History Fanfic / SmugglersRedemption

* ShesGotLegs: Lia De Russo. Malfatto lampshades it.

* AnAxeToGrind: Here Malfatto uses a hatchet as his primary weapon in place of a syringe.

* HotBlooded: Cesare Borgia, who if anything [[UpToEleven is even worse here than in the actual game.]]

* KnifeNut: Malfatto's other main weapon here. Also Cahin and Caha.

An AlternateContinuity Assassins Creed fan-fiction that is essentially a "what if...?" scenario in which Ezio Auditore da Firenze chooses to spare one of his targets, the Smuggler Lia De Russo, and the ensuing adventures Lia has as a result, namely joining the Assassins undercover alongside fellow Templar agent Il Lupo while simultaneously being preyed upon by the notorious Malfatto.

The author of the Fan-Fiction, Creator/{{AzureSpider}}, has also written several other fan-fictions, some of which have pages on this site: ''FanFic/TheHammerAndTheRings'' and ''FanFic/SpiderManDownfall''.

-->'''Cahin''': [[ShoutOut Admit it:]] [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice You can't look away.]] [[EvilLaugh HAHAAHAHAH!!]]

* CanonForeigner: Luigi

* NoSenseOfHumor: Surprisingly subverted with Machiavelli.

* OneOfTheBoys: Lia De Russo has definite shades of it.
* ParentalAbandonment: Lia and Il Lupo have both suffered this.
* PsychoForHire: Malfatto and Cahin.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Lia De Russo.

** [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice "Admit it: you can't look away. HAHAHAHAHA!"]]

* WellExcuseMePrincess: Il Lupo's relationship with Lia.

* WouldntHitAGirl: Ezio himself here, allowing him to spare Lia.

* NotSoDifferent: Malfatto tries to play this card on Il Lupo in Chapter 6.

The author of the Fan-Fiction, AzureSpider, has also written several other fan-fictions, some of which have pages on this site: ''FanFic/TheHammerAndTheRings'' and ''FanFic/SpiderManDownfall''.

-->[[spoiler: '''Il Lupo''': "Lia, I've been thinking really, and…I don't think there's anything for me after death. If there is any greater power out there, I don't think he cares about people like you and me…Lia…I don't want to die in this war"]]

** ButIReadABookAboutIt: All of which came from The Barber's notes on them from watching actual Assassins on the hunt, as well as the Barber and the Courtesan’s specific instructions to him on how to pretend to be an assassin.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Played with. While Il Lupo admits that he has long since abandoned his intentions to betray the Assassins and destroy them from within, he also knows that he will never fully be one and is also not prepared to fully embrace the Assassin’s ideology, due in part to his slight cynicism on how he doubts that the Assassins will be able to win. Played just a bit more straight with Lia De Russo, but like Il Lupo, she ultimately does not embrace the Assassins ways in full]]

-->'''Francesco''': "Well, this is definitely not good news…"

* TheTease: Il Lupo to Lia de Russo, whom he [[AffectionateNickname affectionately calls “bella donna.”]]

* ADayInTheLimelight / HeroOfAnotherStory: Lia De Russo and Il Lupo obviously.

* [[spoiler: BabiesEverAfter]]
* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: The Templars manage to destroy the Assassins island base, but fortunately many of the Assassins, including Lia and Il Lupo are able to escape with their lives and find temporary residence in Faustina Collari's hideout]].

* [[spoiler: BecomingTheMask: Played with. While Il Lupo admits that he has long since abandoned his intentions to betray the Assassins and destroy them from within, he also knows that he will never fully be one and is also not prepared to fully embrace the Assassin’s ideology, due in part to his slight cynicism on how he doubts that the Assassins will be able to win. Played just a bit more straight with Lia De Russo, but like Il Lupo, she ultimately does not embrace the Assassins ways in full]]

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Lia De Russo and Il Lupo manage to escape Rome together and get to live a new life together with their son, but this is after being framed to look like traitors and having to kill some vengeful Assassins in self-defense. Not to mention that the Assassin's island base got destroyed earlier too.]]

