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I really like the honor system theory with a younger Hosea & Dutch. Hosea being more violent and unforgiving and Dutch being more of a force of stability and patience, I can see Hosea being the original leader before he got sick, Dutch taking over when his health declined.

The obvious point would be Blackwater, but people don't just suddenly crack like that for no reason. Also too easy to say it started with him listening to Micah. If Dutch really was on the up and up, Micah's selfish recklessness would've fallen on deaf ears.

1. How do you lose a Giraffe? She apparently scaled a cliff that served as part of the enclosure (which the other giraffes in the herd had shown no interest in climbing.)

2. Well it should be easier to find her, she's a whole ass giraffe? Yeah, you'd think, but Texas ranches are fuckin huge. The man has apparently hired a helicopter and several drones to aide the search, but no luck yet. She's been seen on some game cameras on the nearby ranches though. But she's sneaky.

the van der linde gang as cereals.

arthur morgan — Weetabix. reliable. no fuss. gets the job done.

dutch van der linde — Crunchy Nut. talks a good game. costs more than you’d think.

john marston — Corn Flakes. classic. always ends up back on the table.

abigail roberts — Shreddies. steady. practical. keeps everyone going.

jack marston — Coco Pops. childhood in a bowl.

hosea matthews — Bran Flakes. older than most of the others. still solid.

charles smith — Alpen. grounded. dependable. quietly good for you.

lenny summers — Honey Nut Cheerios. warm. easy to like. never lasts long.

javier escuella — Cinnamon Toast Crunch. a little warmth makes all the difference.

micah bell — Lucky Charms. always making sure he’s noticed.

sadie adler — Krave. looks innocent. absolutely is not.

bill williamson — Frosted Shreddies. trying his best.

sean macguire — Froot Loops. the loudest box on the shelf.

kieran duffy — Rice Krispies. quiet until you pay attention.

mary-beth gaskill — Special K Red Berries. soft. sweet. a little nostalgic.

tilly jackson — Multigrain Shapes. steady. underrated. deserves more appreciation.

karen jones — Frosties. life of the breakfast table.

molly o’shea — Strawberry Crisp. pretty packaging. overlooked by the wrong people.

pearson — Ready Brek. warm. comforting. always there.

strauss — Original All-Bran. not here for fun.

uncle — Curiously Cinnamon. shows up eventually.

susan grimshaw — Mini Wheats. organised. dependable. no nonsense.

reverend swanson — Golden Nuggets. a little chaotic. surprisingly sweet.

josiah trelawny — granola. carefully presented. makes an impression.

jack marston (rdr1) — Crunchy Bran. less sugar. same bowl.

cain — Cheerios. universally welcomed

Idk if it’s common knowledge how a nuclear energy is generated. But on the assumption it’s not, I had to learn a little in Environmental science A levels.

I shit you not, they are harnessing the power of splitting the fucking atom just to boil some water. It’s just a high tech kettle. When you boil your kettle you are doing the same thing these people are using Uranium for.

All these crazy energy generation methods and almost all of them revolve around boiling water to turn a turbine.

Earth is not just a Terrestrial World; it’s an Exotic Terrestrial: a Water World.

Water is weird, ok? Everything else that’s anywhere close to its molecular weight is very much vaporous gas at similar conditions to water’s triple point. It’s weirdly easy to make carry an electrical charge (we call it an acid or a base when it’s doing this). It’s polarized as fuck, so it’s squirrely, infiltrating all kinds of stuff you normally think of as being solid, like metal and stone.

Water bonds to itself really well, so the transition from liquid or solid to gas, and back, involves a really profound change in volume.

The Water Cycle, whereby Water goes from solid to liquid to gas in all kinda directions, runs a lot of our geologic and mineral cycles, like the nitrogen and carbon and silicone ones. Plate tectonics is partially enabled by lubrication from the ocean infiltrating the earth’s crust.

It kinda… makes sense? That we’d have Water-based technology? As inhabitants of a Water World? From a world-building standpoint I mean.

We hacked one of the driving forces of our world, and use that power to run our civilization.