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iseedeadpeoplePLAYER INFORMATION
➤ NAME: Liz
➤ AGE: 23
➤ JOURNAL:singitback
CHARACTER INFORMATION
➤ CHARACTER NAME: Desmond Miles
➤ SERIES: Assassin's Creed
➤ CHARACTER AGE: 25
➤ REFERENCE: Here
➤ CANON POINT: Post AC3
➤ SEXUALITY: Bisexual, but leaning more towards women. On the Kinsey scale he'd be a 2.5. He flirts easily with Lucy and in an alternate timeline he gets married and has a kid. However, there are also a few hints that he's not the most selective of people. During a monologue when he was reminiscing of the time he worked as a bartender, he talks about how beautiful everyone looks, not just the women. Plus, in a different alternate timeline, he runs off to San Francisco.
➤ PERSONALITY: Desmond’s kinda a surly, distrustful guy at first, though granted, if I’d been kidnapped for science, I’d probably be a little annoyed and wary too, especially considering he was given an ultimatum of “cooperate or die” basically. Later when he’s with his fellow Assassins again, his personality relaxes and while he never really loses his dickishness, it seems a little less scathing when he’s among friends. He doesn’t really have the brightest outlook on life either. Because of this, he has a pretty dark sense of humor. Black as night and sarcastic as anything, it is. So his jokes, while hilarious, are basically just met with “Desmond, not cool” at most every turn.
Despite having never finished his training because he ran away from the Assassins at the age of 16 to get away from becoming, y’know, a killer, he does still have the ability to think like an Assassin and knows how to cover his tracks, and reveal information without actually giving anything away, considering he did manage to live off the grid for a number of years. Though, admittedly, his reasoning was to hide more from his family - and more specifically his father - than to hide from the Templars, who he still doubted really existed. He also has a pretty astonishing memory of his own, able to recall codes and passwords without writing them down and generalized historical events.
He’s also really opinionated and curious, and relatedly doesn’t know when to shut his damn mouth most of the time and hates when people only tell him half the story, so he asks a lot of questions when he’s conversing, usually. However, despite how talkative he seems, usually he just gets right to the point with what he’s trying to say and keeps his sentences pretty direct, and his talkative nature is more a diversionary tactic than anything else; i.e. if he can keep asking questions of other people, they won’t think to ask him too many questions or ask him to get too in depth about his life because even after living on his own for nearly 10 years, he still never wanted to tell anyone about the fact that his father was essentially training him to become a child soldier.
Eventually he matures some more over the course of the games after waking up from his coma and sees the fate of the Assassins and the world as his responsibility and pretty much completely puts his personal feelings aside to do what's necessary, whether that be killing a large number of Abstergo's guards, going back in the Animus and making his tenuous grip on his sanity slip further, or killing himself in order to save the world.
Desmond is designed, canonly, to represent the demographic for the average Assassin's Creed player. He's an avatar for the player to experience the gameplay, and thusly, his character traits are muted; dimmed so the player can place themselves in the game without battling with a remarkable protagonist. The game, while reliant on the Modern Story, is not based on the Moderns. The strong characters come through during Desmond's time in the Animus. Desmond is a little of many things, and not a weak character, but he was made to be entirely replaceable. While he’s arguably the main character, he’s made to be the everyman, and his job in canon is to basically just play the videogame that the player is also playing. In short, while he is actually the character that the player is actually playing as, he is a very minor character all things considered and tailored so the few strong personality traits he has can have other things filled in between them.
➤ POWERS: Eagle Vision which grants him the ability to see people's allegiances (though not always accurately) and hidden messages.
➤ SUITABILITY: He dealt with being a test subject pretty well in canon. And at least this time it's a test he'll actually enjoy being part of because it's based around sex, which he would probably end up doing entirely on his own with the people he ended up meeting anyway. There is basically no reason for him to not enjoy it in his mind. Even if he's technically being "forced" he's a genuinely sexual person and having sex with most everyone he knows comes really naturally to him, so he won't view it as being forced, and more than likely no one's going to need to step in to force him anyway.
