#oc: alessandra tazim

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I had the amazing honor of getting a donation commission from @felrija for Ezio and my Assassin's Creed oc, Alessandra. Thank you so much, you captured them perfectly!!! We all know Alessandra is done with his shit (but she honestly loves him so much, it's gross.) Thank you so much for this lovely!!! You're so talented, I can't get enough of your work!

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Wren Blake (FC5), Rowan Palmer (FC5), Whitney Seed (FC5)

Jane Williams (FC5), Randy Miller (FC5), Alessandra Tazim (Assassins Creed)

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The gorgeous donation commissions from @witchesconstellation of my Assassin’s Creed ocs: Callista of Sparta and Alessandra Tazim. Thank you so much, they’re absolutely perfect!!! Please share your support for Ukraine by donating and helping those in need during these hard times!

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Callista of Sparta - Assassin’s Creed

Alessandra Tazim Auditore - Assassin’s Creed

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What flavor is your soul?

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This quiz really went for my ocs’ throats, just saying. Super accurate for what they go through, and I guess its time for them to be called out. 

Callista of Sparta

Honey

"Sugared mel e lingua serpentis." sugared honey from a serpent's tongue. Oh dearest, look how you gleam. How the sunlight dances off your shoulders, how the heavens shine across your wingtips. But you are hollow, hollow, hollow. Even the taste of nectar can choke a man. Sometimes the sweetest flowers hide the sharpest poison. You lie to yourself, the worst lie of all. You needn't be so obsessed with perfect. The greatest beauty lies in our faults. Do you think the moon apologizes for their mara? No, their craters add to their glow. My dear, breathe. You are not an island, breathe, before the honey drowns you. You wish to be lovely, you long to be loved. But did Aphrodite trade her powers for perfection? She did not. You can be beautiful, and also whole. Be whole above anything else dear. a heart of diamonds is worth nothing if inchor oozes from it. Inward. Look within and question how well do you know yourself? Little petal are you trying to be a god? Why? Can a god bloom from sullen soil? No. You are whole as you are.

Alessandra Tazim Auditore

Vanilla

Oh heart of ice and mind of gold, what am I to do with you? You are only good in small amounts, bittersweet fledgling, you are hard for most to swallow. Your spirit is strong, your wit is potent, your biting essence drives even the most daring away. But why are you hiding your sweetness? I know within you, you are soft, but humanity has made you bitter. You mask your pain and sorrow with spite and sensibility. You say you do not care about trivial things, but don't you? Sweetheart relax. You can let down your drawbridge, the waters are not poisoned. I know you have looked monsters in between the eyes and scoffed at them, but please, relax. You think your armor protects you but it is smothering you slowly. Little owlet, when will you learn, words can only get you so far? Feelings are what makes this world pulse. Do not suppress your feelings. Your heart can still thaw my dear. Trust.

Feriha Dubois Tazim

Rosemary

Ah, the old soul, nice to meet again. The time of ages is etched into your bones, you see clearly. You've watched the heartache in this realm and sworn to solve it. But kindness without limits is self destruction. Oh little leaf, strong and wise, you seek to bring peace with your presence. I'd be wrong to say you fail at this effort, but you mustn't set yourself on fire to keep others warm. You wish to please everyone, to protect them all. But if you shield the saplings from the sunlight they will never grow, and you one day will wither. Protect yourself too. You know there are no happy heroes, so don't be one. Be a friend. Your loved ones will not forsake you for not being Perseus slaying all their demons. You have your own monsters, why not meet them first before you conquer anyone else's nightmares. Oh true-hearted paladin you are brave, and you are good enough. You know that right? Be true to yourself, one cannot do anything saintly if they did not tend to their own wounds first.

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WIP Day

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Just working on some Alessandra and Ezio stuff. This is when the family is about to be executed...so we’re working on angst...which is normal for me. This isn’t edited either, so I’m sorry for any mistakes! TW for character death and, you know, violence.

He didn’t have a chance to finish as I hopped up on the wooden platform, kneeling as I glared at the man—Uberto. The crowd gasped and screamed, confusion and uncertainty making them restless as the fat man stumbled back in fear. I didn’t blame him, and part of me got satisfaction from it as his beady eyes watched me. My mask covered the lower half of my face under my hood, which already cast a shadow on its own…all that was left was the piercing light eyes, lined in black, that pinned him place. I could imagine what he saw there—rage among other things—and I hoped more than anything that he would crush under the weight of it.

