User blog comment:The Crimson Eagle/Assassins' Poll XXXVI/@comment-4685497-20130116065641/@comment-1888015-20130116082819

I don't find Connor's story sad. I just find him an immensly stupid person.

All of his downfalls are of his own making, because he never stopped to actually think.

He never asked why Charles Lee and the others came to his village, he just assumed they were there to burn it down. Granted, that was quite understandable given his knocked out state, but nothing stopped him from talking to the Clan Mother.

Then, he mindlessly follows Juno's instructions, merely because he saw her in a crystal ball. He never questions what her objectives were, and that sets him on a path that would ultimately bite him in the ass.

He learns all about the Templars, and even considers an alliance with his father. However, if it were someone else, he'd have slaughtered them because his sole aim was to kill all the Templars, despite knowing that the Templar Order's goals are of peace, just like the Assassins, but they aim to achieve it in another way.

Stick Copernicus in front of Ezio? Ezio would see that Copernicus was a good person at heart even though he was a Templar, so he defended him against the Borgia, and Copernicus became an ally of the Assassins later on. What about Connor? He'd rush in with his tomahawk and decapitate the man, all because "Templar."

Connor was then led around like a pawn of the Continental Army, even doing the hard work for them, despite him being described as an Assassin who favors no sides. He didn't need to chauffeur Paul Revere around (that smarmy asshole), he could have said "Just tell me where Pitcairn is." and went off to go deal with him.

I personally felt like the game was as one-sided as the marketers hyped it up to be, because the only person I actually liked as a character in the Continental Army was Lafayette.