daikon-dishes

[daikon-dishes]

Miss Anyaaaaaaa is here YAAAAAAAAAAY

[daikon-dishes]

Can we talk about how gentle and soft Charles voice is??

Like, even when he's angry his voice is soft like

I could literally fall asleep to just him talking to me about random stuff.

I love him man, I really need to write about him more.

[daikon-dishes]

can i req for a little crumb of low honor arthur x hyperfem reader. . . a little he's vile and horrible to everyone else except to the reader. . . ૮꒰ྀི∩´ ᵕ `∩꒱ྀིა

i got a little bit carried away while writing and still couldn't fit something romantic, but i hope you would enjoy your read anyway, dolly!

arthur morgan is a vile man, so you suppose, because that's what they call him all around the west, a quiet, scared whispers stuttered frantically under their noses, either some of those people encountered him themselves, or just seen the result of it, painted red over the face of some unlucky guy, made out by the hands of the big dog of van der linde gang, and you start to think all these stories are true.

in the camp, it's different, since you don't often leave the area out to stroll in the town, and for sure, don't go around for a missions, arthur flashes before your eyes here and there, when you pull your eyes up from some romance book held open in your hands, sitting in the circle of girls that read as well and giggle to each other, missing how you take a wide, curious glimpse aside.

studying arthur, from a distance, you trace every new cut he comes back into the camp with, bruised, bleeding knuckles, rough skin split open after what seems countless blows, thin cut over his bristled, rosy cheek, beading scarlet, must be stinging, but he has so many of them it's looks like he's a man made of steel, a horrible, violent man, but it's doesn't sticks together in your pretty head.

how he can be described as vile, if he keeps you a plate of breakfast when you miss waking up in the early morning hour, you've been up late lately, deep in your silly books, he called them like that once, voice low, hoarse with lingering grogginess and tobacco, and you thought it annoyed him, yet, arthur kept doing this almost every morning, should you miss the breakfast, decide to pass on the meal, or just don't feel hungry, he kept you a bite.

there was a glimpse of something softer inside of arthur, buried as deep as it can be, but sprouting out each time you encountered, turning so, you found out that he notices the way you dress up, how you try to get a new life to these worn out dresses, adding some cute frills, lace trim on the sleeves or collar, a bow to the back, perhaps, and the only thing he understands about it all, is that they look quite fancy, and he gets a little bit protective over them.

even over you, arthur doesn't let any person out of the camp touch you with their dirty hands, first wash, then hug, ain't no way anyone out of them would make your pretty dresses stained, those men need to learn some manners, after all, they also don't get to chuckle over the books you read, because he starts to linger at your side, barely listening to your shy, giddy babbles about the romance plot, busy glaring off those who try to stick in with their smart jokes.

in the end, instead of trying to gather as much information of his bad decisions as you can, you memorize each act of heart arthur does, in taking care of you, protecting, when micah get's too handsy, his tongue sharp and spitting venom, sharing, when you get too cold during nights in your tent, and he gives you some of his warmest furs, comforting, when these days, where you feel like a burden, come back, and he reassures you, gruff and awkward, that you're a delight to the eyes of everyone around you, and it's makes you giggle.

seems like arthur's not the type of a man people around suppose him to be, or, he's being nice and considerate only towards you, but it's doesn't really matter, since you don't look too deep into this, and he wouldn't tell you, happy to proceed on this new patch he embraced, alongside your charming self.

main masterlist. quidelines.

[daikon-dishes]

I’m sorry but I will truly never get over Ekko who lost his mentor and all his friends at a young age, then spent the rest of his childhood building a beautiful and strong community that helped get shimmer addicts off the streets and give them a new life that thrived off of trust, respect, and loyalty while slowly watching the girl he loves lose herself to her psyche and become an unhinged suicidal terrorist who he is unable to save despite repeated attempts at it. And THEN gets booted into an alternate reality where he learns he could have had EVERYTHING, the beautiful and thriving community, the education, his family, and the girl he loves and he heartbreakingly leaves it all behind because he knows he doesn’t belong there and he has to go back to save his people which he DOES multiple times at great risk despite knowing what overextending his z-drive could do only to end up completely alone in the end. The most selfless character in the entire series. That’s my boy savior.

