#2thoughts anon

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nicky when nile bursts into the lab with them all strapped down: we gotta be POLITE AND WELCOMING! -2ta

#2thoughts anon #thoughtful king #Anonymous

[wickedpact]

also now picturing him finding a love letter he wrote to nicky but it’s just signed as from “J” or maybe even a different name he went by at some point and being that he has only ever known himself as yusuf automatically jumps to the conclusion that there is Another Person - 2ta

joe: this 'j' man is the perfect rival. he draws just like me, he writes poetry just like me, and he seems to love nicolo deeply...... just like me.... if only i knew the identity of this scoundrel....

andy, staring directly into the camera while joe mutters to himself and shuffles through his own goddamn things:

#anonymous #2thoughts anon

[wickedpact]

love it! i’d like to pitch the addition that booker suggests joe forge this old painting done by an unknown artist that’s worth millions and joe is like “you want me to make a forgery of This?” “yeah, what, can you not do it?” “can i not- booker i painted the original!” - 2ta

joe: booker this is literally a painting of andy

booker:

booker: gonna be honest, i didnt recognize her without a bottle of vodka in her hand

#2thoughts anon #sdfghjkl #Anonymous

[wickedpact]

would, realistically, copley know about joe & nicky? yes. do i find the concept of copley not knowing hillarious? yes. and even better yet: the guard assuming copley knows but he is clueless. copley gets them somewhere to stay on a mission for some reason and he gets EVERYONE their own room thinking “oh wont they all appreciate their own rooms since they seem to normally be living on top of each other” and maybe even leaves them a note saying such and later copley gets a confusing vaguely worded threat from andy about how they don’t tolerate homophobia. - 2ta

nicky looking down at the bedroom copley got for him like ‘what the FUCK am i supposed to do with this???’

#2thoughts anon #five times copley didnt realize joe and nicky were a couple + one time he walked in on them necking #A Fanfiction By Me #Anonymous

[wickedpact]

just picturing they can’t take amnesiac joe to any popular museums bc there will inevitably be a painting of nicky that he will lose his mind over - 2ta

its one half 'I drew this??? I drew this????' baby artist awe and one half 'this cant be allowed. andromache his tits are out. andromache. andromache what about his tits.'

#anonymous #2thoughts anon #joe: we should steal it back #andy: why #joe absolutely unable to look away from the painting: the uh. the affront on nicolos dignity. yeah.

[wickedpact]

i’m truly loving the mental image of joe and nicky pining for each other but in slightly different flavors meanwhile andy and nile are having the time of their lives re-introducing joe to the modern wonders of the world. nile maybe going like “do you think we should do smth about that (the pining)” and andy’s like “nah…… let’s show joe a motorcycle” - 2ta

DEEPLY important that every time they talk theyre both extremely suspicious of each other. nickys like 'haha joe. .. . .do you remember that one time you slipped in fell in the nile? lol.' and joes internally like 'fuck that wasnt that long ago what if i tell him yes and he realizes that i remember i kissed him and it turns out the kiss was me just being embarrassing and he has to let me down for presumably a second time and it gets awkward' and on the outside hes like 'UHHHHHH yeah that sounds sorta familiar. lol.' and nicky internally is like 'fascinating bc joe told me on december 14th 1774 that he remembered falling into the nile that one time very vividly so EITHER yusuf is lying about remembering it bc it hasnt happened yet OR it did happen already for him and doesnt want me to know, either way hes trying to deceive me, interesting, rather interesting' and on the outside nicky is like 'cool :)'

#desperately not wanting to make the love of your life uncomfortable while in a vulnerable position and ending up playing 4d mind chess-- #--with them is gay culture probably #2thoughts anon #anonymous #joe is like 'can we save some of this cotton candy for nicolo when we see him :)?' and andys like 'no' #and niles like 'youre a MONSTER he just wants to give his crush some cotton candy!!!!!' and andys like 'THEYVE BEEN MARRIED 900 YEARS'

