History Characters / AssassinsCreedUnityTheAssassins

A list of Assassin characters in ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity Assassin's Creed Unity]]''.

A list of Assassin characters in ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity Assassin's Creed Unity]]''. For game-unspecific cast, here's [[Characters/AssassinsCreed the main index]].

'''Be aware that these pages WILL contain some unhidden spoilers!'''

* DrowningMySorrows: [[spoiler: He ends up like this after being expelled from the Assassins in Segment 10.]]

* HisHeartWillGoOn: [[spoiler: Elise dies but considering he has descendants, it seems likely he was eventually able to find love again.]]

** In his MushroomSamba when he joins the Brotherhood, it's shown he blames himself for his father's death, envisioning Charles looking around for him and saying that they should have already left. It's unclear if Arno's running off really did play a role, the hallucination also showed Charles fighting back against his assailant and in ''Rogue'' we see that [[spoiler: Shay took him by surprise.]]

* DisappearedDad: He dies very quickly, leaving Arno to be adopted by the de la Serre family. [[spoiler: The final mission of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue'' reveals that he is in fact killed by Shay Patrick Cormac, which Arno never appears to find out about during the story.]]

** Likewise, he claims the Assassins have done some of their best work after surviving ThePurge, specifically mentioning Masyaf as precedent for [[spoiler: him killing off flawed Assassin leadership.]] He misses the rather critical point that [[spoiler: there were ''two'' Purges at Masyaf and the first one, led by Abbas, almost brought down the entire Brotherhood.]]

* RebelliousRebel: Is quite critical of Mirabeau's truce with the Templars, though his opinion is also shared by some of the other Assassin Council members. [[spoiler: Later invokes this trope as his defense for killing Mirabeau with poison which the other Assassin Council wouldn't cross, but considering they give Arno grief for letting two Master Assassins die on his watch, it's implied that they understand/accept his actions on some level]].

* BrokenStreak: The first player character in the main console series not to be an ancestor of Desmond Miles. He is also the first since Altaïr to have only one Hidden Blade, and to not be a [[WalkingArmory Walking Armory]].

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: He's shown as a great pragmatist and a voice of reason in the Assassin Council and is shown to be the BigGood for the French Revolution. His real-life chicanery with the King, corruption and naked political ambition is not looked at much on-screen. Some historians do believe that had Mirabeau lived, France could have avoided the ReignOfTerror, others, usually critics, believe, that had he lived, he would be one of its first victims for his political corruption.

* OnlySaneMan: How he sees his lot. Arno notes that its taking a toll on his physical health.

* {{Pride}}: Perhaps his true flaw. Lafreniere calls him a "self-aggrandizing drunk" and his aloof nature rubbed of Rouille the wrong way, while even his fellow Assassins like Sophie Trenet get yelled at for raising objections at his moderate wait-and-watch approach to the Revolution. This finally leads him to [[spoiler:getting killed by Pierre Bellec when he underestimates how little he wants peace]].

* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:His last words to Shay are to tell him that Connor has undone the Templars plans in the new world, and that the Templars will lose.]]

[[folder: Pierre Bellec]]
!!Pierre Bellec
-->'''Voiced By:''' Anthony Lemke
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->''"Peace with the Templars is a fairy tale!"''

A former soldier who served in the French army during the Seven Years War, Pierre Bellec is a passionate, almost fanatical, Assassin. During the French Revolution, he had sympathies with the Jacobins. He was born and trained in Colonial France and barely avoided the Templar purge of the Colonial Brotherhood.

[[folder: Comte de Mirabeau]]
!!Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Harry Standjofski

Mirabeau was the Mentor of the French Assassins, a nobleman, aristocrat, and the original leader of the UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution. He was a voice of moderation calling for a Constitutional Monarchy and set up a truce between the French Assassins and Templars.

