"The mystery of who Gavin is, whether he can be found, and why Nigel is searching for him has been one of the most popular enigmas in a game chock-full of them. And all these years later, one of Rockstar Games' co-founders finally spilled the beans on why this puzzling NPC was dangled in front of the player at all. Spoiler: We may have all been duped."
""We didn't want it to be a totally clear mystery," Houser explained. "You wanted it to have a little bit of adventure to it. But it was meant to be, without ever being explained, that Gavin's not there anymore. Gavin's either gone home, Gavin's left him, and we were going to keep exploring that idea that he was going to reappear in some way or another.""
Nigel appears across Red Dead Redemption 2, repeatedly calling for his missing friend Gavin and creating a persistent in-game mystery. Players proposed multiple theories, including split personality, Gavin's death, an unsolvable red herring, or a connection to the Strange Man NPC. A Rockstar co-founder confirmed that the character was deliberately ambiguous and contained an element of trolling, with the intention that Gavin was not present and could be interpreted as gone or having left. The design kept the mystery open while implying absence, and left room for the idea of a possible reappearance.
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