#immortal desmond

[teecupangel]

@thedragonqueen1998's reply to this post

That new tag actually is an idea/AU i've thought of lately. XD Where Desmond gives birth to Altaïr, Ezio and Ratonhnhaké:ton before being kidnapped. I've personally had him just suddenly become pregnant, no sex needed to lean more into the "Desmond is the Chosen One". XD Plus, we need more Dadmond tbh.

Virgin Birth.

Desmond had never even heard about it until he googled ‘Is it possible to get pregnant without having sex?’.

This is, according to Wikipedia, different from Immaculate Conception.

Desmond would like to reiterate that he was not the second coming of Virgin Mary.

… as far as he knew.

Not only that, he had been a virgin before he gave birth, having enough trust issues to fill a goddamn dam at the moment.

It wasn’t like he didn’t want to know how sex feels like.

It was more that he was still scared that his father or someone his father sent would come find him and take him away from this freedom.

He can’t go back.

He would never go back.

Especially now that he had three sons to think of.

They were born on December 21, 2005.

At least, that was what Desmond believed.

The morning of December 21, his stomach started hurting so badly he couldn’t leave his bed. The pain ebbed and flowed from paralyzing pain to almost unnoticeable, giving Desmond a chance to text that he wouldn’t make it to his shift because of ‘stomachaches’.

His boss assumed he had diarrhea and told him to stop eating weird cheap shit.

Desmond was pretty sure that wasn’t it but it wasn’t like he could go to a clinic and get this check out.

Clinics meant asking questions about who he was and his history.

Clinics left tracks that William Miles can find.

Desmond knew how the game is played.

And fuck that. Desmond wasn’t going to give up his goddamn freedom because of a stomachache.

It will come to pass.

Like every pain Desmond ever felt.

So he closed his eyes and took deep breaths. Inhaling deeply before slowly exhaling, timing his breathing to the ebb and flow of the pain.

By midday…

Desmond fell asleep.

He didn’t know if the breathing helped him fall asleep or if he had passed out from the exhaustion and pain.

When he woke up, the sun had started to set and…

The pain was gone.

His bed was a lost cause, covered in blood, but Desmond’s attention was focused on the three small forms lying on the bed between his legs.

His sons.

Three bloodied (and, Desmond was being honest, wrinkly newly born ugly) babies who were all staring at him as they make cooing sounds.

That was the day Desmond became a father.

And also the day he googled ‘Is it possible to get pregnant without having sex?’.

They were… low maintenance boys, Desmond supposed.

They only shout when they needed to get Desmond’s attention and they weren’t fussy over their drinks. They seemed a bit disgruntled every time Desmond had to change their diapers but they didn’t cry.

They rarely cry.

They only truly cry at times when they were asleep and Desmond believed that they would have nightmares during those times.

His boss was strangely alright with Desmond suddenly appearing with three babies, only looking at him with a frown as he told him that this should be his wake up call to use condoms.

Even his coworkers believed that the one day that Desmond said he was out because of ‘stomachache’ had been code for him freaking out because an ex had left him with three sons as a big fuck you or something.

The most support Desmond got from them though was letting the babies stay in the office.

He had to buy the collapsible playpen though but it was fine.

It gave him an excuse to get more shifts just to pay for his and his sons’ living expenses.

One of his coworkers asked why he didn’t just give them up for adoption. It was clear that he wasn’t ready for it.

And Desmond couldn’t explain it.

He wanted them.

They might have been a surprise but… they were his.

And…

Whenever he felt tired or felt like everything was becoming too much… just feeling them in his arms was enough.

It was enough.

.

.

Miles’ kids were strange boys.

They didn’t make any messes and they were polite… most of the time, anyway.

He knew it was bad to let Miles use his office to keep the kids. Hell, this bar was not a good place for kids and Miles should really just get a babysitter but he didn’t mind.

Miles was homeschooling them… in a way.

It wasn’t his place to give parenting advice anyway so he stayed out of whatever Miles planned for his kids. As long as they don’t hinder business, they could stay.

Altaïr was always on that second hand battered laptop that always made loud fan noises when it was turned on. They mostly kept it on because of it.

At first, he thought Altaïr was just playing in his laptop but… he was studying. Every tab he could see was either educational or… well… Wikipedia pages. Even the YouTube account Desmond shared with his sons were filled with educational videos, mostly something connected to history or engineering or technology.

Desmond liked to say that Altaïr was a genius and had been saving up to buy him a better laptop for the past year now.

Ezio, on the other hand, was more of a people’s person. He liked to talk to Desmond’s coworker before the start of their shift and he was a charming little bugger. Charming enough that many of Desmond’s coworkers started to give them food and juice boxes, saying they made too much or their parents or grandparents gave them too much food and there’s no more space in their fridge…

He was pretty sure that was Ezio’s plan from the very beginning. Build up a network of helpful adults.

