#micah fucking sucked but he did perfeclty know how to stroke dutchs ego sdkjhsdkjs

[prettyboykatsuki]

your tags about Arthur and Dutch and John i'm going to throw myself through a window 😭😭

BECAUSE IT'S LITERALLY A MOTHER DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP IT REALLY FEELS LIKE THAT DOWN TO THE NITTY GRITTY OF EVERYTHING I'M GONNA- 😭 YES. YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES.

i FUCKING hate Dutch for what he did and how he betrays his family but the most tragic thing is that i don't ever think for a second that he stopped loving any of them. never. he LOVED Arthur so much. he wouldn't feel so deeply betrayed by his delusions of John being a traitor if he didn't love him, too.

shame he just happens to love himself more. Micah knew that very well.

i feel like. i have so many Thoughts about dutch. but i think the way the dutch treats arthur is just so Distinctly mother daughter.... the victimization... the way he is constantly on arthurs ass about being by his side and asking why arthur doesn't believe in him. he's so hurt when arthur gains like any sense of autonomy. i really think the only true father figure arthur had in any sense was hosea and the game affirms that. it doesn't help that the age difference between arthur and dutch is so minimal ... something about teen motherhood there im sure.... it just . it feels so accurate to their relationship it drives me insane when i think about it too long

i too hate dutch mostly because i so truly think he is an idiot but he really did love the gang or at least what he had made of it in his mind. NOW MIND YOU I THINK THAT LOVE IS COMPLETELY TWISTED. but in dutchs mind i do still think of it as love and he harbored it even at the worst of himself. dutch just also has such a deep rooted paranoia that i think is inflicted largely as a result of the various traumas and betrayals that sort of pile up on each other with outlet. he is . very complicated and i feel like i will have to play the game multiple times to really process him in full depth..