Every GTA 6 character Rockstar has confirmed, and how they connect

Rockstar's named a small cast, and the interesting bit is how tightly they interlock. Almost nobody here stands alone.

Jason and Lucia

Jason Duval grew up around grifters, served in the Army, and came back to work for drug runners in the Keys. Lucia Caminos is the first woman Rockstar's written as a fully voiced lead in a mainline Grand Theft Auto, and she's introduced leaving custody.

Each of them has a separate Criminal Profile, which Rockstar says tracks how you operate. It doesn't score you as good or evil. And the character switch interface puts a heart between them where you'd expect a skill bar, which is the clearest thing the studio's said about what this story is.

Jason's circle, in the Keys

Brian Heder is an old smuggler still working out of a boat yard, and he's the one letting Jason stay rent-free, so Jason's in somebody's debt before the story even opens. That's deliberate setup. Grand Theft Auto protagonists usually arrive with nothing and build outward, and Jason arrives already inside somebody else's operation.

Brian's wife Lori works the same operation out of the same yard. Cal Hampton rounds it out: a conspiracy hobbyist who listens to Coast Guard radio for fun and turns up at The Rusty Anchor, the bar the whole Keys cast keeps showing up at.

The Vice City crowd

Boobie Ike turned a street reputation into property, a strip club and a recording studio. That studio connects him to Dre'Quan Priest, a dealer whose real ambition was always music and who manages Real Dimez, the duo of Bae-Luxe and Roxy.

Raymond runs drug production that supplies Boobie's club, and that's where the legitimate portfolio stops being legitimate. He opens the Extended Look by getting a phone call from Ernesto, warning him police are coming, having arranged for them to come.

Look at this group as a structure, and skip the cast list for a second. A promoter, a studio owner, an act and the money behind them add up to the music business inside the plot, and that's a first for the series. Previous games kept the industry on the radio and in jokes.

Raul Bautista, the man on the box

Raul Bautista is described as a bank robber, and he's on the cover art alongside Jason, Lucia and Boobie Ike. Rockstar hasn't shown how he connects to anyone, which is conspicuous for somebody on the box.

No villain yet

No antagonist has been named. In a series where the villain usually turns up early and loudly, heading into the final two months without one is either restraint or the biggest thing Rockstar's still holding back.

There's no published voice cast either. The one exception is reporting that identified Stephen Root as Brian Heder from the Extended Look, and Rockstar hasn't confirmed that.

Full section: all characters in the wiki.