#Abstergo

[transmasc-rose]

Thinking about Lucy again.

She gets hired by Abstergo contractually required to stay inside the company building for an extended period of time, which gets extended indefinitely.

This obviously isn't the norm for Abstergo employees, but most employees aren't working on Animus dev. Is this "normal" for Animus developers/non-Templar Animus devs?

They were prepared to kill and dispose of Lucy without remorse. They do the same to at least some of the Subjects--namely Subject 15. According to a now defunct website (used to advertise... the movie. Consider canon at your own discretion I guess?), Lucy asked Warren to let her out of the project, and Warren responded by putting Lucy on leave for the day and having her (the Subject) killed.

Presumably they aren't killing a lot of their employees personally, or that would get noticed by prospective employees? Or even by the cops due to their crude disposal mechanism? They throw Clay's body into the Tiber, and it IS discovered there. They draft a fake accident report for Subject 15. Do they "officially" just have a massive casualty rate for their... office jobs?

[cippicat]

Assassin's Creed turns 17

Seventeen years ago Assassin's Creed was released and we knew our Mentor Altair, and Desmond

[spikxel]

[knine-nights-loves-ac]

Fic Rec 17

Gotta do a special one for number 17. Contemplated it for a bit and I think this one hits the spot.

Three Days

Summary on Ao3 is:

“The men working at Abstergo are very scientific minded. Ghosts and curses and magic were things of the past (even if the Pieces of Eden came close they were still based in science). But still, after Subject 17 dies in captivity and his corpse was used to unlock the memories of his ancestors, strange things began happening that no one could explain.

Like, how come the only memories they could interact with were the last three days leading up to Subject 17 (Miles, Desmond)'s death?”

Written by orangeCrates

So tw this one is kinda dark.

It’s short, sweet, and to the point. Subject 17 is gonna haunt the shit out of those Abstergo asshats for letting him die. And those bitches deserve it all.

It really lets your imagination run wild with what-ifs. It’s just open ended enough that you are left with ideas and questions without being so open ended you feel disappointed by the ending.

A little spooky but not terribly over the top with the horror aspects so really it’s a safe read.

Fic is completed at 1,495 words, 1 chapter

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[yukiyee-akian]

batfam x un lector assassin(?

No sé, me imagino al pobre teniendo que escapar no solo de Abstergo y los templarios, sino que ahora de la batfam también porque por alguna razón o de alguna forma se obsesionaron con él, ya sea de forma romántica (excepto Damian) o platónica.

Solo pensamientos aleatorios.

______

No romantizar el comportamiento yandere en la vida real porfavor.

[weirdest-lights]

So I just finished AC Rogue. And as much as I usually hate the modern time section, I can't help but laugh at the sheer absurdity the poor Abstergo worker, who we play as, find themselves in.

Between finding audio log saying they plan on potentially killing us to accidentally joining the templars just because you were curious about some handsome Irish man. That poor person day must have been horrid.

I can imagine them coming home to their partner just like "Honey, I think I just accidentally joined a secret organisation again ..."

[altairz]

Just this morning I replayed the Abstergo massacre. I made screenshots for you, maybe something will work as a template for future art. P.S: Instead of killing Cross, I decided to just run after him, I was too sorry, even Rebbeka called him poor (

I'M MONSTER 😭

[transmasc-rose]

I don't do modern/mundane AUs much but I DO think it's fun to think about, and to decide what bits you adapt to a less fantastical environment and how.

Pre-canon, Desmond can be almost entirely unchanged. He's a cult survivor who ran away. His cult just wasn't, well, right in a world without the Assassins proper. Without the Animus, the worst thing that might happen to him is his dad trying to take him back "home". The focus shifts and Desmonds story becomes one of the horror of family.

And, especially if you lean on AC1, Lucy adapts fairly well. Isolated and young college student, handpicked by a company that seduces her over to Italy, an ocean away from home. They don't need to ruin her chances at another job, though they could. They just need to get her there.

And once she's away from any hope of family, well... bad experiences with co-workers, a dependence on Vidic, a focus on her job. She doesn't need to be a literal prisoner to be scared of leaving if she's in an unfamiliar country of which she can't speak the language.

Then, say, Vidic becomes a problem.

Why not transfer? Vidic is high enough in the company to block it. Why not quit and find a new job? She's here on a work Visa, and she doesn't have anyone to fall back on back in America.

Maybe it becomes too much. Maybe she eventually leaves. Maybe the company blacklists her in her industry, and now a PhD, years of her life, is useless.

Canon Lucy talks about how she was running out of money, nd almost became a waitress before Abstergo made their offer. So, maybe here, she gets desperate. Tries to find a job wherever she can, "too qualified" for most of what she applies to, until the nice bartender gives her a reference...

This is how you get coffeeshop bartender au.

