quarantacinque || video

[betrayedblade]

[The video is dark when the device turns on. Giovanni removes his hand a moment later but the device isn't entirely facing him and the picture is skewed at an odd angle. There is the usual rubble of the worse parts of the town in the background.

The brown bundle off to the side moves slightly and it becomes apparent the shape is that of a man hunched over. It's still hard to distinguish much.]

...sed libera nos a malo.

[The figure coughs violently.]

...libera nos a malo. Avrei...

...

Così è stato questo inferno tutto il tempo? [He begins to laugh harshly and then breaks into more coughing...and what can barely be heard to sound like heartbroken sobbing intermixed.]


[[Note: Giovanni has just come back from a canon update. He has just lived through his death. He is weeping for his dead sons who are not dead here but that is besides the point. He is in his normal clothes--aka, not the assassin's robes--and there is a rather nasty red mark around his neck from where the noose hung him that will be seen in some replies.
tl;dr: He's back from a disappearance of his own.]]

[[Translations: ...and deliver us from evil.

...deliver us from evil. I would have...

So was this hell all along?]]

Comments

[feathersplz.livejournal.com]

[ He's been fiddling with the device for a while now. It's been strange for him to figure out, but at least now he's used to it...whatever it is.

So of course, when he wakes up from a nap to try using it again, this is the first thing he gets. Oh dear... ]

Padre...?

[is-the-eldest.livejournal.com]

[What... that was his father, that he knew no doubt but... but he seemed so. So broken. It had been some time since he'd seen him in his normal clothing as well, it was almost strange.]

Padre!

Where are you? Do you need Ezio and I to come to you? [He's worried, it had been a little while since he'd really seen him. With so much going on as of late, it hadn't helped either.]

[dr-seahorse.livejournal.com]

Are you all right?

[video] 1/2

[cantsaygao.livejournal.com]

Giovanni... back...? Back, back! Uryuu!

[voice]

[aninsidejob.livejournal.com]

Giovanni! [She was worried before when his signal had disappeared.] Bloody hell, love, are you okay?

1/2

[crystal-eyed.livejournal.com]

!!!

[dreamermoa.livejournal.com]

Gio....

[!!!! !!!]

Giovanni! You're back!

[Voice]

[postasskicking.livejournal.com]

... ... ...

[That, makes him concerned. And maybe empathetic in a way he's not likely to admit. Very quiet:]

Someone coming to get you?

[video]

[bossyblade.livejournal.com]

[ A gasp followed by the dropping of the communicator. A woman can be seen out of the corner of the camera's eye. Her lovely face is pale, drawn, utterly terrified and shocked with sadness. ]

F-father?

[ The cruelty of this place...will she keep continuing to see these 'living' ghosts? It is a mark of the Assassin she has become that she forces away her distress, approaching and picking up the device again. ]

Giovanni Auditore da Firenze... is that you mio padre or merely a specter of my memory?

(shaky) italian.

[eroslegy.livejournal.com]

Sir? Are you alright?

[ video ]

[isolatedpiece.livejournal.com]

You're back.. [ She sort of wants to ask if he's alright, but.. the feed already gives it away, doesn't it? So there's just a short pause in which Ange hesitates. ]

It's.. probably better to get inside. Do you need help?

/arrives on the late bus

[silent-feathers.livejournal.com]

... Giovanni!

[The sound that emitted from her love was so foreign to her ears that it causes her heart to skip a beat and threaten to cease beating all together. Her eyes scan over his entire body to be sure that he had no bodily injures... that is until she saw the distinct red mark that bruised against his neck. The air was literally knocked right out of her and it took her a moment to recover before speaking again.]

I... I will call on your sons to find you. Just stay where you are...