#andy/nile discord

[mirrorofliterature]

I find takes where booker is just brought back into the fold after six-twelve-ish months because of quynh's appearance just unrealistic and narratively unsatisfying

like that boy needs to grovel and take his own ass to therapy.

let nicky and joe be angry at booker. so many people sacrifice their anger/hurt at being betrayed for the sake of redeeming booker and it's just -

a take.

it's not necessarily homophobic/racist, but it is questionable that the white straight* man's feelings are prioritised over two queer men's, one who is a brown muslim man.

anyway I think the exile should have been longer.

I kid, but it's like -

why is the traitor's wellbeing prioritised over the victims? it's very strange. yeah, booker needs help, but like.

also! the takes where people are like 'oh maybe booker WASN'T suited for a life as a mercenary and that's why he's fucked up' 1) nah mate it's his sons' rejection and 2) even if it was, he is a grown ass man who could have removed him from the situation.

look at how andy is vis a via nile when nicky and joe's lives are at stake. she's like. do what you want to do. we don't control your life.

*Edit: I am now aware that Greg Rucka has in a discord message confirmed Booker as queer. This is not canonical, however. It's very not publicly available word of god. Until it is included in the next movie, it is not movie canon and I will continue to call him straight, because to the movie watching fan, that's what he reads as.

[fromkenari]

Fanfic Prompt Call

I need to write something, but my brain is saying, "Anything works," which is unhelpful. So someone, please, give me a prompt and a ship, and I'll see if it wakes up my brain. It will be a one-shot because I can't handle multi-chapter fic to save my life, and I don't know how y'all do it.

Some Possible Ships

Red, White, and Royal Blue: Firstprince

9-1-1: Buddie, BuckTommy, Henren, Madney, Bathena

9-1-1 Lonestar: Tarlos, Grudd, Nateo, also anything for my man Paul

Interview with the Vampire: Loumand, Loustat, though I think I would be terrible at writing Lestat

The Old Guard: Kaysanova, Andy/Quynh, also anything for my lady Nile

I'm not currently interested in writing OFMD, Grishaverse, Teen Wolf, Roswell New Mexico, or Shadowhunters ships.

What I Will Write

Angst

Hurt/Comfort

Whump

Smut

Any and nearly everything that falls under the BDSM umbrella

Alternate Universes

What I Won't Write

Meaningless Fluff, i.e., Fluff for Fluff's Sake, I need something to ground it

Master/slave, I cannot and will not write or read this

RPF, yes, I sometimes dabble in it, and I don't have a problem with other people who write it, I do not care, but I had an experience where someone roleplayed as me for an April Fool's joke almost 15 years ago, and I have never recovered

Writing Examples

Most of my recent writing has been for role-playing games on Discord. In fact, the majority of my writing in the past has been role-play-based. But you can find my fics on my AO3, where I have changed pseudonyms so many times because the old stuff is embarrassing.

My AO3

I have been actively writing creative stories since I could pick up a pencil, but online, I started writing in forums 23 years ago. So. I've been through basically every online writing drama from the 00s onward.

Anyone can send me a prompt through my ask or my messages. If you want to discuss a prompt that's cool, too. I really have no idea who to tag on this to help me get people to send me ideas so...

@bigassbowlingballhead and @bi-leigh-bi help me out.

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It has been an exciting few months, and we hope you all had fun and perhaps found new favourite artists or inspiration to create!

We thank everyone who helped mod, nominated works and voted in the awards, without you this wouldn't have been possible!

Feel free to go through the winning works and reblog them if you haven't yet (or also if you have, there can never be too many reblogs)! You can filter this blog for art, fic, gifs, moodboards, nsfw, other and the art categories Andy, Nile, Quỳnh, angst, fluff, scenery, clothing and art style.

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[ms-spkhd]

nile:

andy:

[lilolilyr]

This weekend on the TOG Femslash Discord Server, we had another wonderful elimination game, this time with headcanons both about the femslash ships of the fandom as well as the female characters! 

Andy headcanons

Nile headcanons

Quynh headcanons

Andromaquynh headcanons

Andronilynh, Andy/Nile & Andy/Quynh headcanons

and the winner iiiis:

Nile Freeman is asexual!

On 2nd place: ‘Just you and me - until the end’ was in Andromache and Quynh’s wedding vows <3

And the 3d place: Nile has ADD!

