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"The many miles we walked, The many things we've learned, The building of a shrine, Only just to burn"

I'll never get tired of this game's visuals.

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"When I'm gone, they'll just find another monster. They have to, to justify their wages"

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the last time Dutch actively doubts Micah and his plans is in Blessed Are The Peacemakers, which I think is really interesting given how the quest ends.

One would assume Dutch would be more wary of Micah given that all of his plans caused a mess, and the latter almost killed Arthur, but maybe this quest showed Dutch that his right hand man is mortal at the end of the day, and maybe it started the spiral that ended with Micah replacing Arthur.

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arthur and his cunty little chaps.

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there was never a second rat. The reason why all of the gang's jobs failed is because they consistently went after the biggest scores they could find even when they agreed they should lay low.

put some respect on Abigail's name

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LAWD HAVE MERCY

suddenly I'm also a discouraged man

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I wonder if the reason Arthur's tent is almost always next to Dutch is because Dutch sees him as him most useful tool.

The only chapter where Arthur's tent is further away is chapter 6, where Dutch's right-hand man becomes Micah.

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getting compliments from npcs on my horse is so satisfying; yes, I brush him before and after every ride, he gets endless pets and treats, I love him, Thank you for noticing <3

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"I love Dutch like a father, but in many ways, I love Hosea even more. He's kind and fair and like a human being."

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the VA for dutch, benjamin byron davis, said something really interesting in that old AMA reddit thread - someone asked if dutch would have visited any of the graves of his dead gang members and he basically said “no, because it would just remind him of his mistakes” and i think that is essential to understanding why he ultimately left arthur on that cliff. i don’t think it was apathy and by that point, i don’t believe that dutch still thought arthur was the rat. even if only subconsciously, seeing arthur broken and near death was proof that he failed. at the end of the day, arthur was his boy, in a way that only applied to arthur and john. he raised them and i think he felt at least somewhat responsible for them. seeing arthur sick, dying, and brutalized by someone that dutch had let influence him to a great degree broke him. he is so ashamed he cannot bear to see his boy - his first boy - die because of him. being there for arthur in his last moments means apologizing and apologizing means admitting fault in some way.

it’s this meme but instead of running to arthur’s side he’s running away from him

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want you to know I saw you post a rdr2 thing and tag it as "smearp" and I just full on giggled for a minute trying to recall who SMEARP is in red dead 😂 you're canon now

this is my first ever ask and it's absolutely beautiful, hell yeah i'm canon now

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Arthur being excited about lockpicking and being the vault guy is so important to me; the gang always jokes about him being hot-headed and dumb and he always regards himself as such when, in reality, you need to he the opposite in order to be good at the latter.

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can RDR3 be about Silver Dollar? I stg this horse is always wandering somewhere

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"I don't believe I shall ever go back home now, for this, this is my home now, you are all my home now"

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Arthur, switching from bitter laughter to the verge of tears, while telling Sister Calderon that he's afraid, with his lips slightly quivering from the attempt to hide his fear, will forever haunt my thoughts.

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"Nothing means more to me than this gang, I would kill for it, I would happily die for it"

these moments with high contrast lighting will forever scratch an itch in my brain

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every time Arthur speaks lowly about himself, an angel dies