EVIL WHITE THING!!!!
only in opnero will the objectively most evil character in the narrative be relegated to side character status because he doesn't gossip. heres a truncated bio for him too! just some stuff ive written.
Gerald Masters is the second youngest son of a ranching family, previously his father worked in a steel mill. He is the only one of his five siblings to live past the age of 25, and watched his father go to his grave thinking he may die at any minute. Growing up surrounded by death seemingly destroyed his empathizing skills. as far as Gerard is aware, he has seen and felt the worst anyone can feel in the world, and if he survived that every other challenge is trivial. He left his childhood home and his father in Reno, and moved to Vegas at 15 to be a valet for The Flamingo. He traded in stolen cars and weed until he turned 18, returned to Reno to bury his father, and enlisted in the army so he would have somewhere to sleep. He fought in WW2 on the Italian front in the us army air corps. He is a viciously efficient member of a B-17 bomber crew. His plane was only downed once leading to his capture and torture as a POW. Gerald did not spend a lot of time in Nazi custody and when he returned from a brief leave he very quickly attained Colonel status following the surrender of the axis powers. He immediately retires to domestic duties, specifically administering basic training and bootcamps. Gerald elects to involve himself in US imperial espionage, leaving Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee to participate in the great war against communism. He has been in the Panama Canal zone for the past few years, but he is no real patriot, and simply enjoys torturing communists, and privates, and basically anyone he can get his hands on.
Gerald is psychosexually obsessed with pain and endurance. He gets sexual gratification from experiencing or administering discomfort. He has regularly volunteered to be tortured and abused in drills and expects the same from every US soldier. He seems completely unshakable, almost deranged in his apparent bravery. Most men under his long-term command are personally abused and humiliated by him, BUT HE KEEPS IT ABOVE BOARD! as above board as the army can be I suppose. Nothing matters to him more than American military supremacy and he doesn't really believe in war crimes as a rule. He's gay, also voluntarily celibate. He likes cruises.
Of course he has a particular bone to pick with Danny. Danny genuinely thinks Gerald wants to kill him, and while he wouldn't be opposed i think he whales on him so fucking hard because he reminds gerald of himself as a young man.
there is a visual similarity i suppose. Gerald is way taller though. and more moe.
ANYWAYS, he compares his teenage stint of grand theft auto to dannys own short life of crime. But unlike him, danny is refusing to change his evil ways. Ostensibly because he hasn't been beaten enough by a paternalistic male authority. Gerald can fix this, he will. He has a fondness for little daniel however, and often trusts him with tasks that are in direct opposition to the hatred he knows danny has for him. Just to test his resolve. Like putting a loaded gun to his head and telling danny to leave the trigger be.