16 Works in John Marston Can't Swim
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Whether it is because of loyalty or something more, Javier Escuella will always defend John from the mock and accusations of others.
"If the tables were turned, he'd come to save me."
Yeah, no. Would John Marston even do the same for him? At the extend he expects? He wouldn't even dare to apology if something happened and Javier called for his help, right? Let a man dream and a bullet in his leg will flee.
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“I think he’s good for you.” Abigail said suddenly.
John paused for a minute to let the words sink in.
“How do you mean?”
“Hmm. He’s good with you, good with the boy. That Arthur’s done a lot for us.” Abigail nodded.
“He surely has. But what do you mean he’s good for me? Or with me. Or whatever you said.”
“Maybe he’s good for me, too.” She pondered aloud.
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Arthur and John go swimming at the local water park’s wave pool. Sadly for John, he can’t swim.
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Arthur tries to teach John how to swim... Or rather laughs at the sight of the man struggling.
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Okay, it's a little tempting, he won't lie. Not so much the water, but rather the man in the water, gleaming like a siren, dappled with the light that comes through the trees. Just out of reach.
Unless, of course, John actually gets in.
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- Part 5 of IEYW-verse
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Jack Marston becomes absolutely convinced that John is a mermaid and even gets Uncle in on his idea.
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"A person who performs most of the work of a group task. A very hard working person."
5 times Arthur saved the gang + the 1 time they saved him
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3 times Ellie cant swim (+1 time she can!) by Sporkss
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
15 May 2024
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Ellie is a known bad swimmer. Period.
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Tonight, Abigail’s being funny. Only John don’t know what kinda funny she’s being.
“Walk me down to the lake, will ya, John,” she demands, too straightforward to be a request.
“What for?” He awkwardly stares at the ground, making a point not to look at the sliver of soft cleavage bared by her blouse. She’d caught him staring once while she was bent over the wash bin and quickly landed a knee to his groin, scolding him about respecting ladies even if you paid for them.
“I need to wash,” she replies cattily as if his questioning of her is the greatest offense he could commit. Her hand rests expectantly on her jutted-out hip while the other holds a bucket.
“You can’t go by yerself?” John disinterestedly raises his brow. Expecting a good telling-off, he is surprised by a laugh.
“Clearly, you ain’t never been a woman out in the woods alone,” she snorts real ugly. The noise has him feeling stupid.
“Ask Arthur. Or Tilly or Karen,” John says, leaving out anyone but me
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A trip down to the lake involves more than John bargained for, but he's never been particularly good at denying pretty girls like Abigail. -
right where the deepest currents fall by spidermountain
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
18 Jan 2024
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“Look—if you want, we can pretend I never said nothin’. Blame it on, I dunno, on account of me almost drowning. We can go to sleep and forget everything.”
You looked up at the stars.
Hosea had told you about how the stars in the sky were older than how they appeared, that there were some of ‘em up there that didn’t even really exist anymore. They’d burnt up and imploded a long time ago. And all they’d left behind was their light traveling through the heavens for eons.
The gang hears rumors of an illicit high-stakes poker game and you’re tasked with the investigation. If you’d known John Marston was going to be your traveling companion, you never would’ve agreed to the job. When things (predictably) go horribly wrong, you have to act fast to save John’s life, and an afternoon reconnaissance turns into a night neither of you will likely forget.
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By 1896, the Wild West was on death's door. The armored fist of civilization had begun to encroach on the untamed frontier. Bounties were being captured or killed, gangs being were hunted down, and the wilderness was being churned into an unrelenting industrial machine.
Hidden away in a pocket of remaining wild territory, an outlaw and a stray find ways to escape all of it in one another.
In which John Marston learns to swim and you learn to drown.
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- Part 1 of Lessons
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Get Along, Will You? by whichstoodonrockyshores
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
11 Oct 2022
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Dutch is fed up with the fighting at camp, so he makes his four (least) favorite idiots do bonding activities. Shenanigans Ensue.
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- Part 10 of Backstory.
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The way his raspy voice called your name, you immediately suspected the two of you weren't actually riding to a score. Well, you and every other gang member. After all of these months of cutthroat tension and silent fantasies, could your wet dreams be coming true?
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John sat at a cliff, on looking a waterfall that ended into a large lake. He didn’t intend on going back to camp, but this time he wasn’t leaving either, not alive at least.
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The gun twirling, cigarette smoking, cowboy from the sky! by orphan_account
Fandoms: One Piece, Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
26 Mar 2019
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John Marston gets thrust into the One Piece world.
His sins forgotten but not forgiven, the only thing he can do now is cling on to the memories of Abigail, Arthur, and even Dutch as he struggles to make sense of everything around him.
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You got this fear in your gut somewhere that if you look too close at him like this--when you’re bathing, when you’re changing in the middle of camp, while he’s sleeping and you’re not yet--somethin terrible’s gonna happen, even if you don’t know what. Like he’s gonna see too much of you right back.
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- Part 1 of wild heart