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#but!! trans!! Desmond!!
majesticenbypancake · 11 days
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Funniest thing today while playing (watching) Assassins Creed:
We found one of Desmond's medical files. It read:
[Subject 17 does not have menstrual problems. That must be a relieving message for society.]
Desmond, honey, is there anything you wanna tell us?
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cod-has-taken-me-over · 2 months
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Based off a tik tok I just saw (by cauchjoelle) cause honestly, I probably would’ve fallen just a little more in love with my partner if they ever did this 😂 which says a lot about the people I’m attracted to but moving on!!
It’s a modern AC AU with a trans Desmond and Cis Ezio (cause it was the first thing to pop into my head when I thought of writing this out) please do correct me if anything’s wrong, or I didn’t do/say something right. This is my first proper time actually trying to write a trans character outside of just vague little implications, and I don’t wish to be rude.
But! Desmond who gets his period and he’s run out of pads cause he just forgot to grab some stuff the last time he’d gone shopping. So he goes to Ezio (cause I know for a fact that out of all of them, he’d be the one most likely to do this) and asks him to get some pads with wings.
Ezio comes home after a while, walking up to Desmond who’s sitting at their kitchen island and putting a pack of pads and a brown box in front of him.
Desmond tilts his head, blinking blankly for a moment before opening the box up. There’s wings from the fried chicken place they both love in it and while Desmond appreciates it, he also doesn’t understand why Ezio bought them.
The younger man must catch on cause he points toward the items as he speaks, “You asked for pads with wings, so I thought I would go to our favourite place.”
It takes Desmond a second to catch on but when he does he can’t help but smile, entire face going soft with adoration and small chuckle escaping him as he shakes his head, “Thank you, but this isn’t quite what I meant.”
Ezio frowns, obviously not understanding how he could’ve gotten such an obvious request wrong. Desmond stands from his chair, walking around the counter so he can pull Ezio down into a soft kiss.
When he pulls back he pulls the pack closer, still smiling as he points at the little picture on the back, “Thankfully, you still managed to get the right ones. But see these? They’re called wings on a pad. That’s what I meant.”
The younger man makes a small noise of understanding, cheeks colouring slightly as he shoots Desmond a sheepish smile, “Ah. Yes, that does make a bit more sense.”
Desmond laughs softly again, brushing fingers against the blush and pulling Ezio down just to kiss him again. It was a dumb little mistake but it made him fall just a little more in love with the man.
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dazzlerazz · 1 year
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You can’t tell me Desmond isn’t trans because Shaun said “ Desmond's not pregnant, at least that I can tell” in Brotherhood, you just can’t
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My most important (and probably only) orientation headcanon is that Desmond is bi except no one has told him what bisexuality is yet and he just thinks that he cannot possibly be gay because he likes women and was literally married to one. someone please tell him
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Desmond Miles from Assassin's Creed is trans and plays Minecraft!
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Chosen Name Alignment chart:
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Chosen name: Desmond. (From Assassins Creed and also the name is *chefs kiss*
Status: CHAOTIC GOOD
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foxyourfaveislgbt · 1 year
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Desmond from Carole & Tuesday is Duosex nonbinary, and Viramoric
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They're also technically intersex, but this is about LGBT stuff.
9/10 representation. They're an amazing character, and being enby is a small part of their character, yet crucial to who they are. I am doxxing point because it frames them as if they become enby, and that isn't how it works, however the world does work differently there.
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liarithewolf28 · 2 years
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LGBT DRAWS!
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Desmond Valentine: Trans man/Hombre trans
Pronombres: He/Him
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Esto ya lo quería poner sobre la mesa desde hace tiempo jsjsjsjs.
¡Asi es! Desmond es una persona trans, le gusta mas llamerse como un "Hombre metrosexual que le encanta el maquillaje" y se siente completamente cómodo como es.
Este dibujo lo hice para celebrar este mes, espero poder sacar mas pronto.
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66sharkteeth · 4 months
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I completely forgot to pick back up these sort of "weekly thoughts" I have about each episode! But I have a lot of thoughts about last night's episode that reminded me to pick these back up. I still don't know how much people enjoy these, but I figure nobody hates them and I'm trying to post more things for my own enjoyment lately.
