u/Impressive_Tour7196

We are gods with bleeding hearts.

We split atoms. We write code that thinks.

We build empires out of sand and sorrow.

But we can't hold ourselves together.

We mastered the world - but not ourselves.

We tamed the wild.

Mapped the stars.

Built machines that don't feel pain.

But we still cry in bedrooms

and break under the weight of our own thoughts.

We create meaning, and then let it kill us.

We invented God to feel less alone.

Then we turned Him into law, into war, into shame.

We called it perfection.

And bled ourselves trying to reach it.

But perfection was a lie.

A story told by scared men who

needed the sky to love them back.

Nothing is perfect.

Not the world. Not God. Not us.

And maybe that's beautiful.

Because if God is human and we are broken

God Is Human.

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We are gods with bleeding hearts.

We split atoms. We write code that thinks.

We build empires out of sand and sorrow.

But we can't hold ourselves together.

We mastered the world - but not ourselves.

We tamed the wild.

Mapped the stars.

Built machines that don't feel pain.

But we still cry in bedrooms

and break under the weight of our own thoughts.

We create meaning, and then let it kill us.

We invented God to feel less alone.

Then we turned Him into law, into war, into shame.

We called it perfection.

And bled ourselves trying to reach it.

But perfection was a lie.

A story told by scared men who

needed the sky to love them back.

Nothing is perfect.

Not the world. Not God. Not us.

And maybe that's beautiful.

Because if God is human and we are broken

God Is Human.

If we ever get a Red Dead Redemption 3, and it’s another prequel which takes place with the Van Der Linde Gang. My money is on Mac Callender being the protagonist-

Some notes I have gathered about him from the game-

There is a conversation with Bill Williamson where he say’s Mac Callander died a good man. 

He and his brother died in the Blackwater heist. 

Mac was shot up and Agent Milton finished him off.

According to Charles, both of the brothers were ruthless and violent. 

Uncle can also be heard telling a story of how he once saw Mac single-handed beat 15 sailors.

My idea for the story? I can see Mac being this outlaw who only values him and his brother, and as the gang gets more recognition and being hunted by the government, I can see Mac turning towards the Pinkertons and telling them about a big heist that would take place soon “The Blackwater Massacre“. But by near the end, Mac warms up to the gang and grows to like them, but he’s already alerted the Pinkertons. So his “redemption” would be saving his “family”.

With Mac being a rat, but also knowing what will happen and changing sides.. that’s why it was such a massacre.