[wickedpact]

actually i DO have an explanation for the immortality

it

just

be

like

that

sometimes

-2ta

(alternatively: they’re just Built Different. full stop)

'thats just how it be sometimes'

-nicolo di genova, to steven merrick, c. 2019

#anonymous #2thoughts anon

[wickedpact]

ugh. ugh. andy and nicky posing as siblings. fuck. would they even have to FAKE ANYTHING. honestly they probably stumble into the “pretend to be siblings” idea bc someone genuinely mistakes them for siblings (and it’s such a nice change from the usual “husband/wife” assumption so they go with it)

also hm. now i want like. idk a victorian or regency era au which andy and nicky are disguised as siblings. maybe booker and joe are two of andy’s “devoted suitors” who she just won’t make a decision about who she’ll marry (because. she’s not going to marry either of them. thank you very much. but the people they’re conning don’t need to know that) so they just kinda, are tagging along with andy and booker. idk. i think there’s a lot of potential here and i would heavily like to see it explored. - 2ta

SHUTTTTTT UPPPPPP THE COURTING THING!!!! joe and booker take it EXTREMELY SERIOUSLY bc 1.) theyre competitive and 2.) joe’s a huge romantic and booker was married so they have Experience

(joe, Local Homosexual: I Will seduce andromache first and theres nothing you can do about it, booker)

and theyre all GAY so the DRAMA of it all is the most important thing. joe and andy go on a walk in the estate gardens and joe stops her by the fountain and reads her a love poem he wrote for her. ANDREA YOUR PALE GREEN EYES HAVE ENRAPTURED ME YOUR FINE DARK HAIR IS LIKE THE FINEST SPUN SILK YOUR CHEEKBONES ARE SCULPTED FROM THE FINEST PALEST MARBLE (he delivers said poem while leaning slightly to the left and making direct eye contact with nicky, who’s Escorting andy)

and andy’s like WELL monsieur al kaysani last time monsieur le livre was here he brought me a newborn lamb. (she doesnt mention that nicky’s been taking care of the lamb. he named it annabella and he lets it sleep in his bed) but the poem was ok. nicolo what did you think of my suitor’s poem

nicky, visibly and audibly tearing up: i think it sucked

THEYRE THE TALK OF THE NOBILITY AND LITERALLY NO ONE HAS CAUGHT ON AND THEY ALL LIVE FOR THE DRAMA

#200k longfic outside pov of an OC who's close-ish to all four of them putting in the DETECTIVE WORK trying to figure out what feels Off -- #--about the situation #I FEEL SO ALIVE #2thoughts anon #Anonymous #the regency con au

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can i suggest the alternative where andy does in fact. know how to use a smartphone and pretty well but when handed one she acts like she’s never seen one before. nile catches her playing candy crush 2 hours after stating she has no idea how to work a smartphone - 2ta

andys been pretending that she doesnt know how smartphones work for the past ten years. shes never been more dedicated to a bit

#nicky pretending not to know english to piss book off 🤝 andy pretending not to get smartphones to piss book off #2thoughts anon #anonymous

[wickedpact]

also joe finding these drawings and is like “this could still mean nothing…. maybe he’s just a very good friend who lets me use him to practice my art skills” - 2ta

joe sees it but his style/capabilities have changed so much over 900 years that he doesnt recognize his own art and hes like WHOMST drew nicky in such provocative positions????????????????

