#sometimes desmond goes to play as edward and fuck with juno

[teecupangel]

Submitted by @saberamane

Another plot bunny that has infiltrated my head that I will never write, but would love to read.

The eye doesn’t kill Desmond when he uses it, and it doesn’t exactly ‘free’ Juno either. For the time that Desmond is using the eyes to create the shield, he is one with the Grand Temple and everything it connects to.

This includes Juno. Who decides she is sick of being stuck in the Grand Temple. So she decides to…swap with Desmond.

She pulls Desmond’s soul from his body, and anchors it to the Grand Temple like her own had been. And then she just 'moves in’ to the body that is now available to her.

The solar flare finishes, the shield dissipates, and Juno, in Desmond’s body, is free to walk the earth once more.

By the time Desmond 'wakes up’ in the Grand Temple and realizes what’s happened, Juno has already taken his body and left. He’s stuck, with no idea what to do.

Juno, while free, is not exactly thrilled with having a human body. Even though it has more Isu genes than any other, it’s not and Isu body and greatly limits what Juno is capable of. She needs to find a way to 'build’ an Isu body to transfer her soul into.

A couple days later, Juno gets a nasty surprise. She’s not alone in Desmond’s body. And now has to fight to continue to control said body.

While Animus Island is being deleted, Desmond made a choice. He chose to help Clay.

Clay was in Desmond’s body, and while the Flare and the Eye had knocked him 'offline’, he wakes up again to find that not only is Desmond not in his own body, but that Juno is and he is not pleased. Desmond would help him get a body again, Juno is only concerned with herself.

Seeing as Clay is a fully human soul, and Juno is not, Clay is able to wrangle control from her. But he doesn’t know how to boot her out of Desmond’s body, and he’s not 100% sure where Desmond is, if he’s even still 'alive’.

He contacts the Assassin’s, even though he doesn’t exactly want to.

Shaun and Rebecca pull a miracle, trapping Juno in an Animus island (which gets deleted with her trapped on it, lol), and going back to the Grand Temple they find Desmond, who has figured out how to project himself. And with the time spent there, Desmond has figured how to build Clay a new body. (Why didn’t Juno do that before? Maybe she was locked out of that feature?? Who knows.)

Clay gets a new body (though it looks like his old one, for the most part) and Desmond is able to get back to his body. Though he now has some Isu abilities he didn’t before, from the eye and being connected to the Grand Temple.

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Additions from teecup:

How about instead of the Flare and the Eye being the reason why Clay was knocked out, the Flare and Desmond using the device to save the world are what woke him up? Like, he was just sleeping, waiting for Desmond’s mind to be able to take another personality and set of memory like he’s some kind of ‘foreign Bleed’ with the help of the Synch Nexus but Desmond started reliving Haytham and, later on, Ratonhnhaké:ton’s memories so he was pushed aside because Desmond’s ancestors are automatically given priority by Desmond’s brain when it concerns the Bleeding Effect.

So, in this case, Clay starts out more as something similar to a Bleed that Juno is experiencing. His memories start invading Juno randomly. She starts hearing his voice. She starts seeing him from the corner of her eye. This would give the story some time to fuck with Juno as well as prolong Desmond’s suffering back in the Grand Temple XD

Of course, the end result is still Clay being able to wrangle complete control from Juno but, at that point, Juno had modified it a bit so that it was more Isu than human but Clay is able to deal with that and contact the Assassins.

On the other side, Desmond is still stuck in the Grand Temple but the Grand Temple recognized him as ‘not Juno’ and noted him as Desmond Miles so he gets to have the full package (as a digital prisoner, of course) and that includes complete access to the calculations. It’s while he’s watching the calculations (like some sick (alternate) reality tv show) that he learns of Abstergo’s Phoenix Project. He learns of how, in an alternate universe, Juno would have used it to create herself a body of her own.

It’s useless to Desmond at the moment since it’s not like he can hijack Abstergo from here but that will become the basis of how Clay would get his own body.

Also...

May I suggest… instead of trapping Juno in an Animus island, she gets trapped into a specific Animus that is replaying the same thing over and over again. To be more specific… it’s replaying this: