#sebastien le livre headcanons

[fangirlings-things]

Being a member of the Guard and having a love/hate relationship with Booker would include headcanons

anon said: hey! Can I please have some hc about being a member of the old guard and having a love and hate relationship with Booker? Something like you wrote in your other imagine. hope this is okay, thank you!

A/N: hii, love! of course it's okay! I love Booker, so it's always a pleasure to write for him! hope you like this 💖

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The thing about Booker, is that he has a talent to annoy you

Ever since you two first met, the french man showed you that temper that would just drive you crazy, unstoppably

It is as if he takes pleasure in contradicting you, and that of course, makes you want to kill him

Which you actually did, more than once

Everytime the team gets together for a job, he presents you that convinced smile of his and with irony, says how much he has missed you

You absolutely cannot work in plans together, since you always end up at each other's throats, more arguing than anything else

You do work fine together in the field, but you strongly believe that is because killing people do not require for you both to actually communicate

If you had a huge fight, you would give each other threatening looks later while sharing a meal with the others

Andy is annoyed by your bickering at each other. She is the boss and when she says so, you both stop fighting at the very same instant and do whatever she tells you to

Nicky and Nile mostly just roll their eyes at all the swearing and argument you have with each other, from time to time muttering to themselves how you both are such childs when it comes to one another

Joe finds it funny. He can't stop laughing whenever you both start screaming, shouting your lungs out because of something probably stupid, like who would get to go in first at the job

When Nicky asks him about it, he just says the fun is in the fact that you both don't see what's right in your faces

Occasionally, after a harsh job or just a bad day for both, you would allow yourselves to share a drink together in silence, just hoping for the alcohol to kick in soon

Whenever Booker spoke about his sons and all the grief he still felt after so much time, you wouldn't be able to deny to yourself how bad you felt for him and you would hug him, comfort him, even though you would later pretend that never happened

And he would pretend it either, even though that meant a lot to him. The fact that you cared

For some time, you would give yourselves a break from each other. But then, all of the sudden, the fighting and screaming would come back and in Nile's words, "everything would go back to normal"

And Joe woud laugh again at that and when it happened, Andy would be the one to ask why he was laughing, how he could find that funny. And for that, looking at his boss, he would say

"Me and Nicky were exactly like that in the beginning. Don't you remember it, boss?"

[immortalmuses]

The Summer Olympics are here once again, so I am once again thinking about The Old Guard Summer Olympics AUs

Nicky in multi-event sharpshooting, including 50 meter rifle three position, 10 meter air rifle, and 25 meter rapid fire pistol

Quynh in Women's and Mixed individual Recurve Archery, 70 meters

Andromache in (yup, you guessed it) the Equestrian sport of Three Day Eventing, individual and team. She fucking hates the Dressage phase (don't blame me, I'm an eventer too), but she's also got the steadiest hands and the quietest seat in the sport, so good luck getting a lower score.

Joe in.... Football? Rugby Sevens? Maybe Fencing? the Man is too multi-talented, I am open to ideas.

Booker is another likely candidate for Football. Or, interestingly, Handball? Apparently France is like the four-time European champions of Handball. 🤷‍♂️

Nile is another multi-talent, but since Team America is known to dominate in Athletics (344 gold medals!), let's consider her for 110 or 400 meter hurdles, pole vault, maybe high jump? Anyway she's a badass, she could do the Decathlon and make it look like a walk in the park.

Obviously they are all great friends that get up to a variety of shenanigans in the Olympic Villages (of which they do not all belong to the same ones, because who puts Equestrians with Sharpshooters and expects the place not to burn down?). There's shit-talking, romance, broken carbboard beds, you get the idea....

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[mprosperossprite]

Small, extremely niche new headcanon, upon a The Old Guard rewatch:

The night of the Goussainville attack, Joe and Booker turn on a football match. It is the middle of the goddamn night, meaning no European clubs would be playing live. Could be a replay, but you know what's better?

They're watching MLS.

The TV shows red kits vs. blue kits. Gotta be a West Coast US game for the time zones.

Looking at MLS Kits from the 2018 and 2019 seasons, I've decided it's an LA Galaxy (blue) vs. New York Red Bulls (red) match.

