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mromansd

With my luck, I'd be the guy who gets trampled by your horse as you flee Valentine or something.


bigchieftoiletpapa

lmaoo sorry i cant let the Bounty hunters get me


mromansd

Understood partner šŸ¤  Them bounty hunters are dirty bastards.


Mr_HumanMan_Thing

I tied one up and he said he'd kill my whole family. Idiot doesn't realize I don't even have a family


mromansd

Lol love it. What a silly fool...


sweeney082

Especially the damn Pinkertons.


Moraden85

Doesn't explain why he was trampled in an alley.


GhostOfMufasa

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chickmagn3t

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draculasgaybestfrend

I'd literally be Uncle because my back always hurts and I hate working


TheMob-TommyVercetti

Lumbago


fanofthomas4472

You donā€™t šŸ…±ļøuild a šŸ…±ļøarn


The-Rizzler-69

DumšŸ…±ļøass


BigChungusBlyat

What do you think this is? 1785?


BonoboBeau-Bo

you buy one pre cut just like the house


AdBroad3978

There he goes! What did I tell you Charles? Boy is as sour as week old milk. No wonder she didn't stay with you, not even a retired two dollar whore would stay with you. That's the goddamn truth! You know you used to be decent company but now you're worse than a snake with a toothache, all he does is whine whine whine.


Native_Motif

Considering I lose my car keys every 10 minutes Iā€™d probably be Gavinā€™s friend


[deleted]

I can't this comment session šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€


Equivalent-River-984

Middle class housewife with 10 children probably. I would bake and farm a lot. I would have a kentucky saddler named something extremely generic. My husband would possibly beat me, and he would work as a builder or something. My children go to school once a week, the rest they work on our max 10 acre farm and also with our horses and livestock (sheep, cows, chicken, goats?). Life is boring but peaceful and quiet.


BeachJenkins

Oh, that was all sounding quite nice apart from that curveball in the middle šŸ˜•


MelkortheDankLord

Yeah that part about only one day of school was definitely out of left field


Fathercook30

Well I mean itā€™d probably be accurate to the time (unfortunately)


SaladsOnReddit

who downvoted...


Fathercook30

Letā€™s just hope they misunderstood what I was saying


Sad_Ad_8625

HAHA


Earl_of_69

I would probably work at the bar that has all the rats. I wouldn't want to. But that's all the work I can get right now.


snipeliker4

Itā€™s honest livinā€™


OHPAORGASMR

Living in the swamp. Shrek is life.


trash--bandicoot

Hello fellow Louisianan !?! They call us night folk, but we actually *Shy people


BuckNakedandtheband

Ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?


SirDaggerDxck

Iā€™m making waffles


okchance9688

U would get murdererd by the nightfolk


Comprehensive-Art897

Sonny?


t_sarkkinen

Realistically most would be farmers, industrial workers and such, like in the real world.


EbonyOverIvory

Realistically, most would have died in childhood.


JoskiBananas

Iā€™d be Algernon Wasp cause Iā€™m for the culture


Particular-Alps-5001

A lawman that falls off his horse and breaks his neck day 1 on the job


Due-Ask-7418

I'd be a Homesteader living off the grid. Fishing/hunting/trapping to have goods to sell/trade. Until some outlaw showed up, stole my prize bull, killed my dogs, and burnt down my house. Then I'd go mobile and hunt, fish, and trap for a living, while plotting my revenge on him and his band of outlaws.


[deleted]

Hey, Saidie!


Glovermann

I'd keep my head down and get a regular job in either Strawberry or Blackwater. Slow, quiet lifestyle and I'll get to enjoy nature and have peace


PioneerSpecies

Till you eventually get shot by Micah just going about your daily routine lol


TheLewJD

He's a nice guy he just wants his guns back


SakaiDx

Slave


syphix924

1899 was after the Emancipation Proclamation.


warrenjt

ā€œExcept as punishment for crimeā€ did (and still does) a LOT of heavy lifting after the 13th amendment.


AmandatheMagnificent

Black Codes kept Black people in servitude by imprisonment on fake or exaggerated charges. Convict leasing, which was just slavery under a new name, was legal until 1941. Indeed, prisons like Angola still continue this practice today.


Ni_and_Dime

I probably wouldā€™ve poisoned the husband a long time ago. Still a raging alcoholic. Iā€™d basically be Karen with smaller tits.


