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xfgpng · 1 year

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𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐬, 𝐢 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 —

— : [ nsfw ] sacrilege, unprotected sex, blasphemy, choking, pet names + mentions of blood

— : wc : 726

church was the only place you truly felt at ease. the other worldly things never mattered to you as you sat in front of the large statue. in times when you heart felt heavy, you’d find yourself in the chapel, speaking only to the man above. you put all your trust in him because he was the one who could save you.

you felt unworthy of his saving grace. growing up in the church, you devoted your time to praise and worship, only making friends with others in your youth groups. you hadn’t even had your first kiss until your first year of college.

“he died for your sins” he’d whisper into your skin, his own hot and sweaty body pressed against yours as he ran his fingers up and down your thighs

“don’t” you gasp, squeezing your eyes shut as he rocked into your plaint and soft body. you felt amazing around his cock and it didn’t matter what any scripture had said, he knew the only paradise was between your legs.

“is it not true baby?” he asks, voices gentle and calm as he grabbed your breast, pinching your nipple the way he knew you liked despite you always denying it. he loved you more than you could ever love the god you claimed.

only he could truly make you feel this good. your soft whimpers, loud moans of his name.

eren, eren, eren.

over and over again as he fucked you into your mattresses. much like the imitation blood you’d drink on sunday’s, eren would gladly give up his own for you if you asked him to.

“no temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind” he says, gripping your jaw to look at him. he sees the way tears spring to your pretty eyes, lips pouty as you try to shake your head.

“no” you whine, “please, don’t”

despite that, you’re clenching around him so tightly that he’s worried he would cum just from that. you liked when was filthy, no matter how much you’d deny it.

“and god is faithful, he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear” he grins, amused at how easily swayed you were when it came to him. a mere mortal in the eyes of the lord you served.

“fuck” you arch your back, eyes closing as he thrusts into you. he’s so deep that it feels like he’s in your throat

“but when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it” eren whispers, right into your ear before he’s kissing you hard and sloppy. he moans into your mouth when he feels your nails scratching up his back

the same way the blood of your lord was sacrificed, he remembers the way yours coated his dick the first time he fucked you. that day, eren swears he had seen the light. his head felt dizzy and he could hardly breathe. you called him dramatic, pushing him away lightly but he knows you secretly loved the power you had over him.

“don’t hold back” he begs, grip on your thigh almost painful. your pussy was so wet and the squelching noises as his dick thrusted into you would cause a nun to blush.

“feels.. god— so good” you moan, gripping his bicep to ground yourself. you would never admit that no one, no being, could ever make you feel the way eren did.

he didn’t need you to. he already knew it by the way you’d say his name, the way you’d beg and fuck yourself back when he wasn’t fast enough.

you’d whisper i love yous to him late into the night and he knew how possessive you’d get over him despite claiming to only love your god that way.

“your iniquities have separated you from your god” he whispers, wrapping his hand around your throat and enjoying the way your jaw drops, “your sims have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear”

you moan, pussy spasming around him as he feels you cum, squirting all over his abs and your thighs. he can’t help but chuckle, fucking you through another orgasm as he stalls his own. he needed to see you completely broken underneath him because he was the only one who could put you back together.

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sofiasjornal · 1 month

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My (many) questions after HOFAS

While writing my HOFAS review, I was thinking about the different perspectives and POVs the new book could have, since we are finally leaving Bryce and Hunt's story. Selfishly, I would love the focus to shift to Lidia and Ruhn. Not only because they became my top two favorite characters but because the possibilities for crossovers and connections with the other series are endless. I don't think there's a need, but let me just clarify that this is all speculation! And because I might remember something more in a few days, or weeks, or months, I’ll update this as I go along!

1) Lidia has some kind of connection with Aelin and Mala’s bloodline (she named her son after Brannon, after all!!) and since KoA and ACOSF share the same timeline, and HOFAS is set after ACOSF, Aelin is still very much alive and could somehow connect with Lidia! She seems to have an incredible amount of firepower, the likes of which we only saw with Aelin, so there’s definitely a connection there. And they are both trained assassins, for god's sake! And with the stags! She’s a Terrasen girl, through and through!

