Based on how neither Ezio nor Altaïr's conversations are interrupted from the outside I'm inclined to believe that both of them had faster-than-speech telepathic convos with their targets. It may have just taken longer for Ezio's version to get to the extent possible with Altaïr, as his ACR convos resemble Altaïr's more, although with the Borgias Ezio's got relatively long talks for himself, and I suppose it fits with the Italian Templars' corruption (from the supposed Templar ideal).
If only for plausibility's sake I suppose, it made sense for the ACR targets to mention their beliefs -- particularly Ezio's "Big Bad" when confronted in the Arsenal -- BEFORE you killed them.
If I recall, the red footprints were supposed to be a red herring (ya know, back when they wanted to keep suspense about what had happened only to underwhelm by writing her off as a footnote in Revelations), so yeah, Templar!Lucy (guess who called in the warehouse hit) or even Assassin!Lucy would both be intriguing. (I had my own Templar!Lucy idea but it was 'just' femmeslash and doesn't fit this prompt at all.)
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If only for plausibility's sake I suppose, it made sense for the ACR targets to mention their beliefs -- particularly Ezio's "Big Bad" when confronted in the Arsenal -- BEFORE you killed them.
If I recall, the red footprints were supposed to be a red herring (ya know, back when they wanted to keep suspense about what had happened only to underwhelm by writing her off as a footnote in Revelations), so yeah, Templar!Lucy (guess who called in the warehouse hit) or even Assassin!Lucy would both be intriguing. (I had my own Templar!Lucy idea but it was 'just' femmeslash and doesn't fit this prompt at all.)