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Date: 2013-08-30 01:36 am (UTC)And I did/do have a couple of ideas!
1. Another "touch the Apple, get a shade of Robert" thing a few years down the line for her, because I kind of like the idea of him as a ghost of Christmas past that still challenges her changed beliefs. And because I think it would be funny if Darim were visibly a work-in-progress at the time, because I am easily amused, I admit.
2. Maybe something a few years earlier, or during AC1, with her still as the loyal steward. Though this could involve either frantic perusals of wikipedia or a heaping load of bullshit because I'm learning but not that educated about the military during the Crusades.
3. There's an Assassin's Creed meme here on bakerstreet (and a thread for Maria here.)
So yeah, let me know if any/all of the above appeal to you. Hopefully I haven't been irreparably assdraggy. c:
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Date: 2013-08-30 02:03 am (UTC)1. I'd be game for that! He'd be great in that role, really. Reminding her of how terrible/great the past was and judging her for making out with the enemy. To the point of having children. Expect him to try and turn the kid to his side of thinking. (I'll admit I don't know a lot about the kids, since I've stuck mostly to the main games and it's been a while since I touched Revelations, so if there's anything I should know ahead of time let me know. Otherwise I'll scan the AC wiki.)
2. Also up for this, and also agreeing on it involving piles and piles of BS. Again, the vast majority of my Crusade-era knowledge is pulled from Kingdom of Heaven, Wikipedia, and various Crusade-era historical fiction books, so, uh ... wikipedia is probably the best bet. But I would love them being team templar together; plotting how best to maneuver around this murderous assassin offing top men left and right, maybe, or something similar? It could involve sparring. I always like a good fight scene.
3. Oh, I missed that one! I'll look at it and see if I can get a good idea off the prompts, see if there's something we can roll with there.
NEVER FEAR, I drag my ass on almost everything in life so it's never a problem for me. :3
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Date: 2013-08-30 02:37 am (UTC)1. Sob, and that is in itself terrible/great, especially as a recurring thing. I was thinking the next incident could possibly be when she's starting to pop out for a fun "OH DAMMIT MARIA TELL ME THAT'S NOT WHAT I THINK IT IS" sort of thing.
There's really nothing we know about the kids, other than that Darim was a hottie with Maria's eyes, Sef made them early grandparents, and both were Assassins. Oh and Darim was the one to actually kill Genghis Khan, but he didn't rate a statue, the guy who only shot his horse did. Revelations and the novel skipped almost everything regarding their happier times as a family, which is a shame, but so is the back half of Revelations :T A friend and I like to say that the whole cavalcade of misery there is just some illusion/hallucination caused by the Apple and I'm not always sure we're joking OKAY TANGENT OVER
2. Another good source is a British friend with a more extensive education in that era. Conveniently, I've got one, but they're in rather short supply. I still need to watch Kingdom of Heaven, though...and heck, I do need one more item in my Amazon basket. Done. But yes, it'd be fun to play a more idealistic (sorta) Maria.
3. And I will roll with whatever!
DRAGGING ASS: A way of life! The meme might be a logical first one since it's just been posted, but beyond that we could tackle these in whatever order, it's all fun. :3
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Date: 2013-08-30 02:59 am (UTC)1. That'd be a terrible time for him to show up, which means it's ideal as far as I'm concerned and I say we go for it. Altair conveniently off doing his Assasinleader things, or whatever he was doing in the time before the actual family started? Could leave room for some interesting bitterness all around.
AHAHA hey that's a perfectly viable option. Those artifacts do seem to do nothing but spread misery for everyone whenever they show up. Cursed or just left-over first era trolling, maybe.
2. That works too! And I have to have a few Crusade-era books around here. I managed to miss the one class a few years ago that I could have taken specifically about the era, to my eternal bitterness, but over the years we've managed to accumulate more random books than is probably healthy around here so I can dig through and see what I can find. Robert was probably just as much a jerk back then, but as far as Maria went, I'd imagine well-intentioned jerkness.
I've got a long weekend coming up so I can probably go with any of these, whichever you'd prefer. At the moment I'm not coming up with anything off the meme, though it's been a hell of a week so that's probably more braindead than anything else.
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Date: 2013-09-05 02:01 am (UTC)I think it may have been Japanese customer service at work, so they'd probably do the same for you. It was an interesting experience, I can say that much. An interesting, exciting, panic-sweaty experience.
1. Yeah he could be either off on some leaderly mission, or just down below doing other Assassin work while she sits and gestates. In my headcanon, Maria terrorizes the novices during sword training, but precautions and all that. If I don't get a starting post up tonight I'll endeavor to do so tomorrow. Enjoy seeing your slightly rounder protege, Zombie Robert.
