#c: Quynh

[immortalmuses]

The OP's tags are so good, tho:

#director's commentary as usual: #when i draw stuff like this it's usually because i'm working on a big fic. and i am. but also it is taking me over a year so far #because i'm finishing my undergrad. but i do plan to finish the fic! #regardless they could be walking anywhere. #tried to keep it sometime around the 14th century. i always try to put them in clothes that reflect their personalities - #- and places of origin more or less. #andromache's mail is old af and not in good shape. only she and nicolo have spurs so i guess they would be the riders if they had horses #but i am not about to attempt to draw a horse lol #details i like: nicky's little hat to protect his hair from his chainmail. his and quynh's matching daggers. yusuf's fancy-boy armour. #quynh's leg wraps and her jerkin. and andy's super old chainmail and her whip braids <3 #where are they going? where did they come from? it's up to ye.

To the next adventure...

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[A drawing of Nicky, Joe, Quynh, and Andy from The Old Guard. They are all in profile, walking in a straight line facing the sun. They are dressed in medieval clothing and armour, and each carry their own weapons and bags. Nicky has his sword, a crossbow, a quiver of bolts, a dagger at his belt and another strapped to his ankle. Joe is holding his sword, a bag, and a coin purse. Quynh's bow is over her back, and her quiver is at her hip. Two daggers are strapped to her belt, one of them matching Nicky's. Andy is holding her axe, two bags, and a dagger. They each have serene expressions and closed eyes, as if they're not in a hurry. In the background, the seasons change from winter to spring, summer, fall. There is an old tree behind them, and its branches change with the seasons.]

[immortalmuses]

The Summer Olympics are here once again, so I am once again thinking about The Old Guard Summer Olympics AUs

Nicky in multi-event sharpshooting, including 50 meter rifle three position, 10 meter air rifle, and 25 meter rapid fire pistol

Quynh in Women's and Mixed individual Recurve Archery, 70 meters

Andromache in (yup, you guessed it) the Equestrian sport of Three Day Eventing, individual and team. She fucking hates the Dressage phase (don't blame me, I'm an eventer too), but she's also got the steadiest hands and the quietest seat in the sport, so good luck getting a lower score.

Joe in.... Football? Rugby Sevens? Maybe Fencing? the Man is too multi-talented, I am open to ideas.

Booker is another likely candidate for Football. Or, interestingly, Handball? Apparently France is like the four-time European champions of Handball. 🤷‍♂️

Nile is another multi-talent, but since Team America is known to dominate in Athletics (344 gold medals!), let's consider her for 110 or 400 meter hurdles, pole vault, maybe high jump? Anyway she's a badass, she could do the Decathlon and make it look like a walk in the park.

Obviously they are all great friends that get up to a variety of shenanigans in the Olympic Villages (of which they do not all belong to the same ones, because who puts Equestrians with Sharpshooters and expects the place not to burn down?). There's shit-talking, romance, broken carbboard beds, you get the idea....

PLEASE SEND YOUR THOUGHTS SO I CAN WRITE SOMETHING

[moxiebustion]

Cursed Old Guard fic idea:

Yusuf ibn Ibrahim ibn Mohammed al-Kaysani.

Died: First Crusades, Ramadan 492, c. 1099

Born: Hijiri Reckoning Safar 473, Gregorian Reckoning 1080

Age: 19

Nicolo di Genova.

Died: First Crusade, Year of Our Lord 1099, July

Born: Gregorian Reckoning, December, Year of our Lord 1082

Age: 16

Notes:

Joe was travelling with his uncle, apprenticed in the family trade, when Jerusalem falls. Joe stays because he's young and hot headed and up for a little derring-do. He very quickly learns a valuable and painful lesson about how wars are.

Nicky gets dragged along with his pious and tyrannical father on the People's Crusade after di Genova Senior loses his wife and he essentially goes off the deep end, which meant Nicky spent about three years on the road and starving for most of it as their ill-quipped band of zealots learn very hard lessons about the effectiveness of prayer as it pertains to things like logistics and supply lines

Joe's beloved uncle is slaughtered. Nicky kind of lost his father to his grief first but he was also killed by the defenders, so both of them hate each other the way only grieving teenagers can hate

It takes them a long time to realize they can't die. Like an astonishing ridiculous level of self-delusion, because young men always think they're immortal anyway

They end up travelling together, although bloodshed ensues for Quite Some Time, because Joe's an impetuous hothead and Nicky's a self-righteous zealot and they're both grieving and don't want to admit it

Teenage Hormones Get Them In The End

Nicky's goddamn lucky he hit an early growth spurt or he'd be in high school until the end of time. As it stands, the very second legal minimum drinking age was established in public houses, he got carded and this trend has continued non-stop to this day

Joe can actually grow a full beard. He lords this over Nicky, who can barely manage one if he puts a lot of effort and time into it (he still gets carded)

Bad Guys are Extremely Weirded Out by this Childhood Sweetheart Teenage Murder Couple

Meanwhile, Andy and Quynh find out that their baby immortals are Actual Babies

Centuries of teenage horniness and melodrama are to come.

