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- Decoy Protagonist: Though he is the protagonist for the majority of the game, after his assembly of the Brotherhood, the story shifts toward Aya, given she is more intent on a wider sweeping goal than Bayek's "keep Egypt, and only Egypt safe from tyrants" approach. In fact, he seems opposed to the idea of spreading influence through foreign channels, leading to his separation from Aya.
While I do agree Aya has the lions' share of the decisions that shape the Assassins historically, the story is without a doubt Bayek's. It's Bayek who kills the majority of the order. It's Bayek who brings togheter the assassins, and it's Bayek whom the assassins emulate, cutting their finger in a sign of belief in his cause. And while he doesn't form the idea of the assassins as a grander cause as fast Aya does, he still goes on board VERY rapidly and does help form the creed. It's Bayek who constantly warns Aya that she cannot put her trust in rulers to make the world a better place. And perhaps more importantly, most the main plot is Bayek's story of how he deals with his grief over his son, learns to let it go and turn it into something grander. It's why Khemu features in both the first major post-assassination sequence the player does, and the last one with Flavius, where Bayek has to give up his grief and rage and Khemu symbolically leaves him.
Aya and Bayek certainly are Deuteragonists, but Bayek isn't a Decoy Protagonist.
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I think that he transitions to Deuteragonist immediately after he creates the Order, as Aya takes up the role of actually fighting the Order, whereas he's just concentrated on his son. Mainly in how he basically quits on the story after the fall of Flavius until the post-credits. It seems that the story culminates more in the origin story of Amunet than him.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that while he takes up the lion's share of the story, it ultimately seems to be that of Aya far more than him, to the point that she's the main focus of the sequel comic. What's the trope for that one?
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With the DLC coming out today, and an even longer DLC in the pipeline, maybe it's time to split the character page into "The Hidden Ones" "The Order of the Ancients" and "Others" ?
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