[kuroganedorian]

HAPPY 10 YEAR’S ANNIVERSARY

[spikxel]

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad | Assassin's Creed

[abstergo-industries-hr]

Abstergo!

Do you feel like you have no rights in your workplace?

Are you working insane hours for peanuts while the heads get giant bonuses for launching another poorly thought out product?

Do you want transparency in the workplace, whether it’s fair pay or why you haven’t seen that guy in accounting since he started asking too many question?

Well, today is your lucky day! All of the higher ups are mysteriously gone due to some super secret meeting, and Clay and Aliyah in HR are able to talk to you about unionizing!

And today only, we have amazing perks for coming in to talk to us! We’ve tied up Idiot Intern Jaxon in the supply closet for you to mildly torture! A friend made “special” brownies! The new hire for the guy who went missing in accounting brought coffee…oh no, it’s in the trash. Sorry new accounting guy who looks absolutely nothing like the old mean barista from the lobby coffee stall—can you get us some Starbucks instead?

And remember, Unionize Abstergo!!!

- Clay and Aliyah

[catofadifferentcolor]

Terrible Fic Idea #85: The Old Guard, but make it Assassin's Creed

My brother has always been a big fan of Assassin's Creed, but I never gave the games a shot until recently, when it seemed a natural progression from all the Crusades research I've been doing for The Old Guard fic I want to write but probably never will. Once I realized Isu bullshit could be a perfect explanation for TOG immortality, this (incredibly self-indulgent) crossover was born.

Or: What if Merrick Pharmaceuticals was a competitor of Abstergo Industries?

aka the And The River of Time fic

Just imagine it:

Pharmaceutical research is an expensive, cut-throat business. Viagra is a $2 billion dollar a year industry. Humira, the blockbuster drug of 2018, sold nearly $20 billion in the US alone. So I imagine if you're a pharmaceutical CEO of limited morals and great ambition, it might seem like a better idea to steal ideas from your competitor who seems to hit it out of the ballpark every time instead of pouring billions of dollars into what may turn out to be an unfruitful venture.

Enter Hugh Merrick, father of Steve Merrick and founder of Merrick Pharmaceuticals. Needing a blockbuster and desperate to get one over on Abstergo, he hires a hacker to slip into Abstergo's servers and find him the ripest, juiciest plum they can sometime in the early 2000s, before the (modern) events of the games or the 2019 TOG movie.

The hacker comes back with the schematics for the Animus.

The idea of genetic memories seems absurd, but Hugh figures that if Abstergo has been using the Animus since the 1980s to get ahead, there's no reason he can't do it too - all he needs is a single Piece of Eden and all his problems are solved.

Hugh builds the Animus and has the hacker go back into Abstergo's systems looking for a candidate to put into it. But finding someone with Assassin blood seems dangerous - they're likely to be an assassin too and could be dangerous if they try to escape, plus the Templars killed off nearly all of them. Templar descendants are out because most are Templars themselves and if Hugh's plan is to succeed he heeds to stay off their radar for as long as possible.

The hacker returns with Abstergo's list of people who may be useful if all other avenues fail. It contains a list of people who were peripherally involved during the invents that interest them - mainly high-ranking courtiers close to Popes Alexander VI and Julius II - and their descendants. They might know things about events of Ezio's time.

Enter Joe and Nicky.

For the past few hundred years, their primary cover identities involve being the children or grandchildren of their previous cover story, all the way back to their first deaths. There are fewer questions and you get to "inherit" all your old stuff.

This method has worked quite well for them - until Merrick learns that their "ancestors" were part of the court of Pope Julius II from 1497 (when he was still Bishop of Ostia) until his death in 1513. Nicky was his private secretary, Joe was a court painter, and contemporary sources suggest they were highly placed enough to know whatever Pope Julius II knew about Ezio's apple. Such as where Ezio might have hidden it.

It's not an unreasonable plan, except for the pesky fact of Joe and Nicky's immortality. After all, the animus is designed to draw on genetic memory, not the subject's own memories. And even if it can be used to view memories laid down in their own genes 500 years ago - which is doubtful, - there's a high likelihood of it killing them - and if Hugh were to learn of their immortality, things would only get worse for them. But they have little choice once they're captured and brought to Hugh's secret research bunker somewhere north of Inverness.

What follows is a largely self-indulgent stroll through the more interesting episodes of Joe and Nicky's life together.

Nicky's first go in the animus is a jumbled, confused mess as Hugh's tech minion learns the ropes as she goes. Nicky ends up hopscotching through his early memories - for instance, a memory where he's learning how to use a sword as a young squire jumps to him using the same move during the Siege of Jerusalem. That strand of memory continues on for a bit until another interaction gets him sent into the memory of another battle/training session/conversation with the person in question and so on.