➤ FIRST PERSON EXAMPLE: Hey, uh... [He was addressing this to who again?] Dad. [Why mess with a good thing.] I guess. Shit where do I even start..?
I'm not so sure how long I've been here exactly and I probably should have been keeping better track. I guess I was more focused on being alive again to care what the date was for a while. [He laughs weakly.]
So. I'm not too sure if any of this is real or what's going on but. Claudia's here. [Desmond's accent changes just the slightest bit, nearly matching the way Ezio would have sounded.] And I know that's impossible. She died centuries ago. But I don't think this is a hallucination. I've never been... Me in one of them before.
And she's not the only dead person around either. Clay's here too. He's... Kind of a mess as usual. Was he this bad when you knew him or is this completely the Animus's fault? I don't even know how to deal with him. Do I apologize and hope that manages to get through or should I just... [He sighs.] He keeps getting himself hurt and I swear it's just to spite me. So apologizing would probably only make things worse.
I wish I had you or Rebecca or hell even Shaun here to help me deal with all this. I hope you guys are doing well back home. [A beat.] And I'm sorry.
➤ THIRD PERSON EXAMPLE: Okay, access code to escape his bedroom, check. Access code to escape either into the conference room or out of the whole damn building, working on it. Slowly but surely. Very slowly. Desmond must’ve checked every damn file and email and bookmark and reminder on Lucy’s computer by now looking for it – the closest he got was an email about Vidic’s access pen or whatever they actually called it and that really wasn’t going to help unless he actually got his hands on the damn thing and after looking all over his desk for it, he realized that just wasn’t going to happen tonight.
But hey, this room was practically covered in windows, so maybe the door wasn’t the best means of escape anyway! Hard to say how far up he was considering everything outside was washed out as hell – seriously, what was this place supposed to be? A lighthouse? – but he might still be able to smash a window and climb his way to safety. He’d done enough climbing over the past few days that he could probably figure it out in reality too. …He’d also done enough falling off tall buildings for today so maybe that wasn’t the best idea.
Okay, yeah, maybe just waiting for the code was for the best.
--
And also his test drive meme thread
➤ NAME: Liz
➤ AGE: 23
➤ JOURNAL:
singitbackCHARACTER INFORMATION
➤ CHARACTER NAME: Desmond Miles
➤ SERIES: Assassin's Creed
➤ CHARACTER AGE: 25
➤ REFERENCE: Here
➤ CANON POINT: Post AC3
➤ SEXUALITY: Bisexual, but leaning more towards women. On the Kinsey scale he'd be a 2.5. He flirts easily with Lucy and in an alternate timeline he gets married and has a kid. However, there are also a few hints that he's not the most selective of people. During a monologue when he was reminiscing of the time he worked as a bartender, he talks about how beautiful everyone looks, not just the women. Plus, in a different alternate timeline, he runs off to San Francisco.
➤ PERSONALITY: Desmond’s kinda a surly, distrustful guy at first, though granted, if I’d been kidnapped for science, I’d probably be a little annoyed and wary too, especially considering he was given an ultimatum of “cooperate or die” basically. Later when he’s with his fellow Assassins again, his personality relaxes and while he never really loses his dickishness, it seems a little less scathing when he’s among friends. He doesn’t really have the brightest outlook on life either. Because of this, he has a pretty dark sense of humor. Black as night and sarcastic as anything, it is. So his jokes, while hilarious, are basically just met with “Desmond, not cool” at most every turn.
Despite having never finished his training because he ran away from the Assassins at the age of 16 to get away from becoming, y’know, a killer, he does still have the ability to think like an Assassin and knows how to cover his tracks, and reveal information without actually giving anything away, considering he did manage to live off the grid for a number of years. Though, admittedly, his reasoning was to hide more from his family - and more specifically his father - than to hide from the Templars, who he still doubted really existed. He also has a pretty astonishing memory of his own, able to recall codes and passwords without writing them down and generalized historical events.
