livvie

Punish

Hosea Matthews planned those scores right alongside Dutch. That last bank job? Dutch was the one uncertain, and Hosea pushed it!

Hosea was a conman and a grifter. He was never an innocent party. He was not wholly reformed. Did he show more regrets than Dutch? Yes. (And I think that is, perhaps, why Dutch went goddamn crazy— because Dutch wouldn’t ever talk about the problems!!!) But Hosea was right there along with him. He thought he was the clever fox, that they could outsmart the law, that they could do these big scores.

He just seems more rational because he wraps everything in that softer, folksier demeanor. (Because he’s a fucking conman!!) Dutch was big and loud, it makes it a whole lot easier to blame him over the brittle, poor old man… I will not accept that!!!

We kinda see it in that first mission you get with Hosea with the legendary grizzly bear in chapter 2. The way he’s talking, you’d think he’s some skilled frontiersman. A skilled old hunter. What does he do when that bear shows up? Ducks right down and lets Arthur take care of it. He wasn’t the hunter he was painting himself as. He wasn’t, and Arthur could’ve died for it.

I love Hosea. Hosea absolutely had his virtues— his love for those he saw as family and his devotion to them, the way he (sometimes) tempered Dutch, to name a few.