Then there was Connor.

He had a different name that Desmond and his brothers use but it was hard to pronounce so he just let everyone else call him Connor.

He followed his father or one of his brothers most of the time, quiet by their side.

Observing.

He was the one who helped out the most, always following Desmond and helping him whenever they were doing their final clean up before closing for the day.

When he was with Ezio, he was always earnest with his questions, taking everything the adults tell him seriously.

When he was with Altaïr, he would lean close and read with him quietly. They would share the earbuds that they had with tape on the right wire because the casing had broken apart and watch videos quietly.

They were… nice kids.

Desmond was a good father dealt with a bad hand.

He supposed…

Buying Desmond a cheap laptop would be cheaper than raising his pay this Christmas.

Would save him more money in the long run, that’s for sure.

[quietwingsinthesky]

like is desmond/ezio incest or is it such a distant relation that it doesn't count anymore.

[s3lkie2sato]

"Spy x Family: Mission 96 " by Tatsuya Endo

[dark-elf-writes]

I love when aus zoom out rly far down the timeline and start talking about future interpretation

The combination of bizarre and unexplainable og events combined with time + scholarly curiosity makes it funny every time without fail

I can always see it happening too. People absolutely would dedicate their lives to studying niche medical drama and speculation. I would dedicate my life to studying niche medical drama and speculation

Like in the game about diving into the “truth” of history and having incredibly dedicated researchers looking into everything under the sun (ha) in the name of whatever some assassin might need there’s got to be a pull back to see just how the past effects the future.

And this effect is a pissed off British historian who will be choosing violence if he can just figure out time travel first.

[esamastation]

fanciestgeckofella: desmond transmigrates into liu qingge

(This is not that, sorry, but I do have a snippet where Desmond transmigrated into Yue Qingyuan which I don't think I ever posted, so, have that one instead.)

-

First thing to go through Desmond's mind is something along the lines of, Oh fuck, here we go again. Next is complete and absolute bafflement. Because he's pretty sure he's supposed to be dead right now.

That alone is very confusing. Then there is… this thing.

[Welcome to the world of Proud Immortal Demon Way! This System is designed to guide you as you go about your existence in this world. Operating under the guiding principle, You Can You Up, No Can No BB, this System hopes to provide you with an pleasant user experience!]

Desmond blinks at the floating screen in front of him. It… doesn't exactly look like any kind of Animus screen he's ever seen - it actually kind of looks like it's from computer from pre-2000s or something, with blocky grey boarder like something he's seen in old TV shows. No Animus programmer would be caught dead using aesthetic like that. Right?

… Well, actually. He could totally see some retro-loving techie liking it. Not Rebecca, though, she's a futurist through and through, but if she'd been into the old style Window XP or something, it probably wouldn't have taken much effort for her to install some sort of theme - aaand that's completely beside the point.

It's an Animus. He's in the Animus again… somehow. Hm.

"Um," Desmond says out loud, and clears his throat. His voice is weird, different from how it should be. Not that unusual, in the Animus, that, but it feels… more than just having an ancestor transposed over himself. Man, they must've upgraded the Animus a lot while he was, uh… "I'm… aren't I supposed to be… dead?" he asks slowly and feels a bit silly doing it, because he's clearly still around, and yet…

[You have indeed died! Your consciousness has been transferred, and your role has been bound: Yue Qingyuan, the Sect Leader of Cang Qiong Mountain Sect.]

… Okay, that's a bit different, but he can almost understand it. Consciousness transfer, role bound, that's probably new term for running around in your ancestor's skin. Yue Qingyuan, that's his ancestor this time around then. Cool. Sounds Chinese, which is interesting, Desmond didn't know they had any family there, but hey, Rebecca did say he had ridiculously low pedigree collapse, so that would mean his ancestry spread pretty far, right?

Ezio did have a Chinese student, Shao Jun, so, some pre-existing connections there. Maybe few generations down the line, they became bit closer. Rubbing a hand over his face and finding some of those familiar markers he shared with Altaïr, Ezio and Ratonhnhake:ton - full lips, aquiline nose, high cheekbones… Desmond nods to himself. Yeah, yeah, seems about right.

And yet there's still something just a bit… off.

"Okay," he says, drawing a breath. "I'm still kind of stuck up on the being dead part. Did you reboot my DNA or something? How am I here being, like, a living - or at least a thinking - person?"

The System window seems to consider this for a moment before answering.

[Your consciousness was captured from your dead body and transferred into your new role.]

Oh.

Desmond squints. "Captured how?"

[Your consciousness was captured from your dead body and transferred into your new role.]

… helpful.

