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then being the ones to absolutely nope the fuck out at the first chance they got to flee after the Pinkertons' invasion of the gang's final stand, so quickly to the point that they never even showed up as enemies on the mini map nor appeared in the mission ever again.

(credit to Novice on YouTube for pointing this out that they completely disappear as soon as the shooting starts)

Almost like they took the bare bones idea of Dutch and Micah's plan without the "going back to Blackwater" part of it.

No one asked about them afterwards; they left seemingly completely unnoticed in all the chaos going on.

It becomes a pattern of behavior for Javier that leads into RDR1 where he's only loyal to people until it interferes with his instinct for self-survival which goes above all else

And for Bill, when John comes looking for him, Bill's choice to desert Dutch comes back as resentment toward John for not saving him, forcing Bill into making the autonomous choice for himself to get out

But it's just as John says,

Bill took pride in following Dutch just as much as he took pride in the future over running his own gang, but it was also fear that kept him with Dutch so long because he saw no better option - nor did Javier. Dutch always saw them right, so they thought, and he would do it again. But it wasn't until that night of the final separation of the gang where everyone took their side that they both realized the truth, it seemed. They did, in the end, do what Arthur told them:

Javier was a revolutionary at one point; standing up for others was once part of his character and where he drew a moral line, but when things started closing in on him and everyone else, somewhere along the way his priorities shifted. It was as John said, that when Dutch took a turn, Javier went crazy because "the one thing he believed in turned out to be a lie". For a while, he still questioned Dutch like everyone else on their return from Guarma, but his desire to do that fell apart later, too. Where people like John and Arthur were strong enough to keep questioning Dutch and taking stands against him, neither Bill nor Javier could. Thinking too long and too hard about the idea that the leader they loved so much, the leader Bill uplifted to near godhood status, the leader who brought Javier in after he fled Mexico and had nothing and nowhere else to turn to, wasn't the man they thought he was, was far too scary to consider even though they both knew it deep down. So they remained loyal up until the breaking point because it felt safer, because it was familiar, because they didn't want to face the truth.

As far as we know, and we unfortunately don't know much of what happened with Bill and Javier from the end of 1899 to 1911 because they weren't included in the RDR2 epilogue nor mentioned, they went their own separate ways - Bill to New Austin, a place the gang had once discussed fleeing to, where he then formed his own gang, and Javier back to Mexico despite the price that was once on his head, likely a reason he became a paid mercenary of the Mexican government, mirroring John's own situation with the U.S. government - and as far as we know, after that night in 1899, they never sought Dutch out, or he was as unfindable at the time to them as he was to everyone else until he ended up with Micah on Mount Hagen by 1907. It would make sense at least if they never reached back out as they were both so quick to flee the final stand which was why I made my original analysis, because it was such an odd wrench in their behavior after what we saw of their other choices in chapter 6, and it deviated completely from their typical patterns of behavior, a pattern of "we're loyal to Dutch and we're staying loyal" to "because we're loyal, we're going to call out those we see as not being loyal anymore" and then all of a sudden to splitting from the rest of the gang together at the end of the chapter. We get less from Javier on the matter, but as we get Bill saying in the beginning of RDR1 to John, "Now, I'm in charge! No more Dutch, and no more you" and then proceeding to still parrot things Dutch had said against John, that Dutch had "always said you were an arrogant son of a bitch" and that Dutch had wanted him dead, it makes me wonder if both Bill and Javier had come to an agreement eventually that while they may still have respected Dutch, this was their time to stand out in their own ways separate from him and they wouldn't follow him so closely in the same way again.