A shadow falls over you and you feel the rain stop. You look up to see Music Man holding an umbrella over you, his usually bright grin looking oddly hesitant.
“The rain can’t be good for you,” you mutter, your voice partially muffled by your hoodie sleeves.
“Mmm…last I heard, it’s not amazing for humans either,” he says. He lowers himself down, his six legs curling so that his body hovers just an inch or two above the pavement, which was the closest he could get to actually “sitting” beside you. “Besides, I think I’m still mostly waterproof.”
“You think? Mostly?” you repeat, your incredulousness not completely hiding your worry.
“Mm-hm,” he says with a nod. He smirks, but not unkindly, adding, “Though…if you’re worried about it, the simple solution would be to come back inside,” he says, holding out his free hand towards you.
You briefly consider ordering him back inside without you. You’re not even sure that would work, since Wyatt still technically owns him.
You suddenly realize you don’t even want to know if you have that kind of power over Music Man. You don’t want to use that kind of power over him.
And that, in turn, only leaves you once choice. The simple solution, as he said.
Despite everything, there’s the barest hint of a smile on your face as you place your hand in his.
(Edit: Note that while I draw my sona as the reader in these pics, Cymbal Crash Bar is a Music Man x Reader fic, so Y/N does not actually have canon design. ^^)
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🅱️loodborne height headcanons
But first, the canon ones - the official video introducing Maria's figma ( x ) reveals that Maria (and the Doll, as follows) is 6'7'' (201 cm), whereas default Paleblood Hunter is 5'11'' (180 cm).
Then by stretching the image of ripped models ( x ) across the chart with the heights and comparing them to Maria, I concluded Micolash is 5'11'' (180 cm), Gascoigne is 7'2'' (218 cm) and Gehrman is ~7'7''-7'8'' (approximately 233 cm)! Now to the actual hcs! Centimeters scaling is approximate since inches do not convert into very round numbers.
Two lists - in alphabetical order and from tallest to shortest, as self-reference. Might be a subject to change if I ever manage to compare models between themselves better!
In alphabetical order:
Adeline (initial) - 5'6'' (168 cm)
Adeline (transformed) - 6'9'' (206 cm)
Adella - 5'7'' (170 cm)
Alfred - 6'2'' (188 cm)
Amelia - 6'10'' (208 cm)
Annalise - 6'7'' (201 cm)
Antal - 5'10'' (178 cm)
Archibald - 5'8'' (173 cm)
Arianna - 5'5'' (165 cm)
Bestial hunter - 6'1'' (185 cm)
Black Church female hunter - 6'0'' (183 cm)
Black Church male hunter - 5'8'' (173 cm)
Blood Minister - 6'6'' (198 cm)
Brador - 6'1'' (185 cm)
Cainhurst librarian (cut content) - 5'1'' (155 cm)
Carla - 6'5'' (196 cm)
Caryll - 6'2'' (188 cm)
Chapel Dweller - 6'11'' (211 cm)
Chester - 6'0'' (183 cm)
Cleric Beast of the bridge (as human) - 6'0'' (183 cm)
Crow of Cainhurst - 5'11'' (180 cm)
Damian - 6'2'' (188 cm)
Desperate Hunter (Yharnam) - 5'11'' (180 cm)
Desperate hunter (Church) - 6'1'' (185 cm)
Djura - 5'7'' (170 cm)
Djura's Ally - 6'2'' (188 cm)
Djura's apprentice - 5'7'' (170 cm)
Dores - 6'4'' (193 cm)
Edgar - 6'2.5'' (190 cm)
Eileen - 5'7'' (170 cm)
Fishing Hamlet priest - 6'11.5 (210 cm)
Forgotten Madman - 5'4'' (163 cm)
Gascoigne - 7'2'' (218 cm)
Gatekeeper - 6'0'' (183 cm)
Gehrman - 7'7.5'' (233 cm)
Gilbert - 5'10'' (178 cm)
Gratia - 7'9'' (236 cm)
Gremia - 6'6.5 (200 cm)
Henriett - 5'8'' (173 cm)
Henryk - 6'0'' (183 cm)
Iosefka + imposter - 5'10'' (178 cm)
Izzy - 6'2'' (188 cm)
Josef - 6'1'' (185 cm)
King (initial) - 5'8.5'' (174 cm)
King (transformed) - 6'8'' (203 cm)
Laurence - 5'2'' (157 cm)
Leo - 6'5'' (196 cm)
Logarius - 8'1'' (246 cm)
Lonely old dear - 5'4'' (163 cm)
Ludwig (as human) - 7'00'' (213 cm)
Madaras Twins - 5'10'' (178 cm)
Madman's Escort - 6'1'' (185 cm)
Maria + Doll - 6'7'' (201 cm)
Micolash - 5'11'' (180 cm)
Older daughter - 4'3'' (130 cm)
Olek - 5'7'' (170 cm)