[daikon-dishes]

Just saw a John x Arthur ship post. Horrified.

[daikon-dishes]

Sorry for grammar mistakes, English is not my first language but I heard from somewhere that Javier likes to see himself as a romantic and a poet despite being cynical(?) and vain while Arthur is a poet and a romantic even if he constantly sees himself as nothing more than an 'ugly bastard' and a sinner.

It made me wonder if Javier would even be happy if he ends up in a domestic and/or romantic life after the whole gang fell apart. Like if he was put in a similar situation to Mary and Arthur where someone he loves to death begs him to run away and leave, would he?

English ain't my first langauge either, so don't worry about that, and the quote about Javier comes from John in rdr1 while he is talking to Abraham I believe it is.

As for if Javier would like a domestic life, prehaps. The thing about Javier is that when the gang fell apart he too fell apart, he had to find a way to rebuild himself because the most important thing to him (his ideals, which were the same as Dutch's) turned out to be completely wrong. He started to shape a life around the law, because if he was wrong in crime he had to be right in lawfulness.

If someone had managed to love Javier while he was still forming his identity and been there while he shaped himself, he could very well have created his ideals around lawfulness not as the law itself but in creating a legal life with a potential partner.

Javier is also shown to be a big family man who misses his home and his family, who literally ran away from the country he had sworn to protect for them.

The only thing I would see him struggling with is the partners safety. He is under the protection of the Mexican army in rdr1, meaning old rivalies cannot get to him, he would not have that protection if he wasn't working with the Mexican army as a hitman. Because yes, prior to the van der linde gang he was a revolutionary who made enemies with the state, but he was also a bounty hunter who made enemies with likely high risk criminals. Safety of his family is always his first priority and if he cannot guardentee that, then he would not thrive as the worry would be too big.

[daikon-dishes]

Javier pointed his gun up... but he also didn't

I have always been on the "Javier pointed his gun up" team, especially because there is an interview with Javier's va saying he did point it up, however after seeing all of the "he actually didn't" I decided to look into it and they are right, there is a short moment you can see him pointing the gun at John and Arthur.

I absolutely hate tumblr for not allowing more vids in a post but at 00.24 is the scene and at 00.34 it is pointed out.

However what does this mean? We have two contradictions, one being the literal game, the other being a voice actor coming out and saying that he actively fought for Javier to point his gun up, we cannot dismiss either. They both has meaning, the fact that he pointed it up and he pointed it at Arthur and John has a meaning and it makes the scene so much more heart breaking.

I think this scene really shows Javier's emotional conflict, because this was not a "slow draw" as I have also seen people say, Javier's va literally states it isn't, this is hesitation, this is conflict, this is discomfort, he does not want to point that gun at John and Arthur but he does it in the end either way because he also does not want to betray Dutch.

(More thoughts under the cut but they are more in dept for the nerds like myself)

The thing with Javier is that he can see things are going wrong, but unlike John and Arthur he doesn't experience it first hand. The two others were left to die by Dutch several times each meanwhile Javier wasn't, while Arthur saw Dutch killing an old lady and going against his principals, Javier saw Dutch coming to rescue him when he needed it the most. Dutch went out of his way to save Javier, meanwhile, Arthur was left even when Dutch could have saved him with minimal effort in the factory.

Dutch gave Javier a job, clothing, food and a family, he gave him everything that he could have hoped for, this was the best-case scenario for Javier when he crossed the border. Javier owes everything to Dutch, it is natural he wants to stick with him because Javier was in a special situation and Dutch was one of a kind. Javier spoke no English, he was in his twenties, he was weak, he was starving, he had nothing. Arthur and John on the other hand, though they owe Dutch a lot, they could have made it even without him (at least if John had made it out the gallows). They were young, they spoke english, they were harsh, and any idiot with a dream could see they had potential, Javier did not have that. It is a the young, influential puppy vs the old, rusty backyard dog.

Still Javier never saw Dutch as family, not in the sense that John and Arthur did, Dutch was never a father to him, Dutch was an employer, so he doesn't get to see Dutch making less and less sense.

That being said, while Javier trusts Dutch, he also trusts his friends, he respects Arthur and John, he knows they are smart, he knows that they believe in Dutch, so he knows that if they are acting out then there is a reason, the problem is he doesn't see the reason as justifiable. But then again, it could very well be because he has no choice but to deem it unjustifiable.

