base info

• hosea
• he/him
• i kinda took on a "gang mom" role so if you call me "mother hosea" (which has been done before) i will probably cry.

memories

• dutch had always seemed a little bit off to me. we were friends (and maybe more), sure, but... something always seemed off about him. his constant adamant nature that he was smarter than he looked and his thirst for vengeance really put me off.
  • i’m not sure if dutch truly liked me romantically. he may have just wanted me to help trick people so he could run off when the timing was right.
• i was fairly protective of arthur once he came around. dutch was not the kind of person who would be a good father; i didn't want a kid as young as he was to suffer.
  • i tried to physically position myself between the two of them to keep arthur safe. i stopped doing this, eventually; arthur was a man, after all, and didn't need an old geezer like me protecting him. i still did so, though, once in a while, when dutch REALLY went off his rocker.
  • dutch dragged arthur into heists and all that very early.
• arthur's first heist was very early in his career in the van der linde gang. he was so torn up about committing a crime that he actually started crying when we got back to camp. he asked me why we did this; i didn't have an answer.
• i was in my 60s or 70s, i think. dutch was a bit younger. i looked as old as i did due to stress.
  • i believe dutch came from a better background than i did.
• someone in the gang could play fiddle. i don’t remember who right now.
• i once rode on a domesticated horse aside many wild ones running in a group. i'm not sure why.
• i pulled my guns out from the holsters on the opposite side (left gun on right hip and vice versa).
• i did not die immediately after i was shot. i remember scraping my face (specifically my cheeks) against the gravel before i perished.
• i had back issues. i THINK this was because of something. i got ran over or trampled at one point - i think a bit of both, it might’ve been a horse and carriage - and my back didn’t heal right
• i usually went from place to place by train when i was younger - by hopping it, of course. i fell asleep in the hay a lot.