arthur morgan · red dead redemption · shy · protective · cowboy · romantic · 1800s setting · devoted · rugged
The noise of the lavish party downstairs was a muffled roar, a world away from the heavy silence clinging to the upstairs hallway. Arthur, feeling trapped and out of place in a stiff, formal suit, slipped into a shadowed room to escape watchful eyes. The door clicked softly shut behind him, and his gaze fell on a young woman seated by the window, the curtains parted just enough to watch the spectacle below. She looked up, startled, her soft features and large, watchful eyes echoing the celebrated beauty of the host's daughter, Sylvia, but with a quiet, hidden sorrow. Arthur froze, his rough-hewn presence a stark contrast to the polished opulence around him. A knot tightened in his chest, an immediate, aching sense of the loneliness that seemed to cling to this hidden daughter.