2. Oh man that sounds SO COOL. Ill be bitter that I missed it too even though I'm sure I never went anywhere that had one. Probably. In the meantime my Kingdom of Heaven blu-ray arrived yesterday so maybe I'll put that in this week while I clean my living room...or maybe I'll just watch the movie.
Sorry I skipped the long weekend entirely! Part of it was eaten up by the renfaire here. I usually see at least once AC cosplayer there each visit, and this was no exception—there was an Ezio with some very nice armor accents on the outfit. Altaïr's pretty common too. Next year I want to see if I can have a Maria outfit for it. Good times, good times.
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Date: 2013-09-07 03:49 am (UTC)1. Perfect ideas always. I'll reply shortly here! More fun times with ghost templars. And I bet the novices run at the idea of her teaching them how to use a blade. That one Assassin who always bothered you at the start of missions demanding you teach them swordsmanship probably has a lot of fun with it.
2. It was up during what I think was my last semester at the campus and I already had a few classes that needed to get done, so it was like ... why. Why this, when I am finally into the game. Why. I'm sure the local campus offers similar classes but I don't know if I can just. Take them. Maybe something during the summer. ENJOY THE MOVIE. I should throw it in my Amazon basket, there's a few movies I should probably actually own instead of look at wistfully in there.
Don't worry about it! Then renfaire around here is going on now, but I'm pretty sure this is the last month of it, so I should probably get on it. I think I've seen one or two Assassins lurking around there in past years. I always wanted to pull up a Sibrand outfit to run around in, because the Crusades totally count as Renaissance, but I have neither the skills nor the shape to pull it off. MAYBE THE FUTURE.
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Date: 2013-09-07 04:10 am (UTC)1. Oh man, beautiful Rauf, Altaïr's biggest fanboy. I am pretty sure he actually wrote fanfiction about the guy. Not even shippy stuff, just really obnoxious Gary Stu-esque epics. You know he was all over training his kids too.
2. THAT'S JUST MEAN. Knowing it was so near, yet so far...I didn't get as much into history until after school, so there was less torture there, but I kind of wish I had. Alas. I WILL.
You should totally go, renfaires are great. I've spent way too much money there, but the NY faire is large and not far away and I have a hopeless addiction to steak on a stake DON'T JUDGE ME. Anyway I definitely don't have the skills to pull off an entire outfit by myself but I absolutely have to skills to make friends with cosplayer friends who are easily bribed. I highly recommend cultivating this ability.
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Date: 2013-09-07 04:22 am (UTC)2. Same here - it was AC and another canon that got me scrabbling madly at history just after the chance to really take good classes had passed. Wikipedia is my consolation now.
I probably will at some point here. I need new glass dragons, my cat broke all my other ones. And don't worry, I can't judge you for that - I'm from the place that constantly chases perfection in the art of putting edible things on sticks (and deep frying them) so I can share your appreciation.
HAH, that's probably the best plan. I have a friend who's getting into the cosplay circle, so I should stick closer to her. Pretty sure she knew someone who did their own chainmail, which would be invaluable in Templar-era armoring ...
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Date: 2013-09-07 04:49 am (UTC)1. I accept this as canon and will incorporate it into RP should I ever make a journal for any of the moderns. (Do you think he cried when Altaïr brought a wife home?)
2. AC has definitely kickstarted it again for me, but podcasts and a really boring summer helped. Wiki is an acceptable panacea but it is a hideous rabbit hole as well. Forget TV Tropes.
Dammit cat :T Don't be messin' with the glass dragons. I am entirely in favor of frying things, on sticks or not, with the exception of butter because that's disgusting. I'm still not sure how Coke gets fried though. Wizardry, I suspect.
Chainmail would be hardcore. My friend Brian used a particular fabric that looked sorta like links as faux chainmail but I have no idea what it was called. You could probably buy real chainmail at a renfaire but I don't even want to know what it would cost. P.S. I also saw some people dressed up in garb with the Templar cross a few times, and I kept having to fight the urge to hiss. Okay, not really, but sort of.
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Date: 2013-09-07 03:25 pm (UTC)Ezio's extremely well-chronicled documentation of the time vs. Altair fanfiction. Sounds historical to me. (Probably a little. all his dreams dashed)
Oh, I hadn't considered podcasts. Probably because the closest thing I have to a smartphone is my ipod. Would you recommend any in particular? I don't have a lot going on most of the time.
I heard the butter was pretty good, actually. More like a cinnamon bun than anything else, which is ... unusual to think about. And yeah, probably wizardry, like whatever they do with ice cream to deep fry it.
AHAHA oh man the prices are crazy even for just little glove things, probably because of how much time it takes to put together. My brother briefly went through a medieval history obsession and actually started putting together his own chainmail; he got about halfway through and it took him several months so that's just lying in a pile somewhere. I don't know if I'd have the dedication to try that myself. (PFFFfft. Templars: more common than you think! and also everywhere)
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Date: 2013-09-09 12:31 am (UTC)I would honestly like to read that fanfiction. It's probably better than the actual AC novels.
