#assassin's creed angst

[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🙏)

[marf244]

Ash never got to give her brother his birthday card

[sulfies]

🌊Sweet Slumber✨

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Shh dont wake him up, he is resting…finnally

[konnoronhkwaconnor]

Sometimes i wonder what would it be like if Haytham managed to kill Connor in their final fight.

What would he write in his journal? What would he say about the event?

What more of gut-wrenching angst Forsaken could be?

[fanfenomenon]

“It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons” - Johann Freidrich von Schiller

Basically, Haytham realizes how alike his father and son are, that he sees his own father in the very image of his son.

hey uh so that one scene where connor tells haytham that he has a ship..?? yeah that made me think that maybe connor reminds haytham of edward in some way or another

*all clips were from the actual ac games and trailers, no copyright infringement intended

[teatitty]

Of course Ezio is going to have wrist and hand and arm pains. He wasn't trained in the art of the assassins -- he isn't used to their weapons. He's brawled with his fists and wielded a rapier (as was common for nobles at the time) but the robes are heavy on shoulders used to thin cottons and the bracers awkward and clumsy on his wrists. The flick of the hidden blade is foreign, and he has no-one to teach him the proper use until he is taken in by Mario. The heavy swords and maces and spears require so much force, and Ezio has always been a quick, lithe sort of fighter, filled with trickery and mischief instead of bludgeoning trauma

He does not know the right exercises to soothe strained muscles. Does not know what cramping to expect, and he is not used to running and leaping and diving in cumbersome robes and a hood that obscures his vision

Of course he is in pain. Of course he aches and cramps and curls up in a ball where nobody can see him as he tries to will away the persistent hurt. His body wasn't trained for this. Wasn't made for this. But he is forced to adapt anyway, and change everything about himself from the inside out. Would you not suffer from that too

[teecupangel]

Hey tee want to hear an absolutely horrific Desmond idea that just popped in my head? Of course you do.

(tw though for a bunch of stuff about dead bodies so if that's a squick you can delete this message without reading the rest.)

At one point in The Hollows book series, the protagonist encounters a high-power magic entity that can possess the recently dead in order to communicate directly with mortals.

What if a Desmond whose body is destroyed by the aurora device and he ends up adrift in the Grey for an unknowable amount of time

until he gravitates, without meaning to, to points in his ancestral history where there is a suitable vessel for him to inhabit?

The rules surrounding this:

1) The vessel he occupies must be recently deceased, within about two hours.

2) How long he can stay in a body is affected by how complex the life form is. Humans are the longest at 12hrs.

3) The time limit is expressed by the body slowly turning to ash and dust, until it reaches a critical point and can no longer hold itself together, at which point it basically disintegrates.

4) Those with Eagle Vision inherently know on looking at a body occupied by Desmond that it is Desmond. If he is occupying a human body, he will seem to them to resemble what he looked like when he was alive.

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more assorted thoughts:

Desmond isn't limited to a linear timeline. He gets drawn back to the Grey every time his body dissolves, from which theoretically any point in time can be accessed.

I like the idea though that at least at first, he doesn't have control over where he goes. In addition to trying to figure out how this whole thing works, he's just popping up in the most random/useless of times.

He can visit any time and place he has an ancestral connection to, whether or not he unlocked those memories while he was still alive. There just needs to be a suitable vessel nearby. And, well. Pretty much every assassin ancestor has plenty of opportunity for that.

Also, jumping off rule 3 above, Desmond isn't like...so him needing to possess a vessel is basically like, needing to anchor himself to something Present. And what he's anchoring to isn't even the body exactly, it's the memory of life. Which is why more complex things anchor him longer, they have a more substantial memory of life/concept of self/their existence.

So as he's burning through the body, he's holding it together through his own force of will more and more, until the memory is burnt out and will alone isn't enough.

An interesting effect then is that the body's death blows don't affect what he's able to do in it, but lifelong conditions do, when he first possesses it. If a person's eyes were gouged out to kill them, Desmond can still see in the body, because the memory of life still remembers having eyes, even though the physical eyes are ruined. But if Desmond possessed someone who had been blind for years, he wouldn't be able to see, because the memory of life doesn't conceptualize itself as a seeing being. As the memory faded and it became more about Desmond holding himself together, he'd regain some of his sight.

Funny enough, this means that while non-human bodies tend to be of limited usefulness, there is a period toward the end of the possession where he can speak and communicate with people, even if he's like. A mouse. Because at the very end it's more his concept of self establishing what the body can do than the mouse's.

