Louis Galloway

> "The only thing this town needs is a tall glass of me."
>
> -Sheriff Louis Galloway

Sheriff Louis Galloway at the Rhodes Sheriffs office

Louis Galloway is the sheriff of Rhodes in the Diamond Weed Cinematic Universe, he replaces Sheriff Gray from the story mode version of Red Dead Redemption 2.

## Background

Louis Galloway was born in the year 1867, being born and spending most of his childhood in Blackwater. For as long as he could remember his father was the Sheriff deputy of Blackwater, he would always look up to the work his father did and was always excited to hear what his father had to say after a hard day of stopping criminals, bringing justice to them all. His mother was sort of not always in his life considering all she really did was busy herself with house work and would distance herself from Louis while Louis saw no problem to this as he was running about exploring outside near their home most of the time. One day as Louis was waiting for his fathers return from work his dad was later than usual, he was a bit concerned on if something terrible had happened but the sound of his fathers horse arriving shut that thought down. He noticed his fathers mood was different, he looked more energetic and happy instead of exhausted from working all day.

It turned out that his father had gotten a letter and the opportunity to become the Sheriff of Rhodes due to the old sheriff being killed in a riot and they needed a new Sheriff desperately so Louis's father took over for them. His father had announced that they would have to move to Rhodes so he can take this amazing opportunity, for whatever reason Louis's mother decided to stay behind, as much as she wanted to go with them she had too much family and things that she was not ready to leave behind in such a short notice. So only Louis and his father made their way to Rhodes. From there his father took the position of Sheriff and Louis watched in amazement of this new chapter of his fathers life.

Things were pretty normal, his father did work while Louis stayed home and took care of things on his own and it was starting to get a bit boring, he wasn't sure how his mother was able to do house work all day and not get bored of it. He would beg his father to let him work with him and stop crime but he was always told the same thing, "When you're older." He knew how to use a gun at 16 so he thought it was so unfair that his father wouldn't let him do sheriff work. So when the time came and he was old enough work at the station he had never been more happy in his entire life.

His father decided to make Louis his deputy, it was just him and his father stopping crime, and once he learned the ropes of being a deputy Rhodes had never been safer with those two running things.

That is. Until one particular case he and his father struggled with, it was a moonshine operation in Lagras. Louis's father was kidnapped during a bunch of scuffle, he was injured but determined, so Louis went alone to save his father. When he found where his father was he was already dead and tortured by Lemoyne Raiders. Seeing the man he looked up too for years just dead on the floor seemed to switch something in him, he finally woke up and came to the realization that he shouldn't mess around anymore because what he was seeing was very real. He was gonna become the greatest sheriff no matter what, another thing he took from this moment was that he hated moonshine and Lemoyne Raiders.

Flash forward to now he's the best sheriff in Rhodes, but him being the best in town made him a bit full of himself and Narcissistic, he liked the attention it gives him and can't stand when people ignore him, his father would be proud but not proud of the arrogant asshole his son became. He walks around Rhodes like he owns the place, he messes with people and teases them just trying to be an asshole on purpose to get a rise out of others. He sure lived up to his promise but him rising to the top changed him in more ways than one, in the beginning he did this to make his father proud and be moral but as the years passed it all washed away and he just stopped caring about doing things for the greater good, now it was more of a power thing. His father would not be very happy to learn that his son had become a corrupt sheriff.

### Events Of Red Dead Online

Sheriff Louis Galloway was in the Rhodes parlor House drinking his day away, he had a stressful bounty and wasn't looking forward to doing anything else. He simply sat in the corner of the parlor house alone taking in the other patrons in the room and observing in silence with a whisky in his hand, he hid under the brim of his hat as he watched. All that silence was ruined when a kid named Timmy Winchester approached him and started to ramble about wanting to be sheriff just like him and asked Louis if he could teach him. Louis simply grumbled to himself feeling annoyed and peeved that this kid ruined his night of drinking. Wanting Timmy to get off his back he sarcastically told Timmy sure and tried to brush him off, but Timmy, being oblivious to the sarcasm got excited that Louis was going to teach him how to be a sheriff. Now more annoyed, Louis had to tell him that there was no way in hell he would actually teach Timmy how to be a sheriff, he wasn't even a great teacher anyways so there was no point. Louis tried to turn Timmy down in the nicest way he possibly can, he was an asshole, but he didn't want to upset the boy who seemed to really look up to the sheriff, Louis gently let him down and stood up from where he was drinking to get away from the kid before he said something that would actually upset the kid. But Timmy was very persistent, following him out of the parlor house to his office still wanting to know more about being a sheriff.

Louis reached his office and finally had enough of the kid following him around like a lost puppy and told him to leave him be, it turned out all Timmy wanted to know was the Sheriff's name. Rolling his eyes Louis told him and shooed him away hoping it would be the last time he saw him. Closing the door to his office he got to working on papers and reports of bounties till unholy hours before falling asleep right on his desk.

In the morning Louis had woken up laying on the paper work he was doing the night before, tired, he stood up from his desk and fixed his hair to keep his image up and stepped out of his office. He was going to head to the general store for a few things when he saw a man leaning on the sheriff's office, at the moment Louis was too tired so he didn't pay no mind to the man and continued on with his day till the man he was ignoring whistled at him. Louis froze in his tracks, slowly turning to face the man with a passive aggressive smile and asked if the man needed something. The man simply crossed his arms and shook his head, saying he was a bounty hunter looking for work. Upon hearing this Louis' mood changed very quickly, from irritable to his arrogant confident self. He motioned the bounty hunter to his office and looked over his desk for some new bounties that came in, he read the posters out loud to the bounty hunter when a poster caught his eye, it was a poster that came in the other day for a woman named Circe Johnson, and a man named Victor Trelawny. Louis made sure to give more information on those two for the bounty hunter before giving the man the posters and sitting back at his desk once more.

