#Assassin's Creed ideas

[stealingpotatoes]

I love your art so much! I’m still lingering from your AC days and while I don’t know much about Star Wars, I eat your art up every time 🥰

omg hi!!! i remember you from my ac days too, thank you and here have some altmar for sticking around this long!!

[sulfies]

🥂🍸New Taste🍺🍻

16th century Bartender Desmond ready to change some history of mixology, funny enough there isnt much of a bartending pre 18th century but Medici family apparently was bit into mixology :p There is a bar in italy/firenze days that used to be a house Medici family owned but thats litterally all I found… so headcanon time…

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he would probobly wear a arm lenght glove tho hide the Isu markings and maybe grow or shave a beard depending on Ezio’s current facial hair stiuation to disguise himself lol, still people who know Ezio probobly be a bit suspicious. Especially Leonardo’s frequent bar visitor “assistant”

[ethan-acfan]

On the note of desmond surviving the end and having to rebuild his life after, I just wanna say that he would probably have some kind of muscle disability afterward. Because, and yes, I'm talking about this again, by ac3, they were keeping him in the animus for at least 3 days at a time, and no doubt it was probably upwards of a week towards the end. So his muscles were probably FUCKED by the end and he would def need physical thearpy and perhaps a cane/crutches (PLEASE IF ANY ARTISTS READ THIS IM BEGGING DRAW HIM WITH A CANE PLEASE PLEASE PLEA-) ahem, anyway also I feel like his mental state would also be screwed like verging on Clay's level of insanity, so do with that what you will

(PLEASE DRAW HIM WITH A LEG BRACE OR SOMETHING LITERALLY ANYTHING IM BEGGING I CANT DRAW FOR SHIT PLEASE🙏)

[fishblade-koi]

Sorry I just miss the sillies...

[teecupangel]

(sorry in advance, I've been stewing over this for so long that this will be a long one xd)

I was re-reading your fics on ao3 again (sue me, im starved for desmond time travel content) and whilst reading Eagle of Alamut's description i realised '...wait a damn minute, it is true! all of Desmond's knowledge on past is from his ancestors!' (not everyone is as big of a nerd as shaun). Cue weeks of relentless daydreaming over Desmond in Reneisance Italy trying his damnest to lay low... but: 1) he does not know what is socially acceptable at the time (clothe and behaviour wise)

2) the animus likely shielded it's users from the more... er.. unsaviory historical accuracy (child marriage, smell, violence and mistreatment towards the poor, women, disabled)

3) politics, culinary arts, medicine and money value from that era are not common knowledge (or even fully known to todays historians)

4) Ezio was not known for his subtility...

...so while desmond may know who to strike in order to protect Ezios family from getting executed, what places he may know to avoid if he wants to avoid attention from the italian brotherhood.

He does not know what he was getting himself in to when he decided to travel back in time.

I can just imagine him thinking that he can finally retire and live his life, but then BOOM here comes the shock of sociatal injustices! religious violence! inequality! horrendous mistreatment of beggars and disabled people! and as a good man raised in the 21st century he obviously can't, in his right conciousness, just turn his back on these issues, on these people.

So here he is, in Rome of all places, doing his best to atleast stay hidden from the Auditore's, and consequesntly, the Italian brotherhood's, detection, as he stalks the bright rooftops of Roma as histories (probably) very first assasin turned vigiliante!

I can just picture him at one point or another, getting mistaken for a Spanish assasin and his only attempt at 'confirming' (read: encouraging misleading rumours), is to use the very little languistic knowledge the American education system has bestowed upon him. cue him very awkwardly trying to immitate a Spanish accent/ speak in Spanish. or just, you know, say the only words every student knows, 'Feliz Navidad'.

It would be so funny if Desmond’s Spanish are based on:

1) what little remains of Ezio’s Spanish (maybe on par or even worse than his French)

2) Basic Spanish that he learned on the Farm

3) Spanish songs he heard

So people think that Desmond is eccentric.

And Rich.

Because Desmond wants to help people but he doesn’t want to be seen as an Assassin so…

He becomes a supposed rich Spanish (Arabic would have sent a red flag to the Brotherhood) noble who came to Rome to live a life away from his ‘family’.

Why is he ‘rich’?

Well, killing nobles and other ‘evil doers’ will flag the Brotherhood as well so it would be better to just…

Leave certain incriminating evidence in the doors of their enemies and let them duke it out. Hey, if some things go missing while they’re too busy with their enemies, that’s just collateral damage.

Also…

Sometimes, things go missing when some people get into accidents.

It’s easy to buy the impoverish area in Rome. It’s a bit challenging to get doctors to treat them.

Until Desmond flashed the right amount of money, of course.

Desmond manages to stay under the radar by being part of the upper echelon.

An eccentric foreigner who helps the poor and sick out of the goodness of his heart.

Or… because he apparently believes that the way to heaven is through good will and not… paying the clergy.

Desmond knows that being seen as completely good is a bad thing as well so he lets rumors spread that he’s an opportunist who heals the sick and protects the weak to receive their loyalty. He gives them salary to become his guards (not that he needs any) and people whisper how loyal the poor are to someone who gives them bread.

