Sean O'Reilly

*Red Dead Online*

Irish Terrier (?)

Tanner's Reach (*Red Dead Online*)

Great Plains (*Red Dead Online*)

*Red Dead Online* protagonist

Guido Martelli

Karen Jones (lover)

Custom Pump-Action Shotgun

Rolling Block Rifle

Knife

Carbine Repeater

Lancaster Repeater

Bolt Action Rifle

**Sean MacGuire** is a recurring character in the *Red Dead* series, appearing as a supporting character in *Red Dead Redemption 2* and as a stranger in *Red Dead Online*.

## History

### Background

Sean was born in Ireland (presumably Cork) in around 1879 (he mentions being born into famine) and spent his early childhood there. Sean's father was Patrick O'Reilly, an infamous Fenian outlaw who fled to America with Sean, before being hunted down and killed. The young Sean was sent to a reform school, but it did little for him. At some point before joining the gang, a teenage O'Reilly got into a drunken barfight with O'Driscoll gang members. Sean killed Colm O'Driscoll's brother Joey, but not before receiving a large scar from Joey, from above his left eyebrow to right cheek.

Sean first met Arthur outside a saloon somewhere in North Elizabeth. He spotted Morgan's mount, Boudicea, and attempted to steal the horse. However, he was caught by Morgan, who was entertained by Sean's attempts to charm his way out of the situation, and decided to induct him into the Van der Linde gang.

### Events of *Red Dead Online*

The protagonist can encounter Sean at Tanner's Reach, where he will initially hold them at gunpoint upon seeing them inside the cabin. Quickly calming himself, Sean begins speaking of having become separated from his group before giving the protagonist a robbery tip on a nearby passing stagecoach.

Afterward, Sean can be found again inside his cabin, and will offer paid killings, thefts, jailbreaks, and other coach holdup missions to the player. His missions give negative honor.

#### *Blood Money*

Sean appears in the *Blood Money* update as a member of Guido Martelli's criminal network, and offers new missions to the protagonist.

### Events of *Red Dead Redemption 2*

#### Horseshoe Overlook Chapter

After the botched ferry robbery in Blackwater, Sean became separated from the others and was one of the few members who did not end up with the gang in their new hideout at Colter. He was subsequently captured by bounty hunters led by Ike Skelding and interrogated for information on the gang, but Sean told them nothing.

After moving to Horseshoe Overlook, a new hideout close to the town of Valentine, the gang hears from Josiah Trelawny about Sean's aforementioned apprehension by bounty hunters. As a result, Arthur, Javier, Charles, and Trelawny set out to rescue him. They meet on a hilltop overlooking Blackwater, where they discuss their options, deciding to rescue him before he reaches a Federal Prison that he was being transferred to. After spotting Sean being escorted off of a boat, Trelawny decides to distract some bounty hunters, allowing Arthur and Javier to silently neutralize them. Soon afterward, a large gunfight ensues, resulting in the gang finding Sean hanging upside-down from a tree at a camp. After being freed, Sean thanks his rescuers and accompanies them back to camp.

After his rescue, a celebration party is thrown for Sean at camp. Along with the rest of the gang, Sean gets exceedingly drunk. As the night wears on, he begins flirting with Karen Jones, and the two ultimately retire to John Marston's tent to have sex.

Sean, along with Arthur, Charles and John, partakes in a train robbery, one of the last things the gang does at Horseshoe Overlook. During the operation, handles the baggage car, saving Arthur when he is in a tussle with a guard.

#### Clemens Point Chapter

Sean joins Arthur and Hosea Matthews in working for Catherine Braithwaite, who asks them to burn the tobacco fields and products owned by the rival Gray family. Sean talks his way into Caliga Hall with Arthur in the back of the wagon, after which they hide their wagon and eliminate a Gray security guard accompanying them. While Arthur pours the moonshine over the tobacco fields, Sean takes care of the sheds and buildings; when this is done, the duo ignites everything with fire bottles. After fighting off the Grays, the two find payroll from another wagon and flee the area.

Along with Karen, Sean helps mastermind the robbery of the Valentine bank. The two of them, along with Arthur and Lenny, break into the bank, steal a large sum of cash, before fighting their way past the law attempting to prevent their escape.

Sean is later present alongside Bill Williamson and Micah Bell in Rhodes, joining the two and Arthur on a potential “job” providing security for the Gray family. However, as the four are walking through the street, they are ambushed by the Grays' hired guns, and Sean is immediately shot in the chesr by a sniper, being presumed dead.

