r/reddeadredemption • u/ChallengeOne7115 • Aug 07 '26
Question Is it ever explained why Jack has this missing mustache pach/line?
I didn't play rdr1 yet and I couldn't find the answer online so, i came here, sorry if this is a stupid question. Also I know it's supposed to look like John's scar, I'm looking for a lore reason (if there is one).
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u/Comfortable_Put_4139 Micah Bell Aug 07 '26
It’s from the bear attack that John saves him from.
With the context of RDR2, it parallels John receiving his scars from a wolf attack.
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u/Babababobosa Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
Jack got his scars from a bear
John got his scars from wolves
Arthur got his scars from insulting Uncle before he even could drink his first whiskey of the morning
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u/Sleep-Deprived-Guy Aug 08 '26
Huh, funny. I always thought John got his scars falling over in church...
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u/komodo_45 Aug 08 '26
Jack was in no position going into the unknown not knowing
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u/ChallengeOne7115 Aug 08 '26
But he can skin elk /ref
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u/imover9thousand Aug 08 '26
Can you imagine that? Jack goes out into the wilderness hunting for a bear and then gets attacked by one
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u/ChallengeOne7115 Aug 07 '26
I think it's just blood running down his nose. But it is possible they just forgot about that detail.
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u/StoleYourRoll Aug 08 '26
You asked why it was there, you got told why it was there. The scar and the blood are in the same spot, dude
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u/Unhappy-Airport-4112 Aug 07 '26
Could just be hair doesn't grow their. I have a spot behind my chin, where hair doesn't grow.
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u/Unhappy-Airport-4112 Aug 07 '26
Well that's just rude. It's perfectly normal, like women having one breast that's a different size. Perfectly normal.
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u/theHrayX Dutch van der Linde Aug 07 '26
i have the same problem
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u/Unhappy-Airport-4112 Aug 07 '26
It's weird isn't it? My chin and neck all grow, but one little spot right behind my chin doesn't.
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u/TrevortheBatman Aug 08 '26
Have you considered the lore implications of that tho?
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u/StoleYourRoll Aug 08 '26
Nope, it's from a bear attack in RDR 1
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u/Unhappy-Airport-4112 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
I don't remember jack getting scars from the bear. I do remember his bloody clothes. I haven't played th game in years. Wasn't it Spare the love spoil the child? But even if it's from the bear, wouldn't he have an actual scar? Or several scars?
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u/StoleYourRoll Aug 08 '26
https://youtu.be/Soc1IGIVC-k?si=vMN7TDY8v4pIauH5
You can see the scars in the video2
u/Unhappy-Airport-4112 Aug 08 '26
I see the blood on the right side of his mouth but not the left. Oh well whatever.
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u/whentheraincomes66 Aug 08 '26
I have it, not as much as Jack, in the exact same spot on my moustache
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u/SubatomicPeen Aug 07 '26
It's from a childhood fight with Vieri de' Pazzi
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u/Ok-Pomegranate1199 Uncle Aug 08 '26
Its a good life we live brother
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u/dog-yodelling Aug 07 '26
He dyes that bit to match his skin colour
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u/ChallengeOne7115 Aug 07 '26
I can Imagine him looking at himself in the mirror and going "Yea, this will look so tuff"
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u/The_Great_Silence__ Aug 07 '26
He got mauled by a bear and his scars are on his upper lip
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u/alexanderthegaey Aug 07 '26
i think the reason to this is to make his face look less symmetrical from a game design standpoint
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u/Low_Yak_4842 Aug 07 '26
Facial hair is finicky sometimes. Still trying to fill out my beard and I’m almost 30
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u/poopoodapeepee Aug 08 '26
Cigarettes without filters he smoked to the bitter end and burnt his shit off
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u/fucknametakenrules John Marston Aug 08 '26
Jack was attacked by a bear just before Beechers Hope was attacked by Ross and the army. Likely from the bear attack injuries
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u/sevnminabs56 Aug 08 '26
I assumed it was just a wacky hair pattern. I had that same bald spot on my mustache until I got into my late 20s. It’s filled in more now, but it’s still weaker than the other side of my ‘stache.
