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[teecupangel]

Have you ever read the Vox Populi series on AO3 by Aelwyn? (The author lets other writer's use the original characters they created in this series for their own assassin's creed fics, so long as give the Aelwyn credit in the A/N's.)

I find Desmond relationship dynamic with Charlie in this series very interesting. Their relationship gives me queer platonic life partners (QPR)/platonic soulmate vibes. It wouldn't surprise me if people mistake Charlie and Desmond close friendship for a romantic relationship.

So now I can't help but wonder if their friendship could of turned into a romantic relationship in a universe where event's played out differently. How to you think events of assassin's creed would have play out in a world where Desmond had someone to care about and lean on before he got taken by Abstergo?

How would Charlie's and Desmond's ancestors react to their descendents being in a romantic relationship together? (Maybe this AU happens in a world similar to the Visitorverse series by Riona, Salanaland and VampireBadger?)

Here’s the Vox Populi series by Aelwyn. It should be noted that all works are only visible to logged in AO3 users. 

I have read Vox Populi but I haven’t caught up yet because of, well, stuff. But I do remember Charlie (mainly because his ancestor is based on the Prince from Prince of Persia and because he was the one who saved Desmond). 

Here’s Visitorverse by Riona, salanaland, and VampireBadger and you said similar so I’m going to assume we’re not making a crossover between the two series.

For this one, you mentioned that you’re wondering what a world where Desmond had someone before everything happened with Abstergo would be like so this meant that he started his relationship with Charlie before he came into Abstergo’s radar.

Now, we can go two ways with this:

Route One: Abstergo doesn’t really care about their employees and Charlie and Desmond’s relationship was kept ‘a secret’ until Abstergo started checking Desmond Miles’ background. In this setup, Charlie would be put in the ‘Might not be an Assassin but must be cautious about’ pile and he’d most probably won’t be part of the recovery team to be sent to the Grand Temple. This has the highest chance of a bad end because Desmond lived in Vox Populi’s ‘verse because of Charlie. Without him, we’ll end up in Black Flag territory with Charlie being torn with thinking that Desmond left him or Desmond is really missing. 

The other route would be:

Abstegro most probably had a regular employee check up and it’s not the annual medical one. This one is more invasive and secretive as they’re doing background checks on people who are close or becoming close to their employees. Depending on how paranoid they are, this could go as far as checking the people close to those close to their employees. Regardless of how paranoid we’re making Abstergo is, Desmond will enter their database the moment he and Charlie start to go steady.

From there, Desmond’s kidnapping is inevitable and this route will converge with the ending of the first route.

That’s where a setup similar to the Visitorverse would come into play.

For this one, we’ll keep it simple. Desmond’s visitors are his Bleeds (including Haytham). If you wish to add more, go ahead but, if you do, you risk the chance of muddling the central plot which is either rewriting Desmond’s storyline or Desmond and Charlie’s relationship.

Anyway, Desmond’s visitors would be the reason why he didn’t die. Maybe, in this setup, those who visits him will have certain POEs or be in certain locations the same time they’re visiting Desmond as he activates the device. Their connection is what saves Desmond and he lives (up to you if Desmond loses his visitors in the process or not). 

In this one, either we let Desmond leave the Grand Temple unscathed or we go for the opening of Vox Populi and Abstergo’s Recovery Team finds him, only to be surprised when he ‘wakes’ up and they take him to an Abstergo facility of your choosing. This is where the route can get very close to Vox Populi as Desmond can go to Sofia Rikkin’s facility and the only one missing is Charlie in that setup. If you don’t want to go down that route, Philadelphia facility is still up and running during that time and Dr Sung could be the one in charge of Desmond’s Animus session (this route will also give a chance for Desmond to save Dr Sung although their relationship would be rocky since he did kill Daniel Cross).  

Regardless, Desmond escapes the facility sooner or later and we can go down two routes once more:

Route 1: Desmond either thinks Charlie knew about him or not (or Abstergo had briefed him about Desmond). Either way, Desmond doesn’t contact Charlie for both of their safety. This could be the (downer) ending or Charlie would start looking for Desmond, asking the hard questions that leads him in hot waters. In this one, Charlie would be contacted by the Assassins who would tell him Desmond is dead and he becomes an Assassin to ‘avenge’ Desmond (while Desmond does his own thing).

Route 2: Abstergo kidnaps Charlie and uses him as bait for Desmond. Desmond saves him but he wasn’t fast enough.

In both routes, Charlie starts his Animus sessions (voluntarily in route 1, forced in route 2) and he’s already suffering from the Bleeding Effect by the time Desmond saved him.

And from there, you can have hurt/comfort and maybe fluff if you want to go down that route.

(If you removed the visitors earlier, this is the part where they returned and Charlie gets visited by his ancestors as well as something triggered when Desmond and Charlie reunited, either through an unknown POE that Desmond stole while he was saving Charlie or the power of love, take your pick. From there, we can get Altaïr and Malik being teased because of their descendants while they just take it in strides as they’re at that point in their life that they’ve become close friends. Desmond would be a little shit and call Malik ‘uncle’ but Charlie is a bit intimidated by Altaïr… in the beginning anyway)

[briankang]

happy (slightly) late birthday and merry christmas to my bestie, my beloved, my one and only, my jisung to my christopher, the hantual + changbintual, my loveliest @lonelystreetlight ! i love you so so so much. 

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forever obsessed with percy being weird. off-putting. strange even. a cryptid maybe. an urban legend if I may. my boy is the son of one of the oldest, most powerful gods, has been in FBI's records since the age of twelve, fought and won two wars against immortal beings, went to hell and back. I think he's allowed to be a little odd.

[quarklynx]

here’s my cosplay of that old lady with a sword

[artrealla]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The musical episode.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[oh-gh0st]

i heart these rivals so much. maybe they'll kill each other. maybe they'll kiss. maybe they'll make ou

[pinkgibbon]

anton chigurh goes to stardew valley

[umblrspectrum]

hi heres art so you pay attention to me now go read the tags

[deep-space-lines]

okay but like. I just had the weirdest thought about that ‘don’t look I’m naked’ comic. Which is that that’s essentially the same thing Adam and Eve did after they ate the fruit of knowledge of good&evil. So I feel like the theological implications of that could kneecap Gabe if he doesn’t think V1 is a being with free will.

yeah ok. i dunno man. is this anything

((side note. this isn’t necessarily meant to be in-character or story-accurate or take place at any particular point in time, just a way to explore some Thoughts. i was also imagining more that V1’s words aren't actually spoken, more like Gabriel’s more articulate interpretation of whatever garbled mechanical noise V1 is using to communicate. I think an angel could do that.))

and then they fucked nasty the end

[lover-of-mine]

#Zahra was having a really bad pr day

[muzzleroars]

hello? hello?

can you hear me?

[uncanny-tranny]

The whole "breasts shouldn't be politicized because the primary purpose of breasts is to feed babies!" can be a fine jumping-off point, but I really wish people thought deeper than that when we talk about the ways in which bodies are politicized and restricted.

Like, why's it that when we talk about breasts, they must have some Higher Purpose? It's true that breasts aren't inherently sexual, but they aren't valuable solely because they can potentially feed a baby. A human body doesn't have to serve a Higher Purpose in order for it to not be legislated against or policed, and I just wish people would remember it isn't always about babies, about other people, about anything else other than the people who have that body.

[coralnoodle]

someone signed too many contracts

[journey-to-the-attic]

one thing about ik is that she will always reach out

[alice-za-kat]

Trying to draw HK with ULTRAKILL artstyle