Anyway... I guess I'll start with the elephant in the room- Yes, this episode is definitely queer coded. I see a lot of people calling it a trans allegory and while I don't personally know if I'm brave enough to say that's what it was outright... I did basically write Rosie to say what I want to hear from my own family some day. I don't come from a family of biggots to be clear. I'm fortunate in the sense that I don't risk ever being disowned if I were honest about my identity. But... I am all too familiar with the sentiment I wrote Luis to have when I just try to use my friends' correct pronouns.
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I don't know if I can ever tell them they're actually mocking me too when they make these comments. And like Desmond, I also don't know if I can ever tell them I don't view myself as "their little girl" anymore (Er- Not that Desmond ever viewed himself as a little girl LOL. I hope my point is getting across though). And the guilt I feel about taking that away from them definitely stops me from further exploring and accepting some things. I'm probably getting way too personal here, but this was a very personal episode.
I saw some comments about how Desmond's own self-loathing for his blank identity has been why a lot of (unfortunate) things have happened in this story and I'm SO glad some people are starting to catch onto that. Desmond has always stood for the blanks that hate themselves more than humans do, much for the reasons I explained above. He took Rosie's brother away and that's something he's hid from her for a long time. But now that Rosie has given him the reassurance that she still loves him the same, Desmond can hopefully begin to swallow his self-loathing and love and accept what he is. He's not Reese anymore, but he still has Reese's heart, and that's all Rosie cares about. ...As long as Rosie stays alive and well haha. You guys seem really determined I'm gonna do something bad to her.
Lastly, shout out to everyone who noticed Shnee was running late for puppy school.
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droolfang · 6 months
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venus fangs oc masterpost
gonna try and list my characters for y'all, will update as need be!! by no means comprehensive.
SETTING: Worth Her Weight In Gold (WHWIG)
planned fantasy novella full of wg/tf/tg shenanigans. Mostly the adventures of Amandine (a 7 foot tall draconic princess who is "worth her weight in gold" and thus fattened magically by would be ransomers) and her retainer Olivier (a transgender mommydom in the form of a nervous beanpole gentleman)
Character: Amandine
she/her, bratty princess, sometimes a dragon
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Character: Olivier
he/she? depending on context. Amandine's nervous retainer
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Character: Elizar
he/him, mercenary who kidnapped Amandine for ransom
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Character: Daire
he/she? depending on context. kink wizard hired by Elizar to fatten Amandine
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SETTING: southern fried slasher verse
characters i have with my partner based in the nebulous american south who kill and eat people
Character: Elvis
he/him, bartender and serial killing vampire
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Character: Mitch
she/her, vindictive slasher tranny
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SETTING: grizzoli's
series of erotic short stories involving the members of the vampiric grizzoli's circus as they hunt magical artifacts and fuck nasty
Character: Antoni
he/him, but maybe she/her??? prettyboy vampire bottom
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Character: Dolby
she/her, tgirl hired muscle
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Character: Mel
she/her, vampire apex predator
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SETTING: d seas
pirate shenanigans w my partner
Character: Sargasso
she/her, dark magic pirate mob boss
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Character: Grimleash
she/her, sargasso's left hand, bsdm pirate, tgirl with the strap representation
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Character: Juno
he/him, demigod of the sun, hedonist and egotist
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Character: Bax
he/she, closeted trans girl and all around backstabbing slut rogue
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Character: Hound
he/him, Bax's brother, put-upon noble warrior who has just been fired
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Character: Invicta
she/her, bax and hounds overbearing mother, pirate warlord
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SETTING: science
mad scientist shenanigans with my partner
Character: Esme
she/her, body-mod snake woman, loves unethical experiments
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Character: Ivar
he/him, stoner tboy lab assistant who oozes black ichor
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Character: Mandel
all pronouns, bug who's happy to be here
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SETTING: gothic fantasy
gothic fantasy shenanigans with my partner
Character: Desmond
he/him, vampire saint who keeps a woman in a cage
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Character: Labrador
she/her, dream demon and noblewoman
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OTHERS
Character: Marlow
she/her, govt assassin with superpowers
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Character: Sable
she/her, office feedee
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Character: Mordere
she/her, rat eating vampire lord
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Character: Lillith
she/her, ancient vampire businesswoman
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Character: Prim
she/her, lilliths familiar and airhead
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Character: Vervaine
they/them, partyslut toxic alien
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Character: Hugo
he/him, galactic fugitive with a body horror parasite
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Character: Sagitta
he/him, alien warlord
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Character: Frolick
she/her, frivolous chimera
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Character: Cowsona
she/her.... my sona.... sometimes a dragon, or even a mouse
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marnz · 3 months
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2023 book post
I read 63 books this year (i do count short stories & novellas) and there were epic highs (everyone read the school for good mothers) and epic lows (y'all read this shit? for real?).