He’s also really opinionated and curious, and relatedly doesn’t know when to shut his damn mouth most of the time and hates when people only tell him half the story, so he asks a lot of questions when he’s conversing, usually. However, despite how talkative he seems, usually he just gets right to the point with what he’s trying to say and keeps his sentences pretty direct, and his talkative nature is more a diversionary tactic than anything else; i.e. if he can keep asking questions of other people, they won’t think to ask him too many questions or ask him to get too in depth about his life because even after living on his own for nearly 10 years, he still never wanted to tell anyone about the fact that his father was essentially training him to become a child soldier.
Eventually he matures some more over the course of the games after waking up from his coma and sees the fate of the Assassins and the world as his responsibility and pretty much completely puts his personal feelings aside to do what's necessary, whether that be killing a large number of Abstergo's guards, going back in the Animus and making his tenuous grip on his sanity slip further, or killing himself in order to save the world.
Desmond is designed, canonly, to represent the demographic for the average Assassin's Creed player. He's an avatar for the player to experience the gameplay, and thusly, his character traits are muted; dimmed so the player can place themselves in the game without battling with a remarkable protagonist. The game, while reliant on the Modern Story, is not based on the Moderns. The strong characters come through during Desmond's time in the Animus. Desmond is a little of many things, and not a weak character, but he was made to be entirely replaceable. While he’s arguably the main character, he’s made to be the everyman, and his job in canon is to basically just play the videogame that the player is also playing. In short, while he is actually the character that the player is actually playing as, he is a very minor character all things considered and tailored so the few strong personality traits he has can have other things filled in between them.
➤ POWERS: Eagle Vision which grants him the ability to see people's allegiances (though not always accurately) and hidden messages.
➤ SUITABILITY: He dealt with being a test subject pretty well in canon. And at least this time it's a test he'll actually enjoy being part of because it's based around sex, which he would probably end up doing entirely on his own with the people he ended up meeting anyway. There is basically no reason for him to not enjoy it in his mind. Even if he's technically being "forced" he's a genuinely sexual person and having sex with most everyone he knows comes really naturally to him, so he won't view it as being forced, and more than likely no one's going to need to step in to force him anyway.
➤ FIRST PERSON EXAMPLE: Hey, uh... [He was addressing this to who again?] Dad. [Why mess with a good thing.] I guess. Shit where do I even start..?
I'm not so sure how long I've been here exactly and I probably should have been keeping better track. I guess I was more focused on being alive again to care what the date was for a while. [He laughs weakly.]
So. I'm not too sure if any of this is real or what's going on but. Claudia's here. [Desmond's accent changes just the slightest bit, nearly matching the way Ezio would have sounded.] And I know that's impossible. She died centuries ago. But I don't think this is a hallucination. I've never been... Me in one of them before.
And she's not the only dead person around either. Clay's here too. He's... Kind of a mess as usual. Was he this bad when you knew him or is this completely the Animus's fault? I don't even know how to deal with him. Do I apologize and hope that manages to get through or should I just... [He sighs.] He keeps getting himself hurt and I swear it's just to spite me. So apologizing would probably only make things worse.
I wish I had you or Rebecca or hell even Shaun here to help me deal with all this. I hope you guys are doing well back home. [A beat.] And I'm sorry.
➤ THIRD PERSON EXAMPLE: Okay, access code to escape his bedroom, check. Access code to escape either into the conference room or out of the whole damn building, working on it. Slowly but surely. Very slowly. Desmond must’ve checked every damn file and email and bookmark and reminder on Lucy’s computer by now looking for it – the closest he got was an email about Vidic’s access pen or whatever they actually called it and that really wasn’t going to help unless he actually got his hands on the damn thing and after looking all over his desk for it, he realized that just wasn’t going to happen tonight.
But hey, this room was practically covered in windows, so maybe the door wasn’t the best means of escape anyway! Hard to say how far up he was considering everything outside was washed out as hell – seriously, what was this place supposed to be? A lighthouse? – but he might still be able to smash a window and climb his way to safety. He’d done enough climbing over the past few days that he could probably figure it out in reality too. …He’d also done enough falling off tall buildings for today so maybe that wasn’t the best idea.
Okay, yeah, maybe just waiting for the code was for the best.
--
And also his test drive meme thread
