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say the word (& I'll be your renaissance man) by liadan14
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
24 Feb 2021
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Finally, nearing the bottom of the notifications, Joe spots a new commenter. He gets a handful of new followers most days, but they usually either lurk or have been commenting for ages already. This guy isn’t a new follower, and Joe hasn’t seen him comment before. A quick glance at his profile shows that he is following Joe, and has been for a while - he likes almost everything Joe posts. He’s never said anything before, though.
This guy, @dj_nova, has commented, Excuse me, is that a quote from Inferno? below Joe’s deadlift video.
“Yes!” Joe cries out, sitting up in bed.
OR: The one where Instagram fitness and lifestyle thirst trap Joe Al-Kaysani has a problem in that he becomes incredibly tongue-tied around a very cute barista at his favorite café even though he really wants to discuss medieval poetry with him.
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16 Mar 2021
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“I am not angry,” Nicky begins despite all evidence to the contrary, from the hard set to his voice to the throbbing vein at his brow. “I simply want to know the truth. We are all brothers and sisters in arms, a family that must have trust in order to stand side by side in battle. So I should have to ask only once… Which of you is responsible for this betrayal?”
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24 Feb 2021
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Nicolò looks sheepish. "I killed you yesterday, and you awoke at the same time, the same place. But when I die, I wake at different times, different places. This bolt," he tosses it to Yusuf and it lands in the dirt by his knee, "it killed me yesterday, but I woke up many years from now. I lived several lifetimes in those places before returning here and pulling it from my neck."
Nicky's lives and deaths are different. He is unstuck from time - at every death he revives into a different point in his life. Each time he is struck down he wonders, will he awaken to deserts and swords? Will it be gunshots in cities? Joe and Nicky build a fractured life together, falling in love across two different sets of centuries, then patiently waiting for the other to fall in love too. He meets the rest of their little family out of order, but they still build a family around Nicky's involuntary time-traveling.
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24 Feb 2021
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Sometimes being immortal is about fighting. Sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes it’s about stories and homes and justice and closure. There are, after all, many different ways to live forever.
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11 Feb 2021
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“So did you fuck an Al-Kaysani or something?” Andy asked, leaning back on her chair like she didn’t just own the joint but the city it was in.
“What?” Nicky said, a little more flat than he meant to.
“Al-Kaysani’s favorite nephew up there can’t take his eyes off you,” Andy tilted her head slightly.
Nicky knew better than to look, but he did anyways, twisting in his seat to find Joe, leaning against a pillar on the second floor and drinking a beer like nothing bothered him. Nicky knew him too well to be fooled.
In which: Nicky and Joe have been keeping a secret from each other. It happens to be the same secret. They're both darlings of opposing Mafia factions.
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10 Feb 2021
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Nile and Andy could really use a break, so instead of diving into combat training they decide to go stay with Nicky and Joe at their apartment in southern Spain. Despite their extraordinary lives, Nicky and Joe's days are still filled with ordinary joys - cooking together, soaking up sunlight, falling more in love each day. It's possible, Nile realizes, that immortality doesn't have to be so daunting. (And maybe she's still surrounded by family, after all.)
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10 Feb 2021
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All Of My Tomorrrows by RenkaWrites
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
13 Sep 2020
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James Copley has his hands quite full handling a group of immortal mercenaries—including keeping tabs on Booker. A task that is considerably easier since the two have somehow fallen into a romantic relationship.
While Booker is still hurting from the consequences of his betrayal, James finds the Frenchman's sarcastic snark charming. The two widowers are kindred souls in increasingly similar ways as they work to redeem themselves and their actions.
However, when Copley is confronted by a face from the past, he is surprised to witness how protective immortals can be of their family and in turn how protective he is of them.
(This takes place after the film, in a nebulous time before Quynh's reappearance. No major spoilers for The Old Guard: Force Multiplied)
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09 Feb 2021
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if you close your eyes by caitlesshea for themoonwhenimlost
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
10 Sep 2020
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Yusuf first meets Nicolò on the battlefield. Then, he meets Nicolò in Cairo. Then, in other cities throughout the world.
Now, Joe meets Nicky at a coffee shop.
Or
The reincarnation fic, where Joe’s immortal and Nicky’s not.
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09 Feb 2021
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find me (some day, somehow, some way) by BeesKnees for peter_pan_dyke
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
26 Dec 2020
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The sea spits out what once was Nicolo di Genova. He might become that once again.
