15 Works by whisper_that_dares (Vaisseau)
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The Games People Play by whisper_that_dares (Vaisseau)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
13 Jul 2025
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A collection of short Old Guard fics originally posted to Reddit, now saved here for your reading pleasure.
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Once Was All There Was by EditorBirb (Vaisseau), Vaisseau, whisper_that_dares (Vaisseau)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics), Napoleonic Era RPF, Historical RPF, 19th Century CE RPF, French History RPF
26 Feb 2024
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In December of 1812, near the border of what would one day become Lithuania and Belarus, a soldier of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée was hanged for desertion. There's just one small problem: it should have never happened.
What was the chain of events that led to that execution? And what happened after? Did it have something to do with the powerful men who rode with Napoleon, the ones whose decisions determined life or death for Sébastien Le Livre and countless others?
This is a story of The Old Guard from the point of view of one of those men, a story about a forger-turned-infantry sergeant and the bravest of the brave.
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An Awfully Big Adventure by whisper_that_dares (Vaisseau)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
03 Jun 2023
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It wasn't so bad being dead, Jean-Pierre decided eventually. He didn’t have any responsibilities, no daily drudgery to struggle with. He got to travel the world unseen, watching the years slip by as an invisible voyeur. That was nice.
Every ghost, however, needed something that tied them to the world of the living, something that kept them tethered. It could be a crumbling manse, a street corner, a train car, or a favorite childhood toy. It was always something of great importance to the dead, even if it wasn’t immediately apparent why.
Jean-Pierre haunted a person.
His father.
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Incendiary by whisper_that_dares (Vaisseau)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
11 Apr 2023
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Friends don't let friends burn Paris to the ground. Or at least, that's what Nile is thinking when she returns from vacation and discovers what Booker's been up to.
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Death After Life by whisper_that_dares (Vaisseau)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
31 Mar 2023
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Nile Freeman's had a good life. She's got a wonderful husband, two lovely daughters, and she's using her arts degree in a way she didn't expect, but it's a living. They even managed to find a house in Santa Monica at a reasonable price.
She doesn't think about her time in Afghanistan much. It's a decade and a half in her rearview mirror now. She saves that for the biweekly veterans support groups. Her life's been the best she can make it. Some might even call it charmed.
Then Nile Freeman dies for the first time. She's forty-two years old.
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Life Imitates Art by whisper_that_dares (Vaisseau)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics), Historical RPF, 19th Century CE RPF, Artists RPF
06 Dec 2022
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Sometimes it’s not about glory, or battle, or about helping people in danger. Sometimes, it’s about giving someone a pencil.
Once, not so long ago as immortals reckon things, Nicky and Joe met a young man who was still trying to figure out what he wanted out of life, and they gave him a little bit of encouragement to help him on his way.
In the present, the fate of that young man, and his relationship with his brother, gives Joe pause to reflect on his own relationship with his troubled younger brother, Booker.
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Counting Up, Counting Down by alby_mangroves, whisper_that_dares (Vaisseau)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
30 Sep 2022
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FOR THE THE OLD GUARD REVERSE BANG 2022! Decades after meeting him for the first time, Nile’s still unsure about how she feels about Booker. It’s not like she hasn't noticed the way he looks at her, but … there’s just so many buts. Then, in one awful moment, they’re torn apart. And Nile swears that she’ll do whatever it takes to get him back, even if it takes her years and years — even if it means having to cross the vast gulf between the stars — one day at a time.
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Fear & Loathing by whisper_that_dares (Vaisseau)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics), Quantum Leap (TV 1989)
11 Jun 2022
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Dr. Sam Beckett has leapt from life to life through different times and eras, but he's never made a leap like this.
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The Well by whisper_that_dares (Vaisseau)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics), Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation
27 Jan 2022
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"Jean-Luc was eleven years-old when he ran away from home for the first time."
It's 2316, and what follows helps shapes him from a boy to the starship captain he becomes. What follows are lessons from his brother, his father, and a weird old man who lives in an abandoned château in the middle of the woods.
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And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place by whisper_that_dares (Vaisseau)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
29 Sep 2021
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Quynh finds Booker six months into his exile from the others, and what follows is growth, change and, maybe, learning it's okay to not be okay together.
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3970 Spencer Street by whisper_that_dares (Vaisseau)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
15 Jul 2021
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Usually, when in the market for a new safehouse, the team is very methodical and picky about what they're looking for. Usually, but not always. This is not one of those times.
OR Quynh and Booker buy a house. Things kind of go downhill from there.
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Steal That Car by whisper_that_dares (Vaisseau)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
03 Jul 2021
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Booker introduces Quynh to the glamorous life of a car thief. And there’s a dog.
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Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now by whisper_that_dares (Vaisseau)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics), Lucifer (TV)
02 Jun 2021
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An alternate explanation as to why [redacted]'s soul wasn't in Heaven.
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Remember Not to Forget by whisper_that_dares (Vaisseau)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
07 Apr 2021
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There was no more sleep after that. Instead, hours later, he was watching the sun rise over the sea, and marveling again at the fundamental unfairness and cosmic indifference of the world. There's the sun rising, the world turning, the birds singing, everyone else just getting along with their daily routine, and here you are, experiencing the worst day of your life.
OR those late night phone calls no one ever wants to get.
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Stand Your Ground by whisper_that_dares (Vaisseau)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020), Expeditionary Force (Books), Expeditionary Force Series - Craig Alanson
01 Apr 2021
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An Expeditionary Force/The Old Guard fusion, OR what was Booker up to on the day the aliens invaded?