My attention, however, didn’t stay on him long. My gaze shifted to Giovanni and Federico as I rose, both of them shocked, but I could see a hint of a fond smile on my betrothed lips, and pride shining on his father’s face. For the first time since arriving back to the city, I felt clarity. Everything in me prepared to leap to action, determined to free all three of them as Giovanni called to me. “Petruccio first! Grab my youngest first—Alessandra!” I frowned at his yell, not heeding his warning soon enough as my hood was yanked hard and pulling me back. My braid was caught in it, pain erupting on my scalp as my mask was also ripped from me. Clenching my teeth, I quickly released my hidden blade and turned, slicing the guard’s throat and kicking him off the platform. The crowd was panicked as I continued, throwing a knife at another guard that attempted to get onto the gallows, causing him to cry out and fall back. With a huff, I rushed forward and pulled out my dagger instead.

Uberto had enough time to recover, his guards distracting me long enough for him to gather his wits as I went for Petruccio’s rope. I watched as a robed figure—a man—whispered something harshly to him and his face turned red. Pointing out towards the lever to drop the trap doors, my heart squeezed in panic. Giovanni seemed to sense it and he turned to me. “Save my sons! Leave me, save my sons!” I wanted to argue as I glanced at him, I could save them. Federico wasn’t ready to take over, he hadn’t learned enough from his father for this. Giovanni couldn’t die, we couldn’t afford to lose him, his family needed him, all of them. I could save them all. I just had to hurry.

“Kill them!” Uberto shrieked as more guards came rushing to his aid as I slashed at the rope, the young boy staggering before I steadied him. “Kill them now!”

I turned quickly to the remaining two, ready to pull my other dagger in desperation as I met Federico’s gaze. His eyes held a sadness that made my breath catch in my throat. “Alessandra—”

A noise sounded and he quickly fell out of sight as the rope snapped tight.

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Hi!! MW+Alfie anon here again! Now I'm curious to hear more about your Assassin's Creed OCs, if you have any lore to share about them yet <3

I do!!! Thank you so much for asking!!! And welcome back, I hope you’re doing awesone, anon! I am sooooo sorry this is so long. I used this as an excuse to kind of get their main storyline outlined and it...was a lot more than I first intended. Please do not feel pressured to read through all of it, I swear this feels more like an essay than anything. Its just that a lot happens and this is honestly the most summarized I can get it without sacrificing crucial information. Its also not edited, so I’m sorry for any mistakes. Under the cut, love!!!

Callista of Sparta

Callista is actually descended from Menelaus and Helen (before she runs off with Paris) through their daughter Hermione, who married Achilles' son Neoptolemus. And when Neoptolemus tried to take revenge on Apollo for his father's death, he died and Hermione went off and married Agememnon's son (which is her cousin, but that's not the point). Before that happened, Hermione and Neoptolemus had a child, and Apollo was actually so impressed with Neoptolemus' attempt that he blessed the bloodline, meaning that Callista comes from a bloodline touched by not only Aphrodite, but Apollo as well. And these are stories that her mother and father told her when she was young.

When Callista was born, her parents swore that they were blessed by the gods themselves for giving them such a beautiful daughter, and they wanted it to where she would stay perfect and pure forever, so they protected and sheltered her with hopes that she could work at a temple or work alongside a priestess instead of being married and having children. At least, at first. Unbeknownst to them, however, the Cult of Kosmos decided to wipe out the entire bloodline of Agememnon, which included Callista and her parents. One night, her home was attacked by mercenaries hired or following the Cult, and her mother gave Callista the dagger her father gave her mother for their wedding gift, and told her to run. The incident was brushed off as a bear attack that happened while the family was on an outing and eating together, but everyone knew better and were too scared to say much of anything. So they didn't question the story and wrote the daughter off as dead, while Callista hid. After that, she lived on the streets of cities or villages, staying in caves or old ruins as she traveled to try and find a new home as she kept the dagger, the last thing she had of her parents, close. There were multiple times where she had to defend herself and she had to teach herself to hunt for food when begging and stealing was not an option.

