Layla Hassan

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Layla Hassan (born 1984) is an Egyptian-American and a former employee of Abstergo Industries.

Biography

Early life

Born in Cairo from Ashraf and Zeinab Hassan, Layla and her family migrated to the United States at some point before 1989. The Hassans settled in Queens, New York. It was there that Layla grew up alongside her two younger brothers, Rami and Kaden. Later, at some point of her life, she acquired the American citizenship through a process known as naturalization.

Abstergo Employee

A college dropout from Standford University, Layla was discovered by Sofia Rikkin and was recruited to work for Abstergo. The company used her ideas to make new adjustments to the Animus. Although Layla worked for Abstergo for eleven years, the one thing she wanted mo than anything else was a promotion to work on the Animus Project, due to her numerous transgressions of Abstergo protocols.

Target of Abstergo

In 2017, as part of a Historical Tactical Team, Layla and her co-worker and best friend Deanna Geary were assigned by Simon Hathaway to find and retrieve an important ancient artifact from the Qattara Depression in Egypt. However, Layla instead found the mummies of the ancient Assassins Bayek and Aya. Without informing her superiors, she used her own portable Animus to relive their memories in order to prove her worth to the Animus Project.

Layla's refusal to check in with Abstergo led to the company deploying the Sigma Team to find her and Deanna. While Deanna was captured and presumably killed, Layla used the skills she obtained through the Bleeding Effect to dispatch her attackers.

She was later found by William Miles, Mentor of the Assassins, after he had caught wind of her situation and offered her a position with the Assassins. Faced with no other option, Layla agreed to work with the Brotherhood, but refused to actually join as a member, and the two were to leave together for Alexandria.

Personality and traits

Layla Hassan was noted by her colleagues for her strict adherence to policy and protocol. On those occassion wherein she was forced to act outside of these boundaries, she often took on an apologetic tone; this was shown on at least one occassion when she emailed Juhani Otso Berg regarding his use of her allocated parking space at Abstergo's offices. Eventually, however, Layla's frustration at the perceived lack of respect from her colleagues convinced her to act outside of company protocol and attempt to "prove herself" by undertaking the mission to sequence Bayek's genetic memories herself.

Gallery

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  Layla riding her bike in Queens, New York City, 1989
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  Layla in New York City, 1994
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  Layla backstage at the Rha Victoria Concert in Madison Square Garden, 2000
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  Layla in Berkeley, California, 2004
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  Layla preparing to leave Philadelphia in 2011
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  Philadelphia, 2017
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  Philadelphia, 2017
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  Concept Art of Layla

Trivia

• "Layla" is a feminine Arabic name meaning "night", while "Hassan" is a common Arabic surname meaning "strong" and "good".
• Layla's father, Ashraf Hassan, share his birthname with Ashraf Ismail, the game director for Assassin's Creed: Origins.
• If one looks around Layla's equipment, they will discover she owns a Moogle doll, a Cactuar statuette, and a Chocobo sticker. All are Easter eggs towards the Final Fantasy series, particularly, Final Fantasy XV.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Origins (first appearance)

Reference

• Assassin's Creed: Origins