Jules Bellerose

> "C'est dur de se mettre sous le radar quand on est haut comme moi."
>
> -Jules Bellerose

Jules Bellerose is a french man with anger issues who is a part of the Diamond Weed Posse from Red Dead Online. He is the only one who knows how to make toxic moonshine after making the recipe for it.

## Background

Jules was born in Rheims, France on August 22, 1871 to Jean and Florence Bellerose, Jules’s father participated in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). In 1881, at the age of ten his family fled to America with very little money. They bought a small farm in rural Wyoming meaning that they could not afford to send Jules to school. Eventually they were able to save up the money to buy a couple cows and chickens. The Bellerose family lived this way for eight years. After returning home from a three day supply trip to the nearest town; Jules finds his parents dead, and the house raided. Jules couldn’t get enough money to continue living on the farm and became homeless. The only things that he kept were his horse and the rusted chassepot that was issued to his father at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War his father was going to give him on his twentieth birthday.

The next nine years Jules spent doing odd jobs to make money to survive. His inability to read or write made it difficult to get a long term job though, Growing up on a farm Jules could read a few words that you could find on farming supplies. Ex. Fertilizer, Seed, Corn, Wheat. Jules is exceptionally good at math.

Now 27, Jules travels the country doing odd jobs. With the money he has earned he bought a tent, a bedroll, and a covered wagon. Due to him living in the wilderness, Jules has had to survive off of hardtack. Because he had to forage for food to save money, Jules has eaten every type of plant that he has found in the forest, becoming immune to all types of poisons made from plants. He took to journaling all the plants that he had consumed and which ones were good or bad for you.

As a kid he always wanted to eat the foods that the rich people ate in France. Despite not knowing how to cook Jules continuously tries to cook escargot. Jules was always fascinated by magic ever since he was a kid. So for his twentieth birthday he went to see a magic show at the theater in Saint-Denis. After seeing the show Jules decided that he was going to teach himself how to do “magic”. Once he mastered his “magic” Jules realized that he could make some money with his magic tricks. He has also made quite a bit of money from playing card games. A lot of time was spent playing card games with his father when he was younger so he rarely loses when he plays.

### Prison

Jules has done many different types of odd jobs over the years. There are a couple of people that always go to him when they need a job done. A few times in the past he’s been asked to deliver moonshine from a person named Javi. Jules is always happy to deliver their moonshine as they pay a decent amount. On one such delivery, revenue agents searched his wagon and arrested him for being in the possession of and selling moonshine. While he was sentenced to prison for five years for conspiring in the illegal alcohol business, to pass the time he learned how to make moonshine. He would make moonshine in the toilet in his cell. He made a lot of friends in prison, he learned which prisoners were going to be hanged. He spent his nights planning an escape.

When Jules was out in the prison yard he found some snails that he took back to his cell to add them to his moonshine. The other prisoners loved to sample his moonshine. But this time all of the people that had some of the moonshine with the snails added to it got sick. Jules learns that this moonshine could be useful in his escape.

There are a couple of guards that can be easily persuaded into having a drink or two. Jules offered the officer guarding his cell some of his moonshine.

Once the guard collapses, Jules takes the key to his cell and begins his escape. He makes his way to the room where they keep the confiscated items and collects his things and escapes the prison. His escape has now made him an outlaw.

### After Prison

After breaking out of prison, Jules went back to doing odd jobs for people. He encounters Javi and their friends increased and would do more jobs for him other than moonshine delivery. Jules tells them about his discovery of toxic moonshine, but not how to make it. So he would make toxic moonshine for Javi from time to time to use as he pleases. Due to Jules consuming a whole bunch of things he is immune to the effects of the toxic moonshine.

The effects of the moonshine are immediate.

- Passing out

- Doubling over in pain

- Hallucination

## Character

### Personality

Jules, is a poor French outlaw with anger issues whose main occupation is illicit deliveries, but recently has started to dabble in the art of making toxic moonshine. Despite having anger issues at times, he tends to be rather nice, and has a habit of being easily persuaded. Jules is also fairly observant, and generally has a good grasp of numbers. He pretends and acts like he's rich and is a very observant man, he has a love for snails.

### Appearance

Jules is a 27 year old man, that has dark brown eyes, messy short middle-parted hair, and a handlebar mustache with a goatee. His hands look like they have seen their fair share of hard labor with calloused knuckles, though they are not too large. He appears quite fit for his size but by no means well-built, with a lean build and muscular definition. He is around 5ft 9 in height. Jules wears fancy looking clothes always choosing to wear greens and muddied looking colors like tans, but his outfits always leave an impression.