Expanding World
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madimpossibledreamerSo, sorry readers, but I got the flu or a cold or something and have been spending half my time coughing like a banshee and half my time sleeping. New chapter of Shadowed Suspicion maybe 12/20 (assuming I recover enough to write one by then). (I have been conscious enough to post something prewritten but that's about all.)
~Dreamer~
Main Points:
Arrow/Assassin's Creed
Summary: Desmond learns about the world he's woken up in.
Word Count: 825
Rating: Teen
His body had been retrieved by Team Arrow, an idea that somehow hadn’t occurred to his friends. Shaun and Rebecca and William were fine, from what they could tell—and Rebecca and Felicity would absolutely love each other. Desmond’s not sure he’s ready to see them yet, though, and Team Arrow are hardly going to force him to do anything he doesn’t want to do, an idea that pretty much had never crossed his mind as being a possibility and has earned his loyalty perhaps better than anything else anyone’s ever done.
Juno was still a threat, but they were working on it. He’s not sure if he wants to go out in the field again, so he doesn’t. He probably will have to, eventually, but they’re still working on a Juno Game Plan, and they’ll let him know if he’s absolutely required. Until then, they’re not going to push. He’s been able to hide allies and rescuees when they come into the club and use his drinks mixing knowledge, so he’s definitely enjoying that.
Oliver had been in the Animus. He’s not sure why he finds that surprising, but he does. It’s nice to sometimes just talk about Ezio’s life from an outside perspective, or gripe about the Bleeding Effect. Half the time the whole Team Arrow family just speaks in Italian to pander to Oliver’s issues. A quick ‘my story’s much like Ezio’s’ is honestly enough to give him a pretty good idea of the whole picture.
Desmond’s never felt at home or at ease anywhere besides maybe New York, but on Team Arrow, he has something like the Auditore family, before their unfortunate demise. They’re all crazy and scandalous in their own way, but to them, he is family. Then again, their family is more bond than blood, in the end. It helps put him at ease when he Bleeds, too.
Tommy has Eagle Vision, and his father is indeed a Templar. That was trained by a group of assassins following Ra's al Ghul, described by Oliver as a modern-day Al Mualim, and occasionally helps them for his own reasons. He’s dropped in now and then, and his sarcastic words to Desmond remind him, uncomfortably, of Haytham (because some part of him still says ‘me’ and some part of him still says ‘father’).
Malcolm is definitely disapproving of the relationship between his son and Oliver, but then, apparently the two have tried to kill each other fairly often in the past, so it’s only to be expected. Desmond honestly thinks it’s sweet (the relationship, not Malcolm)—it’s not like same-sex relationships were unheard of on the Farm, even if the women had been pushed to have at least a few children to keep the Brotherhood going, and he’d been a bartender in New York for chrissakes. They’re good for each other.
Awkwardly, Thea is both Oliver and Tommy’s sister (apparently Moira Queen and Malcolm Merlyn had done the deed at some point), and from a very few lingering looks at Tommy might have had a crush on her half-brother at some point, but she’s also happy for the two, if the smiles and teasing are any indication. Besides, she has a boyfriend herself—Roy Harper, an Assassin recruit he’s barely met. From what he’s seen, Thea’s training is coming along well.
John Diggle is a good man, and very frequently, he and Desmond will find themselves being the advisors with common sense. It forges a shared sense of comradery that’s like nothing else.
Felicity could honestly be Rebecca’s twin sister, apart from the babbling, which is honestly a little amusing.
There are others who show up now and then—Nyssa al Ghul and her Assassin partner-in-every-way Sara Lance, lawyer Laurel Lance, Captain Lance who hates all things Arrow and all things Oliver and is the only one in the city still fully convinced that the two are the same if only because only one person could cause him that much headache…
They’re thinking of bringing him in on it. Yet another sign that Oliver is completely insane, but by this point, Desmond’s actually fairly used to it, given that, yes, it’s pretty much Ezio’s brand of insanity.
~Dreamer~
Main Points:
Arrow/Assassin's Creed
Summary: Desmond learns about the world he's woken up in.
