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Darim Ibn-La'Ahad | Assassin's Creed

[personal profile] starlings 2013-01-05 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Audrey
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Preferred Apartment: I'd like to stick him in with Malik, but if that floor fills up, no worries.
Character Name: Darim Ibn-La'Ahad
Canon: Assassin's Creed
Canon Point: After Altaïr and Darim escape from Masyaf following Maria's death.
Background/History: here!

Abilities/Powers: As an Assassin, he's been trained to fight... obviously, capable of freerunning, hiding amongst crowds, pickpocketing without detection, and killing quickly. He is proficient with the typical tricks of the trade—hidden blade, swords, throwing knives, daggers, fists &c. He is exceptional with a bow.

Darim does not have eagle vision like his father, but he does have his left ring finger still so he’s probably better than the older Syrians at picking up forks.

(Yes, they had forks back then.)

Items/Weapons: His bow, hidden blade and sword.
obscures: (○ so get up,shake the rust)

Re: -> REVISE

[personal profile] obscures 2013-01-05 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
That is totally fine! I know her link with Eris counts as a "divine connection" which would be severed in Haven; I was actually planning on it for character development reasons. So yeah, more than acceptable C:
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Darim Ibn-La'Ahad | Assassin's Creed (2)

[personal profile] starlings 2013-01-05 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
"All that is good in me, began with you, father."

Steadfast, quick-minded and dedicated, Darim is Altaïr’s son in many respects. He has striven to fulfill what we can safely assume are Altaïr’s rigorous expectations, becoming an able assassin capable of keeping pace with his father. Though not a prodigy like Altaïr, he is a talented warrior in his own right; an exceptional bowman who lands the finishing blow against Genghis Kahn. Yet whereas Altaïr struggles with his arrogance in his youth, once compromising the brotherhood in an attack against de Sable, leaving one assassin dead and himself de-ranked, Darim has not made it a family tradition.

He is not governed by his pride, and able to follow commands without fuss or sass. In both AC: Revelations and the game novelization of Altaïr’s memory keys, The Secret Crusade, not once does he appear to question his father’s decisions, whether leaving Masyaf for ten years to combat the Mongols, or when Altaïr decides to entomb himself in his vault. More level-headed and less impetuous than his father was in his youth, he is as much Maria’s son as he is Altaïr’s. Possessing her eyes and raised by her wisdom, his social graces (that is, his ability to not always be a curt asshole relative friendliness) could potentially be ascribed to Maria’s influence. She is steel and fire, but also a temperate force, providing clarity and rationality even in the worst situations. In later years, when her son Sef is murdered by Abbas, she reigns in Altaïr’s anger and vengeance, telling him that he cannot destroy Abbas out of vengeance, but for the Order. If he lets himself be blinded by anger and emotion, “how can [he] expect them to listen when what you teach is the other way?”

It also likely that Darim has learned from Altaïr’s mistakes. Righting his own misguided arrogance is what led to Altaïr becoming the father and Mentor Darim has always known, and it’s only expected that he would pass down these lessons to his sons

However, do not think that Darim is entirely without ego or that he has escaped the family trait of impulsiveness.

"Behind them came Darim, who had inherited the bright, dancing eyes of his mother, his father’s colouring and bone structure, and the impulsiveness of both. He would have liked to gallop ahead and climb the slopes of the village to the citadel to announce his parents’ return, but instead trotted meekly behind, respecting his father’s wishes for a modest homecoming."

He may be able to restrain himself, but that impulsiveness is still there. Around a younger Altaïr, he may be more prone to following his example. And while he is not arrogant, per se, he isn’t exactly humble. Returning to Masyaf after ten years, they find themselves escorted to modest accommodations, certainly not befit for the Mentor of the Assassins. While it offends Altaïr enough to nearly bring it up, Darim is “even more put out then his parents by his scant quarters.” (Bowden 415). He’s certainly aware of his father’s importance and knows himself as the Mentor’s son, ever since he was a child.

Around the time Altaïr began writing the codex, he decided that the Assassins had to change the traditional way of raising their families. “[They] would be allowed to love [their] children – and, in turn, to be loved,” whereas Al Mualim had believed that such attachments would weaken them. Considering this, it’s no mystery why family is integral to Darim’s life. He had a completely different upbringing than his father. The older Assassin lost his father at a young age, beheaded after honorably admitting to the death of a Saracen general. Though he had his brothers and the guidance of his mentor Al Mualim, he was still an orphan, and it is understandable how he could have grown up fiercely independent and arrogant. Contrarily, Darim and his younger brother Sef were raised by Maria and Altaïr, in which they were loved dearly by both.. They were an unconventional family, as his mother was not only a foreigner, but more than simply his father’s wife. As is noted in The Secret Crusade, Maria was already as skilled as many of Altaïr’s fellow assassins upon their first meeting, and she was become to become a partner in battle.

