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1. To the Hunting Grounds by bluehaze025

   Fandoms: The Deer Hunter (1978)  

   • Not Rated
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M, M/M
   • Complete Work

   13 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Linda/Michael "Mike" Vronsky
   • Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich/Michael "Mike" Vronsky
   • Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich/Linda
   • Linda (The Deer Hunter)
   • Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich
   • Michael "Mike" Vronsky
   • OCs - Linda & Michael's Children
   • Character Study
   • Parental PTSD
   • Making sense of Michael
   • Depiction of Deer Hunting
   • Family Dynamics
   • relationship dysfunction
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Nick/Mike but you have to squint and look sideways
   • Post-Canon
   • POV Outsider
   • Isolated Incident of Child Abuse

   Summary

   Jeremy knew that he was incapable of caring for his father. On his father’s part, there wasn’t much love lost about it—and maybe that was just the thing.

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   Michael's children children try to make sense of their father and foreign wars.

   Series

   • Part 2 of Life in Wartime

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   3,920

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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