here are my top ten, in no particular order, followed by thoughts on the rest. it's so long lol okay let's get into it
top ten.
the school for good mothers by jessamine chan - a perfect commentary on the prison industrial complex and how poor, single, and mothers of color are treated set in a chilling near future. loved it. i read this book in june and think about it daily.
edinburgh by alexander chee - this book is a modern classic for good reason. gay tragedy lovers this book is for YOU. the prose is so beautiful, so dream like, that i couldn't stop reading. i read this book in one sitting, very nearly a year ago, and i was completely devastated by it.
in the woods by tana french - love this for: unreliable narrator who sucks but is compelling; prose about the woods and the 1980s mystery; cassie; a police procedure that starts off by being like 'crucially you must understand that the police lie.' i have a weakness for atmospheric books and this has that in spades.
homegoing by yaa gyasi - this book is SO good and the prose and character voices are excellent. it's extremely epic but somehow only 300 pages?!? each character only gets 1 chapter but gyasi does SO much with each chapter 😭 i read this in one day because i could not stop reading. i also read gyasi's other book, transcendent kingdom, which was also very good.
some desperate glory by emily tesh - this book is a mindfuck and is one of the few times i've seen [spoiler] done well. there are a lot of things this book talks about--imperialism; artificial intelligence; fascism; white supremacy and how it intersects with gender; queerness; eugenics. i posted about it early when i had only read like 49% and i was soooo wrong to do so. read this and just trust me.
x by davey davis - okay are you ready for this? X is queer/trans bdsm neo noir mystery set in a dystopian near future. it is dark, it is consuming, it is surprising, it is a book i turn over obsessively whenever i can't sleep. i need to reread and i only read it a few months ago.
baru cormorant series/the masquerade by seth dickinson - this is 3 books but let's count it as one book. much has been said about baru as a cringefail autistic marxist lesbian icon (affectionate) but what i really appreciate about these books, other than how fucking gay they are, is the specificity of the world building. i have a theory that modern readers are in search of detail (and cruelly denied by much of publishing rn). seth dickinson loves details. seth dickinson is going to take semi familiar narratives and tell them in a brand new way using details; math; hyper specific words. god i love it
poverty by america by matthew desmond - relatively short book, read it in a day. i also read desmond's first book, evicted, and it is also SO good but what's sexy about this book is that modern american society and esp. politicians frequently likes to be like 'oh no, poverty is so tragic but it can't be solved' and desmond is like 'watch me.' for people who enjoy reading andrea long chu take downs reviews and want concrete solutions for how to build a better world.
station eleven by emily st. john mandel - many people told me this was the best book they've ever read and i was like 'whatever. i'll get to it when i get to it.' DO NOT BE ME!! read this!! i wouldn't say this is a happy book but it was a beautiful book. i loved it. i cried for about 90 minutes afterwards. for art lovers, weird theatre kids, people unafraid of plague books, non linear timeline lovers, people who have been divorced.
piranesi by susanna clarke - okay i read this on my flight to frankfurt earlier this year and it totally bowled me over with how lovely it was and how emotional i got. just a beautiful, delicate, haunting, eerie book. for fans of mysteries, people who love oceans, gothic houses, people who earnestly believed magic was real as kids and hope it's real today, people who love academic drama they aren't involved in.
okay damn honorable mentions: in the dream house by carmen maria machado (SO good, maybe deserves my rec more than piranesi), normal people by sally rooney (mainly because it did make me insane), under the banner of heaven by jon krakauer (thorough, horrifying), honey & spice by bolu babalola (SO fun), sula by toni morrison (stunning!!), severance by ling ma (millennial alienation during a plague, amirite?), trust exercise by susan choi (who knows what really happened? you'll understand).