* AristocratsAreEvil: Himself an aversion, he also doesn't hold this belief himself, arguing for a Constitutional Monarchy and being a go-between from the King to the Assembly.
* BadassBoast: A celebrated real-life one:
-->'''Mirabeau:''' If you have orders to remove us from this hall, you must also get authority to use force, [[BringIt for we shall yield to nothing but bayonets]].
* BigGood: For Arno. Even Grand Master de la Serre defends Mirabeau and his alliance with him by citing his character:
--> '''François de la Serre''': Mirabeau is a good man. An honest man.
* CorruptPolitician: He conducted secret deals with the King behind the back of his fellow Assassins and the people of France. The database also states that the King paid off all his debts.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: Accidentally drove Francois Rouille to the Templars when he brushed him away after the Tennis Court Oath. Rouille was impressed by Mirabeau's oratory and wanted to shake his hands. Instead, the new Templar Grandmaster [[spoiler:Francois-Thomas Germain]] brought him into the fold.
* CulturedBadass: Highly educated and well read.
* FlatCharacter: His interactions that we see show him as a warm Mentor type even if Shaun's database and stray comments tell us he's an [[InformedAttribute alcoholic womanizer and corrupt politician]].
* {{Foil}}: He and Grand Master de la Serre have more in common with each other than they do with their colleagues on their own secret societies. It's probably why they form a truce. They both want peace, want to put aside a ForeverWar and work for the greater good, they do so against the desires and objections of fellow Assassins/Templars and [[spoiler:both get killed by extremists in their own organization]].
* FriendlyEnemy: With Grand Master de la Serre. They meet at the Estates-General and immediately call for a truce and both speak highly of each other in private conversations.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The real Mirabeau was one of the co-authors of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and regarded as one of the great figures of the Revolution.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: He's shown as a great pragmatist and a voice of reason in the Assassin Council and is shown to be the BigGood for the French Revolution. His real-life chicanery with the King, corruption and naked political ambition is not looked at much on-screen. Some historians do believe that had Mirabeau lived, France could have avoided the ReignOfTerror, others, usually critics, believe, that had he lived, he would be one of its first victims for his political corruption.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Robespierre, a Templar, gives him one by issuing evidence of his corruption to discredit him publicly. An angry mob later calls for the removal of his remains from the Pantheon under Robespierre's command. [[labelnote:History]] While it is true that Robespierre disliked Mirabeau, and the feeling was mutual, Robespierre later ''voted'' for placing him in the Pantheon along with other deputies. It's only after the revelation of corruption, which was revealed by the Girondins and not Robespierre, that he expressed calls to disinter Mirabeau and ordered his bust destroyed in the Jacobin Club. Despite this, Mirabeau's remains were disinterred ''after'' Robespierre's death and wasn't ordered by him at all.[[/labelnote]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: While criticizing the Royal Family in the Assembly, he also managed to get his debts paid by the Crown. Likewise, he shouts down fellow Assassins on the Council for any objections and criticizes Arno for his RebelliousRebel actions but himself privately pursues his own plan for peace and backroom dealings with the King without discussing it with them.
* KavorkaMan: His bio in Project Widow makes note of his considerable sexual appetite, for which he was constantly imprisoned, sometimes by his father.
* OnlySaneMan: How he sees his lot. Arno notes that its taking a toll on his physical health.
* PragmaticHero: How the game presents Mirabeau, stating that his corruption and secret negotiations with the King was a "dangerous game" intended to shepherd a peaceful revolution.[[labelnote:History]] While this was perhaps true of Mirabeau's real intentions, he greatly overestimated his influence with the King and Queen. At the time Louis XVI was dealing with him, he, via Marie Antoinette, was already planning his escape from the Tuileries. Mirabeau died before that, but the Flight to Varennes, as the event came to be known, permanently tarnished the Constitutional Monarchy that he had sought to build, which put a damper in people's belief that the revolution could happen from the top.[[/labelnote]]
* {{Pride}}: Perhaps his true flaw. Lafreniere calls him a "self-aggrandizing drunk" and his aloof nature rubbed of Rouille the wrong way, while even his fellow Assassins like Sophie Trenet get yelled at for raising objections at his moderate wait-and-watch approach to the Revolution. This finally leads him to [[spoiler:getting killed by Pierre Bellec when he underestimates how little he wants peace]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: For the Assassins and France. He is pretty much the only one on the NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering who seems to know what he's doing, though his aloof nature means that he often rides over their objections and feelings [[spoiler:to his fatal detriment]].
* SurroundedByIdiots: How he feels about France at the time of the Revolution.
--> '''Mirabeau''': For months, I have been wrangling the Brotherhood, the National Assembly and the King. Taken all together, they have the political acumen of an especially stupid village council.