It was a fun game, thanks for playing!!! @andy-the-scythian @mearchy @thirst-teenth @cryhardanddanceharder @daniwouldnever @my-gaydar-is-on-point @afreakingbattleaxe @jackwolfskid @salzundhonig @bookerandy @zuvielactionfuermich @rupzydaisy @ongreenergrasses @idanit & special thanks to the second gamemaster @teaandnebulae!

Join the discord if you want to be part of a multi-fandom femslash ship elimination game next week!

[k9effect]

Me, getting a new obsession: I wanna make a discord server for it

Okay but jokes aside if I started a general discord server for The Old Guard would anyone join?

[boyohazard]

https://discord.gg/3F4Dq6Z

I have an 18+ Discord server for The Old Guard! Remember when you join to read the rules and introduce yourself!

[aros-sage]

Join our The Old Guard  discord server

Hi! 

We’re a fun little TOG server on Discord and love getting to know other fans! 

Let’s be friends there!

https://discord.gg/GYR8zsD

[andramaquynhs]

Honest to fuck, Andy with a mullet feels like a meme gone wild, a containment breach if you will. That kinda stuff is better left on discord servers and 3 am shit posts. Nile gets such a glow up and Andy seems to be going through her boomer 90s phase 😩😩😩

[mprosperossprite]

This post contains discussion of racism, misogyny, and intersection of these ideas in the TOG fandom.

Though the conversation around the racist tropes sometimes employed in depicting Joe is valuable and important, I do not have anything productive to add to that particular conversation. Instead, this post aims to examine the ways in which Nile has largely been overlooked by fan created content for The Old Guard and suggest ways in which each of us as individuals might make this fandom a more inclusive place.

One last preamble: I’m an white woman. I am speaking here from a place of ally-ship. And I am still learning how to best be an anti-racist ally in all elements of my life. This post is coming from the best of my knowledge at the moment, hoping that maybe it’ll make a difference to somebody.

Alright.

I want to begin with a story: a couple of weeks ago in the Book of Nile group chat one of our members noticed that the stories and AU’s and ideas we were constructing for each other the previous week had focused on Booker, had given Booker the extensive backstories, had articulated Booker’s complexity more thoroughly. She posted that she had noticed this along with a note along the lines of “we can’t do better if we don’t recognize the patterns.”

So here’s a pattern that I’ve noticed that is particularly disheartening to me: Nile Freeman, a black woman and the main character of The Old Guard, has the least amount of fanworks created about her.

On AO3 she has the fewest tagged fics. On tumblr, there is much less fan art created for her. In discord servers, Nile is rarely mentioned.

This fandom has become dominated by Joe and Nicky.

I do not mean to discount Joe and Nicky. Their depiction in an action movie is groundbreaking queer representation. They are fascinating individuals and fascinating in how they make their work partnership, romantic and sexual relationship flourish for an unimaginable length of time. Their story touches on themes that have long excited storytellers: the power of love above all, fate’s matches and soulmates.

Nevertheless, the way this fandom has diminished and ignored Nile Freeman is a collective act of misogynoir. All of us are complicit.

Racism is structural. Misogyny is structural. It is no one person’s fault. It is no individual’s moral failing. None of us can single-handedly fix it.

Nile’s erasure from the TOG fandom is nobody’s fault. As the opening anecdote illustrates, even those of us who actively seek out fan communities focused on her are guilty of backburnering Nile to a white man.

But, my experience working in one of the most racist systems in the US has helped me learn that though I can’t individually end racism and misogyny (and other structural inequalities), I can be aware of how my actions might reinforce these structures, and I can make deliberate choices to make my own actions as anti-racist and as feminist as possible.

So, TOG fans who are reading this, I ask you to pay attention to the content you’re creating and consuming in this fandom.

How many stories have you read or written recently that have included Nile as a full, complex character in her own right (and not a catalyst or ancillary support for Joe or Nicky or Booker)?

How much fan-art with Nile has crossed your dash recently? What percentage of it is just Nile reacting to Joe and Nicky?

How many conversations have you had in group chats and discord servers that examine Nile’s backstory, her journey in the film, her future with a fragmented and hurting Old Guard?

How many headcanons have you crafted about Nile’s role in the guard’s little family, about the way her principles and desires might reinforce the others’ views or change them?

Furthermore, I hope that as you do this, you’ll notice the reasons that you haven’t seen or engaged with content about the film’s main character. I urge you to push beyond superficial explanations.

