#the strange man

[marttapav]

more request 🫂🤪👥

#artists on tumblr #art #art journal #digital illustration #rdr2 #doodle #red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 sketches #hosea matthews #abigail roberts #micah bell #dutch van der linde #bill williamson #sketch #the strange man #eagle flies

[franklyfeline]

Urghhhh Whateve r.....

#my art #rdr2 #rdr1 #red dead fandom #red dead redemption #red dead redemption 2 #sadie adler #abigail roberts #abigail marston #arthur morgan #the stranger #the strange man #charles smith #john marston #sadigail

[forgorjams]

i had this one AWESOME writing thing for a comic or fanfic where it starts with adult Jack taking a shot of whiskey at a saloon as he goes through his uncle's(Arthur) journal and, maybe splitting away from canon for a moment, finding a few pages on this(THE) strange man. And then he is like "omg I think dad talked about him", and then it just goes on from there. Like Arthur,'s and John's(possibly Dutch's) deaths r related by him and it's just Jack looking for some sort of answer on what exactly is the Strange Man. What is he there to tell? Is he a divine messenger? A holy man that sees if your honorable enough to go to heaven or sick enough to go to hell? And it just basically spirals on from there. I also like to think he'd see a few familiar faces on the way(MaryBeth, Tilly and her child, Karen(personally I believe she is still alive), etc).

Idk it was a moment I had where I kept imagining it and I was like "this is so cool" but I didn't put it down in any form so it's stuck in my brain

#rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #red dead redemption #Rdr #jack marston #arthur morgan #john marston #The Strange Man #Ideas #idk how to tag this #Idk

[cupiidskiss]

the devil wears a suit and tie

#the strange man #rdr2 #rdr #red dead redemption 2 #red dead redemption fanart #my art #strange man #strange man rdr #Spotify

[synthsays]

This is one of my greatest achievements

#i have never made any character playlists before #and all of a sudden rdr2 comes along and heres 6 that have magically appeared #yay #synth van der linde #rdr2 #jack marston #sean macguire #ducth van der linde #the strange man #kieran duffy #reverend swanson #red dead redemption 2

[saintemarvel]

"Y'know, I admire you John. I hope my boy turns out just like you."

#best character: the strange man #the strange man #mysterious stranger #john marston #rdr #red dead redemption #rdredit #red dead #rockstar games #xbox series x #xbox #my photos #do not repost #saintemarvel #crylojen

[a-f00ls-bl0g]

Part 3 of RDR 1-2  on  Twitter/X

#lol #incorrect rdr #rdr2 fandom #rdr1 #seth rdr #rdr 2 #irish rdr #Rdr Eva #nigel west dickens #john marston #tilly jackson #the strange man #the strange man rdr #rdr memes #micah bell #hosea matthews #mary beth gaskill #sadie adler #fake screenshot #fake tweets #Irish x John is kinda serious but also you can easily replace Irish with Bonnie or Abigail if you really wanted to- #rdr ships

[hoseas-angry-ghost]

#Red Dead Redemption 2 #RDR2 #The Strange Man #my stuff #John in the Armadillo store like

[dalekofchaos]

Dutch made a pact with The Strange Man

Found this on reddit and thought it makes a lot of sense. Also this one.

Dutch's pact with the Strange Man theory.

We don't know in details what really happened before the game but some tips we can find in Arthur's Journal and hearing the other members made me think about this.

The gang was an ordinary gang from the beginning (1870s) until 1877 when something happened: Dutch and Hosea were arrested and by unknown means they escaped their cell. So my guess is that Dutch made a pact with The Strange Man to set them free and to be happy.

After that the gang became a family, with Arthur, John, Mrs Grimshaw and etc. And until the game starts they rob 37 banks. So the gang went from zero to hero in 10 years. Dutch was happy living his "dream".

Then the fire happened (the one Arthur mentions in the beginning his journal) burning everything they have thus forcing them to flee. In my opinion this is the time the Strange man came to collect the debts and Dutch probably do not want to pay. So they started to flee and even after a while Dutch still want them to move. They were going to California and all of a sudden Dutch decided to go to Blackwater. Even after finding some land to buy he still wanted to move.

