David Brewster

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{{Quote|We fight to gain what we cannot take with us. It's in our nature.|Brewster's final words, 1868.|A Simple Plan}}
{{Character Infobox||image = ACS DB David Brewster.jpg
|birth = 11 December 1781<br>Roxburghshire, Scotland
|death = 10 February 1868 (aged 86)<br>[[Croydon]], [[United Kingdom]]
|affiliates = [[Templars]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''
|actor = [[Peter Messaline]]}}
'''Sir David Brewster''' (1781 – 1868) was a Scottish [[Templars|Templar]] and scientist known for his contributions to the field of optics, being well-recognized as the inventor of the kaleidoscope.

==Biography==
===Early life===
{{Quote|Why? It's God's Apple, not hers! I will display it in public! Darwin will be vanquished, banished in shame to the blasted Galápagos to roost with his beloved finches.|Brewster's on the Apple of Eden and Charles Darwin, 1868.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}}
Born the third of six children, Brewster was raised by god-fearing Presbyterians. When he was twelve years old, his parents sent him to the University of Edinburgh to join the clergy. However, Brewster was far more interested in science, becoming fascinated with optics.<ref name="Brewster Database">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' - [[Database: David Brewster]]</ref>

Motivated by contemporaries, Brewster continued studying the diffraction of light, including reflection and refraction, and eventually invented the kaleidoscope. Much later, he joined fellow clergymen to start a scientific magazine, ''The Edinburgh Journal of Science'', and was knighted by [[Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]]. Brewster also became a vocal opponent of [[Charles Darwin]]'s evolution theory.<ref name="Brewster Database"/>

===Studying the Apple===
{{Dialogue|Brewster|I need two more weeks with the device.|Thorne|Your questionable practices are beginning to draw unwanted attention. You've been given more than enough time to achieve results, Sir David.|Thorne and Brewster arguing, 1868.|A Simple Plan}}
At some point, Brewster joined the [[British Rite of the Templar Order]] and was tasked with researching an [[Apples of Eden|Apple of Eden]] that had been recovered from ruins in {{Wiki|Avebury}}.<ref>[https://twitter.com/jeffreyyohalem/status/663428341874229248 Jeffrey Yohalem's Twitter]</ref> He and Reynolds, his assistant, subsequently set up a secret laboratory beneath a train yard in [[Croydon]] and began their studies. Brewster also had local workers kidnapped to experiment on them.<ref name="ACS">''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate''</ref>

[[File:ACS A Simple Plan 6.png|thumb|250px|left|Brewster pleading with Thorne for more time]]
However, the Templars gradually grew dissatisfied with Brewster's slow progress. In February 1868, [[Lucy Thorne]], the Order's resident expert on the [[Pieces of Eden]] and [[Crawford Starrick]]'s second-in-command, visited Brewster and pressured him to work faster, claiming he had received more than enough time. She also pointed out that the amount of missing laborers was starting to draw unwanted attention.<ref name="ACS"/>

After Thorne departed, two [[guards]] brought forth a [[Robert Topping|trespasser]], whom they believed to be working for [[Jayadeep Mir|Henry Green]]. Brewster ordered them to interrogate the man and then send him to the laboratory. The scientist subsequently returned to the lab himself and continued his experiments on the Apple, exposing it to high voltages of electricity in an effort to activate it.<ref name="ACS"/>

At this, Reynolds expressed his concern, but Brewster dismissed him, claiming they needed results as quickly as possible. As the experiment continued, the scientist entertained the idea of displaying the Apple in public and using it to destroy Darwin's reputation, to which Reynolds objected. Brewster laughed it off as a "wee joke", claiming that the Templars' grip on [[London]] would become absolute once they unlocked the artifact's secrets; both the [[Assassins]] and Darwin would be vanquished.<ref name="ACS"/>

[[File:ACS A Simple Plan 16.png|thumb|250px|A dying Brewster being held by Evie]]
However, as Brewster conducted his research, the Assassin [[Evie Frye]] leapt upon him and assassinated him. In his final moments, the scientist revealed Thorne had already discovered another Piece of Eden. When Evie claimed that she would take that one from the Templars as well, Brewster lamented how [[humanity]] inherently focused on the material, which they would inevitably lose upon death. After he breathed his last, Evie hurriedly made her escape, as the Apple detonated from all the electricity that it had been exposed to, completely destroying the underground laboratory.<ref name="ACS"/>

==Personality and characteristics==
{{Dialogue|Evie|Do not be afraid.|Brewster|I am not. God will protect me.|Brewster to Evie during his final moments, 1868.|A Simple Plan}}
A fiercely religious man, Brewster possessed a deep-rooted dislike of Charles Darwin and his theories of evolution, which he was determined to prove wrong. In line with his faith, he regarded the Apple of Eden as something that genuinely came from God, rather than the [[Isu|Precursors]]. Brewster was also an impassioned researcher who wanted to discover new things; however, his practices of abducting people to experiment on showed a willingness to commit amoral acts in the name of science.<ref name="ACS"/>

==Trivia==
*Brewster's final words appear to reference verse 1 Timothy 6:7 from the Bible: "For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it."
*Unlike the fictional David Brewster the real David Brewster died 10 February 1868, in Allerly House, Gattonside, Roxburghshire.

==Gallery==
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ACS A Simple Plan 9.png|Brewster ordering his men to interrogate Topping
ACS A Simple Plan 15.png|Brewster asserting they needed results quickly
ACS A Simple Plan 17.png|Brewster's final moments
</gallery>
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