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Brain Gunk
Jan. 24th, 2020 12:02 amSo I've been reading a lot of fanfic (that's what you do when you can't *play* what you want right) and is started up another AU fic idea in my head that once again my co-conspirator Trips is not around to bounce off of.
The Eye.
I HATE the way AC3 ends. I HATE IT. I hate everything that came after, I refuse to pay money to the rest of the franchise I *loath* AC Black Flag... yes there were pretty bits, and then there were the Native Americans but no. Fuck You. DESMOND LIVES.
So.
The Eye.
I've been reading https://archiveofourown.org/users/esama/pseuds/esama a lot of their time travel shenanigans, which are good. I highly recommend Stone Angel and Impermanence, personally but my brain wouldn't stop at all the pretty and demanded more...
Desmond, knowing that the war between the Brotherhood and Templars was nothing more than Juno's way of *kneecapping* the human race, and that it began in Altair's time, *with* Altair and the 'apple of Altair'... uses the Eye not to just create a new time line with himself in the past but *create* a new lifetime in the past. Umar has a second son. Altair has a younger brother. Everything Desmond *knows* of the next eight hundred years becomes fever dreams and nightmares and visions for the child Aquilar Ibn Al'Ahad who might just break the world, or remake it.
How different would things have been if both Altair and Malik were older brothers? How much more *thinking* would Altair have done, earlier, if it was not just his own pride on the line? how would the world have changed if just one small boy stood up to the great Al Mualim and said 'No. I don't want to kill for you. I'll Heal and study and spy, but I will not kill.'?
That's where my brain has been the last day or so as I wade through job applications and interviews and my co-conspirator is silent. I don't think it takes all that much to change a timeline. Small actions NOW have so much influence on the future.
The Eye.
I HATE the way AC3 ends. I HATE IT. I hate everything that came after, I refuse to pay money to the rest of the franchise I *loath* AC Black Flag... yes there were pretty bits, and then there were the Native Americans but no. Fuck You. DESMOND LIVES.
So.
The Eye.
I've been reading https://archiveofourown.org/users/esama/pseuds/esama a lot of their time travel shenanigans, which are good. I highly recommend Stone Angel and Impermanence, personally but my brain wouldn't stop at all the pretty and demanded more...
Desmond, knowing that the war between the Brotherhood and Templars was nothing more than Juno's way of *kneecapping* the human race, and that it began in Altair's time, *with* Altair and the 'apple of Altair'... uses the Eye not to just create a new time line with himself in the past but *create* a new lifetime in the past. Umar has a second son. Altair has a younger brother. Everything Desmond *knows* of the next eight hundred years becomes fever dreams and nightmares and visions for the child Aquilar Ibn Al'Ahad who might just break the world, or remake it.
How different would things have been if both Altair and Malik were older brothers? How much more *thinking* would Altair have done, earlier, if it was not just his own pride on the line? how would the world have changed if just one small boy stood up to the great Al Mualim and said 'No. I don't want to kill for you. I'll Heal and study and spy, but I will not kill.'?
That's where my brain has been the last day or so as I wade through job applications and interviews and my co-conspirator is silent. I don't think it takes all that much to change a timeline. Small actions NOW have so much influence on the future.
