Darling_Jack
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If he could slip away for a moment, just for one second, away from the needy stares and desperate wailing, Arthur might just be able to catch his breath long enough to scream. This mountain was proof that hell had been above them all along—and Arthur wasn’t the only one damned to perdition.
(Arthur and Charles take a vacation. It… doesn’t go well.)
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- Part 2 of The Amoral Compass
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A gun falls into the wrong hands. As expected, someone ends up hurt. There are lessons to be learned from this--painful, terrifying lessons.
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The Things We Leave Behind by Darling_Jack for Emmithar
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
24 Jun 2023
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This found family ain't big enough for the two of us.
(Arthur feels isolated and abandoned by the gang. When John enters the picture, things get worse before they get better.)
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Badgering Badgers; Hounding Hounds by Darling_Jack
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
21 Jun 2023
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There is one thing Arthur will never, ever ignore.
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Dutch insisted they take the train. Arthur is afraid of trains.
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- Part 1 of The Amoral Compass
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The darkest days of the Van der Linde gang from beginning to end— and whatever comes after.
[My take on canon up until Blessed Are the Peacemakers, and an AU from then on ♡]
Evergreen: The Van der Linde gang was weaned on blood and misery from the very beginning. It is all downhill from here.
Unsettled: It’s not the first time Arthur has found himself betrayed by his family and it will not be the last.
Undone: What use is there for a one-armed enforcer?
Overdone: Extras and alternates from Undone
Small Things: Happier days before the bitter end.
Eventide: John’s gone in more ways than one.- Words:
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Bad Things Happen to Good People (Worse Things Happen to Outlaws) by Darling_Jack
Fandom: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
01 Nov 2021
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My contribution to Whumptober 2021!
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“Right,” Dutch broke the silence, standing admist the room. “I think this will do us just fine – Miss Grimshaw, ladies, will you do us the honor of turning this place into a home? Chances are, we may be here for a few days. Hosea and I have some talking to do. Arthur will head on out, see if he can find you ladies something nice to cook up for us.”
Arthur felt something colder than even the air about him, strike him in the chest. “I'm gonna what?”
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John's only been with them for a month. In desperate need of food, Arthur takes him out on a hunting trip.
What could possibly go wrong?
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"John was also naïve. He wasn't innocent, he'd killed a man before he turned 12. Yet the kid still didn’t seem to grasp how harsh the world was, how people and nature alike would do anything to hurt him.
As the two boys were surrounded and backed into a corner by the O’Driscoll gang, Arthur thought that this may be the day John finally lost that naivety."
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- Part 1 of Broken Boys
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09 Dec 2021
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A Little Reminder by Emmithar for Darling_Jack
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
02 Sep 2021
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Dutch could be a strange man at times. Strange indeed - strange enough to drag him out in the middle of nowhere without any warnings as to why.
Arthur knows the man is up to something, but for the life of him, he cannot figure out what.
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05 Aug 2021
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Trust is such a fragile thing - it takes so much time to build, and yet so little to destroy. And after years of learning how to trust, Arthur isn't so sure he can anymore.
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- Part 3 of Adventures of Arthur and Boadicea
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01 Jul 2021
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They were supposed to be keeping their heads down. Maintaining a low profile. Hosea reminding them as much when they had left him behind at camp. Arthur could remember Dutch grinning, reassuring him that they would. Insisting that they were just going to test the waters. See if there were any fish worth catching.
It's what they had done.
At least, for a while.
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17 Feb 2021