The Many Inkings of Penpen

hehehe, look what I did instead of sleeping!

I’m barely past the prologue, and I’m so angry at the piss poor writing for an otherwise interesting plot.

Unity had the setup for something I’d love to see in an AC game: a Templar turning to the Assassins (I mean, we’ve had the reverse happen what, twice now? Haytham and Shay, yes?). But despite the fact Arno was raised by the Templar Grandmaster for thirteen years, not once was there an attempt to induct him into the Order. None, not once; not even a little brainwashing. You’d think the Templar would have wanted someone with Arno’s skills in the Order, but I guess de la Serre thought it was better for Arno to do…whatever the fuck he was doing (gambling and drinking, from what it appears).

But Arno has one fight with an alcoholic Assassin, and the dude is like “cool, I knew your dad, he gave his life for our cause. I know no one from our brotherhood checked up on you while you were literally being raised by the leader of our greatest enemy, but let me tell you about our secret brotherhood that sounds like a murder cult. You should totally join us, bro!”

Then a cut with “two months later,” and suddenly Arno knows everything about the Templar and Assassins.

Their reasoning?

“There are wars going on in other countries”*

Which…the fact they genuinely believe that a person can only have the emotional capacity to care about one singular problem at a time… explains a lot really.

🥰 Favorite Fic You've Written?

Alright, I think if I had been asked this question a year earlier, I would have said Wake Up, Sleeper, hands down. It was my first long fic that I thought I was going to leave as a oneshot. I posted it at like 2 in the morning, and was shocked to wake up with like 20 comments loving the concept. Also, the fact that JJ Abrams tried to make Spy!Hux a thing gave me a sense of validation.

That being said, I have to admit that I am absolutely in love with Apple of His Eye right now. Just as Wake Up, Sleeper was my first long fic, Apple of His Eye was my first return to writing longer works, after falling out of love (ish) with fic writing. And again, it was a fic that I never anticipated people loving as much as they have. After all, I was writing a fic for a game more than a decade old, I thought the fandom was pretty much dead. Haha, joke was on me, the Assassin's Creed fandom never dies, they only go dormant. And now Apple of His Eye is the longest story I have ever written, not just fanfics.

💕 Favorite Ship to Write?

Looking at just the numbers, the answer is clearly Kylux, and I think I will always be salty about how they did those characters dirty (and I'm not talking about them dying, I mean just how terribly written it was). But I will also have a special place in my heart for Drarry, I think my first OTP.

💎 Favorite Trope to Write?