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In my mind's eye I feel like a Shaytham romance dynamic sits between Brokeback Mountain and Flinthamilton from Black Sails. Do you get me.

I see Haytham being the one to kiss first. He's the boss, Shay would never try something like this on him, he'd just pine in the distance for a while until the moment he says something so sweet and loyal Haytham just gets up from the table and kisses him.

But later down the line when they're comfortable together I need Shay to knock off Haytham's hat and nearly break his nose kissing him do you get it do you see my vision

Smth smth endless cycle of war for a purpose that exceeds your understanding smth smth

optimistic human's reactions to haytham are some of my fav ever

I couldn't find a suitable rectangular composition to create for the four images on Twitter, so I had to consider dividing the images into four squares

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adjective

able to use the right and left hands equally well.

A WIP with my pretty bois <3

fyi if we’re mutuals you have full consent to be as feral as you want in asks and dms

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"You can't make friends onli-" I would defend any of my Tumblr mutuals to the death with only a pocket knife and random rock, you heathen.

I'm sure the best father in AC was Edward🥹

I'm sure he loves his children very much, and the way he called Haytham 'little rascal'— THIS IS SO CUTE AND HE IS SUCH AN AWESOME DAD

And the way he talks to Jenny at the end of Black Flag🤧

Meeting the creature of the Silvering Sanguine Glade.

im a fucking sucker for the “character gets so badly injured that they can’t think clearly and start calling for help in a distressingly vulnerable way.” characters who start using nicknames for their friends they haven’t used since they were kids. characters who start begging for their brother they haven’t seen in years to be there. characters who would usually use their parents’ names or call them mother/father/etc crying out mama when they go down. u understand.

me @ my brain: please can we hyperfixate on something different for a change? something new???

my brain, latching onto haytham kenway for the millionth time: no i want this one

me: 🙃

Help. I have way too many Connor Kenway feelings and the fandom is long dead.

Happy 293rd Birthday to the most underrated main character in the Ass Creed franchise.

They could never make me hate you, Shay.

Idk if the writers intended it or not but the amount of cognitive dissonance between what Haytham says and what he does is so telling of the kind of person he was raised to be. Birch succeeded in making him talk like a Templar, but his actions contradict pretty much everything Haytham claims to stand for. It's as if the brainwashing ran deep enough to make Haytham lack self-awareness but not enough to completely destroy what Edward was able to teach him before he died. Connor points it out verbatim right before they meet up with Washington too. "You've talked a great deal but you've shown me nothing."

Haytham says he wants order but he's just about as chaotic as his father was when he was younger. He says Connor's talks of "freedom" and "free will" are nonsense but literally every time we see him aside from the opening sequences, he's going off on his own, doing God-knows-what without telling any of the other Templars, he drops everything on the spot to go camping with his girlfriend, hell he even murdered a Templar Grandmaster for personal revenge (when revenge has been the driving force between many of the protagonists we've had so far like Ezio, Connor, Arno, Bayek, heck even Kassandra to some degree, while the Templars claim to be above this kind of stuff). He went against Lee's plans to have Connor executed because he felt like it. (The line in his journal is literally "I won't let my son die today.") He says he wants purpose and direction and yet never has a plan for whatever he's doing. He's exactly like Edward on that front, essentially bullshitting his way through everything and hoping it all works out (and it often doesn't). That man has never had purpose or direction in his entire life, and the moment someone tries to tell him what to do, he actively chooses to do the opposite because he doesn't follow orders (and if he does, it's on his own terms).

When Haytham realized he didn't hold the key to the Precursor site, he chose to drop it altogether, because he knew too many would have to die for the cause and it wasn't worth it. Do you mean to tell me people like Vidic, the Borgias, Germain, heck even Torres (who's by far the most reasonable Grandmaster we've encountered in the series besides François de la Serre, maybe) went to impossible lengths to get to the Observatory — do you think any of these men would've just... stopped ? Because more people would have to die ? (The answer is no. William Johnson was willing to commit mass murder just to buy the land the site was on — which by the way Haytham had no idea about (the mass murder part, I mean) until after the fact and he was very angry about it.)

Which is also pretty telling about how involved he is in all of this. He didn't know about what Johnson was planning because he couldn't even be bothered to hold yearly meetings for like 15 years.

In his journal, you can see how he progressively starts to despise every Templar he's working with. He endorses Lee out loud but his thoughts about the guy are that he's "too British to be a good representative for the American people" and he's actually pretty pessimistic about his chances to supplant Washington. He doesn't even believe in what he says about Lee, like, ever (which is why I say it really looks like he's endorsing Lee as an act of sabotage because it really feels like it sometimes.) His Templar kill count is also higher than Connor's — Juan Vedomir, the unnamed mercenary with a West Country accent, Edward Braddock, John Harrison, Reginald Birch, Benjamin Church and Nicholas Biddle (although the game never showed it, the fact that Church and Biddle died only days apart while both in the Caribbean means that Haytham was with Connor on the Aquila when he killed Biddle, so he's at least complicit in his murder.)

Haytham says he's a man with Templar ideals and an Assassin background but to me it feels like the opposite. He's a man with a Templar background and Assassin ideals, but the grooming started so young that even killing Birch couldn't undo the damage that man had done. I think Haytham realized that by the end and that's why he let Connor kill him.

Literally how it feels like to play Rogue for the thousandth time

not to be a simp or anything but i'd die for abigail marston

[police sirens in the distance] Connor, who has done nothing wrong, ever: [gasp] They're coming for me! Haytham, currently wanted for pick-pocketing, aggravated assault, property damage, theft, multiple counts of murder, arson, and treason: [sipping his tea] yeah, probably.

idk when we decided that explaining yourself shouldn't be part of an apology but like. if someone was a dick to me and apologizes but I still don't understand why they did it I'm not gonna feel any better

guys my tfem gf started college today and they actually put her chosen name on her id card too!!!!!!!!!! im so estatic for her oh my god gay pride wins YAY