#luisa fortuna

[elesketchii]

finished rdr1 And undead nightmare im in shambles

[canesact]

red dead redemption. quick drawings

[ynnu-64]

¡Viva la México!

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

One thing I’ve grown to appreciate about the “Red Dead Redemption” series now that I’m older is that you can tell Rockstar approached this project as an anti-western. It lures you in with the promise of Wild West, yeehaw goodness, but when you actually play the games, you get hit with the brutal reality of this world.

Examples of what I mean:

1) The Mexican Revolution arc isn’t romanticized. At first, you think it’s a simple tale of the evil fascist government fighting against the heroic rebellion. But then you meet the rebel leader and he turns out to be just as bad as the government. It’s a true “both sides are in the wrong” situation and, unfortunately, the ones who truly suffer are the peasants (such as Luisa Fortuna).

2) Frontier life isn’t just shooting and action. It was also watching over animals, building farms and ranches, and trading with towns. The games really make you feel the monotony of doing chores and yard work, especially when John was in his Jim Milton phase.

3) Outlaw life isn’t romanticized either. Although you start off as a happy family, it eventually devolved into backstabbing, despair, and self-destruction. Even before then, your group aren’t the greatest of people, especially with the whole robbing people at gunpoint and shooting up towns.

4) Good guys don’t always get a happy ending. Also, every action has a consequence. John Marston had to learn that the hard way.

5) The racism. I feel like a lot of Western-themed media tries to skirt around this issue, or even avoid the topic (such as the 2016 remake of Magnificent Seven, which had a diverse group of fighters). Red Dead doesn’t pull back its punches. You have the Ivy League professor who treated Native Americans as subjects for his racist research. Abraham Reyes straight up calls Chinese people an inferior race. Then there’s the Blackwater short film playfully talking about the massacre of Native American tribes.

6) Along the same lines as point 5, the sexism. For example, there was the propaganda short film about opposing the women’s suffrage movement. And, of course, Sadie Adler not wanting to be relegated to cooking for the group since she can shoot.

7) This is more for RDR2. You actually have to pay attention to the maintenance of the horses and the guns. I’ve never seen this in a Wild West movie/TV show, and yet it’s integral to someone whose life revolves around horseback riding and shooting people!

8) Not skirting around the issue of disease, especially when healthcare wasn’t as advanced as it is nowadays. You can see that especially with Arthur and Abigail.

[holyrosemary]

i've never seen this palettes trend with rdr2 so..

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I wanted the names of the shadows to not be so meaningless and to fit the characters as well, and most do have their meanings

[jjeanggrey]

¡Viva la México!

[renslo161605]

Luisa Fortuna

Javier Escuella

We need more Luisa art everyone hop to it please and thank you

I read somewhere that the dahlia was the national flower of mexico? Both quotes are about them and their relationship w Mexico so i thought it was fitting

I luv them

Heres the cut versions :))

Slightly inspired by this :

https://www.tumblr.com/ynnub4/727033013779709952/viva-la-m%C3%A9xico

GORGEOUS BTW

[f4ggydog]

I fucking love luisa john keeps trying to be a centrist and say shit like “I’m here for two men that’s all I’m not taking sides” and then luisa GAGS him with the “by not making a choice, you’re making a choice.” EXACTLY EXACTLY EXACTLY. EXACTLY. EXACTLY.

[senirr]

I miss Nuevo Paraíso

[chlomills]

Marston men making their wives panic abt how they hold their children since forever

[arthurmorganapologist]

they will never make me hate you mary linton, arthur morgan, sadie adler, john marston, molly oshea, abigail roberts, karen jones, marybeth gaskill, tilly jackson, bonnie macfarlane, and luisa fortuna

[rdrshitsthatsomeoneaskedfor]

Your MBTI your character pt2

[fintacowgirl]

I have no clue if you covered this on one of your blogs but who is your favorite rdr2 character and why? (Other than Arthur since he's a common choice)

helloo thank you for the ask !!

honestly i think it’s probably javier. for a character with such a deep backstory, he has such little screentime and it breaks my heart. he is a vital part of camp and i think he’s one of the few with serious morals. i think rockstar did him so wrong in barely including him in the missions and stuff… and i dont want to talk about what they turned him into in rdr1 !!! im mourning.

anyways, other characters i like are luisa from rdr1, but i haven’t played it yet so im not super familiar with her character, and also mary ! i think she’s very hated by the community because of her story with arthur, but if you look at both sides of it, it’s clear that the reason they didn’t work out is not lack of love or of will. unfortunately, she’s one of those characters who gets picked on because she’s a woman.

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

I’ve written something like this before, but I wanted to write it again since I’m rewatching RDR1 on YouTube. The Mexico arc in the game is one of my favorite depictions of a political struggle, mainly because it doesn’t shy away from how complicated politics can be. I feel like a great deal of fiction tends to go for a more black-and-white, hero against the villain narrative. The empire is bad, the rebels are good, and so on. But RDR1 really went into depth on how politics can be so confusing and complicated in real life.

The game has a basic set-up: the government led by Colonel Allende is terrorizing the people, leading to a rebellion led by Abraham Reyes. Allende spreads propaganda about how evil Reyes is but the people believe that Reyes is their savior. At this point, the game could’ve just done the simple route of making Reyes the clear-cut good guy and Allende the clear-cut bad guy. Instead, we’re forced to really ponder which side is worth supporting.

Obviously, Allende is evil and does need to be taken down. But Reyes is revealed to be just as bad as him. For example, he is casually revealed to be bigoted towards Chinese immigrants. Luisa says that Allende abuses women, but Reyes also sees women as disposable and would probably continue Allende’s abusive practices if he was in power.

But the biggest point that I give Rockstar credit for is that they created bad guys who had a legitimately good point about the rebels who we’re supposed to root for. Although it’s easy to sympathize with the rebels wanting to take the government down, the government is justified in claiming the rebels were brainwashed into supporting an evil man. From the moment John Marston met Abraham Reyes, he immediately realized that Reyes was exactly how Allende and De Santa described him as. He’s ignorant, moronic, power-hungry, and he views himself as being higher than the peasants despite presenting himself as a champion of the people. But no one else picked up on this! So, you really can’t argue against De Santa and Allende on this, especially since Reyes ends up becoming a tyrant in the future.

In going through this storyline again, I’ve also developed a new perspective on Luisa Fortuna. She was the one character who legitimately cared for the rights of the Mexican people and was fighting to end tyranny. But knowing how obviously terrible Abraham Reyes is as a character (he even gets Luisa’s name wrong right in front of her), it’s hard not to see Luisa as anything but an incredibly naive woman who got manipulated by an idiot. She isn’t really that much different from how devoted De Santa was to Allende’s regime. They were both passionate to their respective causes, but their passion blinded them to how awful their leaders were.

And then to have the storyline end with the message that the cycle of oppression will repeat but with Abraham Reyes in charge? Incredibly dark, but fitting for the story.

Go play RDR1 if you haven’t done so already. This was only one act out of a total of three acts in the story. And all the acts are strongly written in their own way.

[ultra-heyitsme]

Female RDR characters sexual orientation hc.

(DONT TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY, IT'S JUST A HEADCANON!)

Bi but lean towards to men: Sadie, Abigail, Karen.

Pansexual: Mary-Beth, Tilly, Bonnie.

Lesbian: Molly, Mary (late awakening.)

Luisa is an ally but idk about Grimshaw.

molly and mary after releasing why their relationships with men never work:

[saintemarvel]

Must a savior die?