After clearing the area and killing Sheriff Gray, an enraged Arthur blames Sean's wound on Bill and Micah's carelessness, when it is revealed that Sean survived. He is rushed back to camp, where he passes the rest of the chapter in one of the gangs tents, recovering from the injury. For the rest of the chapter, members of the gang express concern for Sean, worrying whether he will survive. For this reason, he doesn’t participate in the raid on Braithwaite manor.

During this chapter, Sean can also rob a homestead with Arthur, after finding out about it from a nearby hunter who Sean then robbed. He can also rob a stagecoach with Arthur and Mary-Beth.

#### Shady Belle Chapter:

During the beginning of the chapter, Sean is only seen around camp, with his chest bandaged as he recovers.

Once he has recovered, Sean plays the part of a security guard during the riverboat robbery. After Arthur wins a Reutlinger pocket watch from Desmond Blythe in a poker game, Sean escorts Arthur and the overseer upstairs to the vault as Arthur goes to collect his prize. Sean holds the man at gunpoint as soon as he opens the vault, which he and Arthur quickly empty. After the man pulls a concealed gun on them, Arthur is forced to shoot him, which alerts the ship's guards. After a brief shootout, Sean, Arthur, Strauss, and Trelawny are forced to flee the ship by jumping overboard and swimming to shore. After getting to safety, they divide the significant amount of money between themselves.

Later, Sean participates in the Saint Denis bank robbery, where he is given the job of guarding the side entrance of the bank. However, the robbery quickly goes wrong due to the arrival of Pinkertons and the resulting deaths of Lenny and Hosea. O’Reilly and the gang make their escape across the city's rooftops and temporarily find refuge in an abandoned apartment. When Dutch sends Sean and Micah out from the apartment to scout for escape routes. When Micah returns without O’Reilly, he tells Van der Linde that Sean was captured by Pinkertons, convincing the gang to leave him. In reality, Micah slipped away from O’Reilly, and with the increased police presence in the city, Sean was unable to find the rest of the gang, returning to the apartment after the six other members had left. He eventually slipped away from the city, meeting back up with the gang.

#### Guarma Chapter:

During the gang’s temporary separation when five of its members land on Guarma, Sean (along with Charles and Sadie) is largely responsible for organizing the rest of the gang. He was a key player in keeping the gang together and united after the failed bank robbery's impact on morale, as well as organizing the gang’s relocation to Lakay. He also helped in stealing the bodies of Hosea and Lenny from the morgue, and burying them in Bluewater Marsh.

#### Beaver Hollow Chapter:

With the gang on the verge of collapse at Beaver Hollow, Sean takes a relatively minimal role in gang affairs as Dutch begins to develop paranoia, and becomes convinced that Sean is a traitor (although this can partly be attributed to Micah manipulating him). With tensions in the gang at an all-time high, some other members of the gang such as Bill also suspect that Sean, along with Arthur and John are a turncoats, and distrust him as a result.

Sean is present in the camp when Eagle Flies rides in and asks for them to help him attack the Cornwall refinery at the oil fields. Sean goes with the gang to help and joins Arthur's group, which rescues Eagle Flies, before meeting up with the rest of the gang at the warehouse

Sean takes part in the final robbery of the Van der Linde gang, which involves robbing army payroll from a train. When John uncouples a burning train carriage, Marston jumps on O’Reilly’s horse. Sean is shot in the face, and his horse is shot shortly after, leaving John behind. O’Reilly is later buried by Charles Smith. His grave can be found southeast of O’Creagh’s run, on a cliff edge next to a large rock.

## Character

### Personality

O’Reilly is said to be a quietly confident man who enjoys spending his time telling stories at the gang's campfires, particularly about his past exploits. He has a dry sense of humour, regularly poking fun of Arthur, calling him “old man”. However, he is also very hardworking, receiving praise from Hosea for often guarding at camp and contributing money to the money pot.

Sean appears to have a positive relationship with Lenny who once tried to teach Sean (who is illiterate) how to read. The two are often seen conversing, and Lenny tells Arthur at one point that he likes Sean. When Lenny is killed during the Saint Denis bank heist, Sean is the only gang member (besides Arthur) to stop and check on Lenny once he’s shot. By contrast, Sean often expresses his dislike of Micah.

Sean seems to be a parallel to Arthur as a young man, as Hosea and Dutch both say he reminds them of a younger Arthur, in his cocky nature and his attempts to impress the more senior members of the gang by risking his life to earn more money for the gang.

