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Eight-year-old Clementine's world burned to the ground in a single night.
Her home, family, and future, all gone in a vicious storm. Clementine, freshly orphaned, traumatized, barefoot, and alone, made the impossible decision to leave all she's ever known behind. Later, she finds herself freezing to death on the outskirts of a cold frontier town with nothing but a waterlogged family photo, her mother's quilt, and the smallest will to live.
When outlaw Arthur Morgan finds her half-dead in a ditch, he has half a mind to leave her to die. He's lost too much himself to help a starving and fragile child. Against his better judgement, he decides to take her in. To his surprise, Clementine clings to him as if he is the only light left in a brutal world.
Life on the run is no place for a child, but Clementine proves sharper, braver, and more dangerous than anyone could have guessed. Every shot she fires and every risk she takes pulls her deeper into a life her family never would have wanted for her.
But outlaws aren't the only threat. Ghosts from her past are closing in, along with enemies who see Clementine as Arthur Morgan's greatest weakness. And they'll stop at nothing to use her to destroy him.
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Enter, Pursued By Defeat by PurpleArrowzandLeather
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
06 Sep 2025
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John dies in front of his barn. He's happy enough to find out Arthur is waiting for him on the other side. However, what happens when forces beyond their control tear John from the afterlife and throw him twelve years into the past? One thing is for certain; John is going to save his brother.
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Arthur's loyal horse got him to camp. Arthur needs medical treatment.
Hosea wants the violence to stop.
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- Part 5 of Sinners finding Salvation
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- Part 1 of By Blood and Promise
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Be Loyal To What Matters by Red_WingedBlackbird
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
27 Jul 2025
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Dutch has a change of heart–
Not the kind that comes with age or mercy.
More, a sobering reckoning that unravels him, that builds until Micah’s corpse topples from the cliffside.
And Dutch—
Dutch is left draped over Arthur, blood drying on his boy’s cold skin.
All he wants is his family back. To sling one arm over Arthur’s shoulder, the other over Hosea’s. To see them. To hold them.
To never—never—let go again.
He’s not prepared to wake up back in Colter, back in that snowstorm.
And neither is Arthur.
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Like Some Dumb Kid by arthurmorganspissprince
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
24 Jul 2025
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A mission goes awry, and Arthur takes to drinking to numb the pain surrounding the image of Dutch's unbearable disappointment. Hosea goes out to find him, and is confronted with the fact that Arthur puts far more weight into Dutch's opinions of him than he ever realised.
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The Odd Couple And Their Unruly Son by BugTheWildflower
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
23 Jul 2025
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“Hosea…Arthur’s a bit…odd, ain’t he?” Dutch asks carefully as they enter their own tent. Hosea shoots him a look of warning.
“And we ain’t?”
OR A collection of one-shots exploring the relationship between Dutch and Hosea, as well as what it might have been like to raise an autistic Arthur in a time-period where autism is not even an existing term. Is this because the author is autistic and I want sweet Van Der Linde family adventures? Perhaps.
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Arthur has been with Dutch and Hosea for a few months now, still unsure as to why these two men have saved him and shown him such unparalleled kindness. He does not know what he did to deserve this, but dammit if he's not gonna spend the rest of his life trying to pay them back.
Dutch and Hosea have rescued Arthur off the streets and taken him in. Now, it's starting to seem the hardest and most dangerous of challenges will be convincing the boy of his place with them.
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A sequel to "That Other Place"; Hosea wishes to reintegrate Dutch with the rest of the gang in the afterlife. Will the rest of the gang accept a damaged Dutch back into their fold. Will Hosea's plan to enlist Dutch's parents help form a bridge between Dutch, Hosea, and those who Dutch had wronged in his life
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The Curious Couple And Their Unruly Son | 80's AU | by Nellienel3
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
06 Jul 2025
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Arthur Morgan is a kid in the adoption center, when all of a sudden, two young men (who claim they're just best friends) come and adopt him. He then has to adapt to the life of a normal teenager while battling the past.
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"I love Dutch like a father, but in many ways, I love Hosea even more. He’s kind and fair and like a human being. Dutch is something else."
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Arthur is a wolf in a world that doesn’t want him. He is always running, whether it be from lawmen or hunters, he never gets peace. Even if he erases something that is part of himself, his outlaw way of living, his way of surviving… he will still always be what he is. A wolf in a man’s body.
Some people in the gang accept him as is, understanding not fitting in, being cast out. Others? Not quite. He is something wrong to them. Something… other. Not human enough to be one of them, not animal enough to be left out.
Dutch is acting different lately, Hosea is getting older, and Micah is up to something. Arthur has to worry about his son turning out like him, in more ways than one.
Charles wedges himself into Arthur’s life without him knowing, and gives him someone to lean on. A friend, something solid.
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Not a Fun Time (Obviously) by SomebodyLovesSnow
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
01 May 2025
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Something in the wild calls out to Arthur. They sound like John and Tilly, but they look different. For the first time in a long while, Arthur feels himself getting scared.
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- Part 2 of RDR Horror Fics!
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Second Chances for the Damned by Your_Friend102
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
11 Apr 2025
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Arthur Morgan died on that cliff, betrayed by his family, with Micah Bell hatefully walking away. Dutch had walked off, not allowing him to kill that rat.
The rat who had supposedly sold his family out, and damned them all.
Micah was born to live. Maybe being a survivor is how Micah woke back up, in the middle of a blizzard, approaching Dutch and a pair of hateful eyes beside him.Micah's POV story, and a time-travel Fix-it.
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Red Rose Redemption by TheOnlySongintheForest
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
14 Feb 2025
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Hosea Matthews picks up a killer in Annesburg; she changes his life forever.
(This story will contain sexual themes/scenarios as it progresses, along with the violence already associated with the game. Each chapter will be prefaced with any necessary warnings.)
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Bill Williamson struggles with self-harm and, despite Bill’s distrust of the man, Hosea manages to begin Bill’s process of help.
This story dives in a bit to Bill’s character and how self-harm ties into it.- Language:
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Arthur, Arthuretta by a few, was known for her wit in tough situations but sometimes there's tough situations that even she can't get out of alone. With help from a friend, she starts to have feelings that she cannot ignore but this isn't the right time, but when is the right time?
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Ain't No Rest for the Wicked by UniversalMuse
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
23 Jan 2025
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“There’s always more work to be done, Arthur,” Charles finally said. “But even a horse needs rest. The land, the animals, they teach us that. We're not so different.”
Arthur scoffed, a short, humourless sound. “Horses can rest, Charles. I can’t. There’s the gang, they need food, medicine, debts I need to collect, the…” he trailed off, the weight settling heavily on his shoulders. “We can’t continue running like this no more. Dutch needs-”
“I know, Arthur. But what Dutch doesn’t need is you falling off your horse half dead from exhaustion.”
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He was fourteen when it started, and twenty-two when it ended, if it ever really did. The dates are important. They matter because any blurriness in them and bad words start getting thrown around. Words like abuse and taken advantage, things that really don’t apply to him and certainly didn’t then, when he had wanted everything he got.
After managing to go a year without contact, Arthur receives a letter that brings him right back into Dutch’s orbit. He’s dying, and despite his usual theatrics, this time he means it.
Or, how Arthur watched his abuser die and got his groove back.