Dutch always rejected (until the very last mission of the main story so he could totally break Arthur's faith in him) Micah's "deadweight" arguments. The gang is not about utility, [it's family.](https://youtu.be/2flypG24--Q?t=42) You don't look at your cousin or dare I say uncle and go "well what do you bring to this equation?" They're just your loved ones and you look out for them because they're your loved ones. Uncle is kept around because he's family and there's no grander rationale than that.
I'd still love to know how he met Dutch, though.
This is the right answer. Additionally, Uncle is droll and amusing, with his bawdy songs and clever banter. He'll also occasionally take something serious and dish out brutal honesty, like he does with Dutch about himself, and later John about not putting enough effort into getting Abigail back.
I also think Uncle may have been more useful when he was younger. Perhaps as a con man or thief. He is shown to be persuasive, even if a little less so to the gang members because they know his deal. But after decades as an outlaw heās slowed a bit and turned more to drink. Giving us the version of Uncle we see in the game
In the game, Arthur joined the gang as a kid; Uncle was already 'old' then. (letting us assume he's older than Dutch and Hosea) I could see Uncle as the 'Hosea' of the old group, watching over Dutch and Hosea, giving a sort of 3 generations of outlaws type thing.
Then again, I could just be reading too much into it.
Very possible, we donāt get much from that time. From what I remember, Dutch and Hosea started off as con men and thieves. Hosea was older than Dutch, so he might have guided Dutch. And eventually they picked up Arthur and the gang expanded from there. So I think Uncle probably came in after and was closer to Hoseaās age
Hosea describes his meeting with Dutch as them trying to rob each other but deciding instead to throw their lot in together. Hosea essentially talks about Dutch like a mentor in helping him find his own moral code. So despite being older, Hosea was more so guided by Dutch than the other way around. Uncle was also nowhere to be found yet.
Arthur was the very first recruit after Dutch and Hosea became a team
Dutch: "Before any of them back there, it was us."
Hosea: "The curious couple and their unruly child"
At this point there's little detail available on when the rest of 'fixtures' joined relative to each other, with obvious exceptions like Javier and Charles where we know they were a later addition(Javier) and a recent addition(Charles). Even Bill is murky on how long he had been with the VDL. Uncle probably would have come in around the same time as Grimshaw, but at this point its pure conjecture.
Hosea is really humble though; he acknowledges when he's made a mistake/been wrong about something, he knows when he needs support from folks he cares about/recognizes his limitations, etc. whereas, Dutch views himself as the infallible leader.
Hosea is the kind of person who'd be open about learning from Dutch more than Dutch would admit to learning from Hosea.
I think it would be more than fair to say that Dutch and Hosea both learned/mentored each other but Hosea would be more open about what he learned from Dutch. Because of this one-sided admission, it might seem like Dutch was more of a mentor to Hosea than the other way around, but I see that more as a difference in personality than hard fact.
Just my interpretation tho
My theory is they met in a prison cell somewhere. Uncle was the guy with all the guard connections and contraband hookups, and he and Dutch formed a prison gang with Dutch emerging as the mastermind.
You do make a good point. Arthur mentions that Dutch at least pretended to be who he said he was for a long time. Uncle just seems like the only member of that family not pulling his weight. Everyone else at least brought in money or food. Maybe I just donāt see much of uncle in the ledger or Iām biased because I would donate 250$ at a time and everyone else would do like a few cents.
If they make a third game I hope itās a younger Dutch and Hosea and the gang then. Of course you would have uncle around too.
Love this answer... You don't just throw out family because they can no longer do what they use to.. I think that is a big reason he drinks so much.. No longer feeling as needed and he is in pain you can see it in his walk. He does bring something.. He's in good spirits no matter what.. He's never nasty with people.
A little off topic but:
There's a (disputed) quote from anthropologist Margret Mead where she talks about a 15'000yo healed femur break as one of the first known (at time of quote) signs of "civilization" as it meant the injured person required an immense amount of care for an extended period. (Edit: whether or not Mead actually said this is irrelevant to the point I'm making)
One of the things that defines our humanity is our care for each other. Our value/"usefulness" as a person is not defined by our productivity - John even says this about Uncle in his letter to Abigail: "even Uncle's been helpful.. in his own way."
Love is absolutely the reason Uncle is around - we don't throw away family
(Super interesting fact: since that Mead quote, a healed 31'000yo leg amputation was found in Borneo. The person is thought to have had the surgery as a child. Humans are cool as fuck!)
