#nate;op

[rawrlight]

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[rickybaby]

There is something that’s not adding up here for me. Daniel has the chassis change in China and gets rear-ended by Stroll when points looked like a possibility. He puts in the performance that he does in Miami for the sprint and admittedly has a bad qualifying, even though it can be argued it’s because of the faulty set of tyres. He makes it to Q3 in Imola but misses out on point because of strategy and admittedly he has a bad performance in Monaco. But then he rallies and has the commendable performance in Canada and RB brings the shit car in Spain but he still out drives it and puts in the work to help them decipher the mess of upgrades they brought and he gets a 3-race ultimatum in Austria?? When a lot of the misfortune he faced has been due to factors outside of his control?? Why was he the only one facing the pressure? And if the ultimatum is true, it makes the strategy blunder this past weekend even more infuriating… and concerning the line about senior figures being worried about Daniel possibly not having the same edge in performance as in 2014-2018, did he show he could do it in 2020? And has he had the machinery since then to show what he could do?? No, but he still outqualified Perez driving the most successful F1 car in his scrappy Alpha Tauri didn’t he?? DIDNT HE??

[teecupangel]

*gets through the fireplace* Bonjour! Desmond in the Uncharted games! Because I find it funny if he would meet Nathan, thanks to them having the same VA. Adios! *uses the smoke bomb and runs*

So, for this one, we’re going for the Uncharted series is part of the AC series because plot bunny just hit me right at the face.

And yes.

Nathan Drake is absolutely a descendant of the Auditore-Kenway line. (Spoilers to the Uncharted series), it’s heavily implied Nate isn’t really related to Francis Drake and we’ll make use of that setup.

The church Nate grew up in was actually a front of the Brotherhood. His family doesn’t have ties with the Brotherhood, not really, but Sam did learn of the Brotherhood during his stay in the orphanage and is recruited.

Now, Sam isn’t exactly loyal to the Creed. More often than not, he was more in it to get the skills necessary to survive. He kept it a secret from Nate though because he didn’t want him dealing with anything related to the Templars and the Assassins. To keep Nate away from the Templars and the Assassins, Sam tells Nate that they’re last name is Drake.

Samuel Morgan was an Assassin.

Sam Drake was Nathan Drake’s older brother.

So things happened…

Nate meets Sully while Sam was in prison (an undercover mission for the Brotherhood).

Later on, Nate joins Sam in adventuring but Sam keeps any thing connected to the Assassins and the Brotherhood away from Nate.

Sam is an Assassin who is only known by very few other Assassins but Nate has some inkling that something fishy was going on, he just wasn’t sure what it was.

There were specific artifacts that Sam wanted and was okay parting with more lucrative stuff just to get it.

But then…

They teamed up with Rafe…

Sam supposedly died…

Even in the eyes of the Brotherhood.

And that is how Samuel Morgan died and Sam Drake survived the Great Purge that would happen two years from his apparent death.

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So we have different points in Uncharted that we can catapult Desmond to.

2008 – A 21 year old Desmond is employed by Elena Fisher as her cameraman as they join Nathan Drake in finding Francis Drake’s coffin. This ends with them being part of the whole quest for El Dorado (the corpse of which is an Isu that contracted some kind of deadly virus that is severely dangerous to humans but Desmond and Nate have immunity due to their Isu genes). In this one, Nate actually acts more like an older big brother to Desmond and Elena joked about how they sound a lot alike.

2010 – A 23 year old Desmond gets roped into Chloe and Harry’s plan with Nate because he’s been fired from Bad Weather due to an altercation and has been sidelining as a thief using the training he received from the Farm. He also may or may not have had a fling with Harry Flynn (according to Chloe) and Nate is absolutely questioning Desmond’s taste.

2012 – Desmond escaped Abstergo before the Assassins got him and he is absolutely suffering from Altaïr’s Bleeding Effect. It’s by chance that he is in Yemen at the same time Nate and Sully are there to meet up with Elena. Maybe you can even add in that Desmond used to be Elena’s cameraman for a bit. Anyway, he joins the group because he feels like he knows the Atlantis of Sands that they are looking for. To be more exact… his Bleed of Altaïr knows of it.

