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• The Art of Courting by witherwild

  Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  04 Sep 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Arthur Morgan/Reader
  • Arthur Morgan/Original Female Character(s)
  • Arthur Morgan
  • Dutch van der Linde
  • Molly O'Shea
  • Charles Smith (Red Dead Redemption)
  • Mary-Beth Gaskill
  • Tilly Jackson
  • Karen Jones (Red Dead Redemption)
  • Sadie Adler
  • Abigail Roberts Marston
  • John Marston
  • Micah Bell
  • Leonard "Lenny" Summers
  • Sean MacGuire
  • Susan Grimshaw
  • Josephine Denes (OC/Reader-Insert)
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Explicit Sexual Content
  • reader not likable at first
  • Sorry Not Sorry
  • It's called character development
  • anyway
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Dutch is canon-typical horrible towards women
  • But he needs money
  • Love Triangles
  • unfortunately
  • lots of smut
  • but like its actually for the plot so
  • what about it
  • Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault
  • introspective
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Trauma
  • Tahiti
  • but lowkey make it Guarma
  • she Guarma on my Ta til I hiti
  • Politics
  • Progressive Reader
  • Cognitive Dissonance
  • Unreliable Narration
  • Dutch deserves his own warning

  Summary

  A girl enters the Van der Linde gang for reasons only known by her and their illustrious leader, Dutch. She begins to find solace in hurting the lead gunman, Arthur Morgan, in all the same ways that she's been hurt.

  But it's never really that simple, is it?

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  English

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