#ARFUR

[freyjaofredemption]

Ngl, women who are fans of Red Dead Redemption 2 scare me so much. Like, wtf do you mean you only ride female horses in game, so you can listen to Arthur say, “Yeah, that’s a good girl,” and “Easy girl, you’re okay,”? What do you mean you compiled a list of those audios?? WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THE AUDIOS?!? WHY DO YOU HAVE ARTHUR MORGAN ASMR?!?

[veilkeeper]

Arfur Gregorio: Whatever you think you know, I'm sure some gold would help you to forget. Roz: If I were after gold, I would have gutted you and taken it. Arfur Gregorio: Please don't! What do you want from me? It's not my fault - I was forced to do this. Framed, even! They would've killed me if I refused to rig the toys - and they're definitely going to kill me now! Roz: 'They'? Who's this 'they'? Arfur Gregorio: I can't tell you. I won't tell you. Roz: [INTIMIDATION] Tell me who 'they' are or you'll be dead before they even get to you. Arfur Gregorio: All right, all right - just don't hurt me!

now THIS is some CLASSIC roz!!! im almost nostalgic.

[arthurs-vaccine]

Thought I'd elaborate on the tags from my previous post, so here's some things about Arthur's tuberculosis. There's some confusion sometimes about how Arthur's TB didn't spread to the rest of the gang, and since all things vaccines and medical care are my thing, I thought I'd break it down.

Firstly, there's different types of tuberculosis.

Thomas Downes had very aggressive tuberculosis, and likely didn't have much time left whether Arthur had beat him or not. Arthur caught the illness from Thomas spitting blood in Arthur's face, near his mouth.

Now, "active" tuberculosis (pulmonary and extrapulmonary) can spread very quickly and can make you ill very quickly, but there's also something called Latent Tuberculosis (LTBI). This form of tuberculosis is spread through a different strain of bacteria compared to active tuberculosis, meaning that the illness can stay in you for a very long time without displaying any symptoms. You cannot spread it unless you give someone the bacteria through specific means, like Thomas Downes' spitting blood in Arthur's mouth.

Secondly, people who have latent tuberculosis are infected with the TB bacteria, not the TB disease.

The latent tuberculosis bacteria essentially "sleeps" in your body until it's either woken up, or you're on medication that keeps it "asleep". You can live a regular life with latent tuberculosis for the most part, and in Arthur's case, he did for a little while. He didn't show many symptoms until the later chapters.

But the thing is, latent tuberculosis can very easily become active tuberculosis.

Things like stress, lack of self care, poor living conditions, and Arthur's lifestyle in general, did not help Arthur's illness. I'd argue and say that Guarma was the point that Arthur's tuberculosis really became active, the whole situation with what happened on that island was enough to set it off irreversibly.

So there's a chance that if Guarma never happened, then Arthur may have had a little more time. But that's just me.

The depth of how not only Arthur changed, but his illness changing with him, physically aches me.

[cutemothman]

RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2

Ambarino, Grizzlies West

[adelphenium]

Hi!!! I just wanted to say how much I love the pawkey series and was wondering if you could draw attack dog (or wolf 🤔) Arber Xhekaj! Sorry, I really can't come up with a canine related pun... word play isn't my strong suit 😅

As always I love love every single one of your drawings and if you don't feel like doing this no stress! 🩷

ooh, how 'bout arfur xhekaj! guard dog who's always ready 2 rumble :)⚡

[kingsmoot]

the amount ramsay and arthur would despise each other is so comical to me. art would hate him so bad he’s like EW IM NOT LIKE THAT THING. rams (actually homosexual) would see art (straight) and be like [hands cupped around mouth] gayyyyy

GENUINELY TREASURE THE MEMORY OF WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THIS ON DISCORD AND YOU SAID ART WOULD BE LIKE "ewwwwwwwww-UH" THAT SPECIFIC VALLEY GIRL PRONOUNCIATION HAS STUCK WITH ME SOOOOO DEEPLY BC YOU KNOW HE PICKED IT UP FROM ASH. EWWWWWWWWW-UH, INDEED. LIKE, EXACTLY.

[inky-does-art]

For full spice you gotta visit my twt

[kiwipineappleparasol]

Since it's been one month, here's my full pieces for the @paper-mario-zine !

[freyjaofredemption]

GUYS, PLS, I CAN SAVE HIM, GUYS, PLS!!!! HEAR ME OUT!! JUST GET ME A TIME MACHINE AND ILL DO IT!

[blackjackkent]

There are two major questions regarding taking Rakha through Rivington. The first is what order to do things; based on my previous banter posts, the group's immediate top priority is seeing what's going on with the refugees.

The second, more important question is how I convince her to visit the circus, which I don't have an answer for yet. :P I think it will probably have something to do with Wyll saying he liked Dribbles when he was a kid. But we'll worry about that later.

For now, we'll start off with the refugees, because Wyll and Minthara have both, for different reasons, expressed concern about them not being let into the city. (And Lae'zel approved of them helping Yenna, and realistically Jaheira must have expressed approval for all of this too even though the game didn't have her do so.) All of which is good reason for Rakha to consider it a priority, given how often she follows their examples.

Upon walking into Rivington proper, she's presented with an immediate first chance to get involved in the refugee crisis, as represented by a merchant in fine clothes arguing with a man who looks like he hasn't slept or had a bath in a week.

"The place was empty!" the man yelps defensively as Rakha approaches. "Keep those thugs away from my family!"