John and Arthur were born in USA, it is their country, they have the right to be there and they have the privilege of being white strong males in the land of dreams, Javier does not, he is strong, he is male, but he is not white, he is a man of color and he is hated for it, we see so many times people throw slurs at him. With the gang broken, Javier is back at where he was when he first to USA. He would struggle being able yo find another gang in the states that would accept him, he wouldn't be able to make a living on his own and he does not want to go back to Mexico because he knows it would put his family at risk, that was the whole reason he fled in the first place.

He believes in Dutch because he has no other choice, because he has nowhere to go with the gang broken up. After it happens we can read that in 1907 he is holed up in a mountain, he is staying away from the area his family is from because he doesn't want to put them in danger, he is not thriving or living his life.

Javier never saw John as a traitor, he never did, he is also the only person on "Dutch's side" to defend John when he is being accused of being the traitor, except when it is to Arthur, then he is okay kind of accusing John because he can't let it show that he is desperate.

He never stopped caring for John or Arthur though, he tells Arthur to worry about his cough, indirectly to take care of himself, and in 1911 Javier is stalling, he does not want to harm John, something very visible when he chooses to jump out the window even though he had every chance at shooting John and get it over with, ensure his own survival, not to mention, he knew about John's daughter, meaning he has been watching John.

"Oh but he shouted at John and called Abigail all sorts of things." This is a broken man we are talking about, a man who has lost everything, a man who has no legacy, a man who has no real life, a man who saw the one person he believed turn crazy, a man who has just realized he is about to die, a man who has most likely wished for death for a long time but doesn't know what to feel now it is coming, you would be desperate too, you would shout over the mountains because there are no consequences, because you will be dead anyways.

[daikon-dishes]

an incomplete list of wild ass non-canon Charles Smith lore that @noshirdalal has dropped in 2024:

Charles’s dad (an alcoholic) talked him into stealing liquor from a store when he was about 13

Charles got caught by the store owner who dragged him into an alley and BEAT HIM NEAR TO DEATH with said liquor bottle, which is where his facial scars came from

Charles woke up from the beating at a RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL

after spending a year going through hell at the residential school (not just the staff but most of the other kids shunned him for being mixed) he escaped the school while killing several of the staff and BURNING THE SCHOOL DOWN

while at the school he found out his mom was probably taken to one and died there

he also began to suspect that his dad SOLD HER OUT TO THE SCHOOL FOR A REWARD

After escaping the school he tracked down his dad who admitted to selling out his mom AND HE SOLD OUT CHARLES TO THE STORE OWNER WHO NEARLY BEAT HIM TO DEATH

his dad wants to tell him the full story and gets Charles to agree to meet him at a saloon so he can ‘try to make it right’

at the saloon it turns out that his dad SOLD OUT CHARLES, AGAIN, TO BOUNTY HUNTERS

charles, who as a reminder is like 14 at this time and has already killed several people, KILLS THE BOUNTY HUNTERS

HE THEN KILLS HIS FATHER, WHO HE SAVED FOR LAST ON PURPOSE SO HIS DAD WOULD KNOW IT WASNT AN ACCIDENT

Charles spent the next decade or so living like a dog, stealing and robbing to survive because he’s already a wanted man as a CHILD

the first time he finds someone willing to treat him fairly and take him in it’s when he tries and fails to rob a more experienced outlaw

THAT OUTLAW WAS DUTCH FUCKING VAN DER LINDE

[daikon-dishes]

Read borrowed time parts 1 and 2 and I have two things to say. 1, it’s amazing omg I’m going insane (SOMEBODY SEDATE ME) and 2, a little rambly but in the town Tumbleweed, you can find Boaz being sold as one of the horses in the stables so this means Javier sold and abandoned his beloved horse while passing through the town (probably because it was small and getting old).

I imagine he was quite hurt doing it, yk? A man’s best friend in a life like that is probably his horse since they spend more time together more than any living being in their lives. It’s kind of sad thinking about Javier leaving his horse and severing off the last piece he had of the past in order to get away from it all but ended up dying at the hands of a man from said past anyway.

Thanks for reading, anon, I appreciate it!

