#booker the old guard

[materassassino]

I think my silliest Mildly Autistic Nicky headcanon is that yes, he adores spices and seasonings and authentic flavours, but very occasionally (like once every six months) he will want a Plain Food day where he eats nothing but pastina in brodo and bread and butter and other boring things and everyone goes along with it. Joe is happy because Nicky is happy, Andy and Booker will eat anything if it sits still long enough. Nile was surprised but anything Nicky cooks is nourishing even if it's not mind-blowing.

The menu resumes as normal the next day.

(Actually I don't know if this is silly or not. I just like the idea. I would also imagine that they've eaten their fair share of fucking atrocious meals over the centuries, stuff that not even Nicky's skill could save, so anything is better than ship's hard tack, tripe or rotten rice.)

#the old guard #nicolo di genova #yusuf al kaysani #andromache the scythian #booker the old guard #nile freeman #pixie headcanons #this is a pastina in brodo appreciation post #la minestrina é buona lasciatemi stare oh

[druckkugelschreiber]

There‘s something about Andy‘s first death being betrayed by her mother on the battlefield and then getting betrayed by someone she loves again millennia later

Arguably if we go movie route betrayal once more being almost her last death. Delicious

#andromache the scythian #the old guard #Booker the old guard

[se-mia-bstract]

if every single immortal’s reaction to quynh in the sequel is not dripping with emotion im calling bullshit okay

that’s joe’s big sister! nicky’s partner in crime! the woman whose screams plagued book’s dreams for two centuries! andy’s wife! every single one of them has such a deep connection with her whether that be good or bad, if anyone acts like she’s some typical bad guy and not something way more complex for even a second i’m gonna go ballistic

#not that i think they would #im just warning netflix #they could use the reminder #the old guard #quynh tog #andromache x quynh #nicky di genova #joe al kaysani #booker the old guard #the old guard 2

[killersandqueens]

Rewatching Old Guard and realizing how much Andy tries to impress Niles

Like an estranged aunt trying to show off to her niece

“See small child? Look at how cool I am. So badass! I was worshipped as a god once!”

And Booker is just the depressed uncle that hangs around

#old guard #andromache the scythian #nile freeman #joe x nicky #nicolo di genova #yusuf al kaysani #booker the old guard #Nicky and Joe are the mom and dad

[yuliares]

For Dawn, who had the absolutely brilliant idea of mashing together The Old Guard and Castle in the Sky!

I did screenshot traces to get things going, and then modified from there! Andy would make a truly excellent sky pirate, I think.

#the old guard #fanart #castle in the sky #immortal husbands #joe x nicky #nicky x joe #nile freeman #andy andromache of scythia #booker the old guard

[sunsetcurveauto]

What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be / alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead. — Richard Siken

TOG x Halloween - The Guard as Ghosts

#here they are!! #tog #the old guard #andromache the scythian #quynh the old guard #lykon the old guard #yusuf al kaysani #joe al kaysani #nicolo di genova #nicky di genova #sebastien le livre #booker the old guard #nile freeman #tina talks #tog halloween mb #my mbs

[krimsnkramsart]

#the old guard #yusuf al kaysani #nicolo di genova #sebastien le livre #joe x nicky #kaysanova #immortal husbands #joe & booker #nicky & booker #found family #tog #tog fanart #the old guard fanart #this drawing started as a sketch for the reverse bang which I didn´t use #I actually finished it a while ago but life happened and kept me from posting it until now #the chess game probably doesn´t make any sense because I used two or three reference photos ;) #booker #booker the old guard #booker tog #yusuf al-kaysani #nicolò di genova #joe & nicky & booker #nicky x joe

[jar3]

It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me

(Not my gif)

#I had to #sebastien le livre #booker the old guard #the old guard #anti hero #midnights ts #taylor swift

[dormiveglia-dreamer]

the team standing in front of a broken coffee pot

Andy: So, who broke it? I’m not mad, I just want to know.

Nile: I did, I broke it-

Andy: No, no you didn’t. Joe?

Joe: Don’t look at me, look at Booker.

Booker: What? I didn’t break it!

Joe: Huh, that’s weird. How’d you even know it was broken?

Booker: Because it’s sitting right in front of us, and it’s broken.

Joe: Suspicious!

Booker: No, it’s not!

Copley: Look, if it matters, Nicky was the last one to use it.

Nicky: Liar! I don’t even drink that crap!

Copley: Oh really? Then what were you doing by the coffee cart earlier?

Nicky: I use the wooden stirrers to push back my cuticles, everyone knows that, Copley!

Nile: Alright, let’s not fight, I broke it, let me pay for it Andy.

Andy: No! Who broke it?!

Booker [whispering]: Andy, Quynh’s been awfully quiet-

Quynh: Really?!

Booker: Yeah, really!

——————————————————————————————————

Andy: I broke it. It burned my hand so I punched it. I predict ten minutes from now they’ll be at each other’s throats with warpaint on their faces, and a pig head on a stick. Good. It was getting a little too chummy around here.

#incorrect quotes #this might be slightly ooc but I don’t care #the old guard #andromache the scythian #booker the old guard #nicky the old guard #joe the old guard #quynh the old guard #nile freeman #nile the old guard #copley the old guard #james copley #andy the old guard

[drinkingteainthedark]

[ID: A picture of Booker from The Old Guard, wearing sunglasses and sitting on a motorcycle, edited so he has breasts. End ID] Boob-ker

#the old guard #tog #booker the old guard #booker tog #tog crack #image description #craic #I decided that actually I do want people to see this #<3

[caffeinated-mistake]

there's something inherent in the act of caring for someone;

and in my endless old guard brain rot this takes the form of:

- nile helping booker with therapy/ alcoholism. essentially being the go-between for him and the others during his "banishment" (I don't think it would last the full 100, and I've seen some gorgeous fics on the subject).

-it is customary to cleanse with water or sand before praying salat (I'm basing this off of research and a fic that had extremely good research with footnotes and all); and in Christianity- assume the priest Nicolo canon- washing of feet and in general is a very devotional act. it's something the disciples do, Mary Magdalene washes JC's feet with her tears and dries them with her hair, so it's all in all a very Big Thing.

in my mind, Nicolo would wash Yusef's feet as like.... his little way of saying "you are everything to me, you are holy and divine and a gift and I would do anything for you if you only asked it of me".

because, in my mind at least, joe is the wordsmith. Joe gives the speeches and writes poetry, and Nicky uses acts of service to show his devotion. Nicky cooks food, and finds baklava with varied recipes, and cuts the guards hair (it started as him fixing Andy's horrible chop in the 1670s, and ended as a way for him to show his family he loved them. he spends weeks holed up with the shitty tablet nile insisted on, learning how to do braids and care for her hair, the same way he'd watched Yusef's mother care for his sister's until he knew how to comb out the snarls and sand his beloved got caught up in). I just think Nicky seems the type to show affection in being there for someone, and that with as much religious guilt as this fandom loves to give the man, it would be sweet to see it as a tie in to his love and devotion to Joe. because Nicky absolutely believes it was God or fate that brought them together, and that loving Joe is the ultimate good he will ever do.

.... idk I thought it was cute but I'm drunk

- Andy pushes people. she's brash and ruthless, and loves so fiercely. there's a reason Joe jokes (never to her face) that Andy is the momma bear of the group.

she has Nile train until her muscles are screaming and numbing and screaming again, several times over.

she takes guard duty at night, a vigil she has in the kitchen, around the entire safehouse, and ends outside each bedroom or in the common sleeping area, listening for quiet breaths.

she trusts her team to take care of themselves, of each other.

but they are all so young to her, ageless and once a god.

Andy pushes them because they rise to it, Nile better with the sword every day, her languages coming along well with nightly dinners where conversation only takes place in that week's dialect.

- Booker I feel like will have quite the complex after he's un-banished.

he goes out of his way to make sure their safe houses are Safe. he takes over learning everything he can from medical courses, emt training, textbooks; to learn how to take care of Andy in her new mortal state.

he spends three weeks researching proper nutrition and gets his hand chopped off the one time he tries to insist on a healthy alternative to sweets.

Booker spends months teaching Nile new languages, how to blend into a crowd, how to work in the underbelly of cities and make friends in unlikely places.

deep down, he knows he's trying to train her to take his place. And as much as she lacks the eye for detail and intuition of what changes to make to forged papers, she's learning. (Joe's the one to corner him about it, grappling and fighting and screaming until Booker quiets, in a close headlock, his back to Yusef's chest, and stills. Joe shushes him, and then says, animosity gone for the first time in a while, "you're my brother. I love you, and I'm so sorry we failed you. but we are a family, Book, we are a family.")

it's slow moving, but eventually booker admits his forgeries are better than Nile's. that maybe he should stick around a bit longer, until she has some practise.

#tog #the old guard #yusef x nicolo #nicolo di genova #joe al kaysani #yusef al kaysani #joe x nicky #tog head canons #head canon #andy the old guard #andromache the scythian #booker the old guard #sebastian le livre #nile freeman

[druckkugelschreiber]

Okay, so, headcanoning where Booker would fall on the ace spectrum. I'd like to think (or hope lol) he's sex favourable (I mean considering everything), probably somewhere around demisexual or greysexual.

Because can you imagine demisexual in the context of immortality?! I can't put it in words right now because my brain is mush but it gives me so many feels. It's along the lines off 'I've known you for centuries and keep discovering and loving new sides of you'.

Booker basically opening up like revealing all the layers and stuff. And the whole 'trusting slowly' (in terms of sex and everything else) works so well with his trauma and character.

I'm going feral. I'm not coherent but definitely feral.

#ace booker #booker the old guard #sebastien le livre #the old guard

[se-mia-bstract]

the placement of the characters did so well to heighten booker’s betrayal

the fact that nicky and joe were removed from the situation left nile relying on booker as her info, leaning on him as the one who could guide her because the only other person was andy, who had made it clear she wasn’t going to give nile straight up answers. in the middle of everything booker lets her in on not just their immortality but his own personal pain in a highly intimate and vulnerable moment. he is the one closest to nile, our pov character, and as a result the we learn too to rely on him for information, or at least to be the least enigmatic of the bunch as far as nile is concerned. and he’s also the only one who isn’t ancient, who knows most recently what it is to be the new kid. and it’s him. he’s the traitor. the one other character nile felt like she knew, having got only a night with joe and nicky and andy not being very open with her initially.

and then you watch the film again and it’s all there. the way he is always in control of the mission, the way he tries to persuade them to go find nile after finding copley, the guilt that is apparent in his features all the damn time. it’s like watching a different character. he was the least enigmatic, because it’s all right there if you know what you’re looking for. yet we, like nile, missed it, because we didn’t know enough and so we trusted the character who was in the position to guide her through it all. and ironically, the others missed it too, though for them it was putting too much trust in their brother.

#god i love this movie #booker is so interesting to me #the old guard #booker the old guard #andy the old guard #joe al kaysani #nicky di genova #sebastien le livre #andromache the scythian #nile freeman

[tommy-evan]

it’s thursday, so naturally it’s sebastien le livre loving day

#the old guard #sebastien le livre #booker sebastien #booker the old guard #prev. alkaysani #togcalendar

[yuliares]

A gift for a true rarepair champion, @goldheartedsky! Unable to bring himself to shoot Quynh in the last scene of the movie, Booker finds himself backed into a bit of a corner. Please imagine this as the prelude to a very messy reunion between Andy and Quynh (with Booker in the middle).

Font is Komika Display! Pose traced from a hacked up version of this sexy lingerie photo by Vitalek Radko.

#the old guard #quynh the old guard #booker the old guard #sebastien le livre #fanart

[sunsetcurveauto]

Speechless, my friend, / alone in the loneliness of this hour of the dead / and filled with the lives of fire, / pure heir of the ruined day.

TOG x Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda - Booker, "The Light Wraps You"

#sebastien le livre #booker tog #booker the old guard #tog #the old guard #pablo neruda #twenty love poems and a song of despair #tina talks #tog tlpsod mb #shrimp recipe #my mbs