#claudes

[teecupangel]

'Brotherhood' Era DesmondxClaudia, where Claudia slowly falls in love with Desmond, who she thinks is just one of her brother's assassin's, and realizes he isn't when she's inducted and he's not at the ceremony. Ezio says the whole Brotherhood is present, so who is she talking about? Ezio realizes she meant the 'rogue' they've been trying to capture and question for months. She doesn't believe Desmond is 'bad' just not willing to talk to Ezio.

I feel like, in this scenario, it would be Machiavelli who thinks Desmond is ‘bad’ and it’s not that he’s necessarily evil but he’s dangerous because they don’t know who he is or what his end goal is. Ezio is much more reserve because he sees Desmond as more of a loner than anything else and he wants to talk to him because they need to find out who he is for everyone’s safety including Desmond’s own but Claudia equates it to the both of them thinking Desmond is ‘bad’.

So, what does Claudia do?

She hunts for Desmond herself and tries to get him to talk to Ezio to clear all these up because she knows her brother would understand if he knows the truth.

Desmond is reluctant because:

It’s Ezio and Desmond is not ready (might never be ready) for the whole ‘hey, Ezio, I’m the Desmond you’re looking for and, oh yeah, I died. BUT I did save the world so… yeeeyy???”

He’s still on the fence if he should actually intervene with what is meant to happen. He could only do little stuff (like take down Borgia strongholds and stuff) since he expect those won’t affect the timeline but meeting Ezio would definitely do and…

He just got over the panic of realizing he’s in love with Claudia Auditore and he’s still not sure what to do with that. Claudia being here is not helping his whole ‘stay away from future events’ thing.

Claudia doesn't push it and they start meeting in secret, their relationship blossoming as they continue to talk. Mostly about nothing important, just getting to know one another although there are times when Desmond teaches Claudia a trick or two.

Finally, Desmond agrees to Claudia’s request for Desmond to finally meet Ezio (and Maria) because Desmond is weak for her and he reluctantly joins her back to Tiber Island.

When he gets there, all the things he was worried about, especially Ezio’s reaction to him being the Desmond Minerva had been talking about, fly out of the window because Ezio is more focused on the fact that Claudia introduced him as her fiance and Desmond is both “OH! That’s what she was talking about? I thought we were just going to live together. I should get a ring!” and “aaaww, shit, Ezio’s going to interrogate me for a different more terrifying reason.”

[imakequestionablelifedecisions]

Claudes my babygirl

[vietlad]

Legionnaire, 1998 dir. Peter MacDonald

[wintercorrybriea2]

Ginkgo chair by Claude Lalanne

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Background art for Lady and the Tramp (1955) by Claude Coats

[dvrtrblhr]

study of waldmuller's portrait of louise mayer, but featuring edelgard. it might look like i deviated a lot from the original, but actually the whole skin is pretty much based on it.

i wish i had more time to refine this... but i have so much to do today (and i got distracted by dmcl what's new)

[vangoghcore]

by whatstacydid

[nobrashfestivity]

Claude Coirault. Polynesian Tattoos, N. D. (book published 1993)

[farvann]

I brought my vampire coworker to the club with the blood sprinklers and he didn’t like it????

[irenes-tender-world]

claude monet's lilies. details.

[typewriter-worries]

I'll Eat You Up, I Love You So

A Primer For the Small Weird Loves, Richard Siken | The Embrace II, Ron Hicks | Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love,” The Unexpurgated Diary (1931-1932) of Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (@theoptia) | the night belongs to lovers, Ilaria Ratti | Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems, Linda Hogan (@feral-ballad) | Intimacy, Angelica Alzona | Shame is an Ocean I Swim Across, Mary Lambert (@synbeam) | The Kiss, Edvard Munch | Summer Morn in New Hampshire, Claude McKay

[teecupangel]

What if scenario: Desmond dies and is reborn in AC2 and ends up somehow being betrothed to Claudia instead of Duccio. (Duccio still gets beaten up though lol) Desmond has his memories like in yew branches.

I’m sure there’s going to be at least three people (one of them being Claudia herself) who would joke that he only wants to marry Claudia to finally be Ezio’s brother. XD

Okay, in all seriousness, let’s talk about how this would work.

Betrothals during this era is quite… early. Claudia herself is betrothed to Duccio by the time she is 15 so it won’t be surprising if their betrothal happened when she was 13 or 14.

Now, you mention Yew Branches and I think that we would have an easiest way to make this happen by just kicking Desmond into a canon character that would make sense to be betrothed to Claudia.

Of course, the first target that comes to mind would be one of the Medicis, mainly because that would fortify the alliance between House Medici and House Auditore and Claudia would be marrying ‘up’ but the oldest son of Lorenzo would be Piero and he has an 11 year difference with Claudia and would be 4 when Claudia is 15.

Claudia would definitely complain and say no. Honestly, pre-tragedy Claudia feels like a girl who would be into older men because she’d think they’re sooooo mature and ‘dashing’ and ‘mysterious’. A bit of a hopeless romantic keeping her Auditore audacity at bay.

So…

May I suggest… kicking Desmond into being reborn as Lorenzo’s unfortunate will-die-in-the-Pazzi-conspiracy younger brother, Giuliano?

He would be 8 years older than Claudia but that’s fine. There are larger age gaps in Renaissance Italy (Lucrezia’s 14 year gap with Giovanni Sforza for example) and it would be funny if Claudia is actually attracted to him because he’s cool, strong and sooooo mysterious.

Desmond… Desmond just wants to save everyone, goddammit.

Also… this gives us an excuse for Desmond to have complicated feelings over having Lorenzo as his brother.

If you’re still iffy with the age gap, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici is only 2 years older than Claudia and marrying Claudia to a branch family member of the Medici would be a better move because Lorenzo is trying to lock in the Auditores’ loyalty (and the Assassins’ support) but marrying from the main family seems a bit… ‘wasteful’.

Either way, pre-tragedy Claudia? She’d definitely be attracted to Desmond.

Post-tragedy Claudia? Yeah, she’d cling to Desmond more because she’s so lost but, once she gets her feet to the ground and starts understanding the ‘freedom’ she has in Monteriggioni, she’d probably be the one to break off the engagement (especially if this is Brotherhood!Claudia).

Desmond accepts it but, shit… He can’t believe he’s saying this but…

He…

He might have accidentally fallen in love with Claudia already???

[sirancho]

They are so silly

[t0bey]

shield of faerghus VS the hero of daphnel

[cor-lapis]

"If we must fight, Sethos... I shall defeat you with the power of my friend group of employed adults who miraculously have regularly scheduled meet-ups, and also my daughter!"

[redesigns]

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Céline (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1992)