Fanfic / Nothing Is True

An Ancient Brotherhood and an Ancient Cult brought the world to destruction and Humanity to the edge of extinction, but some few yet lived, encased in two miles of rotating metal above their ashen homeworld. A century later this last refuge is dying...and one girl is willing to do whatever it takes to save it.

Nothing Is True (Save For The Blood We've Shed) is a Assassin's Creed and The 100 crossover written by Shadows of Vanity, author of Because Of The War, Seraphim (Worm), and Herald (Worm), and a rewrite of the original story.

The story can be read on Archive of Our Own here, and can be read on Fanfiction Dot Net here.

Please keep all posted tropes to the rewritten version to prevent confusion between the two stories.

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This work contains examples of:

• Action Girl:
  • Clarke hasn't had to fight just yet, but Kane (Head of Ark Security) thinks of her as his protégé and expresses no doubts about her ability to survive on the ground until the rest of the Arkers can join her.
  • As of Chapter Nine, Clarke and Costia teamed up to kill four Mountain Men in close combat. Clarke won, but was injured by her second enemy.
  • Costia, who in canon may or may not have been a warrior, is in this story the most experienced and highest-ranking Scout in the Coalition, routinely going out on quiet missions for Lexa. However, it is acknowledged in-story by several characters that while she is competent in a straight fight, it is not where her talents lie.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: While in canon Clarke is 'only' the daughter of two members of the Ark Council, here she is the great-granddaughter of General of the Armies Alexia Griffin, the person who led the Assassins and their allies against the Templars and the nations subverted by their ancient enemies and the mastermind behind Project ARK. This affords her family greater respect than in canon, to the degree that Jake Griffin's execution comes dangerously close to causing a mutiny.
• Adaptational Sexuality:
  • A few female characters who in canon never showed any interest in women do in this fic. They include Raven, Octavia, and Ontari.
  • In canon Zoe Monroe's sexuality was ambiguous, here it’s less ambiguous and does show interest in women.
  • In canon Harper Mcintyre showed no signs of being interested in girls, here she is.
• Adaptational Villainy: Thelonious Jaha, The Chancellor of the Ark, was in canon a man who was in over his head and a self-centered idiot. However, in this story, Jaha is a member of the Templar Order and is deliberately enforcing tyranny in an effort to normalize it before mankind returns home. In fact, he intentionally refused to convince Jake Griffin to remain quiet about the maintenance issue so that he could execute him for Treason. This is because he knew the Griffin's are the descendants of the Assassins.
• Adapted Out: The author felt that certain sci-fi concepts introduced in the later seasons of The 100 didn’t fit in with the shows preestablished worldbuilding so they chose not to include them.
  HistoricalHijinks: An Assassin’s Creed and The 100 crossover, though The 100 is slightly AU…or it was at the time I started, at the End of Season Two. With how bizarre current 100 canon has apparently gotten (fucking body-snatchers? Colony planets? And I’m expected to still believe the early canon stuff showing the Ark was made from current space station technology? Absurd!) it is now very AU, but quite frankly I think that makes it better than canon. Which felt like it was trying to add in as many sci-fi clichés as possible on the principle of ‘throw enough shit at the wall and some will stick’.
  • One such sci-fi concept not being featured are the nightbloods. The author explains why in the ao3 comment section for chapter 6:
    JayAnonymous: Also, does this mean Nightbloods aren't a thing this time around? Honestly I think that's a good choice because i really had NO idea why they had black blood supposedly because of the radiation or maybe i just didnt pay attention enough to the explaination in the show..
    HistoricalHijinks: Correct, there are no Nightbloods. That was one of those things that was a sci-fi trope I feel that came out of nowhere. Something-something genetic engineering because something-something save your brain onto a hard-drive to snatch people's bodies?
    That was a big nope for me. I mean, that kind of thing can be compelling if done well, but The 100 was better when it was a culture-clash post-apocalyptic survival thing.
• Adults Are Useless: Not all of them, but as with canon most of the Ark Council is more interested in keeping secrets about the state of their home from the public than actually fixing the problems. The only reason there is a scouting mission a year before The 100 were sent down in canon is because Clarke shamed and browbeat the Council into sending her alone.
• Affectionate Nickname:
  • Indra and Anya refer to Lexa as their 'Little Blade', something she finds horribly embarrassing but secretly enjoys
  • Costia has several nicknames of varying affection from the populace, the more flattering of which is The Commander's Shadow and the least flattering of which is The Commander's Whore.
• Almost Out of Oxygen: As with canon, The Ark is running out of time, as their environment control systems are collapsing. In an effort to save more lives, Clarke volunteers to go down a year earlier than in canon, alone but well-equipped.
• All Crimes Are Equal: Like canon, all crimes committed on the Ark result in execution, regardless of the circumstances, context, age, or gender of the criminal. The only exception is when a crime is committed by those under eighteen years of age, but even then it is acknowledged that most people are executed when they hit 18 rather than reintegrated into society.
• Ancient Conspiracy: Much like Assassin's Creed canon, the Order of the Knight's Templar existed to try and bring the world under universal, absolute control in order to promote peace. Unlike most examples of this trope, many of them genuinely believe that their success is for the betterment of mankind, rather than out of pursuit for pure power. Unfortunately, it was the Templars (or one of their number, at any rate) who made the nightmarish decision to take the warring between the Assassins and the Templars not only into public (more public, at any rate) but to the nuclear level as well, resulting in the severe depopulation of Earth. Thelonious Jaha is the only known member of the Knight's Templar surviving in story thus far, and privately laments some of the things his forebearers did in the name of their goal.
• Ancient Order of Protectors: The Order of Assassins, like in canon, exist to promote and protect free will for mankind. Little is know about what happened to them during the lead-up to the global war that turned Earth into a primal, radioactive tomb.
• Apocalypse How: Class Two, nearly a Class Three, thanks to the escalation of the conflict between the Knight's Templar and the Assassins into widespread nuclear war. Though there were survivors both on the ground and in space, the human population was reduced by an unquantifiable and staggering amount.
• Hero of Another Story: Alexia Andromeda Griffin, General of the Armies of the United States, Creator and Organizer of PROJECT: ARK and the Founder and First Heda of The Coalition of the Tribes, is stated to be one of these. She is deeply respected on the Ark for her actions ensuring the survival of Mankind during the Final War, and is treated with almost holy reverence by the Grounders. She is explicitly compared to George Washington, 'only more so'.
• Named by the Adaptation:
  • Niylah's full name is Niylah kom Trikru.
  • Costia's full name is Costia kom Trikru.
• Polyamory: Clarke will eventually wind up with (at least) Lexa, Raven, Octavia, Ontari, and Costia.
• Ragnarök Proofing: Averted, most structures on Earth are as rundown as one would expect after a century of neglect and exposure to the elements. Played straight with the bunker that Clarke and Niylah take shelter in with everything inside looking just as pristine as if it was made yesterday.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Dante Wallace, at least in his own opinion, is one of these. He fully acknowledges that the things he does to the Grounders is immoral, but considers his duty to preserve the people within Mount Weather of higher importance than morality.

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