I have no idea what he sees in Mary. They have no chemistry, and she just uses him to solve her problems. The game would be better without her.
To be fair, this allegedly leak came out just ten days after the game did, and somethings they mentioned (buying tickets to Guarma, more than two playable characters, etc) were actually found in the code. Still bullshit, but the Micah thing does make you wonder.
The other theory is that Micah's role was supposed to be for Javier, and they changed it because having a minority as a bad guy, even in a game full of other minorities who are good guys, would be bad, or whatever.
The evidence for this is Javier's sudden drastic character change from the first game to the second game, how he does almost nothing in RDR2, and how the way he's described in RDR1 (ie; a conniving, lecherous, violent douchebag who was loyal to Dutch until shit the fan), sounds suspiciously like Micah.
All this coupled with the fact that RDR2 is suspiciously overly protective of (most) minorities in the game make this theory is a lot more plausible imo.
I'm not so sure. There's a camp encounter where Uncle flat tells Dutch to his face that he sees right through Dutch's "I'm a teacher" act and knows Dutch is just using the gang to his own ends.
Dutch didn't change. He was always manipulative and always a con man. Even John realized in the Epilogue when he's on a mission ans tells Sadie that maybe the façade came down and they saw what Dutch always was. And the irony is Agent Milton was right: Dutch took a bunch of lost souls needing
something and convinced them he had a better way. But the reality was, he didn't and most of them were too needy to see the truth of the situation and the few people who did come close to it, he said were wrong. Dutch goes on and on about Evelyn Miller, but Lenny says he doesn't get what Dutch gets from those books. Dutch tells Lenny to keep reading. Lenny's a bright guy and literate, but Dutch slyly tells him he's wrong. On the mission to kill Angelo Bronte, Bill mentions the atrocities he's seen fighting Indians and Dutch right out says Bill is too stupid to understand what he's seen. In spite of that Bill was still loyal to Dutch because Bill wasn't all that bright and needed someone to guide him. Javier was loyal to Dutch because Dutch saved him once and tried to repay his kindness, despite Arthur (and presumably John) telling him otherwise.
In the Overlook camp, if you go to a few wrecked carts off to the side you'll find a draft of Dutch's speech he gives when they first get to Colter about losing Jenny and the Callander brothers. But he made it sound like it was spontaneous. Fast forward a bit and Sean gets his head canoed and Jack gets kidnapped. Dutch talks a big game about gping and getting Jack, but I'm convinced the only reason he did was because if he did nothing, the gang would have split right then and there. The gang was always a means to an end for Dutch. And I don't think all that talk of freedom and what America was supposed to be and all of that was anything except bluster. Dutch liked causing chaos. The only thing that ever acted as a brake was Hosea and once he was dead there was nothing to stop him from showing his true colors. Killing the old lady on Guarma, leaving John to hang at the prison, leaving Arthur to die in the oil fields, using Eagle Flies and not caring if he lived or died in the ambush or at the oil fields. And when he was ever called on it by Arthur he always fell back on his plan that nobody knew about, except Micah.
Micah fed into Dutch's ego. He had Hosea, then Arthur, both questioning his decisions, and Micah was able to step in and be the fair-haired boy. He said all the things Dutch wanted to hear and was able to say the failures of the gang were someone else's fault or there was a rat. It's why Dutch was going to let John hang after he was grabbed at the bank hold up in St. Denis. And it's why Dutch was so livid after Abigail said Dutch wasn't doing anything to spring him and Arthur and Sadie rescued him: they were questioning him and as a cover he had his plan, a plan only Micah was in on.
I also think Dutch wasn't as smart as we were led to believe. The Blackwater ferry job went south and a girl was shot, but what if it wasn't so much a rat as Dutch was just sloppy and that's how Milton and Ross get on to him? When they run into Arthur while he's fishing with Jack, he doesn't order the gang to pack up right then and there, but tells them to stay put. Then Cornwell tries to grab him in Valentine and only then does he move. Hosea begs him right from the beginning to go west, but Dutch refuses and makes them go east. Then further east into Lemoyne, where Dutch thinks he can play both the Braithwaites and Grays off of each other, but they end up using him to do their dirty work and leave penniless. He tries to schmooze Bronte who sees right through him and then sets him up at the trolley heist. The bank job was just Milton figuring out Dutch needs money for something and the only place in town with the amount of cash he needs is a bank and sits on it. And once Micah starts feeding info to Milton, he is just convinced it's Arthur who is being disloyal. It was only because of their abilities that the gang was able to escape time and again until they try to rob the Army train and Milton/Ross close the dragnet around him. Dutch escapes, but he realized that Arthur was right, Micah was the rat, and left a broken man.
It was only in the Epilogue when John goes up to kill Micah and meets with Dutch do we see Dutch finally deal with what Micah did to him and his gang. The charade might have gone on a bit longer had it not been for Micah, although I think eventually the wheels would have fallen off. There are a couple of times when Hosea intimates that he is dying, and without Hosea there is non one to keep Dutch's baser instincts in check. But when John shows up to kill Micah and Dutch reveals himself and John asks why Dutch is up there he says, "same reason as you". Micah misses it. Micah things Dutch is getting the band back together, but Dutch is up there to settle that particular score. Dutch could have killed Micah, taken the Blackwater money, and found his perfect life somewhere else, but chose to go back to chaos. It's the biggest reason I think that it didn't matter if John had stayed in Beecher's Hope or not. Micah was a dead man, Ross would have found the body, figured it was the remnants of the Van Der Lind Gang and started his manhunt.
Fast forward a few years and Javier has turned into a mean bastard. All the members of the gang, at least the gunslinger ones, could have been described as violent, manipulative, mean, horrible people, but Javier had no choice but to leave the US and the only place he could go was Mexico, a place he was not really welcome. So he had to live hard and be mean, meaner than he had to with the gang. He trusted Dutch and at the end had to have seen Arthur was right about him, but not before the events in Annesburg. And one day who shows up but John saying he was taking Javier in. His own brother, who had abandoned him. So it was no real surprise to see how an older Javier, who was once again betrayed by John (for taking aim at Dutch and siding with Arthur) flipped out.
Speaking of, the older Dutch is back to his old tricks of using the Indians. I have no doubt that they were the last few Wapitis and Dutch whipped them up by reminding them about what the Army did (but not mentioning his part in the whole affair), even if it isn't said. And Dutch has abandoned any pretense of not being out for himself and killing indiscriminately. The girl in the bank when he runs into John for example. He just blows her head off to make a point. It is only at the very end when there is literally nowhere left for Dutch to run that he make the confession that it is his nature to fight (not find somewhere away from authority and find a better way to live) and that he has the most important thing he will ever say to John which is after Dutch is gone, John's next because those government men need monsters to slay so they can justify their jobs, even if they have to invent them.
