Kink Meme - Assassin's Creed pt. 6

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Assassin's Creed Kink Meme pt.6
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≈ Comment anonymously with a character/pairing and a kink/prompt.

≈ Comment is filled by another anonymous with fanfiction/art/or any other appropriate medium.

≈ One request per post, but fill the request as much as you want.

≈ The fill/request doesn't necessarily need to be smut.

≈ Don't flame, if you have nothing good to say, don't say anything.

≈ Have a question? Feel free to PM me.

≈ Last, but not least: HAVE FUN!

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Re: Teaser!

[(Anonymous)]

*smirk*

So I figure, he learned a decent amount of English from Maria, some of it rude and/or dirty, but in those days English spelling was basically exactly how the words were pronounced, not all fossilized and standardized the way it is now. So when Altair goes to write something in English, he has to first translate it in his head, then figure out how to write it in this wacky left to right alphabet. So unless he remembers that something has a weird spelling, he spells it like it's Arabic: phonetically, minus vowels.

Especially since the vowels he hears the modern assassins saying are not the vowels he learned from Maria.

Haytham's spelling, too, should have been more irregular, but I didn't have any points of reference available when I was writing, for how an upper middle class, fairly intellectual Brit of that time period would spell. A well educated Syrian cult leader from the Third Crusade who married an English woman and wound up in a computer in a cave in 2012, listening to three twentysomethings bicker, insult each other, and illegally download The Walking Dead? Yeah I can just make up how that dude spells.

Re: Teaser!

[(Anonymous)]

Another language related headcanon that I have, that might or might not make it into the story:

Haytham has basically a travel-guide level ability to speak Arabic. Important phrases, you know, like:

Which way to Damascus?
How much for the hummus?
You are overcharging me for this moldy hummus.
I know you're only doing it because I'm English.
Your beer tastes like camel urine.
Keep your hands off my sister.
I told you to keep your hands off my sister.
You got what you deserved, creep.
Stop calling me a pothead.
I swear I'm not a pothead.
Why do you insist I'm a pothead?
Where do they make the eunuchs?


You know... The essential phrases.