But again, how did the fae shifters come to Midgard if Erilea (I don’t think the name of the planet was ever revealed, so let’s stay with Erilea) was never conquered?! Another rift that opened and then closed? Is there any mention on ToG of that? I don’t remember… I might have to read it all again!

There's also the very interesting context in which Lidia's children were conceived, in a very similar ritual to Calanmai, from the Spring Court (ACOTAR). So how come two of SJM's series come together in Lidia's character?

2) Also, Ruhn and Rhysand would also be an interesting crossover. The similarities between the two go beyond those of Fae, it would be really interesting to explore that. Bryce didn't really explore these similarities when she met Rhysand, I wish she had. We know that Prythian is the home planet of the Fae, but definitely something linking Rhysand and Ruhn together.

Also think about the possibility, if Ruhn is connected or a descendant of Rhys's bloodline and Lidia of Aelin’s, then the two bloodlines are now united! AGAIN, SO MANY POSSIBILITIES, IM GETTING DIZZY!

So in a book where Lidia and Ruhn take center stage, imagine the power of that story!! I’m speechless just thinking about it!

3) The link between Wyrd and Urd got me thinking! Somewhere in HOSAB, when Bryce went to the under-king and he talked about Urd, when she was not a goddess but a force, “When she was a vat of life, a mother to all, a secret language of the universe?” (Yes I went looking for the quote, my mind is driving me insane). This secret language of the universe, could it be the wyrdmarks?! And if so, remember when Bryce killed Micah in the first CC and Micah said “The language is beyond that of this world. It is the language of universes.” Could Bryce’s tattoo be in wyrdmarks and if so that would mean that the Book of Breathing is also in wyrdmarks! Amren can read those! HOW?! HOW?? And what are wyrdmarks doing in acotar and crescent city?! There’s definitely a connection with ToG! It’s right here!

4) The Valg, the Asteri, the Daglan, the Princes of Hel, and... one hell of a mess, pun intended! By the end of HOFAS, we know that the Asteri and the Daglan are the same thing. I’ve been, however, wondering about the Valg. I don’t believe the Asteri are Valg. They don’t fit the same characteristics. Besides, in ToG is said that the Valg’s home planet was ruled by three kings, a planet made by pain, wind, and darkness, and the Asteri were originally seven and come from a forgotten planet in the cosmos. Besides, the Asteri feed on firstlight and the Valg don’t have that need. So I don’t think there’s a connection there.

However, in ACOMAF, when Bryce is fighting the Stryga and throws a brick in her face, the line reads “Bone crunched and she roared, black blood spraying.” This always stayed with me because it kept calling the Valg to my memory. The Valg have black blood as well. Also, the death gods feed on life just like the Valg, if I’m not mistaken! So could the death-gods be Valg? Do you know who else has black blood? The Reapers! In HOSAB, when Bryce strikes with the starlight sword it is said “And nothing had ever felt so right, so easy, as plunging the blade into the bony chest of the wounded Reaper. It arced, bellowing, black blood spurting from its withered lips.” So either it is a coincidence that all these creatures have black blood or there’s a connection! And considering the reapers originate from Hel, is there possibly a connection? However, it doesn’t quite make sense, because their home planet was ruled by three kings Erawan, Orcus, and Mantyx (let’s not forget that bitch Maeve). And in Hel, each layer is governed by a different prince, seven in total. So this is where I raise my hands and say I don’t know 🤷🏻‍♀️ where to go from here!

5) The whole issue of the Viper Queen! When Tharion went to the Viper Queen something’s raised “concern”. First, the blood oath! I only remember something like that being mentioned and talked about in ToG! Tharion was only able to escape because Ithan killed Sigrid and broke the bond! Remember at the end of HOSAB, after Tharion defected and VP ordered him to come back after Cormac’s death? He felt a pull of the bond that he couldn’t resist! Remember how the cadre were all Maeve’s prisoners with that same bond? It’s the same thing! And remember Tharion mentioning that her blood was darker than normal?!

Feel free to join this mess and give me more theories and your thoughts on all of it! I’m just going to figure all this out! And like I said, as I think of new things I’ll just update this!

