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1. Compass by pilgrimharry77

   Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   29 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Hosea Matthews/Dutch van der Linde
   • Hosea Matthews
   • Dutch van der Linde
   • Arthur Morgan
   • John Marston
   • Bessie Matthews
   • Susan Grimshaw
   • Annabelle (Red Dead Redemption)
   • Colm O'Driscoll
   • Colm O'Driscoll's Brother
   • Mary Gillis Linton (Red Dead Redemption)
   • Leopold Strauss
   • The Count (Red Dead Redemption)
   • Boadicea the Horse (Red Dead Redemption)
   • Various Character(s)
   • Pre-Canon
   • Canon Compliant
   • Established Relationship
   • Found Family
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Period Typical Attitudes
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
   • Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • Angst
   • Fluff
   • Humor
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • Tension
   • Heists and Robberies
   • Murder
   • the old gaurd - Freeform
   • unapologetically horny
   • plot heavy
   • Even Porn Even Plot
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Time Skips
   • Old man yaoi
   • Graphic Depictions of Illness
   • Minor Bessie Matthews/Hosea Matthews
   • Minor Annabelle/Dutch
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

   Summary

   Now I know the only compass that I need
   Is the one that leads back to you.

    

   Honour rises and falls, love is made and broken, relationships grow and crumble, lives begin and end. A story of devotion, hate, family, and revenge amongst the early Van der Linde gang as a war of morals unfolds.

   Series

   • Part 2 of An Ode to Lovers when Loving could not Be

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   35,864

   Chapters:

   9/34

   Comments:

   63

   Kudos:

   34

   Bookmarks:

   5

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   741