I Find It Funny That No Matter Who You Ship Arthur With, Some Of The Most Popular Ships Are Him With

that old man is once again occupying my every waking thought

HE'S MY SONNNNN

So I recently bought the RDR2 Original Score Soundtrack, and something that really stood out to me is the art inside of it;

The art for the original soundtrack and the original score are telling an interesting story: the original soundtrack shows us Arthur on the cover itself, and in the inside of the vinyl, are the gang in their prime riding together - all of the iconic imagery we're used to see during the game.

However, the art of the original score is almost exclusively Micah related: the cover is a clear contrast to the original soundtrack (black and white vs. colour, villain vs. hero), but what I personally find most interesting is the art inside of the vinyl:

From what I've seen, the internet seems to be in disagreement over who Micah might be shooting; while it makes sense it is Arthur given the story of the game, seeing him in a pitiful position feels out of character.

To me, this art looks like Arthur's portrayal from Micah's eyes; there are 6 graves, possibly to represent past gang members who died during the game? (aka Sean, Kieran Lenny, Hosea, Molly, and Grimshaw).

Micah was not responsible for all of them, but it was his mission to try and get cut as many gang members as he could "loose."

There's also 7th grave being dug (represented by the shovel), presumably prepared for Arthur, given their relationship and his ending.

After Guarma Micah sees Arthur as weak, he stops being scared of him and replaces him as Dutch's right-hand man, which is the reason why Arthur seems so weak in this art compared to Micah, he is reduced to a pitiful sick man who has to beg for mercy, nothing more than another link to cut loose so Micah can advance.

Arthur, using his last breaths to convince Dutch that Micah is a rat, pleading with the man that raised him to listen to him.

He knew he wasn't getting off that mountain, and he still used his last moments to try and warn Dutch.

Even at the very end, in a way, Arthur was loyal to Dutch, Dutch just couldn't see it.

Want to get these on tumblr since I only ever posted them on twitter... various reference collages of official art for disco elysium stuff! Harry, Kim, & Kineema (from 2023)

Obsessed with how Will Graham showed up to work twitching, trembling, and visibly distressed, and the entire department is like “This is Will, he just does this sometimes, he’s in perfect shape to go look at some mutilated corpses”

I need more wholesome Disco Elysium character interactions with kids.

I don't know how to explain this, I know its out of pocket and especially in this fandom, but listen:

Harry playing tag or hide and seek with a group of kids in the middle of an investigation as a way to distract them.

Trant carrying Mikael back to the car after he falls asleep during a party they attended.

This is very niche, but Jean becoming Cuno's guardian/tutor during his junior officer training (their dynamic is running around rent free in my head, like a sort of bedgruging uncle)

I think Kim doesn't like kids? I cannot remember, but regardless I have this image in my mind of him writing something in his notebook, a little shy kid peeking at it, Kim noticing and tilting it towards him to see 😭

Feel free to add or correct these ideas as you like!

it's probably fine

We’re only a few months away from leaks and then it’ll be teasers and then promo and then press and then season 3 btw.