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[moonlight--howling]

THE TEMPTATION TO EDIT THE ONE ON THE RIGHT WITH MY LOONA'S BODY REFERENCE IS REAL DKJGLSKD i juST mIGHT

[heartsoftruth]

RED FLAG | SPA

[teecupangel]

Submitted by @saberamane

Saw this artwork by astarcis and my mind immediately went ‘what would the ancestors do if they found this, and it was actually Desmond reincarnated after the eye?’ Like the various animal Desmond’s people have submitted.

Altair would probably find it fascinating, and Maria would not want it around the kids at all, it’s at least partly snake, what if it bit the children? Jokes on Maria though, the children love this strange abomination, and Desmond in kind loves kids. And with his knowledge, he’d be able to stay behind and protect Malik and Sef when the others leave to kill Genghis Khan. Give Abbas an agonizing death with his venom or something.

I feel Ezio would probably find him somewhere and take him to Leonardo. He’d maybe say something stupid to Leo like 'what kind of dog is this? I’ve never seen such a thing before.’ And Leo, bless his soul, would be like 'you can’t be that stupid Ezio. Thats not a dog. I don’t know what that is. Where did you find it?’ 'I’m going to keep him. He’s kinda cute.’ Desmond is very sweet to Maria and Claudia, which just cements Ezio’s thoughts that he is some kind of weird dog. It wags it’s tail and everything like a dog. Even if it does swallow it’s food whole…

Ratonhnhaké:ton and his tribe probably think of him as a forest spirit or something. They’d definitely know he wasn’t 'natural’ and therefore would try to honor him so as to not bring misfortune on the tribe by being disrespectful.  Desmond would hang around the temple a lot, trying to find a way to destroy Juno, or at least make it so she can’t communicate with Ratonhnhaké:ton. And Charles Lee would definitely die horribly by his poison bite before he could kill the tribe. Once Ratonhnhaké:ton was older, Desmond would probably start following him around more, leaving the temple more often. Helping with hunts and such. Of course, the tribe would then think Ratonhnhaké:ton was the 'chosen one’ or something by the spirit and would start to ask him what Desmond wanted for tribute or something lol.

(The creature is called a 'nightstalker’ from fallout new vegas, i’ve never played that series myself, but it seems to have a lot of interesting creatures from the nuclear fallout that occurred.)

Any additional thoughts or head-cannon’s?

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(Additions from teecup)

Well, first and foremost... don’t look at the actual nightstalker from Fallout New Vegas. They don’t... look as cute as the one above. XD

Also, here’s the tumblr post of that artwork

As for additional headcanons and thoughts:

I like to think that Desmond is one of those nightstalkers that can turn invisible and the first time he does it, everybody panicked because they thought he flatout disappeared.

Sef definitely loves Desmond the most as he grew up with Desmond being both his guard dog and babysitter. Sef’s daughters also love Desmond and likes to hug him. Unlike Maria who had been worried, Sef absolutely encourages his daughters to play with Desmond.

Malik’s son, Tazim, was once dared to tug Desmond’s tail. Just to be a jerk, Desmond howled loudly and pretended to die for dramatic effect. It traumatized Tazim so badly because he honestly believed he killed Desmond. Desmond felt super bad especially since no one could stop Tazim from crying even after Desmond showed that he’s alive and well.

Desmond didn’t think it would be a big deal since Darim’s preferred method of stopping him from doing something stupid was to tug his tail anyway.

Leonardo would definitely draw sketches of Desmond which would baffle historians in later years. Leonardo is also the only person to wonder how Desmond reproduces (Nightstalkers lay eggs… and… uuuhhh… every nightstalker has a chance to drop eggs if you kill them so… I’m not saying Desmond can lay eggs… I’m just saying… the possibility exists?)

Desmond mostly communicates with growls and whimpers but whenever it’s time to poison someone, he hisses and rattles.

The preferred poison of the Assassins was based on his venom thanks to Altaïr’s studies. This means that old Assassin families are immune to his venom. This includes Haytham.

Desmond definitely destroyed the crystal skull that Juno uses to communicate with Ratonhnhaké:ton’s tribe by playing with it like it’s a ball of yarn. The villagers just assumed it was the will of the spirits.

Whenever anyone asks Ratonhnhaké:ton what Desmond wants for tribute, Ratonhnhaké:ton always answers that the best tribute is a kill by their hunters that will be shared with the tribes as some kind of festivity. It took months for Desmond to be able to explain it to Ratonhnhaké:ton using charades and Desmond was actually just saying ‘a meal together’.

