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teecupangel · 1 year

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So I have an idea for a OC-centric Assassin's Creed fic that's set during the Philippine Revolution (the Spanish-era one) and I'm probably never gonna write it so might as well lay it out here anyway:

Modern Day setup is a random Filipino-Canadian dude (let's call him Ray) getting a job in UbisoftAbstergo Entertainment in Montreal. He boots up the Animus and checks out his ancestry (which is now the norm for any Abstergo employees working the Entertainment branch, it's considered bragging rights to have your ancestor be a candidate for a new game) so he's just sifting through his ancestry, checking out who his ancestors are when he loads a memory of a young man just having fun with his mates back in Spain. They're talking about making plans to publish their own newspaper to enlighten their people and open the eyes of the Spaniards to the inequality between Spain and one of its colonies.

The paper that would later be known as La Solidaridad.

It's an okay memory. Nothing too fancy in the eyes of this newbie who was born and raised in Canada and, yeah, sure he knows his mom was a Filipino, and he knows Tagalog (some of it anyway) but he doesn't understand the significance of any of these men, of what they tried to do.

He skips some of the next memories.

Then one of the dudes (who has some subtext with Ray's ancestor) invites him to come back to the Philippines with him, to create La Liga Filipina as part of the Propaganda Movement.

He agrees and, days later, his friend is being arrested and deported to Dapitan.

He tries to save his friend but his friend says no, something about how his death may save their nation. Instead, his friend gives him a brooch and tells him to find a Spanish-Filipino man only known by the name Guro. He finds this man who tells him that his friend had been a close ally of the Assassin Brotherhood. That his arrest wasn't just because they were pushing for equal rights for the Filipino people but because the Templars learned of his affiliation. Days later, his friend dies and he becomes part of the Brotherhood, to avenge his friend, which leads him to join forces with the Katipunan.

Ray thought it was interesting so he sent the first few memories to his boss. The next morning, he's getting kidnapped by people in hoods who tells him that he shouldn't access any more of those memories. That Abstergo wants more than just a nice premise for a game. He gets saved by another person in a hood. A young woman who delivers him back to Abstergo where a man by the name of Berg tells him about how his ancestor had been in possession of a certain artifact and that he needs to look into the other memories of his ancestor to find where he hid this artifact.

He's kept in Abstergo Entertainment 24/7, being told it's for his own protection because of the people who tried to capture him.

And while he's reliving his ancestor's memories, he starts to bleed as him.

And the one who helps him through the bleed is the woman who saved him from getting kidnapped and taught him how to control the bleed. A woman who enjoyed singing sea shanties.

He reaches the part where the Americans 'save' the Philippines from Spanish rule but with tremendous losses. Before he can continue, he's yanked out of the Animus and the woman kills the people monitoring his sessions before she explains that she's been a double agent all along. That she's been using Abstergo's focus on his session to slowly download a large amount of data that Abstergo keeps on their server. All of the data of Sample 17. She asks him if he wants to stay here with the Templars or try his luck with the Assassins.

And Ray, propelled by the memories and feelings of his ancestors, joins her in breaking out from Abstergo's facility.

Unorganized Notes:

The initial name for Ray's ancestor is Miguel Palomo and he's meant to either be half-Filipino half-Spanish or an illegitimate son of a Spanish officer with one of his 'local' servants. Palomo is a common Spanish name that means either pigeon or dove.

Ray is short for Raynaldo, not Raymond

In case it wasn't clear, his ancestor was bff (maybe more???) with Jose Rizal

Jose Rizal didn't mean for the revolution to happen, many experts even say that he didn't want such bloodshed (the entire premise of the Propaganda Movement is to make the Philippines of equal footing to Spain while staying part of Spain and many of them even use the term fatherland and motherland to describe the Philippines and Spain)

There is a female assassin in his memories who is only known as Maya. She seems to know Rizal and may or may not be the real inspiration of the character Maria Clara as she may or may not be the illegitimate child of a Spanish priest

(there's a lot of illegitimate children in this fic by Spanish dudes. it's kinda a thing back then)

The name of the doubleagent who helps Ray is most definitely going to be Atoli and the name itself is meant to hint her Assassin background (Atoli in Japanese is written as アトリor 花鶏 which is the Japanese word for the Brambling bird)

Atoli is bleeding because she's part of the Animi Training Program, specifically, she bleeds as Shay Cormac

The artifact in question is actually part of the brooch Rizal gave Miguel and the location of the rest are hinted in the letters he wrote during his time in Dapitan (letters that have been confiscated by the guards and given to the Templars)

The Spanish government of the Philippines is full of Templars and Templar allies

The Templars also supervised the selling of the Philippines to the Americans as a way to throw off the Assassins in Europe and America from taking interest in the Philippines

I might hint at Aguinaldo having Templar ties or maybe coming to the side of the Templars and that's the reason why Bonifacio was arrested

Antonio Luna and other members of the Propaganda Movements will make an appearance one way or another (and Antonio Luna's death by being assassinated by his own men will be hinted)

Miguel will also help his other friends who got arrested during the revolution to leave the Philippines (Mariano Ponce) and is secretly helped by his other friends who cannot publicly help the Katipunan (Marcelo H. del Pilar who was dying by then, the Luna brothers)

To be completely honest, this is meant to have a bittersweet/depressing ending because, in the end, everything Miguel did was for nothing. The Philippines just changed masters and it would be decades before the country can truly say they were independent

#there are many reasons why i cannot write this #mainly because my memory of philippine history is more or less barebone #miguel's story is meant to be a more depressing version of connor's #ray's story is meant to be a more 'maybe the same maybe not' version of desmond's #without the whole chosen one thing #there's a corrupt priest in this one too because that's part of the course #there's a reason why the philippines made the separation of state and church clear #i want to add a canon assassin but the timeline of the philippine revolution makes that hard #everyone is gay for jose rizal #i dont make the rules #assassin's creed #fic idea: assassin's creed #oc #my oc story

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