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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It's NOT all not-fun and not-games for Connor

[(Anonymous)]

Ehhhh, Imperial Britain's already been leaked, complete with snazzy-looking screenshots and synopses. Fight atop a stagecoach! Change out the hood for a top hat in real time! Arkham style grapnel gun! MAXIMUM BRITISHNESS! Egad...

For what it's worth, Initiates (via the letters of Esesoa) had Esesoa mention that Connor had offered him (further) training at the Homestead in 1804, so that -- combined with the beginning and ending of Aveline's DLC story in Black Flag -- already offers a less obviously biased version of Connor's post-AC3 days.

(Re: "obvious bias" -- not only were there the infamous Marketing Analysis and Devils of the Caribbean/Pirates of Nightmares videos from Black Flag, but even in the Abstergo Employees Handbook the Connor blurb is right under such a "reinterpretation" of an Assassin-Templar conflict, in this case Shao Jun vs. the Jiajing Emperor... and if you check out Unity, take a look at the Modern Times "virtual experience" interface's story offerings.)

P.S. Lucasfilm has since replaced the old canonicity policy: now the movies/The Clone Wars/Rebels and all licensed works since the announcement of this 'reboot' are as canonical as each other, while all other prior works are non-canon.

Re: It's NOT all not-fun and not-games for Connor

[(Anonymous)]

Guilty admission: I usually disregards leaks, even trailers and whatnot with big franchises like AC. You really don't know whats true/untrue or just pretense. Guessing, conjecture and so on I love, but until it is official/cannot take it back/set in stone I disregard it. I bring with me enough expectations and bias into the game that I don't really need to be helped to it.

But if what you're saying is true (I am dying to trawl the internet for screenshots now. MUST RESIST), it really do sounds like AC's Imperial Britain will be everything I had hoped it not to be (especially if we get a male main playable of privilege and a stiff who flaunt his disregard for contemporary ideals). Then again 19th century Britain would be a fine launching pad for AC to explore the "Far East" (wince) as it is easily relatable from it's overrepresentation in literature, movies and history books. As long as we don't stay stuck in Britain but get to explore more world history in a respectful manner in regards to both the colonizers and the colonized then I am fine.

On Lucasfilm. I wouldn't really say its a change in canonicity policy as much as it's a reboot. The disregard of prior works in favor of later works is what a reboot is. The fact that they rebooted doesn't necessitate or equal a policy change in canonicity. Neither does the exclusion of EU. And it still seem to be applied (the motion pictures are still the most canon media). Anyways, I do think they still need it cause the sins of the past were just too delicious to not happen again and I will probably fund it again -_-;

But do you think it's a bad principle to apply to AC? Or maybe it shouldn't be applied?

Egad, I previously misfired!

[(Anonymous)]

Finally someone who agrees with me about 19th century Britain as "overrepresented"... and "especially if we get a male main playable of privilege"? That plus "British is trendy" will probably make Ubisoft MORE likely to go with such a player character, especially because "of privilege" screams Ezio to them, and considering how hard they tried to jam Arno into that mold without the personality which made Ezio actually liked... :/

I'd call Lucasfilm's case a mix of reboot and canonicity policy change, because instead of an EU they're going for a single canon level, no "single most canon", so for example Rebels and its prequel novel happened "as much" as the original movies did.

By the way, I've some more ruminating on the recent characters over in Discussion as "AC Character Discussion (forking from the Hope/Shay thread)", hopefully some of it interests you.

Re: It's NOT all not-fun and not-games for Connor

[(Anonymous)]

Disappointed anon would like to thank all of you for your kind replies.

On the topic of Star Wars and canonicity: I have mixed feelings about the reboot, but then again I've had mixed feelings about Lucasfilm in general for so long that it has stopped bothering me, and though I like to stick to canon and usually want to reconcile everything, I've started to apply methods from the more subversive parts of Tolkien fandom. If there are contradictory sources I accept those parts and interpretations as canon that make the most sense to me, and try not to dwell on those that don't. Yeah, that's kind of snooty, but at least I won't have to throw everything out of the window in case another reboot comes around at some point (you never know).

I think I might start interpreting AC in a similiar manner. Everything I played through is canon of course, but beyond that I'll take it or leave it as I see fit. Much less pitfalls of despair that way.

Concerning leaked content, of course they were going to do the obligatory Victorian London scenario. It's widely known that no interesting events took place anywhere else in the world during the 19th century after all.
In earnest now, it would be nice if they used that to show India and/or Africa, or perhaps the Opium Wars with China, and touched on the conflicts that arose from the expansion of the British Empire, but I'm not getting my hopes up.