Gotta respect the 12 bullets to the balls ending this guy gave Micah
I seriously was devastated by Kieran's death in chapter 4. He finally seems welcome and gets happy, even Arthur greets him nicely. Then he turns up dead, decapitated no less.
arthurs death is kinda sweet (NARRITIVELY) - he gets to die on a sunrise, with his final breaths after his redemption and helping people. He also died in a similar way to Mr Downes which is poetic. Edit: I don't mean it was sweet for arthur but it was in a storytelling perspective
Grimshaws death 100% was important to the story. She is the embodiment of loyalty, so when she stands up against Dutch, we know he left the gang, and not the gang left him
“At least he died in his homeland.” This actually makes it so much sadder for Javier. He hated Mexico.
Molly's death was so tragic to me. She comes from a well off family and went off for her own adventure, fell genuinely in love with Dutch who eventually drained her mentally, physically and emotionally up to her death. She was so isolated, paranoid and confused towards the end of chapter 2 and on wards, and despite not saying anything against the gang even when interrogated multiple times by Milton, she died and was killed as a rat and wasn't even given a proper burial. The only mistake she made was loving Dutch
The entire marston family deserved better
Personally, i think Jack Marston's fate is one of the worst ones. The fact that he saw everyone he cared about die, and also got forced into a life of crime he didn't want is terrible.
john spent 10-15 years with the gang and escaped rdr2 and somehow got a loan to buy a ranch and spent 4 years living with Abigail and jack and won an entire Mexican revolution. its a miracle he didn’t get hanged or shot earlier.
No one expected Uncle to outlive almost everyone
Uncle lived a life of ease except lumbago and died with honor defending his family. He lives to 71. Best death.
The saddest part about johns death is when he tells his family not to worry and that he'll catch up with them even when he knows he's about to die
Hoseas death was so well done though. The helplessness the gang all felt, the suspension and dutches desperation and fear in the moment before hosea was shot to then being blinded by a moment of rage
Abigail's death wasn't caused by John. It is never explicitly stated how she died but that she just died in 1914 from causes unknown to us, she could have gotten sick or just depressed and fell in with something, which makes John's death indirectly responsible. I think the reason Rockstar did it was so that we could have a young Jack as protagonist in RDR1 and not play as some 40 year old Jack who wouldn't even be able to kill Ross as he would be dead by then. John's actions did buy Jack and Abigail 3 years before Jack would ultimately fall in to the outlaw life. And remember the reason Ross and Archford know about John is because he went after Micah at a time when he finally had his family back together, he chose revenge over living a new life. Which renders his redemption act not so fruitful. Which also render's Arthur's ''main'' redemption arc(because he and John actually were able to save tens of people via stranger missions or random encounters) pretty useless. But this also ties to what Sister Calderon told Arthur, that you should try to do the good thing even if you won't get something out of it, just because you know it's right, that is how both John and Arthur reached their full arc of redemption. They did the right thing without thinking of what would come next.
Jack ends up having a good life... well kinda. We see in GTA 5 there's a book called Red Dead by J Marston. I know they're not in the same universes but since jacks fate isn't revealed it would be nice to think that he did indeed settle down on the ranch, write a book about his life and the rest of his days panned out nicely.
Idk I feel like Arthur’s shouldn’t really matter on when he died. I think the point of his death is that he died knowing he changed for the better and that considering the life he live his last moments were pretty peaceful and are almost exactly how he said himself he wanted to die
Bro Lenny’s death was so much worse than Hosea’s, he had his whole life ahead, he didn’t even got a cutscene
In RDR you can turn Javier in alive. I like to think of him as the one gang member who ended up in federal prison.
arthurs death is s tier if you get there with high honor, he changed from the rough outlaw to an introspective and kind man. furthermore his death is symbol of peace and him giving a piece of himself to marston, i def cried because of the beauty
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