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#the old guard 2 #charlize theron #the old guard

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CHARLIZE THERON as ANDROMACHE THE SCYTHIAN

#the old guard #andromache the scythian

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i was looking at my old gifs earlier and i realized i Have The Technology to make them closer

#the old guard #joe x nicky

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okay but now I am thinking about how different Yusuf and Nicolo would have felt straight after the siege of Jerusalem & gaining immortality in the sense that all of their ideas of what their futures were going to be like changed.

I would think that Nicky would have probably accepted that joining a war party is deadly, so he must have been prepared for the option of not making it out alive. In fact, personally, I hc that he might have even expected it, but he felt that the cause was worth the sacrifice. Therefore, once he finds out that not only was their war party monstrous but that he also cannot die, I Imagine he really would not have any idea what to do. He hadn't really planned his future beyond the invasion, everything is a blank canvas or uncertainty and possibility.

On the other hand, because I hc Yusuf as a civilian who took up arms to defend the city, he would have had plans. He had an idea of what his life was going to look like, of who he was and what his place in the world was, of what he was going to go back home to. I imagine it would have been a much harder struggle for him to let go of those plans and goals he would have built for himself. While Nicky maybe had nothing to go back to while Joe had a lot of plans that he had to let go of that he would have mourned and that that is also something that created friction between them even after they stopped being enemies.

#the old guard #yusuf al kaysani #nicolò di genova #headcanon

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What a year. Happy The Old Guard day.

#the old guard

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redraw (and practice/test) of a page from Force multiplied (X).

Jpeg (still) version:

#the old guard

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we fight for what we think is right

#the old guard

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The Old Guard - Nicky

#the old guard #nicolò di genova

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to be fair, it used to be the first one except the guy just wouldn’t stay dead sooo. awkward

#the old guard #yusuf al kaysani #andromache the scythian

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THE OLD GUARD: Extended Scenes

#the old guard #joe x nicky

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[Insert ‘Quynh my beloved’ joke in here]

#the old guard #nile freeman #yusuf al kaysani

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My kickstarter for The Old Guard Pride Pins has launched! It’ll only be up for 15 days so get them while you can!

#the old guard #signal boost

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THEY'RE SWEET

THEY'RE SOFT

THEY'RE PERFERCT, YOUR HONOR

#the old guard #joe x nicky #immortal husbands

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marwan kenzari throwing himself through a window, call that a flying dutchman

#the old guard #i still don't have a tag for marwan

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I loved the light in this shot and had to recreate it! This took forever - I hate clothing folds now (but I still love Nile).

[ID: A digital drawing of Nile Freeman as portrayed by KiKi Layne in The Old Guard (2020). She is seen waist up, holding a rifle, and looking at the viewer with a serious expression. She is lit dramatically with red and pink light. End ID.]

#the old guard #nile freeman

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[insert sound of nicky fainting]

#the old guad #yusuf al kaysani

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21 for the intimacy prompts? 💖

21 - listening to someone’s heartbeat

“do you remember the first time someone killed you in front of me,” nicolò starts, green eyes lost in the vastness of the starry sky above them, resting his head on yusuf’s chest. “after we became lovers?”

the hand on the crown of his love’s head stills for a second, yusuf’s eyes looking down at him. “does this remind you of that?” yusuf asks teasingly, chuckling when nicolò turns around to roll his eyes at him. “and yes, i remember. it would be hard to forget that.”

nicolò’s cheeks turn pink as memories from a warm evening like this come back to yusuf in disjointed flashes; he feels the sting of an arrow piercing through the muscle on his upper arm, his grip faltering on the hilt of his scimitar, then his blood runs colder through his veins, eyes watering as nicolò screams his name like he’s never heard him do before, killing their attackers so swiftly it feels as if he is cutting through nothing but air, a desperate look in his green eyes as he calls his name over and over and over. yusuf remembers the numbness, the paralyzing fear that this poisonous arrowhead  could steal him away from his nicolò, that his eyes might never see him again, that his hands and lips might not get another chance to touch him, to love him. 

yusuf remembers coming back to life to find nicolò’s ear pressed against his chest, desperately waiting to hear his heart beat.

“this is my favorite sound in the world,” nicolò whispers in arabic now, resting his head back on yusuf’s chest, one broad hand sliding up to touch his waist. “more beautiful than any love song or poem, more calming than the murmur of rain or the roar of the sea.”

yusuf leans his elbows on the grass, poking a finger on top of his love’s head. when nicolò turns around to look at him, yusuf’s grin is blinding. “and you say i’m the incurable romantic, huh?”

nicolò crawls until their noses brush together softly. “i guess we both are.”

#the old guard #joe x nicky #immortal husbands