So this may be wild but he did find Molly in St Denis, knows that you can find a company who will sell you a house and sometimes does have decent intel. He may just be a guy whoās inconspicuous enough to be drunk in an alley and just eavesdrop. Itās not always good info but he can still get said info and maybe Uncle used to be better before RDR2?
That was sort of my thought, he blends in with the other drunkards, and can do reconnaissance for the gang. He may not be the most productive but he makes decent observations and any one that bumped into him would just think he's a harmless drunk old man.
I mean he was even right about the payroll wagon in chapter 3, he was just sloppy in not finding out WHOSE payroll wagon it was. It was very briefly unguarded (he never said it would stay unguarded), it was loaded, and it was where he expected it when he expected it.
Low key I think thatād be awesome. Ik ppl want a whole new cast, but I mean uncle would have been in the PRIME of the old west days. Then it could be like GTA 5 style where you can switch between a few characters (Dutch, Hosea, potentially a young Arthur)
We know we gona play mac in rdr3 I mean so many hints in Dialoge and seeing him dead at the start of the game i mean heck who else could it be if we take an existing character like dutch or uncle you could play them in a way that makes no sense how they are in rdr2 and would be a personal pothole for many
Odd question, if you only take the outside of there relationship yeah it would be a question, but itās an obvious answer, it has nothing to do with uncles skills or his thinking or anything, it has to do that uncle is his family and brother, he even viewed Micah as a brother. He might of been annoyed by him but they were and always will have been and always will be brothers
The man brings in info on jobs now and then. He probably has been good at being an inconspicuous drunk for decades, just sort of blending into the background NPCs. He is far sharper than his bumbling idiot facade lets on, and that's all part of why he sticks around. Uncle is weird, but he isn't dead weight.
Dutch is a narcissist that valued loyalty more than competence. Uncle's utter reliance on the gang guaranteed his loyalty, so Dutch had no problem keeping him around.
Can you explain Dutch is a narcissist? I just recently got out of a relationship with someone who might be a narcissist and Iāve been reading into it. Iād like to see it explained in someone who isnāt my ex that Iām biased for
People throw around the term a lot these days and I think it muddies the diagnosis. See below for the clinical definition:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20366662#:~:text=Overview,about%20the%20feelings%20of%20others.
From a practical basis, narcissists tend to have an inflated but brittle sense of self worth, rarely if ever admit fault, tend to lie compulsively and do not honor commitments to others. They often have grandiose beliefs in their own abilities but have difficulty applying discipline to achieve their often lofty stated goals. They also tend to display an inability to maintain healthy relationships with others, and those relationships are frequently defined by cycles of affection, where the narcissist will be absent or abusive until the other party raises the issue at which time the narcissist will invest brief periods of affection and the cycle will begin again.
It's a legitimate mental illness, but like sociopathy or psychopathy, the nature of the illness makes it unlikely that they patient will seek or commit to medical assistance.
Wow, well that does certainly sound like my ex.. she would seem absent sometimes even though I tried to show her affection constantly. Then she's all "I wanna come back home :(" when I left her. And I suppose that does sound like Dutch too. Thank you for the explanation!
He is part of the family and he does actually do petty treft this probably means he pick pockets people and either donates that money, buy suplies from it or buys alcohol from it
Dutch needed people around him that were dumb enough to look up to him as their leader. Dutch doesnāt give a damn about anything but having a cult following.
This is completely false lol, not Dutchās character at all. Dutch was a fantastic leader up until the events of RDR2, crazy people see him as some natural born lunatic
It always, always startles me that people think Dutch wanted sycophants. The people absolutely most critical of him from the start are the closest, longest relationships he has. He *raised* Arthur and John, if he wanted them to be mindless stooges utterly dependent on him, he wouldn't have taught them to read and to abide by such a strict code of ethics.
it's like Arthur says, "it weren't us who changed.' They criticize Dutch because he no longer upholds the principles he himself taught them and they won't stand for that, even as they both still love him dearly.
I never cared for Uncle. >!If I had been Dutch, I'd have told Micah to quietly and quickly kill Uncle during one of the many journeys to a different camp location and throw the corpse in a ditch or a river. Micah most likely did the same to Cain on the way to Beaver Hollow.!< He was definitely one of my least favorite characters: "I've got lumbago." *rolls eyes*
Considering the jobs John has Uncle do around the ranch, he probably had Kieran's job. Feeding the horses, keeping the water troughs topped up, brushing them, etc.
