#also crossdressing haytham kenway

[teecupangel]

Submitted by @saberamane

Been seeing a lot of Edward Kenway and James Kidd/Mary Read and it just got me thinking, Edward never noticed that ‘James’ was a woman, so wouldn’t it be funny if someone had an oc who was a man, but dressed as a woman as a disguise, like mary did, and poor edward never could tell?

Like the first time he met this guy was with Blackbeard, and they were there to collect the oc because Blackbeard got word that the oc’s female alias was under investigation, so they were there to basically pull him out before he was caught. Blackbeard know the oc, so he knows the oc is a man who just makes a very convincing woman, but Edward meets a new beautiful 'woman’ and flirts. And is then horrified to find out it’s a guy.

And then every time Edward is in a new port with the crew, he’d end up hitting on a woman in some tavern, and it turns out to be the oc in a new disguise nearly every time.

And so then Edward begins to flirt less with woman, because he is getting seriously paranoid about flirting with that guy again. And then he finds out about James Kidd being Mary Read and it’s like the last straw for his sanity.

And somehow Blackbeard can tell the oc apart from actual woman, and so is technically cheating in the crew wide betting poll at each port on whether or not Edward flirts with their undercover informant again.

Edward and oc become friends in the end, and maybe the oc becomes the live in 'nanny’ for the Kenway’s and is able to stop the Templar’s from killing Edward and abducting Haytham.

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Addition by teecup

All I can think is Edward going “the boobs, check the boobs, he had flat boobs before so this time…”

Two hours later…

(Pokemon text) Edward has learned PADDING.

I like to think of this OC as the pirate spy equivalent of Chevalière d'Éon. He’s an okay fighter, having spent years in Blackbeard’s ship, but he found his ‘calling’ when they were at port and some drunk idiots mistook him for a girl.

The easiest score he ever got.

After that, it would actually be Anne who helped him be more lady-like and Edward had actually flirted with him before Blackbeard officially introduced the two of them as he used to work as a waitress too (for research).

At some point, Edward just stopped flirting altogether because he has been traumatized so many times by the OC who kept flirting back, only to flash his balls when Edward is ready to do the do and leave while laughing. Edward never does anything because it’s all harmless flirting and they never get anywhere because the OC would always shows him the truth before anything can get physical.

Nobody realizes it but Blackbeard has a surefire way to know if their undercover informant is on port. He always wears something on his neck to hide his Adam’s Apple.

And he would actually be with Blackbeard during his last stand, being spared only because the soldiers believed he was one of the women and not a pirate. He managed to get to Edward and stay with the Jackdaw, following Edward because, well…

Blackbeard’s gone and he has nowhere else to go. So he took the job as their live-in nanny and pretended to be Edward’s sister so Edward’s wife wouldn’t think something is happening between them (there wasn’t, they had a more sibling relation at this point, forged from the high seas and the blood of the people they lost) and he does think of Edward’s children as his niece and nephews.

But years of being a spy and the paranoia of losing people he cares about once more (especially considering Edward’s occupation) made him more suspicious of people he didn’t know and Birch just pings at him.

He doesn’t find out Birch is the Templar though and the attack still happens but he had been able to take down the ones after Jenny, telling her to stay behind him while they searched for the others. He would be there to help Edward, telling him that it was just like ‘old times’ jokingly even though his chest would be beating too fast due to both adrenaline and fear. They tagteam the attackers and Edward lives but they were too late to stop Haytham from killing someone to protect his mother.

In the end, Tessa leaves the Kenway mansion because of the truth of Edward’s commitment to the Creed and Haytham’s actions.

But at least he wasn’t alone in raising his children.

Unorganized Notes:

For more drama, add hints that the OC may have felt something more for Blackbeard than just him being his ‘captain’. Perhaps he’d only say “He was my Mary Read”  when Edward asked and Edward knew instantly what he meant.

He always call Edward ‘Ed’ because he used to call him ‘Kenway’ or ‘Cap’n Kenway’ but now that they were meant to be siblings and they have grown close, it was too painful to call him ‘Edward’ which was what he usually called Blackbeard.

Jenny always joked that he has prettier clothes than her. He just tells her to talk to Edward about that.

… It would be funny if having him as the nanny would teach Haytham how to crossdress and be more inclined to crossdress to get whatever he wants.

Just imagine Ratonhnhaké:ton going “This is my father. Sometimes, he likes to wear dresses and paint his face but he still prefers to be called ‘father’.”

(Just additional information: The Forsaken Book does name Haytham’s nursemaid as Edith so if anyone wants to make this OC and can’t think of the name, there you go. On the other hand, Edith could also serve as the OC’s sorta-best friend and they could gossip about Tessa instead)

[piratekenway]

17. What’s something you’ve learned about while doing research for a fic?

man, the fun thing about getting into Assassin's Creed is you learn a lot of shit while you're doing research for fic and roleplay just so you can get the voices and the setting right. for example: Edward Kenway (and Connor, and Haytham, and Shay Cormac, and Arno Dorian) would not know what a dinosaur is! because people only started to recognize dinosaurs as something unique from animals in 1817. like yeah, people knew ancient animals were a thing before then, but dinosaurs weren't classified as dinosaurs back in their day.

another thing: Jacob Frye would almost certainly have met and been friends with Boulton and Park, the crossdressers who were arrested for, essentially, crossdressing. (there were charges of sodomy brought against them but the whole thing has a frisson of "these MEN are wearing DRESSES" which is more than a little familiar, in this day and age. we don't actually know how Boulton and Park, aka Fanny and Stella, identified, gender identity-wise, but at the very least they were visibly queer.) being a bisexual gang leader in the Victorian era, he'd be more than sympathetic to their plight, and in the ACverse when they got arrested almost certainly sought to ensure they got off okay.

and this isn't AssCreed but Hamilton, but I have always loved that Baron von Steuben, the guy who whipped the Revolutionary Army into shape, historically threw pantsless flaming shots parties at Valley Forge. I'm not kidding. he actually did that. also he was almost certainly gay, and, this I found out doing research for AssCreed, he dressed his men in red coats on his first arrival to American shores because he wanted to come in style.