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zairaalbereo · 3 years
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Just Nile. Because there can never be enough Nile, and I really like how she turned out. ✨
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To add on to @nevermindirah's Dorothy Freeman headcanons, here's one of her favorite photos
[id: two year nile is standing in her backyard with her dad. the edges of the photo are overexposed, mr. freeman's face is partially obscured. nile is wearing light blue denim overalls over a yellow and purple susie carmichael sweater, a chunky beaded bracelet in chicago bulls red and black, small gold hoop earrings, and her father's combat boots. she's holding a basketball against her side with one arm. her hair is styled in pigtail twists, the hair ties securing them have large gold beads on them. mr. freeman is standing behind her, crouched over to hold her steady in the comically oversized boots. he's wearing navy blue jeans and a white t-shirt, he's barefoot in the grass. they are both wearing nail polish in prince purple and smiling up at mrs. freeman who is taking the photograph. end id]
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The old guard: A story of four ancient (and relatively ancient) immortals and the one 24 year-old put in charge of the brain cell between them.
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hashtagleh · 4 years
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“No man left behind” is a common enough phrase that we don’t really think about it. But think about when Nile says it to Booker. She knew he was a traitor - that he had given up his family in a selfish move that would see them tortured and experimented on for who knew how long.
Saying it how she did, when she did - it’s her way of saying “no - you are still in this family. I still choose you. Now get your ass up and show me you can deserve it again.”
And if I didn’t love her for anything else, I love Nile Freeman for that.
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thecostoflies · 3 years
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It’s impossible for me to overstate my need for any and all content in which Nile Freeman gets to reunite with her mom and brother and they completely accept her and want to meet her immortal family
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ongreenergrasses · 3 years
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hey greg turn on your location i just wanna talk
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themoonwheniamlost · 4 years
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Okay so I've got these three Book of Nile AU ideas swarming around in my brain right now. And I also made moodboards for them!!! So I need y'all to help me figure out which one to write next... *sobs*
#1. Hades and Persephone AU. But with a more female friendly twist. Welcome to Hell, literally. Lots of yearning. Aka (Help, I've fallen and I can't get up.)
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#2. Beauty and the Beast / Arranged Marriage AU. The cursed/prideful royal AU. Lots of animals. Magical realism. Idk. Here's the moodboard.
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#3. Probably my fave. The Isis and Osiris AU. Quest to the Underworld? Got it. Loving my wife Juice? Got it. Nile kicking ass and taking names? All here!!!
A.K.A. (I hurt myself.)
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So yeah! I know there aren't a ton of Book of Nile fans out there. But I love these so I thought I'd share! Lmk which one you'd like to see? 🧡😘
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youssefguedira · 3 years
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nile week is over but i'm declaring nile appreciation hours anyway. tell me your nile headcanons
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My mother is very jumpy and I am one to speed around the house on occasion. So when she said the bathroom was free, I ran for it, you know, “I feel the need, the need to pee”, so I came pouncing around the corner and promptly scared the hell out of her. She screamed, it made me throw my hands up and my poor phone went flying until I caught it. I swear she wanted to throw me down the stairs!
So my thought: it’s early-ish days, Nile is still settling in and they’re all learning to live with each other. Joe being polite and saying the bathroom is free, only for Nile to come barrelling around the corner, he screams, she screams. She’s still holding the gun she was about to put safely away when her jumped reaction is to pull the trigger.
