#hope jensen ac rogue

[shaycormacaroni]

I can’t believe I forgot to post this

[jageshemashftw]

If all the other Assassin’s Creed games had choosable Male/Female protagonists like Odyssey/Valhalla…

Assassin’s Creed

Altair or Maria

Whoever you don’t choose becomes the secret disciple of Robert De Sable. (Maria is kept secret because she’s a woman, Altair is kept secret because he’s Islamic)

Assassin’s Creed II/Brotherhood/Revelations

Ezio or Claudia

Whoever you don’t choose becomes the younger sibling that you protect.

Assassin’s Creed III

Ratohnhake:ton/Connor or Io:nhiote/Abigail

Whoever you don’t choose becomes a childhood friend of the player character who joins Kanen’to:kon on his raid and gets killed. The player character then names their daughter/son after them.

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag

Edward or Caroline

Whoever you don’t choose stays behind in Wales while the player character pursues piracy.

Assassin’s Creed Rogue

Shay Cormac or Hope Jensen

Whoever you don’t choose stays loyal to the Brotherhood because they didn’t witness what happened in Lisbon.

Assassin’s Creed Unity

Arno or Elise

Whoever you don’t choose becomes the child of De La Serre while the player character becomes the child of Dorian.

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate

Jacob and Evie

…. Nevermind, this one works as is.

Assassin’s Creed Origins

Bayek and Aya

Play as both, but you choose who is the main player character hunting the Order of the Ancients and who is the side player character helping Cleopatra.

[dirtyasscreedsecrets]

'Hope Jensen has some big mommy milkers that I'd love to bury my face in.'

Confession [@dark-n-deepdesires]

[peridot-tears]

I'm actually FASCINATED by the role of New York gangs in AC: Rogue. To me, a born-and-raised NYer, gangs are a recent development going back to the 1850s because frankly, that's as far as our oral histories usually trace; that's the earliest major wave of immigration. Most old New York families don't go further back.

The gangs weren't completely wiped out until the 90s, and by "wiped out," I mean they still exist, but the end result of government crackdown was that they no longer operate in the open the way they used to, and their methods of operation have changed. In the 1950s-80s, they extorted money via racketeering (what you see in movies when a gang member comes to a business and offers "protection" in exchange for money; reject it, and the member and his goons destroy your business or threaten your life) and had shootouts on the streets. Nowadays, it's more likely to be money laundering.

Needless to say, we can say with full confidence and a sense of black-and-white morality, that gangs are Bad, because of how much violence they encourage within the community.

BUT, there are certain things that aren't as black-and-white, because gangs usually exist to fill the needs of a society that the "legal" methods cannot meet. You feel powerless? You band together and intimidate other people, even if it becomes violent. Isn't that how Jacob formed the Rooks?

I want to sidebar about a great example of gangs filling unmet needs in what are shitty, harmful methods that would not be met at all otherwise: Human trafficking.

I'm not defending human trafficking by any means, but I would like to examine the conditions under which people are trafficked, their role in NYC, and the deeper implications in AC Rogue.

We know that smugglers are exploitative. The smugglers who lead North Koreans across the border into China and Mexicans into the United States demand huge sums of money from migrants (let's use "migrants" in this case since we're covering a lot of different groups who leave their homes for different reasons). These migrants pay this exorbitant amount to take a journey that they might not even live to see the end of.

However, we can understand that people who decide to take such a journey usually feel that this chance for a different life is better than staying in their current conditions. And that they are so desperate or at the end of their rope that this may be the best and only option. There is no other way to guarantee leaving for a better place.

The most glaring example of this in my mind is Sister Ping, who smuggled people into New York from her native province in China for years. She ran one of the biggest operations in the city; people died under her charge after paying basically what would have been a year's salary in the US. And yet, when Sister Ping passed, people flooded the streets of Chinatown to pay their respects. Because she granted them passage to the United States.

So yes. These things are bad, but people do end up using gang "services" because they could not acquire what they need otherwise.

But enough about Old New York. What about Old, Old New York? Like 1750s New York?

