#Nicky and Joe

[trollprincess]

ten characters, ten fandoms, ten tags, borrowing from @annadream (yes, yes, I’m choosing more than ten characters and ten tags, shut up)

[nancylou444]

Bonus Canon LGBTQ+ Characters of the Day

Nicky and Joe (The Old Guard)

[magnetoapologist]

extremely important panels TO ME !!

[downstarr]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolò di Genova Characters: Nicky | Nicolò di Genova, Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, First Meetings, First Kiss, Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani and Nicky | Nicolò di Genova are in Love, Immortal Husbands Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolò di Genova, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Behavior, Canon Compliant, Historical Inaccuracy, Crusades, Muslim Character, Catholic Character, Action/Adventure, Star-crossed, True Love, Destiny, Soulmates, Immortality Summary:

It's the time of the Crusades. A Catholic and a Muslim, both gifted with immortality, find themselves drawn together despite everything in the world wanting them to be apart.

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This is my version of how Joe and Nicky first met. Please excuse the no doubt several historical inaccuracies. I did do some research but there was only so much I was going to do for a 3000 word story! Hopefully nothing is too egregious.

This story contains no spoilers for the movie, and nor do you need to have watched it to follow this.

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The first death was agony. Returning to life after he was cut down by a crusader felt like a blessing. Yusuf Al-Kaysani prayed and gave thanks for the blessing he’d been given as he woke from what he thought would surely be his eternal rest.

When he revived from the second death as his horse crushed him in battle, Yusuf prayed again after he’d wriggled out from under his bloody and broken mount.

By the thirtieth death, Yusuf stopped praying. His resurrections, which at first were treated as miracles, were greeted with increasing suspicion by his fellow soldiers. They began to suspect he was cursed, or perhaps he was a demon instead of a man. So one night when he could take the whispers no longer, he deserted his comrades by the light of the moon, nothing but pack and scimitar and a vast expanse of a world gripped by holy war.

That was when the Italian began to stalk Yusuf. He’d dreamed of this man, in flashes and with vivid detail. He saw an Italian monastery high on a cliffside, where the switch was employed with the same frequency as benediction, and where the young men, discarded by their families, were honed into weapons of righteous fury.

Yusuf drew the man in his notebook on precious reserves of parchment, sketching his aquiline nose and heavy brow, dedicated to capturing his essence. There were pages of charcoal sketches of his clear blue eyes, brimming with righteous fury beyond which lay a poet’s soul damaged and reshaped by shame and guilt into the tool of a distant Pope.

One night, by the light of a small fire in the rubble of a destroyed village mosque, Yusuf was engrossed in the study of the man’s hands on the pages of his book. He saw long, elegant fingers and struggled to capture their form. His palms were calloused from wielding a longsword, the clang of metal as it struck metal over a hundred battles banishing softness from him one strike at a time.

Yusuf didn’t know his next death was upon him until he looked down to see the angry point of a broadsword piercing his heart from behind. He never saw his face, but he knew the man in his sketches had taken his heart.

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[lady-who-owns-a-sword]

girls i am trying so hard to get these mens faces right

[dieseldevi]

no take this energy out I will cry.

The Old Guard was SO fucked up for being like “we’re all immortal with a single catch that any of our deaths could be the last.” Then have two of them being romantically involved for CENTURIES and every single time they die together, in the back of their minds, they wonder if the other is going to get back up with them.

[twobabkas]

the old guard (2020)

[nkp1981]

First Look At "The Old Guard 2", Coming July 2nd, 2025

Source: Netflix

[kinnsporsche]

You're a child. An infant. Your mocking is thus infantile. He's not my boyfriend. This man is more to me than you can dream. He's the moon when I'm lost in darkness and warmth when I shiver in cold. And his kiss still thrills me, even after a millennia. His heart overflows with a kindness of which this world is not worth of. I love this man beyond measure and reason. He's not my boyfriend. He's all and he's more.

[inknopewetrust]

the old guard fandom… we fucking did it.

we survived the drought.

old guard 2 releases july 2nd on netflix

[sleepdeprivedsurgeon]

never forget those two men were destined to kill each other in a war but something made it impossible for them to die and so they fell in love instead. they were supposed to die at each others hands and now they have been in love for a millennium. "he's all and he's more" i'm sick just thinking about it

[hag-lad]

🫵 YOU’RE A CHILD. 👦 AN INFANT. 👶🍼 YOUR 🤡MOCKING🤡 IS THUS INFANTILE 🤏, HE IS NOT MY “BOYFRIEND.” 👿 THIS MAN IS MORE TO ME THAN YOU CAN 💫✨🌌DREAM.🌌✨💫HE’S THE 🌛MOON🌜 WHEN I’M LOST IN 🌑DARKNESS🙈 AND 🔥WARMTH❤️‍🔥 WHEN I SHIVER IN ❄️COLD🥶 AND HIS 😘KISS💋 STILL THRILLS ME 🤯EVEN AFTER A MILLENNIUM. ☺️🤯💯⏳💨 HIS ❤️HEART🫀 OVERFLOWS🌊 WITH A 🥰KINDNESS😇 OF WHICH THIS 🌍WORLD🌎 IS NOT 🙅‍♂️WORTHY OF, I 😍 LOVE THIS MAN 🏳️‍🌈 BEYOND MEASURE 📐 AND 🔬REASON, HE’S NOT MY BOYFRIEND. 😤👑 HE’S ALL 👏 AND HE’S MORE!!!!!! 🏳️‍🌈🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🏳️‍🌈

[eversnark]

ALSO another reason why the old guard hits so hard is that it uses stereotypical romantic tropes for family too. They see each other in their dreams until they meet, they're meant to be together (it's like destiny), they mourn the ones they lose for centuries etc.

[hachinana87]

happy 4th anniversary!

[circadianaa]

yusuf al-kaysani & nicolò di genova

[twobabkas]

We killed each other. Many times. Yeah.