NAME: Ezio Auditore CANON: Assassin's Creed POINT IN CANON: June 26, 1488 - After Ezio's been inducted into the Brotherhood and been charged with watching over the Apple. No pressure. (Sequence 11's Play Along) AGE: 29 APPEARANCE:
Ezio is of average height and toned build. He typically can be found in his armor and white assassin robes + cape because he's such a fashionista as you know he do. He also usually has a small arsenal on him - hidden blades, sword, dagger, throwing knives, smoke bombs, poison, crossbow, hidden pistol, etc. Ezio at this age is clean-shaven and keeps his hair tied back regardless of whether his hood is up or down. The other noticeable feature about him is a vertical scar on the corner of his mouth. (in-game character model)
Prior to the death of his family, Ezio lived a relatively carefree lifestyle. He was popular all around with a number of loyal friends and held in high regard by women. He was also fiercely loyal and protective of his family, having a strong bond to his parents and siblings. Betrayal, murder, and conspiracy, however, have stripped Ezio of his carefree attitude and forced him to inherit responsibilities he knew nothing about. But Ezio has not lost everything. Through his training, Ezio has learned to be more in control of his emotions - particularly his hot-blooded temper - and likewise learned to be more thoughtful (stopping to ask questions) and less impulsive. He's also never lost the bond of loyalty to his family throughout the years, using that as a source of strength alongside the Creed.
At the beginning of Ezio's training, anger and a thirst for revenge guided his blade and his actions. He didn't care so much about why his family had been betrayed, his brothers and father murdered, but the simple fact that they were. Ezio was rash with a hair-trigger temper, pushed easily by Vieri de' Pazzi's final words into disrespecting his corpse. The more Ezio learned, however, the less and less revenge drove him from target to target. Because Ezio is still a passionate man, he's prone to his temper from time to time if the right buttons are pushed (namely anything to do with his family). However, he has learned to exercise control over it and does not let his emotions get the better of him quite as easily as they once did. He is able to show mercy to the conspirators and does not extend their suffering once he has struck. Part of the reason Ezio began exerting control over his emotions is because over time, Ezio also came to realize the importance of the work Assassins such as his father had dedicated their whole lives towards. He gradually began to see it less as a choice and more as a duty he could not walk away from any more than he could walk away from his family. The further his understanding went, the more he came to realize that he needed more than just physical discipline.
He also realized that he needed mental discipline. Ezio knows that he is far in over his head and he also knows that his father's work has barely begun to scratch the surface. He knows that everything goes beyond his desire for revenge and this matter will shape the world he knows for good or for ill depending on the outcome. Over time, Ezio has learned to be more thoughtful and ask more questions at least to himself if not others. Although he has not quite yet reached the maturity in this regard that he will eventually reach as Mentor to the Italian Brotherhood, this is the beginning. He stops focusing on eliminating each target one by one and tries to discern information/motivation from each of them as he gets closer and closer to Rodrigo Borgia. Ezio is beginning coming to his own understanding of the Creed - nothing is true and everything is permitted - that will carry him through the rest of his life. He stands against everything the Templars envision for the world and fights against them to protect the personal freedoms and individuality of humanity. Even as young as he is, Ezio is capable of befriending most anyone because, despite being a nobleman, he doesn't automatically look his nose down on anyone for being different. If anything, Ezio has come to value the differences among people because it offers new perspectives and means of accomplishing things together. This is the basis in which Ezio will eventually strengthen and rebuild the Brotherhood in Italy in the years to come. As it stands now, it is somewhat unrefined and he does not have the leadership experience to fully bring it altogether, but the seeds are there.
As far as how Ezio is on an interpersonal level, he is still very much the charmer. He flirts playfully with women, he still understands and appreciates a joke. Ezio is also a loyal friend to those that accept his friendship. He will do whatever is necessary to keep the people he cares about safe from harm and that is especially true of his family. (But more on that in a bit.) People, generally, take to Ezio very quickly as a result. But there is also a time and place for behavior like that. No longer a child, Ezio understands the difference. When the need arises, he focuses. And Ezio's focus is truly a force of nature once he does begin to focus. He's incredibly tenacious and determined once his mind is settled on something. Nowadays, he tries to think through a problem a little bit before tackling it - now that some of his impulsivity/anger has taken a backseat - making it so that he typically doesn't have to try, try again. But if he has to try again? You bet your ass he will get right back on that saddle and try again.
As far as family is concerned, Ezio is still incredibly loyal to his family. As mentioned before, his family is still somewhat of a hot button issue for him and taunting him too much will cause him to let emotion take over. Harming his remaining family will result in the same. One his first priorities will always be to ensure the safety of his mother and sister as Ezio is still the overprotective brother to Claudia and the dutiful son to his mother. He tries to do right by his father by continuing his legacy and trying to dismantle the Templar Order while solving the mysteries of the past. He also tries to help his mother through her depression by remembering his younger brother, Petruccio, and continuing to collect eagle feathers throughout Italy. Lastly, although his uncle Mario is family, Ezio was not immediately so respectful towards him or necessarily adhered to what he said. However, Mario has become a mentor-figure for Ezio, not as a replacement for his father, but somewhat as a substitute. It's through his uncle Mario that Ezio has learned the most about his heritage, his duty, and the Creed.
So, to sum it all up, Ezio was once on a different path than he finds himself on today. He thought his father was merely a banker and had no idea of the secret war that was being fought every day between Templars and Assassins. He still can sometimes allow his emotions to overtake his judgment as he remains a passionate man, but he has learned to exert far better control than he had in the beginning. Family is one of the most important things in this world to Ezio and he would do anything to keep them safe, to avenge them, or to remember their memory. He is a loyal friend, open to and fully willing to embrace differences, and a flirt when it comes to the ladies. He's come to have a basic understanding of the Creed that will only deepen as he gets older as he continues the fight to protect the free will of humanity from the dominance of the Templar Order.
Ezio Auditore ⇌ Assassin's Creed ⇌ 2/?