Joe's first time in the animus goes a little better, as Hugh realizes that his minion needs to learn how to program the animus before they put their most valuable subject into it, and so let's her learn with Joe. Hugh's minion (who is really beginning to regret taking this job) succeeds, pulling Joe into the genetic memory of one of his ancestors: al-Kahina, an Amazigh religious and military leader who led indigenous resistance to the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. There should be suggestions of a Sword of Eden somewhere in events, but since they don't share Precursor knowledge, Hugh's not interested in letting the memory play out.

Nicky's second session gets them to the time period they want, but his memories have next to nothing to do with the PoE. The same holds true for Joe, when his second session puts him through his POV of that time period. And though Hugh has his minion take them up and down every memory of that time period searching for the smallest hint of anything that might point them in the right direction, there's nothing to find.

Or, rather: Nicky and Joe did meet Ezio once or twice, in waiting rooms or reception areas or the like, but they spent that time talking about art, or the weather, or philosophy - nothing about politics, or Ezio's travels, or PoEs at all.

Otherwise, most of Nicky and Joe's memories of early 16th century Rome involve Joe's rivalry with Michelangelo, who among other things persisted in flirting with Nicky even after he made it clear he wasn't interested. (Joe was, among other things, responsible for getting Michelangelo the commission for David in Florence to get him out of Rome and away from Nicky.)

There's some Vatican politics as well - Nicky's part in organizing the Swiss Guard, Joe's in organizing the Vatican Museums, and the removal of the Borgias from power - and some global politics - the 1503 dispensation for Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, etc. But most of their memories are largely Joe and Nicky being Joe and Nicky in the High Renaissance (and rather hating their jobs, as neither of them particularly like working for Julius II but were blackmailed into it to avoid being labeled as Ottoman spies.)

This goes on for several days until Hugh orders his minion to start looking for the memories of other "ancestors" - essentially, to refine the animus and her technique while he gets his hacker to find better candidates for the animus. And if this accidentally destroys Joe and Nicky's minds in the process? So be it. The plan was always to kill them at the end of their usefulness anyway.

Hugh's minion spends a day doing as asked - there's a few tantalizing glimpses of Joe and Nicky at the court of Kublai Khan in the 1270s - before she has an opportunity to act on the guilty conscious that's come to plague her.

The minion helps them escape - destroying the animus, wiping the records, and blowing the place sky high to cover the bloody swath they have to cut to get out of the secret research bunker. Amongst the casualties is Hugh Merrick, propelling his son Steve into position as youngest CEO in Pharma.

Joe and Nicky rejoin Andy and Booker - who'd been doing their best to cut their own bloody swath through anyone tangentially related to the mercenaries who kidnapped their brothers - and decide to turn their attention to tracking down PoE and destroying animus technology wherever it can be found, believing there are no peaceful uses for either. As a glad you escaped present, Booker tanks Merrick Pharmaceutical's stocks so badly the company never recovers, eventually going bankrupt.

As for the minion? Maybe she's a young Rebecca Crane prior to her recruitment by the Assassins and it’s her experiences with Hugh's animus that get her recruited by the Assassin Order. Maybe she's just a random OC who sets herself up with a new identity halfway around the world and watches gleefully as Merrick Pharmaceuticals and Abstergo Industries both eventually crash and burn.

Bonuses include: 1) Joe and Nicky being the most passive aggressive kidnapees in the history of kidnappings - on the face of things, going along with exactly what Hugh asks of them, but doing their best to focus on innocuous memories and figuring out how to purposefully make memories "skip" between similar episodes without Hugh ever noticing the glitch. Also, playing up the Bleeding Effect so that by day three they're only speaking in Medieval Italian; 2) Hugh being a better class of villain than his son. Immoral? Unethical? Yes, but in a sophisticated businessman way, not a jacket and hoodie, stab a man with a letter opener type way. For some reason I'm imagining him as Jean-Luc Picard, if Picard ever had a Mirror Universe alternate; and 3) Interludes of Andy and Booker searching for Joe and Nicky after they've been kidnapped. This should be part action-thriller along the lines of Taken, part buddy comedy, and involve an arc wherein Andy learns of Booker's deep unhappiness with his immortality and helps him come to terms with the feelings that would have otherwise eventually led to the events of the 2019 movie.

And that is surprisingly more than I thought I would have had. As always, feel free to adopt this bun, just link back if you decide to do anything with it.

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[xirosh]

Test

(Searching for a post on my blog)

Edit: if anyone can help me find the post containing fictional Evil Corpo logos in pride colours/going full rainbow capitalism I'd be forever thankful

[leadengineerabstergo]

Tbh, I didn't expect to be working this late. Alex went home so it's just me.

We heard about the, uh, problem that is happening recently and are working to fix it. I think I almost have it as well.

~Rupert

[mephisto-ph3les]

Currently playing Rogue

Does Abstergo Entertainment not have money for a good cleaning service? The apartment looks like shit. Everywhere is spilled coffee cups, half eaten pizza and trash laying around, the garbage bins are full, and the bathrooms do not look like you want to use them 💀

[altairz]