#abraham reyes

[chenhaibooo]

三个墨西哥人的はいよろこんで

[glorifiedturkey]

stupid bullshit compilation

[whatsrnamee]

Evil men with eviler mustaches

[nthspecialll]

If you need another reason to hate Abraham, take this scene. Luisa wants to say goodbye to the man who saved her life, helped her save her betrothed and supported her, but MISTER DUTCH 2.0 OVER HERE wouldn't let her. He keeps her back, asking her "where she is going", as if he doesn't even remember her name. It is another thing of his that reminds me of, well Dutch. He won't put any effort into her, won't even learn her name, but also refuses allowing her to be friendly with others.

[dalekofchaos]

Red Dead Redemption 3:Fall of Reyes

After John Marston helped Reyes gain power, we realize in the epilogue, that Reyes became a tyrant himself. So what better way to start off the third game, than for John's son Jack to tie up another loose end.

[r0ttenheartzz]

i think Quique cried a lot when he found out Vicente died

they make me so sad💔 maybe they could have lived a happy life if they weren't in a war or Vicente wasn't a captain in the army *cry*

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

I’ve written something like this before, but I wanted to write it again since I’m rewatching RDR1 on YouTube. The Mexico arc in the game is one of my favorite depictions of a political struggle, mainly because it doesn’t shy away from how complicated politics can be. I feel like a great deal of fiction tends to go for a more black-and-white, hero against the villain narrative. The empire is bad, the rebels are good, and so on. But RDR1 really went into depth on how politics can be so confusing and complicated in real life.

The game has a basic set-up: the government led by Colonel Allende is terrorizing the people, leading to a rebellion led by Abraham Reyes. Allende spreads propaganda about how evil Reyes is but the people believe that Reyes is their savior. At this point, the game could’ve just done the simple route of making Reyes the clear-cut good guy and Allende the clear-cut bad guy. Instead, we’re forced to really ponder which side is worth supporting.

Obviously, Allende is evil and does need to be taken down. But Reyes is revealed to be just as bad as him. For example, he is casually revealed to be bigoted towards Chinese immigrants. Luisa says that Allende abuses women, but Reyes also sees women as disposable and would probably continue Allende’s abusive practices if he was in power.

But the biggest point that I give Rockstar credit for is that they created bad guys who had a legitimately good point about the rebels who we’re supposed to root for. Although it’s easy to sympathize with the rebels wanting to take the government down, the government is justified in claiming the rebels were brainwashed into supporting an evil man. From the moment John Marston met Abraham Reyes, he immediately realized that Reyes was exactly how Allende and De Santa described him as. He’s ignorant, moronic, power-hungry, and he views himself as being higher than the peasants despite presenting himself as a champion of the people. But no one else picked up on this! So, you really can’t argue against De Santa and Allende on this, especially since Reyes ends up becoming a tyrant in the future.

In going through this storyline again, I’ve also developed a new perspective on Luisa Fortuna. She was the one character who legitimately cared for the rights of the Mexican people and was fighting to end tyranny. But knowing how obviously terrible Abraham Reyes is as a character (he even gets Luisa’s name wrong right in front of her), it’s hard not to see Luisa as anything but an incredibly naive woman who got manipulated by an idiot. She isn’t really that much different from how devoted De Santa was to Allende’s regime. They were both passionate to their respective causes, but their passion blinded them to how awful their leaders were.

And then to have the storyline end with the message that the cycle of oppression will repeat but with Abraham Reyes in charge? Incredibly dark, but fitting for the story.

Go play RDR1 if you haven’t done so already. This was only one act out of a total of three acts in the story. And all the acts are strongly written in their own way.

[joes-neck-scar]

I miss Nuevo Paraíso