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thegreatestshowfan · 2 years ago

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I finished @the-passenger-if this morning and first of all OH MY GOD IT'S SO GOOD I'M BEGGING EVERYONE TO GO PLAY. Second of all, I have some thoughts on how my Newman would respond to a certain phrase (which I will not say here for spoiler reasons). So here it is bc I'm back on my shit for The Passenger.

Nash hadn't been paying much attention to Roach as he blabbed on behind them. They had promised Johnny that they would drop Roach off at his place before heading home for the night. Things had gotten out of hand back at Luna Ridge and they wanted to let him rest easy knowing he didn't have anything else to worry about. They'd take care of Roach.

The pair hopped off the bike once they arrived and Roach turned to Nash. Though he had been talking their ear off the entire way, there was a sudden silence that fell over the two of them. This was the first time they had been alone together since everything happened, this was the first time either of them could really face the realities of what they did.

"Newman..." Roach started.

"Roach..." Nash responded.

"I'm....sorry."

They blinked at him.

"I shouldn't have sold you out to that... Thing..." he sighed. "You've changed and I should have changed to... I'd been holding onto that... Hatred? Grief? I don't know... and I just wanted some sort of vengeance for what you did."

"I ate your entire family. Not surprising you didn't get over it," Nash said.

"Family is such a human way of putting it," he laughed.

"But that's what they were to you, weren't they?"

"Right... Just... Sorry..."

"You don't need to be sorry," they said, leaning against their propped up bike. "I should be sorry."

Roach looked up at them with surprise and they averted their gaze. They had given him a brief apology back in the cabin but they felt they owed him more.

"Look, I made a super fucked up decision and I'm really sorry. I hurt you. Sure, that's kind of the way of our world but I still did it... And I still feel bad."

"You couldn't really help it you were just kinda... How'd Johnny put it?" he paused. "Ah! Space abomination!"

"Abomination..." that word stung, "yeah..."

Roach studied their face. Most of the time Nash was able to keep it blank. They were wildly successful at keeping things hidden but right now, under the bright moon of little St. George's, they seemed... Hurt? Ashamed? Both? He gulped and looked away, leaving both of them in silence yet again. Acting human, no, BEING human had changed both of them in ways they hadn't expected. Things from the old days, when they were still in their true form, they made sense to them still. The hunt was how things functioned and they were still able to remember that, know what it felt like to live in that world, but being human on the other hand let them feel things much greater than just that. Remorse, kindness, pain... Love.

"I... I didn't mean it like that," Roach mumbled. "That's not what I meant... You're not..."

"I am," they finished. "Part of me will always be that... that THING that ate your kind. I'll always be an... An-"

"Abomination."

"Right..."

Nash looked at Roach for a second. He was staring off at passing cars on the nearby road. He seemed to be thinking, reminiscing, something about that word seemed familiar to him.

"Humans tend to think in absolutes," he finally said. "If you're not all good, then you're all evil. Don't let yourself think like that Newman."

It was unspoken. He cared. They placed a hand on his shoulder, giving it a squeeze as if to say they knew. Those things were behind them now and from here on out they were going to move forward. They didn't have to say anything to know they forgave each other.

Nash threw their leg over their bike and shared one last look with Roach.

Neither of them were absolute. They were not good or evil, human or otherworldly.

Nash smiled a bit and sighed.

"There's one thing that's an absolute actually..." They said.

"And what is that?" he asked, rolling his eyes. Of course they had to have something to nit-pick him on.

"We're..." they trailed off.

He knew.

He raised his hand as they tried to speak again. A gesture to signal they didn't need to speak anything else. He knew.

They smiled and started their bike up, giving one last look to Roach before heading home. It wasn't a long drive, but they knew it would feel like forever with the way their body ached.

Roach made his way up to his place and looked out the window in the direction of Nash's house. He smiled.

Friends.

That's what they were and that's what they would always be. That was the one thing that was absolute.

