carthage must be destroyed
Sep. 6th, 2023 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaydeefalls
This whole year has just been...a lot. I don't even know how to update here anymore. But whatever, I'm getting through it somehow.
Hey look I actually finished a WIP without taking a yearslong hiatus in the middle. And it's somehow the longest Old Guard fic I've written to date. Weird.
Carthaginians (53165 words) by kaydeefalls
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolò di Genova
Characters: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani, Nicky | Nicolò di Genova, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Historical, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, or more specifically one night stand to enemies to friends to lovers, Slow Burn, sex is easy but feelings are hard, Sexual Content, Angst with a Happy Ending, Romance, Punic Wars, Fall of Carthage, shockingly those are not common historical tags, author is a history geek, Ancient Rome, POV Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani, war is not pleasant
Summary:
Hey look I actually finished a WIP without taking a yearslong hiatus in the middle. And it's somehow the longest Old Guard fic I've written to date. Weird.
Carthaginians (53165 words) by kaydeefalls
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolò di Genova
Characters: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani, Nicky | Nicolò di Genova, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Historical, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, or more specifically one night stand to enemies to friends to lovers, Slow Burn, sex is easy but feelings are hard, Sexual Content, Angst with a Happy Ending, Romance, Punic Wars, Fall of Carthage, shockingly those are not common historical tags, author is a history geek, Ancient Rome, POV Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani, war is not pleasant
Summary:
Historical AU set during the Fall of Carthage (2nd century BCE). When Carthaginian merchant Yusuf first met Nicolò in Rome, he thought him simply a pleasant night's distraction from the looming threat of war between their respective homelands. He did not expect to meet him again in battle outside the walls of Carthage—or, well...anything else that followed, really.
