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Lucy Stillman	Desmond Miles	William Miles

~~♥♥♥♥♥~~ — you're awful, i love you —	♦♦♦ — does it trouble your mind the way you trouble mine? —	♦♦♦♦♦ — Flavor Text —
Lucy betrayed him. She betrayed him and he knows it, and to an extent he even knows why. He cared about Lucy, and he protected her as best as he could. On one hand, he feels like he failed at the whole protection thing. On the other hand... well, she still betrayed him. His thoughts on Lucy are best summed up with 'it's complicated'. He still cares about her and he's still upset that she opted to trap him in Abstergo rather than help him escape, but he's an Assassin and she's a Templar and he doesn't think the two of them can bridge the gap between their fundamentally different believes. He doesn't trust her anymore, and he probably never will again.	A fellow Assassin and a fellow prisoner of Abstergo. Clay first 'introduced' himself to Desmond by tearing open his wrists and using his blood to paint symbols all over the walls of Desmond's future prison. He died in the process but left further messages for his successor to discover later on. And within these messages were encoded pieces of an AI reconstruction of Clay himself. This AI was Clay's only means of living on and it was all up to Desmond to put the program together and give Clay a second chance. Oh, and when Desmond eventually slipped into a coma and needed to be protected from the Animus' attempts to delete the two of them, Clay ended up giving up his life a second time to protect Desmond. He's put a lot of faith in Desmond's ability to succeed at saving the world, and sacrificed a lot in order to help him, and dying twice isn't going to curb that drive to assist the younger Assassin.	Desmond's father and the current de facto leader of the Assassin Order. Even though he's a distant, cold, unfeeling, and very difficult man to work with, Clay as a tremendous amount of respect for William. Old Bill is the one that recruited Clay to the Assassins when Clay had no direction in his life, the one that gave him the opportunity to do something more with his life, the way Clay had always wanted. He followed William's orders willingly and maybe even a little blindly. Clay puts a lot of trust in William and he's willing to go through a lot of dangerous situations because the man deems it best for the Order.