Pardon if this is not particularly coherent, but I just want to suggest a Desmond who lands I to Valhalla... Except Fenrir was just an Isu, Desmond landed into the era in his younger (maybe just post farm?) body, and teenage Desmond looks a bit too close to Fenrir for comfort. This is probably a no ship idea, I just really want Desmond and Hytham bonding, and Basim/Loki having a breakdown at seeing Desmond. Because Basim is a sassy ass who needs to pay -_-
Oh, is it making Basim suffer time?
(slips you the Basim mindbreak fic)
Is that a thing? Desmond looking like Isu!Fenrir?
I’m still on the side of “if Desmond and his ancestors are sages, he’ll be the Sage of Minerva’s son or maybe Eve”.
So, the main point is that Basim has to pay but let’s shake things up so it doesn’t turn beat by beat from our other Desmond gets transported to AC Valhalla idea.
Desmond gets transported to Leicester due to his connection to the place (it’s Maria Thorpe’s birthplace) and he’s there with all his memories but in his sixteen year old body (aka the same body when he left the Farm).
And he’s just trying to get his bearings, stealing clothes because he got there naked (and he has no idea why) when he suddenly hear fighting.
Vikings had come to raid Leicester.
Desmond doesn’t know this, of course. His history lessons could be condensed to whatever American History the Farm taught and the databases Shaun and Rebecca prepared.
All he saw was people with weapons fighting other people with weapons and a lot of unarmed innocents getting mixed in the whole thing.
Using his ancestor’s bleeds, he manages to disarm one of the men (holy shit, they look like Vikings? Where the fuck is he???) and uses his hand axe like Connor’s tomahawk. He focuses on protecting the fleeing civilians, not caring if he was attacking the Vikings or the guards.
Anyone who looked like they were about to attack an unarmed civilian gets Desmond’s attention.
He realizes soon enough that the invaders are taking orders from a man with a manic smile on his face and he tries to charge him, planning to take him out, but he gets intercepted by a young man who must be around the same age as his current body. They fight but it’s clear that the young man wasn’t attacking to kill him, more to disarm him.
So Desmond gave him the same curtesy.
By the time he had disarmed the young man, the city was lost and Desmond knew he was going to get captured (or worse) if he stayed.
As he ran away, someone starts to chase him.
He was about to get away but he froze.
Because on her arm was a familiar looking gauntlet.
The gauntlet used by Alamut Assassins.
He gets tackled into the ground and just as his attacker unsheathes her hidden blade, they hear the young man shout
“Wait, Eivor! Don’t kill him!”
And that is the day Desmond meets Eivor of the Raven Clan.
Things happen. Ceolbert vouches for him and he’s spared because he’s not a guard and he had been saving people. Desmond arrives to join Eivor because she has a hidden blade but it was clear that she wasn’t an Assassin. It was the only clue he has so they travel back to Ravensthorpe and Desmond is hit with nostalgia because they had an Assassin bureau.
A bureau that was quite similar to the ones the Levantine Brotherhood uses.
Eivor introduces him to Hytham and tells him that Desmond seemed interested in her hidden blade.
Hytham takes Desmond in as a recruit.
Desmond goes along with it because it’s his best cover and…
Hytham might be calling himself a Hidden One but it was clear that he was an Assassin. Maybe the Assassins were called Hidden One before?
Desmond isn’t sure and he’s already busy enough as it is to think about whatever history lessons his Bleeds didn’t cover.
Hytham’s a very cautious man and he wants Desmond to master the basics first before doing any missions.
Desmond plays along because he finds Hytham’s seriousness amusing and this was nice, taking it easy.
When Hytham sees how light Desmond is on his feet and how easy it is for him to freerun, Desmond just shrugs and says he had… brothers.
Brothers who taught him everything he knew.
Hytham sees the grief in his eyes and he tries to be like a big brother to Desmond.
Desmond, on the other hand, naturally gravitates to being a big brother to Hytham thanks to his memories of Altaïr’s relationship with Kadar and Ezio’s relationship with Petruccio.
Everyone in Ravensthorpe just start thinking of them as brothers.
Then Basim came back with Sigurd and sees Desmond.
He looks so much like his son that it hurts.
And seeing the distrust in Desmond’s eyes hurts as well.
Not only that, he could a connection between him and Desmond as well.
If maybe Aletheia had succeeded in saving their children.
That Fenrir had been reborn as Desmond just like him?
Desmond, on the other hand, feels it too.
It was similar to that annoying itch he would have whenever he was with Eivor but, with Eivor, it was easy to ignore.
Sigurd though… it was a bit hard to ignore but he could still ignore it if he focused hard enough.
All he could feel was the desire to stab Basim.
Something inside him was telling that Basim was dangerous.
He doesn’t know it but his senses knew that Basim was a fully assimilated Sage. He was, for all intent and purposes, already an Isu. And Desmond’s mind has been truly traumatized by his death and he had associated that death with Minerva and Juno.
So his senses, while he might not fully understand them, sees Isus as enemies.
He swirls as red in his Eagle Vision because of that.
Because of this, Desmond is wary and suspicious as fuck of Basim. He can’t kill him though because he’s well-liked and, as far as he knows, Basim hasn’t done anything yet.
But he’s definitely not going to be buddy-buddy with him.
Everyone sees it but assumes it’s because Desmond’s worried Basim would take away Hytham from him (and they think it’s cute).
Basim sees the distrusts and hostility in Desmond’s eyes and he could feel his heart breaking.
He tries to talk to Desmond, to get him to like him (to get him to remember his life as Fenrir) but it was clear that Desmond was only being polite because it’s what’s expected of him.
And the more Basim tries, the more Desmond feels unsure of him. His instincts keeps telling him to kill Basim as soon as possible but Basim is kind to him.
Basim is treating him like a son and Desmond’s ‘tense’ relationship with Bill left him too messed up for this kind of thing.
And Desmond knew that was dangerous.
So he keeps his guard up. He keeps being suspicious of Basim.
And that only serves to create this loop of confusion and pain between them because Basim is truly trying to connect with the boy he assumed to be his reincarnated son while Desmond is trying to stop himself from getting too close to someone who may or may not be up to no good.
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