weeks Colm attempted to convince him, as much as Colm wanted to threaten the man into joining he knew that would only make his chances lower. Colm remembered how arrogant and egoistic Jean was so he promised Jean to make him second in command of the O’driscolls, and that he would have his own group of O’driscolls to bark orders to and Jean had accepted rather quickly now making him the second in command to the O’driscolls where he would do more than just sell stolen paintings.

## Character

### Personality

Jean Astor is a very selfish, manipulative, controlling and narcissistic man who does everything to keep his position of power in his gang and has a lack of mercy, respect and morals. He has a very strong pride and uses everything to his advantage. Jean Astor is also very cynical, and stubborn. He enjoys making others submit to him, and it gives him pleasure to manipulate them. He is a very arrogant individual who's incredibly self-obsessed. Despite his arrogant and selfish nature, he's also quite charming and confident in himself, allowing him to exude a certain suave allure. He is willing to do whatever it takes to get what he wants, no matter who he hurts in the process. He lacks empathy and is often cruel and deceitful in his actions. His skill of manipulation is quite high, he seems to always know the right things to say and how to say them.

### Appearance

Astor is a tall French man standing at 6ft 3. He has sharp eyes, white skin, dark burgundy red hair with white streaks through it. His eyes are hazel, and he has a faint shadow of scruff with a fancy mustache. On his finger he has a black opal signet ring, the stone was set into an ebony ring and it is his pride and joy. He always wears a Fine Green Silk Tie, Dark Jacket, White shirt, Green vest and Black pants and perfectly polished boots. He also wears a Fancy Black coat with fur that hangs over his shoulders.