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HIHI ITS SO NICE TO SEE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE RED DEAD FANDOM WHO ARE ALSO AGE REGRESSORS 😭💖💕

Could I request some headcannons for age regressor Dutch Van Der Linde please? They don’t have to be period typical or anything for convenience sake (pacifiers weren’t actually invented until about 1920 or so lol) maybe with Hosea Matthews as his caregiver? Or not, whatever you prefer! Please go wild, have fun with it 💕💖💕💖 Thanks again, have an incredible day!!

howdy! it is nice!!! <3 an yeah, quite a very small part of the red dead fandom i'd say-certainly not very many agere fics and the like :<

but, anyway, let's see-

honestly i've never really thought about regressed dutch before this! but now that i think about it, the guy is certainly pretty stressed. sorry there aren't very many (these were just the ones i could come up with off the top of my head) but here's some hcs, my friend! <3

age range 1-3 and early teens

honestly i think dutch wouldn't really be aware of like, exactly how old he is when he's small. he'd either say he's feeling younger or on the older side, but not anything really specific. hosea is usually pretty good at telling whether the man is feeling smaller or older.

i feel like he would be a teen regressor as well because he ran away in his teens, so obviously it wasn't the easiest time in his life-though he obviously hasn't had the easiest life in general.

very shy/private about his regression

really the only person who knows about it is hosea. the two are usually confined to either man's tent when dutch is small.

he feels guilty/bad about regressing

dutch sees it as not being able to handle the pressure of being the leader and looking out for everyone in the gang.

he's convinced that it's some kind of show of weakness, though hosea has been trying to help him not feel that way about it. and seems to be making progress slowly but surely.

at the lake with hosea

(purely because i love the fishing mission)

if the two men aren't cooped up in one of their tents, they're probably out fishing or sitting out by the lake.

when he's feeling older and they're out fishing, there's plenty of songs being sung and laughs being had. though if he's on the smaller side hosea is telling him stories and sharing his secrets on how to catch the most/biggest fish.

if they're just sitting down at the shore, dutch would probably be on the look for whatever cool/pretty rocks he could find. he either gives them to hosea or sticks them in his pockets. while the caregiver tries to show him how to skip the rocks on the lake.

the count/horses in general

he loves going on short rides with the count. he loves brushing the horse's mane and coat, and telling him whatever "secrets" he has. whenever he goes for a short ride, hosea is usually trailing not too far behind him on silver dollar.

every once and a while he rides with hosea on silver dollar.

sometimes he likes to just hang around by all the gang's horses and pet them as well.

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