YOU WHAT. -- Assassin's Creed 3.
Nov. 21st, 2012 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xyzzysqrlI'm gonna drop a spoiler for Assassin's Creed 3 here. Well, kind of. Really I'm going to drop a spoiler for a comic book tie-in for Assassin's Creed, but the character shows up in AC3 and this is where I first encountered him. There's spoilers for the SERIES IN GENERAL here, okay?
I had to stop and dribble for a while when I got the story on this guy.
Okay. Daniel Cross. The story goes, loosely, that this guy was taken by the Templars, imprinted with a psychological mental trigger, and sent off to join the assassins. The screwing with his mind gave him weird hallucinations. Anyway, at a critical moment, his hypnotic conditioning activated and he killed a major assassin leader and then ran off back to the Templars.
Right. That's all... yeah. Okay. Sure.
Three things.
1. You named your Templar double agent Daniel CROSS. As in, Templar CROSS. The SYMBOL OF YOUR ORGANIZATION. Well, that's hubris, but okay we can roll with that.
2. You named your hallucinating double agent DANIEL Cross. As in, DANIEL, the dude in the Bible who kept having visions of the goddamn APOCALYPSE, which is kind of a THING in the Assassin's Creed setting. ... All right.
3. You named your double agent D. CROSS. As in DOUBLE CROSS. As in WHY DOES MY FACE KEEP HITTING THE WALL LIKE THIS WHY WHY WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT
WHY DOES IT ALL STACK UP IN A BIG PILE OF DERP
THIS IS THE SIDE THAT'S -WINNING- THE TEMPLAR/ASSASSIN WAR
WHY IS THAT HAPPENING
...okay, it's clever writing, but it nearly gave me a NOSEBLEED thinking this crap through.
I had to stop and dribble for a while when I got the story on this guy.
Okay. Daniel Cross. The story goes, loosely, that this guy was taken by the Templars, imprinted with a psychological mental trigger, and sent off to join the assassins. The screwing with his mind gave him weird hallucinations. Anyway, at a critical moment, his hypnotic conditioning activated and he killed a major assassin leader and then ran off back to the Templars.
Right. That's all... yeah. Okay. Sure.
Three things.
1. You named your Templar double agent Daniel CROSS. As in, Templar CROSS. The SYMBOL OF YOUR ORGANIZATION. Well, that's hubris, but okay we can roll with that.
2. You named your hallucinating double agent DANIEL Cross. As in, DANIEL, the dude in the Bible who kept having visions of the goddamn APOCALYPSE, which is kind of a THING in the Assassin's Creed setting. ... All right.
3. You named your double agent D. CROSS. As in DOUBLE CROSS. As in WHY DOES MY FACE KEEP HITTING THE WALL LIKE THIS WHY WHY WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT
WHY DOES IT ALL STACK UP IN A BIG PILE OF DERP
THIS IS THE SIDE THAT'S -WINNING- THE TEMPLAR/ASSASSIN WAR
WHY IS THAT HAPPENING
...okay, it's clever writing, but it nearly gave me a NOSEBLEED thinking this crap through.
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Date: 2012-11-22 03:58 am (UTC)This is why, with only exceedingly rare exception, I name my characters independently of their powers, fate, or philosophy. Unless, of course, they chose their own name – and then I consider how mature they were when they chose it. Because if the character's gonna have a dreadfully obvious name, then at the very least it needs one hell of a lampshade to go with it.
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Date: 2012-11-22 04:17 am (UTC)One of these would have made me go "Oh look, someone on the writing staff is going I AM A WRITER. Hee."
Two of them would have made me flail and sigh and facepalm.
All THREE OF THEM shoots straight past "dumb" and whips around to kick "genius" in the back of the head. Someone had a stroke of brilliance (or possibly just a stroke) while naming this guy. I guess that makes sense though, since he was originally a comic book character.
They do that. They have those names.