* [[spoiler: ChildrenAreInnocent: Lia De Russo and Il Lupo's son Figlio Di Lupo in the epilogue]]
* CloudCuckooLander / TalkativeLoon: Cahin tends to babble nonsense that makes sense only to him. Whether or not it is solely for the purpose of disorienting his enemies is unclear.

* DarkAndTroubledPast / FreudianExcuse: Both Lia De Russo and Il Lupo have these, as revealed in Chapters 6 and 8 respectively. The latter of which even lampshades this by being called "Innocent Beginnings".
** Averted with Malfatto though.

* DarkIsEvil: Malfatto

* DeadlyDoctor: Malfatto obviously.

* TheDreaded: Malfatto.

* {{Jerkass}}: Cesare Borgia.

* TheJuggernaut: Verulo Gallo

* [[spoiler: OldFriend: Everline Guerra and Lia De Russo have history with one another as it turns out, having often worked together back when they were both Templars.]]
* OneManArmy: Verulo Gallo.

* BiggerBad: Cesare Borgia, since he's the one the main villain of the story (Malfatto) answers to.

* ManInWhite: The Assassins obviously.

* WomanInWhite: Lia De Russo becomes this after joining the assassins, though there’s also a lot of red and brown in her outfit too.

** The title of Chapter 13, [[Literature/TheQuestForKarla "Doctor, Prowler, Smuggler, Spy."]]

** [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings "No matter what comes through that gate, you will stand your ground"!]]

** The character Luigi, who used to be Mario Auditore's valet before becoming Ezios. [[SuperMarioBros An ally of Marios named Luigi]]

** [[StarTrek Damn it Cesare I'm a Doctor not a soldier of fortune!"]]

** [[Film/{{Batman}} "You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?"]]

* GenreSavvy: Machiavelli.

** The title of Chapter 13, [[TinkerTailorSoldierSpy "Doctor, Prowler, Smuggler, Spy."]]

* {{Badass}}: Plenty to go around of course, with Il Lupo and Verulo Gallo being the two biggest ones.

The author of the Fan-Fiction, AzureSpider, has also written several other fan-fictions, some of which have pages on this site: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/TheHammerAndTheRings and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/SpiderManDownfall

** [[ReturnOfTheKing "No matter what comes through that gate, you will stand your ground"!]]

** Averted hard with Malfatto though.

->[[spoiler: '''Il Lupo''': "Lia, I've been thinking really, and…I don't think there's anything for me after death. If there is any greater power out there, I don't think he cares about people like you and me…Lia…I don't want to die in this war"]]

->'''Cahin''': [[ShoutOut Admit it:]] [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice You can't look away.]] [[EvilLaugh HAHAAHAHAH!!]]

->'''Francesco''': "Well, this is definitely not good news…"
->'''Machiavelli''': "Well Francesco, you've just proven to have a remarkable talent for understatement"
* DeadlyDoctor: Malfatto obviously

* DefrostingIceQueen: Lia De Russo to Il Lupo

* TheDreaded: Malfatto

** [[spoiler: Apparently Eveline Guerra fitting this trope is why she left the Templars]]

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: [[spoiler: Il Lupo (The Wolf) has a son named...Son of Wolf]]
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Il Lupo kills Verulo Gallo by stabbing him through the slit of his visor with his hidden blade]]

->[[spoiler: '''Cahin''': Good show my boy, good show]]

* FinalBattle: Lia and Malfatto have theirs in Chapter 13. [[spoiler: It ends with Malfatto dead]]
* GenreSavvy: Machiavelli
* GoodScarsEvilScars: [[spoiler: Cahin leaves Il Lupo with a long scar across his face before Il Lupo manages to run him through]]
* GoodFeelsGood: Lia realizing this is what finally prompts her HeelFaceTurn

* HeelFaceTurn: The entire premise of the story is Lia De Russo having this. [[spoiler: Several other Templars do too, namely Il Lupo, Faustina Collari, and Eveline Guerra]]

* HighHeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Of the Four Templar agents who defect, only one of them (Il Lupo) is male. Averted with Fiora Cavazza and Caha though, both of whom prove to be villains to the very end]]
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Subverted with Fiora Cavazza. See JerkWithAHeartOfJerk

* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Il Lupo to Malfatto
->'''Il Lupo''': If you touch her, I'll cut you open!
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: How Cahin dies, courtesy of Il Lupo]]

* InTheHood: Lia, Il Lupo, and the entire Assassins Brotherhood
* {{Jerkass}}: Cesare Borgia

* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler: Here we see that Seraffo deliberately meant to honor Malfatto by becoming a second doctor]]

* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler: Lia De Russo's son "Figlio Di Lupo" means "Son of Wolf"]]

* MonsterClown: Cahin and Caha of course
* MoodKiller: Pretty much Luigi's main role

* NoSenseOfHumor: Surprisingly subverted with Machiavelli
* NotSoDifferent: Malfatto tries to play this card on Il Lupo in Chapter 6

* OneManArmy: Verulo Gallo

* PsychoForHire: Malfatto and Cahin
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Lia De Russo
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Seraffo goes on one of these against the Assassins after Malfatto's death, becoming a new Doctor in the process]]
* SarcasmMode: Occasionally employed by [[DeadpanSnarker Machiavelli]]
* SerialKiller: Malfatto, who here is a serial killer of women in general, instead of just Courtesans (though they're apparently his favorite victims)

* ShoutOut: Several

** The title of Chapter 13, [[TinkerTailorSoldierSpy "Doctor, Prowler, Smuggler, Spy"]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Lia De Russo obviously. Also [[spoiler: Il Lupo]]. Subverted with [[spoiler: Malfatto though, who does survive Ezio's attempt on his life in the actual game only to die anyway at the end of the story courtesy of Lia]]

->'''Lia De Russo''': Sounds pretty nihilistic to me

* TheTease: Il Lupo to Lia de Russo, whom he [[AffectionateNickname affectionately calls “bella donna”]]

* TokenGoodTeammate: Il Lupo to the Templars
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Lia De Russo and Il lupo both as it turns out, though having said that the latter had a bad habit of stealing ForTheEvulz as a kid.
* WellExcuseMePrincess: Il Lupo's relationship with Lia

* ArmorIsUseless: Averted hard with Verulo Gallo, who's armor allows him to take an obscene amount of punishment before finally going down.

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Besides the standard Hidden Blades, there's also Lia De Russo and Il Lupo's unique variations of the weapons.

* [[spoiler: ChildrenAreInnocent: Lia De Russo and Il Lupo's daughter Figlio Di Lupo in the epilogue]]
* CloudCuckooLander / TalkativeLoon: Cahin tends to babble nonsense that makes sense only to him.

* ADayInTheLimelight / HeroOfAnotherStory: Lia De Russo obviously.
* ActionGirl: Lia De Russo herself, though she starts out as more of a DarkActionGirl

[[spoiler: ->'''Il Lupo''': "Lia, I've been thinking really, and…I don't think there's anything for me after death. If there is any greater power out there, I don't think he cares about people like you and me…Lia…I don't want to die in this war"]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Il Lupo and Machiavelli

* FauxAffablyEvil: Malfatto

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Averted. Here Malfatto does not use his syringe due to the fact that syringes did not actually exist back then. Instead he uses what doctors ''really'' used back then [[FreakierThanFiction and is much scarier as a result]].

* LeftForDead: [[spoiler: Il Lupo by Fiora Cavazza]]

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Averted twice. First Illario Lombardi does indeed try to shoot Lia De Russo, but fails. Later, [[spoiler: Lia De Russo takes the opportunity to shoot Malfatto and kill him for good]]

* TheMentor: Malfatto to a younger, Pre-Ottoman Doctor Seraffo, explaining how he came to be what he is in Revelations.

* DarkisEvil: Malfatto

* WellExcuseMePrincess: Il Lupo's relationship with Lia