I just like the romance aspect of Joe and Nicky. Okay, but who’s to say Nile can’t have romance too? Booker, Andy, Quynh, heck, even reincarnated Lykon or OC’s or characters from other franchises, are all available to appreciate and love on Nile Freeman.

I usually just have one ship in a fandom. Okay, but what about fic celebrating the joys of an intercultural found family or fic delving into Nile being a badass millennial warrior? Those and others are all stories that are interesting and exciting too!

I just love that Joe and Nicky are canonically queer. Absolutely! Me too! But this isn’t a reason to shun or ignore a character whose heart and intelligence and courage drives the plot of a movie we all claim to love.

And then, once you’ve paid attention, I urge you to make a change, to work against the misogynoir in our fandom. Even small things make a difference.

Reblog just one piece of content where Nile is the focus each time you log into tumblr

Read a fic once a week in which Joe and Nicky aren’t the primary characters

Write a subplot in your current fic which explores an element of Nile’s character

When I said we can all do better, I meant it. I’m not excluded from responsibility. In case you're curious how I’m taking my own advice, here’s my plan:

I’ve been bad about reblogging anything lately, considering reblogs are the lifeblood of tumblr. I’m going to seek out some of the Nile fanart I’ve skimmed over recently and queue it up. This blog is gonna have more Nile than it even did before.

I’m going to keep writing Book of Nile and Joe/Nicky, but I also want to consider Nile’s relationship with Andy and Quynh if it was sexual and romantic and fabulously queer and polyamorous. Gotta finish my current long-fic first, but then there are some fic ideas percolating I hope to get down on paper this summer.

I’m going to seek out Andy/Nile and Andy/Quynh fic on AO3. I haven’t read very much of either of these ships and I want to see more of what these authors have to offer. (If y’all have recs, hit me up!)

So to conclude, we can’t do better if we don’t recognize the patterns. I hope you’ll join me in consciously thinking about whose narratives with the TOG universe are being prioritized and whose narratives are being ignored. I hope you’ll join me in taking action, as small as they might be, to lift up those narratives that have been overlooked due to racism and misogyny that, again, is nobody’s fault but is everyone’s responsibility.

Finally, if you’ve made it to this point, thank you for your time and attention. What we pay attention to matters, and I’m grateful that you decided to pay attention to this.

[gaal-dornick]

Nile Freeman and the Hero’s Journey

or, Once Again I’m Here To Talk About Our Main Character Nile Freeman

Anyway we’re giving a pause on the hell of academic writing to do: more writing. The fun kind now! This started as a half formed idea after some convo on the BoN discord server, and looking deeper, it fit too much to not at least write a little about it. Yeah, maybe it’s coincidence, and the Hero’s Journey is ultimately bs but it’s fun, we’ll see how much we can fit there. This analysis mixes movie and comics canon, and as such has spoilers for Force Multiplied. If you don’t want it, sadly you shouldn’t read the rest under the cut.

I. DEPARTURE or The Old Guard (2020) dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood

The Call to Adventure

This one is easy. Nile’s death and awakening are the most obvious call to adventure there could be. There’s ressurrection, there’s dreams of people you’ve never met before, we have it all.

Refusal of the Call

Nile: No. This is some bullshit. You must must have hypnotized me, or... or, uh, drugged me or something. And that was a blank that you shot me with. Andy:  And I was the one who cut your throat.

Again, obvious. Nile refuses to accept what happened, that her death and ressurrection were real despite being shot in the head again. She wants her life, she’s worried and anxious for her life, and not whatever she got pulled in.

Supernatural Aid

Nile: So are you good guys or bad guys?

Nile is presented with the whole team, the extent of their abilities and history now, and here is the first step into accepting her new life. I would run this up until she realizes Booker turned on them.

The Crossing of the First Threshold

The decision to not go back to her family and fight for the rest of the team. It’s the first big step she takes by herself, and it sets her on a path of transformation.

Belly of the Whale

The whale of change was: Merrick and corp. She goes in and comes out a different person, with full use of her new self and her newfound role in the story. She’s now ready for the next step.

II. INITIATION or The Old Guard: Force Multiplied (2019-2020)

The Road of Trials

In FM things get a bit murkier but still discernible. It’s said the trials come in threes and we can point to: working with the team, figuring out where she stands with Moose, and her feelings for the whole Andy/Quynh issue. Nile has to answer and overcome all these in her path.

Meeting with the Goddess/Woman as the Temptress

This is the one I have a little problem with. Oh yeah, Noriko is 100% the “Woman as the Temptress” when she gives Nile the idea to ask Andy about Hammurabi Code, but “Meeting with the Goddess is supposed to be something good/helfpul? Unless we count Moose as probable future help, I can’t fit this one perfectly.