okay now the worst books i read this year, aka books i did not vibe with:
broken harbor & the trespasser by tana french; did not enjoy broken harbor due to the themes and did not enjoy the trespasser due to how cringefail the ending was. you can't depict ongoing harassment a woman of color is experiencing in her workplace, make her decide to leave after two years of this harassment, and then back track it in the last chapter? please. this is a problem tana french runs into a lot, but that is a different post
the witch elm by tana french; parts of this book were absolutely delicious. but a lot of it felt very tedious and in need of a stern editor. so many books these days need more thorough editing and the result is that a potentially amazing book is just like, okay. i understand the power fantasy that this book is designed to be, but i'm not the right audience for it (disabled). also, generally i need a character to root for.
amateur by thomas page mcbee; SO sorry thomas. i didn't vibe with this book mainly because i don't think i'm the target audience for it. i'm not cis and i'm not straight?? i also am not interested in narratives about trans men wanting to prove their masculinity by taking up a violent sport. i think this tension is addressed in the book but it wasn't addressed to my satisfaction. violence is often all the world gives to men as a source of power and thus serves as a solace for everything patriarchy takes from them, so i suppose i understand wanting to be able to get a piece of that...logically that makes sense. but also. why.
the late americans by brandon taylor; the thing is, i fucking love real life by brandon taylor and i enjoy brandon's criticism and read his substack (although i disagree with almost every aesthetic opinion he has). so possibly my expectations were too high, but i read this and i guess i was just...wanted to know what the point is. gay people suffering in the midwest? as a genre, it slaps. as a book, i feel frustrated. it felt loose, pointless, in great need of editing. brandon talks about this book by talking about the importance of moral fiction, and this book lacks moral urgency for many of its stories. i've read a lot of moral fiction and this isn't it? anyway I read this in July and looking back all I remember is Seamus' journey and the way brandon dragged workshopping.
the angel of the crows by katherine addison; look. if you're going to write sherlock wingfic, put it on ao3. if you're going to file off the serial numbers, please work harder so i can't tell what it originally was. and absolutely nix the author's note saying it was sherlock fanfic, because that makes me very unhappy! personally!
99% mine by sally thorne; classic second book syndrome. except the third one is also not very good. too bad!
touched out by amanda montei; okay obligatory disclaimer that i'm not a mother or parent but rather an adult who loves my friends' kids! this book really frustrated me and i think i would have enjoyed it considerably more if it was all cultural criticism instead of a memoir (other than the dworkin parts????). a memoir is an art form, a set narrative, but criticizing it feels weird because i am criticizing the author's life decisions as presented to me, in a flattened context, in a controlled narrative. if the memoir parts were instead part of a fictional book i would not hold back lol. this book is marketed as the most important work of feminist scholarship in the last 30 years and...it ain't. i also felt the focus was incredibly narrow. while montei does attempt to cite a broad range of theorists i just kept finding myself wondering, what about people from other cultures? what about disabled mothers? what about queer mothers or parents? what about this? WHERE'S YOUR RESEARCH? WHERE ARE YOUR INTERVIEWS? there is a specific kind of feminism where white women act like their specific experience is the pinnacle of all suffering and tbh it isn't. this book reminded me of that very strongly. like, if you're telling me you won't have an epidural because it was invented by a man then you are not a useful person to engage with, thanks.
books that would have been amazing if not for that one part
he who drowned the world by shelley parker chan - man i have mixed thoughts on this book. look away my beloved swbts mutuals. okay the epic highs (ouyang & zhu!! ma!!) were set off by baoxiang lmao. i'm mainly interested in queer masculinity and femininity and a femme straight guy is like. well, good for him, but i don't really care? bring me back to my loveds zhu and ouyang. but my main gripe...tbh i think baoxiang is a hugely unreliable narrator that protests about a lot of things too much. being straight for one thing; not having a thing for esen is another. AND MORE COULD HAVE BEEN DONE WITH THIS? like i honestly wish the implied incest thing, which was brought up at least twice, was more present. taking a step back, if you're like well i'm straight and i don't have a thing for my dead brother i helped kill but i absolutely will be seducing the spitting image of him while i fuck my way to the top of the throne? that should make me insane. possibly it would have in a book that didn't already have ouyang. who can tell. so i wish SPC had leaned into that a lot more, i wish baoxiang hadn't felt like such a plot instrument, i wish there was more Ma, i wish spoilery completely unbelievable storyline was better, etc.