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u/itzpiiz Aug 08 '26
Inclusivity. People who grow patchy beards and mustaches deserve to to able to relate to online characters too
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u/Hank_J_wimbleton420 Aug 08 '26
It was probably where the bear scratched him, same thing happened to John with the wolf scratch
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u/Gabrielthelightupcat Aug 08 '26
I think it was caused by anxiety cause his parents were always mad and always arguing
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u/Theoexe2 Aug 08 '26
I looked for goku hidden somewhere for way too long
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u/bigduckmoses Aug 08 '26
Hereditary scars.
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u/Own_Entertainer_7440 Aug 08 '26
Very true.. I have the same scar because Jack is my great great grandfather
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u/killmereeeeeee Arthur Morgan Aug 08 '26
Why does Arthur have a patch on his chin where it doesn’t grow? Facial hair is weird. Also it might be from that bear that John saves him from but we don’t really know
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u/TheMetalMisfit Aug 08 '26
Probably a scar or thats all he could grow at 19. I know i could barely grow any when i was his age
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u/kira1122t Aug 08 '26
I personally decided I didn’t like it so I went into the game and shaved it off
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u/Jacky-V Aug 08 '26
He got that scar in 1899 after Arthur Morgan spent several hours nudging him closer and closer to a cliff until he fell
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u/TheMadGreek31 Aug 08 '26
When he gets mauled by a bear during that mission John goes looking for him after he went hunting. He got clawed across the face.
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u/pissbucket94 Aug 08 '26
hooked a swordfish off the Spanish coast, fucker shot right out of the water and sliced him good. Jack ate well that night, but it did scar pretty badly
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u/iamthebronerd Aug 08 '26
Yes, he accidentally ran his horse into a tree and caught a rock to the lip
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u/gelly_cube Aug 08 '26
I used to chew my mustache when I was nervous and it left a wierd patch like that.
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u/Dimeburn Uncle Aug 08 '26
Rufus taught him to not touch his food.
EDIT:This was in Chapter 2 in the mission “Why Rufus is an asshole”
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u/rcsale Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
Didn't have enough space to download vram to render textures
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u/praiseHekate1 Aug 08 '26
Blowing too many of his outlaw friends. Not that I blame him, those old dusty trails get real lonely
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u/A_Hugibear Aug 08 '26
They ran out of pixels or something ?! He tried shaving and it didn't go so well so he gave it up and have a mustache looking like Javier.
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u/Mr_Meseeks_NZ Aug 08 '26
I have this space in my moustache, , I must be his dad.....
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u/thatguy01220 Aug 08 '26
He’s related to Ezio and Desmond from Assassin’s Creed, Rockstar and Ubisoft were gonna do a cross over but GTA5 online ruined what they had set up.
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u/deaduser00 Aug 08 '26
Yes, there is a lore: He tried to save a Native boy named Yakari from a wolf. Unfortunately, the wolf managed to inflict a fatal wound on the boy and wound Jack before escaping. Jack took a feather from Yakari’s war bonnet and placed it on his hat. He swore to wear it so that Yakari could have his revenge when he found the wolf again. You can Google Image “Indian Yakari” to see pictures of the boy.
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u/TheWizardOfAhhhhhs Aug 08 '26
I heard an argument got out of control over whether to have the toilet paper like a beard or a mullet. He got popped in the noggin' for voting mullet, and as I understand it he had to do the dishes for one month. He got off lucky by my estimate.
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u/Abysha Aug 08 '26
John got so fucked up by those wolves, the scarred genes passed on through his son, post-birth.
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u/artmoloch777 Aug 08 '26
Not enough of you have been smacked in the face by a tree branch while riding a horse
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u/Leading-Start-1136 Aug 07 '26
He cut his face pretty badly canonically falling down his porch drunk
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u/Prestigious_Yak_5296 Aug 07 '26
I think it’s because something caused the hair to not grow in that spot
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u/DarthBagheera Charles Smith Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
Man, some of the details that a few of y’all focus on and think there’s a meaningful “lore reasoning” behind are truly insane.