If I Don't Make It Back From Where I've Gone

If I don't make it back from where I've gone

Just know I loved you all along

Eivor and Hytham inspired by Inkpot Gods and La Belle Dame sans Merci✨

My brain has pitted the cowboy and knight AUs against one another in a very homoerotic wrestling match and neither side is winning. Nor particularly coherent. Old western with bounty hunting? Kassandra's thing, right there. Taking names and getting paid, riding off into the sunset with someone very lucky giggling in her arms. Maybe robbing some trains. Steam engines are cool. But domestic ranch life is packing the same punch, and the idea of Eivor running a smithing gig, making horseshoes with a cool hat? Delicious. Let's focus on that.

But she'd also look fucking immaculate in a big clanky suit of armour with a halberd or something. Now, legally, you can't stop my mind from going to a horribly underdeveloped fantasy realm with castles and the knight-and-noblewoman trope with a princess tying her favour to Eivor's lance for good luck. Of course, knights typically abide by a code of honour and loyalty, and oh look that's Soma's fatal flaw. Wouldn't she be a sight in a suit of armour, giant battle-axe in hand. Or a jousting lance, poised atop a horse... Oh no. Here we go again 🤠

The real kicker is that absolutely none of this will ever see a word document. That requires coherent thoughts amongst the gay soup

ASSASSIN'S CREED MIRAGE (9 / ∞)

A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie – Albert Bierstadt (detail) // Lofoten Island – Lev Lagorio // Rosenlaui – François Diday // Mount Elbrus in the Clouds – Nikolai Yaroshenko // Storm in the Mountains – Hermann Ottomar Herzog // Sierra Nevada – Albert Bierstadt // Rocky Mountain Landscape – Albert Bierstadt // Inkpot Gods – The Amazing Devil

Working on the next chapter for my Eivor is raised as a Hidden One AU and this is the vibe I'm going for;

Rayhan: "I don't trust Basim, so I'll send Hytham to spy on him!"

Hytham: *Chooses to trust Basim.*

Rayhan: "Ok this plan could still work, I'll just send another apprentice, Eivor, with them to Norway to spy on Basim."

Eivor: *Chooses to trust Basim.*

Rayhan: "What the fuck? What is it about this guy that caused him to be like catnip for assassin apprentices?"

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