#daniel cross

[sneaky-eel]

[imnotadogiswear]

Anyone else want to see Assassin’s Creed analog horror?

[n00dlerdoodler]

Oh, don't get me wrong, I LOVE Desmond time travel fics! It's in my veins, I fucking adore it. Buuuuuuuuuut show other characters the same love.

And I'm not talking just Ezio, Altair or the other historical protagonists, but the modern day and lesser-known side characters too: Clay, Lucy, Rebecca, Shaun, Daniel Cross, Layla, Elijah and many others.

And here's the controversial part: don't have Desmond in it. The guy didn't travel in back with them, barely even have him come up in the characters' thoughts. (for the people that knew him he'd be a sore subject so they'd avoid it, and those that never got to know or meet him have no reason to think of him.)

You can have it be a solo journey, just a duo or a dnd party situation. You can explore the characters deeply in either very familiar or unknown for them environments. You can have so many new ships! Arghh

But for all of you Desmond boot lickers (me) here's something additional: He kinda haunts the narrative. For the people that knew him it's obvious why he'd stick out in their mind's eye, but through the other group my other idea for him is much clearer; some Reader and Calculations bs. Nothing too indulgent bc I am a little sick of multiverse-type stuff, but some kind of weird dreams, weirdly marked things in their eagle vision or strange coincidences thrown their way. Almost like quiet divine intervention. huh.

Anyway the big twist is Desmond also time travelled and this isn't revealed until, like, the climax or even after it. He was either. just. hanging around far away or secretly helping things along in the shadows. Probably the latter.

Ideas for these fics include: Lucy going to the late 1400s, wowing people by being an "unnaturally smart woman, mamma mia!" and eventually getting with Claudia,

Clay and Cross time travelling TOGETHER to the 1920s near where Nikolai and his family lived at the time (ft. a Lydia Frye cameo bc I love her),

Rebecca and Shaun getting separated in the time stream so one ends up in Revolutionary Paris while the other is in the Americas where the brotherhood is growing well under Connor's wing. They eventually find each other, but not before causing a whole lot of chaos because they couldn't help themselves but be total smartasses by inventing technology or speaking about stuff that haven't happened yet.

Layla doesn't know where she ended up, but says 'fuck it' and becomes a messy lone mercenary like Kassandra with the underlying goal of finding her. She doesn't realize that she is around during Al Mualim's tenure and the guy is...interested in this suspiciously assassin-like person. Also she has an eagle of her own that she has trouble getting along with. Idk.

Uhhh Desmond is either fully himself but with maxxed out stats, literally reborn as a child or himself in another character's body (established or oc, you decide). Also, mandatory interactions with Des' ancestors, I don't make the rules. Even for the 1920s part you can show his paternal grandma or something. send tweet.

[ethan-acfan]

Daniel Cross is such an interesting but tragic character. Because normally when sleeper agents are introduced in media, it shows how ruthless they were made to be, and then pushes the focus to their healing process. Forcing them to become human again

Except Daniel doesn't get that luxury. He's turned into a sleeper agent from a very young age and that manipulation stays with him until his death. He only starts his "healing" while looking for the assassin grandmaster which he only did because that's what he was trained to do. Find the grandmaster and kill him. It's the first thing he asks for when first coming into contact with the assassins and the one thing he works for the whole time hes there.

We never see his real personality or what he might be like in a better situation because he's never put into a better situation. He's never redeemed, never given peace. He was raised a sleeper agent and died a sleeper agent.

And what makes this worse, his death was nothing more than another manipulation tactic used by Vidic

[teecupangel]

Imagine des in the past but he's just so flipping beautiful that people automatically start rolling out the red carpet wherever he goes. All his hood does is give him a different kind of beauty. (ghost kenway)

This reminds me of the full Isu Desmond idea we had before (although that one had Desmond’s beauty more on the side of ‘obey me or fear me’ XD) so have this instead lollol

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“What.”

Lucy kept quiet, watching Vidic look ready to down an entire bottle of ibuprofen.

“I let him go.”

Lucy could see the vein throbbing angrily around Vidic’s forehead as he gritted, “Why would you do that, Daniel?”

“He asked.”

Lucy took a small step back as Vidic finally shouted, “And why would you agree to that?! Don’t you realize how important Desmond Miles is?! We need him-”

Lucy listened half-heartedly as Vidic continued on his tirade, staring at the phone currently on speaker so Vidic could hear Daniel’s report while he was writing an email to be sent to Alan Rikkin.