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chunkypossum · 26 days

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Come Hel or High Lord: Ch 12

Chapter 12: Taste the Autumn Air

Words: 6900 (hehe nice)

Reminder: This is a crossover between all SJM series. So spoilers for TOG, ACOTAR, and CC

Summary:

Azriel and his boy problems. Featuring a flashback to the High Lord's meeting (what did he say and where did he disappear to that night?) and a flashback from when Azriel and Eris first met.

Snippet below the cut. Read on Ao3

Eris swallowed his unhinged laughter and Azriel watched, following the movement of his throat. His head spun when he felt that the air around them had changed, from ice cold to unbearably hot. “Not up to killing in her name after all? Pity.” Eris clicked his tongue, his voice no more than crackling embers. He knew he was goading the animal but he wanted this finished once and for all. Let him get it out of his system and then maybe he will lay this obsession to rest. Azriel’s face was screwed up in anger but he dropped his fist to his side. “It’s not about her. It’s never been about Mor. Ever.” “You strangled me in front of everyone. Nearly killed me!” Eris scoffed and turned his face away. “Maybe you should have, then we could be done with this.” He finished a little quieter. When Azriel didn’t answer him, Eris chanced meeting his eyes again, the black of his iris’ nearly swallowed the hazel completely and Azriel’s breathing was ragged. His wings flared and his shadows grew behind him, making him look like a true omen of death. Beautiful and terrible. ‘Do it.” Eris rasped as Azriel’s grip on him tightened, his anger reflected in the fires he could feel dancing in his eyes and shown back to him from the surface of Azriel’s obsidian ones. They breathed in one another’s ire, beat after infuriatingly slow beat, then without warning, Azriels lips were on his. Eris was burning and he was going to die, he was sure of it. Azriel crashed into him, his teeth tearing at Eris’ mouth, his throat, his collarbone as he elicited sounds out of Eris that he had never heard himself make before. He returned all of it and more, their teeth clashing against each other in the fever of drinking each other up. Eris arched up to meet Azriel’s body as it pressed into him, their hands clawing over arms and chests and faces, trying to get closer. Closer, he needed to get closer. He needed more. As soon as the thought was out of his head Azriel stopped, seeming to come back into himself, realizing what he had done. He took his trembling hands from Eris tunic and gripped the trunk of the tree behind Eris, placing their foreheads together. Eris was shaking, he wanted to scream, to sob, anything to compete with the dizziness from the abrupt loss of him. His hands fisted at his sides where they were trembling uncontrollably. “Yeah,” Azriel’s voice was shredded, “Maybe I should have. Then at least we would be free.”

This is a cross over fic so a giant cast of characters and a big stupid storyline but Azris is my main bitch in this fic so ... Holla at ya boi if you want on or off the Azris tag train : @talibunny30 @iftheshoef1tz @born-to-riot @pathfinderofnight @fell-in-luvs @fieldofdaisiies @aktrain @honeysuckle-daydreams13 @secret-third-thing @acourtofladydeath @pippsmcgee @youvereachedthenearest-lovergirl @baileybird71 @skyesayshi @yanny-77

#their backstory is so sad #bc of course it is #high lord meeting reference #NO BC WHERE DID AZRIEL RUN OFF TO #azris supremacy #acotar #azriel x eris #eris vanserra #azris fanfiction #acotar fanfiction #azris #azriel shadowsinger #eris acotar #angst #acotar angst #azriel angst

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uncannychange · 7 months

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Jerry Butterworth planned on gaining fame with a series of YouTube shorts in which he would visit exotic and out-of-the-way places worldwide and try their even more little-known methods of massage and healing and tape himself getting the works at said place; he was going to call them Jerry the Wisconsin Ginger Wanderer.

The problem was that he was far from the first person to come up with this idea, so pretty much everything from ax massages (the axes were wrapped in towels) to zen deep thought massage had been covered by someone else.

Then, a somewhat seedy old sailor told him about the rare form found on the Island of Wondehato. “Never seen it myself, but they tell me it has something to do with pretty gals wrapping you in leaves and boiling or steaming you are something and then poking you with sticks.” That was good enough for Jerry.

Finding Wondehato, he discovered that there was indeed a place run by some beautiful native women, but he could not quite find out what they were offering. It turned out it was only for women, but with a lot of persuasion and even more money, Jerry talked them into letting him have one of the treatments on a day when no women were scheduled to take part.

