#unity-rogue sequel XD

[teecupangel]

Hello! I just discovered you recently, dived headfirst into several your fics and am so in love with them. I'm also incredibly grateful because I'm in the middle of putting a house on the market and your fics are saving my sanity. My most recent read is 'Ouverture', and I love bitter, slightly elitist and secretly disdainful Desmond. Now I have so many questions about Unity cannon (that you've cannonballed) if you wouldn't mind just head cannoning some future what if answers?

Does Arno return to France and get caught up in the revolution? Does Des come with and keep out of sight? IS Des considered a traitor by the Paris Assassins? Arno have an opinion on the Parisian Brotherhood? Does he have better Eagle vision since Des trained him? Do Paris Assassins read blue or white to him? Does he meet Elise again? What has become of the de la Serre family?

The French Revolution:

*random rooftop after absurdly flashy physics breaking move that avoided the lookout of five Paris Assassins*

Pierre: "Pisspot."

*arrogant eyebrow game at max and full permission from Des to be an asshole*

Arno: "0uncle Pierre."

Pierre. "Figured. Only one other who could hold eagle vision that easily to evade everyone with that stunt without breaking his neck. He would have kicked me as he flipped over my head."

Much love and thanks! And sorry for the long submission!

Hello! I’m so happy my fics were able to help you during such a hard time and please don't apologize. I love getting submissions and asks, no matter how long or short they are (although I am quite late in answering them TTATT). I hope selling your home is going well!

Okay, so let’s talk about the possible future of Ouverture and A New Way To Do Things in relation to Arno.

Arno will, of course, grow up in the homestead in this one. Unity officially starts 5 years after the end of AC3 when Arno is around 21 years old. Arno returns to France because he actually followed Desmond back to France (while Ratonhnhaké:ton and Clay had to stay behind for the Brotherhood and tells Desmond that they’ll catch up to him instead). Desmond returns because Lafayette requested their aid (he and Lafayette talked a lot during the American Revolutions as two French dudes doing whatever they can) and Desmond agreed to help his ‘motherland’.

This means that Desmond and Arno went back to France without the Parisian Brotherhood’s ‘approval’ so they’re going rogue (although Charlotte gets a visit and she cries because of how much Arno has grown).

Arno now calls Desmond ‘dad’ in this one too although he still calls Charles Dorian ‘father’ and they become embroiled in AC Unity’s plot as well, with Desmond having bad feelings because there’s something in Paris that just makes his skin crawl.

Desmond is sorta in a very precarious position in the Parisian Brotherhood, especially now that Sophie Trenet is a council member. A lot of the council members have a more forgiving stance on Desmond, especially after they hear how he helped Ratonhnhaké:ton take back the ‘colonies’ from the Templars but they’re not necessarily happy that he’s back. Sophie’s the one who is pushing for him to regain his old rank (not that Desmond wants it) though because she remembers him as being a good man and a great Assassin.

Desmond and Arno actually visits Bellec in prison and that’s how they reunite. Well…

That and the cannonball that ‘started’ the prison break…

Arno is officially a member of the American Brotherhood of Assassins (like Desmond) so he’s not thought of as a traitor but more like an outsider. Arno doesn’t mind though because his memory of France felt more like a distant dream. He doesn’t like to go to Versailles though.

Arno’s opinion of the Parisian Brotherhood is pretty much nonexistent. Desmond doesn’t like to talk about them, not even to complain about them. Other than say their ranking system is ridiculously long but Arno is pretty sure Desmond was being sarcastic (he was not).

Because of this, the Parisian Assassins appear as either blue (Bellec and Sophie) or white to him. They’re polite to him but also sorta cagey because he is not one of them as far as the Brotherhood is concern.

He does have a better Eagle Vision, one of the more advanced ones, actually, considering Desmond, Clay and Ratonhnhaké:ton trained him (and that means his Assassin style is a combination of his three instructors). The whole “I see their memories” thing Arno is also theorized by Clay as being a mutation caused by Arno’s close proximity to whatever Charles Dorian was carrying with him before he handed it off to another Assassin then returned to France to get his next (and last) mission. Clay believes that it’s some kind of POE and that it sorta mutated Arno’s Isu genes to be more prevalent in this case because he was still young when he was in it’s area of ‘influence’. Of course, that’s all guesswork and Arno just uses it to get more information.

Arno does meet Élise once more and it’s… well… it’s complicated.

