#and apparently in the middle ages europeans thought brussel sprouts contained evil spirits?

[moonlightperseus]

okay OKAY I want to know your thoughts on post movie Nile settling in witth the new gang

okay okay okay so the older immortals try their best to help her settle in and she’s definitely... more comfortable with them? the act of fighting and dying together definitely brings people closer together lmao. but theres still a lot of adjustment, and i think it’s not just adjustment for nile, but for the older immortals as well, andy, joe & nicky have known each other for almost a millennia, and while, yes, booker did join them two centuries ago, he strikes me to have been... very passive fitting in. making as little ripples in the group as possible. but nile is bold and stands strong in what she believes in and shes not afraid to tell the older immortals that “i understand you are all very old but you really have got to stop saying things like “I remember when it was believed that there were evil spirits inside brussel sprouts” out loud, in the middle of the produce isle. people can hear you.” and also advocating for some safe houses that were actually built in the 21st century, “would it kill you guys to stay at a place with built in air conditioning and heating.” 

(this got long so im gonna save those who don’t wish to see my 1k of rambling about this found family with a read more)

so yeah, there’s a lot of adjusting. and it’s not always easy. nile learns that, despite how willing they are to expressing feelings of love and joy with one another, when it really comes down to feelings of grief and sadness, andy tends to shut everyone out, joe and nicky are a little better in that they seclude to just each other. and while the other immortals may have centuries of grief, nile is no stranger to it herself. nile knows what grief can do, and even more so, she knows what grief can do to those who keep it bottled up inside. so she respects their boundaries and gives them space when they need it but she is always firm in showing her support. 

and in turn they are always there for her when it comes to her nightmares. they learn that as a child her mother would always make her and her brother hot chocolate after nightmares. joe and nicky will take turns comforting her when she wakes from a nightmare while the other makes hot chocolate. nicky will tell her stories of their immortal lives, he lets her ask any questions she has and answers them with honesty. joe shares his art with her, and the stories behind each drawing and painting and piece of poetry he has. and on particularly rough nights, when she gives up on sleep altogether, she can find a still steaming cup of hot chocolate waiting for her on the counter, and she can find andy sitting in the most living room esque room in their safehouse, the television on, quietly playing one of those channels that only plays reruns of old shows. they sit together in silence until one or both of them fall asleep. (it’s almost always nile who falls asleep first, andy will gently take the empty mug out of her hands if she’s still clasping it, and if it’s cold she’ll pull a blanket over nile as gently as possible. she doesn’t risk waking nile in trying to move her to a proper bed.)

it’s not always easy, but they teach each other.

the older immortals teach nile different languages and fighting styles and what’s the best soap to use to clean up blood. nicky and joe take turns, or sometimes together, teaching her how to fight with a sword. andy teaches her how to use an axe. it’s an unspoken knowledge that andy is teaching nile how to use her axe. 

and nile teaches them the wonders of the modern world. she insists on them all using phones and texting for mundane communication since they have copley to make it safe. the others had always left the use of technology to booker. they aren’t completely clueless to the modern world, but it’s through nile’s eyes that they learn to love it as she does. 

Joe takes to texting the best and uses it the most out of the the older immortals. His texts will either be very poetic or absolute chaos. And he loves emojis. His favorite emoji is hands down the heart eyes emoji. All of his texts to Nicky have the heart eye emoji somewhere in them. Usually at the end. But Andy and Nile are not exempt from his use of heart eyes emojis. He has a lot of love and he is not afraid to express it via emoji. 

Nicky texts in a way that i truly can only describe as reminiscent of my grandmother, which is a mix of long messages, perfect grammar, and also sometimes replacing words with emojis. once she used “W b” instead of “will be” and to this day i do not know if it was intentional or not. that’s the energy nicky has when texting. 

Andy... Andy is absolutely and completely unpredictable in her texting. There’s no real way to describe it. she texts the briefest possible messages. and it’s almost always hit or miss on if she’ll actually text back. Nile’s not sure if she doesn’t understand emojis or just simply refuses to use them.  

They have a groupchat thats predominately used for when one of them runs errands, however half of the time the messages are just Joe being poetic about Nicky. 

I think on a mix of: Nile being new to immortality, the events that went down with Merrick and also on the account of Andy’s newfound mortality, they all remain living together for the forseeable future. however after andy all but physically removes nicky and joe from the current safehouse for “being too gross” nicky and joe will occasional take vacations out on their own. during these vacations andy will swing from giving nile a break from training to turning her training up to 200%. Joe and Nicky never gone long, usually just a few days, sometimes a whole week. it’s no secret that andy’s mortality scares them. andy will grumble about “missing the days when they would go off on their own for years at a time” but they all know that she wants them close just as much. 

it’s not always easy, but together, they learn.