Dying Doesn’t Hurt (As Much As Moving On)

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• End Racism In The OTW - Ya'aburnee by normal_thoughts_official

  Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)  

  • Mature
  • Major Character Death
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  20 Nov 2022

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolò di Genova
  • Nile Freeman & Nicky | Nicolò di Genova
  • Nicky | Nicolò di Genova
  • Nile Freeman
  • Booker | Sebastien le Livre
  • Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani
  • Angst
  • Like so much angst
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Depression
  • like seriously so much depression you've been fucking warned
  • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
  • ive always kind of headcanonned nicky as growing to be agnostic or an athetist
  • but for this one so much religious shit ended up making its way here
  • but he has rethought a lot what catholicism means to him
  • especially in light of joe
  • Muslim Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani
  • nicky buries him according to muslim tradition
  • im not a muslim so im deeply sorry for any inaccuracies in my research
  • Character Study
  • nicky Does Not Move On
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • i projected so much of my own depression on nicky oh lord
  • Nicky | Nicolò di Genova Loves Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • its honestly mild and only referenced but jic
  • theres some blood and bad shit and stuff
  • Nile Freeman is the leader of the Old Guard
  • Loss of Faith
  • the alternating between capital and non-capital 'god' in different scenes was intentional
  • likely to have historical inaccuracies but i did do research to the best of my abilities
  • a perhaps excessive amount of wordplay regarding mortality versus death and immortality versus life
  • joe dies and nicky is still immortal. thats it thats the fic
  • this was born because my friends and i were talking
  • about how joe is intense and nicky is calculating even in his pain
  • and then this was born
  • has a twin fic and everything
  • you might be wondering what happened to andy and quynh
  • well you see. that sexy little secret is so secret even i dont know it

  Summary

  Ya’aburnee

  This Arabic term means “You bury me,” a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them.

  Series

  • Part 2 of Dying Doesn’t Hurt (As Much As Moving On)

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