#also they'd be like 'ah our grandma ellie :) such a sweetheart' and then she'd reveal that she killed her abusive stepfather back in 1950

[lady-of-the-spirit]

Imagine a new immortal being an old lady. Literally a grandma who died sometime in her 70s in a non-natural way. Imagine someone who has more normal life experience than the rest of them suddenly joining the group. And she’s going to Grandma everyone and the gang (minus Nile who had her own grandma and misses her) don’t really know how to react to this, because they’re all old enough to be this Grandma’s grandparents by many times over, but at the same time they can’t really argue because she has that old lady attitude that cows them a little (and also maybe it feels nice to have someone treat them like this). 

And also just how perfectly it would work out for them. Maybe this old woman can’t join their group and be a soldier (although maybe she’s a badass old lady who knows her own tricks), but she’s the perfect person to run a safehouse for them in whatever city. The Guard can’t stay anywhere for too long because it gets suspicious when you don’t age, but no one’s going to question an old lady not aging because she’s already old! And if she’s running a safehouse then the Guard can just pretend to be visiting their grandma and lie low for awhile (and also, someone pretending to visit their grandma is less suspicious than a group of randos just hiding out in some random place and not interacting with anybody for however long). And how nice would it be for these old-as-fuck immortals to have someone to go to and take care of them as if they were her own grandkids every so often?

#I think it'd be nice if they had someone whose maturity had developed naturally to watch out for them #also they'd be like 'ah our grandma ellie :) such a sweetheart' and then she'd reveal that she killed her abusive stepfather back in 1950 #developed naturally as in developed as a normal growing person's would not developed over hundreds of years of war and fighting ykwim #the old guard #the old guard au #the old guard prompt #andy the scythian #yusuf al kaysani #joe al kaysani #nicky di genova #nile freeman #booker #quynh #i'm saying stuff