There was an actual pause and exchange of glances when Andy asked “so why did you leave the agency Mr. Copley?”. THEY DEFINITELY SHARED THEIR STORIES WITH EACH OTHER.
imagine how awkward that elevator ride down in the final battle was
they’re just standing there as it slowly descends, joe is glaring at booker, booker is refusing to make eye contact, nicky is Done, everyone is dead silent and dripping blood on the clean floor, and all the while easy-listening elevator music is playing in the background
Well, life as been hard lately >< but i wanted to make some TOG fanart lately and April is always the perfect month to draw some Napoleon related stuf… so Booker it is
[ID: a digitally illustrated poster of the immortals from The Old Guard. They’re standing visible from the torso up, Nile is in the middle staring head on to the viewer in her army fatigues. The rest are around her, their backs to the viewer looking to their right in sharp profile. From the top clockwise are Lykon, Quỳnh, Nicky, Booker, Joe and Andy. Joe, Nicky and Booker are wearing historical clothing from their time of death while Andy, Quỳnh and Lykon the outfits of the movie flashback. The style is simple thin black lines and flat colours, the background is beige with a lighter labrys shape at the top. End ID.]
Since you asked (no one asked I just want to write it), here’s this year’s Sanremo songs top3 of each Guard member.
Nicky
As we already established last year, Nicky loves a powerful ballad and old style Sanremo songs, so I guess his top3 would look like this:
1. Massimo Ranieri - Lettera al di là dal mare 2. Irama - Ovunque Sarai 3. Michele Bravi - L’inverno dei fiori Extra: I believe he’s also a low-key fan of Elisa and Noemi so those two songs are n#4 and 5 of his list)
Joe
He likes the love songs, he likes the beat, he likes the joyful pop. His top3 is a bit of a mix:
1. Elisa - O forse sei tu 2. La Rappresentante di Lista - Ciao ciao 3. Gianni Morandi - Apri tutte le porte Extra: he sings “Dove si balla” loudly under the shower and “Sei tu” softly at Nicky’s ear to make him snort and kiss him on the nose
Nile
She still doesn’t get all the hype around Sanremo but she enjoys the evenings (and nights) on the couch with her fam. Her top3 includes mostly the songs that ended up in her Spotify workout playlist:
1. Gianni Morandi - Apri tutte le porte 2. Ditonellapiaga e Donatella Rettore - Chimica 3. Rkomi - Insuperabile
Booker
He still doesn’t want to admit he watches Sanremo like the rest of the family and has chosen his top3 based on the last positions in the chart:
1. Tananai - Sesso occasionale 2. Ana Mena - Duecentomila ore 3. Giusy Ferreri - Miele Extra: he actually likes all these songs and sings them under his breath when no one’s around
Andy
Basically anything she can scream of falsetto sing is good for her. This is why she wins this year as well:
1. Mahmood and Blanco - Brividi 2. Le Vibrazioni - Tantissimo 3. Aka7even - Perfetta così
Quynh
She doesn’t have a top3 but she likes the one with the Gospel Choir (Achille Lauro - Domenica) and the one she has learned the dance of (La rappresentante di lista - Ciao ciao).
The whole immortal family is here! And they have both panettone and pandoro!
MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!
This was very rushed and turned out bad, but the last two weeks had been crazy and on top of that I’m now self-isolating alone at home… which sucks, especially now that I should finally be on holiday :’) I wanted to do a whole “5 days till Christmas” thing, but didn’t find the time… I just had to post this silly thing born from a tweet from dear @pochiperpe90
You know what fucks the most with me about Booker’s first death and how much more it hurts? Is that he died hanged as a deserter - and we know from the comics that he hung there for 3 whole days while the army was camping nearby. 3 days in the Russian cold, with his body probably stripped of wool and all the remaining clothing that the other soldiers couldn’t use (at the beginning of the Russian campaign it was warm and nice, so the soldiers discarded their clothing thinking they wouldn’t need it, which meant that the soldiers would loot dead bodies for more clothing to stay warm the further into Russia and Winter they got).
So, Booker’s practically naked (he’s not in the comics), dying over and over again for 3 whole days in the Russian cold, probably shivering as hell and unable to do anything but to prove to the others that he is indeed dead: hang there and pretend.
But you know who else got hung and couldn’t prove or pretend that they were dead?
Andromache and Quynh. Andromache and Quynh who have been alive and tried to die for MILLENIA couldn’t pretend they were dead while hanging at the end of a rope, but Booker, on his first death, apparently managed to do just that while freezing all over again, possibly dreaming of the rest of the Old Guard at the same time and wondering what the fuck is going on.
Now, I know there’s a different between a crowd of people going “these two women are being hung as witches, let’s make sure they’re dead” and starving, freezing soldiers who just want to go home after killing the deserters they caught while on the retreat from a disastrous military campaign, but I can’t help but think about exactly Booker made his first descent into immortality the very same way that got Andromache and Quynh sentenced as witches.
Did they talk about it? Did Andy dream of Booker, hanging off the noose of a make-do scaffold in ice cold Winter, and get flashbacks to this specific moment in time when her and Quynh were “executed”?
ANYWAYS, I just feel like this makes Booker’s first death even more excruciating to think about.