In other words, being Assassins is a family business, and as much as Darim adheres to the Creed, he is equally as dedicated to his family. In his early twenties, he would leave Masyaf to face the Mongols with Altaïr and Maria, fighting alongside them for ten years. He heads to Alamut to check on Sef on Altaïr’s behest, only to return on his father’s (very) short notice to help his father escape from Masyaf. Until his death, he stays by his father side, helping him with his plan to decentralize the Order and spread its influence, until their final parting when Altaïr seals himself inside his library. Growing up in this environment, it makes sense why Darim develops a strong sense of responsibility and love for his family. To fight alongside one’s family, is to know that every misstep one takes could end in their injury or even death. Even when he does stray from his father side, chased away for a time by Altaïr’s obsession with the apple, Darim leaves to Alexandria to look after his brother’s widow and daughters.

As mentioned before, Darim’s family is unconventional in many ways. His mother was an Englishwoman and a former Templar, turned Assassin. A wife, as well as a warrior. While his father was an Assassin since birth—once an enemy to Maria and eventually Mentor of the Order. There are Assassins who distrust Maria for being a former Templar and an Englishwoman—a foreigner, which could have been a part of what made him vulnerable to Abbas’ coup. This is mostly speculation though, but it shows that Assassins have their prejudices, and that perhaps Darim’s background has raised him to be more open-minded than some of his brothers, to know first-hand that boundaries exist only in the minds of men.
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Darim Ibn-La'Ahad | Assassin's Creed (3)

[personal profile] starlings 2013-01-05 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Third-Person Sample

They did not stop riding until night had fallen and the horses shook beneath them. The darkness brings with it silence, a bitter wind rushing against the dry grass of hills that scrape against the dark cling of a starless sky. They are surrounded, veiled by hills. And after traveling across back-trails and uncommon paths on their way to Alamut, it was unlikely that anyone could have followed them.

They are ill-prepared for travel, with only the blankets on their horses and the remnants of supplies from Darim’s prior journey. Neither of them seemed to care, not of hunger nor of weariness, as though earlier events had divided them from reality.

Where is mother?

She is dead.

Sef was executed, under the pretense that his father had ordered it.

Malik beheaded.


Adrenaline had chased away his thoughts as they rode, but now he had to contend with the weight in his chest. No one knew death more intimately than an Assassin, but it seemed unreal to Darim—Darim, who had never known the death of a sibling, of a parent. It was a hollow feeling, numbing; a pain unlike the many wounds he had received, in such a way that it was not a visceral sensation but something that dug deeper. Only a week ago, they had traveled together—Maria, Altaïr and himself, and for ten years before that, they had never left each other’s sides. Darim wonders if this is what his father had felt when his own father was beheaded. Or when he drove the blade that killed Al Mualim—a traitor, yes, but the man who had raised him nonetheless.

Altaïr tends the fire before them, throwing in sticks to encourage a meager flame. In the firelight, Darim can see his father’s face, and realizes just how weary the formidable Assassin appears, how old he seems—the hard lines of his face carved by the battle that has yet to cease, by the death of a son, and of the woman who could make a man of few words utter ‘my love’.

Darim clenches a fist and shifts his boots against the sandy ground. He is not ready to grieve, for anger was easier to contend with than sorrow. Why flee from Masyaf? Why not return and take the citadel and bring an end to Abbas? They had the apple, and though Altaïr had never allowed him to handle it, he knew of its powers. He knew that they could overtake Masyaf without spilling anymore blood, and the more Darim considers it, the more he wonders why they are running.

Before he realizes it, Darim’s eyes have turned to the bag on Altaïr’s side. The Apple-- his father’s constant companion. There are words on his tongue, and he intends to speak, to bring up his notion of vengeance. Altaïr notices, of course. He notices where Darim’s eyes stray, the anger in his expression, and he looks at his son but says nothing.

Altaïr’s stare is enough to quiet him.

They had exchanged no words except simple commands since leaving Masyaf. What else can be said when Darim can only manage silence? He shifts against the sand, intending to stand—to stretch his legs and grab the dried food in his pack.

Before he can move, there's a hand on his shoulder, a strong hand that squeezes his shoulder gently. His father's hand.

It dawns on Darim why they could not turn to vengeance. They would not set a good example for the Order, even if his father managed to retake power from Abbas' hands. They would be no better than him. Most of all, his mother would not have wanted it.

Later they would speak, but for now it is enough, to sit together in silence and to remember together what they have lost.
Edited (fixed a few typos) 2013-01-18 08:13 (UTC)
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Darim Ibn-La'Ahad | Assassin's Creed (4)

[personal profile] starlings 2013-01-05 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
First-person Sample

Is this another one of its tricks? I have not known its illusions, but could it truly be this real?

[ TOTALLY UNAWARE HIS DEVICE IS RECORDING... ]

I do not understand. Though, it would be foolish to believe that I could ever comprehend the artifact's whims. [ He pauses, voice quieting. ] All I know for certain is that this place is foreign to me; that my father is not here, and that I must find him.