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Literally everyone.
Even Micah, because his character is fun to explore.MOSTLY KIERAN AND MARY-BETH
Arthur and John being dumbasses. Dutch is being protective. Sean is drunk. Pearson deserves better.
I DONT KNOW HOW DESCRIPTIONS WORK, SUE ME!
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The world don't want us no more by suchdarkbeautifulnightmares
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
23 Dec 2025
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I've been replaying rdr2, and have fallen in love with the van der linde gang again (well most of them). This story is au but follows the storyline of the game, and beyond, without the tb for obvious reasons. Hope you enjoy,
Isabella Hunter had been recused by Dutch van der linde and Hosea Matthews at twelve only a year after they had taken in Arthur Morgan. They grew up together. Fought together, became best friends, spent their lives together and fell in love. Ten years ago a terrible event happened, and Isabella was lost to the gang. Now they've found her again, and she needs to learn to relive as part of the family that had once been everything to her. As well as finding a way to be around the man she once loved and the man whose heart she broke. -
To Know You Is To Know Something Safe by inkstreaker
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
23 Dec 2025
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After so many years. Did Arthur really think the past wasn't going to catch up to him?
A last delivery, that's all Dutch told him, of course that couldn't be true. It also couldn't be true that he may have feelings for a long lost friend he recently reunited with.
Why not throw a firey teen into the mix?
____________________________________________________Modern au baby!
Aka let the author go nuts with her headcanons and have two cowboys kiss it out or something. While also giving Eagle Flies some screen time.
Title is the verse from 'In My Bones' by Margot Liotta
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“And I’d thought that,” a stuttered breath struggled its way out of his chest, “—this was it. Nothin’ left except a life on the run, tryin’ to put all the pain somewhere, anywhere.
“‘Til I met you.”
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It's 1901, in the blister and sweltering heat of the Heartlands.
Greer June Riesmann, a woman on the run from the law, her father, with her freedom lost and floundering. Spending her days with a bounty on her head, in fear of discovery and theft of her dignity—she’s brought to the last trails of the Wild West in decline.
Until on a day like every other day, except not exactly, an outlaw happens upon a young woman, who is nothing but all she disdains. Yet, everything she may find she longs for.
It'd be easy enough to hate Arthur Morgan, let him remain a cruel, mysterious man. But she won't give in that easy.
The heart can only wither so much before it begins to blossom, bathed in a stubborn, wicked sunlight like no other.
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Arthur Morgan finds out that a one-night stand he had in a small Farmers Town ended up in a pregnancy and he decides to at least be there for the Kid and it’s mother as often as he’s able to with his responsibilities in the Van-der-Linde gang. Because of complications during labour Eliza dies minutes after giving birth to their son which leaves Arthur alone with the newborn baby. Arthur returns to the gang with his son and decides to do everything in his power to be the father Isaac deserves.
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A collection of Kieran Duffy's memories archived into a singular story.
TikTok: @thekieranduffyarchive
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"Wait for the day you'll go away/ Knowing that you warned me/ Of the price I'd have to pay"- Long Long Time By Linda Ronstadt.
"Take a gamble that love exists and do a loving act." These words were once spoken to the man Joan Baez loved. Joan was given a front-row seat to the last year of Arthur Morgan’s life, as Dutch Van der Linde’s meticulous plans led to their unexpected marriage. Now, Joan must face the weight of that love; its highs, its losses, and the quiet melancholy feeling that will forever lingers in her heart. She will live for a long, long time, haunted by the memories of those she loved and the price she paid for each fleeting moment of happiness.
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When debt collector Ace Dupont and his companion Berry Shoot follow a lead south, they stumble into the orbit of the Van der Linde gang. What begins as a temporary arrangement—an ankle sprain and a borrowed fire—unravels into something far deeper.
Ace is a man of masks: a silver tongue, a pistol polished to perfection, and a spade tucked in his hatband. But the past won’t stay buried. Francis Mallory—the man who robbed him blind and left him hollow—reappears in the worst possible place, dragging old wounds into the firelight of camp.
