Altaïr ibn La-Ahad

In-Character

• Physical contact: Ask me. He's "the cat friend."
• Flirting: HAHA. Most likely not to respond because 1) not interested 2) no game.
• Romance: Ask me.
• Sexual Content: Ask me. I'm bad at handwaving things, so if you want to RP some of that, I'm game.
• Fight/spar: Ask me. He's an assassin, so real altercations may or may not result in constant hunting. Please see his abilities for blades, parkour, Eagle Vision, and [redacted].
• Injure: Ask me.
• Death: Ask me.
• Telepathy/mind control: Ask me. It could get complicated.
• Hacking: Ask me.
• Magic/powers: Ask me. Please see the separate permissions and opt-out post for his Eagle Vision, an information-gathering power.
• Medical: Left ring finger cleanly removed just past the knuckle years ago. Hands calloused from climbing and practicing with weapons. Scar on his lip. Some light scarring on his body from bad falls etc.
• IC triggers: Losing a loved one, being mind controlled.

Out-of-Character

• Threadjacking: Network: Yes. Log/in-person: Ask us.
• Backtagging: Yes please! At least when starting out CR, I prefer to do one thread at a time since he is both observant and distrustful. For backdating, ask. If the same characters have 3+ threads, ask before starting another.
• Handwaving/dropping: Please tell me.
• CRAU: Ask me. No to doubles of him if possible.
• Fourth-walling: No to the Assassin's Creed canon; it is not a game your character has heard of. Yes to general history, though ICly he may dispute certain facts. (For Final Fantasy XV characters who have attended a certain festival, please contact me to refresh my memory lmao.)
• Format: Please use whatever format you like! I can only write in prose with no brackets, but that doesn't mean you have to.
• Style: I find threads with more information about who the character is, what they're doing, and (most importantly) why and how easier to respond to. But in the end, each tag will be as long or short as it needs to be. My telecommunication (network) tags tend to be shorter.
• Pace: All over the place.
• Warn me: Don't show pictures of real/realistic insects (especially spiders) or parasites. Describing them in RP is fine and encouraged! You can put a text link in for others who might be reading, but I won't be clicking on it. Please make your link descriptive/obvious and/or put a warning.
• Won't play: Romance or sex between Altaïr and someone under 18. For anything else, ask me. I may respectfully decline something because it doesn't make sense or I'm just not feeling it, not necessarily because it's a hard no.

Opting Out

Spoilers for Assassin's Creed are inevitable with this character.

Altaïr does premeditated murder. He had a finger removed so he could use a fancy surprise knife. Though he is from a work of alternate-history fiction, Altaïr belongs to the real-life Assassins. He's from the Third Crusade, which has echoes in modern-day conflicts.

CWs: abuse (emotional, mental, physical, verbal) to adults and minors from a mentor/father figure, blade wounds, death, deception (and its arts), emotional suppression (personal and systematic), finger missing, gaslighting, grief, historical events that influenced some modern-day conflicts, holy war, manipulation, mind control, murder, religious oppression, scars, self-endangerment, suicide, PTSD, violence, violence involving minors (himself, past)

If you would like to partially or fully opt out for any reason, please comment with your 1) handle (contact info optional), 2) characters, and 3) their journals below, no questions asked. Comments are screened for your privacy.

( Canon Skills and Equivalencies ) ( Synodiporia Skills )

C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Altaïr ibn La-Ahad
CANON: Assassin's Creed
POINT IN CANON: end of AC1 as of April 2018, 1-2 years after AC: Bloodlines
AGE: 25 when he arrived in July 2016
APPEARANCE: Images. 6 ft (183 cm), 170 lbs (77 kg). He has a scar on his lip and his left ring finger has been removed. Francisco Randez was used by Ubisoft as a model for his in-game appearance. As of 2016 Aug 21, he's had the Emperor's Mark on his stomach on his left: His tattoo, shaped like the old playing cards that later came to be called tarot, was as if drawn by a calligrapher in the stylized detail that was familiar to his time and place. Its most noticeable feature was the ankh in dead center, crossed over with a crook and flail. A pattern of stony mountains and a thin river below them filled the background, not unlike the landscape around Masyaf. Four ram's heads connected the card's borders. Nestled in the border on the right was an eagle, and on the left, a hand holding a sphere.

( HISTORY )

( PERSONALITY )

ABILITIES

INVENTORY

ARCANUM Emperor (Emperor)'s problem child is baaaack

S A M P L E S;
ACTIONSPAM SAMPLE: Getting timey-wimey
PROSE SAMPLE: Being Hakan's problem child

Eagle Vision is a hereditary sixth sense that can be activated while standing still and uninjured. This intuition shows people's true intentions at that moment, in the form of auras, and color-codes them. Thus, it can see auras through illusions and disguises (but not walls). If there is a specific target he's looking for, the ~murmuring background voices~ will come from that direction. When he moves or gets hurt, it deactivates, but there's still a residual glowing aura about people for a short bit. Video 1m 47s in. Wiki, riddled with spoilers.


Red = Hostile or potentially hostile to Altaïr. Everyone from active guards, police, and soldiers, to slavers, tyrants, those who'd use power to control or suppress freedom, even in the name of peace.
Blue = Altaïr's allies. Assassins, those who would fight for free will, willing to break the law for this belief.
White = informants, sources of information, hiding places (people sitting on benches can be hiding places too, though for some reason the game marks them blue)
Gold = Altaïr's temporary leads, persons of interest, assassination targets
Nothing = civilians, neutral-minded people.

To an uninformed character, this looks like an uncanny intuition. Though it uses broad generalizations in practice, they can be the deciding factor in whether or not Altaïr trusts someone when he meets or has to work with them. Comment below whether you want Altaïr to see your character's intent, regarding himself, at any given moment. Altaïr may also be able to see through your character's illusions, glamours, invisibility, etc. If your character can block scrying/chi sensing and the like, please mention it. It may or may not have an effect.

Also try to guess what color your character would be to him most of the time, if any. I realize this may be difficult, considering people's colors change even in canon according to what role they play in different situations. It's not general allegiance, it's specific circumstantial intent. For example, someone can switch from being an ally (blue) to an informant (white) and vice versa, or an ally (blue) could switch to being a lead (gold) when leading Altaïr somewhere. Even people in the role of guards have been known to switch from red to blue when defecting to join Altaïr. Frenemies are also a thing, as are "allies" who show as blue because they are working with Altaïr, but only as long as he's useful.

added 2013 sep 22: Now with a form!
<b>character name(s) & journals(s):</b> <b>eagle vision:</b> always/never/ask first/special circumstances? <b>color:</b> What color you think your character might be, if applicable <b>notes:</b> Anything else you think I should know