#joe shoving his nicky art in niles face: DO YOU KNOW WHO DREW THIS???? #nile (eyeballs burning out of her fuckign skull): uh. #anonymous #2thoughts anon

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i saw this tiktok and ALL i can think is. why does this guy look like off brand luca marinelli. and then i was like, this is just nicky if he was from the midwest

https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdh7fDY9/

oh yeah the tiktok ask is from me. 2 thoughts anon. shakdjjs i forgot to sign it

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asdfghjkl that IS just Nicky From The Midwest

#2thoughts anon #anonymous #'just take my wallet' #the bit where hes calling someone about not driving while in his car he does look like luca #wrong nose obvs but the Profile is similar

[wickedpact]

also nile walking into the room that the both of them are in and they’re just locked in this. intense staring competition of suspicion because one of them said something that /could/ mean something and they’ve been waiting for the other to call them out about it but they’re both stubborn as fuck and it’s been 45 minutes and nile’s reaching a point of “had enough of this” and is just like “i think i would prefer to have just walked into you guys having sex over this.” and just. leaves - 2ta

joe, watching nile leave: what did she say

nicky: thats............................ uh, classified.

joe:

#anonymous #2thoughts anon

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i’m having a rough time. any fun headcanons or just. anything tog related ? - 2ta

i was thinking abt a modern au the other day where joe and/or booker find a litter of newborn cats somewhere, abandoned by their mama, and theyre like 'how hard can it be, we can raise some kitties. we can be Catdads together' (Little Did They Know) and they bring the kittens back to their apartment and go to youtube and look for videos on raising neonatal kittens, and Lo And Behold they find a youtuber named nicky who runs a channel on fostering kittens (like so) and like 3 videos in joe falls in love with the guy. time passes, they raise the kitties for a few days, then they go to the vet to get the kitties checked over, & 2 seconds after they get there, out of the waiting room walks Nicky From Youtube (on an appointment for one of his own foster kitties) and joe's just like

#anonymous #2thoughts anon #!!!! feel better!!

[wickedpact]

let’s talk superhero au. like. superpowers and all. what would be ur thoughts on powers for the different characters - 2ta

my FIRST thought was andy as basically deadpool. not that she's immortal necessarily but she heals so quickly and efficiently that killing her is all but impossible. and it hurts so it sucks and shes an alcoholic

my second thought was nicky with some sort of mind reading/empath type of ability. he can read your mind and maybe affect how you feel to an extent. maybe hes a little distant with those he loves bc he doesnt want to accidentally influence them

for joe my first thought was superspeed but thats lame. i think something cooler like Magic Abilities™ would be cooler for him, like scarlet witch or doctor strange. just Magic™. how does it work? who fuckin knows but he reads a lot of old looking books and cool things happen when he waggles his hands

for booker the idea of him having some technology power like understanding machines or technopathy or something would be on point, but i think it would be funnier if he had super strength or something and he just so happened to like computers. OR he can tell the future (or *possible* futures) and hes Haunted By Visions and hes an alcoholic bc of that

i kind of like the idea that nile can do force fields (like violet!!) so that means she can do wildly dangerous things and come out alright (like jumping out windows) & if youre smart enough and have good enough reflexes you could use them for all sorts of interesting and useful applications (which of course nile is). plus it would mean shes one of the few people who can match andy's shenanigans point for point (and maybe even spare andy some pain if she can)

with quynh i like the idea of her being able to either a. absorb energy and redirect it or b. adapt to stuff like darwin in xmen. it would make her a cool ass antagonist for the lads to fight against

#anonymous #2thoughts anon

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please give me all of ur thoughts on nicky saying shakespeare is his favorite poet. do u think he says it to tease joe? - 2ta

sdfghjkl i LOVE that little interaction because you know what sonnets are? POETRY. joe says 'favorite poet' and nicky replies 'shakespeare' and joe replies 'for drama, sure'.

nicky's saying 'I LIKE SHAKEPEARES POETRY' and joe just basically being like 'yeah his............... .................... ................. ................... plays are pretty good' is so sdjsfjsfjsfj

nicky likes shakespeare's sonnets 💕💞🔅💗💞💫🍀💖 joe thinks they suck 💕💞🔅💗💞💫🍀💖

#THAT INTERACTION #WAS WRITTEN FOR ME SPECIFICALLY #AAAA im so happy #2thoughts anon #nicky: ah yes my favorite poet 💕💞 william shakespeare