Arthur Morgan doesn’t trust Ace. At first, it’s the lies, the polish, the charm. But mistrust begins to shift into something stranger—curiosity, fascination, even reflection—as he finds himself watching Ace more than he means to. And Ace? For all his careful distance, he starts to see something in Arthur too: a man of grit and silence who might just break through his defenses.
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Sadie Adler has lost everything. Now she's on the run with the gang of outlaws that saved her, and she's slowly adjusting to her new life. She doesn't quite know what to make of it, but she values her new friends (and enemies). However, there is one person that she can't stop thinking about...
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In 1883, Arthur Morgan played a reckless hand in a dusty Mexican border town. It was supposed to be a fever-dream of tequila and trouble, but it ended with a priest’s blessing, a handful of gold coins, and a signature on a marriage certificate that tethered him to Roselyn Quintanilla.
He did what any drifter would do: he folded. He left the money, settled his black gambler’s hat low over his eyes, and rode north, leaving Roselyn to pick up the pieces of a "mistake" he assumed her family—and her Uncle Flaco—would surely erase.
But sixteen years is a long time for a debt to gather interest.
Now, the year is 1899, and the world is crashing down. The frontier is closing, Dutch is spiraling, and the Pinkertons are breathing down the gang's neck. But the greatest threat to Arthur's stoic peace isn't a lawman’s bullet—it’s the woman who never got that annulment. Roselyn is back, and she isn't the same girl he left in that hacienda.
The cards are on the table, and Arthur is fresh out of aces. In a game where every hand is a winner and every hand is a loser, he’s about to find out if he has what it takes to finally hold on—or if he’ll be forced to run until there’s nowhere left to go.
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- Part 2 of Amidst a Crashing World
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TLDR: Arthur Morgan fathers a daughter unknowingly in 1885. Her mother passes, she gets stuck on her own, and ends up meeting him while she's on her way to Saint Denis for the church of wayward children.
She's a whole lot more like him than she ever thought herself to be.{They meet in chapter 4}
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She stood with the wanted poster she had hastily ripped off a light pole clutched tight in her hands. $5,000?... that name... her mother had said it how many a time?Arthur Morgan.
Among other carefully decided words- outlaw, adventurer, cowboy, eccentric, an.. outdoorsman.
Gunslinger.
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A midnight robbery leads to Javier being found wounded in an alley with a strange bite on his neck. As John tries to save him, he starts to realize feelings he’s never admitted, while something unnatural takes hold of Javier.
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Dutch Van der Linde’s Finishing School: Rules of Thumb by JayOrLex
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games), Red Dead Redemption 2
16 Dec 2025
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He looked toward the boy.
He looked lost.
Lost-wasn't something Dutch was used to. It wasn't as easily soothed as a pat on the shoulder or a squeeze around the middle. He figured the kid wasn't one to know much about what comfort was, anyhow.
He stood without a word, felt the kid's eyes following him all the way to where the body still hang on display. Words were whispered to a guard and then, that hat was held delicately in his hands like it was some trophy.
"I don't know much about fatherhood," he said, leaning down to be eye-level with the boy. "My daddy died when I was too young to really get it."
Dutch stood again, propping the hat up on the edge of an empty hitching post. He looked back at the boy, revolver in hand. "But I know enough to know that whatever he was, wasn't it." He pressed the gun carefully into the kid's hands. Guided his thumb to cock it back, wrap his finger around the trigger.
"Whaddya say we give him the sendoff he deserves?"
They left, hand-in-hand, fresh gunshot in the center of the hat on the kid's head.*Pre-game oneshots following Arthur growing up as an outlaw. Arthur+John & Dutch/Hosea are the main relationships.
12/21 UPDATE: TITLE CHANGE
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At the age of fourteen, Josephine Harper fled her homestead, leaving behind a dark past and a trail of secrets in her wake. For two years, she survived alone in the unforgiving wilderness.
But fate had other plans for Jo when she crossed paths with the infamous Van der Linde gang. Saved from certain demise by Dutch Van der Linde and his band of outlaws, she found herself thrust into a world of danger, adventure and camaraderie.