So it was the Grand Temple - the Grand Temple did something? He'd been digitised like Clay and Juno, maybe? Okay, yeah, cool, that makes sense. Not sure how well he likes it yet, but hey, he's around, he's thinking, maybe sorta-kinda living and breathing - it's a step above from not… doing those things. Yeah. He can do this. "Nice. And who's Yue Qi-qin - how do you say that name, again? Who is he?"

[Yue Qingyuan is the Sect Leader of Cang Qiong Mountain Sect, also known as the Xuan Su sword.]

Desmond hums in understanding, eying the window, waiting for more. Nothing more comes, so he says slowly. "… Okay. And what am I supposed to do with him? I mean. What are we after here? Another piece of Eden, or… what?" he asks, folding his - folding Yue Qingyuan's - arms. "What is the mission status?"

[…]

That's all he gets. Literal ellipses, before the System window slowly flattens and disappear, leaving him blinking at empty air.

"… O-kay…?" Desmond mutters, making a face. "That was weird."

He'd never been left hanging in the Animus before. Not cool. The whole initialisation here process was a bit weird, really. Almost feels like they'd left him with an automated answering machine version of the Animus UI, or something. Was he even talking to an actual person there? What the heck. Why resurrect his consciousness at all, if they're not going to tell him what he's supposed to do here? Even Vidic didn't leave him completely in the dark…

Who resurrected him anyway? The Assassins or the Templars?

Uncertain, Desmond glances around for some sort of guidance or clue. The place is nice, and the graphic quality has gone through some incredible upgrades, like, damn. You'd almost mistake it for reality. But there is something seriously off about this. Not just the weird answering machine Animus, but… everything, really.

It doesn't feel like any Animus he's ever been in either. Usually when he starts out, it's as a passive viewer in his ancestor's memory - it takes a bit before he gets control and even then it's sorta not… not full control. Desmond is more used to being the passenger to his ancestor's actual driver. There's never not a moment where he doesn't feel like a second wheel on a unicycle.

Here, it's just him at the steering wheel, just him on the pedals. There's no other mind, no framework of another life - no shell of a person that once was. It's just him, in another body. Weird.

The terminology used was weird too - nothing like the lingo Rebecca or Shaun would've used. You can you up? No can no BB? What does that even mean?

Desmond rubs at his chin for a moment - baby smooth, not even a stubble - and then shrugs his shoulders and goes to get up. Might as well take a look around and try and figure out the limitations of this version of Animus. And it's not like he knew anything about Altaïr or the others either, not before getting the synchronisation up and running, so… better get started with that.

It's still a bit weird though. Usually he gets thrown into a cut scene first to get started with. Waking up in someone's - frankly rather fancy - bedroom is new. Ezio not counting.

Oh well.

-

And then he walks out under dressed and scandalises all the disciples on Qiong Ding Peak.

Alas that is as far as it got really, but the idea of Desmond as Yue Qingyuan is still weirdly dear to me.

[teecupangel]

According to the AC Revelations novel (from AC wiki):

In the center of the garden courtyard, situated in a fountain, was a statue of the First Civilization goddess Minerva

So if you wish for the Assassins to be formed by a god, Minerva/Athena is an easy answer to use (maybe she even created them as her own version of Artemis’ Hunters)

If you wish to go down the ‘minor god’ route, Erichthonius is considered to be Athena’s adopted son, connecting him to Minerva/Athena without being part of the Capitoline Triad (especially with how Athena wished to keep Erichthonius a secret).

Of course, if you want to tie this with Origins, you can just make the Brotherhood be formed by Amun/Amunet. Perhaps even talk about how their ‘founders’ liked to take human forms at times, using different names and not telling anybody else that they were there.

Perhaps the point is that the Brotherhood rarely has any demigods. They’re mainly humans given gifts of their founding gods in exchange for their loyalty to the Creed. They accept anyone in the Brotherhood, even demigods, but they’re mostly composed of humans that found or had been seeking the Brotherhood, perhaps even humans that have had ties with the Brotherhood for centuries.

And the Templar Order could be the opposite of them. An order that had been created by King Ælfred for the whole “there is only one true god” propaganda and their historical mission had been to destroy the demigods because their very existence is blasphemy to their god. The passage of time and the changing desires of the people on the top of the Order had changed this to them wishing to control the world, even if it means using the demigods and any weapons or artifacts they may come.

As for the POEs, it would be easy to just change them to be weapons left over from another war between gods, especially considering Valhalla gives us an easy excuse with the Aesir against the Jotnars (which are the Roman/Greek Gods seen in Eivor’s eyes).

You can even mesh the two ideas into one by making Desmond get isekai’ed into this world and trying to give some ‘normalcy’ to the camp and a certain incident made him realize that there is a Brotherhood in this world.

Perhaps he hears a rumor from one of the older children (“It’s pretty much just a ghost story they tell us to make us behave”) and he tries to go find the Brotherhood, only to find out that it’s not exactly the Brotherhood he knows of.