Does Booker have feelings about David Beckham ending his career in MLS? Does Joe despise the way Red Bull has franchised football clubs in Germany and the US? Yes and yes.

[not-xpr-art]

Queer art request #4 - Booker (Sebastien le Livre) from The Old Guard!

(cheers to the person on twitter that suggested this lol!)

since it’s lgbt+ history month in the UK i’m accepting drawing requests for queer characters and/or people from history so feel free to send me your ideas!

[hirotakadan]

lmaoooo i snorted so loud i woke my dogs up XD

It's probably a good thing Quynh wasn't around when Booker turned up because being around two insufferable queer couples instead of just one means he would have just lain on the floor and never gotten up again.

They just drag him around with them. Occasionally they hear him sob quietly, but it's muffled by the dirt. Is he man or is he carpet? No one knows.

[veryoldmuchguard]

Thinking a lot about whether or not poison would work on the immortals and I think the general fandom consensus is that yes it would but I think it would be so fucking funny if it just didn’t. Maybe that’s why Booker constantly has to be drinking like a frat boy, because his liver is just so goddamn Super Effective.

Like I’m picturing them all at some late 19th-early-20th century high society  fancy crime dinner, doing some espionage and then the moustache-twirling villain archly reveals that all the guests dishes have been poisoned. The mortal guests all die and Andy, Joe, Nicky and Booker are all sat awkwardly at the table.

Andy is like: Oh you want me to die? 

Joe decides to go full Theatre Kid and loudly proclaim that if he is about to die he is damn well going to confess his Totally Secret Hidden Love for Nicky, and makes it about half way through his daring confession before Nicky has had enough and they just start making out instead.

Booker doesn’t even look up from eating his Poison Soup.

[krimsnkramsart]

[bestwisheslatersgators]

I thought of this headcanon for Joe and I had to write it before I forget. I’m also sure that someone else has thought of it but oh well!

Joe is a HUGE comic book nerd. He’s been a fan of them since they came out. I’m sure he has a ton of different comic books scattered around at all their different safe houses. I’m sure in the past he has even written and drawn some of his own comics. (He definitely based a character or two on his found family.) He obviously loves Marvel and DC. At some point in his life he definitely had drinks with Stan Lee.

I also think he definitely watches all the comic book movies and tv shows with Nile. They almost always get tickets to an early showing unless they are on a mission. If they are on a mission they make sure to see the movie immediately when they get home, She always used to see the movies in the theater with her brother and now she gets to do it with her new brother. They decided at some point make the rest of the team sit down and have a marathon of them. Joe’s favorite character is Moon Knight. Nicky loves Daredevil. Andy’s favorite character is Wonder Woman (Especially after hearing that maybe she was the inspiration for her). Niles favorite character is Iron Man. Bookers favorite character is the Scarlet Witch.

[astrabear]

the Old Guard and electricity: my headcanons

Andy: She’s seen so many fads come and go, this is just another one that won’t catch on. New ways to die, none of which she’s looking forward to.

Joe: You mean I can have constant, steady light? That doesn’t depend on the time of day? Nicolo! You have to sit for a new portrait!

Booker: Fascinated by the technology, attends lectures and demonstrations and reads journal articles, exhausted by trying to convince Andy what this really means.

Nicky: Withholding judgment on the idea itself, but has listened to Booker enough to have very strong feelings about Thomas Edison, against whom he carries a grudge for several decades.

Quynh: So overwhelmed after coming out of the ocean that it takes her at least a week to start wondering how it all works. Now attributes everything to electricity. How do planes fly? Electricity. Telephones? Electricity. It starts off sincere but now she does it just to annoy the others. She wants to see how many times Nile will try to explain it before she gives up.

