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teecupangel · 1 year

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Here I come once again, thoughts on the new chapter of the AC black flag comic?

Chapter 3 is available for free on Webtoons for those curious and it’s an action-packed chapter.

So here are my thoughts:

1) The action sequence was pretty neat. Ngl, Edward slapping shurikens out of his way is a bit funny to think about. Like... fuck blocking, Imma slap these highspeed projectiles because I'm Captain Edward James Kenway. XD

This does show just how far the Hidden Blades had gotten. Altaïr couldn’t counter using his blade or gauntlet because of how easy it would be for them to break but here’s Edward, blocking an incoming downward jump slash with a smile.

No notes. Just appreciating how far Hidden Blades had gotten. (Also, this is pretty on point since his grandson can use the actual blade as a parrying dagger in his game)

2) So… remember the whole “Dutch ships have been disappearing” info last chapter? Well, the ones who attack Edward are specifically called pirates in this chapter so the idea that they had a hand in the disappearance is looking more plausible. I’m still thinking there’s some kind of Yamatai defense system at play here though until I’m proven otherwise XD

3) Oh yeah, Noa’s showing us that, yeah, divergence in memories causes desyncing which we already know but instead of making Noa redo the entire memory (if there’s no checkpoint), it just bypassed the memory. Yeah? Where was that when Altaïr had to keep dying in the water because of me, Animus? XD

(Improvement of the Animus, most definitely.)

4) If there was any doubt that Noa was a Kenway, this amount of daddy issue is definitely Kenway.

5) So we finally have a name for the place that Edward is looking for: Angkor.

It’s an actual ancient place so I’m going to guess that Angkor in AC lore was built on the ruins of an Isu city of some kind. The mention of a tower is interesting though since whenever Isu BS is coming our way, we’re more used to hearing of a ‘temple’ and not a tower. Angkor Wart does have multiple towers that symbolize Mount Meru but it specified ‘tower’ in singular form so either it’s a different tower altogether or one of the towers. There’s also Pre Rup which has a central tower so that’s also a possibility.

In other words, ‘tower’ is quite vague and I hope we see Edward getting annoyed after seeing that there are a lot of towers in Angkor XD

Wikipedia’s page of Angkor does say that there were Japanese settlements alongside the remains by 17th century which works well with the timeline of this webtoon. Whether these settlers are connected to the Shimazu clan that attacked Edward or not though remains a mystery for now.

As for the POE, if it’s not an Apple (their go-to POE), it will be something connected to the religions practiced in Angkor itself and that’s… well… that leaves us with a lot of possibility. XD

#overall #it’s an entertaining chapter #i can’t believe i’m saying this #but i’m interested in what they have plan for the poe and all these isu bs #don’t know how to feel about noa yet #he has daddy issues sure #but he’s pretty much an audience surrogate at this point #we’ll see how it goes #ask and answer #assassin's creed #edward kenway #noa kim #teecup analyze more than necessary #by the way i don't count this as hatereading #as i am still iffy of noa's dna results #and his place in ac lore #i'm still going to give this a go #because the edward parts are pretty entertaining #and you can't just throw out 'shimazu' and not make me go #!!!????!!!!!?????????!!!!#so yeah #noa himself i'm unsure of #but i am here for the isu bs that's coming our way XD #teecup analyze and reacts to acft webtoon

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