The Clipper's Apprentice (Chronicles of Gideon #1)

"You need a new name. A Baron's name. ... Gideon. My Clippers shall know you as Gideon. Their champion."
I was eleven years old, and with those words, I became someone else. A fighter. A killer. A catalyst.
Everyone knew it was only a matter of time before Baron Quinn's son and heir, Ryder, stabbed his father in the back in a bid for his lands. Who better to protect him than another son -- one with no ambition, one whose loyalties he could shape with pretty promises? A Cog bastard. Like me.
I'm fifteen now. I've fought for my father. I've killed for him. I've seen what lies beyond his borders. And now, undercover in the seediest underworld in the Badlands, I've begun to question if I really owe him anything, after all....
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AMC Into the Badlands fanfic. Pre-Season 1. OC-centric (as you can probably tell). Not so much AU as "canon-divergent" (the fancy name for "Lol what's a 'canon'?"). Not a crossover, though the title and basic premise were inspired by Robin Hobb's "The Assassin's Apprentice."