#mary gillis

[daroamine]

cooking up a beautiful mary arthur right now. if you even Care

[drizzledrawings]

They’re so tragic oh my god they’re so doomed oh my god

[old-lemon-tree]

The only way to make gender swap is to keep the same names, swap the gender of every main character but not the one of their partners so everyone is queer let's gooooo

[jinaxxo]

my dear arthur...

[lambspng]

A ♡ M

Some close ups :3

It’s my first time colouring on procreate so idrk what I’m doing tbh :p

(don’t look too closely and don’t talk abt the lack of background I have no idea how to do them)

[dazednstoned]

Absolutely absurd that people give Arthur and John the benefit of the doubt by labeling them complex characters (which they are), but won't extend that grace to INCREDIBLY complex characters like Abigail, Molly, and Mary.

Abigail is strictly a nag, Molly is a rat, and Mary is a selfish woman who used Arthur. Meanwhile, John is seen as a deadbeat who grew from that into a family man. Arthur is a murderer, but he's also kind and generous.

Stop only extending grace to your male favs when the red dead women are just as complex as them.

[gnocchizgremlin]

Thinking again about young Arthur sending letters to Mary and sometimes adding littles drawings or gifts.

Like, I saw this ribbon in your favorite color so I thought of you and bought it. I saw this little cat looking like the one you had, so I drew it. I saw a beautiful bird today, I wanted you to see it too so i drew it. I got a new horse, until we see each other again have a drawing of him.

Idk, I like to imagine Arthur happy to finally share his sillies drawings and thoughts with someone.

[fshfish]

sketches

[arthursfuckinghat]

"Alright, let's go get that picture taken, if it means that much to you."

"It does.. today it does."

[inky125]

Mary Linton and Jack Marston meeting in 1922

Okay but these are just my headcanons for the very improbable scenario that they end up bumping into each other in the future. / My headcanons for what they would do with their lives after the events of rdr/rdr2

(I'm going to explain them under the cut)

Okay so, starting with Jack:

I want to believe Jack lived a more or less normal life after killing Ross, successfully getting away with this one (1) murder, and having that as a skeleton in his closet. Not finding peace really, so the whole revenge thing doesn't fix his miserable life but he can go on to try to do something with his life. Gunslinging doesn't really have a place anymore here.

When the US joined WWI I know that boy DID NOT join the US Army, he would NEVER join the group that killed his dad, or make the same mistake as him and make a deal with the government. He would rather be jailed for dodging the draft, what will they do, threaten him with what? He has nothing to live for really, so they can't make him. I don't think he cares much if he gets shot (he has a like saying as much in rdr when he duels Ross).

After the whole jail thing he'd go back to a more or less normal life, I'd guess he would have to have a regular job and write whenever he's able (I want to believe that one Easter egg in GTA is canon...it is to me...), but I don't think he'd be able to make a living just from writing.

As for Mary, I always wondered why Mary was dressed the way she was during the credits cut scene in Rdr2. Because I'm guessing it takes place in 1907 (given that most cut scenes appear to happen at the same time more or less than the epilogue). But I wondered why Mary was dressing in black; I mean, during the Victorian era there were very specific mourning traditions, especially for women. Wearing black was pretty much a part of a social thing, you'd publicly mourn. The extension of your mourning would depend on who died and what was your relationship with them.

And here is the thing, Arthur had died 8 years ago by then, we could assume Mary had found out shortly after of his dead because newspapers in the Rdr2 universe love to brag whenever law enforcement/Pinkertons kill renown outlaws. (Even Arthur and Hosea get mentioned years later in some sort of article in 1907 too). And additionally, we know that Mary kept up with how the gang, especially Arthur, was doing through the news on the newspapers. So again, it wouldn't be crazy to assume she knew about Arthur's death back in 1899.

So then, why is she wearing a black dress to visit his grave in 1907?. Black is the color of mourning, but as far as I am aware (and correct me if I'm wrong) it was not required to visit a grave back in the day. So I like to headcanon Mary mourning Arthur like a widow, because widows would have to wear their black weeds for 2 years (there were different periods of mourning, for instance Mary's clothes could be classified under the 'half-mourning' type, meaning there has been at least 6 months since her loved one passed away, meaning she could now wear some jewelry, other colours, ect.

But here is a little extra, Queen Victoria popularized among some women the practice to never abandon their period of half mourning, and especially, keep wearing black the rest of their lives even if they move on, as a sign of love for their dead husband.

Mary and Arthur never got married, but I like to think Mary lived as a widow for him. Continuing with her life as normal, of course, but always having that bittersweet ache in her heart, dressing in black out of respect and love for him and the life they couldn't have. Even if she had wanted to move on from him after she realized they couldn't be together as Arthur wouldn't leave the gang, I think she would have folded if Arthur had gone after her (I mean she did re-initiate contact after they were supposed to never speak again), and I think she was still preparing herself emotionally when she heard the news that Arthur was dead, ironically not moving on from him.

She didn't remarry, Jamie made good money and maintained her, Mary knew the kind of life she didn't want and she could be respectable and old as a widow. Plus marrying someone new at her age would be a titanic task.

I think Mary kept her mother's brooch Arthur returned for her as her reminder of him, given that she returned the picture and the ring. In fact she's wearing it when she visits Arthur's grave in-game!. So I kept that

It just warms my heart to think of the very few people left who knew about the gang finding each other in usual ways. Maybe next time I'd do Sadie or Charles. I'm just a sucker for this kind of things

[ranna-alga]

Lancelot and Guinevere ♡

Click for higher quality! Text is from "Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere" by Alfred Lord Tennyson whilst the pose is based on one of Joe Bowler's paintings. The original Arthurian story of Lancelot and Guinevere is so Marthur-coded to me </3 also if you cannot see what kind of flowers are behind the text, they're forget-me-nots, which were indeed an intentional choice given their symbolism of love, remembrance, and death in some interpretations

[queam]

Mary and Sadie

[brothermoth]

They loved each other so much, know how I can tell? Mary was the only person in Arthur’s life who expected more of him. She wanted him to get out of that cycle of violence and have something that could last. Arthur rolled over and accepted that the way he lived would end in his death. He valued his life too little, and she cared too much to watch him throw it away

[poem is “Seeing a Dog in the Rain” by Laura Gilpin, who you may know from her two headed calf poem]

[sapphic-outlaw]

Women named Mary sure know how to write a heartbreaking letter

[lambspng]

Their beautiful doomed fail marriage </3

Finally finished this hehe :0

[paulinardanne]

Oh Arthur…

Sometimes I think about the fictional outlaw… and how silent he actually was. Did ever saw someone just him and not the masks he wore?