Jacks Dove♡

Thinking too hard about Jack Marston really messes with my concept of time, he very well could have watched to the original Star Wars movies if he made it to his 70s/80s. He ran with a gang of Wild West outlaws and he could have watched Saturday Night Live in the same lifetime.

jack marston haunts the narrative without ever dying or permanently disappearing and that's how you know that red dead is one of a kind

i think about jack marston so so so so so so so often. so much of red dead is about how we approach the future and resist change and that's what i really find most painful about jack and his story arc. watching him in rdr2 as a little kid with all this blind optimism and joy and then seeing him reach for his father's dreams and then watching it all crumble around him until he seeks revenge himself. jack never really asked for the life he had and i love the little bits and pieces we get of that kind of cycle in the prequel... like when arthur says "sometimes i think this life chose us" or whatever the fuck when he's talking to john. just very bleak foreshadowing. i love how red dead says maybe we are resistant to change but the future is inevitable ... but like not always. do you want to see what it looks like for the future to resist itself? you taught him how to do that, man! watch as nothing moves or illuminates and he walks the same dark path that you did. the only games ever sincerely