"Zenovia!" the merchant wails petulantly. "Get these squatters out of my house - now."

The woman at his side - Zenovia - is dressed in fairly well-kept armor and has a sword on her back; Rakha's attention immediately homes in on her, disregarding the two men in favor of this woman as the only threat in the immediate vicinity.

"Arfur, sweetheart," the woman says, with a slow, nasty smile, "you paid me and my boys to be caravan guards, not cattle wranglers. If you want us to get our hands dirty, it'd be our pleasure - but that'll be extra."

She has a casual unpleasantness about her that strikes Rakha as familiar but takes her a moment to place, until she remembers Aradin, the mercenary at the Grove who abandoned Halsin to the goblin camp. The one who called Rakha half-breed.

This woman is like him, then. Another merc, then. Rakha, as a result, dislikes her immediately.

"What's going on?"(*) she asks curtly.

"I just want to remove these unlawful interlopers from my property!" the merchant - Arfur - says stridently. He seems mildly unnerved by the strange shadow-touched half-orc staring him down, but not enough to undermine his concern for his material goods.

(A/N: Literally none of the available responses here are particularly Rakha-ish, but the Dark Urge-specific one is funny, so we'll go with that.)

Rakha looks at him with an air of mild perplexity and cocks her head slowly to one side like a dog solving a puzzle. "None of this would have happened," she says, serious as a funeral, "if you had a butler manning the house."

No one seems to know what to say to this - except Wyll, who (as the only one who heard Rakha's full, chaotic explanation of Sceleritas the night she almost lost control) is able to clock this as the rare instance of Rakha (deeply unsure of what to do) making a joke. He chuckles low in his throat, and sees her mouth tug up almost imperceptibly in satisfaction.

Arfur, meanwhile, just has no idea what she's talking about. He stares at her for a long moment, then presses on as if she hadn't said anything.

"Look - I have some very valuable components in there," he whines. "I need to get that lot out before they damage something."

Rakha doesn't deeply care about this man or his house. She doesn't really care instinctively about the refugees either, but she knows Wyll does. And she doesn't like his merc companion. By all this logic, she already was sided against Arfur. But she isn't sure of the correct way out of this situation.

Certainly not what the beast in her head wants, which is to kill the lot of them and take the house for herself.

"Mind if I take a look?" she asks tightly. Perhaps she can retrieve the "components" Arfur mentions and get him to go away.

If she expected a good response, she doesn't get it. Arfur straightens up indignantly and wails, "Who do you think you are?! Zenovia - people are lining up to break into my property! Do something about it!"

The mercenary's lips curl again in that nasty grin. "You paid us to protect you and your high-quality merchandise on the road," she drawls. "And we've since arrived at our destination. As I said, anything else is extra."

Arfur scowls, patting his pockets and pulling out a handful of gold. "Ugh," he mutters. "This is the last time I hire someone from the Guild. Fine. Here's the extra. Finish. The. Job." He turns and stares at Rakha balefully. "Now please show this meddler some of that famous Rivington hospitality."

Rakha is still in the process of determining what this means when an arrow goes whistling past her ear and lodges in the wood wall behind her. Immediately her vision goes white and fire flares around her hands as the urge into violence, thus pushed, takes over everything else.

It never ends, she manages to think bitterly. As before, so now. Even when I try to follow a better path. The beast still ends up with what it wants in the end.

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(*) Full line in game: "Calm down and tell me what's going on." Adjusted to be more Rakha-ish.

[arthurs-vaccine]

Is there a reason why Arthur's eyes are so red from the TB? Is that part of the insomnia or just general bodily deterioration?

Great question! The eyes are my favourite detail on Arthur during his illness, and there's lots of reasons for why they're like that in the first place.

The biggest one is inflammation. When your immune system is under stress, it can cause inflammation that affects the blood vessels all over your body, but it's much more noticeable in the eyes when the vessels rupture. Coughing fits especially can trigger blood vessels rupturing too. That's one of the reasons why Arthur's eyes look so bloodshot, but you're right about the insomnia!

Arthur's chronic fatigue and his lack of actual restful sleep puts a lot strain on his eyes, making them red and hazy like that during his exhaustion, but I think the second biggest factor is definitely to do with his lack of appetite.

By not getting the nutrients he needs, he was definitely deficient in all kinds of important vitamins and minerals. Being deficient in vitamins A and C can especially cause dryness in the eyes, making them red and irritated and bloodshot. There's also a specific variant of TB that affects the eyes! (Ocular tuberculosis) But I don't believe Arthur's TB ever fully spread to his eyes because his vision seemed pretty good for the most part.

So yes, his eyes are definitely like that because of his fatigue and stress, but also from how his body is struggling to cope with the illness.

Thanks for the question!

[weeny-mcbitch]

This somehow makes perfect sense but also no sense at the same time and I'm all for it

Arthur is pink,, he is the colour pink sorry this isn’t a headcanon this is fact thanku for listening

[forget-me-maybe]

playing bg3 with my sister and i swear she gets zero game mechanics (she hands the laptop to me when there’s a battle) and almost none of the lore (she just doesn’t listen at convos at all). BUT she’s highly invested in getting married to gale which is why she’s playing the game at all

[synthsays]

OH MY GOSH I AM ACTUALLY TWEAKING OVER RED DEAD RN

[kingsmoot]

being dead for fourteen years at this point is the only thing that clears arfur of suspicion

[weeny-mcbitch]

Ok good bc he needs it

I haven’t talked about Arthur in a few days but dw I’m still thinking about him