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eriberri In reply to CheesePuff25 [2013-07-02 20:47:04 +0000 UTC]

Don't be ridiculous, we don't NEED more scenes to help us get ideas (weird or otherwise). It's called imagination and it's awesome.

Anyway, I love this pic! I don't really mind about Sophia either way, but Leo makes this gold: the original and the best.

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CheesePuff25 In reply to eriberri [2013-07-03 09:00:20 +0000 UTC]

I role-play DnD, Werewolf the Apocalypse and Airship pirated so I know exactly what imagination means

It would have been cool and original if the characters actually belonged to you and you made them both gay - the only problem is
that Ezio and Leo belong to Ubisoft and according to the creators, Ezio was a womanizer that eventually married Sofia and then died happily.
What Ubisoft says is canon, the rest is complete and utter bullshit.

Ezio and Sofia eventually traveled to Altaïr's library in May 1512. Once Ezio decided to retire as an Assassin,
the two left Masyaf, and got married, moving to a Villa outside Florence, where they resided with their son and daughter.
In 1524, Ezio died of a heart attack, and his final words were in a letter addressed to Sofia, where he commented that
the love he had for her and their children was what had kept him going in his old age.

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eriberri In reply to CheesePuff25 [2013-07-03 17:59:55 +0000 UTC]

Taking two characters that someone else created and sending them on crazy adventures outside of what they were known for isn't imaginative? how do you think people come up with the ideas for their story?! a lot of fanfiction writers spend weeks penning this stuff, thinking about all the many elements that make up the story and how they'll work in relation to each other. Being a fanfiction writer myself I know how thought intensive this is; how my imagination makes one idea balloon into many. We're given the prompts (the characters), and we take it from there.

Or, if you want to get technical about what imagination means in regards to fanfiction, let me quote la trusty Macquarie dictionary:
IMAGINATION: 3. 'The power of reproducing images stored in the memory under the suggestion of associated images (reproductive imagination), or of recombining former experiences in the creation of new images different from any known by experience (productive or creative imagination)'

Especially funny since you mention that you role-play DnD (which incidentally I did too, years ago); Did you create The Forgotten Realms? didn't think so; and don't forget that you use their cities and objects and magic for your role-playing 'stories'.

Also, only Ezio belongs to Ubisoft, Leonardo belongs to Leonardo. So does the fact that Ubisoft took a man that really existed and involved him in things he didn't really do (the entire association with assassins and all the events revolving around them) mean that what they write is complete and utter bullshit? Hmm.. oh! or what about the dozens of other historical figures and historical events that Ubisoft used to serve their purposes throughout the AC games?.

So in conclusion, by your saying that fanfiction isn't imaginative (because it uses characters that it didn't create from the ground up), you're saying that Assassin's Creed itself isn't imaginative I guess.

Anyway, [/rant]

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eriberri In reply to eriberri [2013-07-03 22:28:06 +0000 UTC]

Actually, I need to concede something - I did notice after I posted the above that I made a mistake with something; you didn't imply that fanfiction wasn't imaginative (I mis-read that).

However, that doesn't change the fact that what fanfiction writers do with Assassin's Creed characters is no different from what Ubisoft did with history; we both took something canon and altered it to our needs.

Apologies for my earlier mistake.

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