Bearded vulture Desmond?
Considering bearded vulture can be seen in the Arabian Peninsula, putting Desmond in 12th century Levant would be fun. He’s usually just chilling, watching Altaïr doing his missions with the look of someone who is proud of the accomplishments of another person but keeping a respectable distance.
But in the eyes of the people who notice Desmond, they have another word for him…
A stalker.
To be more exact, many of the Assassins believe the vulture stalking Altaïr is some sort of ‘blessing’. A herald of death that has taken a liking to Altaïr.
A show of Altaïr’s skills as an Assassin.
It wasn’t exactly a bad thing and the vulture doesn’t try to do anything other than stare.
Of course, Kadar believes this because Altaïr is so cool, it’s only natural to have some kind of being (perhaps even mythical) looking over him.
Malik thinks the entire thing is stupid and the vulture probably liked following Altaïr because it knows Altaïr would leave bodies it can scavenge.
An Assassin from Egypt tells them about how Ancient Egyptians believe all vultures are female so there are whispers that the vulture may have been the reincarnation of Altaïr’s late mother, looking over her son in her current form.
Abbas capitalized on this and annoys Altaïr, telling him that the vulture is most probably some poor woman who made the mistake of falling in love with Altaïr and losing her life because of his ‘personality’. This is crueler if Desmond starts appearing to him after Adha’s death but the Brotherhood (and Abbas) doesn’t know that.
Altaïr just ignores all of these and even ignores the vulture.
It wasn’t doing anything and it wasn’t getting in the way of his missions so there was no reason to shoo it off.
Desmond, on the other hand, has a problem.
He cannot… for the life of him… understand human language.
No matter what he does, he just can’t.
He tried listening in to their conversations but he just can’t understand anything.
Sometimes, he hears names he remember like Altaïr, Kadar, Malik… Abbas.
But any other words?
Nope.
Then…
Altaïr was stabbed by Al Mualim for failing…
No.
Al Mualim said it was an illusion.
But how…
“You should really rest today. Just because that old geezer used the Apple to show you an illusion doesn’t mean you’re not tired. You still felt the pain of getting stabbed, you idiot, and that takes a lot on someone. But noooo. Not you. Of course, not you, you overachieving bastard.”
And who kept whispering to Altaïr’s ear this entire time!?
(aka: Desmond can’t understand human language when he turned into a vulture and Altaïr starts hearing Desmond’s thoughts after resisting the Apple’s control the first time. Why? Isu bs.)
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Do you think that -in the inevitable MK vs. his friends confrontation- Mei will accidentally seriously hurt him with the Samadhi fire? 🤔
Since strong emotions can cause it to run haywire, and there is nothing that would make her more afraid than having to fight her best friend.
There is NO way that they are completely done with the Samadhi fire.
(Unless she lost it?? Subodhi did say she 'once' wielded it. So not anymore???)
But yeah- I bet it would come back into play during the MK/Mei battle. Especially if LBD mistook MK‘s destiny for her own.
(Since that one vision she showed made it look like MK was burning before the world exploded. And she wanted everything he ended up having; the staff, his own powers, the Samadhi fire -indirectly, and well, a new title that implies destruction on a reality shattering scale.)
My view is that post the Embrace Your Destiny special, they resealed the Samadhi Fire (unsure if Mei still has her piece with her or if they successfully resealed it into 3 rings this time). We at the very least know she doesn't have it in s4 (MK has to save her in 4x01, she's worried about losing her sword in 4x05 which she didn't need with the Samadhi Fire in EYD, the Subodhi quote you mentioned). But, I don't think Mei using the Samadhi Fire again is completely out of the question. There are things that have come back that I never expected to be acknowledged again (The 1x01 seal being the same as the 4x01 and 4x14 flower fruit mountain seal was a huge shocker for me).
So the Samadhi Fire coming back into play with the MK/Mei battle? That would work super well! Especially with the way characters tend to reach for power and endanger their loved ones. It's a huge risk to take again, but if they feel they don't have any other choice it's something we know they're willing to resort to.
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how about that pikmin 4 demo eh
there’s pikmin in it <- of course
+1 anxious creature (reikan)
…completely unrelated to any of that, one of my custom icons is a meat round on a pastel background… why did i do that <- probably thought it was funny
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