codextober day 4: anomaly

Just like AC1, they have been uploaded on Google Drive as rar files. Link to the files are below:

The files are available for download until September 30th. On October 1st, the files will be removed and replaced with sound files from Assassin's Creed 3.

October 1, 2025: The Ezio Trilogy are no longer available for download. Sounds from the next games are now available here.

Below are some info on the contents of the files:

And I'm not talking just Ezio, Altair or the other historical protagonists, but the modern day and lesser-known side characters too: Clay, Lucy, Rebecca, Shaun, Daniel Cross, Layla, Elijah and many others.

And here's the controversial part: don't have Desmond in it. The guy didn't travel in back with them, barely even have him come up in the characters' thoughts. (for the people that knew him he'd be a sore subject so they'd avoid it, and those that never got to know or meet him have no reason to think of him.)

You can have it be a solo journey, just a duo or a dnd party situation. You can explore the characters deeply in either very familiar or unknown for them environments. You can have so many new ships! Arghh

But for all of you Desmond boot lickers (me) here's something additional: He kinda haunts the narrative. For the people that knew him it's obvious why he'd stick out in their mind's eye, but through the other group my other idea for him is much clearer; some Reader and Calculations bs. Nothing too indulgent bc I am a little sick of multiverse-type stuff, but some kind of weird dreams, weirdly marked things in their eagle vision or strange coincidences thrown their way. Almost like quiet divine intervention. huh.

Anyway the big twist is Desmond also time travelled and this isn't revealed until, like, the climax or even after it. He was either. just. hanging around far away or secretly helping things along in the shadows. Probably the latter.

Ideas for these fics include: Lucy going to the late 1400s, wowing people by being an "unnaturally smart woman, mamma mia!" and eventually getting with Claudia,

Clay and Cross time travelling TOGETHER to the 1920s near where Nikolai and his family lived at the time (ft. a Lydia Frye cameo bc I love her),

Rebecca and Shaun getting separated in the time stream so one ends up in Revolutionary Paris while the other is in the Americas where the brotherhood is growing well under Connor's wing. They eventually find each other, but not before causing a whole lot of chaos because they couldn't help themselves but be total smartasses by inventing technology or speaking about stuff that haven't happened yet.

Layla doesn't know where she ended up, but says 'fuck it' and becomes a messy lone mercenary like Kassandra with the underlying goal of finding her. She doesn't realize that she is around during Al Mualim's tenure and the guy is...interested in this suspiciously assassin-like person. Also she has an eagle of her own that she has trouble getting along with. Idk.

Originally I had just another fic rec for this one but then I realized it’s number 16 and switched around some stuff so I could recommend a fic with Clay.

The Brothers from Firenze

Summary on Ao3 is:

“When Ezio arrives in Roma, he doesn’t expect someone else to burn Borgia towers before he can get his hand at it. He especially doesn’t expect that “someone else” to be two teenage brothers from Firenze who are out for chaos.

So he introduces them to the Brotherhood, obviously.

or

Ezio accidentally adopts Desmond and Clay, not knowing they might be his /descendants/ sons.”

Written by Mello_Mello

So this fic is an awesome instance of Desmond and Clay both getting sent back. They characterize both of them super well and seeing Clay being a little chaos gremlin is a treat. Their interactions with Ezio are also absolutely fantastic.

The whole thing is from Ezio’s pov so the reader has to piece together Desmond and Clay’s secrets as you read, making for a really fascinating time.

There’s some hard hitting moments and moments that really make you empathize with characters. It’s emotional and awesome and just all around a great read.

Fic is completed at 43,520 words, 20 chapters