Fui Quod Es, Eris Quod Sum: I Once was What You Are, You Will Be What I Am
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COMPLETED. Fem!Connor AU, Kinkmeme fill.
Thomas Hickey was a lot of unsavory things, not that he gave a damn; a drunk, thief, smuggler, an opportunist, murderer, a whoring lout, to say the least. His services sold to the highest bidder, there was little he swore loyalty to. But there remained a few lines he would not cross. Including when Charles “gifted” him with the annoying little assassin during their stay in Bridewell.
Somehow, Hickey escaped Fem!Connor at the gallows and failed at killing Washington. Considering his extensive time in jail at Haytham's hands and Charles' increasingly unstable penchant for putting his personal vendettas first, Hickey started making himself scarce around his Templar brethren.
To add insult to injury, he swiftly found his path constantly crossing with the infernally stubborn assassin's. Their goals in alignment more often than not, they acknowledged there was little gain in initially killing each other. And as loath as he was to admit it, a begrudging respect for Fem!Connor started to send him questioning his own truths. Yet, how long until Thomas found himself at the end of the assassin's blade? Or until he ended her life the sake of his own personal gain?
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This is an AU of the series “Fui Quod Es, Eris Quod Sum: I Once was What You Are, You Will Be What I Am,” a gender-swapped AU of Assassin’s Creed III (you should read its first part, Short Change Heroes first). Instead of killing Thomas Hickey at the gallows when she’s to be hung, Fem!Connor spares his life. They attempt to kill each other at every turn yet work together when necessary. As the years go by, their mutual respect cautiously grows.
When Fem!Connor follows George Washington’s orders to rid them all of the Apple of Eden, she takes it on board the Aquila, where she also happens to be transporting Thomas Hickey back to Boston after he’s released from the army after the Colonial victory at Yorktown ends the war. Unfortunately, they both accidentally touch the Apple at the same time. So begins an alternate timeline set off by Connor traveling back in time to warn her grandfather of his tragic fate at the hands of Reginald Birch, as learned from her own father’s journal. And thus starts the Madness of Ratonhnhaké:ton Kenway, acknowledged daughter of Haytham Kenway and loyal Templar to the Grandmaster of the Colonial Rite of the Templar Order, Charles Lee.
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