head empty no thoughts just haytham in the entirety of this cutscene 🔥

like father like son

the sad thing is edward kenway was gay, but he never got to have sex with a man. unlike ezio auditore, who was straight but had gay sex on a weekly basis

he ate him up im afraid

Assassin's Creed + Text posts.

in honor of this post now that we can do actual polls.

I also wasn't the biggest fan of Forsaken. It sounded super interesting, but man it just...I dunno. It didn't feel right. Not much about it really caught me. Especially a lot of Connor's reactions. They felt really watered down, in a way. Things he was a lot angrier about in the game (and for damn good reason) were. Ack what are the words. He was less angrier than he should have been at some of those things if that makes sense?

I dunno. Tried to give Forsaken a chance and it just kinda wasn't my thing basically.

No yeah I agree. They kinda half assed what could have been an interesting and conflicting read and character study (with haytham as an unreliable narrator) but. Idk it fumbled. Especially when it came to Connor’s writing and autonomy (I wish there was a dual perspective tbh?? Like commentary being spliced here or there from Connor reading the journal being like “he is blowing hot air out his ass rn that is NOT what happened)

I said this before and I’ll say it again: ratonhnhaké:ton unironically going “damn maybe Haytham’s right I should have listened to him” is so intuitively wrong to me and kinda has a sour taste in my mouth with the narrative kinda... Justifying haytham’s manipulation of him by watering down his side of the story so much? And validating Ratonhnhaké:ton’s second guessing and guilt bc haytham was playing on that

Like “maybe I should have” or “maybe if I wasn’t” Bro you were being manipulated and used. By everyone around you. Especially by your colonizer father who only bothered to call you son in order to garner allyship to take revenge on a flaky templar while still belittling you and using loaded rhetoric like ‘saving you from your ignorance’. It’s not your fault. Please.

I haven’t reread it in yeeeaaarsbut I remember it fr leaving a sour taste in my mouth

Best thing about the book was leaving in his final speech but it felt somewhat incongruous to how Connor was written the rest of the book and it would have been greatly improved if he was given better treatment. Or y know. Have a novelization from his pov.

Hey whats with assassin’s creed and making their protags have a best friend they care about very dearly then to try and deny the bi allegations they introduce a woman who the protag is canonically very into who happens to share. Several personality traits and the same dynamic as the the best friend. As if that would be the thing to put the allegations to rest. Whats that about do you think

Hey whats with assassin’s creed and making their protags have a best friend they care about very dearly then to try and deny the bi allegations they introduce a woman who the protag is canonically very into who happens to share. Several personality traits and the same dynamic as the the best friend. As if that would be the thing to put the allegations to rest. Whats that about do you think

ok but the real tragedy of assassin's creed will always be the spiralling domino effect that underlies the series and that every protagonist is fundamentally just a pawn in a bigger game they'll never see and that they'll never be able to change because they are just a single piece of a puzzle which also means that every single tragedy that had happened to them doesn't matter to the predetermind bigger picture because it always had to happen the trauma was just collateral you can't escape it. altair watched his family die just so he could pass on a key. ezio's watched his family die so he could deliver one message that wasn't even meant for him. kassandra watched centuries rise and pass and empires crumble because she was only needed to pass on the staff to someone else.

explaining to gamers that “silent protagonist” does not necessarily mean “blank slate devoid of all personality, characterization and agency”

AC3 remaster is almost here and I’m EXCITED

Also silently praying Haytham doesn’t die this time and Connor just hugs him instead 😭

the lyrics in ezio's family mirage version translating to 'where is my home? who am i?'

in Randvi's room in the longhouse when you get the wrath of the druids DLC there's a letter from Hytham talking abt Azar where's he's like "she had to dress as the other gender and she's discovered that her true self is of neither" which is. SO funny to me he really said "her pronouns are they/them!!"