(Joe, California, 2021, Cause of death: Died of Fright)
This is the cold open of 2 old 2 guard
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Another thing I can’t get past about Nile is how accepting and welcoming she is. I know the fandom is head over heels about Joe’s softness and Nicky’s caring, but I feel that Nile is overlooked in that regard. Nile has so much softness and caring and consideration in her.  The way she interacts with the child and the woman in her first scenes, she’s both kind and respectful respectively, each time going out of her way to ease the experience for the person she is communicating with, to no one’s benefit but theirs.   And on that subject, and this was very, VERY, important to me, when Nicky says the “love of my life at dinner” and points to Joe, Nile doesn’t show one flicker of surprise or shock or give us the “oh, are you gay?” moment we might expect. No. Just a “You’re the oldest?” to Andy, because Joe and Nicky being together is a fact she’s witnessed and heard about, and just like that she’s accepted it completely and without question, wich is certainly a testament to her upbringing and personal values = Nile Freeman is good people. When she wakes from her nightmare, her immediate and general “sorry’ to everyone for disturbing their rest, even though she’s known them for all of what? Three, four, five hours at this point? She considers them, even in the midst of her own turmoil at the moment? The way she relays the contents of her dream to them when Nicky asks? Low and questioning, although not demanding answers, even though the dream obviously pertains to them in some way, and she has a right to do so? The way she speaks about her mother and father and family to Andy? Quietly loving and proud? This is what and who my family is, this is what they did for me? And Andy sees and understands  - “you come from warriors,” Even the way she chooses to leave Andy is in it’s own way considerate, she doesn’t reject or do so angrily or accusingly, she simply tells Andy firmly, “I’m not doing this,” and then almost pleadingly, “I still have time with them,” and then, and THEN, she asks “Are you going to be okay?” because she cares for her family, and wants to go back to them, but she also cares for Andy now, she knows her leaving could potentially change the game for her, and she wants to make sure, before she goes that it’ll be okay for her. Then she realizes Booker’s betrayal, and with all the implications of that for Andy and the team, that care manifests, and she immediately goes back.  When she sees Copley’s wall, her first thought goes to Andy’s hopelessness and grimness, “she couldn’t see, but you could,” she sees an opportunity to better life for someone and takes on the task of delivering that message of hope to that person - - the first thing she does in the lab is reassure Andy, tell her softly, almost sweetly, that all she’s done has mattered. And throughout the fight at the end, “where is Andy?” “Put on the damn armor, Andy,” “you’re going spend it with us,”  because she cares so much, loves so much, she’s welcomed these people in already and it’s so glaringly obvious that she’s determined to make her life with them a good one. And at the very end, when she only wants an apology for Booker, yes, she’s still young and not fully understanding of the depth of what Booker did, but she knows it is serious, and she’s still ready to forgive. (another testament to the way she was raised and perhaps how her religion influences her views: forgiveness is a big thing in Christian religion, and she seems to be a Christian of some denomination) Nile is just...she has such a big heart. She’s such a good person that it fucking hurts to even think about it. She feels deeply, cares deeply, is hurt deeply, (her face when she comes into the tent in the camp and see that her ‘friends’ are packing her off) and welcomes without qualm and with the depths of her heart. Her heart is so, so big, she accepts all these people, accepts them as they are - I think this verse from Nirvana sums it up (Come as you are, as you were. As I want you to be. As a friend, as a friend. As an old enemy.) and she accepts with no small amount of grace the hand that destiny has dealt to her, and at every turn retains her personal values and inherent goodness.  In conclusion, Nile Freeman is an awesome human being, and the values she embodies and the love she’s ready to give needs to be more appreciated. And I love her @themoonwheniamlost (if it’s okay to tag!! tell me if it’s not!) You love Nile as much as I do, any thoughts?
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nevermindirah · 3 years
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part 3, "Kid": How every character in The Old Guard (2020) dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood relates to the main character, Nile Freeman
Stop writing people calling Nile "kid" 2k4ever
Andy calls Nile a baby one time, minutes after first dreaming of her. Andy then calls Nile "kid" three times, all to her face, all in the first few hours of their acquaintance. Booker calls Nile "kid" once, on the porch outside the bar. That's it. The context for these lines is super interesting, and calling Nile "kid" in fic doesn’t make any sense without the original context.
When Andy, Joe, Nicky, and Booker wake up from first dreaming of Nile, Joe and Nicky immediately start sharing facts they noticed, and Joe starts sketching. Booker is in his feelings but he contributes a few things to the saying-facts-out-loud rally.
Andy is 100% in her feelings. She starts the conversation with "No, not another one." Then once the boys have gathered a bunch of facts and Booker says "I felt her die" Andy comes in with this:
Andy: [stares at nothing straight ahead, voice is remote, detached.] She’s a Marine. [Joe and Nicky look up together.] Combat. Or near combat duty. Afghanistan. [Shakes her head slowly, wearily.] It’s been over two hundred years. [Whispers, anguished, buries head in hands.] Why now?
