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Name: Nueva
Personal Journal: nuevayuimaxwell
Time zone: EST
Contact: nuevayuimaxwell@gmail.com, AIM: Nueva YuiMaxwell
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Fandom: Assassin's Creed
Name: Desmond Miles
Canon Point: Right before the start of Revelation, AKA when he finds the Black Room in the Animus
Is this character dead? Nope
History: Wikipedia link
Assassin's Creed Wiki link
Personality:
Desmond can at first appear as a gruff and sarcastic person. His knowledge of the ever constant fight between the Assassin Order and the Templars may be the reason for his slight cynical and realistic views on life. Throughout the events of AC1&2, he often uses humor to make light of his situation, whether it be his imprisonment at Abstergo or the fact that the Bleeding Effect is most likely going to make him insane. But usually, his jokes fall flat on other people.
Desmond also has an uncanny self-preservation skill. Ever since he escaped the Farm, he's been careful not to attract any unwanted attention to him, as well as being clever enough not to use his real name or any legal traces about him. That makes him a pretty discreet person, as well as one that can make small conversation without revealing anything on himself. Indeed, he was able to hide that he knew about the Templars, as he lightly joked to Vidic about them being 'people in pointy hats trying to take over the world with lizard people'. His chosen job, bartending, suggests that he has normal social skills as well as being probably good at listening to others. This might also come from the small Assassin training he received before escaping his parents, in order to be able to gather the right information about their targets. His self-preservation skills are also at the origin of him complying to cooperate with Vidic, at the beginning of the first game, after the man threatens him to put him in a coma. Desmond also snoops around the facility, using pick pocketing and hacking skills to get information that might be useful to his escape.
If at first he gets in the Animus to survive, Desmond quickly realizes that his memories are worth much more and that there is more to the situation that it has been led on to him. When later on, Lucy offers him a chance to become the Assassin he should have become a long time ago, itdoesn't take much to convince him: Desmond vows to avenge the other subjects as well as himself, seeking to see Vidic dead. This shift from being selfish to selfless comes from the realization his ancestor showed: that the Templars won't stop at anything to gain control over the masses. And Desmond can't bring himself to let them rob the people from their free will. After learning of the impending doom of the Earth, and how 'Those Who Came Before' left them with the weapons needed to overcome total destruction, the Pieces of Eden, Desmond shows his willingness to help, as he jumps into the Animus when asked of him, knowing his memories could be the key to saving humanity.
Also, the fact that Desmond escaped the Farm indicates that he's a curious person by nature and as well as more on the loner side. His need to see the world was strong enough to defy his parents, even though he knew that it might be dangerous to do so (since he hid from both the Templars and the Assassins afterward). Also, following some of the information Shaun gave him in the Animus 2.0, Desmond showed that he knew some of the places mentioned, as well as some of the characters.
While he often jokes about it, the possibility of going insane because of the Bleeding Effect, caused by overstays in the Animus, worries Desmond. He's seen what it did to Subject 16 (writing on walls with blood, hiding strange information in the Animus that bled to his own DNA memories) and he knows that Subject 16 died because of it. It's not a fate he wants to meet, even though Desmond knows the Bleeding Effect is to thank for his new found Assassin's abilities.
Throughout the Brotherhood game, Desmond is seeing gaining more confidence in his skills. He still exhibits his curiosity trait, asking many questions to his team mates, obviously trying to learn more about them. Still, he doesn't open up much them in return, even though it becomes clear as time passes for the Modern Day Assassins that he cares for his team. On two occasions, he tries to cheer up Lucy, their team leader, letting her know how well she's trained and how his cynicism and negativism are slowly fading away under her teachings. Still, it's become clear that reliving the life of his ancestors is taking a toll not only on his mental health, but on his nerves as well. Now plagued with nightmares that leaves him screaming at night, Desmond expresses at least once on how jumping in the Animus is demanding for him. Still, he shows how strong headed he is and how this finally means something to him as he goes against Lucy's recommendations and pushes for longer sessions in the Animus.
////SPOILERS/////
While it's unclear where Desmond stands versus Lucy in game, it's obvious that he cares greatly for her. He trusts her with his life and sanity and it's hinted that he has feelings for the blond by the end of the game. Neither less to say, he cares for her enough that when 'Juno', one of Those Who Came Before, forced him to stab Lucy, the gesture shattered his mind. Quickly slipping into a coma, he now faces insanity if he doesn't find a way to reconstruct his mind to be able to wake up from his coma. Desmond will be sent in the Underworld juts as he slips into his coma.