When I did my 100% playthrough earlier this year, finding Boaz in Tumbleweed CRUSHED me. When writing part 2; I always imagined Javier wandering west after chapter 6, then reluctantly abandoning Boaz for a younger Steed for the lonesome journey back to Mexico.

And I agree 100%, leaving Boaz probably hurt more than the gang splitting. Ditching Boaz would be cutting the final tie to his former life, the only sense of belonging he had.

Javier is such a diverse character with his deep roots in loyalty, which ultimately leads him to his grave. (I’m not okay!)

Javier is my favorite character, and my favorite to write for. I’m glad you enjoyed it 💞

[daikon-dishes]

I constantly think about Arthur's quote, "I can barely speak English." because the same man is saying things like, "I must moderate my approach to wine." "Despite my best efforts to the contrary..." or "I have to insist." At times he can be poetic (threatening or not) in the way he says things too. For example, "Maybe when your mother's finished mourning your father, I'll keep her in black on your behalf." Or one of my favorites, "Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man can have."

Or how about when he finds that crashed airship along Little Creek River? He mentions Icarus, a Greek myth about a man who flew too close to the sun and the wax melted, causing Icarus to plunge into the sea and drown. At that time not everyone is learning and reading classical literature, you literally have to go out of your way and read that shit in a book. Sure Dutch and Hosea taught him to read, but what outlaw is teaching a teenager about Greek Mythology?

Arthur is smarter than he gives himself credit for. He's by no means stupid. He's self-aware and far more emotionally intelligent than he comes off as.

And it makes it a bit more tragic when you think of the potential Arthur might’ve had outside of being an outlaw.

[daikon-dishes]

Funny stories from set

Here are some funny stories from the making of red dead that I have heard in interviews, with links to the videos if I have been able to find them again, just click the text with the line under.

(25.40) Between the takes of Red Dead Redemption 2, Rob (John) worked construction and one day they were using a Skidloader and he got driven over. He had to reach up and bang on the side of the thing to alert the driver. He ended up with a broken foot and couldn't work for eight months. One of the scenes that someone else ended up doing for him was Rip Van Winkle.

(31.22) The interaction where Charles throws Micah was orignally Charles throwing Bill and was the first thing that Noshir (Charles) filmed on set. With a mo-cap suit follows this big thing in front of the face that helps capture facial expressions (I think), and Noshir was like "I am going to wreck some shit" after being told that he wasn't allowed to turn his head to avoid his and Steve's (Bill) equipment crashing together and after being told over and over, they did it and the equipment indeed broke. So while standing in a T-pose after the set was done, he was just like "... I am so fired."

(6.45) Mick (Sean) and Roger (Arthur) actually knew one another before working on red dead together. Roger worked at a pub not far from the resturant that Mick worked at where they put plays on on the second floor and Roger would come and do readings. Roger auditioned for a part in a play around the beginning of rdr2, and he got the part however he had to cancel due to another bigger job he had gotten. And then Mick got the role of Sean and he figured it all out.

(36.40) Gabriel (Javier) started a rumor that the director was his dad, his stepdad. A lot of the new people on set would come up and be like "I feel like he doesn't like me" and Gabriel would be like "Oh don't worry that is just my dad, he likes you don't worry."

(41.30) Steve (Bill) and Ben (Dutch) would often stay in the same hotel when they were filming and they had this ritual called "Whiskey Hottop" where they would get in a hottop, pour themselves some whiskey and sit together. Sometimes Rob and Noshir would join as well.

(5.17) Rob and Ben knew one another as well from before the first red dead, as they both worked security at a bar called sky bar in Hollywood.

[daikon-dishes]

do you ever feel like jack's life was doomed to end up like his father's when john decided to go after Micah in american venom?

I think he was doomed from the start and I think that John doomed him.

In chapter four Dutch comments that family life is nothing for John, that it isn't him. In the epilouge Charles asks if family will ever be enough for John, if he can depart from the other life, and John's reply isn't exactly reassuring.

John doomed Jack by living the life he lived, as Charles said "we caused so much hell we are bound to get some back." Was Micah part of it? Possibly, but I think that the Pinkertons would have found him either way and I think that John would have found an excuse to go off in some way or another again. Jack in rdr1 comments on how John isn't actually present in his life, but keeps running off even between 1907 and 1911.