[bookersebastien]

tell me about joe and booker's brotherhood 🤩

lol my fav two boys, ooh it’s been a while since i did hc post so what better way to get back to it

literally the dumbest when theyre together

always with inside jokes that don’t even make sense when you’re in on the joke, but that doesn’t stop them from laughing like guys who have definitely had too much to drink

the most obnoxious people about soccer you will ever meet, nicky has learned to avoid the topic with joe unless he’s somehow in the mood to discuss every reason why that team didn’t win in that one game that was like 70 years ago, please joe let it go

booker is the only other person who just like gets what joe is talking about when discussing soccer, they all found this out sometime in the early 1900s when joe makes a comment about some game and booker just jumps in without hesitation to everyones surprise

however it also started an argument that left them without silverware until their next shopping trip

they’ve also since banned eating baked potatoes during soccer nights because it will end up on the ceiling, no one knows how but it will happen and the others refuse to help scrape it off again

can lie their way out of any situation, booker and joe were once able to convince a man they were twins and they’ve been unstoppable since

and have also since learned to play confused tourists at the drop of a hat if they think they’ve been made, they’re not even speaking a real language but it worked didn’t it andy?

have definitely played lovers at some point or another just because they’re at some fancy party, nicky is set up on the neighboring roof, andy is nowhere to be found and thus began their personas of: pierre and ramzi, a couple who run their own vineyard in the south of france and are the weirdest people you’ll ever meet 

this is not the last appearance they make over the years

their first outing as pierre and ramzi is memorialized in a picture of them from the party, booker wrote on the frame “first time in prague together on our 10th anniversary” followed by a disgusting amount of hearts (nicky secretly treasures the photo)

joe has successfully hidden behind booker when andy comes looking for him, because who the fuck filled an entire suitcase with just books, joe you were only supposed to back essentials

she has no idea there’s another bag under the bed

book club

nile joins when she joins the guard and half expects it as a joke but they take it very seriously, there’s wine and sandwiches, cookies if you want too nile (joe lets booker get away with his attempts at sneaking whiskey into his wine - the man gives zero fucks about what he puts in his body)

they switch off recommending books and like to choose one from an author who’s from wherever they’re at now or wherever they’re going next

nile realizes she has some serious learning to do when she finds out many of their selections aren’t in english

joe laughs at and appreciates bookers attempts to read arabic, he’s getting better

[lovelikedestiny]

~ Nicky & Copley friendship

the first time Nicky learns about the date of death of Copley’s wife he all but invades his house in a polite and kind manner

by the time Copley has recovered from the shock of having four warriors in his home, the table is already set and Nicky is serving homemade pasta

Copley manages three bites before bursting into tears and Nicky gives him tissues and a hot chocolate with a smiley on the milk foam

they talk for hours about all kinds of topics like philosophy, ethics, religions and morals until a sleep deprived Joe - because his favorite pillow is missing - reminds Nicky to sleep and drags him into their bedroom

Copley is stunned when he discovers that Nicky keeps all of the information he told him about his wife in mind and gets his first hug after he thanked Nicky for cooking his wife’s favorite dish

he gets Nicky a tablet only for recipe-apps and shows him patiently how to use it, later however he sees how Nicky carefully writes down all recipes he wants to try on paper, tongue tucked between his teeth

Copley is the one who introduces Nicky to “Hay Day” because it helps him to focus on something simple to relax and although Joe is suspicious at first he can’t be mad at Copley when Nicky is showing him excitedly that he named his two rabbits Yusuf and Joe

after every mission Nicky takes his time to feed all his animals and to harvest, he names his farm “The Old Guard” and befriends Copley’s farm

even Andy and Nile can’t roll their eyes anymore after watching Nicky smiling softly at his tablet - “Look Andromache, I named the horses after you and Quynh” - “Nile, do you want to name my elephant?”

the first thing Nicky sends Booker is a screenshot of one of his dogs, called “Sebastien”, later he asks Joe why Booker sent back a 🥺 “sad smiley with a serious eye infection, his eyes are badly watering, Yusuf”

Copley is more than surprised when he gets a package for his birthday the date of which he never told one of the others

inside are exotic types of tea, raspberry-chocolate cookies with an unused, small candle, pens from a hotel from Andy, a piece of soap and a painted picture of his wife Joe drew based on a description of Nicky

on the attached birthday card Nile has written short and sweet how Nicky forced Andy and Joe to prepare a present for Copley

because Copley is an intelligent man he gets that he has to befriend Nicky to be tolerated by Joe and Andy

through the impression Copley left on Nicky with his waving and smiling through the scope of his sniper rifle Nicky knows not to underestimate Copley

after Nicky and Copley discussed for four hours if pineapple on pizza would be a violation of human rights, they’re not allowed to get drunk together anymore

