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Me: I mean depends on your tolerance for this type of racism, but like I said it's my favourite show, it def has some great parts if you're up for it.

Them: Oh so it's not racist.

Me: It absolutely is.

Them: So you're saying racism is ok??

but more importantly, desmond’s entire life, eons before he was even born, was already something that was out of his control. he’s the culmination of the first ones’ hopes for and more egregiously juno’s manipulation of ezio and altair’s efforts. ezio, connor, and altair suffered tremendously because they were meant to be mouth pieces for a person they would never live to know and could never understand why that person is so important that they risked their lives, families, and peace of mind. what desmond could’ve had was a character arc where he says “fuck that” and reaches the epitome of the assassin principle by liberating humanity from the eternal, suffocating grasp of the first ones and finally allowing it to determine its own future free from the past it does not know. just absolutely saying “fuck you” to the enslavement of his genes, the forceful servitude juno’s misanthropic ambitions and jupiter and minerva’s past patronizing short-sightedness, and vindicating ezio, altair, and connor’s struggles.

desmond deserved to be there with his son, whose genetic destiny was even more cursed because he was meant to become a sage and have his personality overwritten by aita. desmond deserved to destroy juno alongside elijah and be the father william couldn’t be because of the obligations of the order. imagine, the first ones who were functionally parents to humanity being surpassed by the actual bond between parent and child in the very existences they created. poetic fucking cinema. 

as touching and well-written as desmond’s voice diaries were in assassin’s creed 4, i still can’t help but to feel desmond never should have died. that we shoud’ve gotten to see desmond grow even further and have a much more satisfying character arc.