RDR2

Gavin please, it’s been 7 or 8 years. (Any pronouns, 25)

[s1lentsadist]

Dutch plays one of the rarest, yet most significant roles in the 70s AU

Dutch van der Linde is another don working in the same cartel alongside Colm. They are not enemies, each has their own territories of control, but they share borders and each of them, at any convenient moment, tries to take a piece of the other’s territory. They are competitors, despite working under the same baron. Each tries to present himself as best as possible to gain the baron’s favor and receive more privileges than the other. Dutch dislikes this just as much as Colm does. But they cannot openly declare war on each other. For this reason, they are forced to cooperate while simultaneously making subtle, underground moves against one another. And Dutch is far better at this than Colm 70s AU

[gooseinsoup]

what the hell sure. 5 million kierans coming your way

[alaskanay]

Rdr2 + Dinosaurs!

Felt like combining two of my interests so that I could practice drawing both! (And develop a style with lineart because that's something I'm still getting used to lol). Wanted to add some explanations for each choice too in case you guys were curious!

Arthur and The Shire | Yutyrannus

I wasn't entirely sure where I wanted to go with him at first. High honor, low honor - in these cases he might have something different - but I wanted to make the dinosaur somewhat 'universal.' Since I started playing Rdr2 for a third time, my choice was definitely influenced by the general Ambarino environment. But it was also determined by 'first impressions.' What did Thomas Downes think when first seeing Arthur? What about Jimmy Brooks? While you can redeem (haha) Arthur later on, there's no denying he's a bit more intimidating/aggressive at the start of the game. I went with the Yutyrannus based on that - he's the gang's scary muscle (allll those Strauss missions), and he would need a dino of a similar type to match that!!

Bill and Brown Jack | Ankylosaurus

While I was thinking about Bill too, I knew EXACTLY which dinosaur I wanted to go for when I looked at Brown Jack. That horse would've been an Ankylosaurus in another life.

Charles and Taima | Styracosaurus

Charles was easy - I knew I wanted Taima to be within the Ceratopsidae family (they felt kinda similar to bison, in a way?), and I landed on the Styracosaurus because I really wanted to draw those fun horns :D

Dutch and The Count | Quetzalcoatlus

OKAY YES NOT A DINOSAUR. But I NEEDED Dutch to have a Quetzalcoatlus. Dutch would want something flashy (thinking about how you have to upgrade his tent first before anyone else's for 'morale'), so I know for a fact he'd go for the largest flying reptile ever... maybe getting to Tahiti isn't a crazy idea after all.

Hosea and Silver Dollar | Maiasaura

Maiasaura means 'good mother' (lizard) - pretty self-explanatory I'd say :')

Javier and Boaz | Maip Macrothorax

UH. Honestly. I don't know why. This one was purely about vibes and these were the vibes I went with.

John and Old Boy | Carnotaurus

Carnotaurus means "meat-eating bull" - I was thinking a bit about the epilogue (farming for beginners), and John trying out ranching in general. Also! I think it fits Old Boy too.

Karen and Old Belle | Stegosaurus

I love Karen SO MUCH. She's a little prickly on the outside, but with her reaction to Molly and some of her conversations with the other girls - idk. I felt like a spiky herbivore was the best pick for her.

Kieran and Branwen | Parasaurolophus

His was what started this whole thing! (Can you tell he's my favorite I draw him so much). I knew I wanted to draw him with a Parasaurolophus so quickly that I had to make searches like 'duck-billed dino with horn thing?' 'duck-billed dino that makes noise with head?' Don't ask me wtf those searches are, I completely forgot the name, I only had the vision LOL.

Lenny and Maggie | Gallimimus

I wanted something that felt playful? For Lenny. And while we don't know how "playful" dinosaurs were, they're animals, animals are playful, and I know that I can watch birds do whatever the hell they want all day, so I went with a dinosaur that felt a bit closer to its later evolutionary counterparts - the Gallimimus!

Micah and Baylock | Utahraptor

Yeahh this one was easy too. I just kept thinking about which dinosaur would encapsulate that blue-eyed stare. I love Baylock too, nearly as much as I love raptors in general, so I had to match them up.

Sadie and Bob | Dilophosaurus

I felt like she'd have a smaller carnivore of some type - swift and fierce. I also think Bob, the horse, worked really well as a Dilophosaurus? He was one of the easiest ones to draw because the patterns of the horse were SO pleasing to work with.

Sean and Ennis | Spinosaurus

I debated what to do for Sean A LOT. Then I thought about his interactions with Arthur and how his choice of dinosaur might be influenced by that - sort of a, following in his footsteps thing.