While it’s highly possible that Arno would still hold a torch for Élise during that time, it is also highly possible that she would just be a distant memory, the kind girl whose parents may have had a hand on the death of his father (or so Desmond believed). Hell, if you want to add more drama in that front, it could be that Élise and Arno sees each other as ‘enemies’ this time around, their childhood memories being nothing more than the innocence of children that they could no longer go back to (especially with them no longer having any long history with one another so Arno sees Élise as a Templar gone rogue and Élise sees Arno as just another Assassin). (If you want to make it hurt, have Élise be the one to actually carry a torch for Arno while Arno had already fallen in love or may have already gotten married by the time he returns to Paris. To who? Ellen’s daughter Maria who becomes Arno’s childhood friend in the Davenport Homestead). Also, he’s seen as the older brother of Ratonhnhaké:ton’s children as well so, in many ways, Arno feels more at home at Davenport than he is in Paris while Élise’s father died because he couldn’t get the letter meant to warn him in time and she’s just full of anger and the burning desire for vengeance right now, with no one she can trust at all.

Also, also… Desmond has a reunion of his own to rival Arno’s Templar-connection past.

His aunt…

Madame Flavigny.

(Yeah, that’s right. The only person who knew Desmond as Antoine Faroy and his only living blood relative is a Templar, to be more exact, a Templar from the Radical Faction.)

[whatthefuckisasweep]

(@/larosaescarlata's main here!) 2, 7, 27 and 31 for the assassin ask!!

Hello beloved mutual! Thank you for asking me :)

2: Favorite playable character

Connor/Ratonhnhake:ton all the way in terms of story and character! He's what I think is the embodiment of a true assassin, a kind soul, and great representation. He's just my favorite AC character overall. In other words, please feel free to talk to me about Connor Kenway at all times. I will go off if allowed xD

7: OTP?

Altmalmar, Altmar, Altmal! I don't really ship much things that hard in AC, but I really like them. I also love a lot of Jacob ships like Fryeddy and RothFrye (don't get mad at me for this, I like the potential of their dynamic and I don't claim it to be healthy). EzioLeo and HayZiio are also really cute too!

27: A game that deserves a sequel?

AC III / Rogue / Unity, easy. I mean, come on. Arno and Connor should have teamed up at some point, and maybe Shay could cameo. I want to see them in old age and their dynamic, even though it will never happen. : (

31: If you were given the chance, whose memories would you explore in the Animus?

Honestly... My own ancestors? I think it'd be sick to see where my ancestors were and what they did. I'm Chinese, so already that'd be a lot of rich history that I could see and go through.

Thank you for askin' again : ) anyone else wanna askie the post is here

[lockescoles]

Video Game Meme

Tagged by @sabriel, thank you :D

Favorite game from the last 5 years?  ‒ Final Fantasy XV

Most nostalgic game? ‒ Final Fantasy VI

Game that deserves a sequel?  ‒ Mass Effect Andromeda (yes, I’m always gonna be salty about this)

Game that deserves a remaster?  ‒ Final Fantasy VI deserves an entire remake and not just a remaster, but if we’re talking about a remaster, I would go with Dragon Age Origins, with real voices for the Warden please. 

Favorite game series?  ‒ Final Fantasy

Favorite genre?  ‒ RPGs

Least favorite genre?  ‒ Multiplayer

Favorite song from a game?  ‒ It’s so hard to choose only one ?? But I’ll go with A Fleeting Dream from Final Fantasy X. 

Favorite character from a game?  ‒ Locke Cole from Final Fantasy VI and Noctis Lucis Caelum from Final Fantasy XV, I just can’t choose. 

Favorite ship from a game?  ‒ Kaidan/Shepard from Mass Effect Trilogy, Hawke/Fenris from Dragon Age 2 and Locke/Celes from Final Fantasy VI. 

Favorite voice actor from a game?  ‒ Ray Chase as Noctis Lucis Caelum in Final Fantasy XV. 

Favorite cutscene?  ‒ Celes’ suicide attempt and the events that follow in Final Fantasy VI. 

Favorite boss?  ‒ I don’t know ??

First console?  ‒ NES, but the first one I really remember playing is the SNES. 

Current console or consoles?  ‒ PS4, PS3, Switch, Wii U, 3DS and PC. 

Console you want?  ‒ I have all the ones I want so :P but I want a better PC to be able to play more games on my PC (I want FFXV for my PC too xD)

Place from a game that you’d like to visit?  ‒ Macalania Woods in Final Fantasy X

Place from a game that you’d like to live in?  ‒ Insomnia in Final Fantasy X

Ridiculous crossover that would never happen but would be super fun?  ‒  I can’t think of something :P

Book that would make a good game?  ‒ I usually don’t like when a book is adapted to video game xD Harry Potter could have been fun, but I didn’t enjoy them ??

