Fic: Bad Luck & the Law of Averages (05/13), The Old Guard, Nicky/Joe, mature

[beren_writes]

Title: Bad Luck and the Law of Averages (CH 5 of 13)
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Pairing: Nicky/Joe
Summary: Nicky can't help assisting people in need, but this time he's being played and those duping him come with fangs. When he goes missing the whole team are frantic, particularly when they start having strange dreams, especially Joe. They have to find Nicky before it is too late.
Rating: mature
Warnings/Tropes: Vampires, Immortal!Husbands, Nicky Whump
A/N: Yes, of course I wrote vampires into TOG – it is my mission in life to write vampires in every fandom. 😂 You're welcome 🧛😂.
Seriously though – I hope everyone enjoys reading this one, I have so enjoyed writing it. Thanks to Soph for the beta.
Links: DW - 5  AO3 - 5

Thoughts on perceptions of age -- or youth.

[starwatcher]

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I am currently writing a detailed transcription of the movie. Netflix has a dialogue transcription, but no descriptions of actions, reactions, etc. I'm adding all that. And yes, I'll announce it and make it available to fandom when I'm finished.

But that means I am studying this film line by line, sometimes word by word. (Such a hardship. </snark>) As such, I'm seeing a LOT more than I did in my previous three watchings -- and transcribing it gives me time to think around the words themselves, you know?

I've just reached Booker telling Nile, "You'll always and forever be the young woman right there..." and it made me think.

Cannon tells us (I think, may be misremembering) that Nile is 27, but to my eyes, she doesn't look it. And that can have advantages and disadvantages.

I was regularly taken as a teen until I was almost 30 -- and there is a difference in the ways adults react to other adults versus someone they think is just barely (or not quite) out of teen-hood. As an adult, it could sometimes be quite aggravating. OTOH, I could get away with freer, "more juvenile" behavior without someone reacting as if they wanted to tell me "act your age" because they didn't know I was 25 or 27.

So Nile may be able to slip into places or do things because observers dismiss her as "just a kid". And/or she may have to push harder to get others (the mundanes who don't know her) to treat her as a competent adult.

Just my two cents. I'll be interested to see your thoughts, but don't expect a response very soon -- I'm busy transcribing.

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