Tell me more tell me more tell me more about Javier and Josie pls
AHHH OKAY THANK U 8w8 (and some of these hc’s are owed to the discord server i’m on because they’re lovely)
tl;dr josie’s backstory is retired gunslinger trying to keep her nose clean and ultimately failing pretty much every time she steps outside
she only has one eye and walks with a cane, and both of these things are owed to ornery horses. people think she’s dtf (down to fight) all the time because she looks like a pirate.
that being said, the first time javier ever sees her (about a year after he joins the gang), she’s using her cane to beat the shit out of some idiot outlaw who tried to rob her coach when she was on her way to visit her brother.
(she joined the van der lindes p quick after that)
anyway, they’re two gloriously horrible peas in a pod.
they like working together! this isn’t always a good thing! they’ve racked up high enough bounties for them both to retire very comfortably to the mansion of their choosing. in fact, they’re competing over this.
they also see one another from across camp and go AYYYY :DDDD like they totally didn’t see each other five minutes ago.
so, like, they’re friends for a good while! but like the kind of friends where you can’t really tell if they’re flirting? who knows!
UNTIL one day they’re doing some heist or whatnot that goes a bit bloody, and javier looks up in time to see josie, covered in someone else’s blood, standing like goddamn athena, all basked in sunset light and looking like she’d fight the whole world.
javier: oh no.
and later, she sees him stab someone and do one of those rly fancy knife twirls. then, later on in the night, he plays this soft and lovely song at the campfire while everyone else is talking or playing cards or whatnot, and he just looks like he’s getting so into it.
josie: OH NO.
whoops. now they’re acting like awkward teenagers. and everyone has to put up with it. (mostly arthur, because hah.)
he’s had to listen to javier being all poetic and miserable about her for weeks. because, oh man, arthur, i like her.
arthur: what’s wrong with that?
javier: nononono, you don’t get it. i don’t like her. i like her.
arthur: ??????
while he also has to watch josie scream into a pillow or wander around, possibly singing this to herself.
arthur: oh my god.
so, as per discord’s idea, arthur conspires to trick both of them to think they’re going on individual missions to this one spot, but they have to go right now (no, it has nothing to do with the perfect moonlight what are you talking about). but what’s this? it was a ruse! a bamboozlement! and now they’re in this idyllic romantic spot in the moonlight!
(you better believe the whole gang is actually in on this.)
and the two of them are just like !!! oh no.
arthur, distantly: GET ON WITH IT
they totally do. the whole bus cheered.
and then they go on to have the most wild wedding ever and live happily ever after and nothing bad ever happens the end
