iolauss answered your question “@iolauss: #I ONCE WROTE A WHOLE FANFIC BASED UPON THIS SCENE#SUCH A...”
This one: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7290490/1/Dust (I wrote it ages ago as a teenager..I really should write more for the fandom)
Oh, man, it’s so good! I love it. Thank you for sharing it. It really fits my image of what Rowdy must have been like when Favor first signed him on--intense and eager to prove himself, reeling from the trauma of the war, ready to latch onto this job and this leader for direction and purpose. Then after a while on the trail, I think he settles down, back into his goofy, easygoing self. Your depiction of Favor is great too--his responsibilities, and the inevitable failures and loss, weigh him down more and more, and make him seem older than he is. And it fits right in with canon--something must have happened to Favor between seasons 7 and 8, I think. I love that you have him get to go home to be with his girls.