Bleeding Effect

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{{Quote|Prolonged exposure to the Animus caused a 'Bleeding Effect' within Subject Sixteen's genetic structure. The result was a blending of genetic and real-time memory.|[[Lucy Stillman]]'s e-mail to [[Warren Vidic]]}}

The bleeding effect is a disorder caused by overexposure to the [[Animus]], suggested by [[Lucy Stillman]] to be similar to 'certain forms of multiple personality and delusional disorders'. With increasing exposure, subjects begin to experience a blending of their own real-time memories and their genetic memories, leading to difficulty in distinguishing the two, and ultimately mental breakdown. The effect is suffered notably by [[Subject 16]] and [[Desmond Miles]].

[[File:Crypticmessages.jpg|thumb|Due to the bleeding effect, Desmond develops the ability to use [[Eagle Vision]], allowing him to see [[Subject 16]]'s [[Cryptic Messages]].]]

==Symptoms==
{{Quote|Though the specific symptoms may vary from subject to subject, the end result is the same: they lose their minds.|[[Lucy Stillman]]'s email to [[Warren Vidic]]}}

*'''Desmond''' gains the fighting and free-running abilities of his ancestors, as well as the ability to use [[Eagle Vision]]. This is followed by hallucinations; in [[Assassin's Creed II]], Desmond is told that as long as the visions are shorter than thirty seconds, "he'll be fine". They start out ghost-like and indistinct, but become longer and more vivid, at one point causing Desmond to black out.
*'''Subject 16''', known as an extreme case, is seldom described before his breakdown. In his messages to Desmond through the [[Glyph|glyphs]], he has difficulty remembering who he is and what year it is; however, he thinks clearly enough to keep the goal of revealing [[The Truth]] in mind, and to leave messages and clues to do so. He becomes increasingly obsessed with this, leading him to drain his own blood to write with.

==Assassin's Creed==
The bleeding effect is at first only hinted at, with [[Lucy]] and [[Vidic]] implying that using the Animus for prolonged periods was dangerous. Later, Lucy's [[Vidic's E-mail|email to Vidic]] describes it in much more detail: having been forced to use the Animus for days at a time, Subject 16 gradually became unable to control the bleeding effect, and was driven to insanity by the genetic memories he experienced outside the Animus. Eventually, after writing [[cryptic messages|warnings]] to future subjects in his own blood, Subject 16 committed suicide.

Meanwhile, by the end of [[Assassin's Creed]] the bleeding effect is starting to show it's side-effects with Desmond, allowing him to use [[Eagle Vision]] outside of the Animus.

==Assassin's Creed II==
After their escape from [[Abstergo]], Lucy attempts to use the bleeding effect to train Desmond as an [[Assassin]] much more quickly than would otherwise be possible. He is quickly able to learn skills such as [[Free Running]] in the Animus by following the life of [[Ezio]]. The bleeding effect gets progressively worse and Desmond begins to hallucinate about his other ancestor [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad|Altaïr]], who he recollected memories from in the first Animus. This allowed him to see how Altaïr chasing Maria up to a tower, where the conception of their child happened. Despite the side-effects Desmond continues to use the Animus.

Subject 16, apparently able to see [[Abstergo]]'s past plots through the bleeding effect, leaves an intricate trail of evidence through the memories of his and Desmond's common ancestor, Ezio.

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