although Nicky is the first one to adopt Copley officially into their team, he is the hardest to read and Copley keeps a small notebook in his drawer where he records all clues regarding Nicky’s facial expressions and gestures, based on Joe’s and Andy’s behavior

when Nicky calls him “James” Copley is frightened to death because he thinks he did something to rouse Nicky’s anger and can’t sleep for three days until Nile tells him that Nicky only called him James because he is now a member of the team

as Copley saves them on a mission, getting Joe’s and Andy’s respect and an impressed thumbs-up from Nile because “Hot damn, Copley, you got some moves”, Nicky just smiles knowingly at him like he did as Nile saved them in the lab

that Nicky’s middle name can be “little shit” Copley discovers when he and Nicky get kidnapped and one of their enemies gets frustrated with Nicky’s too honest answers to their questions without answering anything, in fact “What did you want to do?” - “My husband.” - “Jesus fucking Christ, just answer the question!” - “Wait, hold on a second. I thought Jesus Christ was one person. Are you telling me they were lovers? How else could Jesus fuck Christ? My whole life has been a lie!”

Copley nearly chokes on his own spit, especially when he sees the bulging eyes of their enemy

every time Nicky picks up a stray, he gives them Copley so he wouldn’t be too lonely and even though Copley can’t keep all of them he now has two kittens, a pup and a chicken with vertigo

he, Joe and Nicky get passionate about gardening and whenever they visit Copley for missions, Nicky gives him offsets from some of their plants

as Copley realizes that Nicky is a big fan of musicals they visit one together and talk about the meaning of the songs and their interpretation afterwards, humming the songs in the car on the way back and Copley nearly crashes when Nicky nails every note perfectly

Nicky is happy to talk to someone who has found proof for what he said all along “We can do some good. We were meant to find each other. It’s like destiny” because they have a purpose, he answers every of Copley’s curious questions good-naturedly

they solve crossword puzzles together: Nicky always gives small hints when Copley doesn’t know an answer right away to help him without revealing the whole thing and Copley is able to impress Nicky with the range of his knowledge

both of them are the only ones that watch nature documentaries with true interest

at negotiations no one has a chance against Copley’s polite, controlled pokerface and Nicky’s blank expression or his death stare

when Copley nearly dies on a mission because he is buried under a collapsed building and is afraid to die, it is Nicky who holds his hand through a gap and talks calmingly to him

Nicky asks Copley to show him his research and expresses great interest and recognition for his data and persistence in searching

soon Copley has developed a soft spot for Nicky and can’t refuse him anything because honestly, everyone of the team has a soft spot for Nicky

Copley experiences first hand that a disappointed Nicky is a worst nightmare and even Andy tries her hardest to avoid it

Nicky is excited when Copley shows him his library and spends hours reading in there

in every safe house Copley makes sure to get them a usable kitchen and stocks up their groceries based on analyzing Nicky’s ingredients preferences before

[producebyam]

we know that Nicky and Joe are soulmates, right? They kill each other and become inmortal, soulmate behavior, right? And of course they will loose their immortality together, my sanity depends on that.

But hear me out, all those things are related to death in some way, so here comes my sleep deprived mind, they were born the same day.

Yes, I know that Joe is three years older, but I'm not talking about about years, I'm talking about days. (and maybe stars)

The poetic way to say this: "The starts were in the same position when they were born, just three years apart."

And maybe this idiots talk about their birthdays but because the calendar difference (may content errors, don't think too much into this.) and because the bigger problem was not being able to die, they just thought nothing of it, and never celebrate their birthday in general, whatever reason suits you best.

Until, Nile ask for the day they were born, and they answer with their respective calendar system, she does some mathematics and, guess what? same day.

[somethingsomagicaboutwords]

Random old guard Headcanon but I like to think that the members of the old guard are blessed with immortality due to the potential scope of influence they can have.

Like in Andromache's time, warrior tribes changed the course of history. She was a chieftain's daughter.

In Quynh and Lykon's time, royals held all the power to shape the future. She was the Queen to her people and Lykon a prince to his.

Religion had the biggest stick in the yard, trade decided relationships and the noble class was rising in power during Yusuf and Nicolò's time. One is a merchant from a deeply religious family and the other is the youngest son of a noble turned priest.

Booker is from a time where the people's power was the burgeoning force, the common man was beginning to assert his power.