Now, the email laid half-written and Vidic was banging his palm against the table hard enough that the pens stored in their holder by the side of the monitor was slightly moving.

Lucy herself was unsure what to say in this situation.

She only heard the rumors about Desmond Miles and they were all so ridiculous.

He managed to escape the Farm by asking for help from one of the men driving out for a supply run.

That was it.

He just asked.

According to Bill, that was just how Desmond was.

People just wanted to do things for him.

That was why Lucy suggested they bagged him as soon as they see him, cover his face up with a sack and don’t let him say anything.

She felt her phone vibrate and glanced at Vidic.

He was still busy scolding Daniel so she should be safe.

She looked at her phone and blinked.

It was from Daniel’s second-in-command.

She had never received a message from him at all.

It could only mean one thing.

He was snitching on Daniel.

She quietly opened the message and blinked.

[Cross is so lucky. Desmond let him lick his foot.]

Lucy turned off her phone.

She was not looking forward having to tell Vidic about that.

[iveseenthatlovebefore]

OKAY so remember that Templar!Desmond fic idea???

Yeah. I wrote it. It's REAL. It's ALIVE.

It's UNIONIZING.

READ THIS SHIT HERE ON AO3

Summary: Everything was going fine for Desmond—until he got fired from the Bad Weather bar.

So when a strangely opportune internship listing popped up in his inbox—weird sender name, shady NDA, zero contact info—he clicked apply.

Was it a scam? Probably.

Did he get the job? Absolutely.

What Desmond DOESN'T know:

The job is at TEMPLAR HQ

He's unintentionally turning his fellow interns into baby assassins through charisma and spite

Daniel Cross has started following him around like a trigger happy Roomba with abandonment issues

What Abstergo DOES know:

Daniel Cross—famously unhinged—has stopped trying to stab people in the elevators

He's SMILING now

He holds DOORS OPEN

He hasn't murdered anyone in WEEKS

Naturally, upper management is curious and all signs point to one cause: The Intern.

Francisco Randez (aka Desmond Miles)

So they think Desmond is promising. Potentially Templar material. They even suggest pairing him up with with Daniel on field missions to 'keep morale high'.

Daniel has Opinions about that. (Loud. Violent. And also weirdly flustered ones.)

In which Desmond:

gets fired from the Bad Weather one year before the solar flare hits

lies his way into a corporate cult

becomes Daniel Cross' emotional support intern

accidentally trains a squad of weaponized interns using nothing but passive-aggressive life advice

just wants a paycheck and maybe a 401K

still has no idea what the company actually does

Some future quotes—THE OFFICE STYLE:

"Honestly, I didn't think I'd get this far." – Desmond Miles, intern and runaway Assassin novice, freshly promoted to 'oh no.'

"Daniel's been… smiling. Like, a lot. I think he has a crush. Or a kill list. Possibly both." – Sarah Jones, Abstergo HR, updating the emergency protocol binder

"It's not like I LIKE him or anything. I just... function better when he's nearby. Shut up." – Daniel Cross, Master Templar and once Assassin Sleeper Agent, reloading his gun and blushing aggressively

"He did what. In where. With WHO?!" – William Miles, reading an intercepted Abstergo memo and having an audible crisis during a debrief

"I pulled the fire alarm so Francisco wouldn't have to present to Mr. Vidic." – Caleb Larson, intern, loyal and proudly wagging his metaphorical tail

"He said I shouldn't let fear control me, so I submitted a vacation request that just said 'no.'" – Andrea Lin, intern, everyone's problem now

"He has no clearance. No training. No agenda. And yet everyone listens to him. It's either divine intervention or managerial negligence." – Shaun Hastings, solo historian and part time barista, probably both right and wrong

There's even a group chat somewhere called 'Rendezvous with Randez'.

No one knows who started it.

Desmond is the admin. He still hasn't noticed.

[theyaregayyourhonor]

Desmond being petty and sending flowers to Daniel Cross's office. the Card has 2 coins taped inside "I got our fare for Charon, see you next week."

[fancy-strawberry-beard]

Found an old sketch for my Templar Workplace Comedy au and decided to finish colouring it.

I don't remember what the text was supposed to be so I'll let you guys speculate as to what's happening here.