Micah Bell

* 1899
* 1907

**Micah Bell III** is the main antagonist of the *Red Dead* *Redemption* duology, part of the *Red Dead* franchise, serving as the posthumous overarching antagonist of the 2010 video game *Red Dead Redemption* and the main antagonist of the 2018 prequel *Red Dead Redemption II*. He was also mentioned in the online spin-off *Red Dead Online*.

He is a former member of the Van der Linde gang before becoming a mole for the Pinkertons. His death serves as the catalyst for the events of the first game. He is Arthur Morgan's ally-turned-archenemy.

From Chapter 1 to 5, Micah is a major character since he's the member of the Van der Linde gang where he helps Dutch, Arthur and their allies get the job done. At the end of Chapter 6, Micah betrays Arthur, Dutch and the Van der Linde gang by becoming an informant of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and becomes the main antagonist.

In the World Protection Security Agency stories, Micah serves as the main archenemy of Najica Hiiragi and Lila. He is the main antagonist in the WPSA: Pretty Rhythm series, alongside Otis B. Driftwood, his closest confidant. Within WPSA: Coyote Ragtime Show, he later becomes the final, true antagonist after Madame Marciano's death, along with his new confidants including January, March, April, and August.

## Appearance

### 1899

In 1899, Micah has shoulder-length, blond hair, as well as a thick horseshoe mustache and side-whiskers. While not as fleshy as Williamson, Micah has a slightly large gut. He often wears an undone black leather coat, a red shirt or black shirt accompanied by a red vest, a green neckerchief, beige trousers, and a white hat. He's also seen sporting a short-tailed, buttoned-up leather coat during chapter 2 and promotional artwork. In cold temperatures, he is instead seen with a long brown leather coat, while in warmer climates he's seen without a jacket and just his red shirt. Micah is armed with a pair of custom Double-action Revolvers with "Vengeance is hereby mine" engraved into the barrel, sporting dark grey frames and grips that are painted red and black, which he uses with immense skill.

For the bank robbery in Saint Denis, Micah wears a white suit with a black shirt, a red vest, and a white tie. While in Guarma, he wears the same black shirt but has it undone and with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, along with slightly longer hair, now tucked behind his ears and his mustache and side-whiskers becoming a full beard. His face appears sunburnt.

### 1907

By 1907, Micah has lost weight and is slim, while also having paler skin, suggesting that he has been in the mountains for a long time. He has shorter hair and seems to aged fairly considerably, with a more lined face and his hair having mostly gone grey. His brown leather coat is more worn-looking and accompanied instead by black trousers and grey half chaps.

## Personality

Micah is considered to be wild and unpredictable, even by the Van der Linde gang's standards. He is said to enjoy the action in his life, going as far as shooting what Arthur claims to be half the town of Strawberry in order to reclaim his prized revolvers. In spite of his brash nature, Micah is an experienced criminal and hitman, earning him the favor of Dutch himself. Micah has a poor relationship with most of the gang members, as he frequently antagonizes and bullies them, sometimes going as far as making colourful threats to those he dislikes. Besides Dutch, Micah also tries to get Arthur's trust and approval initially, despite Arthur openly disliking him, viewing him as selfish, untrustworthy and opportunistic. Arthur's fears are proven true later in the game, when Micah starts working as a mole for the Pinkertons after escaping from Guarma. When confronted with his disloyalty, Micah simply labels himself as a survivor, showing no loyalty to anyone but himself, highlighting his self-serving, every-man-for-himself attitude to life. Observing his interactions in camp reveals his attitude to be a profoundly nihilistic one and he openly states his disbelief in the concept of right and wrong, seeing no true meaning to life, seemingly a justification for how he approaches things.

