Just random thoughts/observations/head canons that ive had while re-playing rdr2:.
I feel like Arthur thinks John is the favourite child. (Or at least Dutchs favourite) this is mostly because of chapter 1, where Arthur still clearly upset about John coming back to the gang after leaving for a while, and Dutch basically welcoming him with open arms, to me it comes off as Arthur feeling he wouldn't get the same treatment if he did the same thing, that hes held to a higher standard (also speaking as someone who is the least favourite child, thats how you feel a lot of the time).
Arthur is more like Hosea, John is more like Dutch.
Off shoot of that last one: being a "good" person comes more naturally to Arthur than it does to John. Depending on how you play, Arthur is able to change his ways in a matter of weeks, John still struggles with that years later, and overall in rdr1 is much more cold person essentially only careing about his family (which fair, tbh)
Guarma... should have been longer. Maybe the most controversial of these, but Guarma should have been longer and had more connections to the main Story. As it is, it feels random and out of place with the flow of the rest of the story, like you finsih it and its just "well.... anyway". It would.have been better if we spent more time there, you see Dutch slowly losing it a bit more, it has some kind of deeper connections to the main story, something like more emphasis on Cornwell doing something on the island or something to do with the Wapiti, like you free a couple of them who were also captured on the island?.
Javier.... is weird... not in like a charcter sense but the way he acts. In chapter 6 hes a different. At the end of chapter 5 he even calls Dutch out on it, "we're acting Crazy thats not what I thought we be doing" seem like his loyalty to Dutch is wavering a bit, only for him to do a 180 and lecture Arthur about Loyalty. And I get it like maybe hes denial but... I dont know its just weird.
Another tangent, this time about Javier. I know his actor apparently wanted him to side with John and Arthur and I just personally feel that would work better tbh (I know why they didnt casue things needed to line up with RDR1 but...). So imagine Javier did side with John and Arthur, Arthur tells Javier to get John out of here, he holds them off, ends basically the same. Then John reconnects with Javier in the epilogue, but that eventually leads to some kind of falling out between them, maybe Javier still being an active outlaw, maybe hes helping Mexican Rebels, something like that. Because that would make more sense with rdr1 in my opinion, Because Javier feels differnt than Bill or Dutch in that Game, for one thing You can take him Alive, another because John sheds a tear for Him, like why? Why is Javier differnt.
I highly doubt any future Red Dead Game you'll play as any known charcter as the main charcter, probably end game (epilogue at most) and i highly doubt we'll ever play as Dutch (yes i know that that was scrapped part of Rdr2 epilogue), he doesn't fit the the theme of "redemption", of course they could give him a spin off of something like "Red Dead Vengeance" or something.
Dutch and Hosea are soulmates. Platonic or otherwise. Dutch loses his mind hard core after he dies. (Also let me explain that me as a person, I dont believe you have one soulmate i think you have multiple, platonic and romantic)
Micah is working with the O'driscals up untill the "Peace talks" between Colm and Dutch. I think Micahs goal is to use the O'driscals to get rid of Arthur so he can more easily have Dutch ear. He stops working with them after that point because he dubble crosses them by not telling Dutch and the gang where they're holding Arthur to send the gang into the ambush.
Sean would have sided with Arthur.
This is it for now cause this post is getting long....
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