#marcus / esca

[tragicsiblings]

THE EAGLE 2011, Dir. Kevin Macdonald

[remythologise]

I came this far with you. I won't leave you now.

[deedala]

THE EAGLE (2011)

Rome also did that.

[flffx]

why are there so few backrooms AU fics? we need more :') i think it's a very interesting concept with a lot of potential

[elvencantation]

The Eagle (2011)

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: The son of the man who lost the Eagle of the Ninth would never be allowed a first command of his very own fort, would he? Marcus is posted not to Isca Dumnoniorum, but to a wretched and run-down garrison north of the Wall. There he finds that he is the new centurion of a group of scouts and spies, all of them British. He has few supplies and no experience. His men distrust him. His superiors despise him. His second-in-command is an incompetent drunkard. And the local tribes are determined to kill all of them. But the worst thing of all is one of Marcus' soldiers. He is an enigmatic, dangerous, and insubordinate man by the name of Esca, who makes Marcus yearn for terrifying things he has never before wanted and can never, ever let himself have...

Author: @sineala

[chiropteracupola]

you've got a long road ahead of you yet.

[do-you-ship-it-polls]

Do you ship it?

reason: It's enemies-to-lovers in the best way. And the sexual tension is delicious.

[incorrect-the-eagle-bis]

deleting my dating apps because i want to meet someone the old fashioned way (i attend saturnalia games, fall in love at first sight with the slave fighting the retiarius, save him from the claws of death, buy him with my scarse life earnings and make him my freedman)

[rainbowcolored7]

Woke up missing them today

[loftec]

Defixio by Nahnahnahnah

The Eagle | Marcus Flavius Aquila/Esca Mac Cunoval | 8 053 words 125 pages | 8 signatures | 5,8 pt Bodoni 72 Book

A trip to the healing waters of Aquae Sulis leads to revelations, confessions, and far more excitement than Marcus or Esca anticipated.

Ask me to come up with a top 5 list of my all time favourite fic and this will be on it, and I'm not even sure I can tell you why. Well I could, but we'd be here all day. Effortlessly well written and characterised, wonderfully set up and tied together – it's a calming trip to the spa, a little mystery to solve, and full of my favourite kind of long-suffering (and ultimately requited) pining.

[merlinsredneckchief]

i love The Eagle 2011 movie adaptation of the Eagle of the Ninth but it makes me SO sad how many moments between Marcus and Esca aren’t in the movie.

Like when Esca had the option of running away and not being Marcus’s slave but he CHOSE to stay so that he could be with Marcus: “But I chose to go with him because it was in my heart that it might be you that we went to." DIRECT QUOTE FROM THE BOOK!!!! And they hadn’t even spoken to each other at that point 😭😭😭

Like the fact that esca says “I have not served the Centurion because I was his slave, I have served Marcus, and it was not slave-service.” ALL WHILE HOLDING MARCUS’S HAND AND THIS IS BEFORE THEY GO ON THE JOURNEY FOR THE EAGLE!!! Like the books so much gayer than the movie!!!

[remythologise]

The Eagle (2011) + scenery

[feilongfan]

Ahhh! It is 2024, Jamie still namedropped Channing in his interview with Total Film magazine. I can’t! My Marcus x Esca shipper heart.

[mosthomoeroticenemies]

[elvencantation]

You're free. You're free, my friend.