Got it. Joe and Nicky are the competent soldiers, Booker is the semi-competent drunk, Andy is the boss. Andy is the fucking depressed boss. It's in this context that Andy, having analyzed the information her direct reports just gave her, made the determination that Nile is a Marine in Afghanistan, and let her team have a brief back-and-forth about whether to change their plan to go retrieve the new one before announcing the decision that is ultimately hers to make, refers to Nile as a baby.
Andy: Get to France. Use the Charlie safe house. I’ll meet you there. [Joe examines his sketch, blows pencil-dust off it. She stares at Booker.] Find Copley. [Joe tears out the page and hands her the sketch. Andy stares at it.] Jesus. She’s just a baby.
Andy's metric fuckton of I AM BEYOND DONE just leaps off the page/screen. Keep that existential exhaustion in mind as we see her early interactions with Nile.
Nile: [stands, panting, regards Andy suspiciously.] Who are you? Andy: I lead a group of immortals. An army, I guess. Soldiers. Fighters like you. [softer tone.] Look... [Andy steps toward her; Nile steps back.] You’ve got questions, kid. I get it. [tiny smile, small nod.] You want answers? Get back in the car.
Andy: [lightly] And I was the one who cut your throat. Right? [stares at Nile, who stares back, then looks away; she has no answer for that.] Listen, kid. You already believe in... [points upward, follows it with her eyes.] You should just keep following that illogic. [Pulls her jacket over her shoulders as a blanket, turns on her right side, back to Nile, lies on the pile of duffel-bags like a reclining chair.] You’re already on board with the supernatural. [Speaks with eyes already closed; it makes no difference to her.] If I were you, I’d get some sleep.
[Nile stands slowly, glaring at Andy, sets her body as she prepares to continue the fight.] Andy: You really want to do this, kid? [Andy’s eyes are bright, her expression relaxed but anticipating; she looks like she thinks this will be fun.]
Andy is looking at this retrieval mission as something that must be done, but quickly and with as little disruption as possible to her team's ongoing mission to find Copley and protect themselves from exposure. And then here comes Nile Freeman, competent as hell, taking no shit, questioning everything, stabbing her and escaping a moving vehicle and just fucking fighting her at every turn.
"Jfc kid will you just get in the goddamn car" feels pretty reasonable in that context, yeah? At least from Andy's perspective. From Nile's, you're fucking right you're gonna ask some goddamn questions before getting on a drug-smuggling plane with someone who just shot you in the head.
It's worth noting that Andy doesn't precisely say "jfc kid will you just get in the goddamn car" — she says "I need you to get back in the car please." She says "can you please not do that again" when Nile fucking stabs her. She's exhausted and frustrated and just trying to get through this and back to her main mission, and from what we see of her so far she's generally gruff as a person, but she's not an asshole, and she’s really showing Nile some respect here, all things considered. I mean, imagine being this polite when someone stabs you. This is a tired adult trying to get another tired adult on board with a sensible plan.
Andy: Argh! [Andy grabs Nile’s knife hand.] Fuck! [throws it violently aside, forcing Nile back a step. With the knife still in her, Andy sighs deeply and looks at Nile. Nile recovers her balance and stares that Andy is hardly reacting to having a knife in her.] Can you please [grabs the knife with left hand, yanks it out] not do that again? [throws the knife on the ground.]
Once they fight on the plane, Andy never calls her kid again. Andy is already starting to regain some of the energy her long life has worn away from her after just 10 minutes on screen with Nile. Andy went into this retrieval determined to be someone Nile can rely on, and that still stands, but by the time they’re in France she’s realizing she’ll come to be able to rely on Nile too. She introduces her to the boys as Nile and that's that.
The only other time we hear the word "kid" in the entire movie is near the end, outside the bar with Booker.
Nile: Yeah. [takes a breath.] Talked to Copley. Said he could fix it. Make it look like I was killed in action. [nods gently to herself] My family will mourn, but, uh... [tiny shrug, head-shake.] ...they’ll be able to move on. It’s just like what we did with my dad. [sighs. Turns to look out over the water. Voice wavers.] I just really want to hear my mom’s voice one more time. Booker: [looks down, pauses, turns to lean next to Nile.] You’re a good kid, Nile. [looks at her, speaks earnestly.] You’re gonna be great for the team.
