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Because that's not often how it is in real-life either.
While their relationship could be considered underdeveloped, that doesn't mean Andrew Milton is void of character or completely eliminate his purpose as a character, for that matter.
Personally, it always struck me as similar to the fact that Anthony Comstock inspired the likes of J. Edgar Hoover with his surveillance methods through his abuse of authority, which the latter expanded to a remarkably larger scale in his eventual career as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Their relationship was strictly homosexual.
The problem is that Milton and Ross' personalities are more or less interchangeable. They both fight for society despite its flaws, they share a smug sense of superiority, often go on long monologues about anarchy or some such, etc, etc.
Really, you could replace Ross with Milton and the only change of the story would be how to write around Abigail shooting him.
You can note that in our first encounter with them, Milton does all the talking while Ross holds the shotgun and ensure Arthur doesn’t try anything. From there, Milton does all the talking, does whatever he feels like and Ross is usually on the sideline watching. Although Ross and fordham were partners (even if Ross technically had higher authority) in the case of Milton and Ross, Milton is the master and Ross is the servant
Also @KidColt.45 what the actual hell?
Not so much a "problem", more so an obtuse view of the characters. Claiming the characters are essentially "interchangeable" simply because they share a few traits honestly speaks to a particular lack of media literacy.
Andrew Milton was an individual who believed himself to operate within the confines of the law, which while contradicted by a few of his actions, he seemed to very much believe. He made attempts to approach members of the Van der Linde gang, risking all but certain death in one instance, to seemingly offer an olive branch to most of them in exchange for their cooperation.
Edgar Ross viewed himself as above the law, seizing on his newfound and not yet fully defined authority to involve other government forces in his investigations. He clearly took it further through enforcing his demands with outright threats as well as deciding to leave less loose ends.
Milton can very much be seen as a mentor to Ross, retroactively adding another layer to Ross's character in that he has a predecessor whose ideals he drew from and took further and mistakes he learned from.
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Here's the issue with your point. This:
"Milton can very much be seen as a mentor to Ross, retroactively adding another layer to Ross's character in that he has a predecessor whose ideals he drew from and took further and mistakes he learned from."
Is your interpretation.
Whether Ross always possessed his mentality or picked it up from Milton is completely unknown.
Ross could've gotten more extreme after Milton's death or he could've already been an extremist who was held back by Milton, with his death allowing Ross to "exercise his authority" so to speak. Both are equally valid interpretations.
We don't know. You certainly don't know, as you only described Ross's personality in the first game. You couldn't tell me if Ross had the same "above the law" mentality as he does in the first game.
How would you vote then?
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