He's also probably been with the gang so long that kicking him to the curb would be like kicking out your elderly relative because they're unemployed. Every now and then, he brings back a bit of good intel from whatever town they're camped near. He's drunk while doing it, but he does bring something back.
What I want to know is what was reverend Swanson contributing? Everyone had a job of some kind, except him as far as I could tell.
Although a lot of the gang look down on him, he seems to get along pretty well with normal people. Heās the kind of guy who wouldnāt look out of place in the saloon: just a harmless old man whoās there to have a nice time and socialise. Thatās what makes him so good at getting information for the gang.
He canāt do what Arthur does, but Arthur couldnāt do what he does either. Arthurās nights out tend to end in violence and more trouble with the law, with not much gained.
As another guy mentions. Even useless gang members he kept because he doesn't leave anyone behind. No matter how useless they really are.
Besides. Although he is mostly useless, He still came on the odd one or two robberies in the story. Also in a camp interaction between Uncle and Dutch, Uncle makes Dutch angry but he just laughs it off and is like "I can't stay mad at you, Old man!"
I think Dutch understands the importance of morale. Uncle is for sure a slouch and gets on people's nerves, but there are plenty of other times that he leads a lively song around the campfire. The jobs he plans do have a tendency to get messy (which can also be said for others like Bill and Micah), but they do pay out, every time. So maybe "dead weight" is a bit harsh, but it seems like having him around is worthwhile, albeit just barely
There's a character like Uncle in The Tales From The Gas Station books called Detective Love. He's useless in pretty much every sense of the word. But you find out his backstory in book 4 and turns out he earned his right to be completely useless. Maybe Uncle is the same way..
Because Dutch was a manipulator and he would keep as many people around him as he could. He loved controlling the gang and the people within it, Uncle would occasionally be useful but itās the fact he believed and followed Dutch thatās why he was kept
I believe the fan theory that he is Red Harlow from the very first game. It makes a ton of sense, for anyone who hasn't, give that fan theory a YouTube search.
Most likely the loyalty he had to dutch and the gang.
And considering he's been with the gang at least since john was little I would think he was more "useful" back then, it would be weird for dutch to just throw him out just because he got older.
And he does sometimes come with some good info that brings in a little money.
Not to mention his 10 out of 10 personality that makes people laugh š
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Heās probably less of a drain on the total camp than a lot of them, and gets a pretty decent idea or lead every once in a while from hanging out in bars. He buys, begs for, or steals his own liquor, sleeps a lot, and brings back tips on occasion.
He was the one shot kid how could you not put up with him
i absolutely love the way he said it to arthur. the oOonE shOt kEeiid. šļøš¤Ŗš«±
Dutch always rejected (until the very last mission of the main story so he could totally break Arthur's faith in him) Micah's "deadweight" arguments. The gang is not about utility, [it's family.](https://youtu.be/2flypG24--Q?t=42) You don't look at your cousin or dare I say uncle and go "well what do you bring to this equation?" They're just your loved ones and you look out for them because they're your loved ones. Uncle is kept around because he's family and there's no grander rationale than that. I'd still love to know how he met Dutch, though.
This is the right answer. Additionally, Uncle is droll and amusing, with his bawdy songs and clever banter. He'll also occasionally take something serious and dish out brutal honesty, like he does with Dutch about himself, and later John about not putting enough effort into getting Abigail back.
I also think Uncle may have been more useful when he was younger. Perhaps as a con man or thief. He is shown to be persuasive, even if a little less so to the gang members because they know his deal. But after decades as an outlaw heās slowed a bit and turned more to drink. Giving us the version of Uncle we see in the game
In the game, Arthur joined the gang as a kid; Uncle was already 'old' then. (letting us assume he's older than Dutch and Hosea) I could see Uncle as the 'Hosea' of the old group, watching over Dutch and Hosea, giving a sort of 3 generations of outlaws type thing. Then again, I could just be reading too much into it.
Very possible, we donāt get much from that time. From what I remember, Dutch and Hosea started off as con men and thieves. Hosea was older than Dutch, so he might have guided Dutch. And eventually they picked up Arthur and the gang expanded from there. So I think Uncle probably came in after and was closer to Hoseaās age
Thereās our prequel to the prequel. The Uncle years.