The bounty hunter he sent off said he'd be back within the week to turn those two in, but a few days passed and Louis was having his doubts that the bounty hunter would ever return. Louis then decided he was going to take matters into his own hands and get the two bounties, as he was heading out of his office he saw a woman looking at the bounty board. He decided to offer the bounty to her since the first bounty hunter he sent out hadn't returned, surprisingly she agreed to do the bounty. Louis offered her a cigarette and they both smoked on the porch of the office while he gave the woman more information on the bounty. She nodded and was on her way, he just hoped she would actually bring the bounties in.

Louis soon got busy with doing bounties of his own, catching a few criminals and taking them to the Saint Denis Police station due to them having more cells. When he returned to Rhodes he was at his desk taking a nap until he heard a knock on his office door, sighing, he went to the door and peeked to see who it was before a frown set on his face in an instant, it was Timmy again.

As much as he wanted to shut the door on the kids face he couldn't bring himself to do it and let him in. Timmy was happy and started to ask him more about being a sheriff, he was too tired to deal with it but soon caved in and answered Timmy's questions. Timmy asked him about bounty hunting, Louis gritted his teeth but went to his desk and pulled out a bounty hunting license, Louis knew this kid wouldn't be able to get his hands on such a license because it was very expensive, so when he told Timmy the price of the license he was very smug about it as he saw Timmy become upset. But for some reason Louis started to feel bad and then negotiated the price of 200$ for the bounty hunter license, now happy, Timmy went out of the office to go gather the money to get the license leaving Louis annoyed, not at Timmy, but at himself for trying to give the kid a chance.

More days passed of Louis doing his daily routine as sheriff and soon a bounty hunter arrived with the bounty of Victor Trelawny, a bounty he had been waiting on for quite a while. The bounty hunter hadn't been able to get Circe but was able to catch Victor Trelawny, the one with the higher bounty of the two. He paid the bounty hunter and simply looked at Victor in the cell with a smirk on his face before poking at Victor and trying to annoy the man as much as possible, he soon went to his desk pulling out a sheet of paper and scheduling him for a hanging. Louis decided it would be funny to rub it in V's face for it's what he usually did to people who got caught but what Louis didn't expect was for V to start crying and begging him to let him go, criminals usually didn't do that, he was used to bounties spewing insults at him and thrashing around in the cell but V was different. V looked too sweet and innocent to hang and it made it even worse when he got a closer look at Victor's face.

Due to his authority Louis decided to let V go, under the condition he gave him 20$ as a bail and helped him do sheriff's work in Lemoyne till it was enough to make up for his crime Victor was also Lemoyne bound as he couldn't leave Lemoyne till this was all done. V frantically agreed and now Louis had a temporary deputy to help him do work.

### New Acquaintance

Now with Victor on his side to help him do work they did things like bounties and solving issues within the Rhodes area, during their time together Louis began to develop a sort of romantic interest for the outlaw, though he'd never say anything he'd just keep it to himself and tease V as a defense mechanism. Louis and Victor did all sorts of sheriff's work across Lemoyne, They also stopped a moonshine operation and caught some infamous bounties like the one of Gene "Beau" Finley, and Etta Doyle, and they stopped a robbery where they left the robbers on the tracks to get ran over, that being Louis's idea.

After watching the Train run the poor folk over Louis went over to the saloon where Victor went over to his camp, due to not being able to bear the scene he just witnessed. Louis brushed it off, not noting how upset the moment had made V. Louis simply celebrated at the saloon on his own with a few friends for a few hours before heading back to his office to take a nap, but before he could get himself settled he head the yells of a woman outside his office, stepping outside he is greeted by a yelling and screams of, "Help! Help! I need a sheriff here!" When he approached the woman to see what was going on he was met by a punch square on his face.

Louis and the Woman fought in the middle of the Streets in Rhodes before he was able to detain her with a head lock and she soon fell unconscious, grumbling to himself he picked the woman up and dragged her to the holding cell, she did harass him after all. Soon enough she woke up in the cell after Louis threw water on her and immediately started to throw a fit again, shaking the bars of the cell and kicking the cell door. He simply tried to get answers from her on why she had tried to fight him out of nowhere but she was reluctant to answer, Louis then had to threaten her to tell him her name, which was none other than Circe Johnson. Even after giving this information up, Circe continued to make it hard on Louis and made it very clear that she disliked him.

## Character

### Personality

He's very arrogant, confident, pretty damn full of himself but the worst part is his Flirty personality. He's also pretty sarcastic which can be pretty funny at times, at times he doesn't take things too seriously, and just likes the attention that he gets, and when someone doesn't know who he is that makes it even better. Louis will do anything for attention due to him being really Narcissistic, Louis likes teasing and messing with folk, and doesn't back down to no one. He likes to use pet names like "Sweetheart" or "Pretty boy" to whoever mostly striving to be a throne in everyone's side. Despite him being a big asshole he does truly care for the safety of Rhodes to make his dead father proud and is a very observant stubborn man, at the end of the day he always gets the job done one way or another.

### Appearance

Louis Galloway is about 6ft 1 with pale skin, green eyes, and light blonde hair tied back in a rough pony tail. He has light stubble on his face and a cocky confident smirk on his face. He's got a thin muscular build and he usually wears an expensive coat, boots, a red tie, his gun holsters and his badge. He likes to consider himself the most fashionable man in Rhodes.