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quietwingsinthesky · 2 days ago

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choosing to give lucy the headcanon of semi-fluency in french (<- language credit in college that she kept actively trying to keep useful) solely so that she can speak to ezio when he bleeds over through desmond. he is also only technically fluent, and his french is like six hundred years older than hers. something about the two of them being able to communicate but neither in their first language…

#i think lucy (& shaun & rebecca) have like. tourist’s italian? you know what i mean #the basic phrases you learn before going to a country so you can function in society #it’s not like a large vocabulary.#so lucy’s choices are 1) extremely extremely limited italian or 2) less limited but also much more clumsy french #(desmond’s brain has started processing langauage Weird i think. he doesn’t always think in english. he sometimes translates things he #‘should’ be able to read into another language before he can. makes reading a pain in the ass sometimes.#and then others he can’t reach for that at all and has nothing but english at his disposal. and it feels Wrong to him now.)#(thank u canon for establishing ezio knows french at least a little bit. i can use this.)#(i should do some research actually. see exactly what languages altaïr would be likely to know. fluency-wise and passing familiarity wise.#it’s like 1100? so if he knows any english it’s *old* english like we’re talking way closer to german than to modern english old.#completely different vowel sounds and such.)#(the language question is an interesting one to me! games handwave it by going ah the animus translates it but NO! shut up. i wanna know #what the impact is of being given an inherent understanding of a language like you’re a native speaker. or the understanding of your own #language from the lens of it being your second one. that’s interesting to me!)#i should have an ac tag

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