Quynh cackles. Andy weeps.

[druckkugelschreiber]

Andy loosing her immortality in the first movie, while very dramatic and surely poetic with what she says to Nile, is actually terrible for the second movie (based on the comic part 2) and here is why (comic spoilers incoming):

We basically have two options for how it goes if we even vaguely follow the comic plot and it takes out all the tension/ spice:

A) Quynh kills Andy as she doesn’t know Andy lost her immortality and everyone is very sad (this should happen like within the first five minutes of their meeting lol)

B) Andy gets grievously injured and Qunyh is very shocked (but survives just barely)

*

But like it still takes out all the spice of the comic plot out. Of Andy and Noriko fighting and killing each other, of Nicky shooting them both, of Noriko torturing Andy, Andy‘s quite frankly epic rage murder on Noriko‘s yacht. So much good stuff and character relevant stuff will get missed out on because Andy isn’t immortal anymore

Like now some people will say: but surely it adds tension because Andy can die! Actually no, I expect her to die (I don’t want to but the way movies are made these days it‘s likely) and knowing she can die in a movie about immortals (and where the whole premise is they are immortal) is actually boring if you ask me. But killing characters never really adds tension for me in the first place.

If Andy still had her immortality like in the comics, not only could we get the awesome scenes above, but with the actual tension of „what if she doesn’t wake up the next time.“ The unknown factor of unstable immortality is much tastier than the known factor of mortal heroes.

Anyway, comic 2 is awesome (except the ending) and I hate the way they went in the movie. Obviously it‘s possible ToG2 will go a different route but it would still come back to point a) and b) above really except if Booker starts out with „don’t go after Andy she’s mortal now“

* point C) Andy dies and comes back immortal once more/ recovers her immortality some way (I don’t think it‘s actually an option outside of fanfic but I had to add it to complete the list)

Also sorry if some parts of this don’t make sense, I’m sick and can’t follow my own thoughts longer than a couple of seconds

[pwnyta]

Uma Thurman is Humpty Dumpty from Puss in Boots

(explanation: Humpty reveals he was there all along and behind everything that happened. Much like Uma Thurman.)

(Thank you for explaining cuz I didnt watch Puss in Boots.)

Crazy comparison but not inaccurate somehow. Hopefully they do it in a fun way in TOG2. I really like Uma but I just dont want Quynh (or any of the OG cast. I have no hope Copley but I also dont care that much about him TBH so...) to get sidelined... :c

[lady-of-the-spirit]

Fandom + Joan for the meta ask game!

JOAN!!!! ❤❤❤ thank you for asking! I love talking about her.

For the sake of not conflicting timelines or universes, I stuck with my oc canon where Booker doesn't betray the Guard and things happen normally up until the point where Merrick's men ruin everything and kidnap Joe and Nicky. None of that shit happens. Just some weird new team dynamics forming since they've got TWO new immortals hanging out with them. (I also feel the need to share this ask about Copley for info on that situation and my oc canon.)

Put this whole thing under a read more because it got LONG.

What do you think the fandom for your character would be like? Are they a fan favorite, a love to hate villain, derided for whatever reason, or something else?

Honestly I don't know! I think Joan is a pretty harmless character, she's just chilling and doing her own thing, so she wouldn't be hated. The Old Guard fandom is pretty good about loving all the characters, so she's gonna be fine. I think she'll be especially loved by the people who like characters who just want to do their own thing without getting dragged into plot shenanigans lmao. Hopefully Joan would be to the aroace fans what Nicky and Joe and Andy and Quynh are to the gay fans - the rep they're looking for in action movies. But more critically, because this fandom gives unequal attention to the women vs the guys, I think Joan would unfortunately fall into a similar category as Niles, which is often "the side character who's there to be the best friend supporting the main ship/the newbie to the experienced older ones" if not ignored completely. But for the ones who don't do this, I think she'd be the cool character who just does her own thing, who has a journey of her own that's fun to analyze and talk about! And a long, kinda sad history that would have a lot of potential for fics!

