#William wanted a boy named Desmond and Imogen wanted a girl named Desiree

[theconfusedartist]

I was about to be embarrassed about all that shit I said about Desmond but then I realized: why should I? I spend waaaay too much time writing and thinking about that man, he's not going anywhere so I might as well!

Anyways, I was saying earlier in the tags that Desmond could have tits we just don't know it bc he always wears baggy clothes, and I stand by that, but I also wanted to add: Desmond goes by he/hum pronouns bc that's what he vibes with. But if someone were to ask if he was a boy or a girl, he'd probably just say he's classified as a threat by multiple countries.

Doesn't give a definitive answer, makes the person asking laugh, he can easily change the subject. Like, I know what my own personal hcs are for Desmond but it's pretty much got to do with the Isu. They didn't have gender, they're just using words that make sense in the human language and humans perceive the Isu to be man or woman depending on what they want to see or expect. Desmond, who had a high concentration of Isu DNA literally can change at will.

I know fandom talks about Desmond being a shapeshifter (irt Desmond never having the same face), but what if that was on purpose? Desmond looks like Altaïr, that was correct and AC1 Desmond is what he looks like bc he and Altaïr have faces that look almost the same, but all the other games Desmond’s face changes bc the people that see him change.

Lucy, Shaun, and Rebecca all associated Desmond with Ezio, so his face looks extremely close to Ezio's to them. In Revelations, Clay had a certain expectation of what Desmond would look like which is why he looks...like that but then looks different when he gets out the animus.

William had seen Desmond when he was a child, which is why he looks so close to the original model, but also projects his own features onto Desmond which is why he again looks so different than all his other iterations.

Desmond was born and the doctor was like "....it's a baby!" The doctor didn't care about the gender of the baby, only the safe delivery for the mom and child, so he saw literally nothing and was confounded af.

Idk, maybe this is an odd headcanon but Desmond just kinda goes with it and he's not attached to any gender, just the he/him pronouns. He doesn't care about what people think he is, just how they perceive him.