Assassin's Creed/Characters: Difference between revisions

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* [[Characters/Assassins Creed III|Assassins Creed III]]

 

== Desmond Miles ==

 

The viewpoint and player character of the series, Desmond is a genetic descendant of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and Ezio Auditore da Firenze, and a full-blooded Assassin, who is dragged into the [[Secret War]]. Not the greatest fighter at first, but the "Bleeding Effect" of being constantly exposed to the Animus and his ancestors, coupled with his genetic ties, allows him to develop agility and fighting skills on a par with his forefathers.

 

* [[Awesome By Analysis|Awesome By Animus]]

* [[The Bartender]]: After running away from home, Desmond became a bartender in New York with a pretty active social life.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Specifically takes a level in Smartass in ''Brotherhood''.

** Only for this to fail him in a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]:

** He's got a point. How can he be racist if he's descended from ''both'' Ezio and Altair?!

* [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]: Gaining eagle vision {{spoiler|a rare post final boss version}}. Also ''not'' [[Bag of Spilling|'spilled']] in the next game.

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: In ''AC1'' he merely gains Eagle Vision from the "Bleeding Effect" of his Animus use, but in ''AC2'' he has visual hallucinations and "dreams" a memory of Altaïr's outside the Animus (one that he'd never encountered in the Animus either), and in ''Brotherhood'' the hallucinations are getting worse: more frequent, with sound and in one case an event that Ezio almost certainly didn't experience ({{spoiler|the Borgia mole disguised as a thief who revealed where the Monteriggioni refugees were fleeing from}}). The e-mails between his companions also reveals that Desmond's been screaming in his sleep. Worse yet, Desmond is aware of and self-conscious about how his symptoms are paralleling those of Subject 16. And his fears are justified: by the next game he's {{spoiler|comatose from shock, his consciousness has been fractured and only the Animus is keeping him alive.}}

** And that was on ''top'' of having his mind so immersed with Ezio's that he sometimes spoke as if he were Ezio and even physically moved like Ezio...

** Comes full circle during the Animus platforming sessions of ''Revelations'', where Desmond reflects on his past and accepts his destiny.

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* [[Hot Scientist]]: No doubt because...

* [[Ink Suit Actor|Polygon Suit Actor]]: [[Kristen Bell]] provides her voice and facial model. {{spoiler|Her departure from the series probably was the out-of-universe reason for Lucy's death.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: Yep, she didn't survive the stabbing, and ''Revelations'' has Shaun mention that she'd been buried in a quiet little cemetery outside of Rome.}}

* [[My Greatest Failure]]: She harbors terrible guilt for what happened to Subject Sixteen, an Animus subject driven to cut his wrists and cover the walls of his room in his own blood. If she, encouraged by Vidic, had not pushed Sixteen so hard in the Animus, he might not have committed suicide. Recalling his death is a good way to break her unflappable demeanor.

** By ''Brotherhood'' it's subsided, not least because she's become better at compartmentalizing and focusing on their tasks at hand.

* [[Shout-Out]]: He's named after Sean Hastings, founding CEO of HavenCo.

* [[The Smart Guy]]: He may be an ass, but he's damn well-read, complementing [[The Leader|Lucy]] and Rebecca pretty well.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Rebecca.

** Possibly more than that as her iPod (or some electronic device) was found in his room, according to one e-mail chain.

* [[Crazy Sane]]: Yes, he's ''completely'' lost it, but it was his insanity that allowed him {{spoiler|to paint messages to Desmond in his own blood, upload his mind to the Animus, and keep it from killing Desmond}}. It going nuts and doing things that no sane person would ever do that allowed him to be any use at all.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}: Possibly. He appears to {{spoiler|sacrifice his existence to save Desmond from deletion}}, but this has not been confirmed.

** In a much more chilling version, why did he {{spoiler|kill himself? According to ''The Lost Archive'', it wasn't just because he'd gone insane -- thanks to Lucy's betrayal, suicide was ''the only way'' he could help Desmond}}.

A Templar scientist and the presumed creator of the Animus. Desmond escaped his "care" at the beginning of the game and Vidic is understandably pissed.

* [[Absent-Minded Professor]]

** One of the ''AC1'' e-mails from Lucy has her criticizing him for once again losing his pen (doubling as an access key) in a parking lot after leaving it hanging off of his lab coat, which could have caused a lockdown (thus further delaying the work with the Animus) had Abstergo security personnel found it before she did (later on when he left it unattended ''again'', Desmond was able to outright pickpocket it).

*** A series of e-mails reveals that as of ''AC1'' he didn't even keep track of his own passcodes, Lucy and the security desk having to e-mail them to him. One wonders how he was even able to check his own e-mails...

 

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