George Washington cannot get near Ratonhnhaké:ton because Desmond hisses and rattle any time he tries... Haytham also gets the hissing and rattling treatment.

[swaggypsyduck]

just saw someone compare haaland to thierry henry and i was so offended on behalf of my arsenal and barça mutuals.

[epochnexus]

just got PUNCHED IN THE FACE..... with a thought-

if the ink demon eats his failed/dead audrey spawn

and retains their memories and info

ok

and fave audrey acts more like toon bendy

alright

and if the ink demon was being tormented by the keepers to become, toon bendy

mm-hmm

what

if

he started thinkin about his favorite?

if ink made favorite from thinkin about henry, and in that sentimentality, he managed to dig up this old, abandoned, toon bendy part of himself to make her. and she ends up sorta nurturing and growing that part of himself outside of him, plus getting through to him and his trauma shit, and then gets reincorporated into him. sharing with him those memories, feeling, etc that she made outside of himself.

and then with more trauma, him distancing himself from perfect audrey, thinking it's her who's doing all this stuff to him now, pushing that toon/fave part of himself down further and further over the years, only to suddenly be captured and tormented like he was, or even worse than he was outside of the machine years ago. going back mentally to a time where he was abused horrifically like this, and being forced to be something he's not. thinking "i'm stronger now, i'm not going to be as weak as i was before. You can't hurt me anymore." only for the torment to seemingly never stop.

his mind would wonder, and dig, and hope to recall some better time before this. and he thinks of his favorite. and honestly, she's probably the only thing that gets him to cry. he thinks this might be deserved, or thinks that audrey outside the machine might retain some memory of her past time and is resentful, but none of those answers make any sense. he keeps digging in his own head and all of her memories seem to be there. and he goes from hating himself and feeling this is a worthy punishment for all the torment he's caused, to wishing she was there, and cry not from the pain and torment he's being put through, but because he misses her.

he just wants to hold her again. he wouldn't mind her calling him out on his self hating bullshit again. he's embarrassed of recollections of the two playing. disgusted recalling through her eyes of him killing or eating someone. felling pity as he reaches deeper in his mind at moments he'd done her wrong, or hurt her in ways he still hardly understands, and seeing those same memories through her eyes, and breaking at the feeling. essentially seeing himself, looking at himself through her eyes, laying on the floor in pitch blackness, seeing her hold his hand and vividly hear a soft "you can cry, it's ok." spoken in a way so genuine and nearly choked up, it makes him hyperventilate and feel sick to his stomach.

the keepers are grossly gleeful about this, not knowing what's going on in the ink demons head, just seeing him sob and get giddy, thinking their torment is working. thinking this emotionless thing is finally showing emotion due to them. they think the ink demon's form is changing because of their influence. not because this part of him, that's always been there, that for once was finally given time to grow outside of himself on accident, that was buried twice over, is finally crawling its way up to the surface, through all the scar tissue and calluses, and making itself known out of love for one, two, maybe three-ish people if you wanna count him being friendly with bertrum. and pure, tormented, traumatized HATRED and SPITE for everything else.

he doesn't turn into bendy in the first place, because the keepers torment, he turns into bendy because he's always been bendy, and no one will let him be bendy, and he hardly ever lets himself be bendy, and it took pulling that bendy part out of himself, and pretending/making it someone else, and putting it back in, for him to even get a chance to be bendy, just for a little bit. he's still not perfect, he's still hurt and tortured, he's still scared because he's always been scared, hell he still probably hates himself, but now in this toon form it's that self hatred that's being pushed down in favor of... his favorite... i guess.

....

it took an out of body/sitting beside himself experience for this fucker to realize "ya know, maybe i'm not all that bad". and that same-ish out of body/sitting beside himself/toon part of him is comin back like tag team to switch spots and hopefully stop him from getting more hurt. because being strong and stoic like this isn't working, being a monster that destroys everything isn't working, and... he hates it, but... sometimes, it's ok to let his walls down and cry, and... being loved, even for a moment, from someone else, or from himself which is hard to do when he's not split in two, is the only thing that gets the tears flowing...

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I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRY SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!

[bidokja]

i would never survive in these "isekai-ed into a novel/game/etc" type series because no matter how hyperfixated i get on a thing my memory is complete ass. you could stick me right next to my absolute favorite character in a series just before an obvious and major event and i could not for the life of me remember what would happen next

[thechillicount]

And more Take-chan for meeee~

[harunnn]

YOUNG ALL MIGHT WITH HIS BASEBALL JACKET...  I’m rly hyped up for the movie ! !