Paleblood Hunter - 5'11'' (180 cm)
Patches - 6'2.5'' (190 cm)
Queen Killer - 6'1'' (185 cm)
Rom - 5'0'' (152 cm)
Sceptical man - 5'9'' (175 cm)
Simon - 5'7'' (170 cm)
Suspicious Beggar - 5'9'' (175 cm)
Valtr - 6'3'' (191 cm)
Viola - 5'10'' (178 cm)
Vitus - 6'6'' (198 cm)
Wallar - 6'0'' (183 cm)
White Church female hunter - 5'9'' (175 cm)
Willem - 6'10'' (208 cm)
Yahar'gul hunter (Tonitrus) - 6'0'' (183 cm)
Yahar'gul hunter (cane) - 5'11'' (180 cm)
Yahar'gul hunter (cannon) - 6'6'' (198 cm)
Yahar'gul hunter (in the cell) - 5'9'' (175 cm)
Yahar'gul hunters (the twins) - 5'7'' (170 cm)
Yamamura - 5'5'' (165 cm)
Yharnam - 7'3'' (221 cm)
Younger daughter - 3'8'' (112 cm)
Yurie - 5'8'' (173 cm)
From tallest to shortest:
8'1'' (246 cm) - Logarius
7'9'' (236 cm) - Gratia
7'7.5'' (233 cm) - Gehrman
7'3'' (221 cm) - Yharnam
7'2'' (218 cm) - Gascoigne
7'00'' (213 cm) - Ludwig (as human)
6'11.5 (210 cm) - Fishing Hamlet priest
6'11'' (211 cm) - Chapel Dweller
6'10'' (208 cm) - Willem, Amelia
6'9'' (206 cm) - Adeline (transformed)
6'8'' (203 cm) - King (transformed)
6'7'' (201 cm) - Maria + Doll, Annalise
6'6.5 (200 cm) - Gremia
6'6'' (198 cm) - Yahar'gul hunter (cannon), Vitus, Blood Minister
6'5'' (196 cm) - Leo, Carla
6'4'' (193 cm) - Dores
6'3'' (191 cm) - Valtr
6'2.5'' (190 cm) - Edgar, Patches
6'2'' (188 cm) - Caryll, Damian, Alfred, Izzy, Djura's ally
6'1'' (185 cm) - Bestial hunter, Brador, Josef, Madman's Escort, Queen Killer, Desperate hunter (Church)
6'0'' (183 cm) - Gatekeeper, Henryk, Chester, Black Church female hunter, Wallar, Cleric Beast of the bridge (as human), Yahar'gul hunter (Tonitrus)
5'11'' (180 cm) - Micolash, Paleblood hunter, Crow of Cainhurst, Desperate Hunter (Yharnam), Yahar'gul hunter (cane)
5'10'' (178 cm) - Iosefka + imposter, Antal, Gilbert, Madaras twins, Viola
5'9'' (175 cm) - White Church female hunter, Yahar'gul hunter (in the cell), Suspicious Beggar, Sceptical man
5'8.5'' (174 cm) - King (initial)
5'8'' (173 cm) - Yurie, Black Church male hunter, Henriett, Archibald
5'7'' (170 cm) - Eileen, Adella, Simon + Djura's apprentice, Djura, Yahar'gul hunters (the twins), Olek
5'6'' (168 cm) - Adeline (initial)
5'5'' (165 cm) - Yamamura, Arianna
5'4'' (163 cm) - Forgotten Madman, Lonely old dear
5'2'' (157 cm) - Laurence
5'1'' (155 cm) - Cainhurst librarian (cut content)
5'0'' (152 cm) - Rom
4'3'' (130 cm) - Older daughter
3'8'' (112 cm) - Younger daughter
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I have an idea, probably for one of your next Yew Branches idea.
Considering Abbas Sofian's dying wish and I quote: "I hope there is another life after this one. Then I will see him, and know the truth of his final days..."
For this idea, it follows the usual Alt/Des relationship (Or simply Alt&Des platonic relationship). Desmond and Abbas relationship is completely platonic.
This time, Desmond reincarnates as Rauf. The name's meaning is huge giveaway. Desmond!Rauf didn't broke his leg due to his failed leap of faith (not the leap during templar attack). Since he's an instructor, he's either same age or older than Altair.
The main plot is the usual Desmond reincarnation. But this time, Abbas reincarnated as himself.
Some plot points to be considered:
- When Abbas used the apple (in the original timeline), somehow it does something with his reincarnation. In gameplay, the Apple drains Abbas of his life. Might as well suck part of his soul.
-Al Mualim is actually the one manipulating Abbas to dislike Altair. This is actually one of Al Mualim's contingency plans should Altair turns his blade on him. Along the story, young Abbas saw how Al Mualim tried to manipulate him, and he was horrified how wrong he was about his "past life" mentor.
-Due to reincarnation, Rauf!Desmond, Abbas learns faster of being an Assassin. Thanks to that, Altair, Rauf, and Abbas became Assassin at the same time, and at a very young age. This actually intrigues Desmond since he know Abbas became an assassin later than Altair.
