#thinking!!! (about jack marston)
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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.
#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#red dead redemption#rdr#arthur morgan#john marston#dutch van der linde#sean maguire#lenny summers#javier escuella#bill williamson#sadie adler#susan grimshaw#tilly jackson#karen jones#mary beth gaskill#abigail marston#mary linton#jack marston#history#wild west#story analysis#character analysis#i love thinking about this so much#it makes me both super happy and super sad.
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#if I think about jack marston for too long I feel unimaginable agony#I can’t believe that’s what happens to that sweet baby boy#red dead redemption#jack marston#fanart#digital art#my art
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One Jack and John Marston moment I think about pretty often, is how John was able to calm his son down from a near panic attack after they were ambushed near Strawberry in the epilogue.
Jack was freaking out, his thoughts going a million miles an hour, but John was able to distract him by talking about Beecher's Hope and soothe him by assuring that he did a good job back there.
And it worked, he calmed Jack down. Sure, Jack wasn't happy, but you cannot blame a twelve year old for that.
The reason I think about this moment is less because of how well they bonded there and then, but more because of the potential they had to really be close if it was always like that.
John and Jack had a complicated relationship from John being so absent in the boy's life, even in rdr1 they were still on rough terms because Jack resented John for leaving as he grew older.
It gets better, but then John dies.
John lost his chance to fix his relationship with his son properly, but they could have been so close if John put in the work sooner and had the same patience he did at the end.
Maybe it wouldn't have stopped Jack from becoming an outlaw, maybe it would have, but Jack could have had a father he wanted to make proud - instead of one he wanted to avenge.
#just thinking about them makes me 10x more sad than usual#jackie boy :(#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#rdr1#red dead redemption#jack marston#john marston#mick thinks#red dead redemption community#red dead redemption 2 spoilers
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funny and not so sketches with eagle flies and others <3
#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#eagle flies#Dutch Van Der Linde#jack marston#rains fall#tw eyestrain#don't repost please XDDDDDD#gonna cry every time I think about rains fall and eagle flies
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oh my god its jack marston
#rdr#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#red dead redemption#jack marston#IGNORE THE BOOK TITLE LMAO#jack marston reading about corporate finance is more real than you think /j
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my sad angry wet cat of a son forced to play dress up with his fathers clothes
#rdr? I think you mean Marston boys dress up game#do you guys think after John died he went through John's clothes and kept things? Things that uncle Arthur used to wear that John had?#guys listen.... Imagine Jack finding Arthurs shirt or neckerchief and going “My dad never wore this? huh... why is it so familiar?”#I have so many thoughts about Jack Marston he's so special to me#it's probably because he is painfully just like me fr but shhh#origins drawing... again#jack marston#rdr#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#red dead redemption
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The fact that John was the same age as Jack in the Epilogue when he was about to be hanged for his crimes.. (12 years old)
Yes, this is in fact what I’m thinking about
(I also think his efforts are overlooked because he struggles with creating a stable environment for Jack when his wasn’t always stable)
(Anyways, crying in the club over baby John crying in fear on the gallows in 1885)
#I always think about the fact that we know how mature Jack is in the epilogue#which really he isn’t very mature at all (as to be expected from a 12 year old)#but we all know that John and Jack are very similar based on Jack’s personality in the epilogue of RDR1#so we can assume that John was very similar in temperament as Jack is in 1907#so I can always imagine john (being Jack’s age) scared for his life on those gallows#it makes me emotional that’s it#red dead redemption#red dead redemption 2#rdr2#rdr2 fandom#john marston#jack marston
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I didn’t know you could do this (pls excuse the beard I didn’t get him to the barber)
#abigail roberts#ps5#ps5 games#rdr2#rdr2 community#gaming#red dead redemption two#john marston#arthur morgan#red dead fandom#nintendo#jack marston#rip van winkle#rdr2 charles#karen jones#rdr2 epilogue#mary beth gaskill#rdr2 fandom#thinking about them makes me want to cry
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Jack: looks exactly like John, to the point of being confused as him
Random person in the Fandom: ...but what if he's Javier's-
#john marston#jack marston#red dead redemption#red dead redemption 2#ik this has been joked about for years but it still cracks me up#believe what you wanna believe#but that boy looks just like his daddy lmao#its still funny to hear the theories tho lmao#i think about Rob's reaction every time i hear this theory and it makes me laugh-cry
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I love drawing RDR1 !!!!
