stonepicnicking_okapi

For the past week, I have been binging on Joe/Nicky fic from The Old Guard despite the fact I haven't seen the film. I have read the comic book [Book 1: Issues 1-5] but mainly have been reading fic and watching the fanvids. I am especially smitten with Joe. Here are some recs.

Sweet fluff. [Gen] Food as love. Head canon accepted that Nicky's favourite fruit is apricots.

La Mia Albicocca (1298 words) by 4ce_in_sp4ce

I am a sucker for a good massage fic, and this one has Nicky getting a well-described foot massage while going undercover as a ballet dancer (among other sex acts). [Explicit]

offer me that deathless death (good god, let me give you my life) (11062 words) by bookwormywriter

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Most of the fics I read and like, however, are Enemies to Lovers, Get Together/First Time Joe/Nicky fics. Most of them are historical Crusades era but a few are modern AUs. Also most of these are long, multi-chapter incomplete WIPs and are rated either Explicit or Mature.

Omegaverse AU [Alpha Joe/Omega Nicky. Complete.]
Kolkata Heat (7333 words) by Anonymous

Another one-shot.

born under calico skies (14455 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1

“Yusuf,” he says, hand on his chest. “I am Yusuf Al-Kaysani.”

Something sparks in the blue eyes across from him. “Nicolo di Genova.”

Nicolo. Something familiar that has no reason to be.

Or, in which Yusuf and Nicolo kill each other, learn each other, and long for each other, kind of in that order.

This is my favourite fic at the moment.

Centuries and Centuries (51733 words) by marbletopempire
Chapters: 25/40

All of this scared me. Yusuf scared me. He scared me with his easy repudiation of my beliefs, his laughter, the way he looked at me, the things he made me think. My belief in God scared me too, standing as it did on shaking legs. I had suffered for Him and suffering should have proven my love, but it never made anything better. But who was I, if I was not a God-fearing man? What would I become?

If you will not die, why continue to suffer?

I stopped walking and sat in the grass, looking out at the mountains as the moon and clouds cast dark shadows upon them. Beautiful and unknowable, like…

“Like God,“ I muttered to myself. But of course I really meant, like Yusuf.

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More WIPs.

Aftermath (52760 words) by kibosama
Chapters: 34/?

Nicolo has a growing list of Things That No Longer Make Sense. They go as follows:

1) He can no longer die. Which, in itself, is pretty strange.
2) The man he killed multiple times is somehow, impossibly, like him.
3) He may or may not be having a crisis of faith.
4) His former enemy is treating him like a friend. Even defending him, the man that can't die.
5) And, most confusing of all, why does he like it when Yusuf smiles at him like THAT?

Surrender (3881 words) by insignem
Chapters: 2/?

In which Yusuf and Nicolo just need a little help as they find their way to falling in love with each other.

Rating: Teen]

Row Out To The Thick Darkness (21204 words) by ProstheticLoVe
Chapters: 2/6

Yusuf Al-Kaysani and Nicolo di Genova have spent the last 100 years playing a game of cat and mouse. One kills the other and the other retaliates. For a century, they have hunted one another until they realize they want more. What happens when enemies become begrudging friends? What happens when begrudging friends become lovers? What happens when two lost souls take a chance on each other and find love?

A tale of two enemies who became friends and eventually lovers. Because yes, I had to write another version of enemies turned lovers.

Finally Alive (34452 words) by domini_moonbeam
Chapters: 11/?

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