Nile is from the US military, the defense budget and the general wealth backing them, makes them one of - if not the most - dominating power in the modern world.

That's what they all have in common - power. How it is defined just changes according to the century.

[arsenal-irl]

Got bored at work and started randomly thinking of some Old Guard headcanons. Thought y'all might like them, so here are a few:

Nicky really likes Star Wars for absolutely no reason.

Andy has several dozen arson charges to her name.

Booker has never seen a single Harry Potter movie.

Nicky can sing pretty well, but very self-conscious about it. The only one he doesn't mind singing around is Joe, who absolutely adores his voice.

Nile taught the rest of the gang how to play Animal Crossing. Now she, Joe and Nicky regularly play as a way to de-stress (especially after particularly rough missions). Andy and Booker occasionally join in, though they aren't as committed to it as the other three are.

Joe has never lost a game of Mario Kart in his life. The only person who has gotten close to beating him is Nile.

Booker has only one irrational fear: Snakes.

After Nile got them to all watch Twilight, Nicky spent six hours trying to teach himself Jasper's bat flip thing from the Baseball scene.

I have a lot more, but if I were to list them all, we'd be here all week.

Feel free to ask me to elaborate/write more about these. :) Might help with writer's block.

[dearqueerdeers]

happy pride month to our favorite mlm/wlw solidarity pair, immortal wives Andy & Quynh and immortal husbands Joe & Nicky!! While we’re here, have some pride headcanons:

Nile, a proud asexual, loves going to pride parades and getting the ace flag facepainted on her cheeks!

Growing up in a big city like Chicago, she’d always take the train to pride, then remove/hide all of her pride stuff before going home, just in case there were any homophobes lurking on her route home.

Her first pride with the gang, she starts to hide her pride stuff upon leaving, then realizes that she doesn’t have to now that she has her (found) family to protect her. She feels truly safe with the group.

Booker’s the awkward ally who we all love dearly but is a little too extra about his allyship. Every June he shows up decked in rainbows and presenting the team with various pride-related gifts. They don’t have the heart to tell him that it’s not necessary (plus, they all enjoy getting a bunch of rainbow stickers each year to slap around their various safe houses).

Andy & Quynh are the couple shouting back and throwing things at homophobic protestors. Joe is cheering them on, and Nicky is heatedly lecturing an evangelical Christian protestor on why All Of That Is Wrong, Actually; Do You Have A Minute To Talk About Our Lord And Savior, Jesus Christ, Who Says You Should Love Others and Not Judge Them?

They are all firm supporters of No Cops At Pride.

Copley has at least 5 pictures of them from different pride parades each year, because they city-hop (and country-hop) from celebration to celebration in order to get All The Best Experiences.

Joe and Nicky get hit on more than Andy and Quynh (on account of Andy being Very Intimidating). Nile’s platonically popular with both queer dudes and sapphics, on account of having off the charts friendly vibes. She makes at least 3 new friends every pride, and often accepts a date or two if the team is planning on staying in the area for a while.

The team frequently split up to offer to walk nervous pride-goers home.

Booker wears one of those “free dad hugs” shirts, befriends lots of queer kids.

Feel free to rb and add on your own pride headcanons!

[veryoldmuchguard]

TOG Characters and the Sibling Vibes they give off:

Just be clear, I mean with their own families, not within the “found family”.

Andy:

Andy gives me peak “Parentified Oldest Sister”- it’s something about the way she seems to feel responsible for everything.

Joe:

Oldest brother, but not parentified. Either he was allowed to do whatever he wanted because he was the Golden Child or he just did what he wanted because he definitely wasn’t the Golden Child.

Nicky:

Either an only child or a youngest child with a big age gap between him and the rest of his siblings. Not particularly close to his original family but not in a whump way.

Booker:

Booker is a middle child. I will take no criticism here. I’m a middle child and I know one when I see one.

Nile:

I don’t know if her brother is canonically older or younger, but I get the vibe of Nile being the younger one, but not by much.

Quynh:

These last two are definitely a reach because of the little screen time and development they got but, I see Quynh as a youngest with quite a few older siblings.

Lykon:

Youngest brother. Look at that smile. Tell me I’m wrong.

Feel free to reply/tag with your own headcanons 👍