Sébastien le Livre, whose greatest tragedy is that his children disbelieved and rejected his love for them, would be very moved by Nile's concern and love for her mother. "You're a good kid, Nile," in the sense that she's honoring her parent in a way he, a bereaved parent, appreciates.
There's also the fun shippy reading that he's preemptively friend-zoning her because there's about to be several lifetimes between him and spending any more time with this woman he was having an obvious "oh no she's hot" reaction to over dinner in Goussainville, but I, a feral BoN shipper, like the first reading even better.
But the point is, calling Nile "kid" is an element of the movie that says a lot about the characters using that word. When it gets repeated in fanfiction, it says something about the author.
If you're reading this and reflecting "oh shit I wrote the team calling Nile kid without thinking about it at all beneath the surface" I have a really cool suggestion for you: just edit it. Or at least consider not doing it again. We all make mistakes. We all run with things that we pick up in canon or see in other people's fic that seem funny and harmless, and once we think about those things more deeply we might find that actually it's kinda fucked up, or not what canon was trying to say, or fine on the surface but not fine if it becomes The One True Fanon. Having characters who are either white, men, or both call the adult protagonist who's a young Black woman "kid" all the time carries a weight to it. Please let's let that weight fall off Nile's fully-grown shoulders.
Next up, orders, suggestions, assistance, and other flavors of mentoring Nile and/or telling her what to do. Credit and appreciation to StarWatcher for transcribing the movie here on AO3, all my line quotes are pulled from there.
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[id: three pieces of text from the old guard screenplay and three drawings of nile. text 1: nile - yo, is this a rodin? this is an honest-to-god rodin! andy - yeah. image 1: a positively giddy nile is standing next to a dark bronze rodin sculpture called iris, messenger of the gods in the musée rodin in paris, she is grinning wildly and lightly grazing the sculpture with a raised and outstretched hand. text 2: booker - you're into art? nile - yeah, i'm thinking of getting an art history degree once i'm out of the corps... (realizing) i was thinking about it, i mean. image 2: jay, nile, and dizzy pose exuberantly in brightly colored flouncy clothes on top of a flight of stairs in the louvre. behind them is the large hellenistic marble sculpture known as the nike of samothrace. nile is pulling the tulle of her skirt out like wings, mimicking the outspread wings of the sculpture. text 3: nile scrolls through the pictures with andy -- playful family poses, pics of fellow marines, shots of women and children from her postings, a portrait of a negress from the louvre. andy seems genuinely, if quietly, interested. nile ends on another photo of her father. this one makes her melancholy. image 3: nile stands in front of the portrait of madeline by marie-guillemine benoist, 1800 (until recently known as a portrait of a negress) in the louvre. she looks directly at the viewer, standing in a pose reminiscent of madeline's. madeline wears a white head wrap, small hoop earrings, and a white dress. her shoulders and breast are exposed. as in all the pictures, nile wears a turquoise head wrap, dusky rose off-the-shoulder cropped ruffle top, a long turquoise tulle skirt, large gold hoop earrings, and her small golden cross. there is a pencil tucked behind her ear and she is clutching a small sketchbook in her hands. end id]
#the first pic is absolutely a pic taken five mins before disaster. they were kicked out for touching the art#nile had always wanted to touch the rodins at the art institute back home - all of the art but especially the rodins -#but never would have dared the indignity of getting kicked out or the risk of being banned from the museum altogether#but now she'd done it. she'd touched an honest-to-god rodin#as jay nile and dizzy were posing below the nike a ''security guard'' named lupin asked them if they wanted help taking their beyoncé pic#when nile responded in french he was delighted to hear her mother's accent on her tongue. the pic became a photoshoot#nile had dizzy take the pic of her with madeline to send to her mom so she could see her baby in the louvre#madeline was still unnamed when nile visited her. when she questioned the practicality of an art history degree#that unnamed portrait was one of the pieces she thought of. all the untold histories waiting to be unearthed & brought into the light of da#always having a lot of feelings about nile and art and art history over here#nile freeman appreciation hours#nile freeman#art!nile#tog art history#rodin#nilecore#the old guard#tog art#tog screenplay#*beyoncé pic = that's where beyoncé goes apeshit in the apeshit video#just thinking thoughts about nile jay and dizzy swanning around the tuilleries in their civilian finest after a morning in the louvre#before strolling over to the rodin museum#also: file 'iris - messenger of the gods' under 'rodin ate pussy'#(you know that tag is for you dirah <3)#if you get a princess ariel vibe from nile's outfit - congratulations. you perceive the truth
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You will never convince me Nile Freeman, a 24 year-old millennial, didn’t introduce the gang to her Disney tunes playlist.