AC Rogue is not about the nuances of gang culture, so Hope Jensen's operations in New York outside of smuggling and experimenting on poison are pretty nebulous. Shay is supposed to be the complicated "hero" -- I would generously say anti-hero -- of Rogue who seeks to right the wrongs committed by Assassins. So he's presented as being in the right for crippling her supposed (we never get an actual confirmation, and Shay at this point only expects the worst out of the Assassins after their fuck-ups) plan to release poison gas on New York.

Poison gas aside, because of Shay's perspective, we are introduced to the gangs as criminals who extorted the Finnegans, but I wonder what other operations they ran? Were they also smuggling people into the city? Was Hope extorting businesses? Did she put money back into the city in other ways, ways we didn't see because we're looking at it through Shay's perspective? What were the needs that Old Old New York society that the gangs needed to fill?

We're arguably the hero for putting down criminals because of Shay and Monro, but I wonder if the formation of the Rooks in Syndicate would have looked very different if I were playing as a bystander or Assassin defector.

And morality debate aside, I'm very, very excited to look deeper into the Old Old New York gangs. They're like. The Grandfather of the Grandfather of the Godfather of the Modern NYC.

[brunuhvielle]

Assassin’s Creed: Rogue

Lady Hope Jensen

[bankaizen]

You’re late... again, Shay.

Hope! I didn’t want to do this.

[teecupangel]

What are your favorite 3-5 things about each Assassin's Creed game (can be anything from design, graphics, story, characters etc.) and some things you hate about each? (And tag some friends to share as well!)

I will try to keep these as short as possible.

Assassin’s Creed

What I love:

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad

The atmosphere and setting

The focus on the mystery for both the Third Crusades and the Modern Day

Everything the Rafiq of Damascus says

What I hate:

THERE IS NO SUBTITLE. Who in Ubisoft thought that would be a fucking good idea???

Altaïr can’t swim and I have accidentally made him jump into the waters more times than I can count.

At least tell me which part of the map I haven’t gotten the goddamn flag is.

Assassin’s Creed 2

What I love:

The prologue with the Auditores. It really makes the tragedy all the more impactful.

Armor of Altaïr!

That one trick where you can snipe your target from the rooftops by killing other guards and making him go to that specific location. XD

Punch out with the pope in Vatican.

Desmond kicking ass in the ending.

What I hate:

Fuck you Thieves’ Guild Challenges and your fucking time limits.

Actually, fuck all time limit based challenges, I’m talking to you, yeah, you, Assassin Tombs challenges. If it wasn’t for my desire to have the Armor of Altaïr and getting the plat I would have had the strength to ignore you.

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

What I love:

Assassin recruits and how they can do your job for you.

I will forever love how my friend tried to get me to play AC Brotherhood by showing me how I can whack people using a broom XD

Claudia becoming an Assassin <3

What I hate:

The fall of Monteriggioni TTATT

The loss of the Armor of Altaïr TTATT

Fuck you, Cesare.

Assassin’s Creed Revelations

What I love:

Altaïr.

Darim.

Altaïr being an old man going for a walk while Masyaf is under attack and just summoning ghost Assassins to take care of the Mongols XD

All of Altaïr’s memory seals in general.

Ezio’s new outfit. Fuuurrrr.

That CGI opening. Say what you want about Ubisoft, they’re one of video game companies who make the best CGI videos and trailers.

Ezio singing in that minstrel outfit XD

Ezio finally seeing Desmond’s ‘picture’

What I hate:

Yusuf’s death TTATT

Sofia ending up as a damsel in distress in the final act. At least she got to drive the getaway wagon.

Altaïr dying all alone in an empty library TTATT

Assassin’s Creed 3

What I love:

Ratonhnhaké:ton, precious boi

Ratonhnhaké:ton and Haytham having different counters and finishers. It really shows how different they move and fight.

Being able to play as Desmond!

Desmond using the Apple to force the guards to kill Vidic then using it on anyone who tries to attack him.

What I hate:

That board game. I never understood how to play it.

The unchangeable end of Ratonhnhaké:ton’s people.

William Miles in general.

Juno in general.

