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M A E V E
O ' D R I S C O L L

"i'll kill them all, i swear just —
just don't hurt him."

"it's only fair.
men like him deserve it."

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A R T H U R
M O R G A N

"well, if this ain't the strangest thing i've seen today."

"maybe i shoulda fought harder for mary.
but i'm glad i didn't because i wouldn't have met you."

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D U T C H
V A N
D E R
L I N D E

"words are fleeting in the existence of time passing. to cling to them is to weave fables out of fiction. you don't live in fiction, do you sweet girl?"

"have some faith in me.
for once, please.
trust me."

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H O S E A
M A T T H E W S

"i think we all face a crossroads
at one point or another.
and i think you're facing yours now.
i hope you make a decision soon.
for their sakes and yours."

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J O H N
M A R S T O N

"i ain't his father.
i ain't anyone's father.
when she realizes how much
better they are without me,
we'll all be better off."

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C H A R L E S
S M I T H

"this was their land before
it was ever yours.
it's not help, it's paying a debt."

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C O L M
O ' D R I S C O L L

"what, d'ya want me to say
i'm proud of yeh?"

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M O L L Y
O ' S H E A

"dutch'll get bored of you.
just like he did me.
just you wait."

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S E A N
M A C G U I R E

"aye, lassie, quite a pickle yer in.
care for a whiskey?"

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K I E R A N
D U F F Y

"we both know who the
real o'driscoll is.
and i hope they kill you
when they realize you played them."

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M I C A H
B E L L

"well, if you ain't a pretty little girl.
come to daddy, i'll show you a better
ride than ol' cowpoke here."

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S A D I E
A D L E R

"the o'driscolls took my husband.
they took my home.
they took my body.
the woman i was is dead.
rebirth ain't all it's cracked up to be."

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A B I G A I L
R O B E R T S

"you saved his life.
no matter what comes from this,
i won't forget that."

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J A V I E R
E S C U E L L A

"cariño, i'm with you.
you've got two men, pena it isn't me,
but that doesn't change my loyalties."

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L E N N Y
S U M M E R S

"i didn't have sisters that i knew of.
but damn, if you aren't mine."

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AND THE REST OF THE RDR2 CHARACTERS AS THEMSELVES

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LITTLE PISTOL
"and i, well i want what's best for me
and i, well, i think i know just
what that means"
mother mother

LOST BOYS
"i've been traveling on this land
where my feet don't understand
the red rising ripples of the sea"
paper bird

RAISE HELL
"i dug a hole inside my heart
to put you in your grave
at this point it was you and me
and mama didn't raise no slave
you took my face in both your hands
and looked me in the eye
and i went down with such a force
that in your grave i lie"
brandi carlile

CANARY
"there's a madness in the valley
there's a darkness that can blind
it was every man for himself
no one's getting out alive"
joy williams

DEATH DON'T HAVE NO MERCY
"come to your town and he won't stay long
look down your street,
you'll see everybody gone
oh, he won't give you time
to get ready in this land"
delaney davidson & marlon williams

THIN LINE
"'cause i want whiskey when i'm sick
and a men when i'm well
but it's nice to have both sometimes
when i feel like raising hell"
honeyhoney

GOD OF LOVE
"gives me hands to hold
gives me skin to taste
give him my hips to throw
and i'll give him time to waste"
honeyhoney

APPLE TREE
"here i hang from the apple tree
oh, take a little bite,
take a bite for me,
the pain, it keeps me sane
for i am more than a taste"
marika hackman

SLEEPING ON THE BLACKTOP
"hey darlin'
sleeping on the blacktop
hey darlin'
running through the trees, honey
hey darlin'
leavin' for the next town
less'n my senses catches up with me"
colter wall

LAY THIS BODY DOWN
"my soul and your soul
will meet on that day
i see moonlight
walking to the moonlight"
sam lee

HELL'S COMIN' WITH ME
"i am the righteous hand of god
and i am the devil that you forgot
and i told you one day you will see
that i'll be back, i guarantee"
poor man's poison

CADILLAC DUST
"two souls are jumping out
all the people living out are lying
give it all you got
and then you're gone
take nothing but your soul"
elliott brood

RIBBON
"home ties me up with the discontent
since the day i first went
yearning to be back again
how will i return and when?"
billie marten

PULL THE MOON
"let your sweetheart open wide
he'll pull the moon
out of the sky
down the river and drink it dry
running headlong into
the long night"
caitlin canty

LUKA
"somewhere in the river
there's a gun the devil owned
somehow everybody knew that
everything was wrong
a noose up in the maple tree
the old man's gonna pay
two headstones for two lovers
who finally got away"
the secret sisters

DEVIL'S BACKBONE
"don't care if he's guilty
don't care if he's not
he's good and he's bad
and he's all that i've got"
the civil wars

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NOTES !

YES I did fancast some people, some are still their video game counterparts. Honestly, it's so hard for me to decidedly choose some of them like Arthur and John, whereas Dutch or Javier are like yessss exactly them. So for me Roger Clark could never be replaced, he'll always play Arthur, but you can always picture whatever you'd like. I just picture the characters more realistically.
And YES I did cast Lindsey Morgan as Maeve because she's Mexican/Irish, which is what Maeve is! Please don't whitewash characters hehe

this will have so much outlaw smut and it'll be rough and demeaning and also gentle and sweet and yes a daddy kink at this point stop reading my stuff if you don't have one.
this will NOT be a Dutch/Arthur fic idk who reads that but no thank you. similar to my tvdu/hp crossover fic, it'll be polyamorous with maybe 1 or 2 threesome scenes (or more god imagine Arthur and Dutch in a room with you alone and you're —)

As per all my books, this WILL have a happy ending.
Eventually.
It'll get worse before it gets better.
And Arthur will not have tb, because I enjoy angst but not inevitability.
I can't decide if Dutch will be canon Dutch or not so....we'll see how the story plays out.

this will be enemies to lovers + unexpected lovers, infidelity, and plot before porn, but there wiiiiiill be smut

WARNINGS !
If you're uncomfortable with smut, angst, violence, time period sexism, rape, assault, miscarriages, pregnancy, childbirth, (none of this comes from the rape I should clarify that), blood, graphic depictions of violence, animal death & mentions of animal cruelty (thanks Micah), racism, and honestly any other period-trigger warnings that are applicable here.

Enjoy!

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