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How Will Arthur And Gavin React When They Meet In Red Dead Redemption 2?

Leon Green
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There is a very mysterious character in Red Dead Redemption 2. It has never been shown, and people are not even sure whether it really exists. He is Gavin.

His friend Nigel is a British NPC. He is dressed gorgeously and is obsessed with finding Gavin on the American border. It will walk around the map and call Gavin. When he is asked questions about Gavin, he will be extremely excited, as if Gavin’s disappearance has touched something very important to him.

How Will Arthur And Gavin React When They Meet In Red Dead Redemption 2?

Arthur Morgan is another character in the game. He has a kind heart and hates evil. If he meets Nigel, who behaves strangely, he will have doubts out of vigilance against liars and lunatics. However, Arthur, who is compassionate, will try to understand Nigel, who seems to be mentally broken, instead of ignoring him. Arthur takes this meeting very seriously and he will try to figure out the whole story.

Nigel’s Madness Makes Gavin’s Image Blurred

At present, we don’t know whether Gavin is a fantasy of Nigel’s mental breakdown or a real person. Gavin is always mentioned in the past tense and his words are often contradictory. Nigel’s moods are very unstable, sometimes he is desperate and sometimes angry. He never accepts help from anyone, including Arthur.

Based on Nigel’s vague description, Gavin may be a naive person. Meeting Gavin may reveal that Arthur has been suffering from emotional abuse or is eager to escape from Nigel. In the game, their interactions may hint at a dark side to their previous friendship.

If Gavin is a completely normal person, it is likely to highlight Nigel’s abnormality and madness. Players will not only see a huge mystery being revealed, but also a story about identity and self-destruction.

Encounters Promote The Development Of The Protagonist’s Plot

Meeting Gavin will cause Arthur to suffer a more serious blow. The focus of the story may change from solving a huge mystery to the collapse of the gang, Arthur’s illness, and a lost and collapsing guy at any time.

Gavin’s appearance may hint at Arthur’s future direction. Whether Arthur chooses to help him or reject him, it will make his road to redemption longer.

The key is not the answer to the question, but how Arthur will react when he meets a similarly lost person. He will be torn between protecting Gavin and stopping Nigel.

What Kind Of Person Might Gavin Actually Be?

In the game, you usually meet Nigel near Rhodes in RDR2. He is always looking for Gavin and shouting his name frantically. He said Gavin was his friend, and both of them were from the UK, but Gavin disappeared quietly. But he believed that Gavin would never abandon him like that, so he looked everywhere on the map.

We often see Nigel around Saint Denis, the wilderness and Blackwater. He keeps saying: Gavin came to America with him and then disappeared. Did something terrible happen?

From Nigel’s behavior and his clothes, it can be judged that they are middle-class British people. Gavin must have the same way of speaking and dressing style as Nigel.

Based on these clues, players can guess that Gavin may be a cheerful, simple and naive person. And such a person is not suitable for surviving in the wilderness of the American frontier. This may be the impression Rockstar wants to leave on people.

Or, Gavin does not actually exist. He is just a character that Nigel saw in a story and wanted to be, so he imagined such a person to make excuses for his incompetence.

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 Bren Lyles
A lifelong video gaming enthusiast and editor with a strong passion for all things sci-fi. I enjoy everything from sports games to MOBA and MMORPGs.