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[shirleytemplar-blog]

What made you gravitate to Lucy so much :3?

Okay, this has been sitting in my ask for forever so I figure it’s time to answer it. Be wary, I will ramble about my angel.

 When I first started playing the Assassin’s Creed games, I did not like her. I thought she was a little bland and boring and that they were really pushing this romance between her and Desmond. Plus, this was at a time when I had a mild dislike for Kristen Bell (reasons are now unknown to me tbh), so she just was not on my radar. I remember being intrigued a bit when it was outed that she was an Assassin but for the most part, I was all about Desmond and this ~mysterious Subject 16~

Anyway, AC2 rolled around and the game literally begins with her kicking ass and taking names. She bowls in with blood on her shirt and starts ordering Desmond around. Her face aside, I started to have some real respect for her, especially after she just beats down that highly trained guard all on her own. So, she sorta moved from dislike to tolerate and then a little bit more towards sympathize during AC2.

Okay, so by this time I had really begun to bond with the series. I loved Desmond and hated Vidic; I adored the story it was weaving in both the past and the present (like, Ezio, mon babbu). Around then, I saw an Assassin’s Creed roleplaying group pop up on tumblr and, in a fit of MAN I HAVEN’T ROLEPLAYED IN FOREVER and wanting to meet more people who liked the series, I joined. I had initially wanted in as Desmond, but he was already snatched up. Since I wanted to stay in the modern, I decided to go for Lucy.

That was where the bond happened. At that time, I was really pretty low. I was very depressed and lonely, and those people sorta helped bring me out of the dark. To this day, they’re some of the most important people to me, even if we don’t talk much anymore.

Part of what RPing Lucy did was allow me to get to know her character more. I did research on her history and really began to look into her. Furthermore, I joined the RP right around when Brotherhood came out, which had really begun to flesh out all the moderns, who very quickly became my little babies. Since I was writing Lucy at the time, I began to really pay attention to her in the cutscenes and conversations.

I began to empathize with her. She’d been cast out and left on her own to fend for herself while essentially infiltrating the enemy’s fortress as one of their own. This is gonna sound ridiculous, but I felt that. It was my first year of college and tho my best friend from high school was there too, we didn’t spend as much time together as we had previously done. I had gone through a huge break up. I was in a city and situation that were completely unknown to me.

When Lucy died in Brotherhood, I was heart-broken. I had finally fallen in love with her and they had tried to rip her away, so I clung on with my claws out. 

In all honestly, I sorta found a kindred spirit in Lucy Stillman. I used her to express how I was feeling at the time, to explore my own emotions and to make a great deal of friends in the process. I would get out of class and sprint home to check the blog, see my responses and chat with everyone.

Eventually, however, it came time for me (and almost everyone I roleplayed with) to leave the group, but I never left my connection to Lucy. She was my personal poster girl for powering through the worst. For all her good intentions and actions, things went wrong. She continued to do what she thought was best. She watched the man she love die because of her own actions and learned from it.

Lucy Stillman is, at her core, a good person who made mistakes. Everything she did, she did to help. People rag on her a lot for “betraying” the Assassins, when in fact, they betrayed her. She was abandoned, cut off from her friends and family, at 17. Her mission was successful, she infiltrated Abstergo. When she got too close, and her life was declared over, the one person who stepped between her and the bullet was Warren Vidic, one of the cruelest men under the Templar flag.

That had to be jarring. I can’t imagine that didn’t make a huge impression upon her. If the Assassins, the cult that had raised her and given her purpose had been so ready to leave her to die, yet the man who (to her knowledge) embodied evil saved her life, she must have had a crisis of identity. The Templars were trying to save the world, just like the Assassins, but they valued life in a way that the Assassins didn’t.

When she joined the Templar Order, she did it to help mankind, to learn from the past and protect the future. She didn’t leave the Assassins because she thought they were wrong or bad, she did it because she wanted to help, and she felt the best way for her to do that was with the Templars. 

I have a viseral reaction to people calling her a traitor, a bitch, because she only did what she thought was right, which is all you can ever ask of anyone. Lucy stands as a beacon to me to do what feels right, to help people and stand for what I believe in. Her potential was wasted and her character was ignored (as were all the moderns, honestly) for the sake of giving Desmond something to wangst over, but that doesn’t change that she is easily one of the strongest, most important female characters I’ve encountered in my life.

[asking-asgard]

Thor , Loki. I have a close friend of mine , her grandmother recently passed away. They where very close. I really want to help her but I'm not sure how to go about it. I get to emotional and feel like I mak things worse. I feel physical ill thinking about how I can't help her evn tho I rly want to do something. Should I just give her time ? Or should I be more active?

Thor: GIVE HER TIME IF YOU CANNOT HANDLE IT

Loki: Give her time to grieve and console her when she is ready.

[asking-asgard]

Thor; about that Jane aging post , can't you just make her immortal too? And to Loki; you're really infectious in the best way possible. Totes hunk.

Thor: SHE MUST WISH IT, AND EVEN THEN THE ALL-FATHER MUST APPROVE

Loki: I thank you for the compliment, but what does "totes hunk" mean? I am a hunk of what?