Show/movie that would make a good game?  ‒  I think the same as I think for the books, but I already mention Harry Potter so I’m gonna try Shadowhunters. 

Games you want to play?  ‒ The Assassins’s Creed games I haven’t played yet (Rogue, Unity, Syndicate, and also the ones who aren’t on the PS4) 

Have you gotten 100% completion in a game?  ‒ YEP :D but I have to really love a game for doing so!

Have you cried over a game?  ‒ Of course”

What power-up or ability would you want in real life?  ‒ Let me be a dragoon LOL ;D

Tagging: @fieryfantasy @mikia87 @mistress-light @lyssala @placeofmemory @iures @thefantasyhasnolimits & YOU ;D

[teecupangel]

Wondeful additions from @kitsunesongs

at some point they figure out how to make the blocks different colours. still glowing! just coloured. OOOH!!! What if Layla's MC's are in another server - but thanks to a mishap of some sort, KHEMU is in theirs! And when the servers merge - Bayek and Aya get to see their son again.

This is sweet. Would be sad if someone was to sprinkle angst into it…

Not only Khemu. Eivor’s parents are also there in their part of the Gray as well as Kassandra’s entire family.

Of course, this is a Khemu before his death and that’s when they learned that anything that may alter the timeline will be forgotten the moment they leave the Gray so the three of them stay there for as long as they can.

It’s actually Aya who leaves first, telling Bayek that they still have things to do. Bayek stays far longer but he leaves as well after telling Khemu he loves him.

Because of how time seems to stop in the real world while they’re in the Gray, Khemu stops his time by staying there for as long as he can hold his coin then just rubs it again whenever he drops it. Everyone doesn’t say anything about how this is only prolonging the inevitable and they try to make Khemu less lonely whenever his parents are not there.

Annndddd the Templar ‘server’ from @twitcherpated

Oh but you see, Shay is obviously also in a different server--the Templar Server. Which hilariously began populated by each of Altaïr's kills, culminating in Al Mualim. (Basically, anyone who the main characters got a cutscene with ends up there. They forged a very brief but potent connection on the moment of death that sent them to the Grey.)

Aside from some major strife and lack of cooperation, a main difference in how the Templar "server" works is that, well.

They're all dead. And none of them have a "coin" that will let them create blocks. Instead, they figure out, after an interminable stretch, how to "mine" the Grey for blocks of potential matter.

....yeah, they're literally slicing up cubes of Grey. It has the consistency of soft cheese when they cut into it, which is weirdly disturbing. They tried cutting other shapes, whole objects even, but if they cut anything bigger than a 1ft x 1ft cube, in any other shape, it collapses in a pile of goo and gets reabsorbed into the endless Grey. So. Little dark grey cubes is what they have to work with.

There is a lot of animosity, as you might imagine. It has not died down by the time Ezio's kills star appearing on the scene. At least the Templars who Rodrigo killed don't end up there. But everyone mostly builds their own little fortress and glares out at everyone else in paranoia.

....I just realized I opened this with "Shay is on the Templar server" and then promptly made the rule "people who get killed by the MCs go to the Templar server"

and Ratonhnhaké:ton

doesn't

kill Shay

DX

omg that does mean that Haytham is stuck with Charles as his right hand man though

it's more than a man can be expected to bear

My initial idea of a 3/Rogue/Unity sequel involves Ratonhnhaké:ton and Aveline coming to Paris because that’s where Shay has become the Grand Master all in an effort to bring the Paris Rite back into working order. At this point, Arno has just returned from Dead Kings DLC and Ratonhnhaké:ton and Aveline act as his mentors. During the final fight, Arno is actually the one to stab Shay the same way Shay stabbed his father while Shay had been blind with rage and focused on Ratonhnhaké:ton who he believed was at fault for the Templar Order falling apart.

So yeah, Shay definitely got to the Templar ‘server’ because he got assassinated by Arno instead. That seemed more poetic…

By the time Shay gets there, each Templar rites have their own little castle with Al Mualim actually all alone in his little castle because he did betray both the Brotherhood and the Templars so nobody wants him XD

Haytham has taken in the moderate Templars Arno killed while he was looking for de la Serre’s killer though since they’re ‘reasonable’.

Nobody wants to be near the Borgia castle because Cesare throws a lot of temper tantrums. The other Templars from Ezio’s kills usually make their own palazzo near the Borgia castle instead. XD

i was gonna come in here with a Really Cool crossover idea w/ another game i've been playing recently, but then i realized i've only been playing minecraft (other than ac), which then led me to the idea of all the assassin's creed charas on a server together, and then i realized that the Normal, Logical thing would be for it to be a modern au, but the Hilarious and Chaotic option would be if it was, instead, that the server just. magically exists in all time periods. there's been weirder Isu BS before, i'm sure.