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hauntedfalcon · 4 years
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Between the Hour and the Age
2516 words of Nile running her first heist. 
“My oath,” Andy says, uncapping the bottle.
Nile sits up straighter, hands on her knees. Whatever this is, much like the mine, it goes back a long way.
“Upon my final death, I bequeath Andronika to Nile Freeman, to donate to whichsoever institution--”
“The Art Institute of Chicago.”
“To the Art Institute of Chicago,” Andy echoes, “so that my breasts may be culturally appreciated in perpetuity.”
She tips the bottle and lets out three drops. As they fall to the stone floor, Joe and Nicky rap their knuckles on the nearest pieces of metal: the other lantern for Nicky, the oxidized helmet for Joe. One rap for each drop. In another time, they might have struck their swords on shields.
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thecostoflies · 4 years
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It just occurred to me that Nile is the only member of the team who doesn’t have a nickname, and it made me weirdly sad? And then curious cause even if her name is already short so it’s hard to give her a classical nickname, I feel like the team would have fun trying out different sobriquets for their newest member. Any ideas??
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runawaymarbles · 4 years
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The Old Guard Fic Rec
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To Hold the Night by aeli_kindara | T | 1k
Booker’s been on his own before, plenty of times. This time isn't the same.
A Most Forgetful Death by RC_McLachlan | 1k | M
A missing scene from the van. 
never the same river twice by Contra | T | 1k
Helen lives, Andy doesn't die and Troy is just a burning city. (Or, there are many names in history. Some of them are ours.)
A Life's Purpose by  thedeadparrot | T | 2k
Nicky sometimes wonders why they are always warriors, those of them who have been chosen.
Between the Hour and the Age by hauntedjaeger (saellys) | T | 2.5k
“Upon my final death, I bequeath Andronika to Nile Freeman, to donate to whichsoever institution--” “The Art Institute of Chicago.” “To the Art Institute of Chicago,” Andy echoes, “so that my breasts may be culturally appreciated in perpetuity.”
on a steady march through time  by Rupzydaisy | G | 4k
The freelancer is true to his word and sends a copy of the letter delivered to her family reporting that Nile Freeman was killed in action. She carries it with her for a few weeks, tucked in her jacket pocket, until it feels a little lighter as they circle back around to Andy’s cave. She puts it in a plastic tupperware box and leaves it beside the Rodin statue and a trunk full of old swords. She dithers a few times later that night, and then buys herself a burner phone, walking back to the hotel slowly while counting off the time difference on her fingers.
let's give them something to talk about by lacecat | M | 5k
In which Nicky and Joe take liberties with recounting history, because it's fun.    
cut through the clouds, break the ceiling by lacecat | M | 5k
“What, does Andy chain you guys here?” Nile says, only half-kidding when she asks. They really are just a bit suspiciously loyal to her. “We are born and we die in this restaurant,” Joe says, looking entirely serious. He’s joined them for the tour, like he’s brand-new too, but winking at Nicky for most of the time. “Then we come back to life the next night, a miracle to be beheld, and we serve food that is fit for the gods.” “It helps that we actually like to work here,” Nicky adds.
 greater love has no one than this by  Jack_R | M | 6k
‘You are a shame to your countrymen and the lowest of the low,’ Yusuf said, ‘and your mother copulated with a dog.’ 
Let's get tipsy and start a rumour by thekatcameback | T | 9k
Nile and Nicky draw the short straws and go undercover to expose a neighbourhood crime ring. It is not Nile's idea of the best time.
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