Trelawny and Gwydion | Kelenken

He would 100% travel around with his terror bird and put on (con) shows. I figured he'd accessorize Gwydion a lot too, make him flashy and unassuming to any of his future targets.

Uncle and Nell II | Deinocheirus

He needed a dinosaur that would laze about with him and I thought an older-looking Deinocheirus would be PERFECT. Honestly any dinosaur that could provide Uncle with shade was a potential choice LOL

[drizzledrawings]

Did you know that Arthur morgan was once a kid? Cause it eats me up everyday!

[gavinwhereareyou]

I’m not sure if it’s been said before because I’ve not had a lot to do w red dead lately, but watching “Deadwood” is giving me my biannual cowboy renaissance:

So I was just thinking about the honor system and about how we kind of think it’s flawed, and I was just thinking if maybe it’s Arthur’s self perception. Somebody made a point on one of my posts about why he thinks he’s ugly, and they said it was how he felt about himself based on his actions.

Which when applying that to the honor system I think it’s interesting, because there’s things you do, things that are more or less unavoidable for game play (fighting lawmen when running for you life or something similar) and you lose honor as a player it would frustrate me, because I felt upset about that. But it made me wary to kill lawmen or such as I continued my high honor play through, which I think would reflect Arthur’s feelings. He knows he has to, of feels he has to to live, but it makes him feel dishonorable which I think is an interesting distinction from bad.*

But I feel it gives a more in depth look at his character and what he thinks is honorable or dishonorable. Like the fish, if you keep it, it’s not dishonorable, but if you throw it back that’s high honor. So it’s like he knows he will make good use of the fish if he keeps it, but if he throws it back he’s like “yeah… that was nice…” or it just makes him feel good about himself.

Or the things like the debt collecting, not all of them but some of them they make you lose honor, and it’s just like the other ones are ones he feels he has to do for the gang, but the ones he loses honor for are the ones he feels especially gross about, soiling his character. Or hunting deer vs hitting a horse, one is for survival and one is downright mean. You get honor for petting dogs, feeding the gang, donating to different things and people. It’s just like a window into how Arthur feels about his actions.

* Coming back to honorable/dishonorable vs good/bad: I think the distinction is important because you can have max high honor, and Arthur will still deny anyone who calls him a good man, and in fact insist he’s a bad man. But. He is doing the honorable things. He doesn’t think he’s good, but he thinks the choices he makes are honorable.

Honorable: “adherence to what is right or to a conventional standard of conduct”

He’s not good, he’s just doing what he thinks is the right thing in his stance as an outlaw, but kind hearted man.

[nthspecialll]

Sometimes I think about how Arthur must feel being out there all alone. I was up hunting the legendary bison near Colter and a snow storm hit, I could barely see anything and I wonder what that must have been like for Arthur.

I mean imagine it, it is night, the storm is howling in your ears, blocking out all other noise to the point you can barely hear the anxious huffs of the horse right underneath you. It is all cut off by the snow raging down, cutting directly through your clothing. What do you do in that situation? You can't see head or tail in anything. You can stay where you are, make camp, and you won't get lost but also there is nowhere for you to put your horse for shelter and the chance of it running off, leaving you stranded is tremendous. On the other hand you can try to seek shelter, but you have no idea which way is which and you could freeze to death before you reach anything and then if you don't find something and strike camp you might have gotten yourself so lost that you can't go back.

That is a nightmare.

Or when Arthur gets bushwacked, ten, fifteen O'Driscolls, or even worse, Mufree Brood suddenly standing in your way both back and forth. For us it might seem like nothing, if we die shooting then we respawn, if we run and get a shot or two we will still be fine, we know no matter what we will be fine because we are the main character. But Arthur, to him, he is just a man, sure a man who is good with a gun but one well-aimed shot and he is gone.

I don't think I would last a day.

[gemini-serpentis]

The right way to play rdr2 is by crying and sniffling and fighting for your life and punching the wall

[galileosbeast]

You, Sir, Are a Fish!

based off a sketch i did on my spam

[ladysantos]

save a horse ride a cowgirl

[architectureandmorality]

Afterlife.

[drizzledrawings]

A break

[regwishesshehadmagic]

[rednightmare18]

i cannot believe rockstar said this is albert mason, he needs you to retrieve his purse. keep him safe and catch him with your big strong arms. now row him around in a little boat while swamp alligators sing kiss de girl

[omgwhatchloe]

john and arthur are brothers in the way that if john picked player one instead of player two arthurs spinning his jaw

[foundynnel-deactivated20250812]

[drizzledrawings]

I 🫶 Karen jones

[drizzledrawings]

Ghost riders by Johnny cash is so Arthur morgan core