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Arthur? 😳

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I’m really into flower symbolism, so I wanted to mention that the flowers around Arthur’s grave are ‘Mexican Butterfly Weed’ now, their usual meaning is negative and it stands for solitude and rejection, there’s a small beauty in these flowers and it’s for the loss and grief of a loved one.

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continuation of this post - rdr2 but what if kieran and javier were best friends edition:

javier will never admit he is friends with the o'driscoll but you bet your ass people stop picking on kieran real quick because javier will commit violence against anyone bullying his wet cat (he would call kieran gatito because kieran sounds like kitten in his accent: kieran hates it and would lie about what it means)

kieran doesn't get taken at jack's party because at javier's insistence/threat he sat at the campfire with everyone else. they all got drunk and sang cielito lindo until dawn

they finally go fishing together and start getting to know each other as people ie seeing each other's damage and going 'huh guess we both were pushed to abandoning our core values out of survival so glad that'll never happen with Dutch'. kieran 'borrows' arthur's legendary fish map because they both agree arthur is borderline useless at fishing

when fishing's bad they commit robberies and javier gets to appreciate kieran isn't just a stable boy - man knows his way around a gun. javier gets kieran on the bank robbery job, which results in kieran also being in guarma and absolutely refusing to leave javier behind because he does not believe for a second dutch actually plans on going back for him after seeing him leave lenny to bleed out and die alone

javier still sides with dutch while kieran sides with arthur in the final chapter, but upon realising they've both been left behind in the chaos they decide welp guess you're all i have now. necessary conflict of 'for all your talk about loyalty you really left john to die and didn't believe arthur about micah' 'i was on the train!! what reason did i have then not to believe dutch and micah' 'would you like that chronologically or alphabetized' but they get over it because fundamentally they are both really bad at being alone

post 1899: the legendary misadventures of el coyotitto y el gatito. they are too hurt by the falling apart of the VDLs to actually start a gang but they end up being the only ones that held onto Dutch's ideals? save those who need saving, shoot those who need shooting. mostly they're fishing and minor league stagecoach thieves, giving poor families the excess money and food ala robin hood - but damn are they good at casually shooting corrupt political and military powers across mexico and bordering states.

sometimes they send fish to beecher's hope wrapped in their wanted posters

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a basis for kieran and javier being best friends:

kieran speaks spanish. he learned it in mexico while serving with the us army. for obvious reasons, he lives in mortal terror of javier finding this out

he was really good at hiding it until one day javier mutters the 1899 equivalent of 'i wanna suck his dick so hard his stomach caves in like a caprisun' to himself while staring at john. kieran laughs almost too hard and after wiping the tears from his eyes realises javier is staring at him with that infamous look that could make grown men piss themselves.

fight or flight response didn't kick in in time. he stands frozen as javier walked over and asked very calmly if he spoke spanish

kieran is too terrified to deny it. explains where and how he learned it, expecting death

javier thinks. obviously, he does want to kill him, but also is so starved for conversation. makes some comment about he should've done him the favor of killing him before he ended up with the o'driscolls (Kieran agrees). quietly asks what he thought of mexico

kieran, confused, says it's a beautiful country. they talk about food and buildings and the general landscape and both visibly relax while everyone just stares in confusion as they gossip in spanish.

it becomes a thing when javier doesn't feel like dealing with english, is homesick or wants to bitch about the gang, he'll go talk to the o'driscoll. and he's very transparent about it. he'll point at somebody in the gang, say something in spanish, and kieran is very obviously trying not to laugh or a sinister smile appears on his face as he makes a comment in agreement.

javier galloping boaz through camp because he found someone in saint denis selling tamales and bought loads. kieran has a white boy spice tolerance but insists they’re real good despite choking

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I think we as a fandom moved way too fast away from the fact that Javier has a scar on his throat, aka someone slit his throat. Imagine the fucking terror of that, of someone getting up close and being SO close to killing him, imagine the panic Javier must have felt with the knife running over his skin, thinking "this is it" and then it isnt, for some reason it isn’t. Either the person simply didn’t go deep enough or someone saved Javier, still the terror of blood running down your throat, trying to process that you should be dead but for some reason you aren’t.

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canon isnt real . ive already sent them on 26846383 dates in my mind

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I do believe that Tilly Jackson is the strongest character in the rdr universe cause she put up with Arthur and John's bullshit the longest

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“i always was a good thief.”

art by Liam W. (@V762cas on twitter & @V762art on tiktok)

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You're a good man, Arthur Morgan

arthur morgan did everything for others he helped any stranger who needed it he drew rabbits he saw cross his path he apologized to his horses he sang to himself when he was alone he wrote about his feelings in a journal and HE THOUGHT HE WAS A HORRIBLE EVIL MAN

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"Abigail is so anoying! All she does is complain!"

I would too if I were raising my child while on the run from the government. The father of my child denies that he is the daddy because of the things I had to do in order to survive an era that gave me no rights just because I was born a woman!

Abigail Marston! They could never make me hate you!

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Just saying, logically, Kieran would be a very dangerous Cryptid. Dullahans are terrifying if you think about it.

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I now have the hard choice of who's Cryptid to plan or next. They're all so neat. I need someone else to pick for me😞

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Try not to lose your head, O'Driscoll boy

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Thinking about Mac and how Bill very obviously had the biggest fucking crush on that man. He talks about him far more than anyone else, specifically says he'll miss him (fuck Davey and Jenny I guess???).

"he was a heartless son of a bitch...but he had a heart"????? Oh! Oh! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

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Thank you to everyone who got me to 100 likes!