Abyss

Yes, now it’s supposed to be “Atonement with the Father” but it could also be the Abyss and that’s where we’re at (also this other step comes later I think, with Andy as the Father/Mentor). We end at a low point, with Nile taking the lead as she falls out with Andy.

This is mainly a fun exercise, but I was actually surprised how closely her story follows the template. True heroine stuff.

[nevermindirah]

Yitzhak!

is a character! who Gregadiah What-Is-Math Rucka gave us almost no information about!

I've gone through Tales Through Time #6: The Bear and #1: My Mother's Axe with several magnifying glasses and done a lot of googling and taken my copy of the Tanakh off my shelf for the first time since (well, since the last time I needed to read Torah for TOG reasons, which I think was Booker Passover headcanons) and here's the best I can come up with.

In The Bear we meet someone who goes by the name Isaac Blue:

Read on for a lot of comic panel analysis and historical research and Jewish flailing!

So what do we know about this Isaac Blue person?

He's Lorge, he's got curly hair, he's basically a taller version of Joe as drawn by Leandro Fernández (ie an antisemitic stereotype why the fuck did they approve this character design?? and then why did they double down and copy-paste it to Yitzhak??):

He's got a mezuzah on the doorpost of his house in Alaska!

I screamed about the mezuzah way back in January in this post where I (very reasonably) assumed this character was Joe and spun myself a tale about how Booker is still Joe's brother so the mezuzah stays up even though Booker isn't welcome in that house for a century. Bottom line: the mezuzah is a tradition with origins in the commandment from Deuteronomy 6:9 to "write the words of G-d on the gates and doorposts of your house" and evolved over the course of the Rabbinic period into the modern mezuzah we see here.

I did unnecessary levels of google image search to glean absolutely no useful information about Yitzhak’s origins from this panel:

I've decided the variant cover of TTT 6 is Yitzhak because of a panel in My Mother’s Axe, shown here, and what's likely an unnecessarily deep reading of Exodus, discussed further down:

The person at the right of the bottom panel is wearing the same clothes as in the TTT 6 variant cover and has the same shoulder-length curly hair and hairy forearms.

Left to right, the people in this panel are Lykon (I'll never get used to him being white in the comics), Andy, Noriko (I think? why doesn't Andy mention her by name here?), and Yitzhak. Andy's robe has a stereotypically Greek design on the sleeve cuff, and I had to stop myself 10 minutes into a Wikipedia rabbit hole because Gregorforth doesn't think that deep about this shit. The solid clues as to timeline that we get in this panel are:

Andy's iron axe

the presence of Lykon, who Andy first met in 331 BCE

So all we know is that Yitzhak is an immortal, he was a contemporary of Lykon, and he's Jewish.

Isaac is the most common Anglicization of Yitzhak (which in turn is the most common Anglophone transliteration of יִצְחָק‎), and Greg always uses the (transliterated) Hebrew when he refers to this character. Yitzhak is the long-awaited child of Abraham and Sarah in Genesis, the child who G-d commanded Abraham to sacrifice but spared at the last minute. I see what you did there, Gregory.

Why Isaac Blue? This is where I pulled out my Tanakh. According to the New JPS translation, blue is the first of three colors of yarn listed in Exodus 35:6 among the gifts requested of the Israelites to construct the priestly garments for the Tabernacle and later the Temple. Then in Numbers 15:38 the Israelites are commanded to "make themselves fringes on the corners of their garments throughout the ages; let them attach a cord of blue to the fringe at each corner."

And now for sandbox timelines party! Gregadiah gave us ALMOST NOTHING to go on, so I'm gonna make my own fun.

I, like many modern Jews, think the stories in the Tanakh are foundational mythology that are valuable because of how they've shaped our people but that contain some fucked-up shit and either way aren't meant to be a record of historical facts. Modern scholarship generally agrees that the community we now call Jews emerged as a distinct group of Canaanites sometime in the late Bronze Age (cw this video's host says the Name of G-d aloud despite being a religious studies scholar who knows that is not a name anyone but the Temple priests are allowed to say). The first non-Biblical written record of the people Israel is from an Egyptian source c. 1200 BCE, and the Biblical kingdom of David and Solomon was probably an exaggeration of whatever really happened during the Bronze Age Collapse. We start getting into historical-fact territory a few centuries into the Iron Age:

