#john “jack” marston jr

[marstonsboy]

on the topic of that time sixteen-year-old jack marston got mauled by a grizzly bear: he definitely retained some scars from that, right? when john finds him, he’s covered in a decent amount of blood, and he has visible scratches on his face.

his character model doesn’t reflect that he almost died to a full grown bear after the event. maybe rockstar didn’t know how to do this in 2010, i don’t know, but i always assumed he got some nasty scars from it. because, i reiterate, he was a scrawny sixteen-year-old that almost died to a Massive Grizzly Bear.

plus, with the fact that he almost definitely would have died right there if not for the plot armor of being haunted by the narrative (doomed to become the playable character in the de facto epilogue), i have to imagine there’s no way he walked out of that alive without any very obvious signs of injury.

this would also lend to the fact that he can get very easily mistaken for john multiple times by strangers. there’s this one stranger who tells him “you look younger,” as if the only obvious discrepancy here is jack being about twenty years younger than john, not the absence of those vicious scars he got from the wolves.

something something cinematic parallels. i don’t know. this is just something that bugs me a lot in the back of my mind.

[burnedsolongg]

no, jack wouldn't join ww1. it honestly pisses me off that people think he would join the army when he wouldn't

[iicaru2]

i caved embarrassingly fast and made a side blog just for jack marston. if my deranged rambling about him interests and/or entertains you, there is now a spot where i plan to do so Exclusively, and at marginally more insane word counts than before. it barely exists and i’m already twitching at the idea of yelling about how sad he makes me, so expect further silliness to follow

[marstonsboy]

do you think that even with all the anger and grief haunting him every day, a part of him would be resigned at the fact that even after his death, he’s still doomed to live the rest of his life in his father’s shadow? that maybe all he’ll ever be is a diminutive, a poor copy of what came before?

since jack's real name is john [there's proof in rdr1], do you think in 1914 if anyone ever found out and called him by his real name instead of the name he had gone by his whole life he would either just start breaking down sobbing thinking about what happened to his dad just 3 years earlier or he would instead show all the emotions he's had pent up for all those years [even after killing agent ross] through aggression and violence and end up shutting himself out for days to even a month or two

[flo-zoinks]

jack turning more angry and more abrasive in 1914 honestly breaks my heart

I KNOWWW💔

Seeing him continue that cycle from his father / gang, becoming what everyone tried hard to not make him, seeing him lose hope slowly BREAKS ME

[aplan-and-astorm]

I just did a synopsis with @thisisntmybedroom

The Marston’s waist game is CRAZY

[lavander-lament]

My heart breaks for fictional men.

[omgwhatchloe]

seeing theories of jack marston joining ww1 makes me giggle because. i promise you, if anyone from the government tries to tell jack marston what he is and isn’t doing, they are getting shot.

in fact, they’re getting lassoed and dragged on the back on his horse.

[dazednstoned]

idk if you’ve talked about this already but what do you think the name of John and Abigail’s daughter was?

Ironically, at some point I was gonna ask this as a general question bc it's something I'll have to include in my fic later on.

Susanna seems to be a relatively popular hc. It's after the song John sings in the epilogue and also the name of John and Abigail Adams' (who all the marstons names are inspired by) deceased daughter. I like this one, but I'm pretty sure there are already fics out there that use it so I don't wanna copy that.

There are some Arthur related ones, but I really dislike those. I don't think John, who can't even talk ab Arthur, would name his daughter something like Morgan or Artis. I like to think Abigail gave her the middle name Beatrice to honor Arthur indirectly though.

Sorry I didn't really answer ur question lol. But if anyone has any hcs for the marston daughters name I could use in my fic PLEASE lmk bc I can't think of any.

[marstonsboy]

i talk a bunch about the similarities between john and jack, so let’s yap about the similarities between abigail and jack instead for a second.

while jack no doubt resembles his father a staggering amount, to the point where he can be mistaken for him several times throughout red dead 1, i also think he has obvious traits he inherited from his mother that, while less obvious at first, become very apparent under further scrutiny.

like, for example, he has her freckles— that one is canon. i like to think he has her smile. the way he talks was probably heavily influenced by her, though he did learn a lot of his snark from john. maybe he makes an irritated face at his own reflection one day and gets startled because it’s the exact same face his momma would make whenever his pa got on her nerves.

maybe he meets the few surviving members of the van der linde gang and spooks them by looking so much like his father. then he’ll smile, or laugh, or roll his eyes, and his resemblance to abigail will be immediately undeniable.

i just think it’d be important for him, since he quite obviously felt inferior to john for a lot of his childhood. he’s undoubtedly john’s son, but he’s also abigail’s, and that much is obvious to anyone who knew his parents.

[burnedsolongg]

it's sad how jack had to write '' always in OUR hearts '' on abigail's grave . who's our ? nobody . it's just him .

[flo-zoinks]

JACK MARSTON AS MITSKI LYRICS

Is this too niche

Who should I do next

[evercornelias]

IF YOUR NAME IS JOHN MARSTON I LOVE YOU

[nthspecialll]

Since Jack's real name is John Marston Jr, do you guys think that when Abigail yells through Beechers Hope "JOHN MARSTON!" that there is a split second where both John and Jack freeze up to see if she will add a "JR!"?

Jack hopes she doesn't, John hopes she does.

[lavander-lament]

The first thing I did after beating rdr1 as John and moving on to Jack was, go back into the house and look around, not seeing Abigail in the kitchen stirring her pot which now sits untouched on the stove shattered my heart, seeing uncles room empty made me sad, then I went into John’s room and looked around, it was so quiet, so empty, I wanted jack to just lay on his parents bed and mourn, to grieve properly, but he couldn’t, I wonder how many nights jack sat on the couch waiting and wishing his mama would walk out of the kitchen and scold him for bringing his muddy boots into the house, how sad jack must have been when the farm became uncared for.

[verdemoun]

y'all ever think abigail exclusively calls jack 'jack' when his name is john marston jr because she regretted naming him after his father when john was such a pos for so much of jack's life