dirty valentine

john and arthur are the epitome of the golden child/scapegoat (respectively), until john became dutch’s scapegoat. john’s never been academically inclined but has always been cunning and skeptical. have lots of thoughts but i do definitely think that the stark age difference between dutch and john (dutch is 30-ish when he takes john in vs being only mid-20s when arthur is taken in) + the fact that dutch is quite literally the only father john has ever known makes this even more apparent. dutch is arthur’s father-figure but he’s always had hosea; while hosea's always been a paternal presence to john there’s always been an intrinsic bond between john and dutch. dutch taught everything john he knows about gunslinging and hunting and fishing, areas where john excels compared to arthur. arthur’s ‘i just always thought everything came easy to you’ makes me :(((

their sibling dynamic means sm to me n they both deserved better when it came to their pasts fr, but john genuinely cannot conceptualize any sort of family outside of the gang which is why he leaves, understanding dutch’s true nature before anyone really does (+also being a deadbeat dad), then comes back a year later.

john's unable to cope with his grief over arthur's death, and when the opportunity arises to get revenge on micah, he gets tunnel vision and eagerly takes it. of course, this is at the cost of his own life as his actions would have dire consequences; but there's no way it wasn't, at least in a small way, what he wanted. after spending years purposely creating chaos to emulate his life in the gang, he's proved he's unable to fully move on from the past.

as for high/low honor, my john is probably medium, teetering very close to low honor and is outright dishonorable while working for ross.. while i think arthur’s story and arc is about redemption, john’s has always been about survival. he’s never quite believed he’s had a choice. some trees flourish, others die. and he’s done whatever it takes for his family, whether said family is the van der linde gang, arthur, or abigail and jack, to live and thrive even if it’s all been in vain, and even if it’s involved doing the worst things a person can do. also a habit he’s learned from dutch, lmao.

speaking of which - so many of the toxic, manipulative habits and tendencies he’s taken on as a father are learned from dutch and somewhat unlearned in beecher’s hope with jack. a large part of their tragedy is that the day john died is the day that he and jack were finally on the same wavelength. they'd spent so long misunderstanding one another.

also – my john is blind in his left eye, with some light perception, and by 1911 regularly wears an eyepatch to aid in gunslinging and hunting. the visual impairment occurred as a result of being attacked by wolves in 1899; it also means he has no depth perception and is susceptible to being ambushed by those who know about it (looking at javier for throwing that box on top of him in rdr1, lmao). it has helped him as a gunslinger, though.

while her mother’s busy paying taking communion at the front of the church, claire grips at the arm of the edge of the aisle, eyes darting about the room to look busy. she doesn’t like church, never has. luckily, this church isn’t the immaculate conception her mother had dragged her along to as a child, and no one even knows her face. she could take communion, but it’d be a half-dishonest thing, and she’s already come along this far. this is good enough. 

her eyes scan the elaborate stained glass windows, to the choir, fixing onto the distant side profile she can’t miss, and it sends a pang of some sort of emotion through her ---- it’s been a long, long time, too long. the claire temple that matt knew was different than the one now, but it’s not like matt’s the same either.

 exhaling, claire smoothes out her dress as she stands, approaching him from behind. there's no way, with that hearing of his, that he doesn't know she's in the room already.

amber freeman

ruby baptiste

amanda young 

daniel robitaille (candyman)

stu macher

nancy thompson

jason voorhees

society if this scene of michael looking into his reflection at judith’s vanity would drop 

im also like. it’s in sb’s POV so like. is it allyson’s. 

1.) gonna need the deleted scene of michael looking into his reflection in the vanity in judith’s room in halloween kills to drop actually 

❛ - you’re the goddess of truth, right? that checks out. ❜ 

bruce had only asked about her parents in a cursory sort of way, the same way her background check worked when she applied at mcdonalds. well - maybe more thorough than that, considering she was hired on the spot, but they never talk about her parents. they don’t talk about his parents much, either, or the memorial that hangs in the middle of the cave like some kind of morbid museum exhibit. he’d promised her it wouldn’t happen again, and she believed him. still does.

but diana isn’t like bruce, whose steely resolve doesn’t quite scare carrie off but does enough to keep her at an arm’s length. diana’s face is kind and she’s kind, and pressing, and it makes carrie swallow. she’s grateful for the obstruction her wide glasses on the bridge of her nose provide in terms of eye contact.