Edited stuff again; spent like 12+ hours on this, but it was fun, and I actually like it a lot (mild flash warning though, just in case)
If the women of assassin's creed have no fans, then I'm surely dead. They're important to me and I love them all very dearly. Whenever I see the hate and misogyny in this fandom, I can't help but be grateful for the devs and writers who fought for them to exist and be included as main characters of their own stories. Teenaged me loved the stories of Aveline and Evie Frye, and adult me loves the stories of Kassandra and Eivor, and I bet I will like experiencing the story of Naoe as well, once I play the game for myself instead of just watching it somewhere.
People don't talk enough about how much of an impact seeing strong women in media can have on a young girl, and even though they almost always have a male counterpart (thanks to Ubisoft's weird thing of "women don't sell as protagonists") or are overlooked in marketing, or are included as the love interest, I still love them, and I think they're important and will continue to be important. Even when their haters resort to misogyny and double standards to put them down as "DEI bullshit". God forbid women get the same tropes and traits the men do, right?
Ubisoft might be a greedy company, but I won't ever say that their devs (not the executive board) didn't create something special that I hold very close to my heart even when I'm not obsessing over it at the time ❤️
The song is "The Hand", and I need to mention that I owe Anabelle Dinda my life for writing it.