"Dutch had a lead for some land we were going to buy […] or he got spooked we were being watched by the law and that somebody knew who he was."

Then after a while on Blackwater camp Arthur says that he heard about someone who looks like Trewlany, i remember reading about how similar both look like. Coincidentally after that Dutch started to talk about moving again. The ferry heist was fucked up because of the Strange Man, and it is the beginning of the end. Pretty much like what happened to Herbert Moon. His daughter married, was happy, but he was sad. Dutch got what he asked: fame, fortune, but he lost everything else on the way: family, love, even his mind…

I think he's the one who caused the ferry robbery to to go fucked up, and that the Heidi McCourt incident was him testing Dutch, similar to the way he tests John with moral choices in RDR1, or the way he tests Arthur with Jimmy Brooks in Valentine. When John first meets him in RDR1, he begins by reminding John of Heidi McCourt's murder. Eventually, the Strange Man does collect his debt…in the form of John Marston at the end of RDR1. The theory even goes further to some on Reddit, saying that Ross also made a choice that damned him to the Strange Man when he decided to go after and kill John, and Ross's debt was collected when Jack Marston kills him.

Other theories are that the ship Dutch, Arthur, Bill, Micah and Javier try to escape on catching fire and sinking was also the Strange Man preventing Dutch's escape. There's also a camp encounter in Chapter IV, after the ill-fated trolley station stick up, where Dutch and John have words that ends with Dutch telling John, "I. Know. You." which is the name of the Strange Man's side quest in RDR1.

Heidi McCourt was Dutch's test from The Strange Man theory.

Both John Marston and Arthur Morgan encounter two seemingly different people at entirely separate times and places, however they are somehow connected.

In RDR1, John encounters a strange man that asks him about Heidi McCourt, a woman Dutch shot in the head 12 years prior, during the Blackwater Ferry Heist. The Strange Man makes a point to let John know that Heidi McCourt was an important person, before sending John out to deal with a man who is soon to commit adultery. John has the choice to complete this mission honorably or dishonorably, and the Strange Man appears to be keeping track of his choices. In the final meeting with the Strange Man, the Strange Man claims he is "accounting". Its widely accepted that the Strange Man is some sort of supernatural force, being connected to fate and the dead. Which brings me to my second point, Jimmy Brooks.

Jimmy Brooks is a man Arthur Meets in Valentine in RDR2, who recognizes Arthur from the Blackwater Heist. After some chasing, Arthur is faced with saving Jimmy brooks or letting him die. Later in the Strange Man's cabin, a poem regarding Jimmy Brooks, who before seemed to have no connection, appears etched in a desk.

It is of my opinion that at some point in everyone's life, at least in the Red Dead universe, they will come across a figure that judges their morals and perhaps decides their fate, same as John in RDR1. My theory is that Heidi McCourt was this figure in the life of Dutch Van Der Linde, and the execution of her cemented his path into destruction he would experience over the next 15 or so years.

#Red Dead Redemption #Red Dead Redemption 2 #Dutch Van Der Linde #Arthur Morgan #John Marston #The Strange Man #Heidi McCourt #Jimmy Brooks #Hosea Matthews #The Van Der Linde Gang

[nthspecialll]

Ya know what I want to see in rdr3 if it is set before the events of rdr1? The strange man, I just encountered him for the first time in rdr1 so I don't know much about him but even if he doesn’t know who he is he obviously knows John, he has met John before, he literally says "you have forgotten people far more important than me," meaning that they know each other. I want to see that, I want to see what made the strange man so interested in John yet meant so little to John that he forgot him.

#rdr2 #the strange man #rdr john #rdr2 community #john marston #rdr1 john #rdr1 #read dead redemption 2 #read dead redemption

[kondoram]

sorry for the low effort meme but im not actually sorry whatever

#arthur morgan #john marston #the strange man #i guess #red dead redemption #red dead redemption 2 #rdr #rdr2 #idk what else to tag this as so uhh just have fun withit

[spooky-donut-ghost-house]

John: "You ever get so tired you start seeing spiders?"