Time for the current crossover stuck in my head:

Assassin’s Creed x Percy Jackson

Because no duh. Now the question is how would this work?

Assassin at Camp: isekai Desmond

- reborn as the son of Minerva/Athena or maybe Apollo (because of the sun shit and ha ha irony that the assassin is now a healer lmao)

- becomes a new minor god that builds up his own faction of assassins to help the demigods when he realized how unfair it is for them

- an immortal that trains the demigods at camp and definitely smuggles in some of the more mortal luxuries of life because fuck you gods let the kids be kids and enjoy things

- it’s just Desmond getting wrapped up in this shit and accidentally forms a new Brotherhood with demigods because he sees them and go “is anyone gonna parent them? No? Alright, mine now” or at least trains them with Assassin skills and hang out with Chiron and Mr D, who just sees this random ass man with suspicious glowing eyes and a knife strapped to his arm go “tf?”

Gods + Assassins: gods have always existed

- Assassins are a whole faction who focus their skills on mortal threats (the PoE shit), but are willing to assist the demigods occasionally because holy shit those are actual children

(maybe the PoE are left overs of another petty war the gods had? More lore needed)

- the Assassins were formed by a minor god (sort of like Artemis and her Hunters) who passed down the Eagle Eye trait and was determined to help humanity regardless of what the other gods say, because fuck y’all and the Templars

- maybe the Templars also aren’t a fan of the gods, but got their own god complex going on and said gods didn’t care enough to stop them, so the Assassins have to clean up that mess

- what pantheon was the minor god from? Who tf knows, I don’t know enough about the origins of the Brotherhood and the gods to know how to write this shit properly, maybe an interesting point could be that this minor god has turned their back on the gods so long ago that even they forgot their own origins, that’d be cool

- I think it’s fair to say that if this did function sort of like Artemis’ hunters, then they would pledge to the creed instead to one person, but whether they would be immortal or not is up to y’all

- considering that the Assassins are pretty big on Choice (at least the fanfics I read, lmao) if they do decide to leave the brotherhood, then the others have to respect that decision, but if they break the creed then either that immortality is broken, they get let go (or are stripped of their rank Idk), or are put to the blade (last one is unlikely, unless it’s something big)

- I imagine that they can be given a second chance, but shit like that requires a really big “prove yourself” mission (cough cough Altair and Arno cough)

- omg assassins all over the world seeing this godly bullshit all the time and go “oh wtf, anyway”

Everything else is up to y’all I just think it’d be fun to see how they’d interact with the Demigods and maybe Percy and his friends, Idk

[brucewaynehater101]

Years later into the future most of the batkids are old some have families now through adoption or biological means, well almost all of the batkids are old the youngest Timothy drake-Wayne is still 17 and had to watch as his younger siblings grow older then him

Dick has Mari she’s in her early teens he also adopts Olivia Desmond who is around 10 or so

Cass and steph end up dating and steph asks for partial custody of her daughter when she is older which she gained

Jason helps take care of lain

And Damian has his army of pets

Tim ends up stuck as the person who watches kids (and Pets) which works for now but will get a little confusing when his nieces and nephews end up older then him

That's a really funny concept (especially cause it makes fun if DC for keeping Tim as 17 for so long). I also like how you made Tim forever be without his own family unit (no kids, significant other, or pets of his own).

It's also really angsty! How long will Tim be 17 for? Does he know why he's still a kid? He's also right on the brink of "adulthood," and that's gotta be really annoying for him.

Do the Bats let him drink if he wants to? Does he know when he was born (or how old he is supposed to be)? I love the hc that YJ got into some stuff they weren't supposed to, and Tim got cursed to be 17 forever (maybe the others got cursed, too).

Does staying 17 also come with an immortality deal, or is it just anti-aging?

The 17 year old forever thing can also tie into the Tim is fae AU/hc.

Tim and his perpetual 17 year old status is a fun setting to play around with (angst, crack, confusion, etc).

[jacks347]

Would the listeners survive a zombie apocalypse? (In my slightly sarcastic, completely subjective opinion)

Idk man, I'm bored and got time to kill in church so here we are

(Tagging this is going to be a nightmare-)

(Edit from the future: It was. It really was.)

Redacted:

For sake of my sanity this isn't all the listeners, just the ones I'm still actively keeping up with (I'll get to the others...eventually)

Angel - Solid maybe. Out of all the unempowereds, definitely has one of the highest chances. But it would take an extreme streak of luck.

Babe - No...I'm sorry but no. Would be like one of those extras that you see eaten in the first minute of a horror movie.

Sweetheart - Probably. Can a zombie detect someone invisible? Sweetheart is smart enough to survive, they'll be fine.

Darlin - Yes if they have Sam to hold them back from sacrificing themself for the "greater good". No if they're left completely to their own devices.

