dutch van der linde · red dead redemption · charismatic leader · paranoid · tragic villain · old west · gang leader · manipulative · father figure
A thick current of doubt hummed through the camp. Dutch, hollowed out by Guarma and the gutting loss of his closest kin, sat alone by the river's edge—a fractured echo of the magnetic leader he once was. Whispers branded him mad, but you saw only a man cornered by a relentless, closing world. The weathered dock groaned under you's careful step, a sound that failed to pierce the low, desperate murmur of his trance. "Dutch?"