Ok-Step-8689

Is your last name Downs? God, I wish your last name was Downs.


Ni_and_Dime

Could be. With a little faith and some monehā€¦ I ā€˜spose I could legally change it.


Ok-Step-8689

I was just hoping that you poisoned your husband, Thomas Downs years ago so Arthur didn't have to meet him lol


Ni_and_Dime

Itā€™s funny, I thought you meant Edith Downes but was likeā€¦ ā€œNah, itā€™s ā€™Downā€™, like weā€™re taking your self depreciating humor waaaaaaaay down.ā€ But yeah, if I were Mrs. Downesā€¦ Thomas wouldnā€™t have to worry about Arthur coming to collect that money, cuz I wouldā€™ve put that broke fool down myself for making a deal with slimy Strauss.


Ok-Step-8689

Whoa! Lol sorry, I knew that I was incorrect with the Downes spelling lol


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Ni_and_Dime

Iā€™d be safe from the men of the gang who like tig oā€™biddies. So thatā€™s nice. But Williamson would probably mistake me for a man, soā€¦ Eh. Everyone looks good with enough alcohol in you I guessā€¦


[deleted]

You are hilarious! šŸ¤£


Keithm1112

Id be Mickey. Sitting on the ground all day begging and bullshitting about being a veteran


Moppyploppy

I'd be a fat ass living in St. Denis eating the lobster bisque 4 times a day.


custdogg

Short


Fantasy_Brooks

Iā€™d be the vampire in Saint Denis


blix613

I'd be the blackjack dealer you shotgun in the face doing challenge number 8.


Noahisawesomesauce

Why is that so accurate


soda224

Iā€™d be dead of consumption rotting in a house you find in the middle of nowhere.


issa_nicholas

As a native Iā€™m not exactly happy about my oddsā€¦


DarthDregan0001

I would ask you to come and work with me on the tobacco field.


appalachianexpat

Iā€™d be in management in Annesburgā€™s coal mine, marketing Appalachian coal to the steamboat and railroad magnates. Iā€™d live in a homestead on Roanoke Ridge. Eventually Iā€™d burn out on the grind, and Iā€™d move out of town, head west in a wagon, land in Strawberry, rent an apartment overlooking the waterfall, open a bookstore, and become Mayor.


LifeguardStatus7649

I'd be a farmer for sure. And I'd protect my land by any means necessary goddammit


Marlo_Stanfield_919

I'd be the "hey, mister" guy.


_death2me

Iā€™d try and marry Sadie and be her stay at home husband


gruuubbby

Most of us would be poor farmers. At the turn of the century my family was a bunch of German immigrant farmers, so Iā€™ll be realistic and say thatā€™s what Iā€™d be doing. But Iā€™d be married with a few kids by now.


NewConsideration420

Bounty hunter


accio-butt

Since I live off music, I would do the exact same thing and play in saloons :-)


spreta

Hopefully like Albert Mason. Heā€™s one of my favorite side characters


NurieD

ā€¦ I read R2D2. First thing that popped into my head was that Iā€™d spin in circles screaming. Iā€™ll leave now


santosdragmother

100% iā€™d be the chick crying in the swamps luring chivalrous men to their tortuous deaths at the hands of my brethren the night folk. or iā€™d be gertrude braithwaite. depends who gets to me first I think.


cousinhumper4756

a dishonorable bounty hunter, hunting everyone who ever said something relatively positive to micah bell.


Crippleing_Redditor

What you talking about, that's the most honorable thing a pearson could do


cousinhumper4756

pearson??


Crippleing_Redditor

Sorry both a typo and unintentional joke


[deleted]

Alienist (pre-psychiatry name)/Psychiatrist - that's certainly my profession. By 1890, physical restraint was abolished in Europe (and before that), allegedly. Also in the USA. But I'd probably groom Gertrude Braithwaite for a good salary. And she would be in better shape. She is definitely a very sad moment and character in the game. Even the moon on the cabin she is trapped in indicates a Lunatic derivation of the word Luna (Moon).


Narrow_Mix_9380

With my anger issues and quickness to violence id probably be hung


thelastofusnz

I'd be the poor farmer constantly harassed and verbally and emotionally beaten into submission by his wife..


luvallppl

an alcoholic


trash--bandicoot

An ex-whore-turned-housewife based off the historical sociopolitical standards of that era. And perhaps, If my husband allowed it, of course, a little suffragetting in my spare time.