(Or: healing after being at the bottom of the sea for 500 years isn't simple.)
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09 Feb 2021
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Thirty years.
It took thirty years for their anger and hurt to cool down enough to realize that they missed him more than they were angry with him.
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08 Feb 2021
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“You don’t know these two as I do,” Death responds, with a shake of their head and a little selfishness with the joint. “Neither would know peace without the other. Besides I don’t believe I could take one without the other, even if I wanted to.”
“They are so young,” replies Hades. “All of the great faiths are well established long before they ever walked this earth as mortals. It seems unlikely that you would be so powerless.”
“In the face of great love,” they answer, “all are powerless.”
“Is it so great?”
“Did I not tell you the story?” asks Death. “Of the day they became immortal?”or Death and Hades have a conversation about the epic love of Joe and Nicky.
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08 Feb 2021
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By the time Nicolò heard the stirrings of a second crusade, he’d already made up his mind.
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08 Feb 2021
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Nile watches as Joe gets to his feet and heads towards Nicky, calling out something to him in Italian. Nile is torn between learning Italian, so that she can know what they’re saying, and feeling like it’s an intrusion on something that she’s not meant to hear. "He's very protective of Nicky, isn't he?"
"You're only noticing that now?" Andy asks wryly.
“It all seems a little bit one-sided, that’s all,” Nile muses. “I've never seen Nicky be as...violently protective over Joe.” Andy just hums, and Nile glances over at her. “You think I’m wrong? I know I haven’t been around long, but I’ve seen Joe get killed in a bunch of messy ways and Nicky has never done…that.”
Andy just hums again. “Look again,” she says when Nile throws her hands up in frustration. “Watch more closely. You’ll know when you see it.”
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01 Feb 2021
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They're grieving people Nile doesn't know, hurt from a betrayal she doesn't feel, and in the meantime she's trying to figure how she fits into a life of immortality.
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31 Jan 2021
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third for a word and the song keeps going by Macremae
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
05 Aug 2020
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It was honestly shaping up to be a pretty uneventful year before the Vatican got on Nicky’s bad side.
Or: three times in 2008 that the team genuinely thought about killing Nicky if only to get him to shut up about the changes to the Catholic English Mass and his unrelenting opinions on them, and one time Nile did.
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24 Jan 2021
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campus cryptid vs. future valedictorian by GlassRose
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
04 Aug 2020
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Mara Glass did not care about "weird hot guy," the supposed "campus cryptid." She had heard of him her first couple years and had him pointed out to her by a classmate once, but what was there to notice? Okay, he was probably thirty, a nontraditional student, so what? There were a number of those around. Apparently he was hot--well congrats to people who were into people, they could keep him. And if you asked Mara, from her extremely objective perspective, those Disney-green eyes were doing a lot of heavy lifting. There was nothing particularly noteworthy about a thirty-something guy who didn't talk about himself to twenty-year-old classmates. He probably had, like, a real life. There were rumors he was married, although Brittany noted that the only reason people thought that was because one time someone heard him finish a phone call with, "You light the candles, I'll bring dinner. I love you." None of that was remotely interesting to Mara. He sounded like a normal person, and she wished people would shut up about him.
Then in third year, she had a history class with weird hot guy.
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24 Jan 2021
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as the friendship goes, resentment grows by andrealyn
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
29 Dec 2020
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It's been a strange few days for Nile. First, she discovers she can't die, then Andy and Booker kidnap her to try and keep her hidden away from Joe and Nicky, who abandoned their goodwill towards humanity when they were captured in World War I. Nile's the one who decides that it's time to try and break the cycle, seeking to bring Joe and Nicky back into the fold, despite Andy and Booker's failure to do so, many times.
It's just a matter of getting through to the two men, who've decided that the only thing they care about is protecting one another.
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23 Jan 2021
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“We gonna tell her?” Joe mumbles, still busy eating the remnants of Nicky’s lunch from his plate.
“Tell me what?”
“Joe and I, we can read each other’s minds,” Nicky informs her as he sips his cappuccino, as if he’s talking about something as casual as their drink order. “Since the lab.”
They're already half of one another's soul, but after the incident at Merrick's lab, suddenly Nicky and Joe have a brand new connection between them.
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23 Jan 2021
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Joe is the new immortal not Nile, and Nicky is the one sent to go find him.
Based on a fic prompt!
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21 Jan 2021
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Please forgive me, if I act a little strange by crookedcrown
Fandom: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
20 Jul 2020
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14 Jan 2021