iheardtheowlcallmenames:

Full Story (AO3 link)

Wordcount:

119 K

Chapters: 48 

Fandom: Far Cry 5, Far Cry (Video Games)

Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Relationships: Female Deputy/John Seed, Deputy/John Seed, Deputy & Grace Armstrong, Deputy & Sharky Boshaw, John Seed & Sharky Boshaw
Characters: John Seed, Sharky Boshaw, Grace Armstrong, Original Female Deputy

Additional Tags: Canon Adjacent Canon Divergence, Dialogue Heavy, Gratuitous Abuse of Radio Frequencies, Deputy Recruits John Seed, Slow Burn, Strangers to Enemies to Lovers, Unapologetic 4th Wall Breaks, Canon-Typical Violence, Alternating Perspectives, Unforgivable Usage of Eliot poetry, Overly Aggressive Forest Fowl, Original Turkey Character, Ingame Dialogue Interwoven, Redefining the ‘Collapse’, Arresting the Seeds, Rewriting the Ending, Heavily Implied Underlying Mythos, Self Reference and Recurrent Jests

Summary:

In the aftermath of her escape from John’s Gate, the Deputy frequently engages John on a private frequency. Confessions are meant to be private after all. John once thought the rouge Deputy mute; now he’d give anything to make her shut up. (So long as she doesn’t stop saying his name.)