And to hammer in that “no, Ezio, I am absolutely not connected to the Templars BUT I’m also not going to be a good ally, just leave me alone!” plan he has, he becomes a patron of the art.

Sexually progressive art.

The church hates him but tolerates him because Desmond does ‘donate’ (jokes on them, he donates what he stole from the church) and the artists love him because he commissions stuff with the same thing over and over again “whatever you want to paint/sculpt/work on but I want the Borgia men getting fucked in the ass while Lucrezia Borgia watches”

He’s not rich enough to actually be a threat (especially after Ezio starts wrecking shit up) and he keeps to himself most of the time.

But, of course, life always has it out for Desmond and he comes face to face with a wounded recruit at the edge of his property and…

Well…

He only wanted to heal him then send him on his merry way.

He didn’t expect Ezio to come barging in thinking said recruit has been kidnapped by the eccentric ‘possibly sexual deviant’ Lord Miles.

[saberamane]

@sulfies Got me thinking about an A/B/O story I've had floating around in my head.

It's Ezio/Desmond, where Desmond is taken back in time after the solar flare.

I typically think of it being around Brotherhood time, when Ezio is pretty powerful within the city but the Borgia are still around.

Ezio is an Alpha, and he takes quite a liking to Desmond who is just an unknown entity at first. When it becomes known who Desmond really is, he gets roped into staying at Tiber where Ezio really starts his flirting. Desmond slowly begins acting as an Assassin within the Brotherhood, running missions to sabotage the Borgia, burn the Towers down, help the people affected by the Borgia.

And all this time Ezio is trying to court Desmond, thinking he is a beta.

Desmond is actually an Alpha as well, but due to a hormone deficiency condition he has, he does not smell like an alpha, go into rut, or create the same pheromones other alphas do. Desmond does tell Ezio he is an alpha, but Ezio doesn't believe him.

...Until Desmond begins to go into rut again, thanks to Ezio's gracious donation of...hormones.

Basically, Desmond's hormone deficiency is somewhat treated with sex. This creates quite a strange revelation for Ezio, to find out the beta he has fallen in love with is actually an alpha.

Not that it's going to stop him. Just means there will be some challenges in the bedroom. But Ezio has always been a bit flexible.

[splosh-crime]

The Bleeding Effect is a Temporal Nexus

The Bleeding Effect doesn’t cause hallucinations, it causes a temporal nexus that overlays reality, allowing a tactile connection.

They can touch but can’t speak unless one or both of them are in the presence of a Piece of Eden.

During the Solar Flare Ultimatum, all three of Desmond’s Assassin ancestors are present in a Nexus two-way Bleeding Effect. All three of them reach out to save him when his hand reaches the pedestal. All three of them pull Desmond into their time period, sending Desmond bouncing through time.

Inspired by Astyan & @teecupangel ‘s A Short Rest as well as elielll’s Like an Image from an Old Dream on Ao3

[sneaky-eel]

I was thinking of Desmond's mother again and how my version is no nonsense and awkward with affection. But now I can only think that if Desmond had lived, she would do, not quite a complete 180, but try a lot more while still being horribly awkward.

She full on goes Altair scholar mode and gets, like, 30 books for new parents and studies them all in one night. Maybe one or two pet owner ones cause she is desperate damn it. She wants so badly to try and make up for his childhood. Which is really great and all, but now she is trying to apply them to her 25-year-old son.

Desmond comes down for food and finds his dinner there, already cut up, which cool he hasn't mastered the art of cutting food with only one hand yet, so that definitely makes things easier. Then she starts watching him like a hawk (or eagle, hehe), making sure he eats enough and sleeps enough.

Hell, maybe for the first few nights, she waits for Desmond to fall asleep and camps herself in a chair by his door, sleeping there to act as his silent guard.

She asks Bill about the pros and cons of putting a baby monitor in Desmond's room, and Bill just gives her a tired look and is like, "Please don't."

One of the books talked about the importance of giving attention and affirmation to your child, so she will comment on his skills, but occasionally randomly be like, "Good job, son. You... got very tall? Handsome? Combatant?" (She is trying, Desmond. Leave her alone.)

Kids (and pets) need regular exercise, right? Well, Desmond, get ready to be woken up at 4 in the morning by your mother at the foot of your bed, asking if you would like to go on a run with her.

She puts Desmond's first proper mission report on the fridge cause that's a thing she knows parents do when they are proud of their kid.

She starts giving him small things when he does something good. Candy, desserts, maybe a new hoodie. It escalates to her one day being like, "Should I get him a puppy, or a cat? Some kind of service animal perhaps."

And God forbid someone wants to meet with her son. Bill had told the whole Brotherhood what Desmond had done, and when the news finally gets out that he is alive, many want to see/meet him, but they have to go through Mama Miles first. She does background checks on their background checks, looks over all their previous missions and success rate, and makes them file a god damn intentions form. If they pass all that, then they have to get through several hours of interrogation by her personally. It's only then she will ask Desmond "Hey do you want to meet these people?" and if he says no, she throws them out without a second thought.

