#bryn: talk about bayek pls

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gonna enable you and say connor ♡ also bayek!

actually alli kinda enabled me first re: connor hehe

First impression

i was kind of torn, because while i definitely liked bayek from the start, i tend to really dislike seeking-vengeance-for-dead-kid stories. that’s just... not the kind of angst that i look for, so bayek and origins and general was kind of a hard sell.

HOWEVER...............

Impression now

BOY HOWDY I LOVE BAYEK!!! obviously he is the perfect combination of dilf + sauce man, and i really appreciated that origins really fleshed him out as a multifacted character rather than just Angry Sad Vengeful Dad. he pets cats, banters with npcs, gives senu smooches, is completely devoted to aya, and takes great pride in his position as medjay. he kind of reminds me of connor, in his dedication to helping others and remaining unflinching in the face of formidable political figures (cleopatra, caesar, etc). basically what i’m saying is, bayek is the person i think connor will grow into in a few years (preferably without, you know, the big family tragedy).

Favorite moment

in that hidden ones montage/voiceover, when the child tells him he’s afraid, and he kneels down and says “i’ll walk you home”. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

tbh i didn’t think much of it until i saw some galaxy brained gifset calling attention to the parallel between flashback bayek telling khemu to just go home on his own, and hidden ones bayek taking the time to make sure this kid gets home safely. like............. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

and the way that, before that montage when they are founding the hidden ones, he says “i will be the father i was not that day in siwa” ????????

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Idea for a story

omg i really don’t know! as much as i had reservations about the dead-kid plot of origins, i still found myself engaged and invested, and i think it’s actually one of the few stories where i don’t really need/want to expand further on it? i think bayek’s story tells us everything we need to about him and his world and his journey, it tells us everything we need to about the founding of the hidden ones (presumably; i haven’t played the dlcs yet), and we are given just enough detail about his and aya’s later lives that i am content to just let the story be exactly what it is.

i guess this idea would technically be aya-centric, not bayek, so it’s not really an answer to this question/prompt, but: i would ofc love to see more aya content. literally anything: more of what she’s up to when she and bayek separate after khemu’s death, what she’s doing when she’s not on-screen in origins, more hidden ones shenanigans in rome besides just the ides of march and some voiceovers/montages. show some goddamn respect to the queen, ubisoft.

Unpopular opinion

idk how popular/unpopular this is, but: beard bayek and clean-shaven bayek are equally hot. it is impossible to pick one over the other. thank god we can toggle that as we please lol

Favorite relationship

bayek and aya are THE power couple obviously, i don’t think there’s much more to say on that. their devotion to one another is sexy as hell

as for interactions with other people, i would have to say that my favorite is just bayek and kids. he is just so obviously meant to be a father: he’s a naturally protective, warm, patient (unless provoked), and fierce person. every time he gets to interact with little kids, from playing hide and seek to meeting shadya (do NOT say a WORD) and everything in between, my heart just melts.

i think both of these relationships are the purest examples of what i love most about bayek: his devotion. to loving and protecting the innocent. and to getting pegged by his hot girlboss wife.

Favorite headcanon

alsdkfjal;skdjf idk???? just like the story prompt above, i haven’t thought about this much because bayek’s story and what we know of him is already perfect as is. i would like to think that he travels to rome to visit aya though. and maybe runs into some mysterious and sexy greek jock lady along the way.

send me a character!