Eventually, she finds herself in Korinth, where she gains the attention of Anthousa, and the woman took her in. Offering her a place to stay and food to eat, Callista promised herself that she would stay by Anthousa's side, and as she learned about the hetaerae, she believed that unlike the other gods, Aphrodite and Apollo hadn't abandoned her. Seeing it as a sign from Aphrodite herself that she was there and found by the beautiful woman she will grow to view as an older sister. Callista was sent to Kythra to learn to worship Aphrodite properly, working close with the priestess along with the twins Eritha and Diona. By the time Callista was of age and was ready to return to Korinth, her and Eritha were best friends and swore to stay in touch. Over time, Callista becomes one of the more renowned hetaerae that even the leader of Korinth is smitten with, and it goes as far as him gifting her a leopard cub to show is favor for her.

Years later, as war is about to spark between Sparta and Athens, Korinth develops a problem through The Monger--a criminal who takes control over the city and looks to either run the hetaerae out of the city or take control over them. Callista, who has found family with her fellow hetaerae sisters, is extremely concerned for it, and refusing to lose another family to bad people, she takes things into her own hands. She begins to poison the Monger's men whenever the opportunity rises, doing her best to keep innocent people safe. Though after a while, the Monger takes notice, but at this time, Brasidas and his Spartan soldiers show up in Korinth, eager to establish an alliance with the city's leader.

As this happens, Nyx from the Cult of Kosmos is informed by Diona of Callista, offering the woman a way to manipulate her way into Korinth. Nyx leaves Athens to pay Callista a visit and then whispers lies and mistruths to her in order to fuel an already uneasy feeling Callista held for soldiers and directing it towards Brasidas himself. Even though Nyx was the one that ordered the Agememnon bloodline to be taken out, she has no idea who Callista really is, and its information that one of her spies later comes to find. But Callista doesn't trust either party, but when Brasidas starts asking and seeking for Anthousa, Callista decides that she will have to kill him. She can't poison him because that would take time in trying to seduce him and Callista can't risk that going wrong, and she also doesn't want to risk something happening to her sisters before she succeeds. So she takes her dagger and tries to sneak in to kill him while he sleeps, but of course, he's a light sleeper and things don't go according to plan.

Callista runs from Brasidas after cutting the side of his cheek only to find herself in an altercation with more of the Monger's men. Brasidas saves her before they can take her, and they strike up the deal of working together to take down the Monger and he'll let her live. She agrees but she's still very wary of him. Whispers from the Cult continue to reach her ears, and they try to twist her in doing their bidding. They want Callista to insist on a public death to spark anarchy so they can easily gain control during a vulnerable time, but she unexpectedly sides with Brasidas. Over the two years of him being in Korinth, they grow very close and actually fall in love. When Kassandra makes it to Korinth, Callista is finally taken by the Monger and stashed in the warehouse. Kassandra carries her out to save her and Brasidas shows up to help Kassandra fight as the warehouse burns. He asks after Callista and is relieved to hear she's safe. Callista provides support while Brasidas, Anthousa, and Kassandra work together to take down the Monger.

After Korinth is freed, Brasidas has to return to Sparta and he asks Callista to go with him. But after all the years of having to deal with the Cultists whispering in her ear, she's still not sure. Nyx was killed by Kassandra's hand, but Callista found out what the Cult's spies were trying to do to her, and she killed them before they could twist her mind any further. One of those spies happened to be Sotera, who actually found out about Callista's bloodline while she was in Korinth, and Nyx was searching for her to punish her for keeping it from her. Callista beat her to the punch when Sotera misspoke, tipping Callista off as to what was really happening. On top of that, Callista doesn't feel fit to be a wife. She's a worshipper of Aphrodite, not Hera or Hestia. She feels lacking, so Brasidas returns to Sparta alone while Callista takes time and travels back with to Kythera with Kassandra. She helps Kassandra uncover Diona as a traitor and the one that helped manipulate Callista. After she's killed, Callista confides in Eritha about her fears and insecurities about Brasidas. Eritha reassures her that while yes, Hestia and Hera are the main goddess to worship for home and marriage, the foundation of it is love, and that Callista will be fine.