in memorial by alice winn - damn, this book. it was so good but it fell apart at the end. i respect winn's decision to not have it be perfectly easy after living through the untold horrors of the trenches of wwi but the idea of two brits running away to brazil to live out a life of colonial bliss because being gay wasn't explicitly illegal in brazil at a time is like. what? i guess. anyway, it was good, i just have some notes.
romantic comedy by curtis sittenfeld - here's the thing, i love curtis sittenfeld and i knew going in that this is a book by the author that wrote rodham but man, this is a book by the author that wrote rodham. this is the most Online book i've ever read (derogatory) and it's very specific in its liberal i'm an Online author on twitter type of deal. the point of the book is that Not Tina Fey falls for Male Taylor Swift on Not Saturday Night Live and it was good, it was fun, i wasn't expecting [spoiler] ummm but it worked. i had a good time.
this is very long, sorry.
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apenitentialprayer · 8 days
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Left: detail of Adam und Eva mit Kain und Abel, by Princess Louise Hollandine, circa 1660. Right: Eve and Four Children, by Jan Mostaert, circa 1520.
The peace of God on the children of Eve. Síoth Dé ar shíol Éabha.
an Irish prayer for the Sign of Peace at Mass, trans. Desmond Forristal
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teecupangel · 8 months
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Hey Tee! I did an ask about this for The Witcher fandom a while ago now it popped in my head for AC and-
Studio Ghibli AUs. All the Studio Ghibli AUs!!! Which pairing do you think fits best with each movie?
I was wondering if you meant Desmond pairings or if you meant like… non-Desmond pairings but, fuck it, my default setting is that you meant Desmond pairing so here’s some Desmond pairings for you XD
(I will try to add a spin to it or something, we’ll see)
AltDes: Spirited Away
In this setup, we’ll change the parents to Shaun and Rebecca and the idea is Desmond and the two of them are on their way to their next mission. This one will not have any Animus BS in it but they’re still all Assassins.
The same setup as the beginning of Spirited Away but I kinda wanna make them into turkeys instead of pigs so we can have a reference to the Assassin Turkey XD
Anyway, Al Mualim would be the owner of the bathhouse that Desmond works with and Altaïr would be the mysterious employee whose name nobody knows. 
One of the main themes of this movie is losing one’s identity so we’ll have Desmond only be called 17. Every employee is only called by number and Altaïr would be called 1. The other main characters would take the other numbers (2 for Ezio, 3 for Ratonhnhaké:ton, etc) with Clay being 16 because he’s 16. 
Altaïr will be one of the employees helping Desmond but he’s the most distant of them. Maybe that would be the reason why Desmond would notice him because he can feel a familiar loneliness clinging onto Altaïr and he’d be ‘curious’ about it. Their budding closeness would be the reason why Altaïr would be the one to go ‘fuck all of this’ and leave his ‘post’ to help Desmond and Desmond would realize who Altaïr is because of the small details he could remember (and how Desmond had learned about the Assassins of old)
Anyway, it ends in a similar way as Spirited Away with Desmond realizing that all of the employees were Assassins and the bathhouse is meant to be a stop point between living and afterlife. Al Mualim used a POE he found using the Apple that was one of the failed solutions to the Solar Flare to create that pocket dimension and he’s been hoarding these Assassins as a way to have his own army (with defective memories that would make them easier to control) and the pocket dimension would pierce reality and revive them into the current timeline.
Everyone had been helping Desmond because they believe Desmond could still leave if he remembers he’s Desmond, not knowing that only meant that Desmond would pass to the afterlife and not actually return to his old life.
Desmond being Desmond fucked that up because his very existence and his belief that all of these people (employees + Al Mualim and the guests which are actually just passing ghosts that Al Muliam didn’t take) are real jumpstart the reality bending power of the POE but that also meant Desmond has become the singularity, not Al Mualim.
Then the twist would be the reason why the three got into the pocket dimension is because the car they used exploded thanks to a bomb that Lucy placed (orders from Vidic) and their mission had been to investigate Clay’s death.
