#also yeah im excited about the game too but its still waaaay to early in the development phase for me to talk too much about

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( @zero-saito ) Lol I’m happy that Alex is amused by overprotective ancestors! But also, your making a game out of this?! 😲🙌🏻 that’s awesome!!! How are Aveline and Connor immortal? They had the mind/spirit apple right? Also if Connor is in charge of the main brotherhood and Bill is in charge of an offshoot then they probs butt heads allot. Which might explain why Bill is such an asshole. His position has never been truly solid as a leader.

Thanks!!! I'm still in the beginning phases of the work in Unity and Blender, but it's underway. Once I actually start making it playable enough, I'll talk about the game aspect more, but at the moment, I'm just making sure the story is solid and air tight.

Connor and Aveline are immortal bc Connor had the crystal which allowed him to see and speak to people through time, whereas Aveline acquired the mind apple after killing her stepmother who was going to induct her into the Templar order, after realizing that the templars were actively participating in the slave trade and upholding the system in Lousiana and Mexico. The both of them effectively became den leaders at the end of their respective games, and Aveline had mer up with Connor in Boston to discuss the artifacts they'd found. In trying to use both of them, they end up attracting the attention of Juno who sends them to timeline of the Tyranny of King Washington.

While trapped there, Desmond requests them to go into the hardware of the apple and change the wires so its harder for Juno to hack. In doing so, Desmond/Reader was able to grant them immortality and send them back to their own timeline, however they can be killed. Due to the Reader having to make a copy and send them back to their time while also fixing the timeline they left, they no longer have anything that makes them age. They can die if injured enough and they can come back, but only under very specific circumstances.

Ok, the thing with the leadership is that the Assassins broke off around the 1780s when Aveline and Connor were advocating to kill off the Founding Fathers and major players in the government irt to slavery, the native American genocide, and 4he treatment of people immigrating into the land (as Connor killed George Washington after killing Haytham, thus the birth of America was slowed and doesn't exist the way we think of it, as Connor then went on to eliminate everyone going into government that created anti-Native legislation.)

The Assassins that still had a council and a ring of leaders in Europe disagreed with their assault on the government, as they believed the assassins shouldn't be openly aiding or attacking leaders when their armies could be turned upon them, and began to push for more isolationist practices that would cut the assassins off from most larger civilizations, in hopes of recreating the previous success Al Mualim had with Masyaf.

This split ended up happening internationally, where some assassins (like Shay) believed that some assassins were using their anonymity to kill people that (he believed) didn't deserve it and thus joined the templars--only to become what he claimed to be fighting against. Other assassins believed that it wasn't their place to interfere with governments but rather go back to a bureau system where their actions directly benefited the communities and larger organization they were in.

The assassin order, in comparison, focused on finding the PoE and keeping them away from the common people while also opposing the templars and refused to fight alongside them in any given capacity, which furthered the divide. Templar presence isn't very strong in America, Brazil, and many countries in Asia and Africa, but they dominate in most of Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. While countries have been held and lost by both factions, neither had figured out how to properly use any given PoE or how to make more of them. Until Desmond was specifically mentioned by Altaïr in the library and then Desmond "found" two while at the Farm.

Bill did butt heads with Connor and Aveline, but he was on equal terms with them in leadership. Rather, it was within the Assassin order itself that he faced the most opposition, as he had been primarily a team organizer and in charge of much of the info, and keeping track of the various Assassin cells. He had also been one of the den masters that had supported Daniel in getting to meet the previous mentor, and was under heavy scrutiny along with the other den masters, when Daniel's sleeper agent went into affect and he killed many of the major leaders of the Assassin Order in America. With many of the leadership of the American council dead, William received thr position due to his ability to train competent and incredible field assassins, his knowledge and ability to move entire cells of Assassins and their equipment to safe locations, and uncanny knack to teach people Eagle Vision (despite not having it himself).

However, he faced opposition within the assassins, as he always had one or two assassins he trained that ended up being the best of the group but with the weakest loyalty to the assassins. Other members speculated that he supported Daniel in order to help him kill the leadership and take power (this wasn't true but was widely passed around), while others resented the fact they would be getting another Mentor who would send out field assassins but wasn't a field assassin at any point themselves, and another group also claimed that Bill was only being granted leadership due to his bloodline of Ezio Auditore and being married to Imogen (I might change her name later) who was a descendant of Altaïr's but also was the granddaughter of Aveline and Connor.

Basically, there was a lot of vicious internal politics going on that wore Bill's already tenuous grasp on leadership weaker and he hardened in response, making him a vicious teacher and relentless father who only grew harsher on Desmond after he found two PoEs. Desmond was actually quite frail as a child and it took him until 5 to get anywhere without stumbling and. tripping all over the place--and parkour was out of the question until he was nearly 7, whereas all the other children at the Farm started parkour training at 5. Bill was relieved bc it meant that Desmond wouldn't be a field assassin, as he took to learning and memorizing like a fish to water, and he had hoped Desmond would follow in his footsteps rather than Imogen who (by this time) was quite literally one of the 5 top assassins in the order and was traveling constantly. But Desmond came into his own physically, so Bill pushed him harder than should ever be expected of a child, and even when Desmond managed to meet those expectations, he wasn't satisfied as what he really wanted Desmond to do was give up and be an informant assassin.

The angrier and upset Bill got, the harder he would strike him in training, making him the example in front of his peers. Even when Desmond won, he was still reminded that his best wasn't good enough, and being Bill was the Mentor no one stepped in what was clearly abuse--of power and the fact that he was Desmond's father. Bill never struck him outside of the training ring, but that didn't truly matter when he could summon Desmond to the ring at any time, even going as far to wake him up to train. Which is how he got the scar on his lips.

Yeah, Bill had a lot going on, yes he was going through it and feeling unsupported, but he never should've taken it out on Desmond and I wanted Bill to make people feel conflicted about him, rather than outright hate, because he's more of a well-rounded character instead of escaping any consequences like in canon.

I just wanted to say something about the protocreed au:

The reader is Desmond, Desmond is the reader. He just needed to run 26 permutations to get to that phase. Afterwards, he still would've been able to view and change the past/present/future at any time in his regular body while his consciousness (and Clay) remain in the Grey.

But Abstergo just had to go and fuck things up for ya boi😮‍💨 yet again

Alex does help out, but he had to leave when Desmond activated the Eye, due to all the intense heat and phosphorus adamantium that was literally deconstructing him on a molecular level.

Also, to get back to Elijah to make sure neither the assassins or Templars get their hands on him, bc he'll be damned if he let's Bill get his grubby little hands on him.