So last night I watched Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (and if you haven’t seen it/heard of it it’s about this Chinese woman who basically gets recruited to fight of an evil version of her daughter by tapping into different timelines of herself via an earpiece and very weird actions. It’s hilarious and very strange at times. Beware the hot dog fingers…)
And my brain went “Desmond Desmond Desmond Desmond Desmond-“ so. I guess I’m writing this? Any “different timeline” ideas, oh great alchemist of stories?
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is such a wonderful movie. If you guys haven’t seen it, please check it out if you can. It’s a multiverse movie that stands on its own with a touching story at the center of it.
Well… you’ve come to the right place because I made this badly edited poster last year which is actually all Desmond from his canon appearances + a few concept art + Desmond the Dog and Desmond the Drone.
Also, here’s my ‘pitch’ of how Desmond is the ultimate isekai protagonist and we have enough fodder just to freaking make a multiverse of Desmonds getting thrown into any other series/franchise/story out there.
But if you want something concrete…
Let’s make it easy for ourselves.
We’ll start with why Desmond starts hopping thru the multiverse and we’ll keep the reason consistent for each idea so we can focus on the multiverses themselves:
We can have our canon Desmond get thrown into the different universes as the Reader and the Heir informed him that he has to touch at least one Apple all over these multiverses to connect them to one another, creating a connection with one another that would finally destroy the Calculation that keeps adding a node that would create a catastrophe no matter how many times it was thwarted.
With that out of the way, let’s talk about the multiverses:
Idea 1
Now, for the multiverses, (shameless plug) this story’s Desmond could be thrown into the branches of the Yew Branches series. Perhaps this is the final story (it’s not, I’m just throwing ideas) and we’ll add in not just the branch that I’ve written in AO3 but the branches that you guys sent and we talked about here in Tumblr as well. So we’ll have Desmond have to get the help of these Desmonds with their ‘colorful’ history like being Kadar Al-Sayf, being the son of a pirate (who may or may not be related to the Kenway family), being the aunt of an Assassin who was supposed to be the most frightening Assassin hunter in Templar history or the son of the one who 'created' sadomasochism and… his own son? Wait. He has a son???
Idea 2
Another idea is that the multiverses Desmond gets thrown into are pure chaos, no rhyme or reason. Simply Desmond’s being transmigrated or isekai(ed) to other series/franchise/story. We can make this contained to simply other Ubisoft games/franchises but why would you want to do that? The sky’s the limit! Hell, if you can’t choose, how about make it a challenge like “the multiverses that appears in this story is a combination of the last games you played, series/movies you watched and books you’ve read. Pick 10 from them or something” XD. Of course, we’ll have a universe that’s ProtoCreed as well as an Infamous x AC one because those two are the main Desmond crossover stories (with AlexDes and DelDes thrown into the mix if you want). But there’s also Desmond in DC or Marvel (and canon!Desmond knowing them as comic books while those Desmonds may or may not know that). We’ll also add Desmond in Pokemon and it’s up to you if he’s a trainer or if he’s actually Sylveon. Hell, have a Desmond in Overcooked and Desmond as an Amongus in that as well because the main point is to make Desmond suffer (affectionately) XD
Idea 3
Now, for a more ‘serious’ idea, this would be more contained as well. The multiverses are possible Calculations of Desmond’s life. So we would have the following:
The Desmond who didn’t leave the Farm and became an Assassin (who will always be never enough for his father no matter how hard he tries) – may or may not appear like a distorted image of Altaïr himself
The Desmond who learned of Elijah’s existence and became a good father to him
The Desmond who was found by Abstergo and thought of Warren Vidic as his father figure, becoming a Templar out of his own ‘free will’ and leading the Templar to victory, making the 'Eye' project a success
The Desmond who let the world burn and rebuilds it from its ashes, tired and guilt-ridden while pretending to be the god that the people worship
And we can add more Desmonds from there. Desmonds who didn’t become bartenders, instead having another profession (maybe even famous by his own right), maybe even a Desmond who decided to use what he learned from the Farm to become a world-renowned thief… Hell, we can even add in Desmond who was born a woman in the mix in this one if you want.
If you really, really want this to be a chaotic mess…
Roll up all three ideas and just… mix them all together XD
