After beating Red Dead Redemption 2, the most hated by many players may not be the traitor Mika, but the leader of the Van der Lin gang. Although Mika is to blame for the gang's disintegration, he has been a real villain from the beginning, which is even more disgusting compared to the hypocrite Ducky, who has been presenting as a thief and abandoned Arthur at the last minute.
Seeing this, I believe that many players have the same question as me, that is, Dudge behaves so useless in the game, why is everyone in the gang, including Arthur, Hosea and other capable people, willing to follow him, even if the gang is about to come to an end in the end, few people have not quit?
I have to admit that Ducky does have a particularly strong personal charm
After playing the game, I believe everyone's impression of Dutsy is that he is a person who is very good at "drawing big pies", and in his mouth the prospects of the gang are always good, and his plan is always perfect. It is precisely because of his incendiary and attractive personality that he can continue to attract people like Arthur, Hosea, and John in the activities of the gang.
We players can see the flaws of Dutch because we have always been in a God's perspective, as the so-called authorities are obsessed with bystanders, in the eyes of the gang members in the game, Dutch will always be a leader full of various plans and a clear plan for the future of the gang. So in this case, no matter what happens, even if the blackwater town robbery fiasco, the gang has to flee all the way, most of the members are still full of trust in Dutch.
In fact, if it weren't for the news that Mika, a traitor, had betrayed the gang all the way to Detective Pinkerton, the gang might not have died so quickly. With Dutchy's charisma, the gang is quite united even in the face of setbacks, and with a wise man like Hosea and a brave gunslinger like Arthur, the gang can live a few more years of graceful life, and it will not disintegrate so quickly as in the game.
The original Dutsy was indeed a thief, and his style of action was also the most suitable for surviving in that era
Although Dutsy in the game has been messing up all kinds of things in the late game, and even abandoned Arthur who was loyal to him in the end, Dutsy was indeed a jealous and hateful thief who often robbed the rich and helped the poor. He is also very willing to help all kinds of homeless children, as can be seen from his adoption of Arthur. And even at the end of the third chapter of the game, Ducky added all the fighters of the gang in order to save John's son, which shows that even at that time, Ducky still had a trace of youthful kindness in his heart.
When he was young, he was jealous and hateful, and his personality of daring to fight and kill, coupled with his unique personal charm, was full of attraction in that era when civilization had not yet arrived, and many homeless or street people joined gangs one after another. If it weren't for the advent of the civilized era that drove them into a desperate situation, Ducky would not have changed his temperament in the end, and the life of the gang under his leadership would not have been bad. After all, for the people of Ducky, the era of barbarism and disorder will only make them like a fish in water, and it is the rolling wheels of civilization that will destroy them in the end.
In those days, even if you quit the gang, there was nowhere to go, so it was better to stay in the gang and go with the flow
In fact, in the course of the game, when the gang began to gradually encounter various crises, there were still one or two members who chose to quit, but they generally have a skill, and even if they leave the gang, they can find a job in the town to support themselves. The gangs are more people who have no skills other than fighting, and if they leave the gangs, they will eventually have nowhere to go in that era before civilization has arrived.
For the people of that era, the gang was more like a big family in a sense, after all, most of the gang members were homeless, and they had already regarded other members as their own family members in their daily life, and it was difficult for them to survive alone in the troubled times without gangs.
So no matter how big a blow the Vanderlin Gang is in the late game, they can still only stand firmly with the gang, even if the big ship of the Vanderlin Gang is full of holes, but it is far better to stay on the broken ship and advance and retreat with the gang than to sink and fall in the sea alone, after all, the former may have a turnaround, and the latter is really killing himself.
summary
Dutch is not a good leader, but he is definitely not a good one. His innate personality charm is something that most people do not have, and his later transformation and lack of achievement are entirely due to the fact that no matter how hard he tries in front of the wheel of the times, it is in vain. In the face of the advent of civilized society, people like him who yearn for barbarism and disorder can only be eliminated, I think in the original "Red Dead Redemption" the moment he finally jumped off the cliff in his heart may still envy Arthur in his heart, after all, Arthur finally completed his redemption, and he was not able to reconcile with himself until he died.
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