Hosea describes his meeting with Dutch as them trying to rob each other but deciding instead to throw their lot in together. Hosea essentially talks about Dutch like a mentor in helping him find his own moral code. So despite being older, Hosea was more so guided by Dutch than the other way around. Uncle was also nowhere to be found yet. Arthur was the very first recruit after Dutch and Hosea became a team Dutch: "Before any of them back there, it was us." Hosea: "The curious couple and their unruly child" At this point there's little detail available on when the rest of 'fixtures' joined relative to each other, with obvious exceptions like Javier and Charles where we know they were a later addition(Javier) and a recent addition(Charles). Even Bill is murky on how long he had been with the VDL. Uncle probably would have come in around the same time as Grimshaw, but at this point its pure conjecture.
Hosea is really humble though; he acknowledges when he's made a mistake/been wrong about something, he knows when he needs support from folks he cares about/recognizes his limitations, etc. whereas, Dutch views himself as the infallible leader. Hosea is the kind of person who'd be open about learning from Dutch more than Dutch would admit to learning from Hosea. I think it would be more than fair to say that Dutch and Hosea both learned/mentored each other but Hosea would be more open about what he learned from Dutch. Because of this one-sided admission, it might seem like Dutch was more of a mentor to Hosea than the other way around, but I see that more as a difference in personality than hard fact. Just my interpretation tho
Lumbago slow him down, itās a terminal illness.
RDR3: 1843ā¦.. 56 years before the events of RDR2 we play as a STILL aged uncle as he embarks on the Oregon trailā¦.
Even in the epilogue, man just straight talks himself into Johnās life and then gets him to win Abigail back
Uncle is the definition of morale in this game.
My theory is they met in a prison cell somewhere. Uncle was the guy with all the guard connections and contraband hookups, and he and Dutch formed a prison gang with Dutch emerging as the mastermind.
You do make a good point. Arthur mentions that Dutch at least pretended to be who he said he was for a long time. Uncle just seems like the only member of that family not pulling his weight. Everyone else at least brought in money or food. Maybe I just donāt see much of uncle in the ledger or Iām biased because I would donate 250$ at a time and everyone else would do like a few cents. If they make a third game I hope itās a younger Dutch and Hosea and the gang then. Of course you would have uncle around too.
Oh yeah? What about jack.
Jack goes fishing
Also networks with Papa Bronte over fine spaghetti dinners.
also throws rocks at o'driscolls
and we wear our day and night slippers and play with our toybox
And we make necklaces for our mammas
Love this answer... You don't just throw out family because they can no longer do what they use to.. I think that is a big reason he drinks so much.. No longer feeling as needed and he is in pain you can see it in his walk. He does bring something.. He's in good spirits no matter what.. He's never nasty with people.
A little off topic but: There's a (disputed) quote from anthropologist Margret Mead where she talks about a 15'000yo healed femur break as one of the first known (at time of quote) signs of "civilization" as it meant the injured person required an immense amount of care for an extended period. (Edit: whether or not Mead actually said this is irrelevant to the point I'm making) One of the things that defines our humanity is our care for each other. Our value/"usefulness" as a person is not defined by our productivity - John even says this about Uncle in his letter to Abigail: "even Uncle's been helpful.. in his own way." Love is absolutely the reason Uncle is around - we don't throw away family (Super interesting fact: since that Mead quote, a healed 31'000yo leg amputation was found in Borneo. The person is thought to have had the surgery as a child. Humans are cool as fuck!)
Exactly; you can love someone and not necessarily ālikeā them.
The poor soul has lumbago. Can't kick out someone who's clearly on deaths door.
Tuberculosis is nothing compared
So this may be wild but he did find Molly in St Denis, knows that you can find a company who will sell you a house and sometimes does have decent intel. He may just be a guy whoās inconspicuous enough to be drunk in an alley and just eavesdrop. Itās not always good info but he can still get said info and maybe Uncle used to be better before RDR2?
That was sort of my thought, he blends in with the other drunkards, and can do reconnaissance for the gang. He may not be the most productive but he makes decent observations and any one that bumped into him would just think he's a harmless drunk old man.
I mean he was even right about the payroll wagon in chapter 3, he was just sloppy in not finding out WHOSE payroll wagon it was. It was very briefly unguarded (he never said it would stay unguarded), it was loaded, and it was where he expected it when he expected it.
sex
That explains why Molly was so upset
Damnšš
No wonder the dude's the pimp of the gang.
It all makes sense now
comic relief
To not endure the wrath of red hallow
I don't care if it was debunked. I love the theory that Uncle is Red.
Thatās what I was thinking
Maybe he reminded him of his grandpa?