Indeed, it did involve him being wrapped in odd-smelling leaves and soaked in almost boiling water, as well as rubdowns with oils, sweats in a small dark room filled with incense, and finally taken to a room where a dozen or so of the women did indeed poke him with sharpened roots in something like acupuncture dialed up to eleven. At the same time, they whisper chanted a monotonous refrain, so monotonous that Jerry, even with the poking, found himself drifting off. “Oh wow,” thought Jerry as he faded out, “If my camera is getting all this good, I’ll be able to hook into the ASMR market too!”

Then, just like that, Jerry found himself awake and standing, and it was at that exact moment that Jerry Butterworth began to suspect that there was more than just a massage in the massage he had just gotten on the small Indonesian Island of Wondehato.

“Yeah, yeah, something funny is going on here.” thought Jerry, but on looking up, he saw that the attendant he had paid to move his camera around to point at him while he was otherwise `tied up’ had placed it on a shelf in front of him, and he could feel his Dobbs fedora still on his head, which he planned on making his trademark for the series of videos. But he could also tell that while they had dressed him while he was out, he was not dressed in his loose fitting `travel togs,’ also now all of the women tending him now were his height while before they had all been a head or shorter than he?

Whatever the case, he was still feeling dizzy, but once he was back at his hotel, he could see everything that had happened, and the first adventure of the Ginger Wanderer could start to get edited.

That’s when one of the women tending Jerry brushed his now very long, no longer red hair so that he saw it, saw it, and then looked down.”

“Oh crap!” thought Jerry. “I’m going to have to think of a new title for my series.”

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rhysand-vs-fenrys · 14 days

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Will you start writing fics again? Especially about the tog characters I love them sm!!

I hope to soon!

It's been an unbelievably stressful 6 months for me, and especially the last couple months have been extremely tough. I started working on something for you guys (and an edit actually made it two somethings), but I pretty much just feel dizzy all the time now, so I haven't made progress.

#ask

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youssefguedira · 3 years

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Neon, I know you just posted your fantasy Zelda au, but my roommate and I were discussing a LOTR x TOG au, and I’m mostly sending this because we decided that Nicky and Joe would be Legolas and Gimli lmao

Also, a thought that inflicts pain on me is the idea that Booker is Boromir. The betrayal speedrun…the redemption…the pain of it all

i love the idea of nicky and joe as legolas and gimli fjfjsidejs

also! booker as boromir is making me Feel Things

#neon answers #spacegirlsgang #i feel like andy works as aragorn in this case #nile could be frodo #you could edit the events of tog slightly so dizzy and jay are there with her #if andy is aragorn quynh would probably be arwen but like. more present than arwen is. quynh can go with them too #i love this au idea so much #the old guard #you know that scene after boromir's betrayal w/ him and aragorn. yea #that but with him and andy and also booker doesn't die. somehow. idk how.#but he doesn't

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theoldguardfemslashdiscord · 2 years

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Nomination Categories

Through August and September, nominations for the Fanwork Awards on the Femslash Guard Discord Server are open!

You can nominate different things such as:

fanfiction

fanart

manips

videos

comments on your fanworks

moodboards, memes, meta and more

These groups are split up into many more categories, you can find them all on the discord server! They're also separated by sfw and adult content, so minors can be part of the event but everything can still be nominated somewhere.

Until nominations close on the 20th of September, we will introduce a few of the categories to you in more detail, and you can join the server or follow @theoldguardfemslashdiscord to hear about them and show the categories that haven't gotten many nominations yet some love!

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oldguardhc · 3 years

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Unpopular Opinion Nobody Asked For: The Cutest Cast Member

#the old guard #dizzy #natacha karam #tog #my edit #she's just really pretty and if she walked past me; I would do a double take #and I don’t even mean this in a thirsty way #it’s more of a ‘I saw someone really cute and now I’m happy’ way

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caldefrance · 3 years

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A year after the events of Netflix’s The Old Guard, the girls ditched the guys for a long weekend getaway.