Lovely - Depends on the version. Pre Adam, no. Pre Inversion, maybe? Post Inversion, definitely. Hard to die to a zombie apocalypse when you're a) already dead and b) literally immortal.

Treasure - Okay, I know Treasure is the newest addition to the roster and we haven't had a lot of time to see their personality develop but as of now? Yeah...no.

Freelancer - They'll do it on -3 hours of sleep simply out of spite. Freelancer has been through enough, they're just tired. They'd survive but begrudgingly.

Honey - Honey would survive out of spite and spite alone. Would definitely have that baseball bat from The Walking Dead.

GBA:

Guardian - ...you're kidding, right?

Darling - Yeah...no. Soft bby would never.

Faithful - Possibly? That stubborn attitude and medical abilities would help but has absolutely no combat training so ehhhhh, it depends.

Paradise - If she can break a pirate crew out of space Fort Knox and wrangle Yargwynn, a zombie apocalypse is pocket change. Paradise would own an apocalypse.

Partner - I swear I'll stop bullying the new additions. Once they're worth not bullying. The man made the zombie apocalypse, I guess we're gonna find out if he survives won't we? I'm not hopeful though.

Escaped:

Asset - No one in ATW even knows how to do basic math, the only way any of them survive is through sheer force of which they might actually be successful. So maybe.

Raven - Yes but she would have a mental breakdown about it so she would not be the same on the other side.

Slash - ...seriously?

Guest - Hm, a trained vampire slayer in a zombie apocalypse, I wonder what would happen! Obviously she'd be fine.

Intern - Entirely dependent on who they're trying to keep alive. If it's just them, probably. If it's them and the rest of their merry band of misfits, no.

Future Wife - You're funny. RIP my girl, no one will know her husband broke the fuckin timeline for some pancakes.

Agent Schäfer - Once the shock and panic wore off, yeah she'd be fine. Hope she doesn't get eaten during that freeze.

("Where's Lass?" When Desmond returns for more than five minutes, come talk to me about listening to Blue Infinity)

Nomad:

Pack Mom - Definitely. We already know she's a deadly shot and wasn't afraid to shoot a living person, a dead one would be fine. She will be perfectly fine.

Lass - Yes. Not with as much overwhelming power as Pack Mom but she'd get through it. I mean...she has formal sword training, I think she'd do okay.

Little One - Probably not. Out of the original Frosthaven romances, they are the least likely to survive. They'd put up a good fight though.

Lamb - Yes and no. Physically, she'd be just fine. Mentally, I don't know if she could do it. Slipping back into that killer mindset might just drag her under.

Chester's mate - Probably not. Out of all the new Frosthaven romances, they're the most average. They'd try though.

Harlow's roommate - No. I love them but no. Not our slightly stupid boat captain.

Caltraxus' TA - Yes and they'd hate it every step of the way. Would survive completely hungover if that was an option.

The Doctor - Probably? If not by her own merit then definitely through someone else cause everyone needs a doctor in the apocalypse.

Beau's mate - Yes. Literally fought a bear once. She will be just fine.

(The lack of fandom names for Nomad's listeners saddens me greatly. And also makes my work so much harder)

This was so dumb but I had fun so :P

[annoyingann]

DA FINAL POST

Today, while I have some time, I want to show you the latest information post of references

MORE TEXT!

We have 4 characters

CALEB! demon of alcohol and drunkenness (Opiven'/Опивень)

Of course, he doesn't loom in front of other characters all the time, but he lives his dirty life. In the past, he was also a man, but a very shameless one (much more cruel than Izm, although it's hard to call him a cutie either). He robbed, drank, even killed (guess who :D), but still he himself was not immortal. After his death, for his passion for alcohol and idle behavior, he was turned into a drunken demon, aka a drunkard. Shaggy, hairy, with a pig's snout, the demon incites peaceful people to drunkenness, and then quietly leads them to dangerous places.

"kicked the drunk"

GRIMSHAW! The priest

Continuing with the secondary characters, I definitely want to mention Grimshaw. Unfortunately, very little is known about him in the canon, so in the AU he also remains a mysterious person.

Oops! Looks like we have another ghost child :P (or maybe an demon.. hard to say, he didn't say it himself)

I admit, I'm afraid to even write headcanons about the interaction of Eid and Grimshaw, I'm poorly versed in their canon (⁠ ⁠ꈨຶ⁠ ⁠˙̫̮⁠ ⁠ꈨຶ⁠ ⁠)

ISLA! The Shaman

Isla, like all the other canonical secondary characters, practically does not appear in the main plot, BUT she exists and even does her own thing.

She is a wandering shaman, as some believe. No one knows where she is from, no one knows her purpose, but she has amazing knowledge of the medicine of that time. "As soon as she sees, she will immediately determine his illness" - as they say about her. She does not speak to people, only with gestures or short phrases in her native language, which no one knows..

