FUTURE ROADKILL

starting with rebecca. my girl. i think she is disabled. in brotherhood, i think it was, we get a scene where she mentions being REALLY into extreme sport but sustained an injury and had to give it up. she mentions finding hacking and tech just as exhilerating as jumping frm a plane on a snowboard but.... yknow those just dont add up. i think she got into tech because her leg specifically never healed correctly and she literally could not continue in extreme sports. a woman like her doesnt strike me as the type to just give up something if there isnt a permanent reason for it... if anything, i think she'd have risked it as soon as she was healed enough and maybe fucked herself up worse before packing it in. so i think shes got a dodgy leg or something, cant do stuff she used to do. (i am flatly ignoring the fact in syndicate we see her jump from.. was it buckingham palace or some other fuckass london building. i dont remember LOL)

following up, shes a horror nut for sure. shes an adrenaline junkie. she definitely watches horror movies to wind down after a long day. i think she especially would enjoy the horror films specifically made between the 80s and 90s, a la Scream, return of the living dead, evil dead, etc.

pivoting to my favourite yucky, shaun. following everyone else in the fandom, i think hes got autism. but im giving the reasons why. he is very very prickly and snaps a lot, but as SOON as desmond asks him somethign to do with the history they are currently uncovering, shaun melts immediately and is very clearly excited and happy to infodump everything hes learned so far. literally like a flip is switched in his brain. theres multiple scenes of this. otherwise, hes not really.... Good. with conversations. most that arent, yknow, involving history, has him fumbling and insulting people (more on this in a second) instead of contributing to a conversation "properly"

following on his insults, i think its a defence mechanism. i think, like most, he was bullied a lot as a kid/teen and decided if he insults people first then that gives them a "proper" reason to hate him, rather than picking him apart and hating him for something else. give people somethign easy to grasp at and they dont look at him too long. this links back to the autism.

a little extra, i think either one of his parents were from scotland, or he went to college in scotland for a few years. this is based on nothing other than the fact his voice actor was born in dundee, and i personally think it would be fun if he used a bit of scots here and there and poisoned the pool of what english people sound like.

leaving shaun in the dust, we got desmond. my best friend ever. i have a lot on him, so ill (try to) keep it short. i think he deals with a LOT of phantom pain from the bleeding effect. he is going through his ancestors memories, where they get punched and stabbed and shot (more on these in a while too.) and we generally know/assume the bleeding transfers pain to the subject experiemcing it. so i think des deals with so so so much pain randomly throughout the day. if he isnt suffering night terrors, he will be kept up half the night with wounds that arent there.

i also personally like thinking he was born with a cleft lip, and thats the reason for his scar. its implied in the desmond memories on animus island the scar is from training on the farm, but i dunno. i like the thought of him having been born with a cleft lip. i feel like the scar simply being from getting a bloody lip when he was . an age younger than sixteen, a bit boring. we already can assume the same for altair's scar, and we KNOW ezio got his from having a rock thrown at him. i feel like it works a lot better if desmond was born with a cleft lip and, in turn, showing he was always going to be born into the assassins. (<- talking out of my ass)

alongside that. in ac1, sometimes his model gives the impression of him having a lazy eye and i simply ran with it. theres nothign very substantial here, i just noticed the eyes on his model were a bit off sometimes and decided to run with it. i think its Cool to have a character with a lazy eye.

i also think to an extent, des has schizophrenia. sure its "jst bleeding" but cmon.. im saying schizophrenic des.

otherwise, rapid thoughts about ezio and altair.

i think altair is definitely disabled. he gets tossed around SO OFTEN, not to mention the opening scene with robert de sable where he is tossed through scaffolding and lands pretty heavily. hes gotta have a fucked up body from that. i also personally enjoy putting the reason why he cant swim as something that was Taken from him when al mualim stabbed him in the opening, too. he lost a LOT of abilities after that moment, and i personally like to think him being able to swim was also taken, especially given the fact one of the main missions is at the docks.

as for ezio, he for sure deals with chronic pain. hes been stabbed, slashed and SHOT!!!!!! so many times, not to mention all the times hes fallen during parkour sequences, and you want me to believe hes still able bodied? nuh-uh. that man has got to have a dodgy hip/knee/leg in general at LEAST, alongside having a fucked up arm/shoulder from getting shot in acb. he has a lot of scars on his stomach from being stabbed, too (by the pope, by stalkers)

and now, because im running out of steam, 2 minor things on two valhalla characters lol.

eivors intersex. this ones important to me. im sick and tired of having to pick a gender for them. theyre both. theyre neither. intersex eivor.