Callista shows up in Sparta where Brasidas is more than pleased to see her (and yes, he does the "Sparta has missed you!" in that excited voice he does). They run into a bit of a snag when the two kings become unsure of Callista because of her bloodline and seeing her as a threat, being potentially an heir for the throne (and many more with her bloodline, lets be honest). Most of the issue comes from Pausanias (the Cultist king), but Callista has no intention of claiming anything other than Brasidas as a husband. When that's squared away, they do marry, and when he's injured in meeting Deimos in battle, she helps nurse him back to health and she becomes pregnant with their first child. When Brasidas and Kassandra fight to take down Kleon, Brasidas is gravely injured, but doesn't die. He takes a lot of time to recover, but thankfully lives. They eventually have three children in total, and remain close friends with Kassandra, her wife (another oc of mine), and the rest of her family.

Alessandra Tazim

Alessandra is born to a Greek woman who is descended from Callista and an Assassin  her mother met (who was descended from someone close to Altair) when she was in trouble during her travels. The first few years of her life, Alessandra listened to her mother's stories of myths, heroes, and their ancestors, including Callista of Sparta--though the story is more glorified than what it actually was, but most Greek myths are. Her mother helped teach her different languages, including Greek, Latin, and Turkish. Her mother had a huge hand in Alessandra wanting to travel and see the world. Unfortunately, her mother was taken and killed by Templars to get to her father. 

A few years later, her father remarried, and a bit later Alessandra was blessed with a little brother, Yusuf. At this point, Alessandra was aware of the Assassin’s way of life, and was under training with her father and another man named Ishak Pasha. When she’s 15, Alessandra began her travels that her father encouraged, providing aid to other Assassins while also learning from them. Two years after the start of her travels, her father falls leaving just her stepmother and younger brother behind. After the fall of her father,  Alessandra returns to Constantinople where her stepmother and brother settled, and is 17 years old; at this point she’s rather proficient in her Assassin skills and decently well-rounded and even offers support to Ishak in taking down Vlad Tepes. Nalan (her stepmother) worked hard as a pastry cook to help provide with Yusuf being the delivery boy, all while Alessandra did what she could to help Ishak keep the people of the city safe, often trying to discourage Yusuf from running around and climbing on the streets, wanting him to choose something different than the Assassin life out of fear for losing him like they did their father. Nalan couldn’t help but compare young Yusuf to their father, however, and that only made him do it more, him learning to steal to help contribute. 

Not long after her return, she catches the attention of a young suitor, one that had future intentions of proposing. It never came to be, however, as Alessandra saved an older mother who held her young daughter while being robbed. The woman turned out to be married to an Italian noble that was aware of the Assassins’ fight, and was an old friend of Giovanni Auditore da Firenze. Word was sent to Giovanni, and he reached out to Alessandra with the intent of proposing an arranged marriage between her and his eldest since both had strong Assassin heritage, hoping that it would then be a strong partnership, and later result in the passing the torch down to their own children. Alessandra agreed. 

She spent the net year learning to act as a noble as fast as she could considering that she didn’t exactly come from noble blood. Giovanni brushed her worries aside when it was mentioned, however, and he even sent money to try and help offset the loss to her stepmother and brother for her leaving them behind, claiming that it was fitting considering the history of their own family name. Alessandra hadn’t known at the time that the Auditore’s weren’t really from noble blood, but she just took him at his word and learned to fit into society the best she could. Her and Federico wrote to each other often, becoming fast friends. When they first meet face to face, Federico is deeply amused due to the fact that her Italian was perfect on paper, but it was a bit...off when she spoke it. So he tried to help her adjust as Giovanni settled her in Firenze before the big announcement.

Alessandra wasn’t in Firenze long, a few days to a week (at most), before things started to go wrong. She has her first run in with Ezio the day before his big fight with Vieri de' Pazzi. She catches his eye and he watches as she leaves, Alessandra offering Federico a small smile as she goes. Federico watches in amusement as his little brother unknowingly checks watches his fiancé, only telling Ezio “careful, little brother. You could not handle that one” with a small smirk. The next night, Alessandra meets Federico at the top of a tower after he lost a race with Ezio, the older brother making a joke to his betrothed about his younger brother running off to meet a woman in the middle of the night despite his disapproval, in which Alessandra only responds saying they were truly no different. They stay out and talk as they stargaze before Alessandra takes hear leave to a nearby town to do an errand Giovanni requested of her. 