What feelings does your character most often instill in their fans? Affection? A desire to protect? Open lust? A love/hate dynamic? Why do you think their fans feel this way?

Definitely a desire to protect! Girl has been on her own FOREVER! she has anxiety! But also I can see people wanting to be her lmao she lives on her own, pretty securely I might add, she's got a cat, she's best friends with the crows, she's living that Ursula from Kiki's Delivery Service life. Joan's just a normal person, living her life, she just has had a long time to figure out what she wants her life to look like and make it happen, and I can see fans finding wish fulfillment in her.

By contrast, what would their haters dislike about your character? Is it a petty complaint? A mischaracterization of the character or their intentions? Are they just a woman in a largely male-centric series?

I can see common complaints being that she's "boring". Which honestly is fair. She's meant to be boring - or at least have a boring life. She's not an action hero, she's not a warrior, she's a civilian. She wants a normal life, or as normal a life as she can have.

Joan also has issues with how she deals with her frustration over the whole "I wasn't alone but I thought I was" situation. She tries really hard not to take it out on the old guard, but sometimes it slips out without her meaning to even though she knows it wasn't anyone's fault and it was just shitty luck. When it does slip out, it ends up directed at Andy as the leader of the group. I can see some fans having issues with that, since people have similar issues with how Booker felt alone in his grief despite having his friends.

What controversies/drama would your character incite in fandom?

She's pretty low-drama, but since fandoms can be pretty casually or not so casually aphobic, her being aroace could be an issue. I feel like the old guard fandom is better than other fandoms, but I haven't seen all corners of the fandom and ngl I don't want to.

Joan's attitude towards her immortality and how she lives her life is in conflict with Andy's attitude, and that causes some conflict between them, so I can see the fandom getting into discourse over their respective philosophies. But since the movie takes the philosophy that nihilism isn't the answer, or at least that trying to make things better isn't meaningless, I can't see this being a huge controversial topic. maybe in smaller corners of the fandom.

What fan-material would exist for your character in fandom?

There'd probably be angsty artwork of her being alone and feeling lonely lmao. I can see a lot of fics analyzing her loneliness and anxiety through the centuries. Fics that explore how she navigated the centuries alone, as well as lots of fics where she almost meets the guard but just misses them, or aus where she did find them. Fics where she and the guard are just hanging out and being a found family together. I can see some angsty aus where she ends up captured before canon and Nile dreams of her and they're like "Wait there's another one of us out there BEING TORTURED???" and they go save her.

Is your character the subject of ‘imagines’ or ‘x reader’ style blogs?

Well, I haven't seen many imagines for The Old Guard in the first place, but since Joan's aroace, I sure hope not!

Are there any tropes fandom would put upon your character, for better or for worse?

"Hates romance." She hates it in regards to herself, but otherwise she just doesn't care about it. (You react with digust at the idea of dating your friend one time and you get labelled for life...)

I think people would also try to make her a woobie but like, even though she has had a rough time of it she's not miserable. She's learned to live her life as it comes, and yeah, she's lonely, she has her traumas, but she's still enjoying her life.

People might also assign her as a character who simply has the worst luck or the worst timing and. Honestly I think that would be kinda funny so I don't mind it.

What would be the ‘incorrect but wildly popular’ interpretation of your character in fandom?

The fandom would try and make Joan and Andy have conflict all the time and that's simply not true. Their philosophies clash. They have some beef, but that's mostly to do with their own issues and how it connects to the other. They themselves actually get along and respect each other a lot. They do have some conflict, but they still get along outside of that.

also I feel like people would make Joan a little "too anxious"? She does have anxiety but I feel like they would overdo it somehow, I don't know.

What corners of fandom would consider your character blorbo material?

I feel like The Old Guard fandom blorbo-fies all of the characters pretty well. But I really hope that the aroace members of the fandom would like her and make her their blorbo! Like that's the dream for me.

oc meta ask list!

[thietketinhte]

Thiet ke thi cong noi that nha pho chi Quynh Tien

Thiết kế thi công nội thất nhà phố Chị Quỳnh Tiên - Quận 2 HCM sử dụng ánh sáng tự nhiên kết hợp với hệ thống chiếu sáng thông minh, mang lại không gian sống sáng sủa và thoáng đãng. Điều này không chỉ làm nổi bật nội thất mà còn giúp tiết kiệm năng lượng.