#caldefrance #the old guard #fanart #illustration #my edit #tog-ladies #ladies of the old guard #andromache the scythian #quynh #celeste #nile freeman #dizzy #jay #women in action films

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scimitar-and-longsword · 3 years

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The Old Guard (2020)

Reaction Gifs Part 4

#the old guard #reaction gifs #my stuff #my gifs #the old guard gifs #Yusuf Al-Kaysani #nicolo di genova #andromache the scythian #nile freeman #sebastian le livre #dizzy #nile #joe #nicky #andy #booker #tog reaction gifs #been a minute since I made some reaction gifs #so here ya go!

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lesbianlotties · 4 years

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i’ve come to the conclusion that nile’s friends are not only fake and cowards but also really dumb?? they... missed the opportunity to make so many jokes?? do you think if my best friend inexplicably came back from the dead i wouldn’t turn it into a hilarious ongoing joke??? miss the chance to call them jesus christ for the rest of their lives?? say “oh just resurrect again, it’ll be fine” about every minor inconvenience they experience???

#a real friend would make fun of you for getting killed in the first place #jokes aside i have no respect for jay and dizzy smh #the old guard #nile freeman #tog

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hardisonparkereliot · 3 years

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A whole year too late discovering Natacha Karam is both in The Old Guard as Dizzy and 911: Lone Star as Marjan

#text #the old guard #dizzy tog #911 lone star #marjan marwani

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farragoofwires · 4 years

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don’ dweeblog

anyway i know we have considered the fact that she IS a millennial but have we thought enough, as a fandom, about the fact that nile is a 90s kid. only 90s kids will remember...

#like i realize it's highly unlikely that she knew jay or dizzy before enlisting (are they enlisted? are they officers? i know nothing about #marines or their ranks and have not YET been driven to look it up;;;;;)#but she definitely was in a pack of girls from the neighborhood playing doubledutch.#the universal kid experience (tm) of 'everyone put a hand in the fishbowl.....someone put a hand in for me............'#f: tog #m: tog

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paradisetemporarilymisplaced · 3 years

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So I was being a basic bitch the other day and listening to my true crime podcasts when it occurred to me just how suspicious Nile’s “death” would look to everyone not in the Guard, leading me to a train of thought that, 2200 words later, absolutely got away from me but I can’t let go so I’m inflicting it on all of you!

To set the stage, we know the movie takes place over approximately a week. Here’s what happens to Nile from the military’s point of view:

She dies is very seriously injured

She heals without a scratch

Just before she’s supposed to be shipped out to Germany, she vanishes, leaving two men concussed (and presumably reporting being knocked out by a woman with short hair wearing civilian clothes)

She goes AWOL for several days

They get word from the CIA that she is to be reported killed in action (details unclear)

So, at the beginning of this very weird week, the USMC has to tell Nile’s family of her death critical injury. What her family was told depends on how long she was dead – a Google search tells me that family will be notified in person within 8 hours of a soldier’s death, but we don’t know how long her first death lasted. For an injury, however, they’d get a phone call to notify them and the unit would arrange for them to visit as soon as the soldier is transferred out of a combat zone. Like I remember when I was in high school, a guy from my church who was a Marine was really seriously injured in a helicopter crash in Iraq and from what I could tell, his parents were told immediately and were flown out to Germany to see him, so it stands to reason that Nile’s family would have been informed relatively quickly after her throat was slashed, one way or another.

And then, she goes AWOL. Her family would be notified while the USMC tried to figure out where she went, not least because the military would want to know if she’s contacted them. (And it’s possible that her family may have been on the way to Germany to see her since we know that’s where she was supposed to go!) So for several days:

Nile’s mom and brother have no idea where she is

They know she was seriously injured and most certainly should not have been moving around on her own

They can’t get a hold of her

The military can’t tell them anything

And the next thing they know for sure is that she was “killed in action.” After being injured and vanishing into thin air. And they presumably cannot produce her body or any concrete evidence of her death. In any case, something sketchy is going on, so they’re like. SMELLS LIKE A MILITARY COVERUP.