-Umar Ibn-La'Ahad and Ahmad Sofian actually survived this time. Due to Rauf!Desmond gave Umar an early warning, he didn't F up on his mission.
-However, the same cannot be said for Adha when Desmond gave Altair an early warning. Adha dies, no matter what, her death turned Altair bitter towards the creed after his mission for the Chalice.
(I was thinking about Chalice of Eden plot, that contains a soul of Isu peacekeeper like Shroud of Eden, but that's too much of a stretch.)
-Abbas was planning to give the warning first but Desmond beat him to it. Thus, Abbas grew suspicious of why "Rauf" knows what will happen to Umar. There are also points when he saw Rauf do things better than Altair, and how he actually didn't break his leg doing leap of faith.
-Knowing that Abbas is a reincarnation of himself, Desmond explains who he truly was (down to what happened in the future and how he experience Altair memories). Until how the Apple reincarnate them both.
-Desmond taught Abbas Eagle Vision for the sake of his silence. Ironically, it's more advanced than what Altair have (Altair early EV can only be done by standing still, while Abbas EV will be done while walking). Abbas brags this a lot. Later on, Altair manages to learn more advanced EV (tracking enemy pathing) faster than Abbas could.
- Desmond actually taught Kadar better, thus he survived the battle in Solomon Temple.
This would be an interesting plot line and we can even add the following:
Rauf never had a limp in canon, I think? He was one of the three Assassins to take a leap in the ‘prologue’ of AC1 and he stayed behind to help the Assassin who broke his leg, telling Altaïr to go ahead so it would be strange if he had a limp before the leap. So, in this scenario, perhaps Desmond as Rauf could have trained the Assassin who was going to break his leg and that scene wouldn’t happen as all three of them would do their leap of faith correctly.
Speaking of Desmond’s age, Rauf’s age was never revealed but, yeah, I do think he’s around Altaïr’s age as well as the novel does state that Altaïr and Abbas had a different trainer during their training days. I am kinda tempted to make him perhaps half a decade older than Altaïr just so his warning to Umar would be more believable because getting warned by a kid would make Umar be suspicious of Desmond. Then again, Umar being suspicious of Desmond would be fun but also super dangerous since Umar is loyal to Al Mualim so he would definitely report it to Al Mualim… unless he believes that he should find out more information before reporting anything.
And, if you want Ahmad to survive but don’t want to give away the twist that Abbas had been reborn as well, in this scenario, why not Abbas be the one to warn his father while Desmond warns Umar? This way, both of them believed that Umar and Ahmad survived because of them and not because someone also gave a different warning.
Once Abbas finds out Rauf isn’t Rauf, I believe his first idea would be that Rauf had been reincarnated like him. I don’t see Desmond admitting the truth to Abbas, because, as far as Desmond is concerned, Abbas is the one who made it his life duty to destroy Altaïr’s life. Even if Abbas tells him that he knows Al Mualim is trying to manipulate him into hating Altaïr for some reason, Desmond would see him as who he was before, not who he could be. Plus, if Desmond was ever going to confess to anyone the truth of his existence, it would be to Altaïr first (even if this isn’t AltDes, it would be to Altaïr first)
Abbas is trying to make amends (and perhaps protect his father). Desmond will make him work for it because he has a lot of blood on his hands that Desmond cares about (and he’s also protective of Altaïr because of this).
So… what would probably happen is that Desmond won’t necessarily help Abbas be better. It’s just that Abbas already has the advantage of having all of his 60+ worth of experience in his current body so Masyaf would know them to be rivals.
If anything, Desmond would be peeved that Abbas would be considered one of the most promising novices of their batch and that would push him to push Altaïr into showing that he was better than Abbas.
Altaïr would be curious as to why Desmond is just so annoyed by Abbas when he’s normally chill with everybody else but a private tutoring session with Desmond means he could spend more time with him so he’s game.
So, in this scenario, Abbas is also still an asshole but he’s trying not to be. It just comes more naturally to him because of who he was in his previous life. Altaïr just ignores him and it’s Desmond who takes on the mantle of AC1!Altaïr’s annoyance and growling without even realizing it.
It would be funny if Kadar begins to hero-worship Desmond instead because he’s the one who shows the most promise (all because he’s trying to keep Abbas down) while Malik and Altaïr start to bond over Kadar’s hero-worshiping.
Speaking of Adha, they never did say that the ‘Chalice’ was a POE. The Chalice was Adha because she had information that could turn unite the factions and turn the tides of war. My headcanon is that Adha is considered the Chalice because her blood could activate some kind of Isu location or artifact, like she’s a descendant of a specific Isu that had a POE or something, since chalices are usually used to symbolize the whole ‘cup of blood’ thing. That was part of the premise of my idea of a Yew Branch of Desmond being Adha after all, hahahaha.
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