#bellec

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And it immediately began with accidental child acquisition @especiallyhaytham

No no no you don’t get it, Arno Dorian isn’t boring, he just seems boring because Assassin’s Creed: Unity isn’t his story. The story is of how the Templar Élise de la Serre and the Assassin Pierre Bellec were both driven to tragic ends by their fanaticism, and Arno, the one in the middle, is the only one who survives long enough to tell it.

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Found an excuse to draw the union members 👍

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Babysitting

[ramshackledtrickster]

I’ve had a headcanon for a while now relating to character relationship cycles within ac unity and the dead kings dlc, of apprentices becoming more like their mentors or mentors seeing themselves in their apprentices. I kinda wanted to see if I can communicate it visually with Bellec and Arno, and Arno coming to resemble him in the DLC due to his jaded nature and disbelief in the assassins and the world as a whole.

Similarities would lie in the more tired eyes, thick beard, keeping his hair loose and untied, more similar clothing to him (the cape and hood combo) and an overall sturdier build as he gained weight during his Dead Kings era. He’d have a ‘scarier’ demeanor and impression in general.

More details under the cut!

Arno starts out naive and fighting for his own redemption and out of his own guilt, so Bellec tries to set him straight and treats him with tough-love, knowing this is his friend’s son (and probably a bit out of guilt and obligation too since again that’s his dead friend’s son)

With Bellec’s betrayal of the order in his attempt to cleanse it, Arno would have probably vowed to himself to never become like him— but ultimately, disillusionment with the state of France and the assassins themselves had led him to fill the niche left behind by his mentor.

So, he then sees Léon; an orphan with high hopes for a better tomorrow. He’s stubborn and snarky and alive, just like Arno once was, but Arno treats him in a removed, calloused way initially. When he tells Léon his parents aren’t coming back, I feel like he’s also projecting own own issues on the poor kid because Arno knows nothing he does will bring his own dead family and loved ones back either.

Arno breaks through though in how he learns to get over himself and treat Léon with more respect and autonomy, getting on his level and allowing warmth back into his heart. :))

There’s also a few lines too, that reminded me of those parallels, like in the Bastille:

Arno: prison scrambled your brains old man?

Pierre: Drink took care of that a long time ago.

Cut to Arno at his worst points becoming an alcoholic during/prior to dead kings.

I’m sure there’s more examples I can’t think of rn but!! Those are my thoughts.

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[haythams-blade]

Guys did anyone else hear about Netflix creating a new Assassin Creed tv series?😭🥲 Imagine if we all got our favourites brought back for a television series 😭❤️ I just hope they do it justice. 🥲❤️

I’d love to see Desmond Miles.

I’m so far behind on this news 😭❤️

[hayzeydayzey]

Bellec (and Arno) from a comic I never finished 🫣

Commissions are OPEN!! (see pinned post)

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easygoing fellow

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@theperennialwriter Yep, that's the one! Thanks! I was able to find it and give it a second read.

I think what people missed out on in at least AC III, Rogue, and Unity is that, yes, both sides are deeply flawed and at certain time periods equally destructive. Yes, they are both run by flawed individuals and can harm innocents --

But then there are small details that people miss.

Both sides are deeply flawed and dogmatic: The usual takeaway from AC Unity is that Bellec and Élise are both driven by fanaticism. Their motivations, however, differ. Based off what little detail we get (haven't read the novelization, maybe I'm fucking up), we understand that Élise was groomed to place the Order before herself from childhood (this is Dan Jeannotte's interpretation in the AC Den podcast, based off how she went after Germaine fully accepting that she could die). Bellec, on the other hand, states that he's seen Templars put entire villages to the torch, so his motivation comes from preventing more innocent life loss.

(Also like...side note...François De La Serre was good and kind for taking in Arno and not turning him into a Templar, and even seeking middle ground with the Assassins, but the flashback where he turns down the King of Beggars does imply that he still had a classist attitude where a man is lesser than due to his background. Whereas the Parisian Assassins actually gave Arno chances despite him fucking up twice before they kicked him out, partially because of Bellec but also partially because they were more openminded. But this is a way, way more personal interpretation that we don't actually have a lot of evidence for.)

Both can harm innocents: Achilles's leadership was Not Good, which is the general fandom consensus, and it stemmed from poor decision-making and arrogance, hence the earthquake that leveled Lisbon and his shit handling of Shay's understandable fit of trauma. Haytham, on the other hand, was a great, effective leader, but...well...his precious protégé literally hate-crimed a five-year-old in the woods. Clearly, he wasn't teaching his subordinates to not be racist. Haytham himself clearly only cared enough about Ratohnhaké:ton's village to use its destruction as a "gotcha" moment against Assassin ideology (which, slightly off-tangent, is such a virtue signaling thing to do lol) without regard for its people's wellbeing. And his own devotion to the Templar order came from manipulation by Reginald Birch.