So… either go for the afterlife peaceful life ending or the ending where the reality bending POE does success thanks to Desmond. 
EziDes: Honestly, I was thinking either Howl’s Moving Castle or Castle in the Sky but I decided to go with Howl’s Moving Castle instead
In this one, Desmond would be Howl so we can have AC Revelations!Ezio hahahaha
No, seriously.
Anyway, the witch is Juno (of course), Calcifer is Clay and Turnip Head would be Suleiman who does fall in love with Ezio but… yyeeaaahhh.
So, Desmond is cursed to not have a heart by Juno (and it’s shaped like the Apple of Eden and is Juno’s main ‘weapon’) and he can transform into a similar bird creature but this one is bathed in white and have gold lines all over (Ezio would realize the gold lines are very similar to the gold lines of the Apple) and he does transform to keep the two warring side in check even if it’s taking a toll on his body. The more toll it takes, the more golden lines appear on his body, all originating from the scar where his heart had been taken.
Clay tells Ezio he can free him from his curse but he wants to be freed first. This is all a big gamble because Clay knows the only way to free him from the life connection he has with Desmond is if Desmond regains his heart before Clay’s fire is completely snuffed out.
The ending is similar to Howl’s Moving Castle but Ezio would steal Juno’s Apple because he knows it’s connected to Desmond but don’t know how while Juno is punished by the king she ‘sided’ with. (Lorenzo, maybe?)
ConDes: Princess Mononoke
I’m going to be completely honest here, Princess Mononoke is my favorite Studio Ghibli film and I was tempted to make this the AltDes one but ConDes just fits soooo much more so, yeah, let’s start this.
Ratonhnhaké:ton would be our Ashitaka and he’d be ‘banished’ from his village because he was cursed after killing a demon before it could reach his village. His grandmother (the clan mother as well) tells him to go west where the demon (which they had realized was a corrupted boar god) had hailed from.
Along the way, he meets George Washington who suggests that maybe the Great Forest Spirit could cure him… if he was to find it anyway.
So Ratonhnhaké:ton reached Iron Town that is under the control of the Templar Order with Haytham Kenway as the leader (up to you if we’re keeping their familial relationship or not)
He also sees the town be attacked by wolves and a man in a hood and a mask that rides one of the wolves and attacks the townspeople as well. 
Okay, for this one, Desmond is obviously the San of this AU and his wolf brethren would be Altaïr and Ezio. 
Can we keep Gillian Anderson as Moro? No? Fine. Maria Auditore or Minerva gets the role of mama!wolf god. Take your pick.
Yeah, George Washington’s gonna steal that head. XD
Alright, so those are the main three done and here are some more Studio Ghibli AU ideas that I’m just throwing out there:
Fuck it. I want a Castle in the Sky one so here: Arno x Desmond with Laputa Castle in the Sky with Desmond being the mysterious man everyone wants to abduct and Arno helping him try to escape and also looking for the mythical Laputa that his father had been searching until his untimely demise.
My Neighbors the Yamada with the Kenway family. Either this is a sweet AU where nothing bad happened to them OR this is like the exact opposite of My Neighbors the Yamada and is just pure Kenway Family Drama all the way. Either way, the fic would be set in Desmond’s POV who is neighbors with the Kenways and it’s up to you if this is gonna be EdDes, HayDes or ConDes (or even JenDes)
Kiki Delivery Service with Desmond being Kiki, Clay as Jiji and Leonardo being that kid that is absolutely enraptured by how Desmond could use a broom to fly. The bakery is absolutely owned by the Auditores with Maria Auditore pregnant with Petruccio. (this can either be EziDes or LeoDes)
Only Yesterday AU where Jacob returns to his childhood rural town after a very bad breakup and tries to ‘repair’ his relationship with his sister that shattered after their father’s death. She’s married and has a child and her husband’s cousin, Desmond, is also a distant childhood friend. 
The Cat Returns would be so fun for Desmond and I kinda want it to be Eivor x Desmond with the Cat King being Odin. I don’t know why, it sorta kinda fits? Baron could even be Basim and Toto would be Hytham, why not?
