mun's almost finished with Black Flag!

[lifescratched]

Do not be mistaken, mundane. Simply because I am enjoying watching you play this... "game" of my grandfather's life does not mean I enjoy all aspects of it. I still cannot condone piracy, and I suspect if I were ever to meet my grandfather before his days as an Assassin, we would disagree on as many things as Father and I do.

[Okay, so maybe he's a little excited about pirates. But because sailing! Adventures at sea! And nothing to do with pirates being awful people.]

As for Patience, I am as curious to learn more of her as you are. But as her name suggests... for now, it would be best to wait. I doubt this is the last we shall see of her.

[ooc: spoilers in the comments are a-okay as long as they're up to sequence 11!)

Comments

[buccaneer]

What say you that a man turns to piracy for the sake of freedom? So quick to condemn what you don't understand.

[lifescratched]

I have had this argument before, Grandfather. I do not wish to repeat it.

[With a certain Hector Barbossa. Have you heard of him? Claims to have killed Blackbeard? ... No, maybe not.]

[buccaneer]

[ kid who the hell are you are you calling him old ]

Do you say so? Seems it's in need of repeating, mind.

[lifescratched]

[Does he really have to explain that one wow]

True freedom cannot exist without peace. So long as you insist on theft and murder for personal gain, you buy your own freedom at the price of depriving it from others.

[avise]

[Hi Connor.]

Not all acts. But in some cases, smuggling is necessary.

[lifescratched]

[hay gurlfriend]

Smuggling and piracy are not the same thing.

[avise]

True, but just because they are called different things does not make them any different. Both are illegal. [There's an amused sort of smile.] I have assisted a group with plundering a ship, before now, in order to smuggle the contents.

[For the correct reasons, yes, but still.]

[lifescratched]

What do laws matter to the Brotherhood? If you break any, it is for a purpose higher than yourself. The same cannot be said of my grandfather.

[avise]

Then I could understand your concern, if all were personal. Is he truly that bad?

[lifescratched]

He becomes a better man in later life. [Or so Haytham's shining opinion of his father in his journal entries has lead Connor to believe.] But when he was younger, he cared little for the Creed, or the men or women who sought to uphold it, meddling in affairs he did not understand for want of coin. He was never a bad person, simply...

[Misguided? Impulsive? Brash? ...Though he realises, belatedly, they're all faults Achilles has criticised Connor for as well. Whoops.]

[avise]

Mistaken ideals, then. I cannot say I haven't made a fair few of my own, even if were for different reasons. If he understands the error of those ways, that is something, non?

[kidds]

He's not all bad, y'know. Little rough 'round the edges and all that.

screeee kidd *^*

[lifescratched]

I suppose that is one way of putting it. His heart is in the right place, but the things that drive him... It is wrong to put personal gain before principle.

'^' hello!

[kidds]

Aye, and I've told him more'n once that he's going down a path he shouldn't. Kenway's got a thick skull, never doubted that.

He'll come around when he's ready. I know he will.

[lifescratched]

He is fortunate to have someone with such faith in him.