Skills | Powers: Like his ancestors, he can use the Eagle Vision, enabling him to see people for their true allegiance (something I will put a permission post for people to respond to). However, prolonged use of the Eagle Vision often triggers hallucinations, again from the Bleeding Effect, so Desmond doesn’t use it more than needed to. Desmond can also pickpocket and hack computers to some extent. At the beginning of the second game, he shows fist fighting skills as Lucy and him escape Abstergo.
Thanks to the Bleeding Effect, he can free-run, his style looking more akin to Altaïr than Ezio. Now fully synchronized with Ezio, he can use all the Italian's skills, from kills with the Hidden Blade to sword fight or shooting a crossbow. However, it can be assumed that Desmond lacks his ancestors' stamina, as the Animus only transfers knowledge and not stamina. But it's been said that he's in decent physical shape, so he could use them for a short while.
First Person Sample: (reused from somarium's application)
Journal Entry #1. Fall 2012, in a van on its way north from the last hideout.
I guess I should start one of those. Altaïr had a nifty coded one, after all. I'm sure Ezio had one too, at some point. Though, I wouldn't be surprised if his was only a little black book with female names crossed over in it. Anyway, I can only hope that writing down my thoughts and memories will prevent me from drawing insanities on a wall with my own blood.
I can't believe how quickly this shit got real. Seriously, we went from trying to stop the Templars from controlling the world and shape it to their taste to having to stop an impending doom that's gonna destroy pretty much all of us. That..goddess, Minerva, she made it pretty clear that we're all fucked if we don't find the other Pieces of Eden. How the hell did she knew I'd be listening when Ezio got to the Vault? Her words...the way she looked at me instead of Gramps, she wasn't just expecting him to deliver the message some six hundred years after, somehow. Though, I have to admit that Ezio's face when she called him 'Desmond' was pretty priceless. But yeah, we need to get the Pieces unless we want to burn to a
crisp. No sunscreen's gonna protected us from what's coming, that's for sure.
And apparently, my DNA still holds the rest of the answer. It seems that my ancestors have some sort of luck with the Pieces. Either that, or a very strange obsession for shiny, alien things. I think that's why Vidic found us and tried to get me back to Abstergo. Vidic...I'll sleep better once that man lies in his own pool of blood, honestly. I didn't particularly enjoyed killing those guards, but him, him I'll definitely enjoy driving the Hidden Blade through his neck...
Third Person Sample:
"...He's going into shock!!!"
"Put him back in the machine. It's the only way to fix this."
"But....isn't the Animus responsible for this?"
"I'm the expert, aren't I? Just do it!"
"...No..." He protested feebly. He didn't want to be back in the goddamming machine again. He wanted to be up and cover the wound he caused with his hand and make sure Lucy was all right. She had to be. She was strong, she'd fight this, right? Right? But the more Desmond was trying to stay awake, to find the feeling of being torn into thousand of pieces, the more he felt he was losing control over his mind and body. How the hell it had come to this? What did Juno ever gained in having him stabbing the one person he trusted over all above? But before he could work on coming with an answer to that question, he felt that familiar pull of synchronizing into the white room of the Animus.
Animus interface loading...
Loading...
Loading...
Animus program...failed
The novice looked around him, confused. Instead of the infinite white he usually saw when the computer would boot up the Animus program, he only saw a door on top of a hill. Taking careful steps to it, he reached for the knob, unexpectedly finding unlocked. Desmond looked around him: there was no where to go now and if he was believing the Animus computer's voice, there would be no escape but forward. And so he pushed the door open, squinting as the light coming out blinded him momentarily. Shielding his eyes with one hand, he took a step in and instantly felt as he he was falling down, as if he was leaping.
As expected, he woke up with a jolt, looking around him quickly, confusion seeping into his gaze fast. He wasn't in his bed, nor in any bed at all: he was lying at the bottom of a boat. Cold sweat gathered in his back as he looked up, finally seeing the hooded skeleton pushing the boat towards a dock. Not a moment after the boat touched it, a bony hand raised, obviously indicating the young man to exit the boat. Desmond swallowed slowly and did as was silently asked of him, his gaze turning to the city of the Dead.
"H-holy shit..." The square thing that he was clutching in his hand since he had woken fell from it with a clattering sound on the rocky road. The Assassin couldn't believe his eyes and one hand ran to rub them.
"...Am I...dead?" Because this looked exactly like what he would have imagined the Underworld to look like. A sort of Dante's Inferno mix to the Greek mythology. Somewhere at the back of his mind, Desmond almost snorted as he could see Shaun equally bitch and look in wonder at the Death World. Still the young man frowned, frozen in place in shock: "...I'm not sure if this is better than turning insane..."
