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headcanon that john intentionally dropped his gun just before he died because he was trying to throw it away so he wouldnt die with a gun near him but didnt have the strength and it landed next to him :(

i accept your headcanon and raise you that he knew his wife, his son, would be the ones to find his body. the first to see him - dead. and even if he didn't have the strength to throw the damned thing away, he wouldn't let Jack see his father dead with a gun still in his hand.

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fanfic silly i'll never write but hello kierabeth nation + to the two people who care about those who hunger this is canon - tdlr: kieran borrows a uniform

obviously, no one believes one mr loser horseboy kieran duffy when he says he was in the army - let alone that he had any sort of rank. but. mary-beth just wants to see it. could a thing as elusive and cryptic as a polished, uniformed kieran actually exist?

hosea happens to have an old uniform laying around from a past con. mary-beth borrows it and, with the assistance of the girls in camp, tells kieran about this con they used to run, with the charming military man distracting rich women while the feather-fingered artists amongst them rob them blind

kieran immediately baulks because that is an infantry uniform and he was in cavalry. karen is shocked he actually knows the difference

kieran rolls his eyes, does what he can to wash up while not being allowed to leave camp, and swaggers back in with a dapper, pressed uniform and newfound confidence

mary-beth hopelessly can't stop herself applauding. he is more stunning than she could have dreamed

karen and tilly, equally disgusted by the sheer enamor radiating off mary-beth, argue that he can't just look the part, he has to act the part for the con. which means charming

the bet? get arthur 'damned o'driscoll' morgan to give him a cigarette. no sneaking it out of his pocket, no sleight of hand, arthur must offer him a cigarette

kieran agrees

now, to their credit, the ladies did forget that arthur morgan is a very, very pathetic man. but they eavesdropped as kieran strutted over in his uniform, flashed a smile, and asked for a cigarette so sweetly, with so much confidence and faux charisma arthur actually laughed

it wasn't enough. arthur held out the cigarette packet. kieran bowed his head and took the filter between his teeth

mary-beth had never felt more rage. arthur is turning a unique shade of pink

they agree that good ol' sergent kieran is plenty charming, and he lights up at the brief praise so much mary-beth things she might faint all together. they tell him to keep the uniform and they'll let him know when they need him. kieran is begrudgingly relieved for a change of clothes, at least

arthur later goes up to hosea and asks what that was about. hosea explains. arthur frowns. ''when did we do that con???'

of course they didn't, but damned if mary-beth isn't a convincing liar who wanted to see that o’driscoll boy in uniform

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am i bisexual or do i just want to look like that man

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Dutch I will give you $10 dollarbucks for Kieran Duffy

Hmmm....

No

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VANDERMATTEWS AND THE KILLERS with a new text style i guess?? this could’ve been such a good edit but unfortunately capcut decided by all means possible that overlays must not work while i’m using them (it was probably my fault but im blaming them)

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can i call myself ceo of kierbert if i took an extended break from making content and then fell back in love with it

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sometimes rdr really don’t boot unless I threaten to task manager its ass

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I would like to thank you for introducing me to my new favourite ship. Bill x the three bad bitches he pulled by being a grumpy alcoholic (his special form of autism rizz). Mac, Kieran, and Javier take their turns "looking" after Bill who is just smitten.

i love sharing the Bill x Mac agenda. spread it. everyone must know they were boyfriends.

lord knows how Bill did it...i think Mac saw a fat hairy bear and was like GOD i need him LOL...pathetic closeted gay man, he'd stare at Bill with what people assume is a death glare, but Bill knows it means 'i wanna kiss you but im too shy rn' he's like aggressively flirting or gifting things to Bill but not saying its him, but then asking if Bill liked it, and when Bill says 'oh yeah idk who gave it to me, but they're nice' Mac is internally screaming in victory

i also HC Mac was only open about his feelings with Bill, and vice versa. they trusted each other, able to become soft for just a moment...