The ending TTATT

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag

What I love:

100% sync means Edward must pickpocket the Templars while they were talking about their plans which meant he canonically pickpocket’ed them.

Sea shanties.

The sailing gameplay in general.

Freedom Cry!

What I hate:

Blackbeard’s and Mary’s death.

I love how this shows the end of the Pirates’ Golden Age but goddamn, I hate how most of them died. I cried at the ending when Anne was singing and it shows all the friends they lost.

The reminder that even that hopeful ending of Edward and Jenny sailing back to England and the epilogue with young Haytham is nothing but a prologue to the tragedy that would soon follow Haytham’s childhood.

Assassin’s Creed Rogue

What I love:

Mortars. Rain of fire! Just keep firing mortars while strafing even if Morrigan is underleveled!

Grenade launcher and just berserking everyone and letting them take care of everything.

Hope Jensen and her Assassin robes.

What I hate:

How Shay wouldn’t have defected if they had just all sat down and fucking talked to one another.

Fucking pigeons.

Hope’s death TTATT

Adéwalé’s death TTATT

Learning my PS4 controller cannot fully tilt so Shay was never sprinting after I almost gave up on the final mission because I couldn’t catch up to Liam and I only knew about it after switching to the controller that never recognize me pressing the ‘down’ button ever and finally seeing Shay sprint for the first time.

Assassin’s Creed Unity

What I love:

Arno, the poor wet silly man.

How it shows a different kind of Assassins and Templars with the Assassins actually trying to stop the revolution while the Templars are off having a civil war with the moderates and the radicals.

The detective sidequests.

How Paris changes as the main story is progressed and the Revolution starts in full swing.

Getting the Eagle of Suger before finishing the main game and dlc and using it to make open combat easier (and one I usually wrongly write as Sugar)

What I hate:

Germaine as the final antagonist felt meh for me.

The cliché love interest dies in his arms that Ubisoft is very fond of.

Being unable to see the most horrifying glitches first hand XD

Okay, in all seriousness, how the whole trailer of Arno and the three Assassins was just a promotion for the multiplayer aspect. It would have been nice if they were part of the storyline as well.

Chevalier de Leon being a sidequest character only :(

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate

What I love:

Evie and her chameleon stealth skill XD

Jack the Ripper DLC

Everything about the Kenway manor.

Desmond the Dog <3

Lydia’s missions and the map.

What I hate:

Having to get 1st place on the carriage horses to get the platinum

The ending of the modern day where Rebecca gets shot and it's just… taken care of in the background later on.

This being the final game we see Juno being a threat and then she gets off’ed in the comics.

Assassin’s Creed Origins

What I love:

Bayek in general

Bayek using the Apple to bash a man’s head repeatedly

The cat sidequest XD

The fact that you can do the loot boxes using ingame currencies that they never implemented in Odyssey or Valhalla.

Discovery Mode.

Unicamel

What I hate:

Khemu’s death :(

Cleopatra betraying them. I knew it was going to happen, I still hated it though.

Ubisoft deciding to change how Amunet killed Cleopatra from actively killing her to just handing her the poison so she could kill herself.

Not being able to change Aya’s gear in her missions. I’d even be okay to locking it so I can only pick the so many twin daggers I have in my inventory!

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

What I love:

Kassandra shoving the cyclop’s eye in a goat’s ass and having a trophy pop up if you kill the actual goat and get the eye back.

Barnabas

The fire armor and weapon set that lets me kill enemies 10+ levels above me by just watching them burn.

The 'you fucked my padre and killed my madre' sidequest

What I hate:

Brasidas’ death TTATT

Phoebe’s death TTATT

I am so tired of the portrayal of Hades and Persephone’s relationship as being toxic and abusive.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

What I love:

Hytham

Being able to upgrade Ravensthorpe.

Orlog… I don’t know why but I enjoyed it.

France DLC with the semi-sandbox way you can assassinate targets.

What I hate:

Fuck the rock physics of this game.

The reason they decided to give Eivor so she would leave Ravensthorpe in the final chapter.