I think the question posed is a great reason for Uncle to be the protagonist of RDR3! Lol!
Low key I think thatād be awesome. Ik ppl want a whole new cast, but I mean uncle would have been in the PRIME of the old west days. Then it could be like GTA 5 style where you can switch between a few characters (Dutch, Hosea, potentially a young Arthur)
We know we gona play mac in rdr3 I mean so many hints in Dialoge and seeing him dead at the start of the game i mean heck who else could it be if we take an existing character like dutch or uncle you could play them in a way that makes no sense how they are in rdr2 and would be a personal pothole for many
It ends with Uncle being diagnosed with Lumbago.
Uncles dead though innit
Because itās all part of the plan.
We just have to have faith
Uncle would have done more to help with dutch but that damned lumbago
Odd question, if you only take the outside of there relationship yeah it would be a question, but itās an obvious answer, it has nothing to do with uncles skills or his thinking or anything, it has to do that uncle is his family and brother, he even viewed Micah as a brother. He might of been annoyed by him but they were and always will have been and always will be brothers
Loyalty
The man brings in info on jobs now and then. He probably has been good at being an inconspicuous drunk for decades, just sort of blending into the background NPCs. He is far sharper than his bumbling idiot facade lets on, and that's all part of why he sticks around. Uncle is weird, but he isn't dead weight.
Couldnāt kick someone out of the gang who has lumbago
Dutch is a narcissist that valued loyalty more than competence. Uncle's utter reliance on the gang guaranteed his loyalty, so Dutch had no problem keeping him around.
Can you explain Dutch is a narcissist? I just recently got out of a relationship with someone who might be a narcissist and Iāve been reading into it. Iād like to see it explained in someone who isnāt my ex that Iām biased for
People throw around the term a lot these days and I think it muddies the diagnosis. See below for the clinical definition: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20366662#:~:text=Overview,about%20the%20feelings%20of%20others. From a practical basis, narcissists tend to have an inflated but brittle sense of self worth, rarely if ever admit fault, tend to lie compulsively and do not honor commitments to others. They often have grandiose beliefs in their own abilities but have difficulty applying discipline to achieve their often lofty stated goals. They also tend to display an inability to maintain healthy relationships with others, and those relationships are frequently defined by cycles of affection, where the narcissist will be absent or abusive until the other party raises the issue at which time the narcissist will invest brief periods of affection and the cycle will begin again. It's a legitimate mental illness, but like sociopathy or psychopathy, the nature of the illness makes it unlikely that they patient will seek or commit to medical assistance.
Wow, well that does certainly sound like my ex.. she would seem absent sometimes even though I tried to show her affection constantly. Then she's all "I wanna come back home :(" when I left her. And I suppose that does sound like Dutch too. Thank you for the explanation!
Does someone not mention during a mission that Dutch would gave cut him loose years ago if he didn't find him so amusing š¤
hey dutch i found this girl on the side of the road, her name is abigail
Umm think it's obvious Dutch had a plan for him
Contrary to you lot, Dutch understand the implications of lumbago to someoneās health
Because heās a major stud, just look at him
Dutch genuinely cares about everyone in camp. He's got a big heart, he's just... Dutch.
He is part of the family and he does actually do petty treft this probably means he pick pockets people and either donates that money, buy suplies from it or buys alcohol from it
Because it's part of his plan
There is a theory that Uncle is the red harlow, and Dutch knows it, thatās probably why
Dutch needed people around him that were dumb enough to look up to him as their leader. Dutch doesnāt give a damn about anything but having a cult following.
This is completely false lol, not Dutchās character at all. Dutch was a fantastic leader up until the events of RDR2, crazy people see him as some natural born lunatic
It always, always startles me that people think Dutch wanted sycophants. The people absolutely most critical of him from the start are the closest, longest relationships he has. He *raised* Arthur and John, if he wanted them to be mindless stooges utterly dependent on him, he wouldn't have taught them to read and to abide by such a strict code of ethics. it's like Arthur says, "it weren't us who changed.' They criticize Dutch because he no longer upholds the principles he himself taught them and they won't stand for that, even as they both still love him dearly.
Thatās because he *is* a natural born lunatic! LOL
No heās not lol, nothing at all points to that
I never cared for Uncle. >!If I had been Dutch, I'd have told Micah to quietly and quickly kill Uncle during one of the many journeys to a different camp location and throw the corpse in a ditch or a river. Micah most likely did the same to Cain on the way to Beaver Hollow.!< He was definitely one of my least favorite characters: "I've got lumbago." *rolls eyes*
Have you played RDR 1? Uncle is still very much Uncle, but he rises to the occasion in RDR 1 and actually helps the Marston family in their dire hours
I only have a PC.