In a surprise to probably no one, there is a well-documented legacy of mysterious US military deaths, particularly of women of color (TW for sexual assault in these links). The cases of LaVena Johnson and Vanessa Guillenin particular have made national news because of their families’ persistence in seeking justice. Likewise, Nile is a Black woman, and her mom and brother are most certainly hypercognizant of (a) state violence against Black people and (b) these high-profile cases of suspicious military deaths. So her family are seriously side-eyeing the situation, knowing that (a) the military has a serious incentive (and a documented history) of covering up things that make them look bad and (b) nothing about Nile’s disappearance and supposed death are adding up.

And Andy’s right. Nile does come from warriors. And you know who else does? Her brother.

Don’t get me wrong. Nile’s mom would absolutely not back down. She’d know something was up and want to get to the bottom of it. But based on what I know about Gen X parents (mine), they’re not the most technologically savvy. Like they can use the internet, but they didn’t grow up with it the way we young millennials and Gen Z did. So Nile’s brother takes the lead. And what do zillennials do best?

Social media.

Nile’s brother starts going hard on any site he can, trying to get the word out to see if anyone knows what happened to his sister. He starts a Reddit thread. He starts a Facebook group. He reaches out to the media and true crime bloggers and podcasters à la Sarah Turney, getting loud and being a general nuisance in hopes of getting some answers. He gets his friends and Nile’s friends involved. Maybe eventually Dizzy, Jay, and others from Nile’s unit hear about it and reach out, telling him what they saw and how weird it all was. He’s drumming up interest, and soon “Nile Freeman” becomes a household name (at least among the true crime fans).

Copley is, of course, trying his best, but at this point there is just so much that it’s impossible for him to scrub everything. Sure, he can erase new footage of Nile and the Guard, but what can he do about Reddit threads and podcast episodes that are speculating something weird has happened? Maybe he could hack the sites and shut those things down, but honestly, that’s the last thing he’d want to do, because that only adds weight to the theory that Nile’s disappearance is a military coverup. So eventually he has to tell Andy what’s going on.

Andy, obviously, does not take the news well. However, she is also completely computer illiterate, because that’s Booker’s job and he’s the only one who ever bothered to learn what the internet is in any meaningful way. (She probably calls Booker for advice, and for the record, I think Booker would have no qualms about shutting down conspiracy threads, tinhats be damned, but Copley is too concerned about the consequences. He’s ex-CIA for crying out loud, he knows how it’ll look if they scrub every mention of Nile’s name from the internet.) Maybe she confers with Joe and Nicky but, let’s be honest, they’d be equally unhelpful. So at this point, she knows they have to bring in Nile.

But the thing about Nile is that she, too, knows how to use the internet (duh). Aside from her being a young millennial/digital native, we know from the cave scene where she’s giving Booker suggestions on how to track Copley that she clearly is even more computer savvy than the average person. And for that reason she almost definitely took over the day-to-day tech stuff after Booker’s exile. So I think it would be foolish to expect her to be unaware of what’s happening. She’s not contacting her family or posting on the message boards or anything, but she knows what’s up. So Copley and the team probably sit her down to “break the news,” but we know the girl does not have a poker face (see: literally shooting herself in the foot and not being able to play it cool whatsoever) and cracks immediately, telling them she’s seen everything about her case – she’s not interacting with any of it, she certainly didn’t instigate anything, but she knows. (And she is so goddamn proud of her brother.)

At this point, I’d like to pause and consider Nile’s role in the overall narrative of this movie. She’s set up as a foil to Andy, obviously, but she’s also a foil to Booker. Booker, who, like Andy, is a serious pessimist, but who, unlike Andy, still has very fresh memories and trauma associated with being the new kid, which have destroyed him. In his mind (and Andy’s), if Nile communicates with her family, she’ll become just like him in a century or two – bitter, alone, and stuck with her grief and memories of watching her family die and knowing they died resenting her. It’s a small sample size, but this is the only experience they have to go off of.

But it doesn’t have to be like that.

There’s been a lot of discussion of TOG being a fundamentally queer movie – a group of people brought together because of something inherent about themselves that is different, that must be hidden, that causes others to hate, fear, and reject them. Booker’s backstory is the archetypal traumatic “coming out” story – his family learns who he is, hate him for it, and attempt to cast him out of their lives. He’s stuck with his trauma, his pain, his loss, and it consumes him.