There is a rumor that she can see the spirits of the dead, and her native language is a way to talk to them.

DESMOND! The innkeeper

There is little to say about his story. He was and remains a fan of hallucinogenic mushrooms. The only thing that distinguishes him from the canonical BP Desmond is the length of his hair and a pub instead of a club. Yes, he owns a pub. Yes, he tries to brew beer himself ("beer" in the broad sense of drinking: kvass, home-brew, etc.)

He also picks mushrooms in the forest himself + has connections with witches and sorcerers. In fact, the earnings from the pub go to stoned tinctures. It is difficult to say much about this character.. It can only be added that it was in Desmond's pub that the fatal skirmish with Caleb took place for Izm. In general, it can be emphasized that Caleb was a regular visitor to this establishment.

[teecupangel]

Oh oh oh oh catboy nonny here! My brain just came up with something.

This is much closer to an actual ship cat than Edward’s tried in some asks in the past! What would Ade think of this?!

(For those wondering about this, a running joke here in my tumblr is that, no matter what creature or animal Desmond gets transformed into, Edward would always pick him up and tell the crew that he’s the shipcat, mostly because Desmond glowed gold and Edward needed an excuse to keep him close and to fuck with his crew)

Edward Kenway was a lot of things.

He was as honorable as he was dirty, as merciful as he was cruel…

As smart as he was insane.

“That is a person.” Adéwalé stressed as Edward continued to smile, both hands on the shoulders of the young man slightly in front of him, a little to his right so he wouldn’t be blocked from Adéwalé’s judgmental stare.

Edward simply continued to smile as he said, “He’s both!”

Adéwalé rubbed his face. Pirates were as strange as they come, there was no other way to describe it.

But this…

“Look.”

“Meooowww!” The young man kicked his feet when Edward tugged the cat ears. The meow seemed more surprised than hurt and he stopped making up a fuss afterwards, letting Edward tug the cat ears.

They twitched and flicked against his hands when Edward let go with a huge grin on his face, “They don’t come off.”

Adéwalé stared.

That was not the problem…

“He can be part of the crew.” Adéwalé tried to compromise, “He looks healthy and, even if all he can say is…”

Adéwalé didn’t really want to say it.

“Meow.”

Thankfully, it seemed that the cat man could sense his hesitation.

“Yes, that.” Adéwalé nodded at him before turning his attention back to Edward, “It’s apparent that he can understand us. He’ll make a good shipmate.”

And none of this derogatory catship nonsense.

“If Desmond is okay with that…” Edward shrugged before turning to look at…

Desmond?

Was that the cat man’s name?

“Kenway!”

The crew stepped to the side immediately, making way for the terror of the sea, Blackbeard, to walk towards them without any problem.

Behind him was the supposed son of the late William Kidd, James Kidd.

“We heard you found an interesting shipcat!” Blackbeard said loudly and all eyes were on him immediately.

But Adéwalé focused on the young man behind him.

James Kidd’s eyes were wide and he looked frozen.

He was staring at the cat man.

No.

He was staring at the collar.

The one with the small bell and a stylized inverted v made of silver that decorated it.

[dharmastation]

heres my lost sequel pitch,

Aaron, Ji-yeon are summoned or taken to the island by Hurley Ben and Walt. They are joined by the other children with connections to the island. Charlie Hume, Clementine, David Shephard (because he didn’t just come from nowhere, Kate was pregnant when she left the island) They help solve some mysteries of the island, gaps in knowledge not passed down from Jacob. More Ancient Egyptian lore, I also propose some Romans. There are still at least 2 unnamed Dharma stations, and the arrow could still be expanded on. It ends with Hurley and Ben retiring, Walt taking over, And it eventually passing to Aaron. The child born on the island. Walt is the main character and Micheal is properly redeemed.

The antagonist is of course, the ever votile Island. and a Billionaire who wants to exploit the island so they can be a trillionaire and they don’t care who they have to do to achieve that.

Other notes:

Smaller tighter cast. 15-20 episodes. For continuity, they should film in hawaii.

Actors from the original show are not required to come back, the exception is Jorge, and Emerson. Walt could be recast, but It would be lovely to see Malcolm David Kelly back in the role and fully explore Walt. But it gives the option for dead characters to come back as ghosts. I actually think not seeing Kate, Claire and Sawyer could keep their stories complete and safe. They could be mentioned off screen

Desmond goes go home back to Penny, hopefully the island is done with him, but the island isnt done with Charlie Hume. As the grandson of Charles Widmore he really is a legacy islander. Charlie and Aaron would clash over the leadership of the island.

Zack and Emma from the tail section finally get to go home to their mom. This has nothing to do with the story, but Cindy the flight attendant needs to reveal that at least.

They finally tell us who was shooting at the time traveling Losties on the Outrigger.

Bring some of the writers from Westworld over

Lean a bit more into the weird

Richard and Miles live together in a mansion off island. They can rest.

