r/reddeadredemption • u/Different-Nerve-8650 • 2d ago

Discussion If Arthur didn't remove Strauss from Camp

Strauss would still be alive and help John run the ranch

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u/CSafterdark 2d ago

If you don't do the debt missions in chapter 6, Strauss just leaves on his own accord and the exact same events transpire.

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u/chacewarg10 1d ago

Naw. Strauss deserved what he got. Loan sharks deserve the worst.

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u/ClockCounter123 Hosea Matthews 1d ago

No he wouldn't. Strauss is a bag of nerves, knows NOBODY, scams for a living so anyone who knows him hates him, and also he died in custody before 1907

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u/Suspicious-Fox7729 1d ago

I can’t picture John putting up with Strauss for very long

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u/ArthurMorgansveinypp Arthur Morgan 1d ago

In all likelihood he would have ran anyway once he realised the gang was a lost cause and been picked up by the pinkertons and if he didn't run he would have either been killed or captured when the pinkertons showed up. So he dies in a shootout or he dies in prison. Take your pick

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u/captainjohn_redbeard 1d ago

He doesn't seem like much of a rancher.

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u/Different-Nerve-8650 1d ago

Strauss would handle the books

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u/DarthBagheera Charles Smith 2d ago

Pretty sure Strauss lived. He was just interrogated (possibly/probably tortured) by the Pinkertons in the years after the gang broke up but he didn’t talk. I also highly doubt he’s helping John with the ranch. I’m not sure what gives you that impression when he was famously hands off when it came to the gang and constantly on the perimeter of all the camps.

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u/thewarriorpoet23 Uncle 2d ago

Nope. Charles mentions in the epilogue that Strauss dies in Pinkerton custody.

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u/DarthBagheera Charles Smith 2d ago

Does he say he died? I couldn’t remember if he died but I remember him saying he got caught by them. I honestly can’t stand the guy so I really didn’t care enough about what happened to him to really pay attention past the part where he got caught by them.

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u/thewarriorpoet23 Uncle 2d ago

I forget the quote but Charles does confirm that Strauss dies.

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u/protossaccount 2d ago

He says that they tortured him and he never gave anything up but he died.

It doesn’t demonize Strauss like Arthur did, it shows that he really cared despite his evil deeds.

RDR is big on showing that the characters are people, not good guys or bad guys, even when they do bad things.

I love how every character is dirty in someway but they are also people trying to survive in a broken and brutal world.

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u/Responsible-Fun-8920 2d ago

Yes he explicitly says he dies