At first, it all makes Desmond very confused. He thinks it's maybe out of pity, but eventually, he realizes this is just her trying to make up for never being physically there. It leaves him smiling and shaking his head because even his infallible (in his eyes) mother can be such a...a dork. He ends up extending his own olive branch by asking her to help him train so he can get use to the whole one arm thing.

[callme-mag]

Okay, but listen to me...

This image of Connor + The painting of "The Fallen Angel"

And as a result we have this drawing I made:

Details:

[wolfofartblock]

Sketches and a mockup of a drawing I might one day want to do for inprnt

On an unrelated note, does anyone know the protocreed fic where Alex is a demon that Desmond like frees in order to win a war? I want to reread it again 🥺👉👈

[hidden-nowhere]

Forgotten temple really just made me say "Well, Edward, this is your grandson."

like

hello???

but other than that i read it with the face like "what is going here"

[ramshackledtrickster]

If ac3 fans/hayziio shippers can stop being weird about ziio and reducing her/joking about her in a stereotypical and disrespectful manner that’d be fucking nice

[sulfies]

I dont think I ever red a fic where Isu-kaid Desmond is a bartender in those old times, im guessing its bc bartenders werent rlly a thing back then :')

I think it would be fun if Desmond got a job at a tavern and mixed stuff for fun (for himself or for barmaids since some of them werent fond of the harsh taste of the drinks) and it cought on around the town that this dude at this random taven can make you drunk with one cup of a liquid

[ethan-acfan]

Just your friendly reminder that during ac3, they had started leaving Desmond in the animus for up to 3 days at a time, possibly longer. They also didn't tell him he was going to be spending extended time in the animus until AFTER the time had already passed, and not only that, they told him in an email. Not even to his face, through a goddamn email.

[vadlings]

[teecupangel]

What if desmond was reborn as the 5th auditore child? Like he was just a baby/toddler when the auditore were executed

Hey, nonny.

We can make Desmond be born on March 13, 1476 so he would only be months old when the Auditores are executed.

Wanna fuck with Desmond and the Auditores some more?

What if we keep Maria’s mental state after the execution and make her believe that the baby in her arms is Petruccio.

The only person who could remind her that she was holding and caring for her fifth child was Claudia and it was becoming harder and harder for her to keep trying to stay strong when her mother treating Desmond as Petruccio makes her think that she’s in the past and asking when her husband would be back or if Federico and Ezio be back from playing outside.

The final nail in the coffin is that Maria mistook Claudia as someone else, maybe an older sister that was already dead or even her old nanny who died when Petruccio was just born.

Ezio saw what was happening and pushed Claudia to managing Monteriggioni to keep her from spiraling.

It becomes apparent that Maria sees Giovanni in Ezio and Mario tells him that it might be better if they slowly separate Maria from Desmond.

It’s not doing either of them any good and making Desmond replace Petruccio was a fate that no child should ever shoulder.

So Ezio pretends to be Giovanni taking Petruccio for walks and tries to be there for his younger brother.

But being an Assassin made it hard for him to return home frequently.

He tries his best and he knows Claudia also tries to make their younger brother understand that they don’t see him as a replacement and that their mother is simply… confused at the moment.

That’s how Desmond grew up, pretending to be Petruccio when he’s with Maria Auditore.

Mario trained him while Ezio was running around but he couldn’t leave Monteriggioni because Maria starts to ask where Petruccio is whenever she doesn’t see Desmond for a few hours.

Ezio went to Firenze after journeying to Spain (and got entangled with Bonfire of the Vanities) when Maria finally realized that Desmond isn’t Petruccio. To be more exact, Desmond had turned 21 and Maria cried as she remembered that Petruccio would have never grown as old as Desmond.

At that point, Maria’s relationship with her youngest child was strained by her own guilt and grief while Desmond just accepted it because he loved Maria and a part of him believed that he should have done something more (even if he was still a baby, guilt does not care about one’s age)

Desmond starts doing Assassin work as well but goes rogue for a few months, returning with the remaining seals for Altaïr’s statue.

Desmond takes the armor for himself and just shrugged it off as Ezio’s birthday present or something equally unimportant and Ezio returned to Monteriggioni with… well…

A very awkward family reunion, that’s for sure.

So many things have happened at that point and, as much as he is happy to see his mother healing, he feels guilty for not being there for Desmond who just shrugs it off and tells him “I understand.”

“I understand.”

That was the worst phrase Ezio heard.

He kept hearing it from his younger brother.

At first he was relieved that his brother understood.

Then he realized that the phrase meant more than that to Desmond.

It was a resignation to his current situation.

And Ezio wasn’t really in the best place himself.

He was still grieving the death of Cristina who died while Ezio was in Firenze for Savonarola and his men so there was also a bit of guilt there.

So Mario suggested Ezio takes Desmond to the Vatican with him as a ‘trainee’ and Ezio agreed.

He tells Desmond that he never wanted him to be an Assassin, that he hoped he was the only one who had to carry the blood that drenched the Auditores’ blade.

Desmond just stares at him and goes…

“I understand.”

And Ezio knew that he failed being a brother to his youngest in this bloody path of vengeance he had taken.