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"Cariño ." Javier calls him again, his other hand sliding through his dark strands of hair, in the manner you'd pet a dog, the manner that made John feel reduced to something inferior. Tuso. "Answer."
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Bloodstain by pasta_pardner
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games), Red Dead Revolver
03 Feb 2025
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With a grimace and a sleeved fist, John wipes the back of his hand across his mouth. His blood leaves a stain on the cloth. Arthur can't help but focus on it.
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Or, the one where Arthur and John get drunk, and John comes dangerously close to telling Arthur the truth.
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It's just a polaroid, there isn’t even a caption beyond a little scribble of a heart in blue pen. He knows it's his birthday though, because Carol is kissing him on the cheek. The first July 14th without a kiss on the cheek left him cold, wearing a sweater in his house even though he was probably sweating like crazy. It hits him now, looking at the photo, that he hasn’t had her lips on his cheek, just under his eye, in three years.
Or, Steve Harrington has the quintessential queer experience of being in love with a same gender friend and the subsequent messy "friend" break up.
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“Aw, come on now, Mr. Mason. That wasn’t what you told me that day.” The voice drawled, low and rasping from the figure in front of him a second before the man turned to face him, a cockeyed grin turning up his lips.
“Mr. Morgan! My God!” Albert couldn’t help the way his arms opened immediately as he stepped forward in greeting, only catching himself at the last moment and shifting to awkwardly offer a hand instead. “I’m so glad you made it. I didn’t expect to see you today.”
The man smiled, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes fanning out with the motion. “Wouldn’t have missed it.”
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Albert's gallery showing turns up an unexpected guest, stirring up feelings that have been hiding just beneath the surface for far too long. Feelings that slowly come to light over the course of a rather unexpected journey that tests their new bond.
***Canon Character Death tag does not apply to Arthur, but does apply to some of the other gang members***
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One of the first things John remembers after Dutch took him in is… well. Arthur. Just Arthur.
Arthur was two heads taller than him then and had just turned 22 a few days prior. He had this comfortable and effortless nature about him, like he could handle whatever good or bad the world threw at him with ease, and a handsomer face than most outlaws, though John hadn’t met many at that point. Everyone in the gang liked him, that much was immediately clear, and John never stood a chance when Arthur sauntered up to him, extended a hand, and welcomed him with a lopsided grin.
He couldn’t help but like Arthur from that moment onward.
John Marston has been in love with Arthur Morgan for a long time. The problem is, he's never told him so.
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Kieran is terrified of Arthur... until he isn't
Arthur hates Kieran... until he doesn't
Life is harsh for two outlaws, but maybe life is worth living for the small moments of brief happiness
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Kieran saved Arthur’s life, in more ways than one.
Arthur could not save his.
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- Part 3 of And, Behold,
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Not long after the gang arrives in Lemoyne, the Count dies in the field at Clemen’s Point. Dutch needs a new horse.
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- Part 1 of And, Behold,
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Arthur and Micah are sent out on a supply run for the gang in Colter but are forced to take shelter during a snowstorm…
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- Part 1 of On the Sly
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March 1899, Blackwater.
The sea awakens strange memories and dreams in Micah, while spring storms cause him to get more reckless than usual. A night out at town, he loses his head, and then he loses his virginity to Arthur.
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The garden party at the mayor’s place, only Micah comes along instead of Bill. Seeing Micah cleaned up and in a tux takes Arthur by surprise. Morbell awkwardness ensues!
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“Dutch and I are older. You’re closest to his age.” Hosea puts a hand up to halt Arthur’s protestations at that– “I know you’re an adult Arthur, you’re still the youngest. He can see an easier path to being you than to being me or being Dutch. That’s a valuable thing for a young man that’s been through what he has.”
He moves his hand to pat Arthur’s arm. “I’ll still be showing him things, but I want him taking your example, too. We all have to pitch in.”
Arthur grunts, and frowns, and gnaws at his lip. But ultimately he acquiesces and bows his big head in deference to his fathers’ wills.
John Marston starts, to him, a burden.
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Things change for Arthur over the scale of years. John Marston worms his way in to parts of him he thought long dead.**UPDATE 12/22/24**: NOW COMPLETE! Explicit rating beginning in Chap 7.
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Hinata Hyuga is a quiet librarian by day, and the mysterious author H. Yume by night.
When her latest novel trends online, it catches the eye of Sasuke Uchiha, the most feared critic in the literary world.
His review could make or break her career. What she doesn’t know? The infamous critic lives just one floor above her.
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When a job doesn’t go to plan Micah and Arthur end up spending an extended period stuck in a tiny space. This is fanfic, you know what happens…
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Guarma.
“Arthur lay back on the cool stone, arms crossed over his chest, trying to pretend the metal around his waist wasn’t digging into his ribs. Outside, the island was a constant hum of waves crashing in the distance, insects screeching, something that might’ve been a monkey laughing like a drunk man. He could handle all that. What he couldn’t handle was Micah.”
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He can’t help but feel, that somehow this is his own fault.
That he tried so hard to be like Arthur, to catch some of the light shining off that man, that he somehow imposed his soul upon the older man.
There’s no way that someone like Arthur would want greasy little Johnny Marston.
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Arthur is given a second chance. Some days it feels like a gift - other days it feels like a punishment.
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- Part 1 of Incarnate 'verse
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"Must've drank a lot of pain
Judging by the way it aches"
- Healed
"He is only fifteen but the feeling is already an old friend of his and, still, he doesn’t quite understand it and doesn’t know how to be rid of it. Sometimes he feels like, if he could just touch Arthur in moments like this, curl his body against the solid figure of the other man, then everything would be fine.Other times he feels like he should run in the other direction and never come back."
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What Hank told them was this: Connor had a choice and he chose the power of good. He could have joined the machine uprising. He could have burnt everyone’s skeleton to a chain-link fence. He could have gone full Dolores. He could have become Death, destroyer of worlds. But no, he just strolled back into the precinct like vintage John Mulaney in his high-waisted man routine.
And, why? Who knows. Who the fuck knows. Hank wonders if the RK800 team at CyberLife can even figure this shit out, and they built him. Weirder than that, and maybe worse than that, the hyper-advanced AI investigator has decided to imprint itself on Hank, so now he’s got to teach Connor about the important things about life, like action movies and the Metallica Black album. And he’s got to get his own shit together.
December 2038. Captain Fowler assigns Reed to work with Hank and Connor in an overwhelmed precinct. Reed is tasked with an unusual android case out of spite, while Hank assists Connor in adjusting to life at the station. Just as Connor -53 starts to hit his stride, strange memories begin to surface: corrupted data, an advanced RK model, and the horrifying implications of past lives in CyberLife Tower.
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- Part 1 of Fearful Symmetry
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You Are My Sunshine by BetweenTownleys
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption (Video Games), Red Dead Redemption 2
18 Jul 2019
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Arthur thinks of Hosea saying that the pencil should be guided by love; that looking at a thing is not the same as seeing a thing, and that this is the difference between a hack job and a man with any real modicum of talent. Arthur thinks about how inextricably his loyalty, faith and love are all tangled up together inside his heart, and he draws John’s portrait up in the tree as faithfully as he can, faithful enough even to remember the bits of twigs stuck fast in his wild black mop of dirty hair.
This is the first time Arthur thinks that he loves John.
[a canon-compliant prequel Morston tragedy, in 8 parts]Series
- Part 1 of Folk Songs and other Love Stories
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