2015 – Desmond survived the Solar Flare and has been working for the Brotherhood. He’s tasked with looking into a man named Sam Drake because he sounded a lot like the late Samuel Morgan and they needed to check if he is (1) alive and (2) faked his own death because he was a Templar mole like Daniel Cross. He gets roped into the search of Avery’s treasure and ends up Bleeding as Edward more than once because Edward knows a bit about this supposed treasure.

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And, just to be clear, Nate does not have the exact same ancestors as Desmond. He’s Haytham Kenway’s descendant from a fling he had in England so they have the same ancestors from the Auditore-Kenway line until Haytham Kenway.

[vole-mon-amour]

they don't know that Nathan left her for his own brother.

"i left my life for you!"

in fact, at the end you can see that Sam is Nathan's treasure, the rest just doesn't matter to him anymore.

[cobalt-carer-rps]

Iris couldn’t help but smile when Nate did. He always gave her the most reassuring feeling of safety, like no matter what happened, they would be okay. She would be okay. Iris kissed his cheek gently as he lowered his head, smiling as she started to look around the room. “Hmmm, maybe the staircase first. I feel like it will take longer.” She offered, moving to start looking through some of the bins of decorations.

Nate couldn’t help but smile fondly as Iris kissed him gently on the forehead. “That’s a great idea!” He said warmly “I think I have a box of garland and lights somewhere we can wrap around the bannister.” He said looking through boxes. “Ah here it is!” He said excitedly picking up one of the boxes and beginning to carry it towards the staircase. As he was carrying it the top came off the bin and it fell to the ground with a crash. “Oops, careful.” Nate offered with a sheepish chuckle.

Iris couldn’t help but smile when Nate did. He always gave her the most reassuring feeling of safety, like no matter what happened, they would be okay. She would be okay. Iris kissed his cheek gently as he lowered his head, smiling as she started to look around the room. “Hmmm, maybe the staircase first. I feel like it will take longer.” She offered, moving to start looking through some of the bins of decorations.

Nate couldn’t help but smile fondly as Iris kissed him gently on the forehead. “That’s a great idea!” He said warmly “I think I have a box of garland and lights somewhere we can wrap around the bannister.” He said looking through boxes. “Ah here it is!” He said excitedly picking up one of the boxes and beginning to carry it towards the staircase. As he was carrying it the top came off the bin and it fell to the ground with a crash. “Oops, careful.” Nate offered with a sheepish chuckle.

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[wolves-in-the-world]

tags on krakenartificer's post about a leverage au where nate enters the priesthood but ends up running cons for people who come to him for help anyway:

#now i need a crossover episode of catholic priest nate who's still running leverage style shenanigans #with father brown [via @trivalentlinks]

thank you for making me stare at the wall in fascination and horror about this crossover

they'd be occasional allies occasional confidantes they'd go behind each other's backs once or twice and only kinda regret it. This nate hasn't gone through the same loss as in canon, but that wouldn't make him a whole lot softer, so he'd be fundamentally irritated with father brown - his tested and unshakeable belief and his optimism about the human condition - and father brown would be generally concerned about everyone on nate's end, and nate not the least of it. They'd play chess together and be fairly well-matched. They'd visit each other's confessionals to check in.

we'd get some interesting acknowledgement of father brown's "I'm nice and simple and harmless" grift (which I could also call power negativity) which is only kind of a grift because he really is that nice and harmless beneath, except that he uses it to get information from people.

flambeau would be utterly thrilled and (playfully?) insulted not to be father brown's only criminal associate.

the leverage crew would be correctly suspicious of flambeau, I think, but sophie would greet him by name - possibly with a kiss to the cheek, possibly eyeing him like he's a viper in their midst - and reference some very improbable occasion when they were after the same prize. He mentions she was using a different name then; he doesn't say what it was. Bonus points if he also had his eye on the dagger in the Rashomon Job but had the flu / was unexpectedly in prison / had to attend a grandmother's funeral at the time.

