"The Old Guard" *Fanfic Recommendations *

"The Ocean Between Us" by

grimm18

Summary:

TOG2 spoilers (sort of) — What started as a missing scene turned into a slightly AU deep-dive, because Joe needed more angst and I couldn’t say no.

Set near the beginning of the film, around the car scene — vague enough not to spoil anything major

(Work-In-Progress)

"Vigil" by Oh_Land

Summary:

Using the genetic material extracted from Yusuf al-Kaysani and Nicolò di Genova, Dr. Metak Kozak initiates Project Eos as an attempt to artificially replicate immortality through forced human trials. Nine embryos are created, implanted, and birthed under controlled conditions. The experiments she conducts represent a grotesque evolution of Steven Merrick’s work.

When Copley first uncovers the program, Kozak’s records declare total failure. "Group Gamma yielded no viable candidates. All subjects compromised beyond analytical utility." But six weeks later, an anonymous lab technician leaks damning footage. There is a single surviving child, a three year-old male designated "IL-9" with confirmed cellular regeneration and disease resistance.

The team must address the danger this discovery represents. Nicky and Joe are confronted with a child created from their stolen blood.

"a love even time will lie down and be still for" by gallifreyburning

Summary:

Joe and Nile have been raised by witches. They both want something different out of life and out of love -- namely, Nile wants to experience the magic of everything, and Joe wants to use his magic to protect himself from the fallout of passion that can go wrong. But one day when Nile brings trouble home with her in the form of a dead man, and a detective named Nicolo who comes looking for answers, Joe is forced to confront everything he's spent his entire life trying to avoid.

"Finally Alive" by

domini_moonbeam

Summary:

Joe is the new immortal not Nile, and Nicky is the one sent to go find him.

"The Song of the Lost and Lonely" by Everything99

Summary:

Andromache is six years old when her brother Nikolaos is born.

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Andy and Nicky as immortal siblings. Their journey.

(Bradley - Sun, 01 Sep 2024 20:46:04 +0100 / MOVIESR.NET)

"The Old Guard 2 wrapped production in September 2022, and as per our own analysis of when Netflix releases its films, we expected it to arrive by the end of 2023, but we never heard anything about it. Now, the film is returning for a reshoot that will begin on October 7, 2024, in Vancouver, and will take 10 days to complete by October 18th, 2024. Although it's only 10 days long, this could still be very significant considering it caused this kind of long delay.

Although I don't want to speculate much on the release date, we surely expect ‘The Old Guard 2’ to be released sometime in 2025 on Netflix. Any further delay is likely to make the fans lose interest as there is a plan for the third film to complete the trilogy as well. Surely, nobody would like to wait another five years to watch a third film."

"The Gift of Guilt" by

FightFireWithFire

Summary:

‘ “Nicky and I met during the crusades,” Joe started, “and when we did, we killed each other - many times,” he echoed the words she’d first heard spoken by Nicky. With his gentle, lilting tone, she was reminded of her father reading fairytales to her and almost expected a ‘once upon a time’ to pass through his lips, “For seven days and seven nights we crossed blades. By day seven our swords were essentially useless - we were grappling and trying to kill one another with our barehands when-,” his eyes met hers briefly then darted away, “-when my hands found a rock hidden just beneath the sand.” ‘

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Joe should have known it was took good to be true when Nicky sprang up so quickly after Keane put his gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. They’d never been that lucky before.

"remember me for centuries" by

smilebackwards

Summary:

“Quickly. Up,” the man at Joe’s side says, lifting beneath Joe’s elbow, and Joe doesn’t know him but somehow he thinks, I’d follow you anywhere, and then he gets up and he does.

Or: the one where Joe has amnesia but he and Nicky are still devoted husbands

"High Pressure" by KushielsMercy

Summary:

Nicoló has never told a lie in his life, which is a fabrication Yusuf can’t believe so many people are fooled by.

"The Joy of Joe" by ishandahalf

Summary:

The Joy of Portraiture

4.69M subscribers

Welcome to the official YouTube channel of Yusuf ‘Joe’ Al-Kaysani, host of "The Joy of Portraiture". You can watch every episode of The Joy of Portraiture here - happy creating!

Historically, portraits have primarily memorialized the rich and powerful. Yusuf Al-Kaysani is an artist and art historian who wants to democratize portraiture and demystify the process behind creating them. Portraits can serve as important records and remembrances, but don’t have to be beyond anyone’s reach. In the end, it’s all about the artistic representation of people - and that can mean a lot of different things. So come learn the joy of portraiture from Joe! In each episode he not only completes a portrait while teaching tips, tricks, and techniques, but also sprinkles in tidbits of history and plenty of off-topic asides. Joe will explore different styles, mediums, and even recreate some famous works as he explains their significance. Feel free to create alongside him, or just throw an ep on in the background and vibe. You do you.

"let not time deceive you (you cannot conquer time)" by Draco_sollicitus

Summary:

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.

"The Best of Friends" by thekingslover

Summary:

“You can’t be serious,” Booker says, slumping in the chair. “How am I the only single one in this group?”

Nicky blinks. He looks at Joe, and Joe smiles back at him.

Nicky is not dating anyone. Maybe Booker didn’t know.

But… Does that mean… Is Joe seeing someone?

(prompt was: Everyone thinks we’re already dating, but we’re just best friends- oh wait)

"Boiling Over" NamelesslyNightlock

Summary:

If there’s one thing Nicky hates more than watching Joe die, it’s watching him die in a way that could have been easily avoided—and then being forced to listen while the others make a joke about it.

…or, one in which Nicky loses his temper.

"Fledglings" by quincette

Summary:

“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.

"Canticum" by ishandahalf

Summary:

The team is woken by a dream of a new immortal. He’s easy enough to track down - Nicolò di Genova, Italian, age 30 - but… he’s not exactly what they were expecting.

“Copley,” Andy began, her voice surprisingly cool and collected. “Tell us what we’re looking at here.”

“This is precisely why I wanted to do my due diligence,” Copley explained. “From what you’ve all told me about your pasts, I was expecting a soldier or something along those lines. But you’re looking at Father di Genova.”

“He’s… a priest,” Joe said slowly, wide-eyed and disbelieving.