So I recently found out that in AC: Brotherhood, Ezio can do a back flip if he jumps off a horse onto a beam. That said I screamed at my game “Since when can you do that!?” And can’t help but think of your ratatouille au
The Ratatouille AU where the ancestors can hear Desmond while ‘playing’ and its more unhinged cousin, the Ratatouille AU where Desmond can hear us.
This makes me remember how I played the majority of AC1 not knowing Altaïr can fucking vault.
Like the first time I accidentally did that, I was like “wait, what???” and I just spent like 10ish minutes (I think) trying to figure out how the hell I did that.
Soooo…
Have this, nonny?
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“Ah, yes, yes. You would recover from those muscle aches in time.” The dottore noted as he looked over Ezio, nodding to himself as he added, “Yes, someone of your age must take care not to strain your muscles too much. Medicines will be ineffective, I’m afraid.”
Ezio looked at the sky with a deadpan expression on his face, ignoring how this was the second doctor to have talked about how medicine wouldn’t work for someone his ‘age’.
“Here. It will dull the pain and make you forget the ache.” The dottore gave Ezio the same medicine he always got and he drank it immediately. The dottore stared at him for a moment before handing him another bottle without saying anything about it, only continuing their ‘conversation’ as Ezio pocketed the medicine, “If I may ask, messere, what have you done for you to be in such a state?”
Ezio glanced at his horse who was standing pretty a few feet away from them then to the sky where Desmond is strangely quiet before turning to stare at the dottore to reply, “A friend of mine kept asking me to ‘do a backflip’.”
“Ah, and you cannot say no to this ‘friend’ of yours?”
Ezio’s deadpan stare seemed to move pass the dottore and straight to the Animus’ camera which he shouldn’t even know about as he said, “No.”
“... I see…”
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“Desmond…”
There was a hint of resignation in the tone that Desmond ignored.
“Desmond…”
Resignation has been replaced by annoyance but Desmond ignored that as well.
“Desmond.”
Annoyance left his name, leaving nothing but a warning that Desmond ignored as well.
“Desmond.”
Finally, the growl that left Altaïr’s lips that bordered in growing anger was the note that finally forced Desmond to stop.
“I do not understand why you can’t figure out how to make me vault.” Altaïr commented as he rubbed the bridge of his nose, “You managed to do it fifteen minutes ago.”
“I know!” Desmond exclaimed, the frustration clear in his own tone as he explained, “And I have no freaking idea how I did it! That’s why I’m trying out all the buttons!”
“Do we have to do this here?” Altaïr hissed.
“Yes! That box is the perfect height for you to vault!”
“Desmond…” Altaïr covered his face, ignoring the people shamelessly staring at them, “We’re in the middle of the village… in Masyaf.”
“Would you rather be in Acre or Damascus? With all those strangers???”
“Yes, I would actually prefer that. At least there, people won’t know it was me and remember it was me for years to come!” Altaïr argued as he glared at his shadow, a habit he had taken up on whenever he wished to glare at Desmond but knew he did not exist in the same plane as him. Glaring at the sky felt a bit… too much so he just glared at his shadow instead.
“So the rumors are true. You’ve finally lost it.”
Both Altaïr and Desmond sighed at the same time.
“You know…” Desmond paused for a moment before he suggested, “I don’t think Al Mualim would punish you any more than he already has if we beat the crap out of him?”
Altaïr thought about it for a moment before nodding in agreement, “If I get hit even once by Abbas, I will find a way to journey to your time and show you how I truly fight.”
“Hey, if you can take out the assholes keeping me here, I’ll spar with you all day.” Desmond agreed before adding, “But first…”
Altaïr jumped on the box once more and he hissed as the flush of his face deepened in embarrassment, “Desmond!”
“Sorry! I thought I got it this time!”
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i was tagged by @luredin to list 7 comfort films and tag 7 people, and also, longer ago, by @goneahead to post a top 4 of comfort movies, so i'm going to go with seven because it's More and when it comes to movies i'm going to need More. thank you both for the tag!! 💖
shelter (2007) - top 1 comfort movie maybe. it's just Vibes.
buchanan rides alone (1958) - for what it is i've perhaps seen this more times than any person should but "very dear to me" is one of those previously mentioned things that it is, so that's alright.
10 things i hate about you (1999) - the classic! ironically one of the newer movies on this list but it's The Classic to me.
the electric horseman (1979) - robert redford saves a horse and jane fonda is the real hero for walking! in! those! boots! and hey. soft animal activism cowboy/reporter romance what more could the heart want.
zachariah (1971) - queerness and anti-violence and cowboys and music and those darned Vibes again. they get me every time!
hard core logo (1996) - look. this is objectively not a very comforting movie. i know this. but it's catharsis and Feelings and by now deeply familiar fucked up people and that IS comforting (to me).
wilby wonderful (2004) - i am. not currently coherent about this one. check back in a year or so.
i'll try to tag some people who i haven't seen in connection with this game yet, but i'm mostly guessing: @littlestarsailor @beansterpie @smileylover99 @flownwrong @batvreason @eg515 @spaceradars ✨
zero pressure of course!
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Title: i begged and convinced them (i made them pinky swear)
Pairing: Jung Wooyoung/Kang Yeosang/Kim Hongjoong, Kim Hongjoong/Park Seonghwa
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 4,157
Warnings: Contains breeding kink, mentions of hypothetical orgies, and a very complicated polycule that's inscrutable to outsiders.
Summary: “Okay,” Hongjoong says the day before they’re set to fly to California to perform at Coachella, “ground rules for everyone when we’re in California: no random pick-ups. Not backup dancers, not other artists, not strangers on hookup apps—zero people I do not already have in the spreadsheets.”
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