#johnson nash

Top left: Chet, proprietor of the Goodsprings General Store. —"Now just hold on. I never voted to take on the Powder Gangers. That's a thousand cap investment you're talking about."

Top middle: Clayton Ettienne & Tom Anderson, co-owners of Westside Co-Op. —Clayton: "Okay, uh...look, first, I didn't have anything to do with that trooper. That was all Anderson. Second, even though the whole scheme was Anderson's idea, it's the only way the co-op could stay in business. The water means everything."

Top right: Cliff Briscoe, proprietor of the Dino Dee-Lite Motel. —"Darn it. No one ever buys the t-rexes."

Bottom left: Johnson & Ruby Nash, proprietors of the Mojave Express. —Johnson: "I got more ammunition now that the NCR keeps supplies flowing in. On the other hand, I'm payin' them NCR taxes, so now you got to as well."

Bottom middle: Mick & Ralph, proprietors of their eponymous store in Freeside. —Ralph: "That old coot, House, is going to make me rich! With all the new rules and regulations in New Vegas, I'll make a killing circumventing them!"

Bottom right: Miguel, proprietor of Miguel's Pawn Shop. —"[You're looking for an] Antique rangefinder? I'm trying to think of something that'd be more worthless. Maybe an antique horoscope. Or an antique sandwich."

I know it doesn't look too good for her, and I suppose she's done the things you say. And I guess it's true I tried more than I should for her, but it's not her fault that she turned out that way. —“Bad Girl,” Conway Twitty (1969)

It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin’ #5 - Primm I

Collaborative Issue! Guest Colorist: @sarsaparilla-star

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Notes / Original Pencils:

Pony Mojave Express

Drawing under appreciated NPCs part 2:

Johnson and Ruby Nash

I cant use my tablet but I can sure as hell waste my time with Seven Courier memes nobody will read

1. Boxcars

2. Deputy Beagle

3. Major Knight

4. Johnson Nash

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Ah, of course, well, since you all asked..

As mentioned in the comic, Agnes has been a courier with the Mojave Express for four years. Primm is right there out past the Long 15 from the NCR, so it’s basically the first place she arrived when she first headed into the Mojave. She needed a job that would keep her moving, preferably solitary, and a courier gig was the perfect job. Given the instability in the region (with the first battle of Hoover Dam at the same time and all), it turned out that there was a lot of turnover for couriers, and most of the ones applying were young, spunky NCR-rejects who thought it’d be some kind of adventure.

Not Agnes. Her and Nash got along quick. They’ve got similar worldviews, very practical and down-to-earth above all else, and he respected that she came into work and just delivered the damn mail. No delusions of grandeur, not big bright eyes. It took her a little longer than some of the other couriers since she ran about ten years older than the twenty-somethings usually doing the job, but not once did she ever miss or err, and every time she came back in one piece. That’s dependency, and damn if Nash doesn’t appreciate dependency.

On Agnes’ end, she’s never really had much in the way of, like...good older men in her life, especially since her father died when she was young and she was raised by her mother and aunt. Nash’s stern but sweet demeanor towards her is very fatherly in that regard, and a relationship that’s really important to her even if the two aren’t, like, walking through the park every Sunday afternoon. They smoke in the Express office chatting about goings-on, Nash has her over sometimes for Ruby’s cooking, Agnes does some occasional odd jobs to help out...again, they’re not a storybook found family or anything but have a really deep (mostly) unspoken affection and appreciation for each other. If you asked either of them they’d probably say the other’s just a very good co-worker and neighbor (since they’re literally neighbors, out in Primm’s neighborhood of ruined houses).

I also tried to convey this in Johnson’s line about Cassidy Caravans, but like...he’s an old, grounded guy but he’s the kind to “make an effort,” as they say. He’s not being facetious, he’s genuinely correcting his own assumption. Nash never gave Agnes any bullshit for being a trans woman in all the four years they’ve known each other, never even really brought it up which was an immense relief to her, but y’know, he’s like, trying. I based him on a lot of older family members I know in that regard, ahaha, just this very self-aware yet genuine “heart in the right place-ness.”