But what if Nile’s family would be the opposite? What if her “coming out” to them as immortal is met with acceptance, love, celebration? What if her family is just overjoyed to have her back, and they don’t care what the circumstances are? I'm reminded of this incredible post from @shitty-old-guard-deaths a while back, where Nile’s mother hits Booker with a frying pan because “my baby let me believe she was dead for FIVE YEARS based on your bad advice???” (which may or may not have inspired this whole tangent). Nile takes the advice of someone who did the same thing she wants to do because she doesn’t want to risk her family’s rejection. She wants the good memories with her family and is afraid that showing them her true self will bring her unbearable pain, forever replacing those memories. But, with high risk comes high reward.

Anyway. Nile and the team are trying to come up with a plan for how to handle this whole thing, but she’s not really participating because she’s too afraid to hope. Until finally, quickly, so she doesn’t lose her nerve, she suggests she reach out to them, knowing that, realistically, that’s the only solution before things snowball even further out of control. The team is shocked, but realize that she has a point. They decide that Copley should actually be the first point of contact, posing as a US government official to talk with them and test the waters.

So Copley goes to Nile’s family’s house to talk with her mom and brother. They’re probably distrustful and apprehensive, but nonetheless secretly ecstatic that their work has paid off. They talk and review all of the information that they’ve collected, including testimonials from the people on Nile’s base and recent sightings (along with photos) of Nile (with the same three people) over the last few years that people have sent them but they haven’t posted publicly. At this point, Copley’s like, yeah this is about to blow up, we gotta put our cards on the table. He convinces them to come with him to some safe house/black site/whatever he can get that is technologically impenetrable (I’m picturing them in like, an interrogation room at a police station kind of deal), takes their phones, locks the doors, and brings in Nile.

What follows is the most delightful reunion scene of all time, bringing Joe, Nicky, and even Andy to tears as they watch and listen from outside the room. With Copley’s help, Nile tells her mom and brother about her immortality and what’s been going on since she died (within reason, of course), and they are thrilled. They don’t understand why (because no one does) but they don’t question it and they see it as a gift from God – she’s been resurrected, she will live, and she has a purpose. Her mother and brother are so happy to see her again and are willing to agree with pretty much anything to stay in her life as long as they can.

So. They set up some complicated agreement (they bring in the other three for support/intimidation as needed) setting the terms of their relationship. They swear Nile’s family to secrecy, maybe bringing up the lab to show how high the stakes are, and they readily agree. They come up with some cover story for Nile’s brother to share on the message boards (maybe that the government has opened an investigation but because it’s an open case he has to shut it all down? Tells people to direct their tips somewhere else? Something to that effect). There’s still speculation, of course, but without Nile’s brother at the helm providing the energy, the hype dies down as news stories are wont to do without any movement. And Nile’s family goes to work for the team. The experience has taught them that Copley can’t possibly do everything himself, especially when it comes to social media, so Nile’s brother takes the lead on the day-to-day tracking/social media while Copley and her mom focus on finding jobs and scrubbing their traces afterward.

So there you have it: Nile gets to integrate her biological family into her found family and spend the rest of their lives with them as it should be, Copley gets some badly needed help managing the reality of social media, the team finally has a positive narrative surrounding outsiders Knowing About Them AND about interacting with people from their previous life, and the audience gets the happy ending to this very lovely and very queer story to counteract the pain associated with Booker’s family.

Plus, you know, I’m a sucker for both a good government conspiracy theory and for Nile getting every good thing she deserves.

#the old guard #tog #tog fanfiction #tog meta #immortal family #nile freeman #mine #damn look at me contributing to a fandom! that’s new #pls reblog if you like this my self esteem could really use it #I just love nile so much and I’m being the nile-centric content I want to see in the world #it is just genuinely nuts to think abt how this situation would be perceived by anyone outside the narrative #she just mysteriously heals from a fatal injury and then VANISHES!!! this should be national fuckin news #also I do think there’s a major hole in the story when you think abt social media #like the only time it’s even hinted at is right at the very beginning when Andy erases that girl’s selfie #and the concept of fuckin Reddit is not even brought up despite Copley’s stalker board being analog Reddit #there’s just a lot of places one could go with this which is very much what we got here #1k

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