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Anons, how might you justify Connor's personality in cut-scenes vs his personality in gameplay?

IE: Things like being outspokenly against needless killing (shouting at Haytham every time he kills lackeys/informants, etc), but as soon as the cutscenes end he's back to slicing every throat that gets close enough to his blade, being willing to and even suggesting that he should kill random mercs just for their uniforms and so on and so forth. I just finished my first playthrough, so maybe it'll make more sense to me on the second, but idk.

i guess maybe think of it as him killing those guys in self-defense. in the cut scenes the people he gets mad at Haytham for killing aren't attacking them at all and they're actually being fairly compliant, but in the gameplay the guards will attack you just for walking near them. obviously this isn't always the case, but obviously the game was not designed for roleplayers/fic writes/etc. who would need to figure this stuff out about his personality or they probably would have included a lot less killing so that his personality would be a little more consistent in this regard. no matter what i'd say regard every kill as something Connor did because he say no other way to accomplish his goals. whether the reason is apparent or not, just assume that he wouldn't have done it if there was a way around it. that's my opinion, anyway.

does this make any sense at all? it's 6 am and i'm running on very little sleep atm so this might all just be incoherent rambling.

Also, remember that Connor has the option to do non-lethal takedowns, so he may not kill as often during gameplay.

He kills out of necessity only. One thing which is important to note is that he's still very respectful to the people he's just brutally murdered. He disapproves of people mistreating their corpses--"he's still a man"--and respects the dying wishes of a Templar to let him go down with his ship, despite Faulkner's protests.

The point of the gameplay is stealth and moving around unseen while blended. You're not "supposed to" be killing everyone, you're supposed to move around undetected. Not everyone bothers with that all the time, obviously, but just because you can murder everyone in sight doesn't mean you're supposed to: I mean, you could kill civilians constantly, too, if you wanted, it doesn't mean Connor did. Be careful about associating what you/Desmond does in the Animus with what Connor did in history, and all.

Anyway, I suggest you pick up the book (AC: Forsaken) when it comes out for some perspective. I have used the books for making judgement calls for Ezio when it comes to reality vs gameplay mechanics and it works pretty well.

The Forsaken novel is about Haytham rather than Connor. Great for anyone wanting to pick him up though as there's a lot of backstory there.

Are there any Aveline de Grandpre RPers out there yet? I know she's an icky vagina bearer, but I love this woman so much and I've just barely started the game. Please tell me there are people out there RPing her. ;~;

Don't have a journal yet, but you can best believe I'll be playing the shit out of her.

i know a few people who have been looking for games for her, but no one who's actually apped her yet. i'll probably try and do something with her once i have the free time to continue playing through the game again.

I want to app her but the end of the game has me a little baffled. I have a journal and need to make some icons, canon review, etc.......but I should be apping her in a game eventually.

I plan to rp her when I'm done with the game. I think I'm pretty far at this point (I just started Sequence 7 today) so it shouldn't be long. I've also been taking screenshots along the way.

any tips for first time templars/antagonists? i plan on picking up haytham or charles in the future (probably only after i've read the novel for haytham), though i have never actually played from the "antagonist" side of the story-- or any story, for that matter, and its kind of intimidating!

for any of you in games, how do you work out the templar order, or how would you? like, if assassin's > templars, would it be acceptable to recruit (or if you're templar is lone canon warrior, for example, would they recruit to grow?) are plots made every so often for a certain "control", or is there just an internal fight among the ac cast (just assassin's growling at templars and vice versa, leaving it at that)?

sorry for so many questions! i just feel like i'm diving straight first into unknown territory without knowing... anything... even just an idea would suffice, so i can try and roll from there after finding a game.

i've never actually played a templar so maybe my advice isn't really that great, but i thought it'd through my two cents in.

honestly, i think it'd be awesome if you had your templar recruit others to their cause. i know in my cast in particular, the assassins have people they would consider informants/people close enough to possibly consider letting them into the brotherhood so having the templars do the same would make a lot of sense. especially since the templars are mostly going to be outnumbered no matter what game you're in so having allies would work well for them. but remember to keep it kind of quiet icly. the templars are a little more open with recruiting people in the ac world, but that's because in the ac world the templars are winning. in games the assassins will probably have been there longer and will have more cr since there will be more of them so the templars would likely think of it as though they are winning and want to keep their actions on the down low. oocly you can scream it from the heavens, who cares. but icly haytham and charles would know to keep quiet. especially since haytham would likely know about the past assassins since he used to be one. if your templar is a lone canon warrior, they can move about more freely and they would probably still recruit! they might not feel as compelled to do it as they would if there were assassins there, but they'd probably still want some allies in the case that assassins do show up before they (the templar) find a way home.

in my cast there really having been any fights for control, but that's mostly because there are only a few templars in our cast and one of them has kept quiet about her allegiance to the templars and she doesn't know about a lot of the assassins being assassins. i do think it would be awesome to see that happen if the circumstances are right and there are enough characters on both sides for it to happen, though! most of the time it's just assassins growling at templars though because the templars are at a pretty big disadvantage with how many assassins are present.

um, i think i covered everything! these are just my thoughts on things even though i've never played a templar so hopefully they'll help.

I'm totally not helpful but

oh my god I would kill to see a haytham or a charles around! anon, you're my hero.

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