#Agron/Nasir

[kallisto-k]

Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Spartacus Series (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Agron/Nasir Characters: Agron (Spartacus), Nasir (Spartacus), Chadara (Spartacus) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Mythology, Unnamed Romans Die, Agron is Human, Nasir is Not, Swearing, Canon-Typical Violence Summary:

Prompt: Agron is an escaping slave. While running from Romans he comes across nature spirit/god/mythological creature Nasir. Nasir uses his supernatural powers to save Agron. How? (Extra challenge: Nasir is bound to something- a physical object or a place. How do they get a happy ending together free from the threat of Rome? Does Agron make it home?)

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[bvcktommy]

nagron + forehead presses

[scifidancer]

Agron and Nasir 🔥🔥🔥

[theolderguards]

SPARTACUS: VENGEANCE | 2.03 - The Greater Good

[preacherboyd]

Spartacus: Vengeance | Balance

[cottoncandiescupcakes]

Pick your own adventure!! Ancient Rome style

Pick a dress

A) Empress(My dress costs more than your life is worth I'll step on you)

B) Noble's daughter(An innocent young lady married off to the Emperor)

C) Slave girl(Humble beginnings can't keep a bad girl down)

D) Gladiator(I will jam a sword through your eye and you'll thank me for it)

E) Concubine(My body make empires rise and fall)

F) Not a girl(I'm a senator's son sleeping my way to the top)

Marry a crazy Emperor

A) Emperor Commodus(I want my Emperor tall, dark and handsome)

B) Emperor Geta(I just want my husband to be prettier than me)

C) Emperor Caracalla(Eeee so cute! Comes with FREE MONKEY)

Cheat with a General

A) Marcus Acacius(A handsome loyal good man who'll actually treat me right)

B) Maximus(I like my men butch as fuck and I'll be his little swooning princess)

C) Claudius(I have a bad Emperor and now I want a bad General too)

It's your birthday! Pick a gladiator sex slave

A) Hanno/Lucius(I'm simple, I like poetry and big thighs. Take me now)

B) Spartacus(Brooding and piercing eyes and will stab a bitch in the solar plexus? Yes)

C) Varro(I just want a big smiling blonde himbo to hold me I'm lonely)

D) Crixus(I want the man all the Roman noblewomen thirst after. Mine now, bitch)

E) Agron(Cute, violent and possible threesome? Any day)

F) Nasir(Just because I get a gladiator doesn't mean I have to give up on pretty boys)

Your time is up! Pick a worthy death

A) Decapitated by sword in combat. Quick and bloody.

B) Dondus, Emperor Caracalla's pet monkey, eats my face clean off

C) The glamorous Lucretia finds out I've been banging one of her favorite gladiators and poisons my wine

D) I am accidently launched by trebuchet far past Roman walls

E) I choked on rose petals at Elagabalus' orgy. Woe is me

F) Horror of horrors! I must face off the arena's undefeated champion, Moo-Deng the hippo. A crowd favorite, I have no chance of a thumbs up at all and slowly but surely, the creature devours me, starting with my knee caps

You died.... the Gods may not sing of your glory but you lived and lived well! A true citizen of Rome to your last breath.

[stiwfssr]

[totallyboatless]

Is anyone else noticing headcanons about which character is the top and which is the bottom in mlm pairings is straying away from subverting expectations by having the more “effeminate” dude top and is getting dangerously close/crossing the line into “being a bottom is inherently effeminate in and of itself so we can’t put the effeminate character in that position because it’s insulting” ?

It feels like it’s calculating Masculinity Points and determining top/bottom roles from there based on what would “subvert expectations” most just for the sake of it instead of considering what would influence a character’s psychosexual behavior

Like right now I’m thinking about Spartacus (bc these days I’m always thinking about Spartacus) and (granted, years old) discourse about how Nasir should have been a top bc it’s insulting to assume the smaller, “more feminine” long haired guy would bottom

Except if you think about his character for more than a few minutes, that makes zero sense *at all*. Firstly, Nasir has a beautiful arc around his relationship with masculinity and anger, and finding ways to become empowered through getting stronger and learning to fight

As a trans dude, his arc means a lot to me personally

So when I see people insinuating that him bottoming takes away from the relationship he forms with traditional expression of masculinity, I find it pretty frustrating and honestly kind of insulting

