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Winner Takes It All (That's His Destiny) by Stickspirit215
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
04 Jul 2025
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Jack Marston is born and disrupts the life of the Van der Linde gang. More notably, his birth affects Arthur Morgan and John Marston’s relationship as brothers more than either of them could have anticipated.
Or, Jack is born, and Arthur has to watch John throw away what Arthur would kill to have again. Spans over the course of Jack’s first year of life into and just after rdr2’s main story
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- Part 3 of Family: New and Old
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22 Dec 2025
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The Sudden Resurrection of Abigail Roberts by Zorbo_Jorks
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
31 Jul 2025
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He’d learned of her death on the back of Arthur’s horse, fresh from Sisika and asking after his family, not knowing it would break his heart.
“Oh, John…” Arthur had sighed, low and sad and chalky with startling illness. “Abby never came back from Saint Denis.”
He and Jack had ditched the gang near as soon as John could get off his prison suit. But the terrible heartbreak— Arthur’s sad, sallow face, and the headstones of their three lost members (only two staked above bodies)— had lingered with him ever since. Arthur was long dead now, if the papers told it true. And so, he thought, was Abigail.
John has been living quietly with his son for years now, thinking the two of them all that was left of their family. Some bounty hunters passing through town thoroughly dismantle those beliefs.
[Or, a role reversal AU in which Abigail is the one sent after Dutch, Bill, and Javier, having been arrested during the bank robbery in Saint Denis]
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22 Dec 2025
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how many times do i gotta bury you, john marston? by westernmoon
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
03 Nov 2025
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John rides out to Valentine with a small herd of sheep to sell. He expects to lose a straggler or two, miss his family, and make less money than he hopes he will.
He doesn't expect to be recognised.
And he certainly doesn't expect to get shot.
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There was no strength in him. He sure as shit didn’t want to ride into his own ranch on the back of Abigail’s horse, slung over the old mare like some bounty hunter’s prize, but even now darkness pulsed at the edges of his sight. He swallowed hard against rising bile. He didn’t say no, unable to admit to that weakness, but Abigail didn’t need to hear it. She knew.
“Rest, John.” She kissed his fevered brow. Then, her voice back to its usual bluntness, she added, “And try not to fall off, you damn fool.”
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22 Dec 2025
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Jack Marston is dead. He did not live the life his mother had wished for him the moment he drew his gun on Ross, and a part of him feels bad.
But now he finds that Hell is a mild, cloudless day that is suspiciously like earth, and even more suspiciously like the Wild West.---
John Marston was shot to death by the Pinkertons outside his barn, never to reconcile with his son, falling right into the fate Arthur had tried so very hard to steer him away from. He wishes he could have done something differently, that things wouldn't have ended up so terribly in the end.
Unfortunately for him, that means getting mauled by wolves all over again, it seems. But this time, he will not mess things up.Bookmarked by WriterofDoom
20 Dec 2025
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John sleeps on the floor.
After the party. After the ride from Saint Denis. After running, frantic and sick to his stomach, through that maze of a cemetery, Arthur steady and calm by his side, revolvers in their hands.
After sitting in that fancy parlour, looking that snake Bronte right in the eyes, and doing everything in his power not to jump over the table and throttle the son of a bitch until he gave Jack up.
After all of it, deep in the night, John sleeps on the floor.
At Shady Belle, John reflects and remembers and has a few revelations. Better late than never.
[A canon compliant character study set immediately after the events of "Angelo Bronte, A Man of Honor" in Chapter 4 of RDR2. John/Abigail.]
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20 Dec 2025