#memeofunderstanding

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memeofunderstanding liked your post “P.S. I’m back bitches”

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“What do you want? I clearly am busy.” The sass and bitterness in his voice were very evident as he spoke to his father, not holding back in the slightest since he had no patience for the man.

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memeofunderstanding replied to your post “they should have saved the really wild waterspout/hurricane sequence...”

Is it bad that i just wanted Ben to win against Edward anyway, because Ben was obviously the better pirate in basically every sense....(the only issue being then that Haytham wouldn’t have been born, which is definitely quite an issue cos he’s my fave. And obviously then AC3 wouldn’t exist.) but anyway you get my point Ben was a big deal

No way. You won’t hear me ever judging you for keeping Ben around longer!

Same goes for Mary, I think they deserved more and I wanted them to survive

In the book there’s more of a fight and Edward can’t just one-hit kill Benjamin, instead, they fight on the beach (there’s fanart on Deviantart/Artstaion that resembles that scene) after Ben is already injured by the Jackdaw firing on him and his crew on Santanillas

They swordfight and the author states Ben’s older and injured, so he loses after a number of wounds, but the novel still establishes Ben isn’t at all a pushover, can anticipate Edward’s attacks, and a pretty great fighter. I’ll give the book that

Yeah we gotta have Haytham and his fam. I wouldn’t want to rob the series of Edward’s descendants.

I don’t know, they could have written him out badly injured but inevitably spared by Kenway, who then lies to everyone else he’s dead. I guess it would be OOC or w/e since he was so ANGRYYYY at Ben. Then all of his mentors are dead, land lots of manpain to follow. 

Or maybe Ben could have had the upper hand, injured Kenway, but chickened out of killing him and lies to Templars, buying Kenway extra time. The other Templars find out, and Ben’s p. much f--k’d. That ties in with another possible historical end for Ben I’ve read about that was him captured by Spanish and dying in a Havana prison. Historically, Torres hated Hornigold and made complaints about his piracy to English colonial authorities. BenThatch would raid Cuban coasts and such.

(The game really wants the player to hate Ben since he ‘sold em down the river’ yet in truth he tried convincing Nassau pirates to take the pardon to save their skins in the first place)

But I can’t deny Old Man Ben showing up later in Rogue would have been funny.

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memeofunderstanding replied to your post “If Bellamy was supposed to be an Assassin in AC Pirates or whatever,...”

But i feel they generally just trashed Ben’s character in AC pirates anyway :(

Yeah from all I’ve caught, it’s pretty meh. I wish they had at least established Thatch remained loyal to Ben when he lost his captaincy (twenty guys stuck with him). Hell, that could have been a mission early on in AC4.

I always appreciate AC including historical figures, but sometimes (like with any historical fiction) they lose some of their accomplishments to favor the fictional

Plus Ben doesn’t look ‘COOL PIRATE’ enough (he lost his hat again noo)

Hi btw! :D