Now, at twenty-eight, Josephine’s past comes back to haunt her, threatening to unravel the carefully constructed web of lies and half-truths she’s built to protect herself. As the gang rides again, old wounds are reopened, and Jo is forced to confront the demons she thought she had left behind.
In the midst of it all, she finds solace in the company of her longtime friend, Arthur Morgan. But as their bond deepens and feelings begin to blossom between them, Josephine is torn between her desire for honesty and the fear of losing the one person she’s ever truly cared for.As the lines between loyalty and betrayal blur, Jo must navigate the treacherous waters of love and deception, knowing that the truth has the power to both destroy her and set her free.
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When Arthur arrived where Eliza and Isaac lived he didn’t find 2 crosses outside, but instead a door smashed in, Eliza shot dead on the kitchen floor and a little Isaac hiding in a cabinet. With no other choice Arthur took on the responsibility of fatherhood and brought Isaac into the gang. Now a man grown Isaac has become an integral part of the gang and one of Dutch’s key enforcers much like his father. What does this mean for the gang with this one single change of fate? Will things turn out differently? Can one boy really make that big a difference? Find out.
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Lydia Cherenchikova was simply just a child that Dutch Van Der Linde had found at the Saint Denis ports, fresh off a vessel from Russia, and not knowing a lick of English all except her own name. Though, Dutch, ever the savior, took this small thing under his care. Adding to his flock. With this new addition to his family, Lydia brought on her own tradition from her motherland. Foods, language, and the traces traditional beliefs rooted deep within her.
This story follows Lydia and this gaggle of outlaws through canon-accurate events, though the story starts off pre-Colter.
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Take My Body And Do Your Worst by MissMagenta92
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
13 Dec 2025
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Arthur clocks in for his shift as head of security at Dutch’s Dolls, the biggest, best and hottest strip club in Blackwater, only to find that there’s a young new dancer that is completely captivating.
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Few outlaws are left in the Wild West of America. It's really no surprise; unbound by state or law, those people are also free of any support and care by it. Which makes it rather hard to live. Or to love. Especially, when the only sprinkle of affection they get to witness is the subtle touch of a waitress passing them a drink in a dark saloon or the hopeless abandon that they find in the arms of working girls.
But Arthur Morgan is not the kind of man that indulges in such fleeting pleasentries. Not anymore. He strictly refrains from it. The last time he let himself get lost in a woman, she and the son she birthed him died in a horrible accident. And the thought of having to experience this excruating pain again makes him recoil. No love. No lover. Ever again. He promised himself that.
But to his surprise, he finds you. A young woman from Mexico who escaped the grasp of her abusive husband, now forced to take refuge in dark alleys and abandoned churches if she doesn't want to sleep besides dirty streets. Can you safe eachother from being dragged into the ruin of your past? -
Nothing's Gonna Change My World by The_Readers_Writer
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
10 Dec 2025
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1877
FATHER AND SON SUSPECTED
Two men are wanted in connection with the murder of Roscoe and jean Briggs, of Crawford County Ohio. The rancher and his wife were found hanging from the beams of their hay barn with their throats slit.Meanwhile, their six year old daughter was hiding behind a haybale as her parents swung...
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she's a rabble rouser (a red dead redemption story) by widowswife00
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
07 Dec 2025
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young Arabella Reid was taken into the Van Der Linde gang by Dutch and Hosea when she was seven years old, after her parents had been killed in a house robbery gone wrong. she grew up to be fiercely loyal and fiercely reckless, following after her father-figure with undying loyalty, same as her brothers. will a sharp willed woman having wound her way into everyone's heart be able to change fate? or will she fall down the same path as their leader?
in short, there's not enough fics out there without the typical Arthur x OC trope, so I wanted to explore what would happen if my OC was raised alongside Arthur and John without falling in love with one of them (also I just love the idea of Dutch and Hosea having a daughter who runs on jobs with them cus they are my dad's guys)