I kinda wanna make a joke and say Graves of the Fireflies with the Frye twins but just remembering Graves of the Fireflies makes me wanna cry so no, we are not using Graves of the Firefly in this one unless the AU has Desmond save the kids. 
I gotta end it there because if I don’t, I’ll be stuck here thinking of AU ideas for every Studio Ghibli film I’ve watched and I’m pretty sure I watched almost all of them. God, I wanted to make a Nausicaa Valley of the Winds AU but all I can think of are the Templars using ancient weapons to control the world and Desmond being Nausicaa. That’s as far as I got.
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stele3 · 1 year
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I had this idea for a musical.
I hate musicals.
But I had this idea for a high fantasy musical named Figwit. We open on a fantasy land, swoop with some crows towards a shiny Disney-esque castle then veer away to a huge, blackened, terrifying fortress in the mountains. A lovely young teenage girl (probably 13?) named Figwit skips through the fortress, saying hello to the living gargoyles, before she enters the tower at the top to visit her caretaker, Wik (properly named Wikai the Nightmare King, Plaguemaster, Born of Crows, Terror of the North). Wik is currently threatening someone via dark Zoom but turns to smile warmly and gently at Figwit before handing her a bauble and asking her to wait for a few minutes while he wraps up his call; the second she plops down on his towering, spiked throne, he turns back to the Zoom call and continues threatening them. Wikai the Nightmare King, btw, is played by Joey Batey in intense eyeliner and a spiky black coat.
Figwit is a bright, cheerful tween who’s prone to breaking into song (to Wik’s resignation, her magic means that he, also, gets to sing). She’s led a rather sheltered life in Wik’s castle -- he’s taught her how to visit people’s dreams, but in terms of actual social interaction she’s a bit limited -- and she’s curious about the outside world. Wik warns her that this land is infected with a mysterious blight that grows every year, birthing monsters in its wake. Figwit wonders what caused the blight, and Wik looks at her anxiously.
One day, Wik disappears along with all his stuff. After some anxiety and singing, Figwit decides to track him down and sets off with her favorite baby gargoyle perched on her shoulder.
Pretty quickly she meets Desmond, a knight, as he’s heroically fighting a monster in defense of several innocent travelers. Desmond (played by Sam Reid), is exactly what a knight in shining armor is supposed to be: blond, blue-eyed, honorable. Figwit admires him right away. Once the monster is dispatched, Figwit explains that she’s a princess (”Princess of what?” “Uhhh...*thinks about the big dark tower* that’s a secret.”) and Desmond explains that he’s on a quest to find the prince of this land. You see, the blight is tied to the royal line, which is withering. Ten years ago, the prince and princess were killed and their son kidnapped by forces unknown; the king grows old and as he does so, the spirit of the land sickens.
Blah blah blah, some plot happens here featuring bandits, Desmond and Figwit get captured and suddenly Wik appears, subjecting the bandits to their own worst nightmares. Figwit greets Wik joyously but the second he and Desmond see each other it’s like
Desmond: YOU
Wik: Y̴̮͎̞̜̼̻̘̲͚̻̺̖̰̍̒͊̏̑̃̃̋̇̋͐͠O̵̢̬͇̤͇̙̰̘̤̠̫̱̿̈́̄̂̎͛̎̇̍̄̕͠U̴̡͕͉͎͓̗̣͉̺̱̼̻̓̆͛̍̂̐̅̀͋̐̕͝
They’ve been fighting each other for years, because Wik is the prime suspect in the murder of the prince and princess and the kidnapping of their son. The penny drops and Figwit reveals that she’s trans -- she is the prince of this land. Wik murdered her parents. He flinches away from her horrified gaze, then smirks and points at her expression. “That face. That’s my nightmare.” He portals away again.
I’m not sure exactly how the rest of the plot goes. The blight is revealed to be nightmare goo that Wik has lost control of -- or given up control of, rather, because he wanted to be a good father to Figwit rather than a monstrous captor. Figwit’s grandfather does misgender her ruthlessly and guilt-trips her to detransitioning; Wik sees her dressed as a boy and tears up immediately in horror. Desmond reveals that he is actually Figwit’s biodad: he had an anguished crush on the prince, who was too bound up in honor and duty to reciprocate, but when the prince figured out he was infertile he asked Desmond to get his wife pregnant -- again, duty to the land and continuation of the line, blah blah blah. The stress of detransitioning and being misgendered causes Figwit to have a breakdown and enter her villain era, when she gets consumed by the blight and turns into a fucking dragon. Desmond and Wik bond over being shitty and/or absentee fathers before buckling down and going to save their daughter. The power of love, but more importantly the power of not inviting your nightmares to live in you constantly, saves the day. Wik and Desmond smooch a little?? Figwit becomes a knight-princess and goes out to live in the land rather than a silly castle.