I have this certainty in my mind that the leverage crew would be largely dismissive of sid's abilities and he'd kind of snort and roll his eyes about it - he's at worst a common criminal and very lower class, so he's used to being understimated - and surprise them with his connections or lock-picking or holding his own in a brawl or fixing an elderly car in the quickest dirtiest way imaginable. (Parker would decide she likes him then; the others would be reassured after seeing how gentle he is when talking with her.) He'd also nope out of leverage's business at a sensible time, because father brown's rubbed off on him and he doesn't actually want that kind of danger - unless the con's personal.

(I'm not sure whether to set this in leverage time or drag it back to father brown's 1950s so I'm settling for mashing the two together and pretending it's not an issue. See also: geography.)

… father brown would have I think one harrowing conversation with eliot where they mention their time in the military, the marks that killing people and losing people leaves on a person - father brown already does this in canon, tells someone it's unfair that they're mired in trauma and alcoholism when he found his faith through trauma instead, it floored me - and after brushing on repentance and god here, he wouldn't bring it up with eliot again. (I think father brown varies on this in canon, frankly, but he often respects that kind of boundary, and I think he'd recognise a wound so sore it should be left to heal however it can.)

(yes I'm playing with fictional priests like barbie dolls but no I'm not comfortable with the conversion aspects, so apologies and bear with me while I skate on past that.)

(he'd describe eliot as a good person, once, or as someone working very hard at it. Eliot would be on edge about that for the entire con, finding a little too much uneasy satisfaction in getting to knock people out and play the bad guy - play at the simpler stuff he used to do. Sophie might catch father brown for a word about it; father brown wouldn't be that clumsy again.)

I think father brown and nate would both talk bunty out of getting involved in a joint kembleford-leverage operation except in the most innocent way possible. The problem is she actually would make a good getaway driver, and she's thrilled with the idea, but she's already had some run-ins with the press and the law and can't risk another; luckily she's better used as a distraction elsewhere.

and I'm sorry to do this, but I think lady felicia's husband would be a mark or potential mark at one point. It would be fraught.

(the main reason I haven't recommended father brown's heist episode (s7e10), aside from not having a background on the politics in it, is that it shows lady felicia as a victim and pulls the heist on her behalf. The show largely convinced me to ignore the messy reality of her and her husband's inherited wealth, but that episode made me kinda uncomfortable - which is a shame, because seeing these characters pull a heist was fucking great.)

mrs mccarthy would be used against her will or knowledge as a distraction while someone's pockets are picked. She isn't told until afterwards, and then only half by accident. She is, of course, horrified. Father brown was absolutely the one to suggest it in planning, but flambeau slips in mid-apology to smoothly take the blame.

I could in fact go on and this is in fact a problem.

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editing to continue:

I'm actually thinking that father brown might approach eliot from an ex-military angle and not a Religious Authority angle at all - eliot was raised protestant, after all, and it's an entirely different vibe. And I have to think eliot's guarded around father brown for the very fact that he's a priest and seems to mean it in a way that nate, I feel, wouldn't. So they may avoid the topic entirely, or as close to it as they can when brushing on, well, eliot's entire moral injury situation. Which is good news for me.

bunty would admire parker for being different and capable and getting up to exciting things, though would probably fail at any attempts at friendship until she thinks to ask what parker likes doing and ends up learning to pick pockets that evening. The second those two are around buildings tall enough to rappel down she's in danger. (The second parker can slip away at night she's giving the church a go; father brown gives her a look the night before and quietly warns her about the dodgy roof.)

mrs mccarthy decides fairly quickly that hardison is a very nice young man (his nana instincts are online and functional) even if he spends far too much time on the wretched computer. She's determined to feed him and half the time he's determined to find ways to politely refuse, though the strawberry scones are actually pretty good.

