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[keldermans]

MEIN ERSTER KONVOI! MEIN ERSTER KONVIO! ICH HAB MEINEN ERSTEN KONVIO VERSENKT!!

[matchamelo]

Looking for some Assassins Creed 4 blogs to follow! Like/reblog if you post a lot of it and there's a 90% chance that I'll follow you!

[hawkeeffect]

It just struck me that when Ah Tabai asks Edward "what will you do now?" after Mary dies, and Edward replies "nothing sensible", it's because Mary was the one who always made sure he was on the right path and doing things properly and being sensible and now she's gone.

[hawkeeffect]

Thinking more about what makes Mary Read so enchanting to players and non-players alike, I think it has to do with the fact that she says a very firm "fuck you" to gender roles and gender stereotypes in a very non-binary way. Like, a lot of the time I feel like when we see "strong" female characters who supposedly defy gender roles, what we see is just a woman doing stereotypical man things instead of a woman doing stereotypical woman things. It still reinforces this idea that there is no overlap between what is considered masculine and what is considered feminine, that only those two things exist and there is no in-between.

But then we have Mary, dressing up as a boy not because she ~*~wants to be like a man~*~ but because she must in order to be taken seriously in this world where it was literally considered bad luck to have a woman on a ship. And yet there she is, pursuing her passion and excelling in her field of work right under society's nose. She's ambitious and sometimes has an aggressive temper and isn't afraid to get violent (typically masculine characteristics), yet she's also compassionate, supportive, and highly moral (typically feminine characteristics).

I saw someone mention how the fact that she uses her own blood to color her lips is at once both feminine and badass, and I think that's really the definition of Mary right there. She is entirely feminine and entirely masculine at the same time and also entirely neither of them. That's something really special and really important in today's media, and Ubisoft did a fantastic job.

[hawkeeffect]

Friendly reminder that Mary talked the assassins out of killing Edward.

[hawkeeffect]

Imagine Edward singing "Best Of Me" by Michael Buble to Mary as she dies in his arms.

[hawkeeffect]

Sexuality: Mary Read

[hawkeeffect]

Thinking about the fact that Mary was the only woman who ever understood Edward, probably better than he even understood himself, and actually believed in him. Actively believed in him and never left him. And even when she died she swore she would still always be with him.