Day 18: Favorite Protagonist
Ezio Auditore (Assassin's Creed 2)
A game where you parkour your way around 15th century Italy stabbin' unsuspecting mopes and occasionally hanging out with Leonardo DaVinci is cool enough on it's own, but Assassin's Creed II actually tells a really good story, centered around it's tragic hero (maybe anti-hero?) Ezio. Within the first few minutes of the game, Ezio's father and brother are framed and hanged in the public square. The game follows Ezio for the next two decades of his life as he tries to uncover the plot the conspiracy that brought his family down. Whoever his voice actor is does an excellent job giving the character a distinctive sound while putting genuine emotion into the lines and making the Italian sound authentic. It's great seeing the character transition from loudmouth street rat to methodical assassin, though they never take all of the humanity out of the character either. They could have easily just make him like Frank Miller's (recent) Batman and ad him go around saying "ARRGH! MUST BREAK SPINES" the entire time, but he has a lot of humor throughout, not to mention bro hugs. Even before the character reappeared in the sequel Brotherhood, (which I haven't played yet) there was a ton of Ezio fanart and cosplay floating around the internet. You can put him on a pretty short list of characters that have reached that sort of universal recognition of badassery so quickly.
Next: Day 19: A picture of a game setting in which you'd like to live
gotta deliberate that one a bit
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