By the time Alessandra returns, the Auditore family is in shambles, and after hearing word of what happened, she rushes to  Piazza della Signoria in an effort to save her fiancé and his family. Alessandra was only able to save Petruccio while Giovanni and Federico were hanged, causing Ezio to yell from the crowd. While she was absolutely crushed, Alessandra kept a hold of the youngest Auditore as her and Ezio fled. Both showing up at Paola’s brothel would be the first time they exchange words. Ezio is far too angry to truly comprehend who or what she is, so she just allows Paola to teach Ezio to blend in and steal, also suggesting he fix the hidden blade. She does assist Cristina and Ezio in grabbing Giovanni and Federico’s bodies for their last rites. After they’re added to the pyre, Alessandra stands silent while Ezio proposes for Cristina to run away with him, to which she refuses, thinking of her own family. After their exchange, and equally broken-hearted Alessandra walks past and squeezes Cristina’s shoulder to offer as much comfort as she can before walking away. 

Ezio began his focus on revenge, in which Alessandra offered her help by telling him upfront that she was an Assassin, expecting Ezio to be aware of his own heritage. When he is confused by that, she holds her tongue and becomes secretive, not wanting to be the one to tell him his own family’s secrets. So she offers to help teach what she can: using eagle vision, how to do the leap of faith, etc. The basics Ezio would need. She even tried to teach him to do a clean assassination (claiming that learning with straw dummies for just a few moments isn’t enough), but him being so driven by anger and revenge, he brushed her off and went after his first target--Uberto.

Alessandra helps Ezio and his family flee Florence, staying with Mario as he informs Ezio of his heritage. He offers to help train Ezio and Alessandra in swordplay, since Ezio was new to the life and Alessandra favored daggers. Over the next six months, Alessandra and Ezio establish a relationship dynamic that seems very rocky: Ezio being flirty with Alessandra shooting it down, both very confident in their own right that seems to clash more and more. Alessandra will often taunt and tease Ezio when he rolls out of haystacks ungracefully with pieces trapped in his “perfect” hair, Ezio pokes fun when he becomes better at swordplay than Alessandra and puts her on her ass, in which Alessandra answers with her daggers, and so on. Mario almost becomes exasperated at the two if it wasn’t for his constant amusement. When Ezio then denies his heritage to her (six months before he denies it to Mario), Alessandra is disappointed in his answer, and she feels he has a duty to fill, but she says nothing--believing she had no right to have a say in Auditore matters. Her mind becomes clouded with uncertainty as to where she should go from there--to go home to her family, to stay and avenge her lost fiancé, or to go somewhere else entirely. 

While Ezio works to focus on his mission, Alessandra decides to travel and continue some of her work that she left behind before coming to Italy. The things Ezio is going through reminds her much of her own family and her own heritage, so she returns briefly to Constantinople, where to her horror, she sees that Yusuf was on his way to becoming more of a thief. Alessandra takes time to try and teach Yusuf what she can to ensure his safety, knowing that he would continue on no matter what she would say. Before long, Yusuf was using their father’s hookblade, following Alessandra’s instruction. She left only a bit after that, however, as she followed a calling and begins to make her way to Greece. The stories her mother and father guide her there, how there were Hidden Ones and those that were “far greater than our own comprehension”, and she follows the stars she has always been so entranced with to find her way to where Sparta used to be. Alessandra has the intention to re-establish connections from her earlier travels, starting in Greece, when she suddenly sees visions of Callista. As they grow more frequent, Alessandra follows them to where she discovers the urns of Callista and Brasidas. Its where she runs into Kassandra, and while they distrust each other at first, the Eagle Bearer warms up to her when she learns that she’s actually descended from her old friend. Kassandra tells her stories of Callista, stories that her mother hadn’t even known, which unnerves her a bit but she can’t help but listen in fascination. Eventually, Kassandra gives her the last of their belongings (a ring, necklace, and Callista’s family dagger) that she had kept safe for all those years. Then, with a new sense of clarity, Alessandra returns to Italy. 

