#thomas nightingale

[philcoulsonismyhero]

I'm doing some rereading, and this bit in Broken Homes always cracks me up. You're both nerds, lads, let's move on

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[spacecapart]

'Some days it seems so long ago, and some days…'

I'm deeply fond of Thomas Nightingale and also he frequently makes me very sad, so I wanted to draw something about that. Also, I figured if anyone would suit Leyendecker illustration vibes, which I'm really into right now, he would.

(Drawn in alcohol markers and coloured fineliners, and image described in alt text.)

[suddenly-frankenstein]

the bunch of Thomas Nightingale (and Toby) from the "Rivers of London" commissions I did for @buntcadger

god, I haven't read the books yet (!!) but I already love this man sm :)

+ a lil silly photo booth series

[doctorhimbeere]

Nightingale: I'm at a loss for words

Abigail and Peter: Despite being at a loss for words, Nightingale yelled at us for the next 45 minutes

[angeloftheeasterngate]

[thesporkidentity]

oh no. oh god. baby nightingale was so fucking CUTE i can't take it this is hurting my heart, he was such a sweet cheerful little dweeb and then *gestures at everything*

[jaybeefoxy]

I'm trying to convince myself that Lesie Howard isn't perfect to see in my mind's eye when I think of Captain Thomas Nightingale, last State Sanctioned Wizard of the British Isles.

[rocksaltandroll]

So I finished all nine Rivers of London books in less than three weeks & I’m currently working through the short stories, but all I really want in my life is the story of Thomas Nightingale, Posh Wizard Extraordinaire, Badass of The First Order, Most Fuckable Old Man and Incredibly Polite Bastard, in Ettersberg blowing up Tiger Tanks and seeing the Magical Horrors inflicted by the Nazis and then watching the cream of British Wizardry getting obliterated before his eyes as he single-handedly fights the enemy to give whoever is left the chance to escape.

Is that too much to ask for? Is it?

[philcoulsonismyhero]

I Should be sleeping, but unfortunately I finished relistening to Moon Over Soho again earlier after I finished Amongst Our Weapons again the other day and decided to just loop back around, and I continue to be Deeply not normal about Thomas Nightingale.

2396 names of wizards who died in WWII and he personally carved every single one of them into the remembrance wall at Casterbrook. 3 out of 5 of every military aged wizard in Britain died and the rest of them gave up the craft due to injury and/or trauma, but he persisted, alone. He started aging backwards in his 70s but stopped at the approximate age he was during the war. He still remembers how and where all of his friends died. "Some days, it seems so long ago, and some days..."

I keep thinking of the DS9 pilot and the Prophets bringing Sisko back to his wife's death over and over again because "you exist here". Nightingale still exists in the war. And then Peter comes along and drags him into the 21st century and refuses to let him stay wallowing in his grief and spots Exactly all the ways in which he's broken and needs someone to keep the cracks from widening. Peter’s mum says what would one more killing be to a man with blood on his hands, and Peter thinks of the strain he's seen in Nightingale and decides no, no more, there's Always Another Way. For moral and ethical reasons, but also because Nightingale has been damaged enough. And it started when he put his foot down over the jazz vampires and threw 'what did all your friends die for?' in Nightingale's face.

I am. So very Not Normal about them in general and about that conversation in particular

[spacecapart]

I've been getting increasingly obsessed with the Rivers of London books over the past few months, and since I'm always a sucker for sad immortals and mentor types I've also developed some pretty serious Blorbo Emotions about one Thomas Nightingale.

I filled a sketchbook page in the process of figuring out how I want to draw him, and I'm pretty happy with the face I've come up with. The smaller expression sketches were a bit more quick and experimental, but they're a decent place to start from. I need to figure out Peter and the rest of the gang as well, I want to do So Much art of these guys...

[evenaturtleduck]

Surprisingly, when I did, his reaction was outrage that somebody had to apply to a panel to determine what gender they were--he didn't say it, but I got the strong impression that he felt such panels were intrinsically un-British. Like eugenics legislation, banning the burka and air conditioning.

He doesn't understand cell phones but he's got the spirit.

[doctorhimbeere]

Peter: I would die protecting him

Nightingale: Touch him, and you will plead for me to kill you

[angeloftheeasterngate]

has this been done yet?