588 BCE Solomon's Temple destroyed, Babylonian exile begins

538 BCE Cyrus of Persia allows Jews to return to Jerusalem

515 BCE Second Temple construction complete

332 BCE Alexander the Great At Something I Guess conquered Judea, beginning the Hellenistic period of Jewish history — 331 BCE Andy & Lykon find each other

167 BCE another jerkface Greek king desecrated the Temple and basically outlawed Judaism

164 BCE recapture of Jerusalem and Temple rededication during the Maccabean Revolt

70 CE destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans, beginning of the Rabbinic period of Jewish history that we're still in now

What if... and hear me out... what if immortals come in pairs, and the pairs are:

Andy & Quynh

Joe & Nicky

Booker & Nile

LYKON & YITZHAK

What if Yitzhak was a priest of the Second Temple? What if he and Lykon killed each other just like Joe and Nicky would in the same city around 1300 years later, but instead of enemies-to-lovers speedrun with an absurdly long happily-ever-after, when Lykon died permanently Yitzhak decided to separate from Andy and Noriko and become the hermit we later see in Alaska?

We don't know how old Yitzhak is compared to the others, only that he was a contemporary of Lykon at a time when Andy was using an Iron Age version of her mother's axe. Other plausible origins for him:

a Jew of the early Rabbinic period, maybe a child or grandchild of people who were still alive before the Second Temple was destroyed

a Judean of the Second Temple era under the Romans or Greeks or Persians, maybe a priest, maybe not

an exilee in Babylon, maybe of the generation who got to return, maybe of the generation who was exiled (he doesn't look like he was 50 at his first death but who knows, he could've been mortal for both)

an Israelite of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, maybe a priest of Solomon's Temple or again maybe not

an Israelite wandering in the desert with Moses

THEE Yitzhak, ben Avraham v'Sarah, our patriarch who was brought up for sacrifice and then spared, and then spared again, and then spared again, and again, and again...

or! he could also be a Canaanite or other Levantine who predates the people Israel, who at some point in his very long life chose to join our mixed multitude, who like Andromache before him (and like Avram and Sarai would in this case do after him) took a new name to reflect the magnitude of influence this people has had on him

Why do I keep saying Yitzhak might have been a priest? It's thanks to the one detail in the artwork I could plausibly connect to solid research without getting a PhD real quick. Take a look at the gorgeous detail on the opening of his robe in the TTT 6 cover. He's dressed in rags, holes and dirt everywhere, rough stitches probably from hasty repair work — except for the neck opening. Compare that to this description from Exodus 39:23 of the construction of the priestly garments for the Tabernacle: "The opening of the robe, in the middle of it, was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around the opening, so that it would not tear."

The next verses describe the intricate designs for the hem of the priestly garment. Yitzhak's ragged garment looks like the hem was torn off entirely.

Am I overthinking this? Yes I am! You're welcome!

My friend and historical research hero @lady-writes​ is in a Discord server with Gregadiah and asked the man himself some questions about all this. He clearly thinks he's being sneaky?? No shit Yitzhak is Jewish, dude, I want DETAILS!

I will not be giving up my Jewish Booker headcanon, I've put too much thought into it by now, the internalized shame of antisemitism explains Booker's depression too well for me, and it just adds so much richness to Booker/Nile both being children of forced diasporas. Fortunately (for him, not me, bc I'd do it anyway!) Gregothy supports fan headcanons even when they're not in line with his own:

One last thing before I close like 100 research tabs and go back to writing historical fantasy and/or porn! I love that, despite that atrocious caricature of a face design, our canon Jew and our fanon Jew are both Lorge and Soft and Kind, flying the face of the antisemitic stereotype of Ashkenazi Jewish men as small and weak, but also not falling into the New Jew / Muscle Jew stereotype that Zionism created. (I am trying SO HARD not to talk about Israel/Palestine for once ughhhhhhhhhh) Anyway here's a (US-centric but very good) primer on both these stereotypes of Jewish masculinity. Is this why I'm forever projecting my transmasc diasporist feels onto Jewish Booker the service sub? 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’ll reblog a second version of this with full image descriptions so that there’s a version accessible for folks who need IDs as well as a version accessible for folks who get overwhelmed by walls of text.