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[immortalmuses]

THE TAGS MAKE IT EVEN BETTER

#tog#the old guard#siggy draws#quynh#nicolo di genova#the old gays#genuinely they're all i can think about this week#what are they running from / shooting at?? idk they probably fucked up sdfghfds#the headcanon is: when you put these two together they have a lot of fun but they're a DISASTER.#here's a story: some rich man saw quynh and immediately decided she was going to be his wife#and ofc quynh had issues with this and wanted to smack the shit out of this guy right away.#which she did. which escalated into a duel of sorts. nicolo is just there on the side like 'oh shit'.#either quynh was in disguise or she was forced to wear the dress. either way she is Not happy about it.#cue little brother who can lift his own weight and sprint to the rescue#maybe i should make this into a fic omg#can you fucking tell i started this by listening to anime osts ended it with disney songs

Thinking about the sniper duo

[pwnyta]

Joe has such a cute face...

(ʃƪ ˘ ³˘) //a sucker for sad brown eyes as always

Oh ya the movie made Quynh the first person Andy found... in the comics its Lykon. And speakin of Joe and Nicky not bein in the flashbacks with them... Obviously since Nicky is telling her story and also theyre not dreaming of her they would have met... why ARENT they in any of the old world flashbacks... Not even ONE?

I wanna see some of their costumes. :c

[mercaritee]

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[immortalmuses]

The Blind Leading the Blind by Lisel Mueller

[doechiis]

QUỲNH AND NILE + RED

[ID: Two gifs from the movie The Old Guard. First gif is of Quỳnh in a battle thousands of years ago, wearing a red robe with a orange sash and a black leather belt studded with gold. Atop her head is a nón lá (conical hat) covered by a multi-colored striped cloth tied at the forehard and neck to frame her face. She is holding a bow and arrow, which she shoots at a soldier before moving across the screen with a sword, likely a guȍm or gươm truòng. Andromache, dressed in a flat top, chest plate, and loose pants, swings an axe. The two attack an enemy soldier in sync, and the gif changes to a shot of Quỳnh holding the kiem to her right, looking down. Second gif is of Nile in present day, wearing a red shirt, gold necklace with a cross on it, and a white and grey jacket. She turns around to lean back on a guardrail, with Booker to her right. He turns to look at her. End ID.]

[elizabeth-mitchells]

some Andy x Quynh Noriko moments that live rent free in my head:

i loved her, pirate gfs, andy saying p l e a s e, baby, gfs that die and come back to life together... stay together? hopefully? please?, height difference is a Thing, That moment , and also big 🥺 energy at the end

[coffeebeannate]

andyquynh + wind

Send Me a Sentence: I Write Next Five Lines

Quynh doesn’t like wind much. Wind, something that used to be so freeing, so charismatic and so full of promising life, new beginnings, changing directions, open earth is now a sullied, scarred reminder. There was wind that day, wind near the water. Wind felt for the first time since being chained, since being captured, wind when the air hit her face as the dragged her, pulled her, locked.

It took so long after her escape, after her renewed freedom to not shudder at it. To not wish to turn her face and scream, to not hide her head in a hat, a scarf, anything to keep the wind from touching her. Anything to keep from feeling that dreadful existence, where the water below her beckoned it’s centuries long punishment. Where it called out, and screamed.

Time has passed. So much fucking time. Andromache-she’s Andy now, Quynh is still getting used to it, in her new mortality (oh such bitter irony), to see how Quynh would turn her face away, how she’d hiss when the wind was too harsh, and how she’d tremble. Andy, with her sunglasses, her hats, her resolution, had made it something bearable, something she could face again. Something that makes her see the wind again, with those renewed changes coming to light. It’s Andy’s arms, so familiar once more, her shoulder a steely wall against the cursed breeze, the solid recollection that no matter how that wind chooses to blow, they won.

It’s how tonight, in a threatening storm, Quynh can take solace, can shuffle herself closer to the already given spot in Andy’s shoulder, a hand covering her cheek as they sit, raindrops that should be touching Quynh’s cheek blockaded by Andy’s strong hand. Quynh has no doubt that if Andy could bring mother nature down herself, she would.

“Andromache, I-” Thank you, thank you, I feel things I cannot understand. There’s rage and terror within. There’s disquiet in my heart, ice in my veins and fire in my bones. And my love, my love, you’re here all the same. Andy only hums, gentle lips to her head, hand splaying more widely across her cheek, to provide it’s coverage. “Quynh, my darling love, I know.”

[inheritorofmemories-archive]

Getting Quynh vibe from this one, idk why and i’m sure this is mostly projecting but she has that laid back attitude

“-The bear and the dog are fighting over territories, who’s right?

-The cat watching them.”