Ezio, like any upstanding defender of the people, has chosen to start a riot and compel the guards to start slaughtering civilians. All so that he could confirm weapons at an arsenal.
What a heroic man he is!
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We’ll discuss Ezio’s moral fiber another day, but for now I wish to talk about Sofia, namely that I never really believed in the romance between her and Ezio. I remember being honestly surprised that she ended up becoming his canon love interest and the mother of his children.
I believe them when they’re being friendly and flirtatious to each other. While I don’t have the words to describe it, the actual romance seems like the kind that isn’t built to last. The “charm” Ezio exudes in this game feels less like the ladies man in previous games and more like a typical pickup artist. There’s no a good way to quantify this, but in context he comes off as a lecherous old man to me.
It doesn’t help that Sofia doesn’t have the same backbone or force of personality that woman like Caterina or Rosa from AC2 had. She’s polite in the way the people are to their co-workers or people that happen to hang around in the same social circles, but not in the way that people who are attracted to each other are. And as a character, she’s one-dimensional, lacking the depth that women in Ezio’s other games had in spades.
Neither one of them sells this as a long term relationship. On both ends, it feels temporary, like they’re both keeping each other at a comfortable, non-committal distance.
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