Over the course of the game, Micah's relationship with Arthur turns into a bitter rivalry, as he exploits Dutch's paranoia when he and Arthur begin to distrust each other. Micah often flaunts his new position as Dutch's right-hand man at Arthur and ridicules his tuberculosis, calling him “Black Lung”. Micah seems to have always been jealous of Arthur and his close bond with Dutch, stating that he had been "waiting a long time to do this" in the potential knife fight with Arthur. This jealousy is also evident at the end of the game if the player's Honor is low and Arthur helps John to escape, where Micah acrimoniously exclaims that Arthur is not better than him, before killing him, laughing, and then spitting on his corpse. Micah treats everyone he meets with sadistic and psychopathic contempt, holding no moral standards whatsoever. He expresses admiration of Alberto Fussar's barbaric actions on Guarma, forcibly flirts with most women at the camp (most notably Abigail) and is implied to have sexually harassed Sadie when they first met. He violently teases four-year-old Jack and in 1907 is accused of killing an entire family, including a little girl who Cleet tried to save. Micah is an unrepentant racist, insulting Lenny, Charles, and Javier solely because they are not white. He calls Lenny and Charles "darkies", Charles a "redskin", and tells Javier to "fuck off back to Mexico". However, he does have a few friendly interactions with Javier, showing he is capable of building rapports despite his prejudiced views.

Bell is purposely vague and mysterious about his past, though he does mention that his father taught him that "sympathy is for the weak" and that the United States is a survival of the fittest, Darwinistic, dog-eat-dog world. He is clear about his view that the gang is too big and has too much "dead weight", labelling Uncle a "parasite" and listing Molly and Reverend Swanson as examples of people who don’t contribute anything and should be cut loose. When Micah, Arthur, and Bill head off to rob a stagecoach together, Micah mentions that his ideal gang were a "tight crew of five or six strong gunmen", but ultimately, Micah goes against his own idealistics by forming a large gang of his own by 1907, which contained at least 50 gunmen.

Micah has a callous and unsympathetic attitude towards death, brushing it off as "part of the game" in a conversation with Hosea about the Blackwater Massacre. After Kieran's death, unlike the rest of the gang, Bell doesn't mourn him and instead speculates that Kieran tried to sell the gang out to the O'Driscolls. He is similarly dismissive with the deaths of Hosea and Lenny, stating that the former was "dying anyway" and derisively ridiculing Lenny's confidence, saying "you know what they say about pride before a fall...". He is also cruel to animals, which is evident by the fact that he frequently kicks Cain and is even implied to have killed him when the dog disappeared.

Micah is an atheist, stating on various occasions that he doesn't believe in God. He is cynical about religion as a whole, saying to Reverend Swanson that men and women of the cloth are "parasites" who deceive people into believing a greater evil and that his "being up in heaven doesn't give two shits about him", treating Swanson with evident disdain and stating to Susan at one point that he doesn’t like religious people. However, he doesn’t rule out the existence of Hell as an afterlife, even going as far as saying that he’d like to see what it’s like. Micah is dangerously shrewd and manipulative, being capable of acting as a mole for some time without being discovered and making his way through Dutch's mind in order to become his right-hand man upon noticing that Van der Linde's sanity was starting to perish. Despite his selfish and imperious attitude, Bell appears to have his own sense of respect for those who he deems capable in combat. He surreptitiously shows some admiration for Arthur's skill and appears to enjoy fighting alongside him, even proclaiming that they always "get the job done". Likewise, he is regretful of the Callander brothers' deaths, lamenting them as "real fighters" - the only deaths he expresses any remorse for. In addition, he is quite charismatic when necessary, being able to verbally acquire information about a stagecoach with relative ease and later lead a successful, unprecedentedly feared gang of many men.

Micah is also hostile to John, though to a slightly lesser extent than to Arthur. He mocks John for playing with Jack and also teases him about being attacked by wolves. In Beaver Hollow, Bell is unhappy that John was rescued from prison and encourages Dutch in his suspicion that Marston betrayed the gang. During his fight with Arthur, Micah threatens to kill John if Arthur helped him to escape. However, during his last encounter with John in 1907, Micah states that he doesn't want to kill him and tries to convince John to leave. Later, during the standoff, Micah tries to convince John to join himself and Dutch, although his treacherous nature leaves the real motives of this in doubt.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Very high intelligence**
* **Expert marksmanship**
* **Knife proficiency**
* **Skilled manipulator**
* **Persuasion skills**
* **Manipulative charm**
* **Novice combatant**
* **Leadership** - In the WPSA stories he is shown to be a capable leader who later acts as the leader of his newly-founded posse after Madame Marciano's death in WPSA: Coyote Ragtime Show, with Otis as his confidante and the initial member. It later extends to some of the erstwhile members of Madame Marciano's Twelve Sisters, making him a more formidable foe to the WPSA.
* **Highly durable pain tolerance**