AS OF NOW, she's just a pretty lady with bene legs! he hasn't caught her on EV yet... but once he asks around a bit, or at least realizes she's the fortunetroller, she'll be... a bit more interesting! idk, it's too early to say yet.
LMF I WENT OVER THE CHARACTER LIMIT.....manscruffJune 8 2011, 12:43:03 UTC
THOUGHTS. OKAY.
So, she is a babe. We have established this. She is also apparently a ghost? Which is a bit... weird to him. Sure, he can hear people say it, but... as far as he can tell, she seems... corporeal. EV confuses him as well, since he's never really seen anyone with their disposition in a state of flux to such a degree, even here in Anatole, where a bunch of people have two colors because of their inhumanness... He heard about her fortune telling, and he saw the dragon and her armor on the forge afterwards, and all that combined makes her more intriguing? Part of it might be the idea of a ghost being similar to his very limited understanding of the First Civilization hologram he saw. (The hologram lady in question looked kinda ginger too...)
He's impressed by her devotion and stubbornness in regards to serving the clinic, since he now kinda understands that he underestimated her during the Abyssal war. (It's a bad habit of his, assuming responsibility for others even if it's not needed/not requested. It's made worse by the fact that he doesn't always assume that Scorched have insane powers; he considers that aspect of their being a secondary trait. Plus, it's his role back home to lead the brotherhood, decide what recruits do what and when, and how much rest or training they get in between. They don't have to comply, in fact, they are volunteers. It's simply implied in their oaths that they will do their part in the Brotherhood to their greatest understanding and capabilities, and that means following orders, but at the same time, asking questions and receiving answers. I hope I am not contradicting myself.)
Plus, she’s fun? Caterina, as much of a badass babe as she was, was pretty brash, and she basically admitted to using sex to manipulate and influence him for political gains. And since that’s not a real possibility here, he is totally cool with these shenanigans.
ANNALEE: She gets her own paragraph, which includes "why children own Ezio’s soul."
Distressed children are especially um, distressing for Ezio, since they remind him of Petruccio the day he was executed. (Quick rundown on the Auditore children at the beginning of AC2: Federico is the oldest (20), then Ezio (17), then Claudia (15), and finally Petruccio (13)! Ezio, being the second oldest, was frequently used as leverage by the younger two against Federico, that lazy dickbag, and could get goaded into doing just about anything for them. He beats up Claudia's bf for cheating on her and climbs around on the fucking roofs to collect feathers for Petruccio while that asshole Fede sleeps off his hangover, the jobless bum. Just putting that out there.) So um, dad and brothers executed. Yeah, nasty stuff. Anyway, Petruccio's up there on the gallows balling his eyes out and stuff, and then afterwards, Ezio has to go home and comfort Claudia because Momma Auditore's gone mute with shock. (For the record, I think that if he had to save one of the three, he would have saved Petruccio, even though he was super ill and would have been hard to escape with.) He had to grow up fast... ;w;
Anyway! Petruccio is kind of babbified in his mind, since most of Ezio’s memories of the kid are of him being so much younger. And because of all that, he is observant of children in general, kind of a default protector mode because he thinks he is the goddamn batman or something. In Brotherhood, we see him find this crying kid and not only ask what is wrong, but reassure him that the kid was brave and direct him to safety while he goes and whoops the ass of the slaver that nabbed the kid's mom. Now, this might not seem like a big deal, but come on, Rome, in 1502? Orphans are not uncommon, so the fact that he stops and checks on the kid is significant. Conversely, happy children remind him of happy Petruccio, so he does not at all mind catering to their whims.
Another part of it is his own sort of regret at not having a family of his own? By the time 1500 rolls around, he is sick and tired of these motherfuckin’ Templars in this motherfuckin’ country, just wants to beat up the pope and look in the vault, then go home, take a bath, and sleep with some women. He wants to be done with the whole revenge thing. Even though he knows he has duties back in his world, Anatole has given him a sort of twisted taste of what it is like not to be an Assassin, and it’s kind of tempting to just want to stay and be… normalish. (Not that I’m saying he’d ever actually consider it, hell no, not with Claudia and Maria back in Rome and the Borgias doing their thing.) Annalee contributes to that, and so does Shirley, as a sort of extension of Annalee.
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HEY, I WANT MORE THOUGHTS NOW.
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So, she is a babe. We have established this. She is also apparently a ghost? Which is a bit... weird to him. Sure, he can hear people say it, but... as far as he can tell, she seems... corporeal. EV confuses him as well, since he's never really seen anyone with their disposition in a state of flux to such a degree, even here in Anatole, where a bunch of people have two colors because of their inhumanness... He heard about her fortune telling, and he saw the dragon and her armor on the forge afterwards, and all that combined makes her more intriguing? Part of it might be the idea of a ghost being similar to his very limited understanding of the First Civilization hologram he saw. (The hologram lady in question looked kinda ginger too...)
He's impressed by her devotion and stubbornness in regards to serving the clinic, since he now kinda understands that he underestimated her during the Abyssal war. (It's a bad habit of his, assuming responsibility for others even if it's not needed/not requested. It's made worse by the fact that he doesn't always assume that Scorched have insane powers; he considers that aspect of their being a secondary trait. Plus, it's his role back home to lead the brotherhood, decide what recruits do what and when, and how much rest or training they get in between. They don't have to comply, in fact, they are volunteers. It's simply implied in their oaths that they will do their part in the Brotherhood to their greatest understanding and capabilities, and that means following orders, but at the same time, asking questions and receiving answers. I hope I am not contradicting myself.)
Plus, she’s fun? Caterina, as much of a badass babe as she was, was pretty brash, and she basically admitted to using sex to manipulate and influence him for political gains. And since that’s not a real possibility here, he is totally cool with these shenanigans.
ANNALEE: She gets her own paragraph, which includes "why children own Ezio’s soul."
Distressed children are especially um, distressing for Ezio, since they remind him of Petruccio the day he was executed. (Quick rundown on the Auditore children at the beginning of AC2: Federico is the oldest (20), then Ezio (17), then Claudia (15), and finally Petruccio (13)! Ezio, being the second oldest, was frequently used as leverage by the younger two against Federico, that lazy dickbag, and could get goaded into doing just about anything for them. He beats up Claudia's bf for cheating on her and climbs around on the fucking roofs to collect feathers for Petruccio while that asshole Fede sleeps off his hangover, the jobless bum. Just putting that out there.) So um, dad and brothers executed. Yeah, nasty stuff. Anyway, Petruccio's up there on the gallows balling his eyes out and stuff, and then afterwards, Ezio has to go home and comfort Claudia because Momma Auditore's gone mute with shock. (For the record, I think that if he had to save one of the three, he would have saved Petruccio, even though he was super ill and would have been hard to escape with.) He had to grow up fast... ;w;
Anyway! Petruccio is kind of babbified in his mind, since most of Ezio’s memories of the kid are of him being so much younger. And because of all that, he is observant of children in general, kind of a default protector mode because he thinks he is the goddamn batman or something. In Brotherhood, we see him find this crying kid and not only ask what is wrong, but reassure him that the kid was brave and direct him to safety while he goes and whoops the ass of the slaver that nabbed the kid's mom. Now, this might not seem like a big deal, but come on, Rome, in 1502? Orphans are not uncommon, so the fact that he stops and checks on the kid is significant. Conversely, happy children remind him of happy Petruccio, so he does not at all mind catering to their whims.
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.... That was more than a paragraph.
TL;DR Shirley is a babe, and Ezio has Issues.
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