Editing Emmanuel Barraza

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{{Quote| I'm loyal to the Brotherhood. I'm loyal past the point of common sense. So kill me or get out of my face. Sir.|Emmanuel to William Miles, 2014.|Assassin's Creed: Initiates}}
[[File:ACi-ToTheTeeth.jpg|thumb|250px|Emmanuel Barraza]]
'''Emmanuel Barraza''', also referred to as '''Manny''', is a member of the [[Assassins|Assassin Order]] stationed aboard the ''[[Altair II]]''. He is an ex-soldier and serves as the ship's armorer.

==Biography==
===Early life===
Emmanuel had served in the military, and had the [[Assassin insignia]] burned into his dog tag. On his first mission as an Assassin, Emmanuel was instructed by [[William Miles]] to find a Templar presence in the {{Wiki|War on Terror}}. What he found, however, was a bus full of children with bombs strapped to their chests who were going to be used to disrupt peace talks.

In order to save the people at the peace talks, Emmanuel killed the children. Doing so caused Emmanuel to swear to never take another human life again, although he continued to serve the Assassin Order, acquiring weapons and training his fellow Assassins in their use. Emmanuel was eventually assigned to the ''Altair II'' and put under the command of [[Assassin leader]] [[Gavin Banks]].

===Mission to Japan===
On 1 October 2013, while sailing on the {{Wiki|Sulu Sea}}, Barraza inspected the weapons the crew had bought from [[Philippines|Philippine]] gun makers, in preparation for a possible fight with [[Abstergo Industries|Abstergo]] agents in [[Osaka]], [[Japan]].

Emmanuel and his fellow Assassins arrived in Osaka on 4 December, and he accompanied Gavin and [[Initiate spy|another Assassin]] to the headquarters of the Osaka Brotherhood. They discovered their fellow Assassins had been attacked, and Emmanuel used his expertise to determine where bodies fell and how they died. Gavin used his [[Eagle Vision]] to discover the {{Wiki|yakuza}}, not Abstergo, were behind the attack. Emmanuel and his fellow Assassins were then ordered to locate any Assassin survivors or the identity of the attackers.

A supposedly extinct branch of the yakuza called the [[Onmoraki-Gumi]] came under suspicion as the perpetrators of the attack, and on 12 December, Emmanuel managed to trail a cash deposit to the Onmoraki's new headquarters.

On 17 December, Emmanuel went with Gavin to the headquarters of the Onmoraki-Gumi and watched as he attempted to demand an audience with the head the group. The guard, [[Kiyoshi Takakura]], refused to allow them in and threatened to attack them if they did not leave. Gavin attempted to use psychological warfare to get inside Kiyoshi's head, but ended up being punched in the face and knocked to the ground. As Kiyoshi began kicking Gavin, Emmanuel did not intervene, reminding Gavin that he was a pacifist. However, he heard two other members of the Onmoraki-Gumi talking about how "[[Saeko Mochizuki|Grandma]]" would not like this, as she had worked hard to hide the Brotherhood.

[[File:GOG_NoHarm_M.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Emmanuel stopping Kiyoshi's attack]]
Emmanuel realized the thugs were actually Assassins, and allowed his hand to be impaled by Kiyoshi's hidden blade when Kiyoshi was about to kill Gavin with it. Emmanuel then asked him what the first tenet of [[the Creed]] was, and after Kiyoshi answered, Emmanuel showed him his dog tag with the Assassin insignia burnt on it. Kiyoshi apologized to Emmanuel and Gavin, and later complimented Emmanuel on his ability to handle pain, claiming he was "almost Japanese".

On 23 December, Emmanuel went to Dr. [[Stephanie Chiu]] aboard the ''Altair II'' to have the bandages on his wound changed. He listened in silence as Gavin complained that while Emmanuel's wound was being fussed over, he had to treat his own injuries from the beating Kiyoshi gave him, and that he would have been fine if Emmanuel had just done his job and protected him.

On 31 December, Emmanuel and the rest of the ''Altair II'' crew traveled with Saeko and Kiyoshi to [[Tokyo]] to gather supplies. He sparred with Kiyoshi for several hours before being convinced to come with him and Chiu to a karaoke bar. Emmanuel was filmed singing by Chiu, and threatened to break his vow to never kill again if she ever showed it to anyone.

===Mission to Russia===
After the crew deciphered another clue from [[William Miles' Codex]], Emmanuel was chosen to accompany Gavin and [[Emmett Leary]] on a mission to [[Moscow]] to meet an Assassin cell in the city. By 16 March 2014, they made contact with [[Galina Voronina]], who asked them to help her assassinate her [[Galina Voronina's mother|mother]], an Assassin scientist who had gone crazy and put herself and the rest of the Moscow cell in a [[Animus]] until they had all been driven insane by the [[Bleeding Effect]].

On 20 March, Emmanuel and the others arrived at the Assassin laboratory at [[Protvino]], where they encountered the maddened Assassins. However, he refused to participate in the fight or even carry a weapon, and simply watched as the others killed their insane comrades. The group subsequently forced their way to the main laboratory, where they found Galina's mother still strapped into the Animus, talking nonsense about finding [[Juno|her]] [[Aita|husband]]. Emmanuel watched with the others as Galina put her mother out of her misery with a [[Hidden Blade]].

Emmanuel and the other Assassins left Moscow shortly thereafter, with Gavin having convinced Galina to join the crew of the ''Altair II'' as the cell's enforcer. On 27 March, they arrived in [[Saint Petersburg]] and rejoined the rest of the crew, who welcomed Galina aboard.

===Spy hunt===
[[File:ACi-DishonorableDischarge.jpg|thumb|250px|Emmanuel being interrogated]]
After the mission in Moscow, Emmanuel and the rest of the ''Altair II'' crew were directed by Gavin to find out where [[William Miles]] was hiding from a clue in the latter's journal. They deciphered the riddles within to a hidden cove in Norway, and on 1 May the ''Altair II'' arrived at William's whereabouts.

When [[Rebecca Crane]] began upgrading the systems on the ''Altair II'', she discovered that a [[Initiate spy|spy]] on the ship was uploading reports to a database run by a group called the [[Initiates]]. Emmanuel and the rest of the crew, except for Gavin and Galina, were confined to their quarters on the ship until they could be interrogated and cleared of suspicion by William.

On 9 May, Emmanuel was the third crew member interrogated by William, who grilled the pacifist on his first mission as an Assassin, believing him to have ample reason for betraying the Brotherhood. William then pointed out Emmanuel's inaction during the missions in Osaka and Protvino, as well as the fact that the Initiates' signals were coming from the military base he had trained at. Despite William's insinuations, Emmanuel simply reiterated his loyalty to the Assassins, and told William to either kill him or get out of his face.

==Reference==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]] - Surveillance''
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