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So they intentionally made Micah a dislikeble ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ so people just assume he is the bad guy and get their Final villain to get their satisfactory ending. There is zero proof and evidence that Micah is Rat. Aside from Agent Milton ( Who sworn to destroy the gang ) claim that He was and It was a Political claim which was inconsistent. Agent Milton said " Micah was Rat since Guarma" But you can see Every gang activities after Guarma was successful. From killing Cornwall to Looting Train. Perfect everytime. Then if Micah was Rat since Guarma then How Come every move Dutch made after Were successful? On the contary every move gang made before Guarna was unsuccessful when Micah wasn't rat ? Agent Milon is Hired by Cornwall himself and If he has a informer like Micah then why would his own infromer kill his own boss who are paying him ? Makes sense ?
When gang members are all escaping in the chapter 6, Micha was one kept the gang in life support cause Arthur was sick and John was busy getting captured by Pinkertons everytime. He hired his 2 friends to robb the Train and It was success. What kind of Rat hires Mercenaries to betray his own boss ?
The Fact is Agent Milton knew After Arthur is sick its was Micah who was doing most Destruction with Dutch and Its was necessary move to make him apprear as Villain to Arthur so Gang will be miserable dealing with their internal conflicts and That will allow Pinkertons to Make a Final blow and Which they did right after and Abigal knew all about it. Cause She was the one who planned it with Milton but Only to kill him off so the secrets dies with him. Then She stole the gang stash key just right before Pinkertons arrived who would wipe the gang out of existence. Happy ending for Abigail and Bad ending for Gang. Suits the message of the game perfectly" They don't want folks like us no more" There is more and more Civilization and Gangs and Outlaws are things of the past". Abigail wanted life and Civilization cause She have a family and She was tired of all Dutch's Tahiti Nonsense.
If you believes in the quote" Actions speaks louder than words" that There is zero Proof Micah was Rat but There are tons of Hints which leads to Abigail....
Aside from all her Suspicious Action, Abigail real name is Agatha Milton. Which is first name of agent Milton. If you clean shave John marston he looks exactly like agent milton young version. So both Abigail and John was associate somehow by agent Milton. It's just metaphor. Giving clues after clues to solve the rat situation. Which 99% gamers didn't really gave deep thought. They didn't played the story but story played them.
Most of the people in the gang are stupid douches. Everyone there besides Sadie has some fault.
And if she indeed had some kind of deal with the Pinkertons, why not just sit back and go along with their plans, Arthur was gonna be dead sooner or later anyway and the gang was falling apart on its own, didn't need any masterplan for that. The scene where she takes out that Pinkerton agent doesn't look like a calculated move anyway, a few seconds later and Arthur would be dead.
Also, she didn't seem to have any problems just taking Jack and leaving John in the epilogue, so, if her plan was to simply raise Jack away from the gang, why not just do that sooner. John wouldn't care, until the end of the game he says he doesn't even know if Jack is really his son. And if she cared about John, there were a lot of situations in the game where he could've easily been killed if she was indeed a Pinkerton informant. Why would she put John (and her son for that matter) in that kind of danger?
She also didn't seem to be that about the money. In the epilogue, when you get the Blackwater loot, she doesn't even want to hear about it and screams at John for even taking it back with him. On the contrary, she is obsessed with them earning money the honest way, no matter how hard it is.
The gang wasnt anywhere near Falling apart. They were more ruthless, Destructive In chapter 5-6. Showing no sign of slow down and Killing the Mafias Like Angelo Bronte, Cornwall, Looting Train and Using the natives to divert all attention to them. Dutch was more closer than ever to compete his Tahiti dream than any time before. He looted Cornwall Bonds, He looted Train and He had money to pack the bags and Leave and Drag John and Abigail with him. If he ever Escapes..Abigail was desperate to escape and can't wait forever to see gang falling apart which even didn't happen in Epilogue. We all seen Dutch has created another Gang with Micah where John goes to Take Revenge and Guess who asked him not to Go for it ? Abigail.
John was never in Danger. In every robbery he either captured alive and Spared. Meanwhile Pinkertons wouldnt do the same to other members. They won't ask you to Surrender but Shoot like Maniacs but How come John was privileged to be Prisoner everytime ? Also She always called John Stupid, Idiot, Careless for unknown Reason ? Listen to All the Quarrelling in the Tent. Probably asking him to leave everything and Go with her and He was Refusing. Abigail loved John and She always wanted to leave with John, Not only Jack.
She cared about Freedom more about money but She needed the gang money cause they had zero that time. When Later She had plenty and didn't need to risk his husband life for extra Blood money...
John said that they were talking about hanging him before Arthur and Sadie rescued him. As for why he wouldn't be hanged right after capture? They want Dutch. Milton is literally offering to let Arthur, his right hand man, go if he just brings him Dutch. Agent Milton just wants Dutch and doesn't seem terribly concerned about the rest of the gang. Again, he literally says he just wants Dutch, not the rest of the gang, just him. And John is someone who might be a possible asset, helping them take Dutch down. Only John wasn't going to play along and once they realized it, they were probably thinking that they might as well just hang him now since he's no going to help them anyway.
And Sean was captured in Blackwater, yet they didn't hang him. Before the gang rescued him, Sean was being transported to the same prison John later ended up in. So it's not like John is special in that regard.
And why they wanted Dutch so badly? It's not stated outright, but it's hinted that it was because they were concerned about Dutch's "ideology" spreading. He was also very popular through the gang's earlier charitable ventures and they probably wanted to make an example out of him before his legacy causes problems.
