Clay Kaczmarek

2010-09-09T18:28:00Z

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}}{{Quote|Why do we have these gifts, these abilities? Because it's in our blood! […] The seeds were planted as two world became one. Behold the Assassins, the children of two worlds!|[[Subject Sixteen]]|Assassin's Creed II}}

'''Subject 16''' was an individual kidnapped by [[Abstergo Industries]] and forced into the [[Animus]] before [[Desmond Miles]]. A descendant of [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]], he was also related to [[Desmond Miles]]. It is also revealed that he had an ancestor at the Battle of Gettysburg, in the Roman forum and connected with a Queen Isabella<ref name="Assassin's Creed II">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>.

==Biography==
===Life At Abstergo===
The individual known only as Subject 16 was captured by the [[Knights Templar|Templar]]-front organization [[Abstergo Industries]] at some point in 2012 for use in the genetic memory recall program<ref name="Assassin's Creed" />. Held within the [[Abstergo Laboratory]] at all times by [[Warren Vidic]], 16 was kept connected to the [[Animus]] for dangerously long periods, sometimes even days at a time<ref name="Assassin's Creed II" />. This led to 16 suffering from a severe condition known as the "[[Bleeding effect|bleeding effect]]"<ref name="Assassin's Creed" />.

Suffering the bleeding effect, 16 began to explore the memories of his ancestors without the use of the Animus <ref name="Assassin's Creed II" />, however his inability to actually control these visions forced Subject 16 into a downward spiral of insanity, eventually culminating in his suicide<ref name="Assassin's Creed II" />.

Before his death, 16 was forced by Abstergo to explore the memories of an ancestor named [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]]<ref name="Assassin's Creed II" />, who the Templars knew had located [[the Vault]] during his lifetime<ref name="Assassin's Creed II" />; 16 never relived the memories of his ancestor visiting the Vault. Draining his body of its blood to paint several [[cryptic messages]] upon the floor and walls of the [[Abstergo Laboratory]],<ref name="Assassin's Creed II" /> 16 committed suicide to prevent the Templars reaching their goals.

===Legacy===
Following his death, the Templars were left without the location of the [[Vault]], but the knowledge that an ancestor of Ezio’s – [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]] – had once held a [[Piece of Eden]]. Knowing this, [[Abstergo]] kidnapped yet another descendant of Ezio and Altaïr, [[Desmond Miles]]. During his incarceration, Desmond spoke often with Dr. Vidic’s assistant [[Lucy Stillman]] about many things, including his predecessor; accessing private e-mails, he learned even more<ref name="Assassin's Creed" />. Later still, following Desmond’s escape from Abstergo and the beginning of his journeys through the memories of Ezio Auditore the [[Assassins#Known assassins|Assassins]] learned that Subject 16 had managed to hack the Abstergo Animus before his death, and placed twenty encrypted files, called [[glyphs]], throughout the Animus' rendering of the memories. These hacks were saved onto the Abstergo Animus' memory core, which Lucy had taken in order to gain details and memory sequences on [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]], and from there, onto [[Rebecca Crane]]'s Animus 2.0<ref name="Assassin's Creed II" />.

After decrypting all twenty files, the assassins were rewarded with a genetic memory dated "date classified BCE". The video, shows two [[free-running|free-runners]] climbing a large glass structure, Piece of Eden in hand; before referring to one another as [[Adam and Eve]]<ref name="Assassin's Creed II" />.

==Trivia==
*In the non-canon [[Assassin’s Creed - French Graphic Novel]], Subject 16 appears alive and is referred to as "Michael".
*Many of the Glyphs have hidden messages in them. All of the decoded ones are stated in the [[Glyphs]] page.

==Notes and references==
Subject 16 may be connected with Desmond (Subject 17), but it's possible.
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