Seth: "Me after I take seventeen Benadryls and start seein' The Hat Man!"

John: "The WHO?!"

Seth: "Oh, suddenly this isn't a safe place?!"

#red dead redemption #rdr #red dead redemption 1 #rdr1 #john marston #seth briars #the strange man #strange man #rdr strange man #rdr the strange man

[madotsuki-dreamer]

THE HANGED MAN en ESPAÑOL

TOTALMENTE INESPERADO tremendo

Gente como andan? Finalmente me encuentro liberando la última entrega de la grandiosa saga de Uri, después de un largo tiempo.

Aquí lo tienen sin más preámbulos: https://bit.ly/46pruph

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Me ha tomado mucho porque actualmente siendo una mujer adulta tengo tantas cosas que responder que no me alcanzan los minutos del día. Lamento mucho que esto haya postergado tanto que puedan disfrutar de este gran juego... lo siento de verdad.

Actualmente me encuentro dedicando la mayoría del tiempo a ser streamer, así que si gustan seguir en contacto conmigo pueden encontrarme como Mado Dreams en todas las redes sociales.

#rpg horror game #rpg horror games #juegos rpg #rpg horror #indie horror rpg #indie games #indie rpg #the crooked man (game) #the strange man #the hanged man #the boogieman (game) #the boogieman #the sandman (game) #madotsuki #madodreams #madotsuki dreamer

[fedyastars-art]

Yeehawgust, Strange Hoofbeats

Messing with a simple style :) could’ve messed with it forever but it’s alright for right now haha

Based on a dream I had where Arthur & the strange man became? The same entity? It was weird lol

#yeehawgust #fedya.art #rdr2 art #rdr2 artwork #rdr #rdr2 #rdr2 arthur #the strange man #rdr the strange man #arthur morgan #strange hoofbeats #red dead redemption 2

[markodragic]

what if i requested transfeminine strange man pride icons from you.... haha that's nonsense... unless?...

on it boss!! 💙💕

#absolute transfem icon #rdr2 #the strange man #icons

[strawberrywindow]

This theory has probably already been posited at some point but I was thinking and there may be evidence supporting that Heidi McCourt was just another form the Strange Man took. I greatly enjoy the theory that Jimmy Brooks was a form he took (especially with reference to Jimmy being made specifically in his home in the swamp) and if that's the case and that was Arthur's moral decision moment, perhaps Heidi was for Dutch? Arthur writes in his journal that while in Blackwater he heard people talking about a man that sounded like Trelawney's description - which we all know who else shares his appearance 😂 - but that they hadn't seen Trelawney in months so its highly unlikely he was in Blackwater at the time and from a storytelling standpoint that would just be a very cool nod to the Strange Man/the first game lol. Later though, Jimmy Brooks tells Arthur he recognizes him from Blackwater which would make sense if he's a form of the Strange Man too and just overall I think makes it more likely he was Heidi as well. We only ever ear about Dutch shooting the girl in these almost hushed 'it was real bad' kind of way or from the Strange Man himself which makes her and her death a bit mysterious imo.

If any of that's the case I think its quite fascinating that these decision moments dont seem to change fates in any way, as neither do any of John's Strange Man missions in the first game. They all still die quite horribly regardless of what choice they make or overall redemption/lack thereof in Dutch's case. I suppose I just really like the idea that the Strange Man is a purely apathetic figure in that sense but damn does he still like just messing with humans to see what they'll do sometimes 😂

**I know this game is like 5 years old and this has probably already been theorized because this game seems to have theories for everything but I just played the game this year a few months ago and have been thinking about it a lot the past few days for some reason - so sorry if this is already a theory lol or if anything I said regarding the first game ain't accurate, I haven't played that one myself, just been watching cutscenes and I really really like the Strange Man lmaooo 😭😂

#red dead redemption 2 #the strange man #heidi mccourt #arthur morgan #dutch van der linde #john marston #red dead redemption 2 theories