Barely_A_Flicker
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When debt collector Ace Dupont and his companion Berry Shoot follow a lead south, they stumble into the orbit of the Van der Linde gang. What begins as a temporary arrangement—an ankle sprain and a borrowed fire—unravels into something far deeper.
Ace is a man of masks: a silver tongue, a pistol polished to perfection, and a spade tucked in his hatband. But the past won’t stay buried. Francis Mallory—the man who robbed him blind and left him hollow—reappears in the worst possible place, dragging old wounds into the firelight of camp.
Arthur Morgan doesn’t trust Ace. At first, it’s the lies, the polish, the charm. But mistrust begins to shift into something stranger—curiosity, fascination, even reflection—as he finds himself watching Ace more than he means to. And Ace? For all his careful distance, he starts to see something in Arthur too: a man of grit and silence who might just break through his defenses.
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14 Apr 2026
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Second epilogue added
Arthur Morgan followed his own advice and left the gang when he had a child (the canonical Eliza and Isaac), taking up as a bounty hunter. Along the way he picked up a young John Marston, who thus never runs with Dutch. Despite leaving, Arthur never truly left his connections behind him, and when Dutch asked for help, he always answered. In 1899, during the event of the game, this arrangement might eventually force Arthur to choose to whom he truly owes his loyalty.
John sneered. "You think I'd protect Dutch Van der Linde? Believe me, if I knew where he was, I'd tell you. Hell, I'd go get him myself. He's worth 10 large right now."
Milton sneered right back. "I am not a fool, Mister Marston, kindly do not treat me as one. You would do nothing without Arthur Morgan's say-so, and that will be what puts you on the gallows right beside him."
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12 Feb 2019
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Arthur Morgan runs into wildlife photographer, Albert Mason, up in the snowy Grizzlies making the attempt to photograph a moose. When the only majestic creature they encounter is a very hungry grizzly bear, Arthur has to do what he does best to save the hapless city-dweller yet again--but as Arthur accompanies the shaken man back to his cabin refuge with wounds that need tending, he discovers something far more dangerous than the bear is lurking in the shadows of his heart.
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03 Feb 2019
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He’s surprised Arthur even wants him to come along on this hunting trip. They haven’t done something just the two of them in too long. They split up a lot these days: Arthur and Hosea, John and Dutch. At camp, they all still joke and argue and sing and squabble, but the fractures are there just the same.
And John has no idea why.
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29 Nov 2018
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Jacob and Freddy break up, then make up…fifteen years later. (Takes place after the main game, up to and through the events of Jack the Ripper.)
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- Part 2 of Freddy
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09 Nov 2018