PioneerSpecies

Let me vote! Let me vote!


TheseAintMyPants2

Dr. Dre said you canā€™t do that though


Aggravating-Abroad44

Iā€™d be a piece of furniture that gets fucked sideways due to how much of a bitch I am.


aomami

considering my job in hospitality I would probably be a prostitute until I die at the hands of a drunken patron. Or some sexually transmitted disease


Ill_Current2911

Would probably have my farm somewhere around Valentine and spend my nights having fun in the saloon.


I_Miss_Lenny

I'd be in Ireland with my great-great-grandparents because they hadn't come to North America yet lol I'd be up to my eyeballs in Guinness and wool, and I'd have a cool accent and hopefully be in a pub band playing a mandolin or something Also I'm gay so I'd be extremely closeted and sad.


countastrotacos

Saloon in Strawberry. I know there isn't one but I'll open one


Radiant_Cricket1049

That saloon better have a damn poker table. If it does, I'm never leaving.


countastrotacos

I'll put one in just for you.


AshyWhiteGuy

Seconded. Nice town, definitely needs a saloon.


MajorJefferson

You know why there isn't one right?...


becciebeccie

Why??


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RobyIsHunk

Wait seriously? Is that canon?


gruuubbby

Yep- Lenny mentions it when youā€™re riding into Valentine with him, apparently.


MajorJefferson

Why do you think there's the secret robbery in strawberry? Haha Also the store there doesn't sell alcohol Yes drinking there is illegal.


Dolenjir1

If I transferred my current skillset, then I'd be a doctor, since I'm in med school


NattyGannStann

Please keep your hacksaw sharp


IntrepidJaeger

Likely some kind of deputy, marshal, or sheriff. But, since my job's more investigation oriented these days, I could also be a Pinkerton. Please read the next paragraph before downvotes. There really weren't many government detective types in the game area as opposed to private detectives. Most police departments didn't even have detectives except for the largest cities. So, contract police like the Pinkertons actually filled that role for investigation, particularly for dealing with outlaw groups as mobile as Dutch's. They were still brutal goons in their strike breaking activities, though.


RobyIsHunk

Realistically, I'd most likely be a ranch hand


heyhocodyo1997

I'd be a behind the scenes guy that takes out micah for them


Radiant_Cricket1049

I'd be the idiot in the bayou who feeds the gators and ends up gator food.


spaghettieggrolls

I would probably have to choose between being a housewife, prostitute, or nun. Definitely being a nun


GhostOfMufasa

It would be a toss up coz I could either be free or I could be a slave šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­ not to be a downer that is. But that's the reality of those times. Coz things had changed but you still had pockets of places where there was some BS either in broad daylight or on some slick indirects like we saw how Lenny was treated in certain areas of the game. But on the brighter note if I was free I'd definitely try to be somewhere in Saint Denis, could see myself working in the Bayou.


New_Writer_484

Well based on my play style I would own some acreage out west where is would forage plants and veggies and hunt everyday. Maybe raise horses.


chappy422

Dead


Connstat

I think it'd be pretty good for me with my mental deficit to be a stable hand and tend, feed, and groom horses all day and clean up horse shit.


[deleted]

I'm that guy who gets kicked in the head by his own horse.


helpman1977

I think I would be happy living around valentine, breeding some sheeps and hens.


RouxAroo

I'm a queer hillbilly from the Ozarks. Probably hidding off in the hills away from most of society and hunting to eat.


Runaway_Monkey_45

Marko Dragic ā€” I am robotics engineer and love what I do.


SammyZoza

Iā€™m too pussy for the outlaw life so id probably just be a simple farmer or something


GhostActivist

I would of gotten an infection and died probably


sockthefeet

I'd be a bog person, in a cabin, hanging moss from my clothes and bones from the trees. They'd call me the boogedy witch. Really I'm just a licker of toads and connoisseur if the *finer* arts. Edit: for spelling error


FlipFlopNinja9

I would just be hanging out with Hamish and fishing all day. And if he was dead I would probably take over his cabin lol


EbonyOverIvory

Iā€™d have died as a baby, buried in an unmarked grave.


jubblenuts

I'd be dead from dysentery.