she's appalled by eliot's job, and fiercely territorial of her kitchen when he offers help, even just cleaning up, but once she's seen him get in the way of trouble she's absolutely catching his arm and half hiding behind him in any crisis real or perceived. (She still doesn't approve of him.)

lady felicia sees hardison and eliot as two very different kinds of novelties and does some talking to hardison about tech (mostly listening and marveling) and some quietly ogling both of them, and especially eliot once she's seen him fighting. (Eliot unfortunately turned on his charm when he realised she sort of expected it. She doesn't get to chat with charming southern gents all that often - it's very shallow, and she's not serious about it.)

thank goodness bunty's too young for eliot so I don't have to go there. He has to tuck her out of sight in a barn at some point when trouble's headed their way; when the mess is almost cleaned up and she's grabbed a rifle from somewhere to tell the the remaining goon to clear off, with every appearance of competence, eliot takes it from her and disarms it with a smear of blood under his nose and a slightly betrayed expression.

hardison and sid get along, aside from a little initial insecurity on the parker front, and get to bitch a bit about flambeau, who hardison mistrusts from the start.

flambeau... he admires parker, from a distance - professionally and not very effusively - but after he watches her work for a while he seems to realise who she was trained by, and tells her as much. He says he was too, for a very short time, and it's unclear if he'd gain anything from making it up. Says that he and archie had a difference of opinion - and has a way of saying it that implies there might have been fire involved.

[compher]

i gotta do my homework now as an excuse to stay up and wait for jokinnon crumbs

[rawrlight]

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Sayu is definitely sassy asf to me. Especially to her older brother.

[bluebellwrenwrites]

I personally don’t subscribe to or really care for the ‘Graves is Adler’s son’ headcanon, but I do sometimes think about it in my setting because it would make Alex and Graves’ relationship (and by extension her parents’ interactions with the two of them as a couple) somewhat amusing to explore

[dino-boyo-agere]

here's Toggy! In love xem so much:( this took like three hours to make, and I love how it turned out! I promise I did not forget about Spot! I will draw him as well>:] hope you like it, thank you so much for letting me draw them!

Everyone LOOK AT THIS!!!

Thank you so much, I absolutely love it!!! <3

[kindathewholepoint]

First con since April! I know that doesn't seem like very long, but it's a long time for me after averaging one a month for a while. Charlotte Con was a blast and a bit of a unique experience with the strikes ongoing but that didn't put a damper on ops!

Nate Torrence was a delight. One of my favorite parts of the weekend was listening to Rich fanboy over Nate TO Nate on stage - just absolute joy.

I love Drake so much, I wish I got to enjoy his presence at every con. The mini-moose brings me joy <3

I will forever call them "the kids" because they are almost young enough to be mine - such a delightful group of talented young people.

The incomparable Jojo showing off some lovely art my friend Jordan made for them

I had the joy of surprising my friend Christine with this op with the boys and the Impala. Her first Jared squishy hug <3

I do not like selfies at all so I always avoided the selfie pose, but I keep seeing other people's photo with the pose and they are always so flattering so I decided to use MishMish as a guinea pig and try it. Pretty happy with the results, I gotta say.

Running out of cute ideas for ops with my favorite dude. Please send help :-D

On the other hand, I apparently no longer even need to ask for my squishy hug... the moose saw me coming and just opened his arms <3

EDIT: Late arriving JPEG featuring so much cuteness <3

In all the times I've been to cons since they started offering ops with the Impala, I've never actually done them, but had to make an exception here for this exceptional restoration.

All in all Charlotte was up there among favorite cons, not the least of which was because of these wonderful ladies that I had the pleasure of getting to know.

Onwards to DC!

[jayjamjary]

I have a physiological need to sit like him and twirl my hair like him sometimes.

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[nordsea-horizons]

which villagers do you have on your island now you have Gabi? sorry if you’ve posted it before! <3

Hi! i havent posted that before i think! no worries either way tho🤍 im working on eventually getting Ace and either Chief or Fang for my island but right now these are the villagers✨