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I know nothing about AC at all and I enjoyed this, but I have a question

posted 8 years ago by radivel
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Hi
I'll skip the pretense about why I enjoyed the movie, but I have a question that has spoilers:

So, the third time Cal goes in the Animus, they made some show of it being important that it's his choice. Well, he chose to go in as part of his own choice. But why?

He was the only person who know how to get the Apple. His "creed" was to die instead of giving his opponents what they wanted, so it's not like they could just force him back in.

Basically, to me it seems like he did exactly what the Templar wanted him to do of his own choice for no obvious reason when his own creed said otherwise, but the movie was fast paced so I may have missed something.

My theories:
- He's not yet an assassin and therefore not bound by the creed, so by going in under his own choice, this will make him into an assassin.
- He believed that even if he chose not to, the Templar would eventually get what they wanted through other scientific means anyway, and so the best course of action was active prevention as opposed to passive.

That's all I could come up with.

Help me out here, please!

Anyway, as purely a sci-fi fan with no interest in games and knowing nothing of the show before, I found this movie to be interesting, fun, fast, creative and forcing you to pay attention - you learned by being shown, not told. I have no idea if it's supposed to be "real" or not, and didn't care. It was pretty good. But I still want to know that!

[–] poit57 8 years ago

My understanding on why it had to be Cal's choice to go into the Animus willingly is because of the psychological damage he could suffer if he wasn't a willing participant. If he suffered too much of this damage, he would be useless to the Templars in finding the location of the Apple of Eden.

Now, as far as why he decided to be a willing participant, my take is that it was motivated by his hatred toward his father in that moment. Remember, they had just sent him in to confront and kill his father who admitted to killing Cal's mother. Cal chose to have a conversation instead. He was not raised as an assassin and had no allegiance to the creed. He thought the assassins were a crazy organization that led to his mother being murdered for no reason. He was going to help Sofia and her father retrieve the Apple to spite his father and his organization of assassins.

This is why the other assassins who were in that facility were coming to kill Cal before he could betray the location of the Apple of Eden. By the time he finished with his last session in the Animus, Cal understood the Creed and why it was so important to keep the Apple out of the hands of the Templars. He then joins with the rest of the assassins in fighting off the guards, going after Sofia's father in London, and reclaiming the Apple to protect it.

I've never played the games either. I enjoyed the movie for the most part with some questions of my own, but this was my understanding of the questions you posed.