Video Game Characters Who Would Be The Perfect Addition To Assassin’s Creeds Assassins

Summary

• The Assassin’s Creed games include real historical figures like samurai Yasuke and pirate Mary Read.
• Princess Peach, Vivi Ornitier, Aloy could join the Assassins with their unique skills and abilities.
• Lara Croft, Nathan Drake, and Link would make great additions to the Assassins with their expertise.

One of the biggest and most endearing qualities of the Assassin’s Creed games is its creative integration into real world history. Specifically, it likes to write stories where real historical figures are part of either the shadowy heroes known as the Assassins or the shadowy bad dudes known as the Templars.

Considering how George W. Bush was canonically a Templar puppet, clearly they’ll let in anyone. Now, as for the Assassins, they’ve got lots of big and respectable names on their side like legendary samurai Yasuke and the pirate Mary Read. But what if they recruited video game characters? Which iconic figures would join their ranks given the chance?

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Princess Peach

The Assassins need people of all skillsets, from combatants to politicians and beyond. As an organization focused on preserving peace and human rights by any means necessary, they could certainly use such variety, and not just to pad out a resume millennial style.

That’s where Princess Peach of the Mario games comes in. She’s concerned with the wellbeing of her Mushroom Kingdom citizens above all else, a goal that would absolutely fall in line with the actual Assassin’s Creed. Her political prowess as royalty is matched by her combat skills proven through tons of game appearances. Plus, her Mario Kart residency ensures she’d be an excellent getaway driver.

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Vivi Ornitier

Vivi’s story is a tragic one, as adorable as he and the rest of Final Fantasy 9‘s visual style is. He’s a prototype artificial life form created as a weapon of war, and as such, only has a limited life span. As a result, Vivi’s own mortality becomes a major theme for him.

Given Vivi’s lack of time, he wants to make the most of what he has, and he’d likely jump at the opportunity to make a real difference with his magical abilities in the Assassins. Don’t worry, they’ve dealt with magic before. Just look at the Pieces of Eden or Desmond’s inexplicably changing face between games.

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Garrus Vakarian

Every good organization needs a few smooth vigilante types. The Justice League has Batman, DedSec has Marcus, your local comic shop has the bouncer who enforces the ‘deodorant required’ policy. Velvet-voiced sniper Garrus Vakarian fills that role in the Mass Effect games, and he could always use another paycheck.

Despite his brushes against the law, Garrus is all about doing the right thing. That would include aiding the Assassins for the good of an entire race. Sure, he’s a turian. But as certain FemShep players (and BroShep players with mods) know, he’s very much been known to show his love for humans.

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Amicia De Rune

As shown by the Ezio trilogy of Assassin’s Creed games, the Assassins are no strangers to adopting lost hothead kids off the street. He went through hell before officially joining the order, even using them to his advantage to avenge and protect his family.

Amicia de Rune from A Plague Tale: Innocence and Requiem goes through a tragically similar origin, with her home falling victim to the religious fanaticism of the Inquisition, she must flee and take care of her little brother Hugo. Her quick wits and combat abilities would inspire the Assassins to call on her, a call she would answer, but only to better protect her own.

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Sonic The Hedgehog

The Assassins love being all secretive and serious, but they wouldn’t be nearly as fun without a few snarky chaos gremlins. Edward Kenway fills that role nicely as he explodes his way across the Caribbean, but even he’s subtle when compared to the cartoonishly optimistic Sonic the Hedgehog.

Sonic is not only the epitome of the enthusiastic hero archetype, he already has no problem taking any wild new situation in stride. Whether getting transported into the dark ages or cursed by a genie, he’ll take a second to go ‘huh, weird’ and then get to hero-ing. The same thing would happen with the Assassins.

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Aloy

The Horizon series’ Aloy has a habit of being thrust into leadership roles simply because she’s the only person around who doesn’t habitually fall to her knees in fearful reverence at the slightest hint of technology. The Assassins love a good reluctant hero. Just look at pretty much every playable character in the series. (You’d think they would learn to be more gentle about reruiting by now.)

But it’s not like she isn’t willing to do the right thing. Aloy takes charge because she knows what’s right, and that would include if she was called on by the Assassins. Whether as a tactical figure or for her impeccable skills at taking down robots with sticks, she’d be a valuable addition. Her skill with a bow would also be perfect for missions where low-tech stealth is required.

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Lara Croft

Sometimes Lara Croft is a wisecracking treasure hunter. Sometimes she’s an untested adventurer in over her head. Sometimes she’s Angelina Jolie. But whichever version of Tomb Raider you pluck this occasionally flappable spelunker from, she’ll have the skills you need.

Not only would Lara be a truly adept Assassin agent in the field with her firearms and acrobatic skills, her influential family name would also open plenty of doors for the organization. Plus, you know she’d be willing to join, because Tomb Raider loves its moral conundrums.

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Wyll Ravengard

The Blade of Frontiers is a title that already inspires hope in the downtrodden and fear in the feet that trod them. That’s Wyll Ravengard, Baldur’s Gate 3’s dashing rapier-wielding Warlock who fights monsters to protect his home and is bound to an infernal fiend, but nobody’s perfect.

Wyll would join the Assassins without a second thought, even if he should probably have a few. The poor guy has a bit of a habit of accepting deals rather hastily in favor of his heroic goals (see the aforementioned fiend). But he always feels a duty to protect those less fortunate, and that’s the promise of the Assassins.

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Nathan Drake

As much as the Assassins love to have everything planned out to the letter, sometimes they could use a wild card or two. Maybe they need someone with a good heart to accidentally sow chaos behind enemy lines while trying to accomplish their initial task. You know exactly where this is going.

Nathan Drake’s track record with plans in the Uncharted games is roughly the same as Charlie Brown’s track record with footballs. Something is bound to go wrong on every mission, and people will end up on their backs. He hunts treasure, but is always willing to do the right thing in the end. The Assassins would recruit him with the promise of both, then point him in the direction of an old ruin that just so happens to be overrun by Templars.

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Link

Look, you don’t need to be a particularly eloquent speaker to be a hero. Just look at James Baxter from Adventure Time. Link is arguably the most iconic silent protagonist in gaming history, and yet each of his incarnations remain memorable and worth being called on by the Assassins.

Sure, there’s a huge disconnect between the brutally violent historical setting of Assassin’s Creed and the fantastical yet still very violent world of The Legend of Zelda. But Link never backs down from a challenge against evil, and that’s what the Assassins are all about. They just might want to hire an interpreter fluent in ‘hyet’.