#genuinely get ill thinking about the doomed cowboys#rdr1#rdr1 fanart#red dead fandom#red dead redemption fanart#red dead redemption community#rdr1 javier#rdr1 javier escuella#rdr1 john#rdr1 John marston#rdr bonnie macfarland#rdr1 Bonnie macfarland#rdr Landon ricketts#rdr1 Landon ricketts#rdr jack#rdr Jack marston#rdr1 jack#rdr1 jack marston#rdr dutch#rdr1 Dutch#rdr Dutch van Der Linde#rdr1 Dutch van Der linde#john marston#jack marston#bonnie macfarlane#Landon ricketts#javier escuella#dutch van der linde#stars art
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backlog of jack/dante doodles and art because I LOVE these guys
#charli.png#I LOVE OC/CANON!!!!!!!!!!!!!#dante#oc#rdoc#rdo#red dead online#red dead redemption 1#jack marston#i don't talk about them/jack a lot but literally i think about him and them every day.#it's just. they're just in my head man.#i gotta get them OUT#granted i have been art blocked as well drawing like. 3 out of 5 of these#unfortunately they are both hard as hell for me to draw sometimes RAHHHgh
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Can this community STOP making me literally SOB at random moments in the day?
Guys fr, I have shit to do😭😭😭
#I blame all of you beautiful people in this fandom#It's a fun cowboy game they siad#It's gonna be fine they said#rdr2#I can't think about characters in this game too long or I'm gonna cry#arthur morgan#van der linde gang#arthur morgan rdr2#john marston#red dead redemption 2#red dead redemption two#red dead redemption javier#red dead redemption memes#red dead fandom#red dead redemption community#red dead online#red dead redemption#dutch van der linde#rdr#rdr2 community#rdr2 fanart#rdr2 arthur#charles smith#red dead redemption fanart#rdr2 john#rdr john#rdr javier#javier escuella rdr2#javier escuella#jack marston
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You know, whenever I see the discussions around Jack Marston possibly getting drafted in world war one, I can't help but physically ache at the thought of it.
Jack Marston, born into a gang that honoured freedom above everything, forced to sacrifice everything he has left for war.
Jack Marston, a boy who read about knights and soldiers, now forced to become one in another fight he never asked for.
Jack Marston, raised to be away from a life of violence, but now the world has found a way to drag him back in.
No matter what happens, Jack would have to face a really tragic dilemma. Does he go to war and sacrifice the legacy of freedom he was raised with? The life his family died for? Or refuse and be labeled a criminal, putting his parents to shame and repeating the same cycle his father went through?
It just tragically mirrors the struggle he’s always had - trying to find his own identity outside the legacy of John Marston, and the violence that came with it. But he's being pulled back in, no matter what he chooses.
He was never made for the violence that shaped his parents' life.
#he's just a boy who loved books and animals and picking flowers and fishing he doesn't deserve to be a product of war again#it makes me cry thinking about it#he was a child full of joy and whimsy. then a young boy who preferred reading over hunting. then a young man who had just lost his parents#and he was all alone#and forced to make a choice that denies him his autonomy#watching jack lose his spark over the course of rdr2 and rdr1 as he grows up eats at me#and when people mistake him for his father in rdr1 I actually start sobbing#oh jack#i'm so sorry#mick squeaks#mick thinks#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#red dead redemption#rdr1#jack marston#john marston#abigail roberts#arthur morgan#red dead redemption community#red dead redemption 2 spoilers
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"jack became an outlaw" "jack joined the army" whatever I think jack went off and lived with Tilly and wrote books with Mary-beth and partied and got drunk with them and they were proper good aunties to him personally
#i just love them all and think tilly wouldve gotten the first train down when she heard about abigail#give jack a break pls#jack marston#rdr#rdr2#tilly jackson#mary beth gaskill
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i often think about how it had to have been jack who dug both john and uncle's graves. that he made their grave markers and maybe even made them simple coffins.
#my blog#jack marston#red dead redemption#rdr2#i don't particularly see them involved in the traditional communal funeral practices of the time#they didn't seem to have strong connections to the community and likely were othered#abigail probably chose john's epitaph which is from matthew 5:9#which is only a few lines away from arthur's#jack marston's complicated relationship with john and how he had to bury his father in such an intimate way#i think about the aftermath a lot#a sixteen year old boy pushed over the threshold of manhood by violent death#abigail having to prepare the bodies of her husband and old friend#graves by whiskey sours playing in the distance
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I like to imagine that when Abigail got pregnant and the gang realised they tried to play it cool but failed.
Like Dutch freaking out because WE NEED TO BABY PROOF THE HIDEOUT- CHARLES DON'T LEAVE THOSE POISONOUS HERBS ON THERE- ARTHUR NO MORE SHOOTING AROUND THE HIDEOUT ABIGAIL NEEDS REST- JAVIER STOP PLAYING WITH THE KNIFES- PEOPLE WE HAVE A BABY ON THE WAY ARE YOU ALL MAD?!?!
Abigail: Did he say we-
Hosea: Just... just leave him...
#do we hate dutch#yea#but#sometimes#it's nice to think about the past#like#he was a good guy#he was a good leader#you know#rdr#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#red dead redemption memes#red dead redemption#dutch van der linde#dutch#abigail marston#abigail roberts#john marston#jack marston#van der linde gang#hosea matthews
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