can i just say colin firth pulled some absolutely stunning faces in the golden circle
His switch from the young lepidopterist to Harry fuckin’ Hart was amazing. We usually use facial expressions (especially the eyes) and body language to convey emotions and he did it with a freaking eye patch on. I saw confusion, pain, and anguish on his face and he was gloriously beautiful.
Daisy shrugged out of the jacket whose sleeves barely reached her wrists. “Maybe,” she says primly, “but I’m growing. Harry says I’ll be as tall as you soon.”
Eggsy presses a hand over his heart with an exaggerated pout. “Now that ain’t fair; who said you was allowed to grow up on us?”
“Ah! This time Unwin, I’ve got you and not even Professor Hart can save you!”
Eggsy bites his lip in order not to swear, hoping that somehow, he’ll find a convincing lie to tell Charlie. It’s doubtful of course, especially considering Charlie hates him and has been trying to get him expelled since day one, but so far he’s been lucky. Mostly because Professor Hart is looking after him as a favor to his dead father and, he hopes, out of friendship too.
Unfortunately, Professor Hart isn’t here right now and even if he was, there is very little he could do if Charlie finds the kitten he’s been hiding in his room. The rules at the dorms are very strict after all and Chester King, the dean, would only be all too happy to send him packing.
“Any pets in the dorm are prohibited and-”
“Meow~ … Oh hey Charlie! Hey Eggsy!” Roxy, his best mate and dorm neighbour gets out of her room, leaning against the door-frame casually. “What up?”
Charlie, who had looked so victorious not a second ago, now seems a bit uncertain. “Did you… Did you just meowed?”
She looks a bit embarrassed, right before tilting her chin up, as if daring him to say anything. “Yeah, I’ve been doing it for the past hour. It’s for a drama class.”
Charlie narrows his eyes at her with suspicion, but he must remember just who exactly her fathers are because he grunts angrily before storming off, leaving Eggsy alone to stare at Roxy with adoration.
“I can’t believe that worked!”
“I can’t believe it did either! What an idiot!” She starts chuckling and soon, they’re both laughing like lunatics, the wall the only thing holding them up. It’s a long time before they calm down again, garnering them quite a few funny looks from their other neighbours as they come and go in the hallway, but really, neither of them gives a fuck.
“Wanna see the kitty?” Eggsy asks finally, between uncontrollable giggles, having to fight another burst of laughter when Roxy nods enthusiastically, looking like a kid on Christmas morning.
When a random stranger stops her in the middle of the Ikea, Tilde’s first thought is that she’s been found out and she needs to call her security team swiftly.
Her second thought is that this stranger is very handsome even if he looks close to having a panic attack.
“Miss, can you help me please? I can’t find my little sister!”
She had been about to quickly apologize and tell him she wasn’t part of the staff, but he looks so desperate that she finds herself nodding.
“What does she look like?”
“She’s four, about that high,” he waves his hand about mid-thighs,” dirty blonde hair, in a blue dress… Usually she doesn’t wander off on her own, I don’t know why she did it!”
As he seems to be really working himself up into a panic attack, she takes his hand between hers, the contact just enough of a shock that the words at least stop tumbling out of his mouth.
“We’ll find her, come on,” he gives her a shaky smile in answer and she finds herself lacing their fingers together before tugging him along in a random direction. She hopes to find one of the clerks, but of course none of them seem to be around at the moment.
They get through the kitchen displays and then the living room, but without any success. She can feel his grip tightening every step they take and she finds that she doesn’t mind. She just wished she could reassure him, but she knows better than to tell him not to worry. She doesn’t even know the little girl and already she is forcing herself not to think of the worst scenarios.
Thankfully, when they make it to the kid rooms display, she spots a little girl in a blue dress and she barely has time to point her out to her companion that he has crossed the distance between them and has the little girl in his arms.
“Daisy! Oh my god, Daisy!” He doesn’t seem able to say anything more than this, and he closes his eyes, his face laxed with relief as he buries his nose into her hair. The little girl, Daisy apparently, seems absolutely nonplussed for a moment, until she returns the hug with a giggle. It’s probably the cutest thing Tilde has ever seen. “Don’t ever do that again Daisy. You cannot just run off like that!”
“But Eggsy… Teddy!” She flaps the plus toy up and down, hitting her brother with it, but he barely seems to notice.
“No Daisy, even if you see a Teddy,” he’s looking at her sternly and Tilde see the moment the little girl understands just how important this is. “When we’re out, you stick with me and if you want to see something you tell me and then we’ll go together, okay?”