[[folder: Guillaume Beylier]]
!!Guillaume Beylier
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Mzinga Mwinga

Guillaume Beylier was born in Saint-Domingue of a wealthy plantation owner and a slave. Brought to Paris young in part to be freed, he became an Assassin and fought in both the French Revolution and alongside Adéwalé's grandson, Eseosa, in Haiti.

* BadassBaritone: Has a really deep voice.
* {{Expy}}: His background and appearance greatly resemble the portraits of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, general of the French Revolutionary Army and father of Creator/AlexandreDumas. Gaming websites initially had mistaken him for the same. The brief glimpse of Dumas in the Brotherhood mission, "The Tournament" clarifies that the confusion stems from similarity of costume more than anything.
* MixedAncestry: Was the son of a plantation owner and a slave.

[[folder:Hervé Quemar]]
!!Hervé Quemar
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Hervé Quemar was an Assassin and lawyer who kept a low profile during the French Revolution while defending those accused of treason by the Assembly. He was also a member of the Assassin Council.

* BarbarianLonghair: His long hair gives him a rather unkempt appearance.
* CrusadingLawyer: A man of the people type.
* HandicappedBadass: Has a bad heart which he takes aconite for.
* NumberTwo: Appears to play this role for Mirabeau.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: After [[spoiler:Mirabeau]] is murdered, Quemar gives Arno a day to find the murderer before informing the rest of the Assassin Council, who would immediately suspect Elise.
** It's subverted however because he rather unfairly [[spoiler:holds Arno responsible for the deaths of both Mirabeau and Bellec, simply because Arno sought to bring Elise to the Brotherhood for sanctuary, and that Arno killed Bellec after the latter betrayed their Mentor and attacked him first.]]

[[folder: Sophie Trenet]]
!!Sophie Trenet
-->'''Voiced by:''' Mary Katherine Harvey

Sophie Trenet was a French playwright, essayist and pamphleteer. Passionate about the ideals of freedom for oppressed classes, she was also an active Assassin and was instrumental in ushering the second Republic.

* BrainyBrunette: Her appearance and bearing as well as profile convey this.
* DisappointedInYou: Expresses this [[spoiler:to Arno when he repeatedly goes against the council and finally calls for his expulsion, that seems however to have been temporary]].
* {{Expy}}: Her profile and appearance has much in common with Olympe de Gouges.
* LongLived: She looks to be in the Thirties and would be active in 1848, the Second French Republic.
* ProperLady: Her appearance and demeanour.

[[folder: Charlotte Gouze]]
!!Charlotte Gouze

Head of the Café Théâtre, the business front of the French Assassins.
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* TheSpymaster: The Assassin's large network of spies and informants report directly to her with any information or problems that they have, and she then dispatches Assassins to act on what she has learned.
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* {{Foil}}: [[spoiler:To Germain, who turned and betrayed his Grand Master, he wants to take the Assassin back to the active role of the Ezio and Altair days, when they were a decisive shaper of society. Just as Germain wants to follow de Molay's vision, Bellec sees himself following in the footsteps of Altair, Ezio and Connor]].

* RebelliousRebel: Is quite critical of Mirabeau's truce with the Templars, though his opinion is also shared by some of the other Assassin Council members. [[spoiler: Later invokes this trope as his defense for killing Mirabeau with poison which the other Assassin Council wouldn't cross, but considering they give Arno grief for letting two Master Assassins die on his watch, its implied that they understand/accept his actions on some level]].

* SternTeacher: When discussing the Assassination with Charles Gabriel Sivert, he refuses to provide any hand-holding to Arno, telling him that now that he's no longer a young rookie, he must do his assassinations himself, including all the planning and groundwork.

--> '''Pierre Bellec''': Do you think it's the first time this has happened? [[spoiler:The first time the Assassins have been forced to purge their leadership?]] The first time the Order has built itself back up from nothing to power? No. [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI Masyaf]], [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood Monteriggioni]], [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII the American Colonies]]…it's all happened before, and we've risen anew, stronger than ever.

* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: He very seriously recommends this to Arno, telling him that if he can't find a stealthy approach, there is great honour in sacrificing himself for the Assassin cause. Arno looks at him as if he's grown another head:

* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: He very seriously recommends this to Arno. Telling him that if he can't find a stealthy approach, there is great honour in sacrificing himself for the Assassin cause. Arno looks at him as if he's grown another head:

* {{Foil}}: [[spoiler:To Germain, who turned and betrayed his Grand Master, he wants to take the Assassin back to the active role of the Ezio and Altair days, when they were a decisive shaper of society. Just as Germain wants to follow de Molay's vision, Bellec sees himself following in the footsteps of Altair, Ezio and Connor]].
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Is every bit as bad as Germain was by the end.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Cites Connor's destruction of the Templars in North America as a source of inspiration even though Connor originally tried to reach out to the Templars and end their aeon long feud peacefully (i.e. the same thing that Bellec thinks is stupid) and that Connor only resorted to force after the Templars (more specifically his father) tried to exploit it.
** Likewise, he claims the Assassins have done some of their best work after surviving ThePurge, specifically mentioning Masyaf as precedent for [[spoiler: him killing off flawed Assassin leadership.]] He misses the rather critical point that [[spoiler: there were ''two'' Purges at Masyaf and the first one, led by Abbas, almost brought down the entire Brotherhood.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The subject of this InUniverse: Shaun Hastings notes in Bellec's Database entry that the surest way to get Assassin Historians to fight each other is to say [[spoiler:"Bellect was right" or "Bellec was wrong" in his efforts to purge and reform the French Assassins]].

* {{Badass}}: He's an Assassin and [[spoiler:we get glimpses of him fighting in Bellec's death montage]].

* {{Badass}}: He's a career soldier and a Master Assassin. [[spoiler:And he gives Arno a beast of a fight]].

* {{Badass}}: A Master Assassin.

* {{Badass}}: As expected from a Master Assassin.

* {{Foil}}: [[spoiler:To Germain, who turned and betrayed his Grand Master, he wants to take the Assassin back to the active role of the Ezio and Altair days, when they were a decisive shaper of society. Just like Germain wants to follow Molay's vision, Bellec sees himself following in the footsteps of Altair, Ezio and Connor]].

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: He's shown as a great pragmatist and a voice of reason in the Assassin Council and is shown to be the BigGood for the French Revolution. His real-life chicanery with the King, corruption and naked political ambition is not looked at much. Some historians do believe that had Mirabeau lived, France could have avoided the ReignOfTerror, others, usually critics, believe, that had he lived, he would be one of its first victims for his political corruption.

* ConflictingLoyalties: Not only is he in love with a Templar, his Order's sworn enemy, he was unknowingly raised by the French Templar Grandmaster before he was murdered. [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Since the latter is the former's father,]] it's got an [[TheParagonAlwaysRebels interesting twist.]] He ultimately proves to be more loyal to Elise than the Brotherhood, prompting [[spoiler:Bellec to kill him and the Brotherhood to kick him out]].

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Cites Connor's destruction of the Templars in North America as a source of inspiration even though Connor originally tried to reach out to the Templars and end their aeon long feud peacefully (i.e. the same thing that Bellec thinks is stupid) and that Connor only resorted to force after the Templars (more specifically his father) tried to exploit it.

* [[spoiler: ClimaxBoss: He's a proper full-on boss fight (which is uncommon for the newer games in the series), and is fought towards the climax of the story, though you of course have a final confrontation with Germain (who's more of a PuzzleBoss) some time later.]]

* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: He's a firm Jacobin partisan and believes that the Assassin cause is just, described to be a fanatic, and shows himself repeatedly to be a war hawk who wants nothing to do with actual peace with the Templars. [[spoiler:In the game proper, he believes that any peace with the Templars is folly and goes as far as to kill his Mentor, Mirabeau, to achieve his aims]].

* TheAlcoholic: He likes to drink when he's feeling very low, [[spoiler:such as confronting Elise after the Bastille where she tells him to go away and then later after being scorned again by Elise and the Assassins. He spends weeks drinking it up and earned a reputation for being the "town drunk" at Versailles.]]

-->'''Voiced By:''' Mark Bonnar

* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a rather prominent scar on his nose.