Her arrival coincides with the death of Francesco de’ Pazzi and she’s received with the sight of him hanging half naked from the very tower Ezio’s family was imprisoned. Her anger rises and she confronts Ezio about it, claiming that it is not how they do things, and to her shock, he concedes on the matter, then welcomes her back to Florence with a smirk. They’re time apart had resulted them in growing as people, which is shocking to both though neither admits it. Alessandra agrees with working alongside with Ezio, helping bring the Templars to an end in Italy and avenging his family. They’re dynamic doesn’t change much, but with Ezio being less hot-headed and Alessandra being less patronizing, it turns into something more of an unlikely friendship. The teasing and taunting still persists as Ezio flirts just to get under her skin, poking at her so-called iron clad resistance to his charm while she still laughs at his novice moments--though they grow fewer and further apart over time. 

Things change between them when she follows her friend to Venice, feelings growing between them that they refuse to discuss. Alessandra becomes conflicted when she grows jealous of Ezio and Rosa flirting, and over time, she becomes angry with herself. After only being there for a few years, Ezio and Alessandra attend Carnevale di Venezia, and Ezio runs into Cristina once more (and yes, I moved the canon timeline up a bit), and their not-so-great interaction only validates that things are truly over between the two--and so he feels right in his own feelings for Alessandra. He finds her at the celebration on the arm of a noble, having charmed her way into being a plus one in order to gather information for both of them. He, almost rudely, interrupts a dance between her and her companion to cut in and dance with her himself, in which she tries hard to be sharp tongued to scold him, calling him idiota in the process. Ezio easily brushes it off by being his charming self, claiming that as a gentleman, it would be unforgiveable to not dance with such a beautiful woman. Alessandra can’t exactly tell if he’s joking or not, doing his usual bit just to get a rise out of her, but the new, intimate feeling flusters her as she tries to laugh it off. Much later, they meet on the rooftop with their mission completed, and Ezio makes a comment about missing the dress as Alessandra approaches in her usual Assassin gear. As she playfully smacks his chest, he catches it and brings it to his lips, and takes advantage of her surprise to pull her close and kiss her. 

Over the ten years spent in Venice, they have at least one child (maybe more, depending on how things play out), and while Alessandra does take time to travel between Venice and Constantinople to help he brother, she mostly stays at Ezio’s side through his mission. The time is a bit of a blur (meaning I haven’t fleshed this out just yet), but when they finish their business in Rome (after returning to Florence in between), they make their way back to the villa. After the attack Cesare Borgia launched on Monteriggioni, Alessandra sends their child(ren) to Constantinople to stay with Yusuf, his wife (another oc), and their child so they can stay safe while she assists Ezio in Venice once more. There she helps Ezio by offering the connections she has made in her travels to help him build his Brotherhood, carrying out his orders by assigning and choosing Assassins to send out around the world--one she does herself in order to help her brother fight in Greece. After fighting to bring down their control over the city, Ezio and Alessandra chase after Cesare, and during their battle, Alessandra is injured. While being chased by Templars, they climb a tower, and Alessandra almost slips but Ezio reaches down to catch her, holding her hand while trying to pull her up. She cries as she smiles up at him, making a decision. Ezio catches onto the look she gives, but she pulls up quickly to give him a kiss, whispering she loves him before she pushes off...falling from the tower as Ezio screams after her. 

In a rage, Ezio finishes off Cesare, then continues to search desperately for his love’s body, but comes up empty. Assuming the worst, Ezio throws himself into continuing his father’s work: finding Altair. While Ezio travels, believing the love of his life is dead and gone, Alessandra is found, barely alive, by farmers on the outskirts of the city. Eventually she becomes conscious in spare moments, whispering different names of different Assassins, trying to plead for the people to find her people so they can get her; most of the time its Ezio she calls for. Eventually La Volpe comes across her and he brings her to Claudia (Ezio’s sister), and they help to nurse her back to health the best they can. When she’s somewhat better, she asks for Ezio again, and she’s finally told that he is gone in search for Altair. Claudia insists she sent a letter to inform him, but Alessandra feels despair, knowing what her death could have done to him and blaming herself--though she did it so to not slow Ezio down in the first place. She decides to sail back to Constantinople to see her brother and his family, to tell him in person that she was alive despite the protests she received.  

