@Equivalent-Ambition

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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@H. Roosevelt

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.

@Equivalent-Ambition

How would you vote then?

@Petkoholic

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@Equivalent-Ambition I’m not a pchsycoligist, but I highly doubt it’s in human nature to adopt an entire merciless lifestyle from someone. Maybe a few habits, but I think it’s much more likely he was just holding back due to Milton

@BillybobTheDestroyer

That's possible. Unfortunately, we don't know much about Ross in RDR2 so we can't really say for certain.

Gay because Ross literally killed Marston to avenge Milton

@ẞosßic

Milton didn't even exist when RDR1 was made.

Definitely not to avenge Milton for so many reasons. He was just doing his job to get paid