madimpossibledreamer

Vaguely referencing speculations I had from the DMC5 trailer which may not be canon because no I haven’t gotten there yet :(

         Morrison is by far the most helpful, not that Dante finds that a surprise. He’d managed to narrow down Xander’s last known location, which is, oddly enough, in Washington DC, but had also passed along that he hadn’t been seen in two weeks. He’d occasionally leave, presumably to go on missions assigned to him by his “benevolent” captors, but they didn’t usually last that long. He’d also been seen in company with governmental types, and while Dante isn’t particularly the type to go messing with any bureaucratic nonsense, he’s also not particularly in the mood to be stopped by anything at this particular point in time, so he’s going to be smart about it and let Lady and Trish plan most of it and isn’t going to go hacking everything apart or setting it on fire no matter how much he wants to do that.
         Nero had sensed something wrong because he’s never seen Dante wound this tight, but he just ends up sniping at his nephew not to get involved. He knows that’s not the end of it; the kid’s just as stubborn and maybe he’d have more of a card to play if he’d ever actually gotten around to admitting that he knows the kid’s family. (It’s hard to tell if Nero suspects, because the kid’s bright, too, and had clearly inherited some of Verg’s brains, but even if he does that probably hasn’t earned him much more in the way of authority because if he has Nero’s waiting for Dante to actually speak up, which, well, now is not the time.) He does stop asking, but it’s only a temporary reprieve. Given that they’re moving sometime in the next couple days when Trish has everything in place, though, hopefully they’ve got time, and maybe after this crisis the Son of Sparda can actually work up the courage.

I don’t think most people should use the term ‘females’. I also think Trish needs to be shown as not-human more often.

( they really need to get on their PR department )

         “I just wanted to give you a head’s up. So I was running my mouth and not thinking…”
         “And that’s different from normal how?”
         “I told Souji we both didn’t like our bodies.”
         “…You owe me steak.”
         “Fair, but it’ll have to be later this week, after I get paid.”

I was going to have Desmond roll his eyes at her, but apparently the earliest recorded time (which was Shakespeare, so a little later) that was considered flirting, and I didn’t want that misconstrued if they’d even recognize it. The more you know.

( the Assassins plot against the plot )

I will join the chorus in saying ‘blame esama’. I have no idea what I’m doing here (but then, you could probably say the same for poor Ezio). (and, you know, the rest of the people on ao3 assassin’s creed, but it always starts with esama.) If you think you recognize anything, it’s probably because you do and I don’t own it. If anything, it owns me. I wasn’t ever planning on writing this, but I guess read enough of these awesome works in succession and suddenly this happens.

full list (in no particular order except for esama’s at the beginning): Black Robe https://archiveofourown.org/works/14880483/chapters/34458513
Not really a ‘save the fam’ fic, but the family dynamics in Study of Flight, probably https://archiveofourown.org/works/13702866/chapters/31475031
Desynchronized https://archiveofourown.org/works/37674436/chapters/96727518#workskin
Dead Men Tell Tall Tales https://archiveofourown.org/works/31330643?view_full_work=true
Apple of His Eye https://archiveofourown.org/works/24496570?view_full_work=true
Let me be without regret https://archiveofourown.org/works/25126561/chapters/60877936
Adagio in White https://archiveofourown.org/works/19720462?view_full_work=true

Ezio couldn’t help himself, so he got in a fight with Vieri earlier than in canon.

( to avert a disaster )

( accepting the self )