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i feel like we’ve absolutely had this conversation before but i can’t be bothered to actually check if we have- but there’s So Much “nicky isn’t good with words” content (and like, i don’t completely hate it in uses of maybe aus where nicky hasn’t been alive for nearly 1,000 years) but the thing is is that canonically, we’ve seen nicky be scary good with words. like i will die on the nicolò “acts of service to show love” di genova hill. but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t know how to use his words!! he might not say as much but when he does speak there is a certain... weight behind his words? he says things with a purpose and a meaning. even if it may seem he’s saying something casually, there’s so much behind it??? but again, i’m just working with the movie as my source, and we only saw a very uhh?? brief bit of their lives so really we need a sequel to explore all this more. - 2ta

you 🤝 the same fucking braincell 🤝 me

when we were talking about nicky being both reserved and Not Reserved like.. idk a couple weeks ago i Almost made another post that i typed up at like 3 in the morning and then saved as a draft (bc it was three in the morning ofc)

i never posted it but it was like the same fucking thing you just said. like. nicky is not only good with words and good at expressing himself, but i also think of him as pretty social

like tldr

1. nicky is, like you said, Good at talking 2 ppl. Scary good. there are multiple instances through the movie of nicky shutting someone The Fuck Up via just talking to them a little. i mean in the train scene he gets andy (ANDY!!! stubborn andy!!) and book (BOOK!!! the guy who greatly benefits if they dont go after another immortal!!) to concede to his point abt nile after saying like 3 sentences to them. he strikes kozak speechless. he makes merrick run scared from his own lab. nickys GOOD with words and good at expressing himself and good at talking to people & good at making people agree with him, even if they wont admit it

2. i think its kind of pointed that in the scene where he says hello to the little girl in s. sudan, hes in the back of the group? like, we’re shown andy, book, and joe all passing the sudanese people without saying a word. nicky is the only one who greets them, despite the fact that it wouldve been hardly rude to not to.

so hes not only good with words, but hes also social. he says hi to strangers he passes in the street. tho a lot of interpretations of joe and nicky have joe being the social one and nicky being the introverted/awkward/shy one, i actually think of nicky as the more social between the two, and honestly maybe even the most social of the group. book and andy dont exactly strike me as gushing extroverts

altho i have to admit i think of them all at least slightly extroverted (i mean joe at least was a merchant. theres no way he could be Bad with people). i just think of nicky as just a little Bit More social

like. consider a diagram i made like 3 weeks ago

theyre both social. nickys just. a little more.

3. ik weve all talked endlessly abt nicky being a priest but like... being a priest is a social job. idk how Priesthood(TM) has changed between now and the 1000s but i doubt that particular facet has changed. priests are involved in their community. the whole point of being a priest is talking to people. i assume nicky chose to be a priest, thus his chosen career was a social one that involves talking to people as a core aspect.

& i agree that its definitely up in the air regarding whether younger nicky/ au nicky would be social/good at expression or not. However it always feels silly when joe is like.. the same exact guy circa 1100 as he is in 2020 but nicky is radically different in terms of how he expresses himself and his social habits. same goes for aus.

i mean. at the end of the day, im not the fandom police, and i dont ever wanna give off the impression that im like.. trying to tell fic authors what to write bc i get thats annoying as hell.

(and i mean i get it. nicky talks softly, doesnt have Marwan Kenzari’s Expressive Eyebrows, and is shown to be a bit of a bookworm. shy/introvert!nicky is a easy conclusion 2 come to. i simply Dont agree with it)

#im extremely pro acts of service nicky However i feel like ppl get Too Deep into the whole #acts of service nicky/ words of affirmation joe #to the point that they only portray those 2 as showing affection only in those 2 respective ways #like nicky 'love of my life' di genova isnt Just acts of service #and joe snapping keane's neck sure wasnt a fucking word of affirmation #AND WE DO NEED A SEQUEL @ NETFLIX ANNOUNCE IT COWARDS #🔫 i am no longer asking #2thoughts anon #Anonymous