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>everything from the start of the game onwards is after the gang has already massacred blackwater and dutch executed some random girl to cover his ass like in RDR1
>sees them as what they are, ruthless murdering outlaws, but also still human beings albeit savage
>spoke with arthur privately to try and get him to see reason, walked away
>personally came into the camp to plead with EVERYBODY to turn in dutch (or at least leave him and go back to living normal lives, which all the survivors end up doing anyway), walked away
>executes hosea, second-ranking leader, as a direct response to the gang refusing his offer and instead going balls-out retarded and robbing the biggest city in the state after carving their way through the countryside
>john gets a fair trial and prison as a rank-and-file gang member despite months of butchery
>micah is the only one to cooperate and had no intention of holding to it es evidenced by his returning to banditry afterwards - no option but to kill everyone because all the gang does is escalate killing and robbing innocents
>has some light trappings of pseudointellectual patriotic duty but doesn't overdose on it like ross
>killed strauss
>only dies because he tried to take prisoners alive instead of just shooting them
>is completely forgotten alongside the thousands of other lawmen they murdered because arthur compartmentalizes them as subhuman and putting their skin in the game willingly (despite doing the same himself as an outlaw and pissing his pants with fear when he himself must confront death)
I always liked this dude, ross is a ruthless cunt but you can tell milton actually believes his spiel and isn't merely retroactively justifying his actions
