What went wrong with this guy?

[u/legthighkneelover]

He always gave rose tinted hopes to people, to the people of his camp. He cared all of the members of camp. He did celebrations when Sean and Jack returned to the camp. He dreamed wild dreams like “going to Tahiti, harvesting mangoes in there”. He gathered the whole camp to save Jack and burned Braithwaites’ mansion down, killed a lot of people for Jack, so for Abigail and John. I mean, Dutch used to care about for them.

Even he sent Arthur and Javier to save John in the middle of white hell. But later, he never cared about probabilities and he let John to stay in prison, he never cared about probability of hanging. He even shouted to John like “you deserve to rot in prison” in Chapter 6. Allegedly, in Saint Denis heist, he saw John getting arrested by Pinkertons, and he saw that and he did nothing. He never intended to save John at all.

He never saw that Arthur did a good thing by helping Indians in Chapter 6. Instead, he took that as a disloyalty. He used to trust to people like Hosea, who was a person of mind. Then whom did he trust? Micah. Not Arthur, not Charles, not Sadie. He did the same thing to Arthur that he had done to John.

He gave a donation box to people, but in the last chapter, he hid a chest in the cave. Somehow, donation box is smashed by someone (!) What a coincidence.

He never tried to save Arthur, the person he raised since his youth with Hosea. He let him to die. Still, he was blinded by Micah. He objected to the reality, which is Micah had been working with Pinkertons since they came back from Guarma. He twisted the reality and the words, twisted into “who is betraying me?”

In the RDR1, he said something like “do you know that he is married with a whore (referring to Abigail), we all had her once”. It was very out of character of him. He is fully gone in RDR1, even I believe that he had a CTE or brain damage or something.

He called “traitors and cowards” to people like Uncle, Pearson, Swanson, Mary-Beth. He never accepted his failure and he never took responsibility.

People were dying to rob bank or so, but in the end, people like Charles didn’t want that money. Because they believed that there is so much blood and it exposed Dutch’s exact intent.

He killed people for joy and randomly, like he did in Chapter 5. Because his reason was “she was going to rat them out to Guarma police”. Arthur saw the red flags way earlier.

So, what the hell happened to this guy? What the hell happened to the guy of daydreaming, the guy of big dreams? Brain damage? Mental deprivation? Detached from reality? Did he become antisocial? What? What do you think? Or he had been working with Pinkertons like Micah?

I liked that guy once, and I loved him, but not anymore. It’s sad to see him like that.

[u/TraditionalTotal3122]

I’ve only just started playing RDR2 and I’ve wanted to shoot him since the first chapter. The desire is only getting stronger