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[ashleyrguillory]

It is my belief that while Nicky is the knife and quick to fire when they are in danger- he also is a champion napper when they are safe in the softest clothes. Outfits from discord suggestions. Also team soft tummy for life... we can have a few hickeys as a treat (even though- they’d fade too fast)

Text bubbles:

Andy: Good morning, Nicky?  (Nicky: mmm, si.) Nile: Nicky, is that my sweater? (Nicky: YAWN) Joe: Nico- did you nap in my painting shirt? (Nicky: Si, it smelled like you-)

[cinnamonplums]

tog ladies with tattoos !! (click for better quality + details)

more info about the tattoos under the cut :)

First of all this could be a no powers AU or a canonverse AU where they have tattoos. Tattoos + their healing is kind of a tricky situation but we talked about it on the femslash guard discord server and maybe they could have tattoos? they would just fade quickly. I am going with that idea here, I’m only going to mention the tattoos with more meaning behind them, if i didn’t mention a tattoo then it doesn’t carry a deeper meaning beyond aesthetics :)

Matching tattoos

the whole team has a golden band with six dots that represent the six members of the team, andy and quynh have seven dots in honor of lykon

andy, nile and quynh have flower tattoos on their thighs, they’re not strictly matching but they got them done together

quynh has a tattoo of her as cupid on her left forearm and andy has one of a heart struck by an arrow that says ‘stupid 4 cupid’ on her left forearm as well

quynh has ‘just you and me’ and andy has ‘until the end’ on their right forearms each

quynh

a scythian style horse tattoo on her right shoulder bc of andy

a viper surrounded by yellow apricot blossoms, a nod to who she is and where she comes from

a scale tattoo surrounded by ocean waves, vietnamese sailors would get scales and eyes tattooed to ward off sea monsters and i found it very fitting for quynh

tattos that say lover and fighter under each knee

on her left leg she has a classic tattoo of a witch with the words ‘real witch’ underneath it  bc i like to think quynh has a weird sense of humour about things 

andy

quynh means night blooming flower, so andy has a tattoo of three night blooming flowers on her right shoulder

she has two scythian-style tattoos, a horse on her left shoulder and a dog on her ribs

the words ‘this is the world we made’ on her right thigh as a reminder of the good they’re doing and to never lose faith

a jar of honey as a nod to her sweet tooth and hidden sweet nature

a horse surrounded by a heart because she just loves horses

nile

a band of violets on her left forearm, which are symbols of sapphic love as well as symbols for faith and humility

a dove remembrance tattoo in memory of her dad on her left bicep

two hearts struck by a dagger on her chest, to remember her mom and brother

‘warrior’ tattooed over her ribs because she comes from warriors

a bee on her knee because she’s the bee’s knees :)

a sunflower on her right leg, as a little nod to her positive nature, always facing the sun and a sun tattoo on her other leg, to show she draws in strenght from herself

and an infinity tattoo on her left ankle because she’s a millenial and i like to think she got it with her army friends

and a massive thank you to everyone in the femslash discord server who gave me a lot of ideas for this :D

[lilolilyr]

Guess what fits perfectly to the @tog-femslashfortnight Monday prompt ‘favorite headcanon’? The results of this weekend’s hc elimination game on @theoldguardfemslashdiscord!

The winner is ‘Andromache and Quỳnh can communicate without words!’

2nd Place: Nile's favorite animals are penguins

3d Place: Andy's favorite animals are horses

And, as we really managed to let 1 hc each for the women + one shippy hc survive till the end, also honorary mention to

4th place: Quỳnh has a dark sense of humor!

Andromache headcanons

Quỳnh headcanons

Nile headcanons

Andromaquynh headcanons

Andronilynh headcanons

Click under the readmore to see the list before the elimination started, previous game results and links to works inspired by the headcanons!

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previous game results here and here

& Update! New game results: TOG Femslash (1.5.), TOG Chaos Game, TOG historical game, Milippa

Inspired works:

New: there is also an ao3 collection with inspired works here!

A 3k fic with all of this game's hcs

Nile with Penguin art

Andy showing Nile Penguins art

Tango Andromaquynh art

Teasing Andy about her age ficlet

Bickering Andromaquynh comic

Mongol Derby / Horse Girl Andy ficlet

Flapper Quỳnh art

Fashion Designer Quỳnh art

Punk/Goth girlfriends ficlet

Punk/Goth girlfriends art

Ace! Nile art (scroll down on the linked post)

Andromaquynh wedding vows gif art

(18+) fic of the 3 winning hcs of a smut game

Nile and Rubik's cubes art

ESC AU Andy art

(18+) Andronilynh museum heist 5k fic + art

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