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1. soldier on, achilles by feuertatze

   Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • No category
   • Complete Work

   27 Dec 2020

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Booker | Sebastien le Livre
   • Andy | Andromache of Scythia
   • Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani
   • Nicky | Nicolò di Genova
   • POV Booker | Sebastien le Livre
   • World War I
   • Post-World War I
   • 1920s Berlin
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • third battle of ypres (1917)
   • Field Medicine
   • Death
   • Existentialism
   • i guess
   • Mentioned Quynh | Noriko
   • joe and nicky as anchors to each other
   • andy who still believes in people
   • Coping with trauma
   • depressive episode (mentioned)
   • canon-typical drowning (mentioned)
   • canon-typical execution (mentioned)
   • Swearing
   • the muddy reality of trench warfare
   • napoleonic wars (mentioned)
   • Canon Compliant
   • Minor Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolò di Genova
   • Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism

   Summary

   "The tragedy of war feels like the blast wave of a grenade exploding, smells like the blood drying on an ancient scimitar blade, looks like carnage and mud and endless trenches and so, so little ground to battle for."

    

   Sebastien struggles with the inevitable tragedy of war.

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