Some AC time travel ideas with Desmond.



1. Desmond travels back in time to Ezio’s time and gets up to some shenanigans. Ezio comes after him and Desmond, who for reasons doesn’t want to be caught, disguises himself the best way he can - by becoming a minstrel and constantly sending Ezio wildly off track by assaulting him with terrible songs and making flee in disgust.



2. Desmond the doctor - time travel, shenanigans, the works, and Desmond disguising himself as a plague doctor. It’s all well and good until other doctors decide he’s onto something and that and start following him around.



3. Temeraire crossover. In Temeraire, Romans were the ones in West to “domesticate” dragons and for some reason the best they could do with them was put archers on their back - instead of doing the sensible thing and having them Build All The Things or at least, like, haul stuff around for building. Anyway, time travel au where Desmond turns up dragon and goes looking for Ezio who is at first not very happy about this Very Visible Very Big Creature that wants snuggles specifically from him when he has people to assassinate. Then, Ezio, the Buyer is Landmarks and Renovator of Aqueducts has an idea.



4. Desmond takes Clay up and they share a brain for a while, coming to with time travelly plots to eff Juno’ stuff up. Problem is that Clay the AI is all sorts of compressed and there’s just not enough data there for fully realised human being. So, they time travel, Desmond comes out as himself - Clay comes out as baby. He is simultaneously the easiest and the worst baby to look after.



5. In order to avoid messing up timeline but also having this persistent urge to eat to live, Desmond joins Bartolomeo’s mercenaries, thinking it’ll keep him from catching Ezio’s eye - forgetting that Ezio comes around regularly to have shirtless fistfights against the mercenaries in Bartolomeo’s basement. And Desmond is, suddenly, the group’s best fighter.