Sean is shown to have a strong hatred for the rich of society, regularly expressing his contempt for “rich arseholes”.

Sean and Karen have a flirtatious relationship. Although Karen says she "hates [Sean]" and that he only loves her when they're drunk, Sean remains convinced that she loves him, and the two have sex after Sean is first rescued. During the act, Karen can be heard crying and saying she just wants someone to "see her", to which Sean says he does. However, Sean's true feelings about her are unknown, as he could have simply said that to continue the moment in a typical act of bravado, and are not expanded upon during the game.

Sean and Karen grow apart during the game’s course, as Karen becomes more and more of a disheveled alcoholic as the game progresses, reacting irritably to everyone as the gang disintegrates around her, and sheultimately disappears from the public eye, with Tilly believing she drank herself to death.

Sean has a generic, very much stereotypical Irish accent. Unlike Molly O’Shea, who has a distinct Dublin accent, O’Reilly’s is harder to pinpoint. The actor, Michael Mellamphy, is a Cork native but O’Reilly has no distinct Cork accent.

### Appearance

Sean has dark brown hair, parted in the middle, and green eyes. He is slightly unshaven. Being one of the younger gang members, he is nineteen years old as of 1899, and is seen to be of a fairly slim build, and slightly taller than Arthur. He appears to be missing a few of his front teeth. Sean has light stubble, and a long scar from his jaw to above his eyebrow. While committing crimes, he wears a black and white patterned bandana around his face. He also wears a black duster coat during certain robberies. O’Reilly usually wears a jacket of a light bluish-grey color over a dirty grey union suit and a reddish vest, accompanied by blue jeans and a green bowler hat. When Sean is rescued from Ike Skelding's Boys, he is shown wearing black jeans held up with suspenders, along with a grey shirt buttoned at the top with a black square shape on the front going from the shoulders to the chest, as well as black cuffs. In Horseshoe Overlook, he normally wears a red vest and blue pants, with black boots, over his Union suit, with a different black and red bowler hat. Occasionally, Sean will wear this outfit with a black fur lined coat. When sleeping, Sean wears just the Union suit and pants. When recovering from his gunshot wound, Sean wears a white Union suit, with blue pants and bandages around the wound. In the Saint-Denis bank heist, Sean wears a long black overcoat, with a blue vest, black tie and suit trousers. In Beaver Hollow, Sean changes his clothing style, wearing an entirely different outfit, which is mentioned by Arthur and other gang members. He has a new, black wide brimmed hat, and a blue scout jacket over his green vest and a grey shirt, with black pants and boots. In terms of weaponry, O’Reilly wields a custom cattleman revolver, with floral engravings and a pearl grip. Sean also uses a custom Pump-Action Shotgun, in steel and light wood, with a long barrel. O’Reilly is also seen using a carbine repeater when on guard duty.

## Mission appearances

*Red Dead Redemption 2*
* "The First Shall Be Last"
* "Pouring Forth Oil IV"
* "A Strange Kindness"
* "The Fine Joys of Tobacco"
* "A Short Walk in a Pretty Town"
* "Sodom? Back to Gomorrah"
* "The Battle of Shady Belle"
* "A Fine Night of Debauchery"
* "Banking, the Old American Art"
* "Fleeting Joy"
* "That's Murfree County"
* "My Last Boy"
* "Our Best Selves"

Companion Activities

* "Social Calls With Mr. O’Reilly”
* "Coach Robbery"

***Red Dead Online***

* Coach Robberies
* Paid Killings
* Jailbreaks
* Thefts
* Blood Money missions

## Trivia

* His horse, Kinsale, shares a name with a town in County Cork.
* His horse, Kinsale, is a Breton with a unique Mealy Dapple Bay coat .

* Like most members of the Van der Linde gang, Sean has a custom sidearm. His weapon is a Cattleman Revolver, with floral engravings on a steel finish and a pearl grip.

* Sean's knife has a date engraved on the handles, 1848, the same year in which a series of revolutions occurred in Europe, and groups of young Irishmen had participation in those revolutions but failed like the great majority in that year. His knife was probably a gift from his family or father.

* Sean wears a black bandana, with a white pattern. Sean is one of a few gang members to share a nonstandard bandana, along with Lenny and Dutch.

* If Arthur antagonizes the gang members enough, Sean is one of the characters who may punch him out of the camp. The others are Lenny, Javier, Bill, John, and Charles.
* Sean, Sadie Adler, Joe and Trelawny are the only members of the Van der Linde gang to appear in Red Dead Online.