Word Count: 825
Rating: Teen
Desmond’s world expands greatly after his death. He learns that superheroes are more than just the gossip of the drunks in bars. He even briefly, and by briefly he really means briefly, meets the Flash, when Barry runs into Team Arrow’s new hideout, says hi and gives him a letter, and runs out again. He learns that Abstergo’s not as monopolistic as they would like to believe or the Assassins thought, merely that they’ve bought in to most of the intel, computer, and security companies. He even learns that none of this had been true before Venus started meddling, and that he might have ‘seen the possibilities’ which he thinks might have been John-speak for alternate universes, but no one else seemed to know, really.
His body had been retrieved by Team Arrow, an idea that somehow hadn’t occurred to his friends. Shaun and Rebecca and William were fine, from what they could tell—and Rebecca and Felicity would absolutely love each other. Desmond’s not sure he’s ready to see them yet, though, and Team Arrow are hardly going to force him to do anything he doesn’t want to do, an idea that pretty much had never crossed his mind as being a possibility and has earned his loyalty perhaps better than anything else anyone’s ever done.
Juno was still a threat, but they were working on it. He’s not sure if he wants to go out in the field again, so he doesn’t. He probably will have to, eventually, but they’re still working on a Juno Game Plan, and they’ll let him know if he’s absolutely required. Until then, they’re not going to push. He’s been able to hide allies and rescuees when they come into the club and use his drinks mixing knowledge, so he’s definitely enjoying that.
Oliver had been in the Animus. He’s not sure why he finds that surprising, but he does. It’s nice to sometimes just talk about Ezio’s life from an outside perspective, or gripe about the Bleeding Effect. Half the time the whole Team Arrow family just speaks in Italian to pander to Oliver’s issues. A quick ‘my story’s much like Ezio’s’ is honestly enough to give him a pretty good idea of the whole picture.
Desmond’s never felt at home or at ease anywhere besides maybe New York, but on Team Arrow, he has something like the Auditore family, before their unfortunate demise. They’re all crazy and scandalous in their own way, but to them, he is family. Then again, their family is more bond than blood, in the end. It helps put him at ease when he Bleeds, too.
Tommy has Eagle Vision, and his father is indeed a Templar. That was trained by a group of assassins following Ra's al Ghul, described by Oliver as a modern-day Al Mualim, and occasionally helps them for his own reasons. He’s dropped in now and then, and his sarcastic words to Desmond remind him, uncomfortably, of Haytham (because some part of him still says ‘me’ and some part of him still says ‘father’).
Malcolm is definitely disapproving of the relationship between his son and Oliver, but then, apparently the two have tried to kill each other fairly often in the past, so it’s only to be expected. Desmond honestly thinks it’s sweet (the relationship, not Malcolm)—it’s not like same-sex relationships were unheard of on the Farm, even if the women had been pushed to have at least a few children to keep the Brotherhood going, and he’d been a bartender in New York for chrissakes. They’re good for each other.
Awkwardly, Thea is both Oliver and Tommy’s sister (apparently Moira Queen and Malcolm Merlyn had done the deed at some point), and from a very few lingering looks at Tommy might have had a crush on her half-brother at some point, but she’s also happy for the two, if the smiles and teasing are any indication. Besides, she has a boyfriend herself—Roy Harper, an Assassin recruit he’s barely met. From what he’s seen, Thea’s training is coming along well.
John Diggle is a good man, and very frequently, he and Desmond will find themselves being the advisors with common sense. It forges a shared sense of comradery that’s like nothing else.
Felicity could honestly be Rebecca’s twin sister, apart from the babbling, which is honestly a little amusing.
There are others who show up now and then—Nyssa al Ghul and her Assassin partner-in-every-way Sara Lance, lawyer Laurel Lance, Captain Lance who hates all things Arrow and all things Oliver and is the only one in the city still fully convinced that the two are the same if only because only one person could cause him that much headache…
They’re thinking of bringing him in on it. Yet another sign that Oliver is completely insane, but by this point, Desmond’s actually fairly used to it, given that, yes, it’s pretty much Ezio’s brand of insanity.