When she arrived in Constantinople, she had no idea that Ezio had already arrived and began his work with Yusuf. Assassins under Yusuf kept an eye on the port, and when they recognized Alessandra, they sent word to Yusuf about urgent business on the port. Yusuf, who had been in deep mourning of his lost sister, welcomed Ezio with open arms not only as the Mentor, but as a brother-in-law. And while they didn’t speak much about their loss, Yusuf decided to cope with small jabs at his friend, telling a joke regarding him getting his sister pregnant after Ezio made the comment about being “twenty years late to his wedding”, softly insinuating that he had intended to marry Alessandra. When he hears word that there is urgent news that he needs to see for himself, Yusuf assumes its an altercation with Templars, so him and Ezio leave and are fully prepared for battle. 

They’re not, however, prepared for Alessandra’s arrival. And as soon as Yusuf sets his eyes on his lost sister, he exclaims wildly, slapping shoulders and smacking chests of his fellow Assassins, saying that he knew she wasn’t dead, insisting that he told them as such. Alessandra immediately made her way to her brother as he called “Andra!”, seeking to reunite with her, only for her punch his shoulder and demand what had happened to her city and why there were Templars everywhere, the two of them immediately falling into the sibling dynamic they’ve always had. Alessandra doesn’t recognize Ezio at first, as he hides in the crowd and watched in the dark robes she’s not used to, but eventually they have a moving and emotional reunion that involves tears of both parties, and extends to the rest of her family when she sees her sister-in-law and nephew. From then on, Alessandra takes it a bit slow but does what she can in assisting Ezio and Yusuf. When Yusuf is injured while protecting Sofia, Alessandra becomes overwhelmed with grief, believing he was left to bleed out as she was taken with Sofia. Ezio, enraged by the turn of events, is able to get Yusuf medical attention just in time before calling the Assassin Brothers to arms to take back what was taken. Once the struggle is over, and everyone is safe, Ezio and Alessandra leave Constantinople at the demands of the Sultan, with promises of keeping in touch with their long distant family. 

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From the OC Yearbook: 8-14 for your Assassin’s Creed OCs? - MW+Alfie anon 💓

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8: Most Likely to sleep through an earthquake

I would have to say that Alessandra is way too...prepared and well-trained to sleep through a disaster. And I think Callista and Feriha sleep lightly...so I would have to say Thea (short for Amalthea). She spends most of her days...well...she's Athenian, and claims to be an amazing athlete...but she spends most of her time wining and dining with the great minds of Athens, and most of the time, she sleeps till noon after a good night of partying. I would say she's the culprit that will sleep through a damn earthquake.

9: Most Likely to procrastinate

Callista and Thea are both bad at this, but its for different reasons. Callista will put off things that take an emotional toll on her, but eventually she has to force herself suck it up and do it. Thea...does it out of laziness and irresponsibility. Thea will never be one that is eager to to do something she doesn't want to do, and while yes, its horrible and sounds infuriating...it does turn out to be a trait that turns positive. And honestly, she will come around to it and do the thing, she just does it on her time.

10: Most Likely to end up on Broadway

Callista. She's touched by Apollo, blessed by both him and Aphrodite. Her normal tone is melodic as is and can be very soothing--Brasidas could listen to her talk for hours. Its another reason she's so popular among the hetaerae. But she can sing. Very much a siren of Apollo and Aphrodite's making, Poseidon only wishes he had her in his realm.

11: Most Likely to star in their own reality tv show

All of them. They would all be on the same reality show. Could you imagine? Since they're all related? Well...outside of maybe Thea, but she'd be there for amusement because I could just imagine her and Alessandra together...Ezio would be grateful that he's not the one being called in idiot for once. But if I had to choose one or the other, just having Alessandra and Feriha dealing with Ezio and Yusuf on a reality show would just be...that's too good to pass up, honestly. The hilarity of it...yeah, Alessandra and Feriha for sure. It would be like...Keeping Up with the Assassins or something like that.

