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   Handle with Care by gathersnomoths

   Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   12 Feb 2026

   Tags

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   • Arthur Morgan/Charles Smith
   • Arthur Morgan
   • Charles Smith (Red Dead Redemption)
   • Transgender Charles Smith
   • Non-Binary Arthur Morgan
   • High Honor Arthur Morgan
   • Fluff
   • Pre-Relationship
   • Coming Out
   • I hesitate to include a tag for
   • Transphobia
   • Because it’s very much internalized/just a worry of POTENTIAL transphobia but there are some lighter mentions of it having happened in the past
   • This is generally very soft though
   • Comfort No Hurt
   • Apart from some anxiety and tears but they push past it p quickly
   • Author and Beta reader/co-conspirator are trans lol
   • I think I’ve kept the language here p trans-friendly/non-triggering
   • No mentions of misgendering
   • No use of dead names
   • no transphobic slurs
   • that sort of thing
   • The heart of this is exploration of gender ft my emotional support cowboys
   • And finding comfort/understanding in one another
   • (will update additional tags once chapter two is finished lol)
   • also rating is for some cursing and off-hand mentions of past violence

   Summary

   “I’ve never told anyone about this before, but I was worried that—“

   That what? That their relationship would stagnate with the secret lingering between them? That Arthur would some day find out on his own, and it would go the way it always had in the past? Or that Charles would never be able to open up to Arthur, nor anyone else, and would instead continue to live only ever being half-known by those that mattered most to him. Perhaps he had been worried all along, before ever even meeting Arthur, that he’d never again have anyone know him completely and still care, still love him just as he was. 

   He shook his head, clearing the thoughts away. Even with Arthur’s acceptance, those pains were too large and burdensome to share now. Instead, he finished, “—I wanted to tell you. Reckon you’re the best friend I’ve ever had and I wanted you to know.”

   A trans Charthur coming-out fic. Fic and chapter titles from the Traveling Wilburys’ song of the same name.

   Language:

   English

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   6,061

   Chapters:

   1/2

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