15 Works by NobleMalone
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Nicodemos is your typical down-on-his luck adventurer, the exiled son of a noble house looking to sell his services as a mercenary. He was also cursed by a witch to have a vagina.
Florian Webster is the only son of his wealthy parents, who have sent him on a "pilgrimage" to the surface, with little more than an (admittedly generous) allowance and a burdensome amount of language dictionaries.
To Nico's misfortune, Florian is the only person desperate enough to hire him. In their resulting journey, they fall headfirst into adventure and unfortunate circumstances.
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- English
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- 12,149
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Kudos:
- 2
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A collection of short, unedited pieces from my tumblr, including Kiyanaw addendums and AU musings.
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Only Ride in the Night by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
29 Jul 2019
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By the end of the first week, Charles had been longing for his soft, shared bed and the warm goose-down duvet that he’d selfishly gifted Arthur, back when he’d still been skinny with sickness and prone to chills. By the end of the second, his gut was aching with homesickness and he’d dreamed of strong, warm, calloused hands that overknead bread and weave through his hair like water around smooth river stones. Now, after three weeks, all Charles wants is a hug and a clean pair of socks.
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Kîyanaw – Us, inclusive; you and me.
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- Part 7 of Kîyanaw
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That Bad Type by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
10 Apr 2019
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It doesn’t matter none, though, because it doesn’t even seem the outlaw is listening; he’s busy using one hand to spread Arthur wide, the other guiding the barrel of the gun to gently lift Arthur’s balls where they hang, vulnerable and exposed. Arthur can feel the man’s hot, eager breath ghosting over his asshole and he groans – wants that filthy mouth on him more than he’d ever admit.
“I’m not going to hurt you,” the stranger says, and Arthur can hear the wicked devious smile in the lilt of his voice. “At least, not much, anyway.”---
Kîyanaw – Us, inclusive; you and me.
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- Part 6 of Kîyanaw
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With My Heart So Whole by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
04 Apr 2019
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It’s still novel, this; the casual, familiar touch, whenever and however he wants, with no worry of prying eyes or gossiping lips. Charles had taken to it easy, especially once Arthur’d been well, but it’d taken Arthur longer to acclimate to their new-found solitude – privacy weren’t something he’d ever had before. The first time Charles had kissed him out in the open, he’d nearly socked the man in the jaw before he’d realize there weren’t no one around to mind what they got up to.
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Kîyanaw – Us, inclusive; you and me.
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- Part 5 of Kîyanaw
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Summer in the City by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
25 Mar 2019
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Charles himself is stretched out shirtless on the big bed, his hair spread like a dark halo around his head when Arthur returns; he’s reading a little yellow book pulled from Arthur’s bag and he doesn’t look up when Arthur enters, so Arthur takes the opportunity to linger by the door for a moment, observing. Takes a minute to admire the hard swell of Charles’s biceps, the way he’s a little soft through the middle but thick and muscular underneath it all. How his brow furrows as he tucks a strand of long, dark hair behind his ear, and how he licks his thumb before he turns the page.
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Kîyanaw – Us, inclusive; you and me.
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- Part 4 of Kîyanaw
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Interstitia by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
13 Mar 2019
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Interstitia: the spaces in-between.
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- Part 4 of Blood, Hatred, Money, and Rage
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Tough Lovers, Hood Brothers by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
11 Mar 2019
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Later, he’s washing up before dinner in the little tub behind the cook wagon, at the frustrated behest of Mrs Grimshaw – “Arthur, how are we even to know it’s you under all that filth?” – when he catches Charles watching him. Not leering, just watching in the quiet, placid way Charles seems to watch things, the same way Arthur does when he draws; just observing, committing things to memory.
When their eyes meet, Charles’s lips turn up at the corners, the slightest intimation of a smile, and he winks, the cocky bastard. Months ago when they’d met and Arthur had seen something spark in those kind eyes, he’d never imagined Charles would be so cruel as to tease him this way. Could never have imagined anything so relentlessly good as that.---
Kîyanaw – Us, inclusive; you and me.
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- Part 3 of Kîyanaw
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A Pillar, Upright by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
05 Mar 2019
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Charles has loved these moments, the past few weeks they’ve been able to share them; the moments when Arthur forgets himself and the man he thinks he is, let’s Charles treat him good the way he knows Arthur is. He doesn’t mind breaking him down a little, first, teasing and taunting him into submission just to get Arthur to receive the love he’s given.
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Kîyanaw – Us, inclusive; you and me.
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- Part 2 of Kîyanaw
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Like a Lily Alive by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
24 Feb 2019
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They’d never talked about it none, not before now; had only exchanged knowing glances over quiet cups of coffee, sat a little too close together by the fire at night, thighs just barely brushing. The odd clap on the back or a hand on the knee, inconspicuous and unassuming and invisible to anyone but the two of them. Maybe a sideways glance, once, while they were pissing on the same tree back before Blackwater, when Arthur’d been a little too drunk and a little too desperate to know better.
No, they’d never talked about it, but they’d both known it in their bones, had sensed it.---
Kîyanaw – Us, inclusive; you and me.
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- Part 1 of Kîyanaw
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Dead and Alive by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
19 Feb 2019
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He didn’t tell her, then, that he didn’t sleep much anyhow, not anymore. Didn’t tell her that if it weren’t nightmares of John’s corpse swinging from a Joshua tree, it was vague memory-dreams of hands parting his thighs to spread him open and the sick, gutless feeling of being pushed into like the slow slide of a knife through raw meat. He didn’t tell her that he weren’t much worried about rest, now. Didn’t tell her that he was already miserable.
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Dutch had raised him up right, but something about it had always felt wrong.
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- Part 3 of Blood, Hatred, Money, and Rage
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Circle, Unbroken by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
10 Feb 2019
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Her words had stung, and in that moment he’d wished she’d just go ahead and hit him already, beat him like a bad dog and get it over with. He'd imagined her grabbing him by the hair, forcing him to his knees; imagined her slapping him hard across the face, hard enough to leave the shape of her hand there like a brand; imagined her taking his big, brutish hand in hers and pushing it up under the skirt of her nightgown, up and up until his fingers made it clear just how sorry he was. It would've hurt more than whatever this was, but at least if she’d done that it would’ve been familiar.
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Dutch'd raised him up with love, but what is love in the hearts of men like them?
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- Part 2 of Blood, Hatred, Money, and Rage
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No Good Man by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
03 Feb 2019
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Sometimes, in the middle of the night, he’d crawl into Arthur’s bed and just hold him, not saying anything at all, just holding him so close Arthur could hear the man’s heart, pounding angry and afraid against his breastbone. Maybe that’s when Arthur’d first known it, deep down in his twisting guts; he could never leave, even if he wanted to.
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Dutch had raised him up to be a good man, but Dutch ain't no good man.
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- Part 1 of Blood, Hatred, Money, and Rage
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(Shall We) Play a Game? by NobleMalone
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
05 Aug 2015
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They’d been doing this since they were kids. Well, not this exactly; this particular instance was new.
“I respect ya, Stevie. I’ll listen to you. You wanna feel strong, in control? I can do that for you. Control me.” -
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"If it would please you to please me, then by all means, I’ll do whatever you ask of me.”