Krykl
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There are habits that we pick up over the years. They are hard to break and we often don't even realize it. What kind of habits do you pick up after 200 years? 1000 years? 6000 years? Sometimes it takes someone with a new perspective to notice.
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“Early tango was played by immigrants in Buenos Aires, then later in Montevideo. The first generation of tango players from Buenos Aires was called "Guardia Vieja" (the Old Guard). It took time to move into wider circles; in the early 20th century, it was the favorite music of thugs and gangsters who visited brothels, in a city with 100,000 more men than women (in 1914). The complex dances that arose from such rich music reflect how the men would practice the dance in groups, demonstrating male sexuality and causing a blending of emotion and aggressiveness.”
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Andy’s heart stops. All the blood leaves her face and rushes directly to her ears. The only thing she can hear is the sound of it pumping through her veins. Copley and Nile are both studying the photo closely, but Andy hardly notices them, even right beside her. All she can see is the blood, the look on her face, the tremble in her jaw as she died –
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She is almost four thousand years old – there is quite little that feels older than her in this world, but Discord feels older. She feels ancient compared to Quynh, especially with all of the knowledge she holds that Quynh does not. “You have been withholding it from me, a carrot to keep me here so that you do not have to find a stick. It is hard to punish someone who has lost so much, is it not?”--
For five years, everything goes smoothly. Five years of Booker in exile, five years of Nile on the team, and five years of Andy grappling with her newfound mortality.
But, like every other plan they've ever had, it has to go to shit at some point, and go to shit it does.
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Stop and Smell the Flours by ishandahalf
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
27 Aug 2023
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Nicky is a baker. And a witch. (A witch whose magic infuses into his baking, so really those identities are irrevocably intertwined.)
He is perfectly content baking bread and making pastries, feeding his customers with lightly charmed food, and acting as the unofficial welcome wagon for new entrepreneurs setting up shop on their street.
Then one day the storefront across the road – the one that just can’t seem to stay in business – is leased (again)...
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29 Aug 2023
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The quintessential baker Nicky and florist Joe with a Hearty dash of magic and exasperated Nile!!
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if i could hold you for a minute by orangeslices4scott
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
31 May 2023
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Andy had been cautious initially, convinced the bullets would turn on them in due time, but by now they were coming to expect and even somewhat rely on the help. And despite increasing efforts, they’ve never been able to catch him and see for themselves who is looking out for them and, more importantly, why.
Centuries after Nicky is lost to the ocean, a mysterious sniper is protecting the team. When they find out who it is, the world as they know it falls apart.
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31 May 2023
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Nicky was lost in the iron maiden but escapes and hides from his family.
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The Hollow Ones by antietamfalls
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Walking Dead (TV)
27 Dec 2016
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The dead walk. Mangled corpses of the deceased rise and mindlessly feast upon the flesh of the living. John wakes up, alone and confused, into the remnants of a city gone mad. He will search for answers. He will find Sherlock at any cost. And he will learn that the living are far more dangerous than the dead. Fusion with AMC's The Walking Dead.
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29 Aug 2015
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Walking Dead - See! See! Zombies and Sherlock/Bamf-john. What is there not to love.
I may or may not have written an unauthorized sequel to this one.
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Fledglings by quincette for Wings_of_Indigo
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
13 Jan 2023
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“You’re in trouble, Candidate Thousand-Sixty-Nine.”He must be enjoying this, Nicolò thinks bitterly. “It’s obvious, isn’t it?” he replies, trying vainly to slow his descent by changing the trajectory of his fall – no point in landing in the designated spot in pieces.
“Not enough stones and a malfunctioning chute.”
Yusuf’s voice is muffled by static, but Nicolò could imagine the sneer.
“Are you going to tell me about my poor math skills next?” he manages. “Like how I chose brick instead of membrane structure?”
It is silent for a few seconds before he answers. “You should have chosen the membrane. Our dummies would have lived.”
Holy Mother take this man.“Yeah,” he says. “No shit.” It would be nice if he could live now; he’s not a screaming dummy in a simulation.
Then he feels a tug on his pack and looks up to see Yusuf cutting off his defective parachute.
“What are you doing?”
“I have no time to wait for you to get over your pride and ask me for help, Priest.”
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Or, Nicolò and Yusuf apply to be dragonriders. They don't like each other, at first.