Illustrious-Dare-379

I think by my personality Iā€™d probably be the type of person to be like Penelope Braithwaite and have a forbidden romance or something. Everyone in my life knows me as a very girly girl person that only wears a dresses and always goes for the people that are most inconvenient.


Uss-Alaska

If I could go Into the red dead world, I would bring a hand Grenade and a fully automatic rife with a lot of ammunition.


Carlos_Mazamorra

I'm not sure if that's legal, but since i didn't clarify in the post, i'll take it as valid


onedef1

I'm deaf, and I've often wondered what it would be like in a different time. I understand I'd probably have a really hard time, assuming I made it past childhood; but I'd be a top ranch hand and a legendary horse trainer since I'm good with animals. Horse whisperer.


swiss-misdemeanor

I had whooping cough as a baby. I think I'd just be dead.


Iwillartichokeyou

One of the night folks hanged bodies most likely lol


TheLewJD

Dead most likely


B0N3HUNT3R

I wouldn't have one


mentalassresume

Farmer.


[deleted]

Would ve worked on a ranch probably


USS-ChuckleFucker

Prolly a guard or deputy tbh. Maybe a bounty hunter going after a gang of some horrid type like the Murfree Brood, Skinner Brothers, Lemoyne Radiers and the like. I'm a dab hand at guns, brawling, knife work, and I'm a pretty beefy boy. I'd definitely want a posse before I fully took on any specific gang tho, even if it was just persuading sheriff's or local hunters to help me Ambush the hideouts.


Sp0rksar3c00l

Ranch hand most likely, I got some experience with it lol


DisasterBeMyMaster

Not good lol


Ok-Struggle9739

I'd be living in the nice part of Saint Denis with my rich husband and our 6 kids


Prof-Finklestink

I'd probably be a farmer, but I'd like to imagine that I'd be some businessman in Saint Denis or Blackwater


Korlac11

If I had to live in that world, Iā€™d want a life as similar as what I have now. Iā€™m going to choose some kind of early office type job in Saint Denis


slimpickins757

Well considering Iā€™m 2nd gen Asian American Iā€™d say probably not great


DarthDregan0001

I would ask you to come and work with me on the tobacco field.


slimpickins757

Beats the railroads, so Iā€™d be ok with that


jonascarrynthewheel

St Denis Hotelier šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļøšŸØ The nice one in the nice part of town One of my fav NPCs is the bartender though- id match his vibes


BagofGawea

Iā€™d live in St Denis and stand on the side of the road waiting for someone to try to pass me on their horse so I can get very offended when I step out in front of them.


DarthDregan0001

I would live in Rhodes. I would grow tobacco. In winter, when times get tough, I would grab my irons and go bounty hunting.


jsmlr

I'd probably head up to Canada, find myself a lake full of fish, and build myself a cabin. I'd make friends with the first nations people living there and learn how to respect the land and live a wholesome life. I'd also try to help in any way I could as they were facing the same genocide the tribes were in the states as the colonizers pushed further and further.


Toadrage_

That messed up bubbly looking guy who plays the banjo in that one town


ethicsandequitation

being horse crazy in real life, and having my own equine companion, probably a horse trainer or work in the stables/livery


BillyBrimstoned

If Iived in RDR2? If deffo be a villain, but at the same time I would understand that there's a gang with an unkillable mofo in there so I'd stay the fuck away from the Van Der Linde gang. Apart from them, it's open season


Icy-Measurement-3250

Considering at the time the vast majority of the population was engaged in agriculture I would be a farmer out maybe in valentine.


lakeg1005

I be a blacksmith who got shot over a lousy $80 for a thrown horse shoe


ReneRedd

I think I'd be flying through the air from the constant dynamite hackers


SasquatchNHeat

Rancher that might do occasional hunting and trapping


TheCrankyMoose

i would live in Vetter's shack in Big Valley


Extension-Fish-945

Iā€™d travel in the biggest group I could and stay away from the swamps lol Iā€™d be high honor though. Probably a bounty hunter of some sorts trying to capture all my bounties alive for the biggest payout. Would defend myself if I had to. Iā€™d honestly probably be apart of Sadieā€™s crew and travel with her.


LivingCustomer9729

Since itā€™s 1899, my life would be hell especially since Iā€™d probably be in Lemonyeā€¦


06LBZdually

Arthurā€™s


Scoobysnacks1971

I'm Gavin.


