Desmond Miles
Subject 17 — the bartender the world was billed to
The Modern War
Born on the Farm and raised by his father's boot-camp Brotherhood, Desmond ran at sixteen and hid in plain sight as a New York bartender until a fingerprint delivered him to Abstergo's Animus program in September 2012. As Subject 17 he relived Altaïr, Ezio, Haytham and Connor; the bleeding effect gave him their skills and their ghosts; and Minerva's vault message, addressed past Ezio directly to him, handed him the deadline the whole franchise ran on. Between abduction, escape, Lucy's death at his own possessed hand, and the Black Room's reassembly of his mind, he had perhaps the worst four months of any protagonist in the Codex — and finished them anyway.
The fate
Appearances · 6
Assassin's Creed1191 · modern
Bartender, abductee, Subject 17 of the Animus
AC II1476–1499 · modern
Now training by bleeding effect in an Assassin hideout
AC Brotherhood1499–1507 · modern
Exploring present-day Monteriggioni between sessions
AC Revelations1511–1512 · modern
A mind in pieces on Animus Island
AC III1754–1783 · modern
Out of the Animus at last — with a date: 21 December 2012
The Desmond Sessions2012 · protagonist
Subject 17 — ran from the Farm at sixteen, dragged back into the war by a fingerprint
