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1. How To Be An Outlaw by pilgrimharry77

   Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   03 Sep 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Hosea Matthews/Dutch van der Linde
   • Bessie Matthews/Hosea Matthews
   • Hosea Matthews
   • Dutch van der Linde
   • Bessie Matthews
   • Arthur Morgan
   • Susan Grimshaw
   • Annabelle (Red Dead Redemption)
   • Various Character(s)
   • Pre-Canon
   • Slow Burn
   • Getting Together
   • Mutual Pining
   • Developing Relationship
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Low Honor Hosea Matthews
   • High Honor Dutch van der Linde
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Angst and Humor
   • Fluff
   • Eventual Smut
   • Found Family
   • Swearing
   • Hijinks & Shenanigans
   • Character Study
   • Daddy Issues
   • Redemption
   • First Kiss
   • Internal Conflict
   • Murder
   • Self-Hatred
   • Self-Worth Issues
   • Major Character Injury
   • The Great Kettering Incident
   • Secret Relationship
   • Until they get caught
   • Drunkenness
   • Drunken Shenanigans
   • Drunken Flirting
   • Young Dutch van der Linde
   • Young Hosea Matthews
   • Dutch doesn't know how to do crime
   • Family Dynamics
   • Minor Dutch/Susan Grimshaw
   • Animal Death
   • Casual is their theme song
   • But they are anything but casual
   • Sexual Tension
   • Self-Harm
   • A 15 year old is the voice of reason
   • What in the walking dead...
   • Bessie and Susan are my strongest fighters
   • minor suicidal themes
   • reader gets edged
   • Explicit Sexual Content

   Summary

   An outlaw is many things:
   They are a connoisseur of chaos,
   An artist of anarchy,
   A preacher of perserverence,
   And damn right lucky if they survive.

   Dutch didn't know any of these things. Hosea did.
   And whether Hosea liked it or not, he was a great teacher.

   Series

   • Part 1 of An Ode to Lovers when Loving could not Be

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   189,423

   Chapters:

   32/32

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