what stranger miracles
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and i looking up at the stars by anderfels
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
25 Dec 2018
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“Don’t come to a party. Don’t want a drink. Don’t see no problem sittin’ out in the woods alone all night. At a party. Like you’ve been kicked outta bed for crumbs.”
“From the tragedy of your singing, I figured it was a funeral I was missing.”Sean's party set in Chapter 2. Arthur looks for Charles, attempts flirting.
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- Part 1 of what stranger miracles
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Morning dawns on Horseshoe Overlook with as much grace as Uncle after too many drinks, loud and clumsy and the sort of thing you don’t particularly want to look at for too long in case you go blind, which may in fact be a blessing. It’s hard to tell.
Arthur and Charles go hunting together after Sean's party in Chapter 2, and Arthur learns a lot more about Charles as they trail some poachers.Series
- Part 2 of what stranger miracles
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The brakes screech.
He bares his teeth.
Someone calls his name. Law’s closing in, and John is yelling, Sean is yelling, Charles- Charles’ eyes like the train’s furnace, spitting coke and coalfire, crashing into him as the couplings hit the wagon, feeling just like hands on his thighs.Series
- Part 3 of what stranger miracles
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you have slumber'd upon yourself by anderfels
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
21 Jan 2019
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If he had the opportunity, he’d throw Micah off the overlook without hesitation, but Charles isn’t sure he truly trusts any of them, beyond what’s necessary to live with them.
Arthur, though.
Isn’t he always the exception?Set during and after 'The Sheep & The Goats' and 'A Strange Kindness' in chapter 2, Charles finds out some more about Arthur as they rescue a German family
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- Part 4 of what stranger miracles
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strong is your hold, o mortal flesh by anderfels
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
25 Feb 2019
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Who knew maize could be such a maze, Arthur muses. Huffing at his own brilliant wordplay, he makes a mental note to tell Charles that joke. Later. When they’re not shooting bounty hunters in a cornfield game of cat and mouse.
Set during the Chapter 3 mission 'Magicians for Sport', Arthur and Charles track Trelawny to some bounty hunters, and as usual, everything goes spectacularly wrong.
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- Part 5 of what stranger miracles
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“We should...get out on a real trip soon,” Arthur says, low in his voice, still unsure, hesitant, resting his forehead against Charles’ when he straightens back up. Charles’ eyelashes flicker, thick black like the perfectly painted eyes of ancient Egyptian frescoes, lined with kohl, and such a rich liquid brown beneath, like drops of coffee. “Go wanderin’ for a few days, y’know?”
Set somewhere in Chapter 3, Arthur and Charles go on a hunting trip, and Arthur thinks on his developing relationship with Charles while getting summarily roasted by his family back at camp.
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- Part 6 of what stranger miracles
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i stop somewhere waiting for you by anderfels
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
21 Jul 2019
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Arthur shifts his aim. Hovers on Colm’s haggard face, slightly out of focus due to the sheer distance. And Colm - somehow - glances up to his right. Directly at the glint of the rifle scope.
For a split second, Arthur looks him in the eye.
He flinches back. Footsteps clatter behind him, skidding on the rock. He turns, and the butt of a rifle smashes into his head.Set during and after 'Blessed Are The Peacemakers' in Chapter 3, a bid to parley with the O'Driscolls goes disastrously wrong. Charles takes it upon himself to find Arthur and bring him home before he succumbs to days of torture and imprisonment.
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- Part 7 of what stranger miracles
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“Figured you’d be wanting it back sometime,” Charles says softly, and presses his lips tight together around the threat of a smile, reaching across the small gap between them as they ride to pass Arthur his hat. Slightly battered, and very worn, but uniquely precious, as only a man’s hat can be.
“Guess since this is your first real ride out...well. A good cowboy needs his hat.”Still healing from his ordeal with the O'Driscolls, Arthur goes fishing with Kieran, then he and Charles finally get a few days to themselves after tracking one of Strauss' debtors in Strawberry.
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- Part 8 of what stranger miracles
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The heat smacks like a punch. Adjusting his neckerchief over his nose, Arthur takes in the length of the road, disappearing into a red haze some hundred yards ahead. A peculiar, suggestive heaviness seems to linger, trapping the swooning stores, the hotel with its wrought balconies and flower baskets, the picket-fenced houses, in a sweet, oozing calm, as if they’ve been preserved in amber, sepia-toned and motionless.
It’s quiet.Spanning the three story missions 'A Short Walk in a Pretty Town', 'Blood Feuds, Ancient and Modern', and 'The Battle of Shady Belle', events in Scarlett Meadows come to a fatal head, and Arthur struggles to confront his own anger.
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- Part 9 of what stranger miracles
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the ravening clouds, the burial clouds by anderfels
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
05 Sep 2021
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‘Papa’ Bronte had given Jack two pairs of slippers. A toy box, a library of books. The road to Shady Belle rumbles with the warning growl of alligators, the city smog drifting far across the river, and Arthur has to wonder if they have actually rescued him at all.
Spanning 'The Joys of Civilisation' and 'Angelo Bronte, Man of Honour', plus the stranger mission 'Help a Brother Out', Arthur is introduced to the wonders of Saint Denis, and Jack is returned home.
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- Part 10 of what stranger miracles
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“Who’re you proposin’ we introduce to the gilded pleasures of high society instead of Mister Williamson?” he asks Hosea, one eyebrow arched with what could be amusement. It’s hard to tell with Dutch.
“Charles,” Hosea says simply, and shares an unseen look with Dutch, his profile pointed as he turns back. “At least he’s clean.”Beginning with 'Money Lending and Other Sins V', and ending with 'The Gilded Cage', Arthur and Charles get acquainted with both the lowest and highest of Lemoyne society.
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- Part 11 of what stranger miracles
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There is no birdsong. The hooting of pelicans and chatter of parakeets is almost as constant as the alligators’ droning hum, the cicadas’ buzz. He picks his gaze up from the battered siding. Dutch’s head is tilted. Bending forward, he leans over the railing beside Arthur, frown caught on something behind his head, eyebrows furrowed in strained confusion. “What…is that?”
Set primarily during 'Horsemen, Apocalypses', Arthur is forced to reckon with the lasting trauma of his abduction in Chapter 3. Spans Black Belle's chapter of 'The Noblest of Men, and a Woman', 'Fatherhood and Other Dreams', 'Brothers and Sisters, One and All', and 'American Fathers I'.
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- Part 12 of what stranger miracles
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Charles clears his throat. “Don’t mind Arthur,” he says, and can hear the warmth in his own voice, the softness with which his tongue speaks his name. He glances sideways to Eagle Flies, and shifts to sit more comfortably, crossing his legs. “He…acts.”
After just about surviving 'Urban Pleasures', Arthur brings Charles to meet Eagle Flies for the second part of the Chapter 4 mission, 'American Fathers'.
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- Part 13 of what stranger miracles
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There are no stars to be found above or below, only an unsettled, frothing gumbo, strange bird calls amidst the insect chatter, a humidity that’s hard to breathe. His shirt is plastered to his chest and back, likely permanently tinted green, and the feeling that he can’t fully expand his lungs within the soggy, slimy fabric is particularly difficult to ignore.
Set after the Chapter 4 mission 'Country Pursuits' and during 'Revenge is a Dish Best Eaten', Arthur spends time in Lagras before the gang pays Angelo Bronte a final visit.
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- Part 14 of what stranger miracles