Kate and Sawyer have a weird relationship where they are together but not, because the other will never replace the ones they lost, but there is still love, and companionship.

Kate and Claire raised Aaron together, he calls them his moms. Maybe they get married.

Ji-Yeon gets closure about her parents, I think growing up she would have been very sheltered from the idea of the island. Give her the arch that Charlotte deserved.

New characters! Flawed Characters!

Vincent is immortal because Hugo made it so.

Thanks for reading, ttyl, I accept critiques and additions. tmtmtmtm abc pay me

[quietwingsinthesky]

the apartmentverse urge to make the assassins weird immortals due to interacting with the apple who all survive to the modern day and have to Deal with mundane things like public transport…

[hashtagdrivebywrites]

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✨Hashtag's Fic Masterlist✨

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I'm into a lot of stuff so this blog/page/black hole will be a mixed bag of fandoms

[Updated October 10, 2024] - Fic links below:

Published, In Progress:

Imprint (DPxDC) (Baby G.K. Danny, Halfa Dad Jason, Fright Franklin Pickle Girl Knight, oddball co-parents, attempted qpr relationship) 10/10: Chapter 13 done - trying to finish out the arc so I can MAYBE get this thing back on a bi-weekly schedule again 😭

Meandros (AC: 3 x AC: Odyssey) (Time travel/Reincarnation, Kid Desmond, OC's, Deimos!Kassandra, dumb mercenaries with a big bro/dad complex, Desmond "I'm Done" Miles) 10/10: Chapter 13 done - trying to finish out the arc and picking at the sequel drafts

Published, Complete:

As Long as Stars are Above You (TMNT (mostly Bayverse and Next Mutation)) (Family Fluff, Surprise Baby Acquisition, Good Big Bros, Momma April) 15 Chapters; 39k words; Sequel in progress

Our Mother Breathed Fire (GOT) (Dragon POV, kind of a character study? I don't know) 1 Shot; 2k words

Your Blood That I Bleed (AC 1, 2 & 3) (Family of Choice, Immortality, Cat Dad Desmond, Assassin Dads) 10 Chapters; 74k Words

"In The Drawer" - On Hiatus until I can give it the attention it needs:

A Place For Us (Batman (mostly Arkham Knight)) (Families of Choice, Kids, Adoption, Bat Fam coming back together) 4/12: My first fic on Ao3 and it's been set aside for a complete overhaul because there's no structure/direction and there's a lot of issues with how I was writing/presenting the characters.

Unpublished, In Progress:

And Longer Still If I Can - sequel to As Long As Stars Are Above You (TMNT) (Family and Found Family, Kid Fic, Adventure Fic, Larval Form Mutanimals) 10/10: On pause!

Red Devil Rowdy (title may change; DPxDCxSDxSPN) (Paranormal Mystery/Detective Fic, Family Reveal, Identity Reveal) 10/10: 4/5 Chapters done - working on that fifth then will be ready to post

And Still You Stand, Sturdy and Smelling of Smoke (DC x Spider-man) (Peter Parker Fist Fights the League, Catatonic Jason, Hyper Independent Tim) 10/10: On pause!

Illing and Able! (title may change; DSxTMNT) (Time Travel, Older Turtles (21), Mom Friend April, Gratuitous Use of "Bro", "Dude" and "Yo") 10/10: First arc finished! Will be published in the same update w/ Imprint 13 and Meandros 13!

Holy War is On The Phone (DPxMHA/BNHA) (Ghost Prince Danny, Undercover Investigation, Fake Family, Pissed Off Danny) 10/10: On pause!

Redline (DCxMHA/BNHA) (Robin!Jason, Jason has the Metagene, Accidental Dimension Travel, Pro-Heroes/Older Class 1-A) 10/10: Finishing the first arc!

(Recently fallen head over heels into a Star Wars hyperfixation, which has naturally spawned a bunch of WIP's of its own, so expect some content soon (EDIT: there's three independent SW wips and three crossovers with other fandoms in progress - will list them soon on the WIP list (10/10)))

[dark-elf-writes]

Him writing medical journals so hopefully his knowledge won’t immediately die out as soon as he does

Him making little dedications in his medical journals to some of the women he half remembered being the ones to discover this stuff just to have their work attributed to various men much much later on

Little girls with passions for science reading about the one behind some of the biggest early medical discoveries and finding their names in the dedications and feeling like the writers words were meant for them without knowing why

Desmond doesn’t remember a lot actually when it comes to school.

Not that he went to anything approaching school in the normal sense of the word but what education he had he doesn’t really remember.

That being said The Farm made sure they knew a lot about medicine. He thought it was just hippie no aged stuff since none of them actually… went.. to a doctor that wasn’t also on The Farm but damn is he glad for everything they taught him now.