*puts this idea out on the curb with a sign FREE TO A GOOD HOME*
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dear-indies · 2 months
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hiya! 🧡 could i please get some help in finding some fc's of color who have resources playing a vampire? (who aren't from interview with the vampire, bc its gonna be an iwtc-centered oc) if not, just fc's you think would be great vampires! a woc is who i'm leaning towards, but im down for anyone of any age! thank you so much 🫶🏼
Angela Bassett (Vampire in Brooklyn) African-American.
Jacob Batalon (Reginald the Vampire) Filipino.
Kim Ji Woong (The Blood) Korean.
Michael Malarkey (The Vampire Diaries) part Palestinian.
Sisi Stringer (Vampire Academy) African Australian.
Rutina Wesley (True Blood) African-American.
Ami Tomite (Tokyo Vampire Hotel) Japanese.
Natasha Liu Bordizzo (Day Shift) Chinese / White.
and then:
Shohreh Aghdashloo (1952) Iranian.
D. B. Woodside (1969) African-American.
Gina Torres (1969) Afro-Cuban.
Hu Bing (1971) Korean.
Mahershala Ali (1974) African-American.
Daniel Wu (1974) Hongkonger.
Florence Kasumba (1976) Ugandan.
Omar Sy (1978) Mauritanian / Fula Senegalese.
Nonso Anozie (1979) Nigeiran - isn't a vampire in this but has the vibe in Dracula.
Maggie Q (1979) Vietnamese / White.
T'Nia Miller (1980) Afro Jamaican - is a lesbian.
Angelica Ross (1980) African-American - is trans.
Rami Malek (1981) Egyptian 12.5% Greek.
Fawad Khan (1981) Pashtun and Punjabi Pakistani.
Miyavi (1981) Japanese / Korean.
Riz Ahmed (1982) Pakistani.
Mahesh Jadu (1982) Bihari, Gorakhpuri and Kashmiri Indo-Mauritian.
Dichen Lachman (1982) Tibetan / German.
Kim Jae Wook (1983) Korean.
Cara Gee (1983) Ojibwe.
Florence Faivre (1983) Thai / French.
Nathalie Kelley (1985) Argentinian, Peruvian [Quechua, possibly other].
Amar Chadha-Patel (1986) Punjabi and Gujarati Indian.
Da'Vine Joy Randolph (1986) African-American.
Jodie Turner-Smith (1986) Afro Jamaican.
Michaela Coel (1987) Ghanaian - is aromantic.
Lewis Tan (1987) Singaporean Chinese / White.
Desmond Chiam (1987) Chinese Singaporean.
Jim Sarbh (1987) Parsi Indian.
Anna Diop (1988) Senegalese.
Aiysha Hart (1988) Saudi Arabian / White.
Gregg Chillin (1988) Armenian and White.
Christina Chong (1989) Hongkonger / White.
Katy M. O'Brian (1989) African-American and White - is a lesbian.
Hannah John-Kamen (1989) Nigerian / Norwegian.
Steve Noh (1990) Korean.
Kim Yong Ji (1991) Korean.
Jennifer Cheon Garcia (1992) Korean / Mexican.
Jenny Zeng (1993) Chinese.
Song Kang (1994) Korean.
Jaz Sinclair (1994) African-American / White.
Ryan Destiny (1995) African-American.
Yumi Nu (1996) Japanese / White.
Wang Zi Yi (1996) Chinese.
Havana Rose Liu (1997) Chinese / White - is pansexual.
Lauren Tsai (1998) Taiwanese / White.
Here you go! Please let me know if you want something more specific.
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wakanda-never · 4 months
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Hi!
I'm Dez! I played Remy in the Broadway musical How to Dance in Ohio. I'm known professionally as Desmond Luis Edwards.
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