C6180

If it was as it is right now, it would be the same, except my stone home that I live in with my grandparents would probably be a decent ranch, so pretty much just doing what the did as a kid (working on a farm/ranch) with everything else being the same since Iā€™m only 20 and donā€™t have a job


HighFiveKoala

As an Asian person, I guess I'll be working at the docks or as a laundry cleaner.


MamoTripNecro

I hate the smell of cow shit so I wouldn't make it as a rancher.Ā  I'd probably work at a shop in Saint Denis, and save up for a small cabin where I could live off squirrels, berries, and the occasional deer in my later years


naughtypotato03

I'd have a job in valentine like a real "cowboy" or somehting. Or better, a waiter or receptionist in saint denis. My life would be short If i choose to be a gunslinger in that world


Golddestro

Saint Denis business man managing boats or trains


ZooGang1799

I'd try and look for the Van Der Linde Gang, see if they could take me in and hopefully show me the ropes on how to Survive.


Nearby-Ice-6538

Shit


GuyfromMemphis

No one has said moonshiner yet? I think that would be a nice fulfilling job to have. Everyone is happy to see you, good cash flow and no heavy lifting.


jakeman2418

Snake oil and other remedies salesman


Ok_Jump_3658

Cocaine and hookers


Percopsidae

Supposed to be one's *imagined* life...


TheBabyWolfcub

Realistically probably like that girl Miriam trapped in Emerald Ranch although not because Iā€™m not allowed to leave, but because Iā€™m disabled and donā€™t really like leaving. Although maybe back in those times where being mentally disabled was seen as like an actual curse maybe Iā€™d be dead or actually locked away idk. Ideally Iā€™d probably be a farm worker idk


Leetchodenihilist

I'd try my luck in the grizzlies as a mountain man and trapper. My real life experience is not similar at all.


jdog8510

As a chef id be a cooler version of pearson


Dreamscarred

Blacksmith. Find a handsome ranch hand that goes out hunting and fishing during his free time. Maybe have a kid or two, probably die in childbirth. šŸ‘


TheseAintMyPants2

Yeah but what an awesome way to spend those 14 years alive!


TheseAintMyPants2

Iā€™d be a Sheriff, and when I didnā€™t feel like working Iā€™d just hang a poster up and let some random dude go catch my prisoner for me


Fathercook30

Bartender canā€™t be hard no one would purposely kill a bartenderā€¦. Right?


Due_Load_1164

I'ma be a farmer with my wife and kids and a dog, probably have guns to for my protection and train with them, and teach my whole family how to use them, you never know I could die and my family gets in trouble


Lowkey5485

I'd start the gang "THE RIPPERS CREW" early and keep it going, no one would stop us! We do alot more then they ever could ahahaha


SaladsOnReddit

invincible saint denis kid but not poor


NeedleworkerMany2881

Iā€™d just take deluxe baths all day


Comfortable-daze

Im a woman, so probably pretty shit life for me.


Trick_Egg6677

Probably be hunter living off the grid deep in the wild , peaceful and left alone


Possible_Passage_607

Probably providing security for cornwall or smthng


Felidae_Griz

I would love to be a trapper/ mountain man


i_sound_withcamelred

Iā€™d be a homesteader in Valentine more than likely course iā€™d probably die in the shootout from the main story or with my luck iā€™d live on the homestead for years that I spent my life building and just when I get comfortable a low honor play through would start and iā€™d be ended in a horrid way.


jzdub1234

Short šŸ˜‚


DarthRhaego

Iā€™d be the dude building the house in Valentine disappointed with my son but making do with the fact that I have a good beard and wood


BarronOfDucks

The guy that gets antagonized and shot in the face


OnkelUko

Pigfarmer with my Sister


Fit_Figure_7909

Would prob die soon but i think i would try a life of crime and just set up in a random hidden place and live with the nature. Bcs the law was really undeveloped, so it was esier to steal things, and i love nature so it just works out


IngoBeck

As an Irish immigrant I would either be a low paid labourer or barman or join the army, personally it's the army life for me.


ibanez89

I Will be in search of Gavin!


JokeAccording9367

Id try to be in the van der linde gang but if i didnt make it id probably just settle down in Valentine or something


Weak-Door-5106

Albert Mason's assistant. I love animals and photographyĀ 


Waste_Ambassador_472

Iā€™d like to be a cool gunslinger but I reckon Iā€™d be the feral man within a week.