#meanwhile. ezio & lucy: this five hundred year old dead italian will not stop trying to cheer her up despite not understanding entirely

[quietwingsinthesky]

oh right anyway lucy & altaïr interactions in my mind always forever. altaïr who saw the worst and best of the brotherhood, who was taken advantage of, humiliated, betrayed, and then still became mentor. lucy who was fed directly into the templars’ hands and broke under that pressure and couldn’t escape it until vidic let her loose on a leash with desmond. thinks forever about desmond bleeding altaïr and this ghost being the only person lucy can talk to, because he can’t do anything to betray her to the current brotherhood, because he’ll listen to her. the quiet, stilted sharing of monstrous things done nine hundred years ago and yesterday… the more lucy tells him about vidic, the more he sounds like al mualim. the more altaïr shares of his earlier training under al mualim, the more lucy realizes the tactics were all the same to get altaïr, to get her, isolated and loyal.