#sad Morgan

[shblackwoodart]

idk why he's dying in a swamp don't ask me

[jinaxxo]

my dear arthur...

[ergman777]

still makes me cry everytime I see art of these two tho

[marf244]

Finally played and finished Red Dead 2, my heart is now broken so I drew some lads

[the-mother-of-lions]

— anaÏs nin

[heavenlymorals]

I feel like a lot of people forget that the Van Dir Linde gang was actually famous in their universe- Dutch Van Dir Linde was as famous as the real life Butch Cassidy. The gang had as much infamy as the Wild Bunch or the Dalton gang. Arthur Morgan, John Marston, Bill Williamson, Javier Esculla, Lenny Summers, Charles Smith, Sean McGuire and more were probably as famous as the real life Doc Holliday, Jesse James, Black Bart, Rufus Buck, Ike Clanton, the Sundance Kid, Wild Bill Hickock, and more.

Sadie Adler would've been just as famous. She was a gunslinger like the real life Calamity Jane and Anne Oakley and she was an outlaw at one point like Laura Bullion, Pearl Hart, Belle Star, The Cassidy Sisters, and more.

The other women of the camp would've probably been less popular but still very intriguing figures to people in the future.

In the newspapers, we see that there are songs about Dutch's boys and books too. Trelawny mentions them being on dime novels. In the future, the pieced together story of the Van Dir Linde gang might've gotten adapted into a movie, similar to "Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid" or "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". They could've gotten biopics, documentaries, and more.

Historians and fans of the wild West era would dig up records, find pictures, and maybe even track down people who were apart of the gang, accomplices to the gang, or victims of the gang. They would try to piece together stories to figure out the mystery of what actually happened to the gang.

People would argue over things that happened in the gang and have their evidence to back it up. Letters written by gang members would become so valuable. If they ever someone come across Arthur's journal, it would probably be considered one of the most valuable pieces of documentation to ever exist for that time period.

The guns of the gang would probably be kept in museums if found. Albert Mason's portrait of Arthur Morgan would be found in history books, same as other pictures.

Dutch would probably be a very controversial figure in history- some would hail him as a failed hero and others would condemn his violence no matter the reason- they wouldn't know what the people in the gang knew- especially in the end. Same with the rest of the gang members.

They'd probably all get romanticized. Hosea and Dutch's friendship, the raising of the boys, Dutch and Annabelle and his fued with Colm, Mary and Arthur, John and his family, Javier being a revolutionary- no one would know the full story.

And then there is Jack- he may live to see the 1960s and 70s and 80s. He may have grandchildren who'd pull him into a theater to watch a retelling of the gang that he was a part of at one point. He'd be amused. He'd think that the actor playing his father was too clean looking, too pretty. He'd think that the movie Arthur was too skinny. He'd think that the man playing Dutch had a funny voice as he tried to mimic the accent. He'd laugh and make notes in his head of the historical accuracy. He'd feel sorrowful at the deaths of the characters- he knew them at some point. And no one at the theater would know that the old man with the rowdy bright eyed boys who brought him there was Jack Marston, the last of the Van Dir Linde gang.

Jack might talk about it to the public. He might do interviews. He might even write a book about his father, the infamous John Marston. Those would be priceless. Even Beecher's Hope might be kept around and visited as a historical site for history goers.

And honestly? It is such a bittersweet thing.

[coconut-island]

Something about RDR2 John is so sad once you begin to play as him and you find all these people Arthur has helped. Not because they still remember Arthur and are sad because he’s gone, but because it’s sad to imagine that John is learning about his brother’s life for the first time in a way he’s never done before.

He’s meeting all these people and doing all these side missions left over from Arthur, learning that his brother had all these different and silly experiences outside of the gang that most of them never knew about. He reads about Arthur’s joys and sorrows in his journal and he probably regrets he wasn’t there to experience them with him and that is so sad to me.

[misthiosss]

Poor lonesome cowboy

[puppethistoryhive]

when im watching mbav and they start being mean to rory

[veniceflytrap]

“i will walk into hell gladly knowing i’ve held heaven in my hands.”

[lady-of-the-spirit]

me: i'm not gonna feel bad for tripp morgan.

episode 5: shows him in his suit ready to go to the state dinner after he was rejected over phone call

me: god damn it

[lucasoliko]

Happy Colter Arthur season for those who celebrate

[dilf-luvr-4evr]

Suddenly imagining Arthur going to the photo studio with you and overthinking 👎

He dreaded it sooooooo much, he said as he sits still and waits for you to finish with his tie.

The photographer helps him pose but he’s SOOOO stiff that you have to laugh but it makes him feel ugly and wanna leave so you don’t 😭 (he won’t actually, he is just whiny 🙄)

Whenever you go “stop it honey, you’re so handsome!!!” He goes all red, scoffing like it doesn’t impact him at all.

The final photo is of you giggling and him looking at you like you are his world :( <333 (because you are!)

You look at the picture the whole way home, almost crying from how much you love it and that he looks so handsome and it’s your official photo and it makes him smile.

Still. He will unfortunately fold it in half and keep only your face on his nightstand </3 he thinks he looks dumb…. (Delusional king)

It’s okay you can cut it in half and keep his side of the photo for yourself <333 now it looks like he is admiring you even in your sleep 🥰 and he could not argue with that <333333

[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.

[arthursfuckinghat]

The use of the journal in rdr1 is very different compared to rdr2, it's used more as a log of current missions/tasks in a brief form. There's no actual writing or drawing in it, just text, John cannot physically open the journal since it's simply an option you press to view from the start menu.

But from a story perspective, I see it as something pretty interesting.

Let's say that John was actually writing these brief and short sentences about his tasks, then it makes me think that maybe by 1911, he was running out of room to write in Arthur's journal.

As in, maybe there was only a handful or more pages left and he wanted to still use the journal, but still save as much room as he could. Maybe he saved paper by not drawing and doodling, by being more brief and to the point with what goes on in his day to day life, by making his writing smaller and taking longer to write to make sure he made no spelling mistakes, all little sacrifices to make sure that he could hold onto his brother's journal for just a bit longer.

So he could hold onto the memory of his brother for a bit longer.

[tylaseethal]

Vanessa Morgan as MAX MITCHELL in Wild Cards Season 2 ( Official Trailer )