Name: Nueva
Personal Journal: nuevayuimaxwell
Time zone: EST
Contact: nuevayuimaxwell@gmail.com, AIM: Nueva YuiMaxwell
Current Characters: None
|| Character Information ||
Fandom: Assassin's Creed
Name: Desmond Miles
Canon Point: Right before the start of Revelation, AKA when he finds the Black Room in the Animus
Is this character dead? Nope
History: Wikipedia link
Assassin's Creed Wiki link
Personality:
Desmond can at first appear as a gruff and sarcastic person. His knowledge of the ever constant fight between the Assassin Order and the Templars may be the reason for his slight cynical and realistic views on life. Throughout the events of AC1&2, he often uses humor to make light of his situation, whether it be his imprisonment at Abstergo or the fact that the Bleeding Effect is most likely going to make him insane. But usually, his jokes fall flat on other people.
Desmond also has an uncanny self-preservation skill. Ever since he escaped the Farm, he's been careful not to attract any unwanted attention to him, as well as being clever enough not to use his real name or any legal traces about him. That makes him a pretty discreet person, as well as one that can make small conversation without revealing anything on himself. Indeed, he was able to hide that he knew about the Templars, as he lightly joked to Vidic about them being 'people in pointy hats trying to take over the world with lizard people'. His chosen job, bartending, suggests that he has normal social skills as well as being probably good at listening to others. This might also come from the small Assassin training he received before escaping his parents, in order to be able to gather the right information about their targets. His self-preservation skills are also at the origin of him complying to cooperate with Vidic, at the beginning of the first game, after the man threatens him to put him in a coma. Desmond also snoops around the facility, using pick pocketing and hacking skills to get information that might be useful to his escape.
If at first he gets in the Animus to survive, Desmond quickly realizes that his memories are worth much more and that there is more to the situation that it has been led on to him. When later on, Lucy offers him a chance to become the Assassin he should have become a long time ago, itdoesn't take much to convince him: Desmond vows to avenge the other subjects as well as himself, seeking to see Vidic dead. This shift from being selfish to selfless comes from the realization his ancestor showed: that the Templars won't stop at anything to gain control over the masses. And Desmond can't bring himself to let them rob the people from their free will. After learning of the impending doom of the Earth, and how 'Those Who Came Before' left them with the weapons needed to overcome total destruction, the Pieces of Eden, Desmond shows his willingness to help, as he jumps into the Animus when asked of him, knowing his memories could be the key to saving humanity.
Also, the fact that Desmond escaped the Farm indicates that he's a curious person by nature and as well as more on the loner side. His need to see the world was strong enough to defy his parents, even though he knew that it might be dangerous to do so (since he hid from both the Templars and the Assassins afterward). Also, following some of the information Shaun gave him in the Animus 2.0, Desmond showed that he knew some of the places mentioned, as well as some of the characters.
While he often jokes about it, the possibility of going insane because of the Bleeding Effect, caused by overstays in the Animus, worries Desmond. He's seen what it did to Subject 16 (writing on walls with blood, hiding strange information in the Animus that bled to his own DNA memories) and he knows that Subject 16 died because of it. It's not a fate he wants to meet, even though Desmond knows the Bleeding Effect is to thank for his new found Assassin's abilities.
Throughout the Brotherhood game, Desmond is seeing gaining more confidence in his skills. He still exhibits his curiosity trait, asking many questions to his team mates, obviously trying to learn more about them. Still, he doesn't open up much them in return, even though it becomes clear as time passes for the Modern Day Assassins that he cares for his team. On two occasions, he tries to cheer up Lucy, their team leader, letting her know how well she's trained and how his cynicism and negativism are slowly fading away under her teachings. Still, it's become clear that reliving the life of his ancestors is taking a toll not only on his mental health, but on his nerves as well. Now plagued with nightmares that leaves him screaming at night, Desmond expresses at least once on how jumping in the Animus is demanding for him. Still, he shows how strong headed he is and how this finally means something to him as he goes against Lucy's recommendations and pushes for longer sessions in the Animus.
////SPOILERS/////
While it's unclear where Desmond stands versus Lucy in game, it's obvious that he cares greatly for her. He trusts her with his life and sanity and it's hinted that he has feelings for the blond by the end of the game. Neither less to say, he cares for her enough that when 'Juno', one of Those Who Came Before, forced him to stab Lucy, the gesture shattered his mind. Quickly slipping into a coma, he now faces insanity if he doesn't find a way to reconstruct his mind to be able to wake up from his coma. Desmond will be sent in the Underworld juts as he slips into his coma.