Man, can you just imagine this though?

The Gray is a vast empty space. It’s boring.

So when Desmond and Clay got stuck in it because Juno has a sick sense of ‘reward’, that bitch, they’re about to go crazy when they see something pop into existence.

It’s Altaïr just the way he looked when he had gotten married to Maria.

Altaïr had sorta-kinda maybe been fiddling with this little coin-like thing to get away from the mountain of paperwork that needed his attention because he had just been hopping all around the nearby area with his then-sorta-girlfriend-sorta-we’re-not-labeling-it before finally returning to Masyaf. They found the coin in one of the hidden rooms in Alamut. The Assassins there just sent it to ask if maybe Altaïr could figure out if it’s related to the Apple or not.

And Desmond and Clay are like “Isu bullshit?” “(nods) Isu bullshit.”

They try different things out and figure out that Altaïr could create small blocks of white light if he rubs the coin.

And he disappears when he drops the coin.

He visits again a few minutes later and they realize that rubbing the coin in ‘the real world’ transfers him to the Gray and he returns to the real world if he drops it here in the Gray.

They experiment some more. They learn time does not pass if Altaïr stays in the Gray and he can’t take any item with him to the Gray nor can he drop anything he already has.

Altaïr: If that’s true then why am I still wearing my clothes?

Desmond: Isu bullshit.

Altaïr: Are we truly making that the excuse for everything we cannot explain?

Desmond: Clay…

Clay: We believe that your real body isn’t being transferred here, it’s your mind. And it’s your mind that’s telling this place that you need clothes so you get clothes.

Desmond: In other words: Isu Bullshit.

Altaïr: (stares at Desmond for a moment before turning to look at Clay) He’s going to say that every time he thinks it’s too much of a pain to explain things, isn’t he?

Clay/Desmond: Yeah/Yup.

By the time Ezio ‘visits’ the Gray, they’re halfway on their way into making their first ‘home’ because what else are they supposed to do with Altaïr’s block-making coin anyway?

Ezio has so many questions and Desmond just goes “help us with this and we’ll talk”.

By the time Ratonhnhaké:ton gets there, they’ve just finished creating the walls of Monteriggioni and he had to play third vote as to what their main home would look like: Villa Auditore or Masyaf Fortress.

Ratonhnhaké:ton (at this point used to the weirdness because of Juno’s whole ‘drink this drug so we can communicate’ thing with the crystal skull) just shrugs and went “why not just combine the two?”

Edward was pretty sure he was sooooo drunk he was dreaming the first time he got there. So when these weird men ask him what he wanted to build, he went “My ship!” and proceeded to give them a rough description of his ship before dropping his coin because he was SO drunk.

The next time he got there, he was definitely sober and absolutely confused why he needed to build the Jackdaw in what he assumed to be the afterlife or purgatory.

All he got was “We already started it so we’re finishing it. This was your idea, drunk or not. You’re helping!”

When Arno got there, he was greeted by a ‘oh my god my eyes!’ glowing walled town that he can walk into. At the edge of the walled town stood a large fortress.

… Arno is SO confused right now.

When he entered the fortress, there was a large training ring with a castle keep up ahead that leads… to a mansion… with a forest behind it???

… And there was a ship in the middle of it.

The glowing walled town as a forest AND a ship as well???

Arno is so confused and his confusion only grows when he is greeted by a heated debate by two Assassins he was sure were cosplaying as the two great mentors of the Brotherhood (just how drunk was he right now???) about what to build next.

A chill dude sees him and says, “Why don’t we just get the new guy to pick our next project?”

And that is how the Gray starts the development of the courtyard of Versailles on the empty space to the left of the glowing town of…

Desmond: Monteyafport.

Altaïr: We are not calling it that.

Ratonhnhaké:ton: This place doesn’t even have anything from the Davenport Homestead?

Clay: Well, you picked the forest near your village, not Davenport Homestead. That’s on you, buddy.

By the time Evie and Jacob find their way to the Gray, Jacob is pretty sure he’s going to be blind any time soon, and Evie…

Evie lets out a loud squeaking sound and grabbed her brother’s arm so tight he shouts, making everyone look at them.

In the end, they decided to add Big Ben next to the villa. (“And a pub!” “Yes, Jacob. You and Arno can renovate one of the houses in town to be a pub.”)