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There was a rumor that Dutch van der Linde sold his soul at a crossroad in exchange for the shapechanging beasts that followed at his beck and call. Frankly, Arthur didn’t buy it. He followed Dutch and Hosea because they fed him. Some deal with a devil had nothing to do with it.
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25 Jul 2023
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John doesn’t understand, but he nods anyway. Another breeze blows through the air, and he shivers without meaning to. The ground is ice-cold against his bare feet. It’s fine, though--he’s used to it.
Suddenly there’s a warm weight on his head, and he reaches up to feel leather and rope. It’s a hat, worn and soft with age. He looks at Arthur, whose head is now uncovered.
“Keep it for the night, kid,” he says. There’s a faint smile on his face. “That little mop of hair ain’t gonna keep you warm.”
Snapshots from John and Arthur's relationship. (Set before and during canon.)
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12 Jul 2023
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Love Is The Soul Of A Neat Irishman by pipdepop
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
19 Sep 2020
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Sean’s got a lot of love to give. To everybody. Whether they want it or not.
(Or: Sean makes it his mission in life to cheer Arthur up – much to Arthur’s dismay. Luckily, Charles is around to help.)
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- Part 1 of Love Is The Soul Of A Neat Irishman
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12 Jul 2023
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Charles doesn’t particularly like Arthur, but thinks that maybe that’s not quite accurate. He doesn’t trust Arthur, but wants to like him enough that it’s making Charles somewhat wary. Hesitant to look too long, to look at all.
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- Part 1 of observance
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27 Jun 2023
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“It’ll be a miracle if he makes it through the night.” The doctor had said when he’d finally finished, wiping sweat from his brow and blood off his hands. “It might be best to make some plans with the undertaker.”
Charles refused.
And Arthur made it through.
------In which Charles defies his better judgment, and Arthur defies death, and it's worth it to be a fool.
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- Part 2 of Menagerie Of Maladies
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18 Jun 2023
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18 Jun 2023
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Arthur Morgan is trying to get back into the swing of things; following the rodeo circuit with his family and friends, when a stranger he met by chance shows up and turns his world on its head.
(Modern Rodeo AU that’s been haunting me since I finished the game)
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01 Jun 2023
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One year in the seasons of the West, where the elements are raw and young, and death walks close.
Or: four times Charles Smith saved Arthur Morgan.Bookmarked by shepardly
20 May 2023
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Orville Swanson goes to war and finds laudanum. He becomes a reverend. He's not very good at it.
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18 May 2023
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And In The Morning I Loved You Too by pipdepop
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
10 Jan 2022
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Since this... thing between them started, on a surreal, star-soaked night just outside of Blackwater, Charles has learned two things.
One: Arthur Morgan sleeps like the dead.
Two: the rest of the gang seem to view Arthur’s tent as communal property, and will happily barge in at any time of day or night.
With no warning whatsoever.
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18 May 2023
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“Ride with me?” It was a familiar request, but the first one since Arthur returned from Guarma. Charles smiled up at him and nodded back easily.
Charles and Arthur try to clear the Murfree gang out from Beaver Hollow but instead get lost in the darkness of the sprawling cave system.
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16 May 2023
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strong is your hold, o mortal flesh by anderfels
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
25 Feb 2019
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Who knew maize could be such a maze, Arthur muses. Huffing at his own brilliant wordplay, he makes a mental note to tell Charles that joke. Later. When they’re not shooting bounty hunters in a cornfield game of cat and mouse.
Set during the Chapter 3 mission 'Magicians for Sport', Arthur and Charles track Trelawny to some bounty hunters, and as usual, everything goes spectacularly wrong.
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- Part 5 of what stranger miracles
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07 May 2023
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Smoke, Wind, and Pine by wondernerd
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games), The Last of Us (Video Games)
07 Nov 2021
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"Don't thank me yet," the man glances over, "we ain't out of the woods."
"Well, suppose not. Still, though," he grimaces when they pass another pile of bodies in a room, moulding and putrescent, "that was... I was in a bit of trouble there."
"Yes," the other agrees, glancing at Arthur again, "I'm Charles, by the way."
"Arthur. Thank you for saving my life."--
Or, the rdr2/tlou au no one asked for
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- Part 1 of red lasts
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02 May 2023
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It was barely dark when Arthur slumped backwards onto the cold rock, the sky just beginning to brighten with the new dawn. His breath rattled in his chest, the all too familiar pain, like a thousand tiny needles stabbing at his lungs, now almost unbearable with every inhale. Pain was everywhere. His battered body felt broken.
Arthur waits to die on a cold, Ambarino mountain, but he didn’t figure on a good friend with a gut feeling he refused to ignore.
Given an unexpected second chance, Arthur has to think about moving on from his past, and living a different kind of life.
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30 Apr 2023
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“I had all and then most of you, some and then none of you/
Take me back to the night we met/I don’t know what I’m supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you/
Take me back to the night we met/”
-“The Night We Met” by Lord Huron (Strange Trails album)
There's more than one way to be haunted.
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28 Apr 2023
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Fumes by kesla
Fandoms: Mass Effect, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect 2 - Fandom, ME Trilogy, me2 - Fandom
25 Dec 2023
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Squad done and dusted, mom in palliative care: Garrus is on the brink. Patched together from scrap with all systems in overdrive, Shepard's no better.
They're still clocked in. Have to be. Thing is, you can't keep running on empty. The indicator's flashing red, and ignoring it only works until it doesn't.
[Formerly titled "Enough," for reasons lost to time.]
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- Part 1 of The Spaces Between
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07 Apr 2023
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save your strength by Saltlordofold
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age (Video Games)
04 Jan 2022
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At the top of the Tower of Ishal, as their desperate fight against the unending waves of Darkspawn draws to a bloody close, Alistair has something to ask of Aedan.
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07 Mar 2023
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how river learned to stop worrying and love the moon by oriflamme
Fandoms: Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells
01 Oct 2019
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Chime is, apparently, useless. No one else seems to notice or care that their first consort wears almost the exact same jewelry to every formal event.
Really. It's been years.
So River takes matters into his own hands.
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23 Feb 2023
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Ratthi has a little too much time to think and far too much to think about while he waits for Secunit to come out of its cubicle.
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21 Feb 2023
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Spiders, it turned out, really were everywhere.
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20 Dec 2022