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- Dragon Age II (13)
- Dragon Age (Video Games) (12)
- The Old Guard (Movie 2020) (11)
- The Old Guard (Comics) (7)
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ca. 1121, Common Era by theoxfordcommando
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
02 Mar 2022
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This wasn’t the first time. It was, in fact, far from it. In hindsight, that was probably the problem.
Yusuf hadn’t been this angry the first time.
Oh, he had absolutely been angry, but it was perfectly clear that this anger was something that had been building and building with each subsequent hit Nicolò took. Every “unnecessary” death.
After all, there always had to be that proverbial last straw, didn’t there?
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- Part 4 of Love Must Be Learnt
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only the brave surrender by theoxfordcommando
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
18 Jan 2022
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A collection of moments from the early days of Yusuf and Nicolò. Snapshots of the steps taken that eventually led to the most enduring love the world has ever known. This is that first step.
“ἑλληνικά...ehm, συνίης;” If Yusuf didn’t know better he’d have thought there was something like a hint of desperation to the man’s voice. Do you understand Greek? In a moment of tired altruism, Yusuf decided to take pity on the man and meet him halfway.
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- Part 3 of Love Must Be Learnt
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with you through eternity by theoxfordcommando
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
16 Jan 2022
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A collection of moments from the early days of Yusuf and Nicolò. Snapshots of the steps taken that eventually led to the most enduring love the world has ever known.
“So how long did it take for you guys to like, get together? To fall in love after the way things started with you.”
“Ah,” Nicky began. “We first met Andy and Quỳnh about a century after we met one another.”
“So you were already together or-"
Andy’s sharp bark of a laugh from across the room cut her off. “Only for about a hundred years or so.”
When Nile’s eyebrows shot all the way up to her hairline at that, Nicky graced her with one of his small, private smiles. “Andromache is exaggerating but yes, Yusuf and I were ‘together’.”
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- Part 1 of Love Must Be Learnt
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Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy by theoxfordcommando for captainshakespear
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
26 Dec 2021
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It is so easy to be with Nicolò.
A funny thought, perhaps, considering their first “meeting” and the tense, angry state of their earliest months together, but true, nonetheless.
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Brought a Kiss to a Sword Fight by theoxfordcommando for Stella_Sirius
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
13 Dec 2021
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Nicolò sighed and straightened, sword dropping to hang at his side. This was a waste of time.
The captain could’ve at least bothered to choose someone who’d actually follow through on his orders. As it stood, Nicolò had no intention of ambushing the scout. That wasn’t how he did things. The men he’d killed were always fully armed and well aware of his presence before they died. The fact that Nicolò still lived was as much a testament to his skill as this code of his was a testament to his character.
An honourable killer. It might not count for much, likely far from enough to balance the scales, but it was something, surely.
Recent series
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Love Must Be Learnt by theoxfordcommando
Fandom: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
02 Mar 2022
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A collection of moments from the early days of Yusuf and Nicolò. Snapshots of the steps taken that eventually led to the most enduring love the world has ever known.
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Truthful and Untruthful Lies by theoxfordcommando
Fandom: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
01 Sep 2021
- Words:
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Soul Meets Soul On Lovers' Lips by GothicPrincessWitch, theoxfordcommando
Fandom: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II
06 Jul 2018
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Hawke and Fenris love showering each other with affection all over Hightown.
The series title is a quote from Prometheus Unbound by Percy Shelley.
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"We worked as caravan guards before we came to Baghdad," Nicolò said, which was true enough, as far as it went. His hand rested easily on the pommel of his sword and he was smiling, a faint and casual enjoyment of his own assurance, and Yusuf loved him desperately.
"Just like old times," Yusuf agreed, and tossed his bag over to the handlers on the barge.
Nicolò looked over at him, his face suddenly, awfully, blank, and that was the end of that.
Bookmarked by theoxfordcommando
26 Apr 2022
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the deaths of nicolo di genova, in ascending order of sexiness and descending order of actual dying by asifnotbound
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
09 Feb 2022
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They fall together, curled around each other’s figures, blood pouring out around them, until it becomes impossible to tell whose it belonged to. The fight continues on around their lifeless bodies while the sun burns and the city walls bear witness. What’s two more lives lost? What did their deaths mean? A better question: what did it take?
Night falls like a hush, washing over the fallen. Outside the wall is still and quiet. And then it isn’t.
Nicolo di Genova is dead. And then he isn’t.
Bookmarked by theoxfordcommando
09 Feb 2022
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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.
Bookmarked by theoxfordcommando
07 Feb 2022
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Nicky loves his family, he really does. But the blessed indulgences he gets to share with Joe when there’s no one else around to interrupt or bear witness, he misses those things as much as he misses his family when he’s been without them for too long. Nicky has spent several long hours deciding exactly how he would like to be taken apart when they’re finally alone. How he would like to take Joe apart.
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Or, 5 times Nicky and Joe wanted to do butt stuff but couldn’t +1 time they finally didBookmarked by theoxfordcommando
29 Jan 2022
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During a stint in Los Angeles in 1998, Joe makes an interesting discovery in the closet of their temporary residence.
Bookmarked by theoxfordcommando
18 Jan 2022