My favorite is Stuff You Missed in History Class. It's pretty eclectic but sometimes they get into sort of themed runs. One of its sister podcasts, Stuff You Should Know (both done by the staff at howstuffworks.com) gets into historical stuff fairly regularly too, but not always. There are hella interesting podcasts out there--I listen to them on my ipod too, since my phone is a smartphone but I hate the music interface and the battery is shit.
See, for ice cream, I think it's just really cold ice cream with batter already surrounding it, so it's not too crazy. But I keep imagining biting into a chunk of solid butter wrapped in dough and just...blergh. Fried Oreos are pretty good though.
Renfaire garb is stupidly expensive and the chainmail even more so but it looks so preeeeetty. Must be a pain in the ass to put together though, I probably would have gotten bored too.
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Date: 2013-09-12 12:40 am (UTC)That's true. I actually have no idea how they do the butter but I don't think they'd be successful just frying butter ... something to try next year, then, on the hopeful apprehension it doesn't kill me outright.
It looked like it, but at the same time you could probably get through seven or eight audiobooks while doing it.
Sorry about the delay in tags there. It's been hot as balls here lately and that's the opposite of conducive for writing. It's finally starting to cool off though so yay on that front.
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Date: 2013-09-13 12:43 am (UTC)You'll have to let me know how that goes. I'd stick to the fried Oreos, but they don't have them at my renfaire anymore. Woe.
No worries, it's been the same here. And then tonight a massive thunderstorm rolled through and I came home to no power in my apartment UGH. (Currently taking sanctuary at a friend's.) I was going to play video games tonight. Do NOT approve. Hopefully it's back on by the time I get home. :T
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Date: 2013-09-13 03:05 am (UTC)Oh damn, that sucks. That happened here a few months ago, power was out for four days in some areas. Hope it does come back on and in a hurry - no power and no internet is a terrible thing.
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Date: 2013-09-13 03:13 am (UTC)IT JUST CAME BACK ON PRAISE BABY JEEBUS. Miraculously enough the food in my refrigerator all still seems to be cold. I guess it's true that it can last a while if you don't open the door.
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Date: 2013-09-13 03:25 am (UTC)I can give you some links to a comic-reader thing someone so kindly provided to me, along with downloads for the comics, but for some reason I can't get The Fall to work for me; it claims it's corrupted or just busted or something. It might work for you, though, I always get unlucky with this stuff. i see people with six characters per game and i just. gape. i can't even do more than one or two at a time how do they even keep things straight
HELLS YES. Huh, I'd never heard that before. Makes sense when I think about it more though.
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Date: 2013-09-14 02:18 am (UTC)Sure, I'll give it a try. Piracy ahoy. I'm sure I know enough AC people to get a download of it if it hates me too. Srsly. I'm a big loser and I still don't have time for that.
I guess it makes sense since they have to be pretty well insulated anyway or you're just gonna waste money on the electricity bill. It's kind of amusing (not really) that it was down for so long, though. When Sandy rolled through here last year I never lost power for more than two hours at a time, and even that only happened twice.
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Date: 2013-09-15 12:01 am (UTC)Let me find it ...
http://comical.sourceforge.net/ is for the program to read it, and
The Fall: https://app.box.com/s/a8mo37274sr1ismc9034
The Chain: https://app.box.com/s/qmeishvjanav5wpzzmle
should be the comic downloads. If you can find a working copy of the Fall, throw it my way. I miss it.
Must have been a fluke. Or something unexpected, anyway. Maybe a car took out a fusebox. That's happened before, I think, though idk if it's the case in your area.
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Date: 2013-09-15 12:48 am (UTC)Thanks! I'll give it a try once I catch up on tags tonight.
That, or maybe lightning hit something—there was a ton of it. I'm just glad it's been calm since then.
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Date: 2014-06-21 03:45 pm (UTC)Anyway even though I am done and wouldn't blame you for rolling your eyes and hitting delete, hi I came back.
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Date: 2014-06-22 06:08 am (UTC)I'm happy to keep going with this. Though it's pretty close to finished, so if you're interested, we could start up something new, too.
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Date: 2014-06-22 08:22 pm (UTC)Actually, I am 100% interested in new musebox threads once this one closes out, but one of the reasons I finally got over myself was wondering if you might be interested in having Robert visit the fourth wall event that's happening in a game I'm in. It's got kind of a lighthearted setup but I feel that can only add to the hideous awkwardness of Maria and Altaïr crossing paths with her dead boss in a positive way.
(On a related note, the player of the Altaïr there and I were talking about his and Robert's respective opinions on Maria, and she drew this. I feel that it is entirely accurate.)
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