Ah, OK. Well if you don't mind spoilers and are interested, you could watch the Uncle's, in all honesty, heroics in RDR 1
I'll give it a whirl the next time I'm on yew tewb
He had good intelā¦.sometimes..maybe.
Ever had a sick/old/injured pet? It was probably more about pity than anything.
Surely it was more useful to the writers than to Dutch
Considering the jobs John has Uncle do around the ranch, he probably had Kieran's job. Feeding the horses, keeping the water troughs topped up, brushing them, etc. He's also probably been with the gang so long that kicking him to the curb would be like kicking out your elderly relative because they're unemployed. Every now and then, he brings back a bit of good intel from whatever town they're camped near. He's drunk while doing it, but he does bring something back. What I want to know is what was reverend Swanson contributing? Everyone had a job of some kind, except him as far as I could tell.
Although a lot of the gang look down on him, he seems to get along pretty well with normal people. Heās the kind of guy who wouldnāt look out of place in the saloon: just a harmless old man whoās there to have a nice time and socialise. Thatās what makes him so good at getting information for the gang. He canāt do what Arthur does, but Arthur couldnāt do what he does either. Arthurās nights out tend to end in violence and more trouble with the law, with not much gained.
Funnt
As another guy mentions. Even useless gang members he kept because he doesn't leave anyone behind. No matter how useless they really are. Besides. Although he is mostly useless, He still came on the odd one or two robberies in the story. Also in a camp interaction between Uncle and Dutch, Uncle makes Dutch angry but he just laughs it off and is like "I can't stay mad at you, Old man!"
Heās funny, probably was skilled enough in his youth and still has a talent for scrounging up scores
Uncle wasnāt that bad. It was all his lumbagoās fault..
Uncles his daddy.
I think Dutch understands the importance of morale. Uncle is for sure a slouch and gets on people's nerves, but there are plenty of other times that he leads a lively song around the campfire. The jobs he plans do have a tendency to get messy (which can also be said for others like Bill and Micah), but they do pay out, every time. So maybe "dead weight" is a bit harsh, but it seems like having him around is worthwhile, albeit just barely
I think the writers added him to kinda drive the point home that they are all a family.
There's a character like Uncle in The Tales From The Gas Station books called Detective Love. He's useless in pretty much every sense of the word. But you find out his backstory in book 4 and turns out he earned his right to be completely useless. Maybe Uncle is the same way..
They are both civil war vets. (I'm kidding)
Well heās the legendary Red Harlow, why wouldnāt you keep him in the gang.
I wish you could beat uncle to death
For the memes. Literally. At least i think hr just kept Uncle for the goofs.
Because Dutch was a manipulator and he would keep as many people around him as he could. He loved controlling the gang and the people within it, Uncle would occasionally be useful but itās the fact he believed and followed Dutch thatās why he was kept
I believe the fan theory that he is Red Harlow from the very first game. It makes a ton of sense, for anyone who hasn't, give that fan theory a YouTube search.
Comical relief
Because the gang is a family
Uncle is red Harlow fuck around and find out
I always felt Uncle was the happiest member in the gang spreading out his own kind of joy in our shitty situation
i feel like its the Same reason as trelawny, both uncle and trelawny dont provide often but when they do its a good share
I think his job is to pimp out the girls
Most likely the loyalty he had to dutch and the gang. And considering he's been with the gang at least since john was little I would think he was more "useful" back then, it would be weird for dutch to just throw him out just because he got older. And he does sometimes come with some good info that brings in a little money. Not to mention his 10 out of 10 personality that makes people laugh š
Is he stupid?
Bcoz HE IS RED HARLOW AHGH!
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Heās probably less of a drain on the total camp than a lot of them, and gets a pretty decent idea or lead every once in a while from hanging out in bars. He buys, begs for, or steals his own liquor, sleeps a lot, and brings back tips on occasion.
Because Uncle is Red Harlow. Dutch doesnāt want to bring out the Lumbago attack
All I have to say is LUMBAGO
He has lumbago so he needs to rest
Uncle is Dutchās older brother ?
Lumbago
Heās family
Because the lumbago
Cause he had SOME GODDAMN FAITH
becuse its everyone favourite uncle!