Jul. 29th, 2020

celli: Joe and Nicky from The Old Guard sitting chained up in an armored van, unconcerned. (Nicolo/Yusuf van)
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Speaking in Tongues (562 words) by celli
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolo di Genova
Characters: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani, Nicky | Nicolo di Genova
Additional Tags: Morning After, Language Barrier, soft sweet murder husbands
Summary:

Yusuf stared down at him. “Beautiful,” he said softly, one of many words he would have to teach Nicolò to speak in his language soon. Maybe today would be the day for it. “So beautiful. How could I have ever killed you?”

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The Fall of Babylon (1200 words) by [personal profile] silverr 
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Rating: Teen
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Andy | Andromache of Scythia
Additional Tags: Period-typical Racism, Witch Hunts, Hypocrisy, Missing Scene

Summary: The day after Quynh is taken away, Andromache escapes the witch hunt.
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Title: Time passed, maybe too long
Pairing: Joe/Nicky
Summary: Sometimes, it just gets a bit too much. Silence is Nicky’s way of dealing with things. (The story picks up right after the end of the movie).
Tags: Joe’s POV, mute!Nick, selective!mutism, introspection, protective!team, becoming a family, slice of life, obligatory Malta reference, post-movie, movie!verse
Word count: 8407
Author's notes: Extended notes over at AO3 but all my gratitude goes to the ever-brilliant [profile] starwatcher307 for her always amazing beta work ♥

Read the story [AO3 link]
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What Time Leaves Behind (2473 words) by thedeadparrot
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolo di Genova
Characters: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani, Nicky | Nicolo di Genova
Additional Tags: Anniversary, Jerusalem, Pointless Arguments, Photography, A gas station - Freeform, Backstory
Summary:

Joe and Nicky celebrate an anniversary at a gas station, get into a pointless argument, take some photographs, and remember how they got here.

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A Little Faith (2001 words) by static_abyss
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Andy | Andromache of Scythia/Quynh | Noriko, Andy | Andromache of Scythia & Nile Freeman
Characters: Andy | Andromache of Scythia
Additional Tags: Minor Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolo di Genova, Past Relationship(s), Character Study, Canon Compliant, Post-Canon, Drowning, References to Depression
Summary:

Nile had come back. Maybe because Andy and the rest of them were people she thought were worth saving. Maybe because they're all any of them have left. Maybe because Nile cared about them, this group of empty, broken-down soldiers, not worth a damn. They were, incredibly, something Nile wanted to preserve.

It's fucking ridiculous. Baffling naiveté that will get Nile caught before she reaches her first century.

God, how Andy hates the babies.



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Down Time (6035 words) by static_abyss
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolo di Genova
Characters: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani, Nicky | Nicolo di Genova, Andy | Andromache of Scythia, Nile Freeman
Additional Tags: Minor Andy | Andromache of Scythia/Quynh | Noriko, Pirates, Pre-Canon, Canon-Typical Violence, Established Relationship, Canon Compliant, Character Study
Series: Part 1 of Stories on a Yacht
Summary:

Joe feels it even now, how the smell of salt in the air stirs memories. He vaguely recalls the seaside and ships docking at ports as a young boy, how muscled men would carry crates and sacks filled with all the things they'd traded. He thinks he used to swim in rivers where the water ran blue and crystalline, where fish scattered at his feet when he walked by. Something about the water calls him and leaves him with an ache that stings of home.

"Are you all right?" Nicky asks in soft Italian.

Joe turns to him, the sun just missing Nicky's chair. He grins and reaches out to take Nicky's hand, to kiss the back of it.

"I was just remembering you in a pirate hat," he says.

-

A story about loss, immortality, and pirates in the 1600s.



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Family Ties (4011 words) by static_abyss
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nile Freeman/Jay, Andy | Andromache of Scythia & Nile Freeman
Characters: Nile Freeman
Additional Tags: Minor Andy | Andromache of Scythia/Nile Freeman, Implied Relationships, Past Relationship(s), Bisexual Character, Light Angst, Immortality, Loss
Series: Part 2 of Stories on a Yacht
Summary:
"I have a story," Nile says.

She thinks of her father, of how her memory was the first thing to go, how if it weren't for the pictures she keeps on her phone, she'd forget the shape of her father's eyes. She looks at Nicky and Joe and thinks of all the good things they no longer remember. Then she turns to Andy and imagines being so old that nothing makes sense anymore.

"What is it?" Andy asks, leaning forward on her chair.

Nile sits up at the edge of her seat and lets her hand fall on top of Andy's. She looks down at the gray-blue floor between her feet and thinks of going to New York City for the first time, of the buzzing of a city come to life and the rush of people. She thinks of her father's wide smile and his arm around her shoulders.

"Let me tell you about the Metropolitan Museum of Art," she says.
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Hey all! The Comment Ficathon is accepting prompts for two more days, so if you've had some on your mind, best get em in there. We've also had several lovely fills =)
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Purity of Form (1480 words) by seascribble
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolo di Genova
Characters: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani, Nicky | Nicolo di Genova
Additional Tags: explicit musliming, Personal Hygiene, Historical, Temporary Character Death, emotionally charged circumcision
Summary:

Two centuries later, give or take a few decades, Yusuf is perhaps not as good a Muslim, in the strictest sense of following the deen, as he had been before falling in with Nicolò--falling in love with Nicolò--but he still takes pride in maintaining his fitrah.


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[personal profile] marina
Hi everyone! I've been meaning to joint his community for a while since I'm currently extremely obsessed, and finally got around to it!

For now wanted to share two fics and a meta post I wrote, in case it's of interest.

First, a fic about about Nile being welcomed to the team through a threesome with Joe and Nicky:

A Healthy Working Relationship (3594 words) by sabrina_il
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolo di Genova, Nile Freeman/Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolo di Genova, Nile Freeman/Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani, Nile Freeman/Nicky | Nicolo di Genova
Characters: Nile Freeman, Andy | Andromache of Scythia, Nicky | Nicolo di Genova, Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani
Additional Tags: background Andy | Andromache of Scythia/Nile Freeman, Pining, Cunnilingus, Happy Sex, Gentleness, Threesome - F/M/M, Kissing, Multiple Orgasms, Nile Freeman POV
Summary:

Nile has been on the team for a while, seen some wild shit, gotten mostly used to her new reality.

The last thing she expects is an invitation to a threesome.



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Second, a fic about Joe and Booker's backstories (or my version of why Joe specifically is so angry at Book by the end of the movie)

From one father to another (2834 words) by sabrina_il
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolo di Genova, Booker | Sebastien le Livre & Joe | Yusuf al-Kaysani
Characters: Booker | Sebastien le Livre, Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani, Nicky | Nicolo di Genova, Andy | Andromache of Scythia
Additional Tags: Backstory, Conversations, Joe trying to pass on some wisdom, Book being Book
Summary:

They had hung him by the neck shortly after crossing the Dnieper, for some military crime the dreams didn't reveal.

He'd been dressed in a French uniform, choking over and over, although the troops were in such disarray by then no one had stayed to verify his death.

It didn't take long to find him. The three of them were already in Russia.



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Finally, a meta post: Old Guard thoughts & feels, which includes:

- various headcanons two history geeks (who are not historians) came up with
- some fic recs
- some recs for songs in Arabic that are relevant for Nicky/Joe
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Title: Take What the Water Gave Me
Author[personal profile] redrikki 
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Pairing: Quyhn/Andromache, Booker
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 529 words
Summary: Quynh drowns and wakes and in between are Booker and Andromache. She would take his life if she could. So she does.

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