However Jack's thirst for revenge can very much be traced back to Micah. Jack watches as John leaves everything behind for revenge over Arthur, who was torn from John, so when John is torn from Jack, Jack leaves to get revenge for him. The only difference is that Jack at least waits so that his mother doesn't have to see it.

[daikon-dishes]

While Dutch's whole "they will just find the next monster, they have to, because they have to justify their wages" speech right before this death is absolutely fantastic, there is another part of that scene that is so important to Dutch's character yet I have never seen anyone talk about it.

"We can't always fight nature, John. We can't fight change. We can't fight gravity. We can't fight nothing. My whole life, all I ever did was fight."

All Dutch does is fight, it is all he has ever done and know, he doesn't know how to stop, but also there aren't always things to fight, which is a paradox because he can't fight nothing, so he finds things to fight even if it isn't his battle.

I think the biggest piece of evidence of this is this line:

"Marston: Then give up, Dutch.

Dutch: But I can't give up, neither. I can't fight my own nature. That's the paradox, John. You see?"

He cannot give up, because that would be fighting his own nature and his nature is to fight, and he cannot fight his own nature. But he also can't fight his own nature because that is giving up.

The name of the mission is also "And the truth will set you free," the truth that he needs to fight.

[daikon-dishes]

The fight with Tommy during Americans At Rest has always fascinated me. Seeing the way that Bill and Javier are just happy to watch tells us plenty about the kinds of fights that Arthur had likely gotten into over the years, but it's Charles' reactions that interests me.

He looks.. disappointed. Or at least unimpressed, maybe even shaken.

Charles' reactions are the more telling ones in the scene. Unlike Bill and Javier, who are caught up in the spectacle of the fight, Charles is more distant. He doesn't cheer Arthur on or encourage him, he just watches quietly.

It wasn't even Arthur that started the fight, but by god was he finishing it.

Charles didn't say much during the fight, or even after, he never brings it up again. Part of me thinks less that it was because he was horrified by the senseless violence, but more that he was just disappointed in Arthur for the way he handled it.

There's finishing a fight, and then there's what Arthur did to Tommy.

Needless punch after needless punch, beating that man until he was left permanently damaged after each hit. It wasn't about Tommy anymore, it was about Arthur letting the spirit of the fight get the better of him and doing more damage than he needed to amidst the chaos.

Arthur would have gladly killed Tommy, swing after swing until the man wasn't breathing anymore, and he probably would have if it wasn't for Mr Downes.

It's as if it wasn't just about the fight anymore, it was about Arthur’s internal conflict, his rage, and the frustration with his own life that just manifests in moments like these. It's a way of lashing out at something bigger than Tommy, something he doesn't know how to handle. Maybe his past, his regrets, or maybe just the man he’s become.

And Charles probably sees that. He sees Arthur as someone who is capable of more, someone who should know better, and someone who still has room to grow, even in the few months they've known eachother. But in that fight, Arthur isn't showing the restraint or self awareness that Charles values so much. It's almost like Charles is witnessing a man lost in himself, consumed by the very violence he’s been trying to avoid, and that's what brings out his disappointment.

The whole situation is one of the first few painful reminders that Arthur’s journey isn’t just about external struggles, but internal ones too. He’s not just fighting the world around him, but himself too.

In a way, Charles' disappointment could be a reflection of his hopes for Arthur. He sees Arthur as someone who is more than his role in the gang, more than the violence he’s trapped in, and when Arthur falls into that trap again, it’s not just a disappointment in his actions - it’s a reminder of the potential that’s being wasted.

It's a subtle but very significant difference in how Charles sees Arthur compared to the others in the gang, and it hurts.

[daikon-dishes]

Charles is half native and half african. He identifies more as a native american though. Probably due to having a better parental relationship with his mother than his father.

It's cool to see a character like this in a game

[daikon-dishes]

TW: blood//gore‼️‼️

ngl this story of his actually horrified me

[daikon-dishes]

burning text gif maker

heart locket gif maker

minecraft advancement maker

minecraft logo font text generator w/assorted textures and pride flags

windows error message maker (win1.0-win11)

FromSoftware image macro generator (elden ring Noun Verbed text)

image to 3d effect gif

vaporwave image generator

microsoft wordart maker (REALLY annoying to use on mobile)

you're welcome