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“…even after a millennium” 💙☀️⚔️🌙💙

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The length of time it takes Nicky to reach him is negligible, or perhaps Joe fell into fitful sleep. He startles when Nicky sets a gentle hand on his shoulder, blinks as Nicky drops into a crouch at his side.

“Madre di dio,” Nicky murmurs, swiping at the tacky blood on Joe’s face with his hand. Then, “Does it hurt very badly?”

Joe leans into the warmth of Nicky’s body, tipping to rest his forehead against Nicky’s shoulder. He nods, grateful beyond words that he needn’t explain, that Nicky understands the grinding ache of repair and renewal.

“My love,” Nicky whispers, hand at the back of Joe’s neck. He shifts to sit beside him, to slide an arm around him, to squeeze him gently against his side. “We can sit for a while. It is done.”

I want the full time movie of their story so badly that I'm gonna draw frame by frame animation if they wouldn't give that to us. And I'll start from the VERY BEGINNING!

Work in process. It's gonna be some concepts of their looks back then.

"I still have time with them."

I think The Old Guard 2 let me down more than any other movie. It was so bad for an ungodly amount of reasons (I have a mile long list) but the one that bothered me the most is how dirty they did Nile.

I'd hoped we'd get to see Nile face the challenges of settling into a team, a family, who've known each other for centuries. I'd hoped we'd get to see how she'd come to terms with never getting to see her mother or brother again. Nile deserved to get a chance to grieve them.

Instead, she got washed of all her personality and reduced to a plot device. And not even a good one.

The moment Joe mentioned it in the sequel, I knew I wanted to draw this, and one whole month later, here we are…

I think of it as the flashback we didn’t get, the “more Joe and Nicky” we deserve, because by god, Netflix, I will do it myself if I have to.

There will be one more, explicit bonus frame that I will only post on AO3 (if you’d like to see the reward😉).

greg rucka had to fight to keep the van scene where joe and nicky kiss in TOG in the movie. the fact that joe and nicky "fight" and then are visibly separated for most of the film except for a singular forehead touch is exactly the issue. TOG producers have wanted to de-queer TOG from the very start, beginning with the van scene. TOG2 gave them the perfect opportunity and the perfect excuse and people just eat it up!!

if TOG3 happens - and skydance remains the lead production company for the film - you can be assured that there will be no "diversity, equity, and inclusion" at the level it was when TOG came out in 2020.

the political climate in which we live - and the fact that de-queering is an issue happening in MANY different forms of media - has most definitely affected the writing and depiction of several characters within TOG2. it's not just joe and nicky, but andy and quynh's subtextual relationship that was addressed mid-fight in the comics, but not mid-fight in the film.

it's also responsible for the de-centering of nile's character. her entire storyline is tethered to a white woman who was introduced for... literally what purpose? she wasn't in the comics? she literally just showed up and they wrote her in and sidelined nile. gave her a bullshit storyline where she's the "last immortal" and thus doomed forever to be an "immortal killer" and completely isolated.