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when hes copying ur snaps so you pull this move or something

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therapy, a spa day, hot springs, and arthur morgan

what would you get ur fav character for their birthday guys

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javier having an ube cupcake because who said he can't? 🤨

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Noshir Dalal's (Charles Smith's VA and the man who largely shaped Charles into the singular character that he is, found here on tumblr @noshirdalal and on Cameo [in case you have your own questions you'd like answered]) beautiful response to my cameo prompt:

Q: You’ve mentioned before that Charles likes to read. What is his favorite book? Also, you’ve talked some about cowboy poetry and how you think it’s something Charles might have connected to. Can we get a favorite poem of his in his voice?

Besides the fact that this reading of "The Men That Don't Fit In" was just plain fantastic and moving as all get out, I really admire Noshir's choice of poem.

Similar to the poem’s author and his simultaneous celebration and castigation of the prototypical outlaw, Charles always came off to me as someone who loves his fellow gang members deeply but who didn't share their illusions about themselves or how they function within the larger context of the world around them.

Charles makes several remarks throughout the game ('Unpleasant? How do you rob and kill people pleasantly?' 'All this death and for what? Just so we can have enough money to be able to run from what we've done?' 'The amount of hell we raised, we’re owed some back') that indicate a high level of self-awareness about what it is the gang ACTUALLY does and how they're perceived by the outside world. 

Arthur makes some gestures at this understanding throughout the game, but his moral musings are undercut by his inability to stand his ground against Dutch throughout the numerous acts of outright cruelty his found-father perpetuates in Chapters 4-6 (Arthur barks, but he never bites).

Arthur and John have their gripes and moans, but ultimately the two of them stick it out until the bloody end. Charles is the first person to really break free of the fate the gang is hurtling towards.

In a tragedy built on the back of it's main cast's inability to cope with a changing world, Charles is arguably the character who exerts the most agency. He makes the decision in Chapter 6--when the circumstances that once tied him to the gang have dramatically altered--to cut loose.

Because of this choice, he lives.

To me, at least, this poem--and Noshir's brilliant delivery--isn't about Charles himself. Or at least not just about himself.

Its him talking about the Van der Linde gang. Arthur and John, his second family. Wild, brilliant, bold, true, free--and gone. With nothing but graves to show for the lives they lived.

Charles isn't reciting a poem--he's reciting a eulogy.

Transcript:

Hey Rocks. Um, thank you for your patience with all of this. 

Yeah, so we know that Charles reads and I know that we’ve talked before about a scene that apparently didn’t make it into the game, where after Charles’ interaction with Micah—and you know, yeeting him across the camp—Arthur comes upon him reading a book. 

That uh, that scene affected me in a major way and I think it's probably the reason I portray Charles the way I do. 

A guy who can physically manhandle pretty much anyone at camp having the mental and emotional maturity and self-regulation—if you can’t tell I’m a new dad [laughs]—to find a way to deal with his anger that doesn’t involve acting out and breaking stuff? 

Told me a tremendous amount about Charles, especially because what I’d been introduced to was the idea that Charles was a really violent, really angry maniac. 

And I love the idea that he’s really into poetry. I like poetry a lot. Actually when I was working on that latest skin for Yone (spl?) for League of Legends, I learned from the writing team that cowboy poetry is, like, a thing. 

And so I decided to look some up. And I like to think that maybe that this is a poem that Charles would have had in that book he was reading. 

The poem is called “The Men That Don’t Fit In” by Robert W. Service. Fitting, I think, especially for Charles for a number of reasons. I hope you like it. 

[Noshir goes into Charles’ voice and recites below poem by Robert W. Service (British-born Canadian Poet, 1874-1958), published in his book Songs of the Yukon (1907)]

There’s a race of men that don’t fit in, A race that can’t stay still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and they rove the flood, And they climb the mountain’s crest; Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don’t know how to rest. If they just went straight they might go far; They are strong and brave and true; But they’re always tired of the things that are, And they want the strange and new. They say: “Could I find my proper groove, What a deep mark I would make!” So they chop and change, and each fresh move Is only a fresh mistake. And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that’s dead, In the glare of the truth at last. He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance; He has just done things by half. Life’s been a jolly good joke on him, And now is the time to laugh. Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost; He was never meant to win; He’s a rolling stone, and it’s bred in the bone; He’s a man who won’t fit in.

