Dollar Red Dead Doodles'n Drabbles

Ma-ia ho

Ma-ia ha

Alo?

sunt eu

That time T got epically drunk and completely forgot they had brought Michael along with them.

Franklin finally learned how it feels to think about parents and sex in the same context.

Doctor: [singing to oneself]: Tka tka tooh, do do do do do do, de do do do do do beow beow beow beow beow beow buh nuh, bah dah buh buh buh buh, hey!

Someone else: Hey!

I feel like a lot of people seemed to forget that Hosea was actually a very hot-tempered man. Yes, he did care deeply for the gang, and yes he did hold a voice of reason, but there were moments he also managed to be bitter and irate. He would get violent during certain outbursts–pointing a gun at Bill, and kicking Sean whilst he scolded him. There were also interactions wherein he discouraged Lenny from the possibility of change or redemption, a projection of–I believe himself, what with his experience of being together with Bessie.

Like many other characters in the game, he was humanly flawed. 

Cunning, pessimistic, snappy and sometimes just as idealistic as Dutch.

I definitely feel like it gets overlooked sometimes that Hosea can be bad-tempered and a little frightening – AFAIK he actually gets physically aggressive in camp more than any other character (!).

More than just being bad-tempered, though, I think the contexts of these interactions say a lot about him. He gets so angry at Sean because he catches him not just shirking work, but endangering the camp by falling asleep on guard duty, and Hosea’s top priority is the safety and wellbeing of the gang. Similarly, I think he gets annoyed at people not pulling their weight because less work = less money, less food, etc.

In the one where he pulls the gun on Bill, he initially tells Bill to go away, but Bill leans forward and says “Excuse me?” like he’s trying to start something, and that acts like a trigger for Hosea whipping the gun out. This one is the most interesting to me, because even though he’s mad at Bill being a clown, he’s probably also learnt to do this. A gunslinger didn’t get to 55 by being a pushover; you had to be tough. When you’re a criminal hanging around with other criminals, you learn to bite back at potential threats, or else others will perceive you as weak and therefore a target. This isn’t so much a problem within the gang, where most people have known each other for years, but Hosea’s probably picked this up as a consequence of the criminal lifestyle in general, and once you learn it, you don’t really un-learn it.

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