Riona (
rionaleonhart) wrote2015-07-18 08:49 am
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It's Not Self-Insertion If You're Already There.
At first I was disappointed that the present-day protagonist of Assassin's Creed IV was a faceless, voiceless player stand-in rather than a character I already cared about (or a new character I could get attached to), but the possibilities are just starting to occur to me. Shaun appears to be manning the coffee stand at Abstergo. You know what that means? Shaun is canonically in the same building as me. I could write fanfiction about me hanging out with him (and suffering the Bleeding Effect?), and it would be entirely canonically plausible.
I mean, I won't. Obviously. But it's nice to know it's an option.
I say interaction between us is 'entirely canonically plausible', but the problem is the characters involved. Shaun isn't exactly the most warm and personable of people. I'm shy and I don't drink coffee, so why would I end up in conversation with the git who runs the coffee stand?
Unless I recognise him as Shaun? In some sort of... weird reality where I've played the previous Assassin's Creed games and yet am also inside the Assassin's Creed universe and made the obviously terrible decision to accept an employment offer from Abstergo?
And, presumably, the even more terrible decision to recognise someone at Abstergo as an undercover assassin and approach him about it?
"Look, I'm not actually the biggest fan of killing people," Shaun says irritably, tightening the bonds, "but it is sort of in my job description, which obviously you'll know already if you know who I am, so why you didn't just keep your mouth shut..."
He takes a step back, folding his arms.
"I mean, yes, ultimately it's probably better for us if Abstergo employees make it clear when they know more than we'd like," he says. "But this does make things very unpleasant for me personally."
Wait, what am I doing? Forget everything you saw here. As you were.
(EDIT: Played a bit further, and Shaun and Rebecca totally canonically (albeit very briefly) talked to me. (Shaun called me 'incredibly rude', which frankly is a bit rich.) How did this game know it was my birthday?)
I mean, I won't. Obviously. But it's nice to know it's an option.
I say interaction between us is 'entirely canonically plausible', but the problem is the characters involved. Shaun isn't exactly the most warm and personable of people. I'm shy and I don't drink coffee, so why would I end up in conversation with the git who runs the coffee stand?
Unless I recognise him as Shaun? In some sort of... weird reality where I've played the previous Assassin's Creed games and yet am also inside the Assassin's Creed universe and made the obviously terrible decision to accept an employment offer from Abstergo?
And, presumably, the even more terrible decision to recognise someone at Abstergo as an undercover assassin and approach him about it?
"Look, I'm not actually the biggest fan of killing people," Shaun says irritably, tightening the bonds, "but it is sort of in my job description, which obviously you'll know already if you know who I am, so why you didn't just keep your mouth shut..."
He takes a step back, folding his arms.
"I mean, yes, ultimately it's probably better for us if Abstergo employees make it clear when they know more than we'd like," he says. "But this does make things very unpleasant for me personally."
Wait, what am I doing? Forget everything you saw here. As you were.
(EDIT: Played a bit further, and Shaun and Rebecca totally canonically (albeit very briefly) talked to me. (Shaun called me 'incredibly rude', which frankly is a bit rich.) How did this game know it was my birthday?)
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Thank you! And your priorities are entirely in order; who cares about plot at a time like this? (I'm quite amused that, given the option of 'you help your favourite characters out with data theft', you prefer 'your favourite characters complain about how you're inconveniently forcing them to murder you'.)
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(Edit: incidentally, I don't play the game, but I'm still curious as to what you did to make him call you incredibly rude.)
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(I'd been asked to deliver a video file to Rebecca, but I was delayed by a meeting with my (in-game) boss. 'Oh, look who's here,' Shaun said, when I eventually turned up. 'So you didn't forget after all. You're just incredibly rude, and made poor Rebecca here wait for nearly thirty minutes.' I'm sorry, guys!)
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(Edit: and I hope you had a good day!)