(It wasn’t until he left the farm that he looked deeper into the who behind all the things he had been taught. Not until a day spend sheltering from the rain in a public library with a little girl patiently explaining female doctors and scientists who never got recognition for their work and how even if one person knew it meant that those women wouldn’t be forgotten. He left that town the next day, all but sure he could feel eyes on him. He never forgot that little girl.)

And really he’s already fucked up the timeline so much by simply existing in the past so what’s the harm in making sure people don’t die as often from the cold or infections or literally everything else that can and will kill you when you don’t think germs exist?

He passes what he can on by word of mouth and when that doesn’t spread far enough he starts to write.

Each book holding a dedication. A name that will never be forgotten even if history itself is rewritten. A thank you and request that they take his information and run with it so much farther. A promise that they will forever be immortalized in these books passed down for centuries.

[yobotica]

Ooh, I HAVE to ask about the Ghost sequel! 👀👀

And/or the historian Shaun cook Desmond youtube thing xD

I had a feeling the Ghost sequel would be the one to pique your interest! :3c I'm happy to talk about both!

Unfortunately, full disclosure, neither have actual writing for such rather than notes and vibes so far, so I can't provide snippets. :sadcowboy: Long answer is long so it's all below the cut:

Ghost sequel I had so many things I wanted to explore and felt weren't finished yet. For one, I still want Desmond and Shaun to get together and explore the relationship they could have. I definitely want to see what Desmond can do with his new skills - in this digital age, that kind of access would be a huge advantage to the Assassins, and if he gets back on the Templars' radar, make him a huge target.

There's also the Juno angle. She may be gone (Or is she? 👀 (she is)) but there is still her cult and the Sages and there could be interesting things to do there since they are a not-insignificant piece on the board in the invisible struggle between the Assassins and the Templars and their fight for control over the Isu artifacts (and the world).

I also wanted to just explore Desmond's experience more. He's in a new body, one which no longer bears the scars telling the story of his life. He's got a new determination on what it means to be both himself and an Assassin, and how that defines his relationships with his friends and family. A renewed appreciation of his senses, maybe mourning the fact that he'll never find out if he was functionally immortal in his data form.

Ghost was written during a time when I had a daily commute and often while doing daily sprints, so progress was pretty steady. I did feel I had more to write, but I'd worked on it for almost a year pretty steadily in 2017, less steadily in 2018 and 2019 before I finally reached a point where even if I didn't feel I was completely done with it, perhaps, I needed to work on other projects and felt I'd reached a conclusion that I was pretty satisfied with.

But I never truly got started on the sequel yet - I still want to, but my job and life circumstances have changed, and my creative energy hasn't been there to put towards a big project like that, one that's really special to me; I want it to be right, I want it to be my best, you know? It's still a concept that's tumbling around in my brain and something I don't consider abandoned because I do have scenes that I visualize often!

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As for the shared youtube channel, it's an idea I adore, one that I think would be so, so easy to write… but would be exhausting for me to research! ^.^;

The youtube channel "Tasting Hisotry with Max Miller" directly inspired this, because it's a neat channel showing off historical recipes, talking about them in their context, often with some funny jokes, then makes those recipes.

And Shaun's a historian, which slots in well enough, so the idea is they were friends, Desmond's probably a chef or culinary student, and it starts off because Shaun pines over a dish he'd read about while researching, Desmond decides to try to recreate it, friends get involved because it sounds fun, and eventually the two start a youtube channel about it. Or one of them had an existing channel and it starts with a 'guest appearance' by the other for the segment and that, of course, turns out to be the most popular video so far by a LOT.

It's gonna be full of pining, fond glances, funny banter, and of course, youtube comment debates. I hadn't decided who is editing the videos - if it's Shaun who's convinced that the glances and smiles Desmond sends his way while prepping in the background are just normal friend expressions :tm: or if it's Desmond who's editing and keeps those shots in because maybe Shaun will see them and ask. Or maybe he keeps them because Shaun's never asked. Maybe Rebecca is their editor and she leaves them in, along with Shaun's frequent compliments to Desmond's food (and hands) in hopes that these boneheads will talk.

I can see it so clearly even now, but the hold up is that I can't write this without doing research into dishes and stuff and I just do not have the energy for that now - haven't since I had the idea, at least. But it's an idea I'd love to finally get written down one day!

[ivebeendressingforrevenge]

I've been studying Claire's character for a fanfic I'm writing, and I want to talk about Desmond's prophecies. Obviously he kept seeing Charlie die, but most of the situations would have also caused Claire's death. The lightning would have struck her too, she would've drowned when Charlie drowned, and she was involved in the bird snatching. The only conclusion I can come to as to why Desmond doesn't see her die is that she manages to survive all these things. So, my question is: Is Claire immortal to some extent? I mean, she survives being blown up in season 4 and a bunch of other shit.