Arnaud

Background

Arnaud is a middle-aged Frenchman, born in 1960, who comes to Liberty City in 2008 for a holiday built around sex and drugs, staying in Bohan. He once had a family but came to see it as pointless, and now believes that pleasure and getting high are the only things worth chasing. Dan Houser described him as a modern French version of a flâneur, a man who simply knows how to exist.

Events of The Ballad of Gay Tony

Arnaud is a random character met by Luis Fernando Lopez.

In the first encounter, near Star Junction, the two chat about France, America and television and get along well. Arnaud then asks Luis for a ride to an appointment at a massage spa, and Luis drives him there.

In the second encounter Luis finds Arnaud deep in Bohan, beaten and robbed after a night of opium and bondage with Brazilian prostitutes. Arnaud says his stolen wallet has sentimental value, so Luis hunts down the pimp, kills him and recovers the wallet before dropping Arnaud in a safer neighborhood.

Trivia

• He is voiced by Simon Jutras.
• He was originally planned for GTA IV but cut, then used in The Ballad of Gay Tony.
• Dan Houser named him after a character of the same name in James Salter's novel Light Years.
• The pimp drives a unique maroon Manana that can be kept by parking it in a garage after the encounter.