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Fata Morgana by BetweenTownleys
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games), Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption 2
21 Sep 2019
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Once upon a time, John had been small. Living things often are. Small things get fed and get bigger. They grow up. Or sometimes, if you are very unlucky, they don’t.
After a while, Arthur murmurs in the dark, “Ain’t babied you like this since you broke your arm when you was fourteen. You was already too big for it back then too, to be honest. Cain’t say what to do with you now.”
It takes a moment for their body temperatures to match, and Arthur feels John’s voice against his chest when he quietly replies, “I don’t think about it like that.”
[A precanon Morston Oneshot] Arthur questions what his role is where a young John is concerned.
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- Part 3 of Folk Songs and other Love Stories
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20 Feb 2026
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Fata Morgana by BetweenTownleys (WorkID: 20715848)
Summary: Once upon a time, John had been small. Living things often are. Small things get fed and get bigger. They grow up. Or sometimes, if you are very unlucky, they don’t.
After a while, Arthur murmurs in the dark, “Ain’t babied you like this since you broke your arm when you was fourteen. You was already too big for it back then too, to be honest. Cain’t say what to do with you now.”
It takes a moment for their body temperatures to match, and Arthur feels John’s voice against his chest when he quietly replies, “I don’t think about it like that.”
[A precanon Morston Oneshot] Arthur questions what his role is where a young John is concerned.
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You Are My Sunshine by BetweenTownleys
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption (Video Games), Red Dead Redemption 2
18 Jul 2019
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Arthur thinks of Hosea saying that the pencil should be guided by love; that looking at a thing is not the same as seeing a thing, and that this is the difference between a hack job and a man with any real modicum of talent. Arthur thinks about how inextricably his loyalty, faith and love are all tangled up together inside his heart, and he draws John’s portrait up in the tree as faithfully as he can, faithful enough even to remember the bits of twigs stuck fast in his wild black mop of dirty hair.
This is the first time Arthur thinks that he loves John.
[a canon-compliant prequel Morston tragedy, in 8 parts]Series
- Part 1 of Folk Songs and other Love Stories
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12 Feb 2026
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You Are My Sunshine by BetweenTownleys (WorkID: 17090870)
Summary: Arthur thinks of Hosea saying that the pencil should be guided by love; that looking at a thing is not the same as seeing a thing, and that this is the difference between a hack job and a man with any real modicum of talent. Arthur thinks about how inextricably his loyalty, faith and love are all tangled up together inside his heart, and he draws John’s portrait up in the tree as faithfully as he can, faithful enough even to remember the bits of twigs stuck fast in his wild black mop of dirty hair.
This is the first time Arthur thinks that he loves John.
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The gang travels southwest for the winter after their mostly successful bank robbery, but John's broken arm is making him miserable. Arthur thinks he might just have the solution.
A direct continuation of sorts to Banking, the Old American Art.
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- Part 4 of Flying Blind
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05 Feb 2026
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and here’s where mine ends by WhyWouldIEver (WorkID: 27836584)
Summary: The gang travels southwest for the winter after their mostly successful bank robbery, but John's broken arm is making him miserable. Arthur thinks he might just have the solution.
A direct continuation of sorts to Banking, the Old American Art.
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Because I Fucking Can by Macabee
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games), Red Dead Redemption 2
07 Sep 2021
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Maybe it says a little more than it probably should that John only lets himself think this way about him when he’s still half-drunk and all alone.
Fuck that. John Marston wasn’t known for his ability to think.
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- Part 1 of RDR2 Fics
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26 Jan 2026
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Because I Fucking Can by Macabee (WorkID: 33694270)
Summary: Maybe it says a little more than it probably should that John only lets himself think this way about him when he’s still half-drunk and all alone.
Fuck that. John Marston wasn’t known for his ability to think.
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John knows he's a good marksman. He has to be, in his line of work, in this life he leads, and it wouldn’t even be bragging to say that he’s good, just like it wouldn't be bragging to say that Arthur is something else entirely.
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a quick-pull trigger by Anonymous (WorkID: 32804869)
Summary: John knows he's a good marksman. He has to be, in his line of work, in this life he leads, and it wouldn’t even be bragging to say that he’s good, just like it wouldn't be bragging to say that Arthur is something else entirely.