Memory Block 6: Abstergo Labs
Desmond is pulled out of the animus because Desmond’s Assassin
friends are attacking the research facility. We have to assume this is
happening because we don’t see it. Vidic just switches on his desk’s speaker
phone and there is gunfire and guys yelling. It makes me think it is just the
Templars messing with Desmond. Probably a couple of guys in a cubicle on the
tenth floor huddled over a phone making fake explosion noises and death sounds
stopping only to cover their mouths and giggle.
The Abstergo’s security was able to stop the siege and
kill all the attackers. Vidic says this should be the only resistance they will
see because over the past year the Templars have been destroying all Assassin
training camps and killing all within.
Worried about what this global Assassin-cleansing
campaign, Lucy assures Desmond that his parents should be ok because their camp
was deserted when the Templars found it. Desmond then rants about how screwed
he is because his only way out was just killed in the lobby of a research
facility. Calming him, Lucy says “have a little faith” and places her left hand
on her chest. At first I thought she was trying to calm Desmond by doing a variation
on the “pulled off thumb” trick uncles do at Thanksgiving. Not so. You would
have had to watch the developer interviews (fast forward to the 2:50)
to know it but assassins cut off their ring finger as an initiation right. By
showing him her missing digit she is signaling that she is an assassin who has
infiltrated the Templars.
Desmond’s
fingers are all intact which is probably because he never became a full-fledged
assassin.
It is
surprising that with strong women such as Jade Raymond and Elspeth Tory
influencing this game’s development the female characters in this game are so
underdeveloped. The characters aren’t sexually objectified – standard for most
videogames. Instead, in Assassin’s Creed the two strongest women characters
(Lucy and that Templar decoy) are both tricksters who hide behind false facades
ready to trick the men. This role of female pulling the bait and switch has
been seen all the way back in Super Mario Brothers with the classic “our
princess is in another castle” Peach. I don’t think we should falsely interpret
these “Female Tricksters” as strong roles. I see these female characters as
representing a man’s misogynistic viewpoint that at any moment the woman he
thought he knew could turn on him and be something completely different. They
are like toned down Femme Fatals.
Dr. is very happy and says that this is a very important
day that will be remembered by some anyway.
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