12: Most Likely to lead a protest

Alessandra. Callista is more of a..."do it behind the scenes with a knife by stabbing the leader of your enemies in their sleep" kind of person. Alessandra is much more straightforward, even though yes, she's an assassin and works in the dark to serve the light, yes. But she would be the one leading rallies for women's rights during the suffrage, protesting the wars, absolutely would be in the Pride parades and still fight for women's rights along with the blm movement. Alessandra is...I always believed that she was ahead of her time on certain things because she's a lot like me on that front and I'm very much a feminist and believe in equal rights for all.

13: Most Likely to marry a millionaire

I don't know, to be honest. Alessandra only considered marriage when it was arranged for her because of her duty to the Brotherhood. Callista never considered marriage, it was never on the plate for her until Brasidas came into her life, and while she would see the comfort and power that she could have by doing so, she wouldn't be willing to compromise the freedom she created for herself for it. Feriha won't marry just anyone, she's very stubborn and has standards, regardless of how much money someone has. You really have to work to get her favor and she'll know if you're genuine or not. I would have to say Thea, I guess. Its not that she's interested in getting married, its more that she sees the power in the money, and she'll take the comfort. She hates having to do bounties and such just to make money. She would much rather relax. And definitely enjoy the company of beautiful women while her husband did whatever it was that he did.

14: Most Likely to win the lottery and lose the ticket

Thea and Alessandra. Thea would honestly...listen, when she's in her "easy-going" mood, she has no sense of responsibility. And worse, she would laugh it off. This woman has no care in the world over the things that she can't control. She's so carefree and will claim there are better things to her life than money. Alessandra...she wouldn't be the one to lose it, but it would ultimately be her fault. I can totally see her having her brother hold on to it for her, but Yusuf being Yusuf, he would lose it or let it get stolen, and sheepishly shrug when Alessandra asks for it back. She would be so pissed, and its bad because its not only at her brother, but at herself for thinking that giving Yusuf the damn thing was a good idea in the first place.

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🖊 - Some time after Alessandra saved Petruccio, he begins to beg Ezio to train him to be an Assassin. He wants to be just as a part of this as his brother, but Ezio is against it out of fear of losing another brother and with a heavy weariness of the illness the boy suffered. Alessandra understands the fear he has, but she actually speaks to Ezio in favor of allowing Petruccio to train with them. Her reasoning--from her own experience--was that if he was willing to do it, he would find another way to be trained. It was better to train him themselves so then they knew the training would be more than profeccient. Ezio rebutted the idea of course, but eventually, he did come around and helped his brother hone his skills.

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🖊 - Alessandra spent time chasing after Yusuf and keeping him out of trouble when he was younger. She did everything she could to keep him from choosing the Assassin life. Alessandra held the weight of their Assassin bloodline and legacy on her shoulders, and she was okay with this. She carried it so that Yusuf didn't have to. But he decided to follow in their father's footprints instead, and she was upset but she accepted and supported him. She even entrusted him Constantinople after visiting him.

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🖊🖊🖊 for the OC you're thinking most about right now!

I’m so sorry this took so long! Literally just reblogged this game without realizing I had asks for it from last time 😭.

🖊- Callista often uses an expensive cinnamon perfume that is gifted to her from the leader of Korinth. It seems like such a small thing, but honestly, it becomes so integral later down the line. Alessandra’s mother (both of which are descended from Callista) often told Alessandra stories of it being how you can tell if you’ve found your true love—they can’t resist it. But as we know, Greek myths can be over exaggerated, and the love story between Callista and Brasidas was…just a tad. However, that doesn’t stop Ezio Auditore from being completely distracted by Alessandra and her cinnamon scent, to the point that he believes it’s her way to distract and confuse guards…and that is very much not the case.

🖊- Alessandra has a solid black horse opposed to Ezio’s white one. And instead of pigeons, she’s known to use ravens to send her messages. Ezio associates that with her, and so when she’s traveling or is away from him, and she sends word to him? He keeps an eye out for the black bird because it will be the one he checks first when checking in with his other Assassins.

🖊- It was honestly really hard for Alessandra to learn how to blend into noble society in order to pull of an arranged marriage with Federico. Giovanni was very encouraging and she was very onboard, because on the Assassin side of things, it was a smart match—almost perfect. And while Alessandra learns languages with ease, her having to understand and learn social rules and such for a country she has never been in was just…it was a long year for her, but when she finally arrived in Italy, Giovanni was more than proud and Federico was genuinely impressed.