[cat-arsenal]

Tagged!

The Rules

Rule 1: Post the rules

Rule 2: Answer the questions the tagger set for you and write 11 new ones

Rule 3: Tag 11 people and link them to your post

Rule 4: Let them know you’ve tagged them

Answers!

1. What film are you looking forward to the most this upcoming year?

The Hobbit Part 2!  (Is that happening?)

2. Do you high five or fist bump your friends? A bizarre combination.  Also, I have a tendency to want to sort of headbutt/nuzzle, so that's my however questionable default.

3. What’s your guilty pleasure song?

Occasionally, I rock out to obnoxious pop songs I would otherwise hate.

4. What's the last crappy movie you've seen?

I don't know?

5. What was your favorite Halloween costume as a kid?

Man, I dunno.  I feel like, as a semi-adult, the costume possibilities are only just opening up.  It really started to expand that year I was Inuyasha, though.

6. Do you sing in the car?

Yes.

7. What’s the last thing you bought?

Swim trunks.

8. Have you ever done yoga and how did it go?

I fell.

9. What’s the last book you’ve read?

The second Lord of the Rings, I think.  I haven't been reading much recently.

10. Do you have any odd talents?

Nooo?

11. What kind of milk to you drink?

2% filled with whatever I can find to mask the taste.

12. How much does PDA bother you?

Limits.  There are limits, but I see no reason in friendly hugs and the like getting you suspended.  ~my continuing war against the school districts~

13. Have you lost a friend recently?

I hope not.

14. If you had three wishes (typical rule of no wishing for more wishes), what would they be?

First, I'd wish for wisdom.

Second, I'd wish to be able to help people more than I can by praying and worrying and sharing sandwiches and pocket change.

Third, I'd maybe wish for clarity?  For the end of indecision and regret?

15. Who is your girl crush / guy crush?

Nope.

16. What game are you currently playing?

Skyrim on and off, Pokemon White 2.

17. Do you want children, and if so, how many?

I want a whole herd of dogs.

18. Favorite snack?

Chips.

19. Describe a recent awkward moment.

Being complimented relentlessly on my clothing in the local general store.

20. What do you call soda? (pop, soda, coke, etc)

Soda.

21. How bad was your weeaboo phase?

Is this a thing we have to talk about?  Middle school was the dark ages of my life, for more reasons than one.

22. Heinz’s wife was near death, and her only hope was a drug that had been discovered by a pharmacist who was selling it for an exorbitant price. The drug cost $20,000 to make, and the pharmacist was selling it for $200,000. Heinz could only raise $50,000 and insurance wouldn’t make up the difference. He offered what he had to the pharmacist, and when his offer was rejected, Heinz said he would pay the rest later. Still the pharmacist refused. In desperation, Heinz considered stealing the drug. Would it be wrong for him to do that? Should Heinz have broken into the store to steal the drug for his wife? Why or why not?

It is wrong to steal, and it is wrong to withhold life-saving medication or charge impossible amounts for it.  I can't make decisions for people and I can't change the ways of the world.

Questions: 

1. What is your favourite colour?

Black.  I like all colours, though, especially deep ones.

2. Did you kiss anyone for new year’s?

No.  We barely managed to stay up until midnight.  Everyone was sick.

3. What do you like more, the chicken or the egg?

While there is plenty to be said of the simple elegance of the egg, and chickens are far from the most cuddly or companionable of beasts, they have, nevertheless, a certain nobility which appeals to my need to pet winged monstrosities. <3

4. on a scale of 1-10, how much do you like wal-mart?

I have very mixed feetlings about Wal-Mart and numerical scales fill me with rage.

5. If you could live in any fictional world, what would this place be and why?

The worlds we've been creating since we were young, which constantly change like the tide and the wind and our dreams.

6. How annoyed are you with old people?

I'm not nearly as bothered by the average old person as I am by the average young person.

7. Pillows or Blankets?

Blankets can make fine pillows, capes, etc. when necessary.

8. Your strangest irrational fear?

That one day I'm going to wake and not be able to find the ones I love.  They won't have died or disappeared, I'll have imagined them, maybe everything I thought was real, and now I know even less about how to manage.

9. A strange interest you’re really shy about?

Cryptids and xenobiology.

10. If money weren’t an object, what would you do with your life?

Adventure.  Have all the adventures and see all the sights and help all the people.

11. Warm or cold?

Cold. My questions, then: 1. Ya wanna go, ya rotten tater tot?

No? 2. Do you roleplay? If so, have you ever done any crossovers that were so incredible that you stayed up late just thinking about them?

Yes and yes. 3. Have you made a regrettable decision in the pass twenty-four hours?

Yeah. 4. What’s the one thing that always makes you cringe, no matter the circumstances?

Cruelty. 5. Talk about your positive qualities. I don't know.  I read quickly and I guess I'm a pretty fast learner.

Adds Only Two:

1. What is your favourite animal?

2. Do you read comics/webcomics/manga/graphic novels?

People I’m going to tag:

kimbrafortress

blueferret

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blueferret replied to your photo: Proppin’ #cosplay

Is that a bow?

it will be!

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HA HA GOOD LUCK HOES

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