Time period matters: During AC III, the Brotherhood was in shambles. The fandom knows this. And it wasn't perfect. It allied itself with slaveowners (Sam Adams). Ratohnhaké:ton aided the revolutionaries who would go on to take his people's land just like the Templars tried to do. But Ratohnhaké:ton also rebuilt the Brotherhood, and I have to imagine (because Ubisoft likes to pretend AC III never happened, so we have no fucking hint as to how he ran it after the game) that he reformed it to be more equitable and inclusive to everyone, because that's exactly what he did with the homestead.

Aaaanyway, those are just some raw thoughts off the top of my head that I think support the idea that, yeah, the storytelling does tell us that both sides can be destructive and have good and bad people, but we have to remember what each side's ultimate goals are.

am I gonna have to make a "Hey, pls remember that the Templars are Canonically Inherently Fascistic and cannot be redeemed as a group" article as well?

cus I feel like some of the fandom forgot about this part of the lore and um, it's starting to seriously concern me.

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some Bellec and Arno doodles because they are still stuck in my brain

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Hi @charaname here is your @palestaticexchange gift! I hope you like it and you had nice holidays :D

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Did François de la Serre knew who killed Charles Dorian?

No, he didn't know*.

I think he knew about the American Rite because he knew who Haytham Kenway was, and probably knew also about Connor.

Shay Patric Cormac worked independently, since he could have asked the French Templars instead of Franklin to help him get into Versailles.

François didn't know he was there, and also the French Brotherhood wasn't aware of his presence. I think that Shay decided to stay anonymous, and operate on his own, because making his presence known would damage the common ground between the French Rite and Brotherhood.

If the French Brotherhood knew about Shay's presence in France, they would have done everything to protect Charles and the box. This would have led to war.

Pierre Bellec would have done everything to protect his friend. This led me to think that probably only a few people knew that the precursor's box was in Charles' hands.

François de la Serre was a good man. He took in Arno and chose not to convert him out of respect for Charles Dorian (and because his late wife, and daughter, begged him to let the child have a normal life). Let's not forget that Charles Dorian and de la Serre were on good terms.

François and Mirabeau tried to keep the peace between the two orders, but they failed.

*It may be possible that Shay was aware of Germain's plot to take down de la Serre leadership. But this is another story

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I really love arno really but when i remember dat he was stuck in the bastille for two months.

I bet he smelled horrid when he gotten out

[corvus-the-trickster]

UBISOFT, GIVE ME ARNO WITH HIS HAIR MESSY AND UNDONE WHILST HE'S COVERED IN BLOOD DURING THE FIGHT WITH BELLEC IN THE EVENT ANY OF THE GAMES GET REMADE AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

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My headcanon is that Bellec probably thought Arno’s dad was annoying when Bellec first started training him to be an Assassin, but they eventually became close friends 🙂

I feel like Bellec is a “Back off, I need my space” kind of guy, meanwhile Charles is a people-pleaser lol

[youre-drinking-embalming-fluid]

Thinking about the throwaway line from AC Unity - Bellec says "that was the Levantine approach before Altaïr." In reference to Arno publicly assassinating Sivert and being executed for it.

How many assassins did Al Mualim train? And how many of them did he see sacrifice their lives, trading themselves for a strategic advantage? Dozens, maybe hundreds of trainees, dying in the service of a Creed. Who wouldn't use the Apple to make sure it never happened again?

Thinking about Malik, permanently disabled by Altaïr's actions but now no longer able to give his life for the Creed. On some level, is he grateful to Altaïr for preserving his life? Or does a small part of him hate Altaïr for preventing him from taking the Creed to its logical conclusion?

Was Abbas preparing to take his final mission when Al Mualim was overthrown? How many assassins refused to accept the teaching of their new Mentor?

I dislike Bellec in general so maybe he's just a liar. But it doesn't mean i can't think about it

[haythams-blade]

Not sure how many assassin’s creed fan are out there, but I wanted to contribute to the fandom.

To all the writers that wrote out there and added your work, just wanted to say it’s gotten me through some rough times.

The current caracters I can write for are:

- Ezio

- Haytham Kenway

- Ratonhnhaké:ton/Connor

-Shay Cormac

-Arno Dorian

-Pierre Bellec

- Élise

-Jacob and Evie Frye

- Eivor

-Basim/loki

I haven’t had a chance to play the rest of the games yet, but as I do I’ll update the list! ❤️

If you have any requests, please don’t hesitate! I will have warnings for any NSFW content.