My idea heavily comes from a dlc to the walking dead, but I still think it’s good.
So basically you would get to play as a whole bunch of dead gang members, basically, when you get into the game, it zooms into a wall with 5 bounty posters.
The five bounty posters have Kieran, Sean, Hosea, Dutch, and Micah separately. Each one reads “Dead or alive”
All the posters are there and the player gets to choose a character to play as, for the character chosen, an animation will be shown that hints at their death.
A hand reaches out and tears away Kierans poster, leaving only his head hanging on the wall
Dutches poster will come off the wall and float down.
A gunshot rings out and a bullet hole appears through Seans head on his poster.
Uncle and Hosea basically have the same one, a bullet to the chest.
Kierans story:
The game starts with Kieran getting enlisted into the O’Driscoll gang and going to the mountains. You take out some rival gang members (not van der Linde) and you go to an outpost. Arthur and the gang show up and attack you, you can fire some shots and injure characters, but it ends in you running away on horseback. You get captured by Arthur and taken to camp where you are tied to a pole in a stable.
The game timeskips to horseshoe overlook where you are freed and you lead everyone to an o”Driscoll camp. You discreetly help take out some O’Driscolls and you are given the command to save Arthur, if you don’t, it’s a game over. You then go back to camp where it timeskips a day. You do chores at camp and can leave with supervision. For example, you can ask Lenny to leave the camp with you, they may reject but you also may get to leave. You also have honor and money mechanics, as well as random encounters. Your main chores at camp are cleaning horses and making sure they are fed. There are also missions Kieran has where something happens that Arthur doesn’t see.
After all these missions are complete, you go to Clemens point, basically with more missions about stuff Arthur doesn’t see. Same chores as well. However, when Jack is kidnapped, you and Micah stay at camp, when all of a sudden, the Braithwaites attack! You and Micah fend them off and you dispose of the bodies in the river.
After this, the battle of shady belle happens and you pass out, you wake up to see you were captured by the o’Driscolls.
Good honor ending:
Kieran refuses to tell them where the location is, he gets a knife in the gut, and eventually he dies. His corpse rides into shady belle, and Kierans story ends with the camera zooming in on his body, while the screen slowly turns white.
Bad honor ending:
Basically the same as good honor, but Kieran complies.
After one of these endings, you get taken back to the bounty posters, accept Kierans is gone, and any other posters are gone depending on which character you complete.
Man I am done typing right now, let me know if you want a part 2 and I will make more! Bye!