Agree, Kieran was innocent. Terrible childhood, kind and gentle at heart, loved the horses, was always nice to all of the gang members, and I don’t recall him ever participating in the gang’s most criminal acts. He didnt deserve his fate, or the life he was dealt.

In my most recent play through, after the attack on Shady Belle I went to the O’driscoll’s camp and left none alive. Wish Arthur would have said something like “for Kieran.”

Arthur’s horse also didn’t deserve to die.

Yeah the horse death scene was another level of heartbreaking! But it didn't hit me that hard because it wasn't my main horse that died. When we chase Jimmy Brooks in ch2, Arthur steals a Buckskin American Standardbred. I first thought it's just my normal horse, but after the mission it was my temporary horse and I saw "American Standardbred" and I made it my main horse immediatly. And I loved that horse so much! I was exploring the map with it during chapter 2 and 3 (best chapters) but lost it in Chapter 4 because I left it on the train tracks and bought tickets for the Billy Midnight mission...after I killed that bastard I whistled for my horse, then the game said "you have lost your saddle" and I saw a saddle icon on the map but not my horsey! I went back there as fast as I could and thought that I could revive it but there was only the saddle but no horse :(

God damn, I was so sad for the rest of the game...but I found and broke a wild Buckskin American Standardbred near Tumbleweed as John! Named it "Bonnie".

Good ending :D

Both Hosea and Lenny's death made me sad :(

Unpopular opinion but I thought Micah was actually wrongly bullied by Arthur, Arthur and John didn't trust Dutch, and Micah was only defending his leader. Arthur got what was coming.

^^uh yep. That’s unpopular. And pretty illogical.

@Sathana

Yes, he was technically “defending his leader”, like you say. But there's more to this than “just defending his leader”.

He was doing it, while ALSO:

- manipulating him

- playing pretend, because he genuinely didn't give two figs about how Dutch could end-up

- having bad intentions

- knowing Dutch is not mentally stable so it's easier to play with him

- leading not only John, Arthur & Dutch into a trap, but also the entire gang – including innocent people like Jack, Pearson, Swanson, Mary-Beth, Tilly... (well they're not ALL 100% pure, but you get what I mean)

- profiting of the fact that there's no one to question Dutch's descisions and get him ‘back on track’ or ‘see things clearer’ anymore (aka Hosea)

- and he was doing it so insistently, that it got to a point where Dutch didn't even want to hear what were his ‘sons’ opinions about the situation no more

In summary, Micah just “took to his advantage the fact that Dutch is the leader / the one with authority” to bring the gang to its impending downfall even faster

^yep, this take is far more sensible.

I feel bad for Kieren. He didn't really choose to join the Van Der Linde gang and he even got killed in their hands.

:(