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   Bless This Mess, This Mess Is Mine by Raett, UntoldDepths

   Fandom Assassin's Creed - All Media Types, The Old Guard (Movie 2020)

   • Mature, Teen And Up Audiences
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen, M/M
   • Series in Progress

   30 Aug 2026

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolò di Genova
   • Pre Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolo di Genova
   • Nile Freeman & Desmond Miles
   • Desmond Miles/Heights
   • Booker | Sebastien le Livre & Quynh | Noriko
   • implied Andy | Andromache of Scythia/Quynh | Noriko
   • Desmond Miles
   • Andy | Andromache of Scythia
   • Nile Freeman
   • Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani
   • Nicky | Nicolò di Genova
   • James Copley
   • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
   • Booker | Sebastien le Livre
   • Quynh | Noriko
   • Dr. Meta Kozak
   • Rebecca Crane (Assassin's Creed)
   • Shaun Hastings
   • William Miles
   • Juno (Assassin's Creed)
   • Booker | Sebastien le Livre (mentioned)
   • Quynh | Noriko (mentioned) - Character
   • Desmond Miles (mentioned)
   • Nile Freeman's Family
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Humor
   • Destroying Abstergo facilities for fun and profit
   • Recognising people from your past lives
   • You can't escape the Scythian forever
   • But you can sure as hell try
   • 3 months in American backwoods
   • Allusions to hitchhiking
   • Allusion's to Grand theft Auto
   • Working under false pretences
   • That ship was not a good idea
   • Jumping from improbably tall buildings
   • Allusions to canon-typical violence
   • They were on holiday god damnit
   • Andy is being given the runaround
   • and she is not happy
   • If your psychic dreams fail you
   • You need to work smarter not harder
   • I think I'm so clever work that title
   • Historical References
   • Canon Typical Violence
   • Historically Typical Slavery
   • depictions of war
   • Crusades
   • Altaïr through the ages
   • ADHD!Ataïr
   • Andromache being Andromache
   • Intergenerational Friendships
   • Joe and Nicky don't get any lines
   • that feel when you kill the same people over and over
   • Joe and Nicky are the idiots in the title
   • UntoldDepths's ADHD agenda
   • strange courting behaviours
   • the mating rituals of immortal soldiers
   • implied presence of Quynh
   • That feel when you wake up immortal
   • Desmond has issues
   • Abstergo
   • The Assassins - Freeform
   • meeting people from your past
   • shopping in the Assassin style
   • Parkour
   • fugitive!Desmond
   • don't make bombs kids
   • improvised improvised explosive device
   • cheating via eagle vision
   • Road Trips
   • Found Family
   • Water Tower Conversations
   • Assassin Obsessions with Heights
   • Nile is trying to be a good Big Sister
   • Desmond is not a good substitute brother
   • Desmond is doing Nile a Concern
   • Bagel Crimes
   • Character Study
   • Kind Of
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Bleeding Effect
   • Dubious Historical Accuracy
   • Dubious descriptions of hacking and technology
   • Mentions of kidnapping
   • Mentions of Terrorism
   • coming to terms with your newfound immortality
   • Nightmares
   • Desmond gets Nightmares
   • PTSD
   • Desmond has PTSD
   • Raett writes dream sequences
   • Desmond wakes up AFTER he chooses violence
   • Desmond: King of Understatement
   • Nile still can't get a straight answer
   • Old Guard on a job
   • Mercenaries
   • mentions of human trafficking
   • The existential horror of Clay
   • Unorthodox Uses of Eagle Vision
   • Desmond Trains with The OG
   • Desmond doing as Desmond Does
   • Bill Miles's A+ parenting
   • Bill Miles's A+ Mentoring
   • mention of other Old Guard characters
   • Alcoholism
   • Booker needs a hug
   • Quynh needs time
   • Nobody needs redemption only therapy
   • Booker's suicidal ideation and tendencies
   • camping trip
   • aka abandoning civilization for a while