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For real though just imagine with me how freaked out his ancestors would be when some of their kills randomly sit back up and start talking. Like. You never know when or where Zombie Desmond will appear, but it will probably be at the least convenient of times and everyone will scream.

I love this idea because of the sheer angst potential.

Like, sure, we can go down the horror comedy route and I’m all for it since I love that genre.

But just imagine Desmond possessing one of the Auditore’s bodies while Ezio was trying to bury them. Ezio’s horrified outrage at the idea that some kind of entity was possessing his younger brother. Desmond didn’t mean to possess Petruccio’s body, he still can’t control this, Ezio- “Shut up!”

It’s definitely the worst kind of first meeting.

And Desmond doesn’t know if this was worse or better than his first meeting with Altaïr.

Because with Altaïr, Desmond screwed up so badly by possessing Adha’s dead body, giving Altaïr a false sense of hope that he wasn’t too late.

Unlike Ezio’s grief and rage, the way Altaïr’s face completely shut down was much more worrying to Desmond because he has no idea what that silence was supposed to mean.

Even when Desmond apologizes and promises that he didn’t mean to, Altaïr simply ignored all of these and just asked Desmond what he was and what he wanted.

The worst part of this entire thing is that Desmond doesn’t even know what he wanted.

And then there was Ratonhnhaké:ton.

Desmond didn’t even know if Ratonhnhaké:ton hated him or not.

Because the first time Desmond possessed someone in Ratonhnhaké:ton’s time, he was getting the hang of all of these.

And he was able to save Kaniehtí:io, sure.

By possessing a child who had recently died. A child that Ratonhnhaké:ton knew by name. He had probably been playing with that child a few hours ago before Desmond possessed their corpse.

… and Desmond spent weeks in that body with only Ratonhnhaké:ton knowing that he wasn’t his friend.

Ratonhnhaké:ton probably didn’t trust him.

But hey…

At least he didn’t possessed Kaniehtí:io or something.

That would have been so awkward.

The new problem Desmond had was that…

Well…

He just possessed some naked dude in the middle of some sort of island.

“Jeezus!”

And he has no idea who this dark blond haired man that smelled of salt and rum was supposed to be.

But from the looks of things…

He was wearing what may or may not be Assassin robes belonging to the dead body he was now occupying.

[hauntedparadisebandana]

Guys, the bleeding effect has me in a choke hold I must speak about it🗣I always see people talk about the animus like it's super cool and revolutionary, which it is in some aspects, but what about the destructive side of it? Let's get down to the nitty gritty.

Desmond is a disaster just waiting to happen. He thinks of Claudia as his real sister, and he loves Mario as his own uncle. Once, he was talking to Lucy about "the last time he has been here," all while they were exploring the tunnels in Monterigginoni. She corrected him, prompting that Ezio had been there and not him. THAT IS LITERALLY SO SAD FOR NO REASON. You literally lose yourself as a person to the Animus, but all in the name of research, right? Right.

I hc that It goes so far that he starts screaming in his sleep or waking up in sickly cold sweats. He has episodes where he slips into speaking other languages such as arabic and italian and believes he is and refers to himself Ezio or Altair. Basically, he has other people in his mind who come out in episodes, and it's tragic. Maybe, the episodes get to be too much, and his memory starts to deteriorate. He starts writing and taking pictures as memories to remind himself of who he is along with his friends. Just maybe, he stares at the pictures for minutes on end, his efforts of trying to remember himself and his friends don't help as much anymore. His memory of them is fading, being overrun by a mass in his mind. Just maybe, he throws a fit and tears the picture to shreds, so upset at the fact he can't recall their names.

The others are aware of the effects of the animus. They try not to react when Desmond calls them out of their name, such as calling Rebecca Claudia, so they dont scare him more than he already is. They share knowing looks when they see him pacing a room or coming out of one of his episodes. They know it's only a matter of time before he ends up like clay, Desmond is aware as well, and he's petrified.

Imagine being him. You won't know if you're you or Ezio, or maybe you're Altair. You see them like ghosts, you hear them, you feel what they feel, you grieve for people that dont exsist anymore, you miss a home that isn't yours, you confuse your ancestors memories with your own, you think you're them, and I find it both crazy and heart breaking.

[hard-times-paramore]

Okay, I admit there's a bit of a pet peeve I have with "bleeding effect" Assassin's Creed AUs where the ancestors meet Desmond. I can't forget those people have already lived their lives. Like, it's all set in stone. You're just seeing their memories. How their lives already went.

Ezio and Altaïr managed to interact with Desmond across time because of the Apple and other keys of Eden, but that's also gonna be in their memories. Desmond could access his ancestors seeing himself through the Animus.

