Would You Care?
I can’t believe I have to use rdr as a way to make a message, but if it works, so be it.
But let’s put it this way, we all love Red Dead Redemption and other media. What if this was Charles Smith? Or Lenny Summers? Or Eagle Files? Tilly Jackson? Javier Escuella? If you think that the Van der Linde gang would stand by and approve of this shit, you’re wrong. In a modern Au and obviously canon - they would all be in grave danger. Lenny was literally almost lynched, and people like Tilly, Charles, and Lenny can’t even walk into TOWN without the threat of murder. The minute the horse people meet Javier, they ask where he’s from to see if “they approve.” The Native Americans have had their land stolen and have had to suffer through genocidal acts. Africans were brought over in chains and were enslaved. You bet your ass John Marston, Arthur Morgan, Sadie Adler, Sean MacGuire, Hosea Matthews, Miss Grimshaw, Abigail Marston, and almost all 15+ of the other gang members would support their friends and family in whatever way they could. They would not approve of someone who doesn’t care. Hell, that’s what made the Van der Linde gang unique.
Would you all care then? You should. If you care about fictional characters and what they could/would go through if they were real - then you should care about this happening IRL. To not care would be hypocritical.
A second example: Marvel. If you care about Rhodey, Gabe Jobe, Sam Wilson, T’Challa, Nick Fury, Maria and would be horrified if something happened to them - then you should care about what’s happening IRL