ALSO they're trying to one-up each other all the time. 'i beat up 15 sailors' 'yeah well i beat up 20' '...you damn liar fuck you.' 'IM NOT LYING YOU'RE LYING!!'

they think they're sneaky but everyone knows

ugh i could yap forever #sorry

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i ship mac and bill so hard its canon to me btw. a headcanon if you will.

like to me they dated!!! or at least crushed on one another!!! HAVE YOU HEARD BILL TALKING ABOUT MAC??? AWUGHHH they are homos. 2 me

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kieran voice: what if we kissed a lil first

“you gon’ make it?” kieran i have tuberculosis

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i miss kieran duffy

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kierabeth but canon

there are pink and blue flowers outside my window and i pointed them out to my friends and was like “omg kierabeth” but now the blue ones are starting to wilt. i cant have SHIT.

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got a lovely little hc that kieran had a sibling in his old gang and had to watch them die when the o’driscolls attacked them ❤️

i will never let go of kieran being an only child BUT y'know what would be devastating since kieran was so young when his parents died he had a found family sibling in a fellow street urchin. they did everything together. closer than arthur and john. he was the older brother sort who taught him how to use a gun, how to escape down alleys and vanish when they stole to survive, enlisted in the military with him, ran when kieran ran. his 'older brother' was the one who joined the old gang and then argued for kieran to be allowed in, kept him safe, would not go anywhere without him.

and then kieran watched him get hogtied and lined up by o'driscolls, along with every other person kieran had ever cared about in his life. his brother was so reckless and fearless that when the gunman walked down the line, shooting them one by one, he spat on his boots.

and the second he saw his brother's unseeing, dead stare, and the shotgun wound that left his skull a deformed, red mash, kieran knew he would never be safe again.

arthur reminded him of his brother a lot. c:

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hi favorite kieran hcs mutual i need to know ur thoughts on kieran being born in ireland or otherwise being born with the name “ciaran” and having his name forcibly anglicized. bc the thought hasnt left my mind.

hello fellow kieran sufferer/enjoyer

immediately stealing that headcanon and putting it in my pocket thank you

my hc is kieran was born in ireland and his family immigrated over v shortly after. they had enough for their own tickets barely but technically smuggled kieran aboard. i am adding to this headcanon that kieran's mammy named him ciaran, but his childhood nickname was mousey because a) he was a quiet kid and b) in preparation for very illegally sneaking him onto the boat they would practice playing 'quiet as a mouse'. kieran was too young to have any memories of this.

to offer some of my own angst kieran's parents absolutely adored him but, having heard from friends about anti-irish sentiment in america, his pappy was very big on 'integrating'. he was the one who anglicized kieran on the paperworks when they landed because mammy duffy was illiterate. so was he but he could read/write enough to do the paperwork (poorly).

kieran's parents spoke irish to each other only in the privacy of their own home (and usually only when they were having conversations they didn't want kieran to hear, like not being able to afford bread or the general struggle to find work and so on). the only time in his life kieran's pappy ever raised a hand against his son was when he heard kieran parroting some words in irish, and spanked him until they were both in tears because he wanted kieran to be as american as possible so his son could have a better life. which - didn't quite work out.

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kieran duffy would watch spirit stallion of the cimarron and start crying and he’d have to take a long walk. the fact that its a beautiful movie aside he’d see the scene where spirit is tied to that post without food or water and he’d be like fuckkkkkkk that horse is literally me if i was so much cooler

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this would work. alden with his awkward king and his rabid dog (titles interchangable between kieran and javier)

ngl this is how it feels when willscuella shippers unfollow me

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wait i've never heard someone talk about this how wild is it that pearson just. writes to his aunt. sure sadie reads his letter and pearson is absolutely boasting about his exploits but pearson has an aunt. he has a family he writes to outside of the gang.

do you think lenny writes to his mom, to let her know he's still alive out there? did molly brag about her american life to her family back home? do you think sadie wrote to her sister to tell them what happened to jake, or did she let them assume she died with him?

do you think people like sean, and tilly, karen, and even john, looked on bitterly as people received letters from a family that existed outside the gang? did arthur reads letters from eliza about how fast isaac was growing aloud around a campfire? do you think lenny offered to help the illiterate of the gang write letters, only to be met with a stony expressions as they hopelessly asked to who?