#the passenger game #the passenger #the passenger if #newman #the passenger roach #fics

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callsign-coolsquirrel · 8 months ago

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Roaches first mission

that mission in brazil sucks so bad but the content is so worth it

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plushchimera · 2 years ago

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You shrug; saying it aloud does make it seem rather pointless.

#the passenger #the passenger spoilers #tp roach #my art #rene newman #the light is coming from the same place as music

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30diamondscene · 11 months ago

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#the passenger #the passenger if #erin newman #livvy newman #tp roach #tp fiama #my art #this is a little older and i didn‘t like how horizon looked + never drew jonny so that’s why they’re #not in this :(

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yon3arts · 2 years ago

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a little bit spicy Roach putting on a show just for you

Roach from @the-passenger-if

#the passenger #the passenger if #tp roach #pin up #artists on tumblr #digital art

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antisocialxconstruct · 2 years ago

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now it's morning you will look at..... the all of them.......

#the passenger #the passenger if #ever newman #a few assorted headcanons:#Ever's style is p basic but every outfit is put together w/ a totally needless level of intent so ppl tend to THINK of him as ~fashionable~#Roach hasn't been fashion-forward since the late 70s but they just radiate charisma and fuckability so no one notices #Livvy's wardrobe still has a lot of 80s flare bc it's all in good shape and she's just very 'I wear what I like' about it #Fiama likes to cuff her jeans high so the hems don't get gunky... she's gonna be on cloud 9 when capris come back in fashion #Jonny has definitely made fun of Ever for wearing docs that look like he literally just bought them that day #he's like 'so if they get scuffed do you just throw them out :/' and Ever flips him off #artbyrom

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axperjan · 2 years ago

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- What are you talking about? What’s after you? It doesn’t matter, they aren’t looking for me anymore.

#the passenger #the passenger if #Tamar Newman #art shenanigans #hsdfhgs hough... almost got stuck on a caption before remembering the most relevant bit of text #I gratefully stole Charlie's/antisocialxconstruct's Roach because it let me <3 and it's just a great take I couldn't do better #this is very iykyk but knowing the other variation was something like 'they don't exist anymore' makes this one SO juicy to me #also with her complete lack of subtlety fjhsdjs although I think Roach deserves to be even pettier what if humanity did nothing to #sand the edges of And Yet... things aren't going as planned >:/

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pearl-kite · 2 years ago

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I said I was gonna animate this and now I have, mostly to make up for the fact that I want to draw Roach again but also am entirely unmotivated to draw 😔

Meanwhile I have lost track of how many times I have played through @the-passenger-if for different folks and still can't be mean to them ;3;

#kirehn draws #the passenger if #the tumbl isn't strong enough for the original gif I made v_v #so this is pared down and not quite what I was hoping for but oh well #it lost some of the color to it too :/#does ps cs6 have a timeline for animating? cs5 is just frames and... just frames is a bit lacking #csp has a timeline but it limits the length of animations unless I shell out for the pro or whatever upgraded one #aaand I'm cheap and broke #anyway I've managed to keep roach at arm's length and that's literally the meanest I can be to them

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trashy-corvian · 2 years ago

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It's not a proper MonsterMay without some eldritch hotties~

Hey, @the-passenger-if how does our dear Jonny feel about some good old tentacle action?

#corvianart #the passenger #tp jonny #tp roach #miraz oc #monstermay2023

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purpletangerine37 · 3 months ago

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so uhhhh.. some fanart of @the-passenger-if ??😁😁

been playing this game a lot recently and had the urge to draw for once. we got my mc Reed 😊😊 and Livvy plus a lil roach!! will be drawing the rest of the ROs eventually but here’s this for now😋😋

#the overwhelming urge was finally overwhelming enough to take over #I love roach and their haircut in this #i wanted a like wolfcut type thing and I’d say it came out well #fav RO tho is fiama!!#but yeah this game is awesome and I love these characters #the passenger #the passenger if #tp livvy #tp roach #tp newman #fanart #art #wow art

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tempii · 2 years ago

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