   • Living with your mistakes
   • Forgery
   • Raett unnecessarily renames more characters
   • psychic dreams vs. eagle vision. fight!
   • everything Desmond is repressing
   • crash course in the modern world
   • Self-Destructive Tendencies
   • Kidnapping
   • Assassin Obsession with Heights
   • Desmond Miles has PTSD
   • Road Trip
   • Unending Safehouses
   • Apologising on Behalf of Ancestors
   • History Lessons for Immortal Soldiers
   • Drowning
   • Journaling as a means to retain sanity
   • invisible ink
   • Modernising Your Language
   • Abstergo Back on Their Bullshit
   • Returning to the Place of Your Death
   • Sightseeing in the Assassin Style
   • Domesticity
   • The Existential Horror of Clay Kaczmarek
   • Desmond Miles has Sass
   • Desmond Miles has Little Brother Energy
   • To Nile
   • eagle vision - Freeform
   • Extreme Sports for Immortal Soldiers
   • Leap of Faith
   • Raett's knowledge of construction sites
   • Bumping Into Old Friends
   • Desmond Miles Needs Better Hobbies
   • The Appropriate Place for Questions
   • The Appropriate Time for Questions
   • Emails
   • Abstergo kidnapping
   • Mission Fic
   • Rescue Mission
   • panicking in the Assassin style
   • Travelling in the Assassin style
   • Dreams
   • Devil's Advocate
   • Storming the castle
   • Opinions on guns
   • Bombs
   • Stealth in the Assassin style
   • Stealth in the marine style
   • who leads?
   • White Clothes in the Assassin style
   • Restraints
   • Medical Restraints
   • Drug Use
   • Non-Consensual Drug Use
   • Joe is the real MVP
   • Identity Issues
   • Real Action Heroes Don't Look Back
   • Guilt
   • Post-Mission
   • Platonic Bed-sharing
   • Coffee
   • coffee-related abominations
   • Coping Mechanisms
   • polyglotism
   • coffee and tea
   • Desmond is Doing Everyone a Concern
   • of a sort
   • They're off to kill Kozak this time for sure
   • Plans never survive first contact with the enemy
   • Rough travel
   • Or Is It?
   • The Assassins' Way Down
   • Light Pollution
   • Get Along Murder
   • Probable Dissassociation
   • Allusions to Grand Theft Auto
   • Andy's Kindergartners
   • Nile has not earnt her Assassin whites
   • Desmond Wakes Up AFTER he Chooses
   • Violence
   • Nile Might Actually Have Gotten a Straight Answer
   • More Than Seven
   • Overkill is sometimes Just Enough Kill
   • Temporary Blindness
   • Desmond Finally gets a Nap
   • Canon-Typical Kidnapping
   • Rescue Attempt
   • Demond Miles’s Paranoia
   • The Lockpicking Skills of Immortal Soldiers
   • Overkill is not Enough Kill
   • Bill Miles’s A+ Parenting
   • Booker has Issues
   • Platonic Yearning
   • Everyone Needs A Nap
   • Allusions to Alcoholism
   • Breaking and Entering
   • Dissociation
   • Reunions
   • Family can be complicated
   • Isu Tech and the authors headcanons about how it works
   • allusions to slavery
   • Learning to trust
   • The problems with being a wanted man
   • Desmond is allergic to giving straight answers
   • Mentions of Juno - Freeform
   • Coffee is surprisingly important
   • Rooftop discussions are UNsurprisingly important
   • POV Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani
   • Immortal Husbands Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolò di Genova
   • Series prequal
   • Could maybe be read as a standalone
   • Angst
   • Grief
   • Manhunt x2
   • a little bit of heartbreak
   • AC3 easter egg
   • Non-graphic depiction of sex trafficking
   • An attempt at poetry
   • Temporary Character Death
   • A (brief) holiday
   • Humour
   • implied sexytimes
   • Joe is so fucking gone on Nicky through this whole thing
   • Joe does not have EV and is confused
   • Nile is MVP

   Summary

   Desmond joins the Old Guard lineup.

   A series of snapshots of how it came to be, and the years that follow.

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   Bookmarked by vivamus

   03 Sep 2023

   Bookmarker's Notes

   love everything about this series tbh 10/10 each update is perfection