So when I write Desmond talking to his ancestors because of bleeding effect, I also make him fully aware he's not talking to the real them, but with a hallucination of them, a copy of a copy in his head. Memories of memories. His brain speculating from what he got out of meeting them.

It's sad to think about, but the ancestor in his head isn't the real one. And I think knowing that would hurt, too. Specially for Desmond, who has kind of a shitty family (definitely a shitty father) and he's feeling more connected as a family to the idea of his ancestors than with them.

It makes the fleeting moments he actually managed to reach across time all the more important to him.

[asilentnightt]

Angst is so juicy but I can never bring myself to read it because I know I will certainly have beef with a fictional character for the next 2-3 business days

[maria-and-aguilars-codex-1492]

Call of Duty x Assassins Creed Crossover ideas:

Poly!141 x Reader Edition

Templar!Reader being the next in line for Grand Master until they catch the unwanted attention from Assassin!141. Devout in your faith for the cause and centuries of your family being Grand Masters for the order you never knew anything else. And it paints the portrait that you are a target they need to snuff out before you gain anymore influence and power.

Mentor!Price has been to many countries, encountering many Templars before, yet Reader is just so-so--different. Price likes to think that his judgement has never led him wrong before so when he calls off your hit Gaz, Johnny, and Ghost don't exactly agree. They have to see for themselves which leads to you encountering them throughout your day. Not knowing that they are assassins of course. You only have ever run into those pesky Frye twins since arriving in London. Although by the end of it Gaz and Johnny are convinced you'd make a better assassin than templar. They want to convince you much to Ghost disagreement. Because despite staying his blade he still contemplates assassinating you anyways (Creed be damned) up until he realizes that not even he wants you dead.

Unfortunately this all ends up with you experiencing some world-view-changing trauma that ends in you taking a leap of faith from a building with a hidden blade strapped to your arm.

Bonus:

In the modern day, you find yourself being abducted by Abstergo and taken to their Madrid facility. There you encounter the 141 who, just like you, are carbon copies it would seem of their ancestors. They remember you or your ancestor rather. They want to protect you. They want you to fight back even more. You want to just go back to being normal, a civilian. Rikkin seems to believe that you'd do well as a Templar. But the 141? They're going to ensure you never fall into Templar hands again (while never admitting that they feared you becoming a templar as history tends to repeat itself though not always in the same way)

[ethan-acfan]

I need more fics of post violent bleeding effect episodes. I wanna see the after effects of Desmond having to be injected with a high power sedative. I wanna see everyone sitting in a weary silence after Desmond passed out before slowly returning to their desks while Lucy files the incident report. I want to see Desmond waking up, still drugged out of his mind, and while the things he says are funny, nobody really laughs at them since they know he's only saying them because of the sedative.

[bloodhaven99]

On Fields of Sorrow…

[sulfies]

“It will pass soon amò, always does…”

Poor Desmond getting extreme bleed or/and apple visions

[intoxicated-chan]

❝𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬❞ ✠ 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐜

Inspired by “Army Dreamers” by Kate Bush // Best viewed in dark mode

Shay was scared to admit that he had fallen for Liam’s younger sister, he planned to take his secret to the grave and he succeeded for while until he found you years later, this time, possibly on the opposite sides.

Paring ➳ Shay Cormac x Liam’s Sister!Reader

Content Warnings ➳ Female Reader/Assassin Reader, typical Assassin's Creed violence, blood, assassinations, sexual content, death, murder, other tags to be added...

CHAPTERS ↓ Tumblr & AO3 Only

𝐎𝐧𝐞 ✠ ❝𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐒𝐚𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬❞

𝐓𝐰𝐨 ✠ ❝𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞❞

𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 ✠ ❝𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬❞

𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 ✠ ❝𝐌𝐲 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬❞

𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 ✠ ❝𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐲 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬❞

© Intoxicated-Chan 2024, I do not allow my work to be copied, translated, modified, adapted, or put on any other platform without my permission. None of the photos used belong to me! Credits to @cafekitsune and @benkeibear for the dividers. I use it all the time.

[fanfenomenon]

“I never knew him. Not really. I thought I had, but it wasn’t until I read his journal that I realized I hadn’t really known him at all.

And it’s too late now. Too late to tell him I misjudged him.

Too late to tell him I’m sorry.”

- Connor, from Assassin’s Creed: Forsaken

i still believe connor regretted killing haytham and no one can make me think otherwise now that ac forsaken has solidifed that belief (also, more hamilton and ac3 parallels!)

*all clips were from the actual ac games, no copyright infringement intended