Sadie Adler X OC

The Backstory

(Hey y'all, quick disclaimer: This chapter is mainly jist going to be the backstory of my OC and will hopefully give more depth to his character before we get into the events of the RDO story next chapter. Enjoy!)

Born on the 30th of December, 1874. Simon Robert Lawson was born into a loving family who were hardworking but not very wealthy. His parents Stephen and Barbara owned a small little plot of land out west near to Blackwater. Along with his parents, Simon had an older sister by 4 years called Sarah, He had a nice and peaceful childhood, his family loved and cared for him deeply and even if they were struggling with wealth or even resources like food or water, they did their best to care for him that is until one night...

The Lawsons little homestead and ranch had been a peaceful place ever since his ma and pa settled on it in 1868. However, the west was never truly safe for anybody...one night on the 7th of January, 1881, a group of wild, dangerous bandits broke into the ranch and hustled away all of the Lawsons cattle, thus leaving them with only grain to survive. "Dammit, we've been robbed! All our cattle is gone!" Barbara exclaimed as her and Stephen got into an argument now. They had hoped this would be the last and only time this would happen.

After a few days, Stephen headed around the country to find someone willing to sell them a few cattle so they could restore their ranch to their former glory. He succeeded and got a few sheep and goats now and things were back to normal until it happened again...Only this time the family was ready for it, as the same men were hustling the cattle, Simon's parents awoke and rushed outside, his father grabbed his winchester repeater rifle and aimed at the group of men. "You drop those cattle and leave them here right now, or you die." Stephen said coldly.

The men just turned and looked around at each other chuckling, in the blink of an eye the men all drew their guns and opened fire on Stephen, he was dead before he even knew it and Simon's mother screamed in horror "STEPHEN!!" This caused Simon and Sarah to run our the house and their mother immediately got between them and the group of bandits. The bandits leader laughed and smirked at the family now "We'll be taking this cattle now pretty lady...and for your troubling..you can kiss your ranch goodbye...Burn it down boys!" He yelled at his men as they begun flinging firebottles at the house setting it alight a as they rode off with the Lawson's cattle.

Simon's mother wasted no time, she quickly grabbed Simon and Sarah and got up on their wagon and rode off. They had no time to grieve or even grab any belongings...their life as they knew it was gone, Stephen dead on the porch as their house burnt around his dead body. They spent days out in the wilderness, travelling and barely surviving. Their clothes were worn and Barbara desperately asked anyone they came across for work, a place to stay, even just a crumb of bread for food. Eventually they found it near Strawberry...a rancher stumbled across them in the wild one day and listened to their story, he was a kind and a married man with a family and a huge ranch up north. He needed a seamstress and Simon's mother was good at that, he hired her and said the whole family could stay with the workers on the ranch. They moved there the next day, Simon's mother worked hard to provide for her kids, Sarah did her best to care for her kittle brother when their mother was absent, however it was hard, ever since the night his father had died, Simon hardly spoke, he spoke to his family but he was distrustful of almost any stranger he met now.

They worked for years, as the years went by Simon and Sarah got educated, they learnt to read and write, Simon got taught how to handle a gun by the ranch owners son who was a similar age William. He learnt alot of useful skills as the years went by and he and his sister progressed from kids to teenagers to eventually adults in the late 1890's. By 1896, the whole family was working on the ranch but sadly Simon's mother had fallen ill with pneumonia. She didnt have long and it hurt Simon and his sisters heart's watching her suffer after all she did for them. She passed away sadly in September of 1896, They went and buried her together but it drove him and his sister apart.

They all left the ranch and their lives behind, Simon became a drifter, wondering the wild and doing whatever little jobs he could, mostly security on stagecoaches to survive. His sister had moved East, she found a nice man and they got married, Simon only found out in January of 1897 via letter since he and his sister wrote to one another even though they were so far apart, they still cared for each other.

By June of 1898, Simon was still wirting to his sister every few months, he was still a drifter and wild roamer of the lands and his journies were never lacking adventure or fun, he still in all his years hardly spoke to anyone and he still mistrusted alot of people. His journies brought him eventually to Blackwater. He was new in town and Blackwater was a more civilised, tame town now than it was when he was a kid. Buildings everywhere, Lawmen patrolling regularly, the saloon was bustling with drunk men playing poker or hiring whores for a good time. The town had changed so much since hw was last near here and unfortunatley he wouldn't be allowed to enjoy it long...

The law had been keeping an eye on everyone who entered the town recently due to a recent robbery in the town. As he rode down the main street it was quiet, almost too quiet, all he could hesr was the bustling in the saloon...the sound if his horses hooves on the floor and the occassional person walking down the street but after a few minutes as he dismounted and hitched his horse outside the general store...the street had been deserted.

"Sure is empty..." He mumbled under his breath as he went into the general store, his gun was in desperate need of some gun oil. He purchased some and as he was in the store a murder happened in the street, a man shot dead lay on the floor, the sound of the gunshot ringing through the town and the lawmen arrived fast. As Simon came out of the store cleaning his gun, one of the lawmen spotted him and due to lack of suspects since the real culprit had fled and Simon's comprising postion and lack of talking. He ended up getting arrested even tbough he tried explaining his story, the sheriff wouldnt hear it and soon enough in July he was shipped out to serve a sentence for a murder he didnt commit in Sisika state penitentiary.

(And thats the end of the backstory, next chapter will be the start of the story of Red Dead Onlines story which I will try publish as soon as I can, this took a while to write but I hope you enjoyed for those of you who read this! : D )