#henry and desmond just being best buds

[teecupangel]

Yeeesss. Give me the Frye angst!

Also, let's include how both Evie and Jacob instinctively compete for Desmond’s attention (especially after they realized that he has both their names) and how Desmond’s actions painted him as a more experienced Assassin than either of them (and they are a few years younger than Desmond) so there are hints of them crushing on their senior.

Then add their unresolved issues with their father to the mix and their desire for Desmond’s attention, the attention of an obvious Master Assassin who has a lot to teach them, becomes much more complicated.

Evie has the habit of trying to push Desmond into the box titled ‘how a Master Assassin should act’ and Desmond does act like one, sometimes, when the situation calls for it. She’s frustrated when he returns to being a very chill dude and thinks Jacob is a bad influence, not realizing she’s trying to get him to act more like their father.

Jacob likes to poke him. Gets him to join him in Rook matters, pushes him whenever Desmond tries to warn him about how he’s operating the Rooks too loosely and how they still do shady businesses. Jacob thinks Evie’s pestering will make Desmond boring, not realizing that he’s trying to keep Desmond from acting like their uptight father.

And Desmond doesn’t appreciate it since he has daddy issues of his own, thanks. More than one if he was to count the daddy issues of his Bleeds (thanks, Haytham and Al Mualim) and, really, he lived in a world without soulmates so he doesn’t truly understand all the hubbub around it. He never felt the longing and the nightly wishes people in this world go through, wishing they would meet their soulmate tomorrow or next year. Wishing for a soulmate that would accept them for who they truly are. A soulmate who would stay by their side and share everything, the happiness and the pain.

Desmond doesn’t understand any of that.

Because he does accept the twins for who they are.

The twins are the ones trying to be someone they’re not.

Submision by @saberamane

Something strange popped into my head while I’m at work. Desmond touches the eye, dies etc. Wakes up in Syndicate timeliness, but it’s not a case of he went back in time. It’s more of he went back in time on an adjacent timeline, and this timeline has soulmates.

Soulmates are known by a name on your body, and you know you found the correct person when you make direct skin contact. Desmond learns this because people kept side eyeing him, or more directly, the man’s name on his wrist. 

Jacob Frye.

Of course, given the time, there’s period typical homophobia, so Desmond hides the name on his wrist as he researches what it means. Then he finds ‘Evie Frye’ somewhere else on his body.

His first thought is that he got matched with a married couple, and then he learns of the ‘Frye Twins’, Assassin’s in London, and he’s kinda weirded out. How do siblings share a soulmate?

So he concludes he is absolutely not getting mixed up with the Assassin’s and therefore his ‘soulmates’, he doesn’t want to deal with that awkwardness.

Of course, fate doesn’t let Desmond get his way.

I’d feel after the storyline Evie would still choose to go to India with Greenie, because she still has genuine feelings for him, and Desmond would stay with Jacob.

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Addition from teecup:

If you’d like, this could be a case of “Everyone has two names on their body. One for their romantic soulmate. The other is for their platonic soulmate. It is up to us to find out which name is which.”

Even if Desmond hears about that, he’ll still be wondering which is which but most people assume that the name ‘Evie Frye’ is meant to be his romantic soulmate while ‘Jacob Frye’ is probably a brother or cousin who this Evie and is meant to be his platonic soulmate.

Also, perhaps Evie has two names as well but she refuses to show either name. Neither of them is Henry Green but she still fell in love with him and decided to be with him even if their names do not match.

Then Henry reminded her that his real name is Jayadeep Mir and Evie realized that he was truly her soulmate.

Jacob is in a much more complicated spot. The names he got? Desmond Miles and Maxwell Roth. And, at some point, Jacob assumed Desmond is his platonic soulmate so when the whole Maxwell Roth thing happened…

Weeeelllllll…

Jacob’s soulmate business is just one big problematic mess, that’s for damn sure.

To add more ambiguity to the situation, we can make Desmond actually attracted to both Fryes and add in hints of Evie and Desmond having feelings for one another. With enough hints, we’ll have everyone wondering who is supposed to be the platonic soulmate and who is truly the romantic soulmate.

Mwuhahahaha.