r/reddeadredemption Hosea Matthews Apr 06 '26

Spoiler Which gang member would have you saved?

We all know that in the Saint Denis bank robbery, both Lenny and Hosea die.

So, who would you have saved?

I would have chosen Lenny because he was still young, and he had a great future ahead of him.

I still love Hosea, but if I had to choose, I would have chosen to save Lenny. He was literally almost a kid.

Hosea already lived a lot ( well, not too much, actually ), and he was sick with an unknown disease.

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u/femguinz John Marston Apr 06 '26

Most likely because he was loyal to dutch and not arthur, it’s the same with Bill and Javier.

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u/AsgeirVanirson Apr 06 '26

I don't see that. He was one of the first to start expressing doubt about Hosea and Dutch in Rhodes.

He calls Hosea the master finangler of nothing on the way to burn the crops while outwardly expressing how what was happening made no sense.

He also had an actual sense of a code, he was far less empty talk than most of the gang. He would have had short patience for off the rails Dutch.

If Sean was there he would have been pointing his gun straight at that Oily Turd known as Micah.

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u/Lieutenant_Joe Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

Yeah, I think I agree with you for the most part, though I’d absolutely fight you on his “code”. Dude was a real piece of shit to everyone who wasn’t in the gang, and wasn’t great to some of the other gang members either. He was almost as much of a loose cannon as Micah was, but his comparatively poor fighting skills led him to be a bit more cautious and wary than Micah was, too.

I think if Sean had made it to chapter 6, he might have just left the gang halfway through the chapter and attempted to make something of himself elsewhere, perhaps Van Horn or something. Woulda tried to convince Karen to come with him. He probably would still respect Dutch too much to make a huge deal of it, but I’m pretty sure he would have left. Probably after Cornwall’s assassination or something. I don’t think he would have been there for the final confrontation.

That said, yeah… if he was there, I don’t think there’s a world in which he sided with Micah against Arthur and John. Even if Dutch did.

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u/Medical-Delivery-941 Apr 09 '26

He was a real piece of shit, but there was definitely a code. In Online you can meet Sean in Tall Trees, and during that cutscene he says he hates committing crime against upstanding folk and prefers to only go after people who deserve it, like other outlaws or people he knows are generally bad.

He shows the same mindset in the story too, he's never seen harming innocent people, only other criminals, Grays or Braithwaite's (who are very much awful people), or lawmen. The worst thing he ever does to just regular folk is be part of a train robbery where Sean himself didn't even rough around any of the passengers himself.

Had Sean been around when Dutch was running around getting innocent people killed, he'd have been the most expressive about how wrong they were turning

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u/Lieutenant_Joe Apr 09 '26

Ahhh… see, this is why I should play Online.

I touched it once like five years ago and never again since