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Sean is the loud, unruly boy that gets sat next to the quiet, well behaved kid. Lenny is said quiet kid. The behavior never changes. Lenny is an instigator.

THIS IS SO TRUE.

lenny likes to whisper in his ear that “*insert random student name* was talking shit about you just now…” and smile silently while we hear the noises of some innocent student who pissed lenny off once getting pulverised into dust by sean.

noughts and crosses silently happening on the back of seans homework and when the teacher tells them to hand him the note sean eats it. lenny is jawdropped. he thinks this guy is COOL.

he begs lenny to come to his house so they can ‘study’ (play on seans playstation) and darragh buys them mcdonalds because its the first time sean has ever had a friend over and he LOVES lenny. he is so impressed that sean brought a friend home that is both smart, funny and respectful. sean had always KNOWN people and been known around their school, but hasnt had actual close relationships and people who would genuinely consider him a friend throughout his time in school. lenny is similar. he had been pushed into a sort of quiet/smart nerd group and just cannot make friends with the other people there because he finds them insufferable but doesn’t want to be alone. so they both become best friends and save each other in a way.

the reason sean becomes close with lenny is because lenny doesn’t want to talk to him about what other students have done, or egg him on to do something stupid for a joke without caring about what will happen to sean, but instead he talks to sean. he ASKS about sean, and sean does the same to him. it is a very beautiful friendship in the end

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Headcannon that Charles does just dance with 0 expression but goes way too hard.

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Random Charles Headcannons because I’ve been neglecting my boy on this account.

He has terrible posture. He’s been sleeping on the ground for 14 years minimum his back HURTS and he’s gonna slouch.

Frustrated cryer. He doesn’t get super frustrated often but when he feels stuck doing something he cries.

Hates being bad at something. He oftentimes relies on his "natural talents" but if he has to learn a new skill and is bad at it, he'll lose motivation.

Can take blunt force like a champ but cannot handle piercing pain. Needles are his worst fear.

Bites his nails to the quick. Consistently calloused and unmanicured hands.

Worst patient. He will overwork himself, make himself worse, and then have to be down even longer.

He likes to sit with cats in town and just play with them. He loves cats.

I’m going to Florida so I’m gonna try to finish the drafts I’ve been meaning to.

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Kieran if he locked in

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every hatsune miku is canon

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If I don’t put a smiley face next to my signature assume I have shrivelled up and died and some impostor is taking my place

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modern AU Javier?? Idrk i had no plan for this drawing

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i was just startin' to dream the silliest and softest of dreams...

[click for quality tumblr is a killer]

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I keep thinking about how much I have a pet peeve of people having Arthur ride a small horse because I ride horses and it’s a well-known guideline to not have someone who’s around or over 20% of a horse’s overall weight ride said horse 🥲 No hate of course and it’s just a game but it looks so silly and it seems to out of character for Arthur to do, since he’s a giant and very aware of it, I think that if he’s forced to ride like a small Arabian or something he would probably worry about hurting it and it’s just less practical because the horse would obviously not be as fast etc

#horsegirlproblems

BROTHER ME TOO, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, it looks so dumb and like there are horses with better/same stats than the arabian which are also bigger and would fit him.

Like how do you look at that and not cringe? Same for morgans, SWITCH THE DUDE TO STH BIGGER.

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if i have to see one more fucking person mischaracterize javier in a very clearly racially motivated way (intentionally or not) im gonna fucking tweak out. "music is life hermano 😝" HE WOJLD NOT FUCKINF SAY THAT SHIT!!!

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block them do not talk to them they ran me over the other day

I was forced into this

I have been corned and pressured to create this account on this wretched website—the app is currently unobtainable—and now i must post on it as well. I have no clue what to say to you people so...hello.

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rdr scott pilgrim au hold on im cooking wait wait