venusprincess-rainbows replied to your photoset “Pride ‘18 – Part 3 (Nagron) “With Agron and Nasir: we’ve had gay…”
I love Nagron!
SAAAAME! They’re my precious puppies, my gooey cinnamon rolls! Just the purest, softest OTP ever, bless.
Nagron can do no wrong in my books, and the show handled them beautifully. The creator, SDK (aka Steven deKnight) said it best in that
quote I posted in my Nagron Pride ‘18 post.
andantezen replied to your photoset “Fun in the Sun Ole, ole! Ole,
ole! Feeling hot hot hot! ♪ ♫ ♬ Aggy…”
this is redemption for the life they lived in that beloved series… love it!
You freaking get me. *applause* Nagron deserves ALL the nicest things!
My medieval Goat Farm AU was pretty much post-canon, so even though Nagron still got their happily ever after, everyone they knew and loved was dead. That’s why I abandoned my zombies!AU &
started my modern!AU; I want all of the cast alive and well, with no death, sorrow and drama at all.
Cuz while Spartacus was a really good show, the story was just SAD, I can’t. 😦
(Spoilers, backstory, and emotional rambling ahoy)
Literally everyone but Nagron died on the show. It’s like Game of Thrones, but worse, cuz in GoT we all know GRRM’s a sadist who kills off characters for frikkin funsies. But in Spartacus everyone dies cuz the Third Serville War was doomed from jump. The rebel gladiators/slaves/etc all knew it, but fought against Rome anyway; holding on to the hope that they’d either defeat the Romans in battle, or somehow escape to a free land beyond Rome’s power.
I already knew the story of Spartacus, so I knew things were gonna eventually go heinously bad, cuz duh: Romans = death. But the wild card on the show that had the fandom freaking out was Nagron; whether the fact of them being fictional OCs would save them or not by the time the series was finished.
IRL, Spartacus had 4 generals: Crixus, Gannicus, Oenomaus, and Castus. But the show made Oenomaus their mentor, and Castus was nowhere to be found till mid-S03. Instead, in S01 we got a new character, Agron, totally made up.
I’ll admit, I had
written Agron off at first, cuz I thought he was gonna get his
fool self killed early. I thought Duro and Agron would die during the
initial rebellion, helping Spartacus break all the gladiators out of Batiatus’ Ludus in S01.
In S02 I thought Agron would lose himself to grief and
vengeance (lol, S02: Spartacus: Vengeance, get it, pfft!). It was nearly a sure thing; Agron had cracked after Duro died. But out of literal nowhere Nasir was introduced as another new character, and – with no exaggeration on my part whatsoever – Nasir saved Agron’s life merely by existing.
All Agron cared about up to that point was dying in battle and taking
as many Romans as he could with him – that crazy German went full on
Berserker Mode for a hot minute. But Nasir gave Agron purpose;
something new to focus on, and someone in his life to protect and teach
and care about, love, and LIVE for, after he lost his baby
brother. Especially after Nasir got stabbed tryna rescue Naevia from the slave mines, and Aggy realized what Nasir really meant to him. Even if he did die, he’d only die so that Nasir lived on.
EFF ME UP. Omg I was screaming.
And then there was Tiberius Nasir, that shifty, cunning, pretty, wild little dog, who only knew his hollow sheltered life as the pampered sex slave of a Roman elite. He had nothing but what the Romans gave him – even his name.
He told Agron he felt he was more Roman than Syrian.
He was ready to kill Spartacus (or die trying) for raiding his master’s
villa, and forcing the slaves into freedom they had no clue what to do
with and weren’t ready for.
But Agron was always there, stalking guiding Nasir with the blunt reality: Your old life’s gone, get over it; “if you have any effing sense” you’ll pick up a sword and help us get rid of the Romans cuz they’re racist exploiters who don’t give a crap about you, your life, liberty, or pursuit of happiness (*cough!* the tea). Reclaim your identity, your real name, live life on your own terms. and kill anyone who tries to stop you. – Agron, 73 BC.
After one frikkin season we saw Nasir transform from a blushing, scared flower, into a Hissing Syrian Warrior BAMF, making everyone bow down – say what?
They cried, I cried, it’s all good.
The character development and romance with these two…Nagron’s my OTP for a frikkin reason.
(And I haven’t even mentioned their angst-train nonsense with Castus, or Caesar having Agron crucified! SO good!)
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