The point of Chapter 6 was that the gang was falling apart. Atleast the old gang. People talking about how they don't trust Dutch anymore and planning on leaving, even Arthur does that, no matter how you play him. In the end, the gang was a shell of its former self and the majority of members were either dead or left. They were also in a very bad spot, having both the Pinkertons AND the army on their trail. They were done and everyone but Dutch knew it. They might've taken the fight to their enemies, but all it did was draw even more attention to them. They were doing the same thing over and over again and each time, the consequences were worse then before and in the end it caught up to them.
Even if literally every agent and bounty hunter they ever sent after the gang knew about John AND recognized him in the heat of battle (doubtful), he was always on the frontlines of every gang battle and even if they had orders to capture him alive, there's no telling if they would actually be successful in that. Look at what happened to Sean. It perfectly demonstrates what might have happened to John too. At that point, she would be better off doing something like "Hey John, come with me to town, I need your help with something." and once there John would be captured by Pinkertons and out of harms way while the rest of the Pinkertons raid the camp. And Abigail could always return with some excuse about how they were ambushed if they still needed her as a mole.
And Abigail is always arguing with John for the following reasons:
1) It's her personality. She's simply someone with a short temper who loves to complain. Even when she's happy.
2) Her insulting John is either because she's frustrated with his behavior or because she was seriously worried and concerned for him, this is just her way of showing it and venting out her feelings and anger. Some people are like that.
3) She wants John to take care of his son and be a family man, but John is conflicted about the whole thing.
And she doesn't want John to have anything to do with anything remotely involving gangs or weapons even in the first part of the epilogue when they are dirt poor.
He is very charismatic but not a strong personally, also why he read Evelyn Miller so much and he had such a huge impact on his personality. Micah is a complete rat as far as handing Arthur over to the O'Driscolls. There is a camp scene in chapter 3 where he donates $25 bucks in camp and sends Pearson to town to get food. Then pulls Pearson over to tell the story and puts out the plan of He and Dutch meeting Colm and Arthur protecting them. This was all most likely setup while he was in jail in Strawberry with the ODriscoll and why he killed him first thing on escape. Micah mentions during his Stage robbery in chapter 4 that he doesn't leave loose ends like the rest of them. Also when you escape Strawberry with Micah you end up and Lone Mule Stead which is where Arthur is tortured when he is captured.
I mentioned in a thread the other day on a youtube video about Abigail possibly being the snitch and why Milton said Micah was. I don't think she was any type of mastermind, more likely doing what Milton said trying to get Dutch. I don't think she would betray Hosea so when he killed Hosea she was probably ready to get out of the mess she got herself into, and then when Arthur and Sadie came to rescue her instead of Dutch like Miltion wanted she killed him when the opportunity presented itself. I had a lot of the same ideas after several playthroughs, but the problem with most posts are people jump on a hill and die defending it. It is better to say here is a possible interpretation of the story, take it for what you will.
I hated Micah the most on my first playthrough, but really blame Dutch for most everything now. He finally saw how much he lost with his decisions when Arthur died, and then betrayed Micah at the end as well. He was a narcissist that had to stay in power over the gang above everything else, and believed he was in complete control until it was way to late. The best stories don't lay everything out for people and leave some mystery so people talk about it years later on a steam forum.
It's hinted that Micah planned the whole thing to get in Dutch's good graces and into the gang. He was watching their activities even before he met Dutch.
For that, if I had my way, I'd hog tie him and feed him feet first, an inch at a time, into a campfire - alive. While I craft Special Snake OIl over his sizzling meat.
Well said:}
This point is a good example of you working backwards from a conclusion or having a confirmation bias here in this fanfic of yours.
If the only guys present were Arthur, John, Sean and Charles, how does that implicate Abigail? You say Micah wasn't even there for it, but neither was Abigail (and who says Abigail ever left the camp at all there, Micah is in close proximity with the law, implying if anyone said anything, it was probably him). Not only could the information have been found out by anybody prior to the robbery, seeing that they are all living together, sleeping in relatively close quarters and communicating constantly.
Also because the trains could have been running extra security for whatever reason (like a recent train robbery for example). Not to mention it is a game not actual real life, so sometimes there can just be plot holes with no reasonable explanation. Being fiction it is very open to interpretation, for example you could probably make similar arguments about Jack being the "real rat", but you have to also do some similar mental gymnastics to make it fit.
This is also assuming there isn't some random easter egg in the game that provides proof in one way or the other of what exactly happened, but the ambiguity might be intentional too, as a story element.
Like someone said above the most likely theme is that no one in the gang is a good guy, they are all seriously flawed in their own ways, with Micah and Dutch being seen as the "worst" of it due to their decision making getting so many in the gang killed. And that's just looking at it from a "familial" perspective, i.e. it could be argued that Arthur is the "worst" because the game puts him in a position where he kills so many people in general, but again, it is a game made for entertainment, and the player is playing as Arthur, so therefore he partakes in the most of the "action".
With that in mind, from what I remember Abigail doesn't personally kill anyone, and it isn't directly suggested she gets anyone killed either, so on the morality scale she is probably one of the highest on the list in the gang, one has to try to connect a bunch of questionable threads in order to even suggest that she might be indirectly responsible for some of the gang dying. The shoe just doesn't fit in the way you want it to.
She absolutely shoots Milton right in his head - and fortunately it's fatal (about 3 chapters too late). Her lone redeeming action and like every other woman - it took her too long to get ready (sorry Kizz...lol)
I'm sure you are referring to the paper clips at his camp near Strawberry. I think it is again a grey area left to interpretation, but that is a likely explanation. Just stating you never hear Dutch's side of the story, only Micah's and he isn't the most trustworthy source. But any theory that has Micah taking action for money or for himself is on brand. He has no redeemable traits.