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I'd say I'm sorry for the recent AC/Infamous spam but that would be a bold-faced lie and I am against bold-face lying

In Assassin's Creed the main character Desmond Miles experiences a phenomenon known as "The Bleeding Effect" as a byproduct of going through his ancestor's memories, which means that his ancestor's experiences "bleed" into his own and make him hallucinate. I've watched AC: Brotherhood, Revelations, AC3 and AC4, and I don't remember Desmond actually experiencing hallucinations like he does in fanfiction, but in fics that I read he always experiences hallucinations of Altaïr and Ezio. That's definitely not a bad thing as Altaïr is quite awesome (Ezio doesn't really do much for me personally), but it just makes me sad that Connor always seems to be left out (I'm just going to tell you now that this is going to be a common theme for AC art).

Anyway, it's my personal headcanon that Connor has a very moderate anxiety disorder, as in the game he not only hates it when people touch him (which is partly due to his culture) he looks legitimately stressed and uncomfortable around almost everyone. Although back then there wouldn't have been any definite coping mechanisms for dealing with such things I like to imagine that Achilles or Ziio taught Connor how to calm down from panic attacks and how to try and prevent them from happening.
Now, I don't know about you but it seems to me that if you were constantly trying to remember who you are while simultaneously being strong enough to save the world that that might be stressful enough to trigger a panic attack every once in a while, and since Desmond's been depicted hallucinating with his other ancestors helping out, why not Connor to help him through a panic attack (ironically caused by the hallucinations)?

Y'know, I'm drawing all this fanart of Connor helping people out when in reality he probably could use a lot of help himself.
Oh, irony.

Desmond and Connor (c) Ubisoft

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I'd say I'm sorry for the recent AC/Infamous spam but that would be a bold-faced lie and I am against bold-face lying

In Assassin's Creed the main character Desmond Miles experiences a phenomenon known as "The Bleeding Effect" as a byproduct of going through his ancestor's memories, which means that his ancestor's experiences "bleed" into his own and make him hallucinate. I've watched AC: Brotherhood, Revelations, AC3 and AC4, and I don't remember Desmond actually experiencing hallucinations like he does in fanfiction, but in fics that I read he always experiences hallucinations of Altaïr and Ezio. That's definitely not a bad thing as Altaïr is quite awesome (Ezio doesn't really do much for me personally), but it just makes me sad that Connor always seems to be left out (I'm just going to tell you now that this is going to be a common theme for AC art).

Anyway, it's my personal headcanon that Connor has a very moderate anxiety disorder, as in the game he not only hates it when people touch him (which is partly due to his culture) he looks legitimately stressed and uncomfortable around almost everyone. Although back then there wouldn't have been any definite coping mechanisms for dealing with such things I like to imagine that Achilles or Ziio taught Connor how to calm down from panic attacks and how to try and prevent them from happening.
Now, I don't know about you but it seems to me that if you were constantly trying to remember who you are while simultaneously being strong enough to save the world that that might be stressful enough to trigger a panic attack every once in a while, and since Desmond's been depicted hallucinating with his other ancestors helping out, why not Connor to help him through a panic attack (ironically caused by the hallucinations)?

Y'know, I'm drawing all this fanart of Connor helping people out when in reality he probably could use a lot of help himself.
Oh, irony.

Desmond and Connor (c) Ubisoft