#it's just drawing stuff for fun! and cultural self-indulgence bc we're asian! that's all!

[miralyk]

tldr for now (i'm currently too busy to draw "au explanation" art but i do want to get to that when i can!):

"ghosts in the machine" isn't really an au, they’re just goofy doodles me (viet kieu) or my friend (mainlander chinese) drew for each other of us being "haunted" by whoever's our blorbos or ""art muses"",, moreso inside joke doodles of ours we're sharing with people online, basically (i only made up the au title and tag bc people asked about these doodles more, thus it happened for organization,, but moreso bc i don’t want to be annoying and want to give people the ability to blacklist this LMAO)

sometimes we draw blorbos as supernatural angels/demons/monsters/etc! it's not really for a lore reason, since again, these aren't really "au" drawings,, it's just bc we joke that they're haunting us like hungry ghosts or clingy ancestral spirits and want to have fun drawing them in different ways.

desmond and alex are drawn a shoulder angel/devil for me bc my friend and i have joked about "guardian angel protection"-like stuff that happened to me recently like surviving a car crash unharmed, they're just the two blorbos most associated w me and the associations just felt like they fit

in lieu of the previous bullet point, the assassin brotherhood are sometimes drawn as ghosts, specifically as desmond's ancestral spirits (think like disney's adaptation of mulan); the joke is they're still acting like desperate hungry ghosts begging me to worship/venerate them like drawing fanart of them 😭

i have considered drawing the ""ancestral spirits/hungry ghosts"" assassins to have more unique mythical forms like drawing altair/ezio/connor/edward like the vietnamese four holy beasts though! again, it's not really for a "lore reason" but just rule of cool and having fun, being self-indulgent drawing asian cultural stuff, etc

all of this at the end of the day is stuff that originated from two asian artists talking and joking about our days sometimes including asian superstition, something that's just a part of our lives,, hope all this makes sense LMAO