any spare joe/nicky headcanons ma'am.... I love your old guard shitposting keep it up
thx bby 🥺🥺 and yes, I do have a bunch of headcanons about them!
decided to ditch the crusades together after they found out they were immortal and essentially went touring North Africa and the Maghrib as they grew to understand each other and fell in love
settled in Norman Balarm/Palermo for like a century because it was the first place that came to mind when thinking of somewhere both of them could still keep their faiths while being together
Andy and Quynh found them sometime in the early 1200s, which is how they ended up at the court of Federico II trying to avoid another crusade and partly succeeding
Yusuf was 100% a poet in the Middle Ages (the poetic scene of Arab Sicilian poets at the court of Ruggero was lowkey lit, not to mention the Scuola Siciliana) and a painter in the Renaissance because that boy sure does love art in all its forms!!!
speaking of, they are both very much humanists and want to give back to humanity, but do so in quite different ways, aside from their work with the old guard -- Nicky is far more practical and material, he is definitely a protector/healer type and is more preoccupied with the immediate wellbeing of a person, while Joe is a believer in the power of the arts and thinks they can be just as healing to the spirit as a doctor is to the body, and they very much complement each other in that sense
they're both still religious, but Joe does strike me as more practicing than Nicky, who's probably the type of Catholic to only remember he should have gone to mass at Sunday night and tell himself "oh well, next time lol" and lowkey believe more in the saints than in God Himself
they have a truly ungodly amount of pet names for each other. Booker doesn't even speak Arabic but he probably has acquired more pet names through sheer osmosis than the average speaker would ever know
Joe has entire sketchbooks dedicated to Nicky I'm 🥺🥺🥺 there's probably drawings dating back to the 1300s in there and solely because the earlier paper has deteriorated so much I love these sappy husbands
they have religious/superstitious trinkets EVERYWHERE, Andy once tries to tell them those things aren't real before an amulet against the Malocchio falls off the wall and Nicky rushes to touch iron and cross himself. they never bring this up again
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