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Love Scene by nicelytousled (dtbird)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
30 Apr 2021
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If someone else were to enter their room and switch on the lamp they would be able to gather clues as to how he and Joe spend their nights. The hand-knotted afghan rug by the balcony door is askew, and a pair of empty whiskey tumblers sit on the coffee table glittering in the light. The bed is unmade, a discarded tie looped lazily around one of the slats in the headboard, and a chair is pulled out haphazardly from the heavy wooden desk in the corner. The desk itself is littered with drawing paper and charcoal pencils and crescent moon shapes scratches into its surface. The space smells like them, like Joe, like men and sex and sleepless nights. Nicky can almost feel the phantom sting of carpet burn on his knees.
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08 Feb 2026
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The Full Scale Of The Talking Problem by Safaia
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movies 2020 2025)
30 Jan 2026
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It doesn't matter how old you are; one of the most human traits is how difficult some conversations are to have. There have been many massive changes for the immortals, and this is a time when they'll have to use their words, not their weapons.
[6 difficult conversations The Old Guard were avoiding and 1 that required no words at all]
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- Part 2 of My Empire of Dirt
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05 Feb 2026
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After a beat, Nicolo’s head bobbing in a tired nod. Yusuf patted his back, giving him a little shove toward the water. “Don’t drown! I don’t want to go in after you,” he said, backing away. Nicolo paused, glancing back at him, eyebrow raised and face painted in blood. There was a question there, in those incredible, expressive eyes—another question Nicolo would not say out loud. “And I would,” Yusuf answered this time. “I would go in after you. I would become a spirit of this forest, haunting that river until I found you.”
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22 Jan 2026
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Nicky stands outside the Breeding Centre, leaflet clutched tightly in his hand. He'd never considered this previously, never thought about carrying an alien child inside him, but that was before...
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30 Dec 2025
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No parent should outlive their child but with immortality, it is inevitable.
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- Part 2 of The Stars in Their Eyes
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19 Nov 2025
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“Booker!” Andy shouts. “Get your sons out of my hair!”
She's clearly referring to Nicky and Joe. Nile looks helplessly at Booker.
"What am I missing?"
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Andy, Quynh, and Booker rescue Nicky and Joe when they are children and raise them.
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28 Oct 2025
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Yusuf couldn’t help but snort, drawing Nicolò’s glare.
“It’s not funny,” Nicolò said over the burst of Yusuf’s laughter. “I don't see why it’s only happening to me and not to you.”
“God loves me more,” Yusuf said quickly, as he had many times before.
In the early days of their friendship, Nicky and Joe stumbled across a family in need of their particular brand of help.
Technically a prequel to Driving Lessons, but stands alone.
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- Part 2 of Immortality and Family
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18 Oct 2025
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Missed You By a Few Minutes, a Few Centuries by just_another_tinker
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
19 Dec 2020
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Nicolò di Genova was killed on one of the endless mornings of The Crusades, struck down by a scimitar. He woke again later that evening.
Yusuf al-Kaysani bled out hours later from wounds left by a sword. He woke again that next morning.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he chose to avoid it.
Alternatively, Nicky and Joe's second meeting was over 900 years too late. And neither one knows the other is immortal, or that they've already met.
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- Part 1 of Missed You
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10 Oct 2025
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"He's not breathing!" Joe screams, rocking the lifeless Nicky back and forth and Nile has to support herself on the wrecked car, gasping helplessly into the phone. At the other end Copley slowly starts to figure out what happened through Joe's desperate shouts.
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The aftermath: The team has lost its heart. Deeply hit by the great loss, the found family struggles to keep going. But before they can entirely go down under the emotional pain their heart, from which they feared to have lost it forever, starts beating again. Now it's time to come to terms with the past events, renew their bonds and keep in mind that family is always there.
A story about family strength, a love older than time itself and the process of healing even if it seems impossible.
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05 Oct 2025
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They’re not exactly friends and they’re not exactly not friends…
Either way, they’re sure as hell about to spend a lot of time together. What could go wrong?
Continuation of Op. 1, No. 1: Con fuoco, where Nicky is a classical pianist who has grown up in conservatories and concert halls, and Joe is a violin prodigy who’s still wondering how the hell he ended up there. They don’t exactly have the best start.
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28 Sep 2025
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let not time deceive you (you cannot conquer time) by Draco_sollicitus
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
28 Sep 2020
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Nicolo Genova, or Nicky to his American friends, is just trying to get through his PhD program. He's writing his dissertation on Post-classical homoerotic poetry, but he cannot find anyone who speaks an extinct dialect of Arabic so he can translate a famed love poem by a little known poet, al-Kaysani.
Strangely enough, his friend knows a professor on campus who can translate the poem. What starts as a simple request for assistance on his dissertation blossoms into something that Nicky -- shy, reserved Nicky who abandoned his plans for the priesthood months before ordination -- had never imagined for himself: true love.