Okay we’re here, I’m writing Spartacus meta for 10 people on this site I guess. Here’s my analysis of Nasir’s and Agron’s psychosexual motivations that would lead to their particular dynamic:

Nasir:

- a sex slave when we meet him, but the *only* evidence we have from the text itself is his Dominus asking to be fucked *by* Nasir. Sure it’s fair to assume bottoming could have happened in turn, but all fic I’ve read ignores the truth that the only concrete info we have on what was asked of Nasir is him being forced to top

- related, this is a man who has only ever known what it is to serve other people sexually, never allowed a passive role of receiving pleasure (even if he was bottoming, his experience still comes from an active place of service)

Does this not sound like a man that would get pleasure from allowing someone to take a leading role focusing on pleasuring him? Someone who would find comfort in being allowed to turn his brain off?

Agron:

- a man whose entire motivation when we first meet him is taking care of his brother (I AM NOT GOING IN INCEST DIRECTION—I know that’s a fandom thing but personally I get squicked by incest, and psychosexual behavior is often influenced by things that aren’t themselves inherently sexual). When his brother dies, Agron goes off the rails. He’s lost a sense of purpose. Even as aggressive as he can be, ultimately his core is to be a caretaker, and so when he loses that outlet he becomes the most violent shadow of himself

- Until Nasir, his only outlet for caretaking was violence. With Nasir, he finds an ability to express his caretaking desires through another form of passionate physicality: topping

Does that not sound like a dude who would specifically find pleasure in being in control of giving someone else pleasure? Does this not sound like a service top?

All this to say, I do get it when people want writers to think outside of stereotypical optics of “who tops and who bottoms” in male relationships. But some people are telling on themselves by still boiling men down into strict roles that can be dismissive of character motivations in the name of progressive writing that ultimately misses the mark in a similar way

I’m dancing around TMI, but it’s empowering for me to see characters I relate to forming relationships to masculinity that isn’t “diminished” by enjoying a “feminine” sexual position. So i’m likely projecting a lot, but this is my lived truth as a queer man. I’m curious if other people relate.

Thank u

[exit]

Bonus:

Like COME ON

[variousqueerthings]

sure gladiator 2 looks serviceable, but nothing will top the sheer scale of spartacus the tv show, there's no way it's gonna have half the intensity, the oiled up guys, the drama of its fight scenes, all those queers, the tension build, the violence, the emotional everything, the myth-making, that tv show was a piece of high camp fucked-up gold. will they even have nagron?

[buttersquares]

[ladykakata]

You gotta imagine it's fucking annoying for Nasir to constantly have a dude you've already turned down insist you're hot for him and he sees how you look at him. Like, sure, Nasir might find you cute, but he's already said within his first line to you that he's taken, and while he admits you have a way with words, he doesn't change his mind no matter how many times you come back around to it.

I do wonder if it's partially basic human 'dude I said no', but also partially his own answers being disregarded. He was furious when Agron 'ordered' him to stay away from Castus, stating he had no want to put a slave collar back on and not even Agron was going to make him. Castus in a way is also trying to tell him that 'you want me, I know it, come on'. Again, my guy, Nasir said he was spoken for and loves Agron, and Agron fiercely loves him back. By the time of the end, that tether was getting shorter and shorter, and though Castus never gave up mentally ("If only I were you for a day ..." his dying words aimed at Agron), Nasir was going to get progressively firmer at telling him to knock that shit off.

Or kick his ass himself. He doesn't need Agron to do that.

[bvcktommy]

Spartacus stands displeased with celebrations end! I was not one who caused offense. — SPARTACUS: WAR OF THE DAMNED (3.03) MEN OF HONOR

[scifidancer]

Agron and Nasir ❤️

[theolderguards]

SPARTACUS: WAR OF THE DAMNED | 3.09 - The Dead and the Dying

[preacherboyd]

Give me a sword. I will join you. Spartacus: Vengeance | Libertus

[lareinedulune]

For Deadpool/Wolverine aka Wade/Logan shippers I'd like to rec to you to watch over the holidays (the only one without those scrummy R rated loves scenes is the first):

The Old Guard on Netflix for the wonderful Joe/Nicky.

And also to binge the Spartacus series for the glorious warriors Agron/Nasir (so worth it for that happy ending!)

And then also Philippe/Chevalier from Versailles (based on a true couple who stayed together all their lives).

And lastly, Netflix's Sense 8, who gave use Lito and Hernando!