Actually, Final Chapter in general. The only thing I enjoyed in that one is learning Hytham is now teaching his own recruits.

Ragnarok DLC being a separate DLC that isn’t covered by the Season Pass.

(I haven’t finished Mirage yet so I can’t add it here, sorry)

uuuhhh, I guess I'll tag... @saberamane, and @thedragonqueen1998?

[shaycormacsource]

Shay Cormac - Hope Jensen edits  ( 1 / 5 )

[evies-gauntlet]

Assassin’s Creed Rogue Remastered | Caress of Steel

[shaycormacaroni]

Hope Jensen + textpost

[akecrow]

happy margaret thatcher is dead day! x

[thatoneacblog]

--quick disclaimer: I realize Achilles didn’t realize what he was doing (like nearly everything he does) but it still ticked me off anyway. Just because the knowledge wasn’t there doesn’t mean the effects weren’t present.--

Something I noticed while scrolling through the AC Rogue wiki, like you do. 

A lot of the Colonial assassins that were active in the 1750′s were underage when they first met Achilles/were recruited into the brotherhood. 

Hope was fifteen when she was inducted into the brotherhood in 1747

Liam was seventeen when he was brought into the brotherhood in 1743

Shay was sixteen when Liam brought him to the assassins in 1748 

Kessegowasse was Sixteen when he was inducted into the brotherhood by Achilles and Liam in 1746

As far as I know the only assassins appearing in Rogue that joined when they were actual adults were Achilles, Chevalier, and Adewale. 

So here’s my moral dilemma here: 

the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that deals with many things, one of which is decision making, isn’t fully developed until you’re twenty-five. Until then you’re still technically an adolescent. 4/7 of the assassins appearing in Assassin’s Creed: Rogue were under the age of 25 when they joined the brotherhood. That’s 57.14%. Over half of them were adolescents! 

Imma say it louder for the people in the back: 

57.14% OF THE COLONIAL BROTHERHOOD WAS RECRUITED WHILE THEIR DECISION MAKING WAS IMPAIRED DUE TO THEIR BRAINS NOT BEING FULLY DEVELOPED!! 

being an assassin is a lifetime commitment iirc, I can’t recall anyone that joined the brotherhood and later left without some degree of trouble from their former brothers. (please correct me in the comments if you have an example) Even if it wasn’t meant to be a lifelong commitment, recruiting people with impaired decision making into a group that murders important religious, governmental, medical, and military figures is a pretty scummy thing to do,Templars or no, it’s still a big fucking deal.  Yet another shitty thing Achilles did. 

And I am in no way implying the Templars are any better, because the fucking Templars do it too! Edward was raising Haytham to be an Assassin before he died and then Reginald Birch took over and raised him to be a Templar. 

and don’t think I forgot Colonel Monro taking advantage of Shay’s recent trauma to bring him to the Templars, but that’s a whole different post. 

moral of the story: Don’t bring children and adolescents into the Assassin-Templar conflict, or any conflict for that matter. Thank you for coming to my TED-talk. 

anyway, sources under the cut. 

Prefrontal cortex maturation

what does the prefrontal cortex do? (it does a fuckton more than decision making I just focused on that for this post.) 

Shay 

Liam 

Hope 

Kessegowasse 

Haytham 

[peridot-tears]

Love how Steven Piovesan (Shay's VA) is like, "Lol, Shay's in love with Hope Jensen a hundred percent, but she doesn't feel the same, and it's similar to Edward Kenway's simping feelings for Mary Read," because yes, what a fantastic interpretation.

It is very cute to think of Hope being Shay's first serious, knee-softening crush. I know he'd been around by the time the game starts (he and Liam talk about the Galway girls, these boys were def getting pulled), but his feelings for Hope might've been the first to grow out of constant proximity to someone he actually gets to know long-term.

Also, he just likes strong authority figures Haytham.

[brunuhvielle]

Haytham & Hope

When I first met you, I already knew that from now on I will always love you. And you will always remain my lady...

[devisza]

"- Hope, I didn't want to do this.

- I trained you to do this. I expected nothing less."

[elisenin]

Be my Valentine tonight ❤️