What he doesn't know is that Dr. Joseph Jones (his handsome, erudite, kind, lovely Joe) is harboring a secret too large for anyone to believe -- and that secret might just cost them everything.
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27 Sep 2025
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When days are infinite, days blend.
Andy wakes up with an ache that seems out of the ordinary, her neck a little more pained than it was yesterday. She’s grateful she’s an early riser, because if Nicky was awake, he’d chastise her for falling asleep in the chair and Nile would go on about the benefits of a good mattress, and Joe would agree with anything Nicky said simply because he could. Andy found herself looking to the left often out of muscle memory when she found Joe and Nicky too much to bear, but Booker wasn’t there.
He wasn’t there.
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The aftermath of Booker’s betrayal weighs heavy on everyone’s hearts in ways that they didn’t expect. The group thought it would make them feel safer to have the final ruling, but all they do is feel the emptiness of the chair around the table. Except when Quyhn returns and it’s revealed that Dr. Kozak made it out of Merrick, Inc., they know there’s no time to dwell in their pain. Instead, the group looks forward to stay together, and perhaps find a piece that has been missing.
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25 Sep 2025
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“You cannot keep them, Sebastien.”
“Keep them?!” Sebastien hissed, glancing at the boys, “You talk like they would be pets, Quynh.”
“And you talk like they would be sons,” Quynh countered harshly, and Sebastien tried to remember that she was only being cruel to be kind, even as his heart instantly recoiled at her suggestion that he was trying to replace his dead sons with Joe and Nicolò.
AU: The team raises Joe and Nicky from childhood.Series
- Part 1 of Immortal Hearts
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18 Sep 2025
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The most epic bedtime story ever told by TheLoveliestCrime
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
14 Sep 2020
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To satisfy Nile’s curiosity and make her part of the family, Joe tells her the full story of how Nicolò di Genova and Yusuf Al-Kaysani became "NickyandJoe". From Jerusalem to Malta and back again. And Nile doesn’t want the PG version.
It’s a story that has been told in this fandom a thousand times before, but deserves to be told a thousand times more.
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05 Sep 2025
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What God Gave You, He Gave To Me by LittleRedCosette
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
29 Apr 2021
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“Nicolo would never risk the fates of children over his own.”
“And look where that got him!” Andy roars, her throat burning with a desperate rage that has nothing to do with the pills, and right there, in that precise moment, she watches, devastated, as the words carve ruin into Joe’s grief-stricken face.
She hears the tiny intake of Booker’s breath, sees the even tinier lift of his shoulders towards his ears.
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An Old Guard, incomplete, and how they find each other again.
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- Part 1 of there i will be buried
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03 Sep 2025
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the stiff heart by dana_norram, eiseul02
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
08 Mar 2021
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“Today I met a boy who escaped al-Quds,” Yusuf says, and Nicolò stares back at him this time. His clean face is solemn, his pale eyes almost sad, and Yusuf wishes he could see some anger in them. Anything but this. “They killed his whole family.”
“When you say them,” Nicolò blinks, and there is a twitch in his strong jaw. “You mean me. My people.”
Yusuf feels he has been running his whole life.
He ran from his duties as the family’s heir when he refused to marry the woman chosen by his parents. Yusuf eventually made a new home in Jerusalem, and he thought he was done running. Then the Franks laid their siege and Yusuf was killed and brought back to life too many times. Before he realised, he was on the run again. Only this time, he is not alone.
Or; a road trip around the Mediterranean in which Yusuf struggles with his new life, searches for the women in his dreams and learns how to open his heart. Also, there is only one bed.
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01 Sep 2025
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At a summer camp tucked deep in the woods, Tyler, an emotionally guarded music producer known for his control and clean record of camp trophy wins, vows to keep his distance from the new, chaotic sports counselor who’s all charm, noise, and trouble. But as the heat rises and the days stretch longer, so does the tension between them. With each challenge, and each stolen glance, Tyler finds himself slowly unraveling in ways he never planned for.
The more he tries to hold himself together, the more he realizes some things were never meant to stay untouched.
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- Part 1 of Unmade, Rewired
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12 Jul 2025
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Tyler Joseph- tortured lyricist, pianist, and lead singer- can only express himself through song. As his band members keep leaving and his mind turns against him, he's reminded of one person who hasn't given up on him yet.
Josh Dun.
OR Tyler Joseph and the curiously strong memory of Joshua Dun.
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04 Jul 2025
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It was hard for him to sleep. The excitement of his new life was still buzzing around in his head. All of the activity at camp during the days and the shouts and laughter and noise, it was just all so new to him. He didn’t miss Dema of course, but would be lying to himself if he said he didn’t miss the routine. This new life, this new home, it was just… different.
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tyler adjusts to his new life in trench. is he safe here like he always hoped, or will the dangers of Dema follow him to his grave?
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21 Jun 2025
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He’s never felt so safe, not in Dema, not with the banditos, not elsewhere in Trench. Torch’s grasp is a force field, shielding him from anything that could ever hurt him.
He wonders if he’ll ever feel this safe again.
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18 May 2025