“Okay,” she nods, even if she looks slightly upset now, probably reaction to whatever lingering distress her brother is feeling. He notices at once and just hold her closer, kissing her temple when she hides her face in his shoulder.
That’s about when he remembers he wasn’t alone in looking for her and he smiles sheepishly as he walks back toward Tilde.
“Thank you so much-?”
“Tilde.”
“- Tilde. Seriously, just thank you.”
“I’m just glad she’s okay.” She smiles warmly, because she really is. For some reason, it seems to shock Eggsy and he blushes suddenly after giving her a quick once over, as if only now realising what she looks like.
Others might have minded, but she had been checking him out too and very much liked what she was seeing.
“Will you let me buy you ice cream? As a thank you?”
Before she can answer, Daisy pushes away from Eggsy with a happy cry at the suggestion and Tilde can only laugh at her enthusiasm. She doesn’t let Eggsy think it’s a rejection however, simply links her arm in his as she waits for him to lead the way.
He’s frozen for a moment, before grinning and giving her a wink.
Okay so most of this is bullshit (Eggsy and Roxy apparently being 32, the events of KM1 happening in 2012 instead of 2014, the end of KM1 being in September when we know that it happened directly after the Royal Ascot which is in June, etc), but it is really nice to know a few more codenames and corresponding faces. So for those that may need reference for fic that takes place before, ignores, or retcons TGC with canon divergence:
Note: Lancelot and Percival are switched in TGC but that could just be for framing.
And for anyone needing a list of prominent Arthurian knights (there were a lot of them but there were only a select number that are mentioned most commonly) here’s a list. My personal faves for the remaining three are Kay, Bors, and Tristan.
Adding more meta bc I have no self control. As I said above, some of this stuff just can’t be taken as fact. It’s too wildly skewed and clearly written to fill space by people who didn’t know all the details. However there are a few things I felt were salvageable.
Of the Knights there are actually two new faces in TGC, the one at the end of the table and the back left:
For the one at the end of the table, it’s a little hard to tell the difference, but the cast listing shows us that two of the cast members at the table were swapped and process of elimination tells us it’s these two. When looking at pics that have a little closer view, you can also tell that the one in TGC is much younger than the one in TSS.
His seat appears to be Agent ‘Geraint’ and my resolution wasn’t clear enough to see the exact date that he was admitted, but it does appear to be in the 1990′s. We know that this can’t be right tho, bc his placement was occupied by someone else only a year before. So that will have to be ignored or retconned by personal headcanon.
Both actors have very little (and, in one of their cases, no) credit to their name outside of TGC, so it’s proven near impossible to find a picture of the new agent in the back.
Bottom line tho, I feel this fits well into the common headcanon that some Kingsman agents joined Chester and subsequently died during V-Day.
So an update to my previous image would be…
Other interesting little tidbits include:
Percival provided field training for Bedivere.
Bedivere was recruited at some point after 1995. (He started training for a Tank Regiment in September of 1995 so we can assume that he was probably recruited sometime afterward.)
Geraint in the first film is played by Nick English, founder of Bremont Watches. He was 43 in 2014 which is when TSS took place. The Geraint showed in TGC is listed as being born in 1972, making him around 42 at the time of TGC. Like I said, he’s listed as being admitted in the 90′s, tho that doesn’t make a lot of sense continuity wise.
Gawain was born in 1975 (12 Jan), making him around 39/40 in TSS/TGC. He was recruited in 2001 (3 Apr) when he was 26. Given that Chester King said at the beginning of TSS that they had not had an agent death in seventeen years, Gawain’s predecessor must have retired rather than dying in the field.
Lamorak was born in 1969 (14 Nov), making him around 44/45
in TSS/TGC. He was recruited in 1995 (10 May) when he was 25. While I personally headcanon that all of the agents can speak multiple languages, he is listed as specifically being able to speak five. Russian and Mandarin are among them.
Gambon!Arthur was born in 1940 (19 Oct), making him around 75 in TGC. He was recruited in 1960 (2 Dec) when he was 20.
Eggsy is listed as being voluntarily discharged from the Marines in June of 2008. This could be taken at face value, or it could be assumed that this is in relation to the incorrect date of 2012 listed as his and Roxy’s admittance date. In this case it would be four years before TSS (which took place in 2014) meaning that Eggsy left the Marines in 2010.
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