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Little John, following his brother Arthur’s footsteps when it’s time to feed the horses! (click for larger version)

This is the image I used for my cards this year! It was based on a pencil drawing I posted about a year ago. Also trying out a different coloring style.

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I haven't been here for so long... during this time, I managed to change my style a lot

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Daily shoutout to him 🗣️‼️‼️

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i gave you all i had

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did john look for arthur?

What are yall's thoughts/headcannons on what John did after he left Arthur on that hill? How long do you think it took him to go back and look for Arthur, if he ever looked at all? Because at the time ofc his focus was to escape while protecting Abigail and Jack, and I'm assuming the area would be swarming with agents for awhile after, making it hard for him to look (cause hes not sneaky like charles).

But I like to think that even though he knew Arthur was sick and probably wouldn't make it, he still hoped his brother was able to slip away like he always had. That maybe Arthur giving him his hat and satchel wasn't a final goodbye, but a promise to come back and retrieve them later. I also like to think that he'd risk going into town and getting the newspaper to see if there was any word, or use Arthur's old binoculars to spy on the sheriff's "wanted" poster board from afar, to make sure his bounty wasn't taken down.

I imagine he held onto hope for a little while like this, maybe a few weeks, few months, maybe even the whole first year of Arthur being gone. Even if that hope was only an excuse not to mourn, or face the realization of his brother's death.

Maybe he made sure no one touched the things in Arthur's satchel for awhile, figuring it'd be rude to riffle through his things if he ever came back.

but he never did

Idk I feel like we never realize it bc our minds are usually elsewhere when chapter 6 ends (just like FULL ON sobbing) but 8 years is a MASSIVE canonical gap between John seeing Arthur for the last time and Charles confirming he indeed buried him- 8 YEARS FOR THIS KIND OF ANGST BABE

(also forgive the sketchiness, I did this on a trackpad bc I left my drawing tablet back in the states T-T)

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sleepy

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Arthur Morgan's self image

Arthur never had a good self image, which you can hear very well when he looks in the mirror and literally shit talks himself, so the one thing he built his entire character around it was looking intimidating, even if he had nothing else to him he knew that he could intimidate and that was also why he was brought along to work like Hosea's scheme with the Braithewaithes and Angelo Bronte's mansion, both of which required finesse but also a bit of fright, a show of power.

Dutch says it himself "the sight of you two would make a statue sing out its secrets," when discussing Charles and Arthur, so imagine how Arthur felt in chapter six when the foreman in the mining company told him "you couldn't kill anything, look at you all sick and weak." For a man who has built his entire personality about being dumb and strong imagine how it feels to be told by a regular guy who would normally cower at his feet that he looks weak.

The one thing Arthur had, now ripped away from him.

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Energy never dies, it just transforms

(some people believe that seeing a cardinal is sign or message from a deceased loved one, or that cardinals appear when angels or spirits are near)

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Achilles, come down.. but it's Dutch and Hosea.. and specifically these lines::

"The self is not so weightless, not whole and unbroken, remember the pact of our youth.

Where you go, I'm going.

So jump and I'm jumping,

Since there is no me without You."

This could either be the younger years of Dutch pulling Hosea out of his darker days hidden in alcohol and grievances. Or, Hosea talking to 1907 Dutch and that's.. that's all I am saying ......(correction:: an au where hosea lives ))

OK I lied.

"Loathe the way they light candles in Rome,

But love the sweet air of the votives.

Hurt and grieve but don't suffer alone,

engage with the pain as a motive."

Hosea reminding Dutch that living can be beautiful and life is beautiful, it's there, he just has to let himself feel it. Let himself experience as hosea had so many years ago when he'd chanced on a dark haired young man out in the sandy roads to California.

"And there may not be meaning, so find one and seize it, do not waste yourself on this roof.

Hear those bells ring deep in the soul,

Chiming away for a moment.

Feel your breath course frankly below,

And see life as a worthy opponent."

*sobs disgustingly about how that could be Hosea pleading silently for Dutch to listen, hear him, hear himself, and feel his beating heart that'll remind him of Hosea's. And how they felt together. As one. *

AND THE SEQUENCE WHERE THE TWO VOICES START DANCING BETWEEN... THE NEGATIVE ONE IS DUTCH'S MIND.. AND THE POSITIVE ONE IS HOSEA..... OK THAT'S ALL..

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WEST, WEST, WEST, WEST!

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Rdr2 warrior cats designs for Dutch and Hosea except I havnt decided on proper names for them yet

Closeups:

Vandermatthews doodle + Arthur n Hosea

I like cats andf cowboys

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Pspspspss Dutch *money noises*

[Dutch looks over slightly only for Hosea to cup the back of his head and pull him back in.]

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Arthur

Attempts to rizz up

“…Did somebody set y’all up??” [Arthur’s looking around.] “That’s like the 5th time tonight! I’m married!”

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Arthur you're not old, you're like 10 years younger than both of my parents

“Well, I definitely ain’t young. Not young enough to be foolin’ ‘round with any of you, anyways.”

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"Aw screw it, I don't know how to flirt so.."

*Shakes hips in circles while dressed in a peacock costume with big fake peacock feathers on the back in front of Arthur 🦚*

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“… I’m too old for this shit.”

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a silly series of John Marston Yells At. I started this a while back but only just got around to drawing the last one. I also drew these very quickly so they are very rough.