Skills | Powers: Like his ancestors, he can use the Eagle Vision, enabling him to see people for their true allegiance (something I will put a permission post for people to respond to). However, prolonged use of the Eagle Vision often triggers hallucinations, again from the Bleeding Effect, so Desmond doesn’t use it more than needed to. Desmond can also pickpocket and hack computers to some extent. At the beginning of the second game, he shows fist fighting skills as Lucy and him escape Abstergo.
Thanks to the Bleeding Effect, he can free-run, his style looking more akin to Altaïr than Ezio. Now fully synchronized with Ezio, he can use all the Italian's skills, from kills with the Hidden Blade to sword fight or shooting a crossbow. However, it can be assumed that Desmond lacks his ancestors' stamina, as the Animus only transfers knowledge and not stamina. But it's been said that he's in decent physical shape, so he could use them for a short while.
First Person Sample: (reused from somarium's application)
Journal Entry #1. Fall 2012, in a van on its way north from the last hideout.
I guess I should start one of those. Altaïr had a nifty coded one, after all. I'm sure Ezio had one too, at some point. Though, I wouldn't be surprised if his was only a little black book with female names crossed over in it. Anyway, I can only hope that writing down my thoughts and memories will prevent me from drawing insanities on a wall with my own blood.
I can't believe how quickly this shit got real. Seriously, we went from trying to stop the Templars from controlling the world and shape it to their taste to having to stop an impending doom that's gonna destroy pretty much all of us. That..goddess, Minerva, she made it pretty clear that we're all fucked if we don't find the other Pieces of Eden. How the hell did she knew I'd be listening when Ezio got to the Vault? Her words...the way she looked at me instead of Gramps, she wasn't just expecting him to deliver the message some six hundred years after, somehow. Though, I have to admit that Ezio's face when she called him 'Desmond' was pretty priceless. But yeah, we need to get the Pieces unless we want to burn to a
crisp. No sunscreen's gonna protected us from what's coming, that's for sure.
And apparently, my DNA still holds the rest of the answer. It seems that my ancestors have some sort of luck with the Pieces. Either that, or a very strange obsession for shiny, alien things. I think that's why Vidic found us and tried to get me back to Abstergo. Vidic...I'll sleep better once that man lies in his own pool of blood, honestly. I didn't particularly enjoyed killing those guards, but him, him I'll definitely enjoy driving the Hidden Blade through his neck...
Third Person Sample:
"...He's going into shock!!!"
"Put him back in the machine. It's the only way to fix this."
"But....isn't the Animus responsible for this?"
"I'm the expert, aren't I? Just do it!"
"...No..." He protested feebly. He didn't want to be back in the goddamming machine again. He wanted to be up and cover the wound he caused with his hand and make sure Lucy was all right. She had to be. She was strong, she'd fight this, right? Right? But the more Desmond was trying to stay awake, to find the feeling of being torn into thousand of pieces, the more he felt he was losing control over his mind and body. How the hell it had come to this? What did Juno ever gained in having him stabbing the one person he trusted over all above? But before he could work on coming with an answer to that question, he felt that familiar pull of synchronizing into the white room of the Animus.
Animus interface loading...
Loading...
Loading...
Animus program...failed
The novice looked around him, confused. Instead of the infinite white he usually saw when the computer would boot up the Animus program, he only saw a door on top of a hill. Taking careful steps to it, he reached for the knob, unexpectedly finding unlocked. Desmond looked around him: there was no where to go now and if he was believing the Animus computer's voice, there would be no escape but forward. And so he pushed the door open, squinting as the light coming out blinded him momentarily. Shielding his eyes with one hand, he took a step in and instantly felt as he he was falling down, as if he was leaping.
As expected, he woke up with a jolt, looking around him quickly, confusion seeping into his gaze fast. He wasn't in his bed, nor in any bed at all: he was lying at the bottom of a boat. Cold sweat gathered in his back as he looked up, finally seeing the hooded skeleton pushing the boat towards a dock. Not a moment after the boat touched it, a bony hand raised, obviously indicating the young man to exit the boat. Desmond swallowed slowly and did as was silently asked of him, his gaze turning to the city of the Dead.
"H-holy shit..." The square thing that he was clutching in his hand since he had woken fell from it with a clattering sound on the rocky road. The Assassin couldn't believe his eyes and one hand ran to rub them.
"...Am I...dead?" Because this looked exactly like what he would have imagined the Underworld to look like. A sort of Dante's Inferno mix to the Greek mythology. Somewhere at the back of his mind, Desmond almost snorted as he could see Shaun equally bitch and look in wonder at the Death World. Still the young man frowned, frozen in place in shock: "...I'm not sure if this is better than turning insane..."